L. J. Smith Books

American Literature: Vol. 2 / 0-13-083815-2

My long-standing impression formed in childhood that American literature is intrinsically boring was completely reversed by this anthology. This volume includes hundreds of wonderful examples of superb American literature, particularly and especially from minority voices. The short stories provided by female and African American authors whom I had previously never even heard about are absolutely wonderful, and they provide an important contrast to the "white male authors" taught predominantly in grade schools. Which isn't to say that the "white male authors" aren't good authors in their own right, just that the contrast provided here by the multitude of author "types" is absolutely crucial to the appreciation of the evolution of American literature. I highly recommend this volume for any private library, and I would bet that even the most well-read enthusiast can find at least one new author here to enjoy.

REALISM LITERATURE
- Adams, Henry
- Bierce, Ambrose
- Dickenson, Emily
- Cable, George Washington
- Chesnutt, Charles Waddell
- Chopin, Kate
- Crane, Stephen
- Dreiser, Theodore
- Freeman, Mary E. Wilkins
- Gilman, Charlotte Perkins
- Harris, Joel Chandler
- Harte, Bret
- Howells, William Dean
- James, Henry
- Jewett, Sarah Orne
- London, Jack
- Norris, Frank
- Twain, Mark
- Wharton, Edith
- Whitman, Walt

TWENTIETH CENTURY LITERATURE
- Albee, Edward
- Ammons, A.R.
- Anderson, Sherwood
- Baldwin, James
- Bambara, Toni Cade
- Baraka, Amiri (LeRoi Jones)
- Barthelme, Donald
- Beattie, Ann
- Bellow, Saul
- Bishop, Elizabeth
- Brooks, Gwendolyn
- Carver, Raymond
- Cather, Willa
- Cisneros, Sandra
- Crane, Hart
- Cullen, Countee
- Cummings, E.E.
- DeLillo, Don
- Dickey, James
- dos Passos, John
- Dove, Rita
- Eliot, T.S.
- Ellison, Ralph
- Erdrich, Louise
- Faulkner, William
- Fitzgerald, F. Scott
- Frost, Robert
- Ginsberg, Allen
- Glasgow, Ellen
- Gluck, Louise
- Hansberry, Lorraine
- Hemingway, Ernest
- Howe, Tina
- Hughes, Langston
- Hurston, Zora Neale
- Jarrell, Randall
- Jeffers, Robinson
- Kingston, Maxine Hong
- Levertov, Denise
- Lowell, Robert
- Malamud, Bernard
- Mason, Bobbie Ann
- Merwin, W.S.
- Miller, Arthur
- Moore, Marianne
- Morrison, Toni
- Naylor, Gloria
- O'Conner, Flannery
- O'Neill, Eugene
- Oates, Joyce Carol
- Olson, Tillie
- Plath, Sylvia
- Porter, Katherine Anne
- Pound, Ezra
- Pynchon, Thomas
- Rich, Adrienne
- Rivera, Tomas
- Robinson, Edwin Arlington
- Roethke, Theodore
- Roth, Philip
- Sanchez, Sonia
- Sandburg, Carl
- Sexton, Anne
- Silko, Leslie Marmon
- Stein, Gertrude
- Steinbeck, John
- Stevens, Wallace
- Tan, Amy
- Toomer, Jean
- Updike, James
- Walker, Alice
- Welty, Eudora
- Wilbur, Richard
- Williams, Tennesee
- Williams, William Carlos
- Wolfe, Thomas
- Wright, Richard

I, on the other hand, think its a great collection of American literature, but maybe just a bit too pricey for what it offers. I would suggest it more as something to use as a reference than as something that should be read cover to cover, I mean, geeze, its 2060 pages long.

Few literary textbooks equal "An Anthology of American Literature" in length and dryness. While the book is a collection of mediocre stories who are now only seeing the light of day due to the baneful effects of political correctness, the editor of this work delves deeper to not include a single illustration that may have shed some light of this terrible experience of reading this collection of pointless stories,

This huge textbook is a steal: hundreds of major works from the last century and a half, printed on quality paper, bound with a strong but flexible gum binding. If this were a hardcover, you'd pay twice the price for what it includes. It's thorough and scholarly, a tome that defines the Big League of anthologies. It's not for the shallow reader, though, who's accustomed to the sensuous audio-visuals of TV and the Internet. This is TEXT. Time to resuscitate the thinking mind, the patient intellect, the autonomous imagination.

Everything happened as they said it would.

To say that this book is somewhat impenetrable is a bit like saying space is slightly chilly. There certainly are foundational theories that need to be explored in IR, but this book approaches it in the most condescending and repellent way possible. If you enjoy overly-complex, and self-aggrandizing prose, definitely pick one up. If not, there are likely better sources for this material.

I got this book because it was required for my international politics class. It isn't terribly hard to read, and it isn't excruciatingly boring so all in all this isn't a bad book. I probably wouldn't buy it if I didn't need it for class, but it's a good book to go along with the class

A must read for any new-comer to the subject of international relations. Topics covered are varied and relevant. Very applicable to today's world.

I've had much better math books than this one. However it does the job but the examples and things that it covers aren't as good as my other calculus book.

This is the most comprehensive, yet easy to understand book on multivariable calculus I have ever seen. It's packed with lots of tips, examples, explanations and graphs. It even includes "how to"'s on multivariable applications using the TI-92. These authors really know how to teach.

Budha, MiMi, and Tanky, are three lost souls struggling to survive in a neighborhood turned violent.

After serving a lengthy sentence in a juvenile facility for a murder MiMi did not commit, she returns to the safe place she once called home to find every inch of it in disarray. Living amongst the unsanitary conditions is MiMi's ailing grandmother and her brother, Tanky, known as the poverty stricken community's shrewd street pharmacist.

Tanky's god brother, Budha, top dope man of Outlaw City, welcomes MiMi back home. His sole intent is to make MiMi his girl, but MiMi has other plans for Budha and his money. Once these two become a couple, madness, money, and murder begins and ends this gritty journey through Outlaw City.

Deanna Michelle Smith's sophomore novel is fast paced, thought provoking and full of surprises.

I really think she's an excellant writer. She had the street mentality down pat(the slang, the mind-set, the conditions). OLC also had the perfect combination of love, drama and twists. It was defitinely a page turner.

Great text book for school, has helped me a lot. Very self-explanitory.

UK researchers Smith & Fletcher write clearly with a fine knack of turning the art and science of research analysis into a logical, well-explained process that incorporates not just hard quantitative evidence, but also qualitative research as well as - and this is what takes the book ahead of the field - the experience and judgment of the researcher as well. In essence they advocate a more holistic approach to incisive market research analysis: don't rely on one source, weigh up the broad spectrum of evidence, allow for imperfect data, apply some of your own knowledge filters (in my company and others these are simply known as BS Detectors)and don't forget to try reframing the data: looking at it from different contexts.

The techniques are all well explained, (including the mathematical techniques, not just the conceptual) and the authors do an admirable job of summarising their main points and making this a user-friendly "how-to" guide. Well done.

You can even go on-line and share with your colleagues an on-line tutorial based on this volume: so this text makes a really effective platform for training new staff and providing a refresher for more experienced researchers who may intuitively do a good job but may be assisted with a spritzer of more holistic thinking as well as with a re-establishment of first principles.

I do have criticisms of this book, and for these I've deducted one star.

My main criticism: the authors quite openly hold back some of their more progressive thinking, so what we get is a great roadmap that takes us to the goldfield, but doesn't quite help us hit paydirt. I found this particularly with their frequent reference to Bayesian thinking - an idea they raise but don't really explore. As such, I feel the book is somewhat "5 years ago" and could easily withstand an updating in the near future.

Having said that; any book that gives analysts and market researchers the state of the art, even of 5 years ago, is still way ahead of most of the volumes on the market. Market researchers are not brilliantly served by the publishing marketplace, and most texts are either too statistically focused (they seem to forget that survey data is pretty lumpy, categorical stuff based on questions that ask humans to somehow quantify their complex feelings)or too far based in marketing without giving us the crunch we need to turn data into hard-core insights. Most are simply too shallow - Research 101 written for marketers but not research practitioners.

Not here. This volume strikes a fine pragmatic, realistic balance in showing us how to use not just the mathematical tools we have available, but also our brains as experienced researchers confronting an array of soft and hard evidence. Art and science.

The authors successfully structure the big picture in a way that helps researchers navigate more clearly through research and analysis challenges.

I've recommended this volume to many colleagues senior and not so senior. If you're in market research you'll find this very useful both for you and your team.

I fondly remember reading Caps for Sale as a little girl. The suggestion made in A Guide for Using Caps for Sale in the Classroom allowed me as a teacher to see the learning potentials this book can offer my students. (And parents could use this guide with their kids at home, too.)

A Guide for Using Caps for Sale in the Classroom is a good starting point for teachers on HOW to integrate this classic piece of children's literature in all the content areas. The guide has many reproducibles, is loaded with extention ideas, features a minibook about monkeys for students to put together, and makes reference to other books and comercially produced games that can be used with Caps for Sale (also available at amazon.com). Of particular interest is the guide's suggestions for anger management, as it relates to the peddler's reaction to the monkeys who steal his caps.

I've stated that this guide is a "good starting point" because many of the activity sheets included in the guide get you thinking about the many hands-on activities that could be done with students. The activity sheets could them be a means of evaluating what the students have learned.

Purchasers should be aware that the language arts activities are more suited for 1st or 2nd grade; social studies ideas are good for K to 2nd; math activities are good for K to 1st, and could easily be increased in difficulty for 2nd graders. Likewise, the science--learning about monkeys--can be geared to fit any grade level.

Il libro è ben fatto (forse un po troppo stringato nelle descrizioni) e le foto a colori precise e di esemplari molto esplicativi. Forse l'aggiunta di chiavi per la determinazione delle specie sarebbe stata un aggiunta gradita da molti... e la maggior grandezza delle foto sarebbe stata un plus valore.

Il libro comunque rimane un must !

This book was incredibly useful for research purposes. I had an assignment on Interpersonal skills and interviewing techinques and the book gave quotations which generally happens in practice. So i was able to compare an contrast what happens in practice with written literature.

Great book, as long as you know how to use it. Certainly carries you through the class. Better the buy used than new!