Best College Essay Introductions - April 2024

Thank You for Arguing, Third Edition: What Aristotle, Lincoln, and Homer Simpson Can Teach Us About the Art of Persuasion

A master class in the art of persuasion, as taught by professors ranging from Bart Simpson to Winston Churchill, newly revised and updated. The time-tested secrets taught in this book include Cicero's three-step strategy for moving an audience to action, and Honest Abe's Shameless Trick for lowering an audience's expectations. And it's also replete with contemporary techniques such as politicians' use of code language to appeal to specfic groups and an eye-opening assortment of persuasive tricks, including the Eddie Haskell Ploy, the Belushi Paradigm, Stalin's Timing Secret, and the Yoda Techn... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0804189935
• ASIN: 0804189935
• ISBN: 0804189935
• Brand: THREE RIVERS
• Manufacturer: Three Rivers Press

100 African-Americans Who Shaped American History (100 Series)

Teeming with interesting nuggets of fact and information, 100 African Americans Who Shaped American History includes such legendary men and women as Benjamin Banneker, Dred Scott, Mary Church Terrell, George Washington Carver and Bessie Smith. Also included are Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King, Jr., Thurgood Marshall and many, many more. Organized chronologically and meticulously researched, this book provides an educational look at the prominent role that these individuals played and how their varied talents, ideas and expertise contributed to American history. * Concise & Easy to Read Text * F... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0912517182
• ASIN: 0912517182
• ISBN: 0912517182
• Brand: Bluewood Books
• Manufacturer: Bluewood Books

Brave Companions

From Alexander von Humboldt to Charles and Anne Lindbergh, these are stories of people of great vision and daring whose achievements continue to inspire us today, brilliantly told by master historian David McCullough.The bestselling author of Truman and John Adams, David McCullough has written profiles of exceptional men and women past and present who have not only shaped the course of history or changed how we see the world but whose stories express much that is timeless about the human condition. Here are Alexander von Humboldt, whose epic explorations of South America surpassed the Lewis an... [Read More]

• ASIN: B000QTD63I
• ASIN: B000QTD63I
• Manufacturer: Simon & Schuster

Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes, 75th Anniversary Illustrated Edition

The 75th anniversary edition of this classic bestseller. This stunningly illustrated, hardcover edition will be beloved by fans of Greek, Roman, and Norse mythology of all ages.Since its original publication by Little, Brown and Company in 1942, Edith Hamilton's Mythology has sold millions of copies throughout the world and established itself as a perennial bestseller across all its available formats, including hardcover, trade paperback, mass market paperback, and e-book. For more than seven decades readers have chosen this book above all others to discover the enchanting world of mythology-f... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0316438529
• ASIN: 0316438529
• ISBN: 9780316438520
• Manufacturer: Black Dog & Leventhal

The Year in Space 2016 Desk Calendar, Spiral Bound 6" x 9", 136 pp, 53 Weekly Astronomy and Space Exploration Images, Moon Phases, Space History, Sky Events - Intro by Bill Nye, Planetary Society CEO

Spend the Year In Space with this award-winning spiral-bound desk calendar, published in cooperation with The Planetary Society, and featuring an introduction by Bill Nye! In 53 weekly photo-essays, The Year In Space takes you on a year-long guided tour of the Universe, from lunar mountains to the frozen plains of Pluto, from nearby starbirth regions to distant galaxies, from the Gemini space walks to NASA's new Orion spaceship. Five Calendars in One • 53 full-page weekly calendars • 16 half-page monthly calendars • 2 full-year planning calendars • 1 four-year long-range calenda... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0989492354
• ASIN: 0989492354
• ISBN: 0989492354
• Brand: Starry Messenger Press
• Manufacturer: Starry Messenger Press

Seven Brief Lessons on Physics

The New York Times bestseller from the author of The Order of Time and Reality Is Not What It Seems“One of the year’s most entrancing books about science.”—The Wall Street Journal“Clear, elegant...a whirlwind tour of some of the biggest ideas in physics.”—The New York Times Book Review  This playful, entertaining, and mind-bending introduction to modern physics briskly explains Einstein's general relativity, quantum mechanics, elementary particles, gravity, black holes, the complex architecture of the universe, and the role humans play in this weird and wonderful world. Carlo R... [Read More]

• ASIN: B00Z8VTMYG
• ASIN: B00Z8VTMYG
• Manufacturer: Riverhead Books

Economics in One Lesson: The Shortest and Surest Way to Understand Basic Economics

• ASIN: B003XT60KO
• ASIN: B003XT60KO
• Manufacturer: Currency

The New Oxford Annotated Bible with Apocrypha: New Revised Standard Version

For over 50 years students, professors, clergy, and general readers have relied on The New Oxford Annotated Bible as an unparalleled authority in Study Bibles. This fifth edition of the Annotated, thumb-indexed and in a protective two-piece box, remains the best way to study and understand the Bible at home or in the classroom. This thoroughly revised and substantially updated edition contains the best scholarship informed by recent discoveries and anchored in the solid Study Bible tradition.· Introductions and extensive annotations for each book by acknowledged experts in the field provide ... [Read More]

• ASIN: B07C52T45T
• ASIN: B07C52T45T
• Manufacturer: Oxford University Press

Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do?

"For Michael Sandel, justice is not a spectator sport," The Nation's reviewer of Justice remarked. In his acclaimed book―based on his legendary Harvard course―Sandel offers a rare education in thinking through the complicated issues and controversies we face in public life today. It has emerged as a most lucid and engaging guide for those who yearn for a more robust and thoughtful public discourse. "In terms we can all understand," wrote Jonathan Rauch in The New York Times, Justice "confronts us with the concepts that lurk . . . beneath our conflicts." Affirmative action, same-sex marriag... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0374532508
• ASIN: 0374532508
• ISBN: 9780374532505
• Brand: Farrar Straus Giroux
• Manufacturer: Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Pilot Dr. Grip Center of Gravity 0.7mm Mechanical Pencil, Charcoal Gray Barrel, 1-Count (36280)

Pilot Dr. Grip Center of Gravity 0.7mm Mechanical Pencil, Charcoal Gray Barrel(36280) The Dr. Grip family has a writing instrument perfect for everyone.View larger The Invention of Dr. Grip Writing Instruments Based on a common need for a more comfortable writing instrument, Pilot set out to give people the writing solution they were looking for. In 1995, Pilot launched Dr. Grip, a pen and mechanical pencil collection designed to provide superior writing comfort and be the solution to that demand. By 1996, the entire Dr. Grip line earned the Ease-of-Use Commendation by the Arthritis Foundat... [Read More]

• ASIN: B001E6BTN6
• UPC: 072838362803
• ASIN: B001E6BTN6
• Brand: Pilot

The Divine Comedy (The Inferno, The Purgatorio, and The Paradiso)

The authoritative translations of The Inferno, The Purgatorio, and The Paradiso—together in one volume.Belonging in the immortal company of the great works of literature, Dante Alighieri’s poetic masterpiece, The Divine Comedy, is a moving human drama, an unforgettable visionary journey through the infinite torment of Hell, up the arduous slopes of Purgatory, and on to the glorious realm of Paradise—the sphere of universal harmony and eternal salvation.Now, for the first time, John Ciardi’s brilliant and authoritative translations of Dante’s three soaring canticles—The Inferno, The... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0451208633
• ASIN: 0451208633
• ISBN: 0451208633
• Brand: New American Library
• Manufacturer: Berkley

Walden and Civil Disobedience

Henry David Thoreau reflects on life, politics, and society in these two inspiring masterworks: Walden and Civil Disobedience. In 1845, Thoreau moved to a cabin that he built with his own hands along the shores of Walden Pond in Massachusetts. Shedding the trivial ties that he felt bound much of humanity, Thoreau reaped from the land both physically and mentally, and pursued truth in the quiet of nature. In Walden, he explains how separating oneself from the world of men can truly awaken the sleeping self. Thoreau holds fast to the notion that you have not truly existed until you adopt such a ... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0451532163
• ASIN: 0451532163
• ISBN: 0451532163
• Brand: Signet Classics
• Manufacturer: Signet

At the Existentialist Café: Freedom, Being, and Apricot Cocktails with Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, Albert Camus, Martin Heidegger, Maurice Merleau-Ponty and Others

Named one of the Ten Best Books of 2016 by the New York Times, a spirited account of a major intellectual movement of the twentieth century and the revolutionary thinkers who came to shape it, by the best-selling author of How to Live Sarah Bakewell.Paris, 1933: three contemporaries meet over apricot cocktails at the Bec-de-Gaz bar on the rue Montparnasse. They are the young Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, and longtime friend Raymond Aron, a fellow philosopher who raves to them about a new conceptual framework from Berlin called Phenomenology. "You see," he says, "if you are a phenomeno... [Read More]

• ASIN: B00Z3E2KEC
• ASIN: B00Z3E2KEC
• Manufacturer: Other Press

The Power of Myth

• ASIN: 0385418868
• ASIN: 0385418868
• ISBN: 0385418868
• Brand: Anchor Books
• Manufacturer: Anchor

Literature: An Introduction to Reading and Writing, Compact Edition (6th Edition)

ALERT: Before you purchase, check with your instructor or review your course syllabus to ensure that you select the correct ISBN. Several versions of Pearson's MyLab & Mastering products exist for each title, including customized versions for individual schools, and registrations are not transferable. In addition, you may need a CourseID, provided by your instructor, to register for and use Pearson's MyLab & Mastering products.   Packages Access codes for Pearson's MyLab & Mastering products may not be included when purchasing or renting from companies other than Pearson; check with the... [Read More]

• ASIN: 032194478X
• ASIN: 032194478X
• ISBN: 032194478X
• Manufacturer: Pearson

The Best American Essays 2004

Edited by the author of The Metaphysical Club, a new collection of the finest nonfiction essays published over the past year incorporates the work of distinguished masters of the essay genre, including Kathryn Chetkovich, Jonathan

• UPC: 2675645

Best College Essays 2014

As the title implies, this book showcases the best college admissions essays of the year -- essays that got students into all the top schools in the country. Reading sample essays is a great way

• UPC: 53419423

Books Worth Reading; A Plea for the Best and an Essay Towards Selection, with Short Introductions to Many of the World's Great Authors

Books Worth Reading; A Plea for the Best and an Essay Towards Selection, with Short Introductions to Many of the World's Great

• UPC: 24283690

The Best Book On Stanford International Admissions (Tips For TOEFL Prep, Admissions Essays, Filling Out The Common App, SAT Prep, And More) - eBook

Getting into Stanford as an international student is very competitive. Every year, less than 10% of the freshman class is classified as a non-resident alien. For the year 2010-2011, 8% of the freshman class were

• UPC: 455092519

An Essay on the Nature and Foundation of Moral Virtue and Obligation : Being a Short Introduction to the Study of Ethics, for the Use of the Students of Yale-College.

An Essay on the Nature and Foundation of Moral Virtue and

• UPC: 892421873

Best College Essays 2016

Best College Essays 2016

• UPC: 173197822

Best College Essays 2014

Best College Essays 2014

• UPC: 53419422

An Essay on the Nature and Foundation of Moral Virtue and Obligation; Being a Short Introduction to the Study of Ethics; For the Use of the Students of Yale-College. by Thomas Clap, M.A. President of Yale-College, in New-Haven.

An Essay on the Nature and Foundation of Moral Virtue and Obligation; Being a Short Introduction to the Study of Ethics; For the Use of the

• UPC: 143849594

Books Worth Reading; A Plea for the Best and an Essay Towards Selection, with Short Introductions to Many of the World's Great Authors

Books Worth Reading; A Plea for the Best and an Essay Towards Selection, with Short Introductions to Many of the World's Great

• UPC: 998612157

The Very Best of Malcolm Muggeridge

This definitive treasury of the best of Malcolm Muggeridge is drawn from all sources: books, essays, journalism, broadcasts, scripts, diaries and letters spanning his sixty year career from 1926-1986. Some material, collected by Muggeridge in

• UPC: 42412746