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A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for the Old Testament, the first and longest section of the Christian bible.
As a collection of ancient religious Hebrew writings, the Old Testament contains thirty-nine books, containing stories that span thousands of years. Moreover, the Old Testament gives readers a look into the history and the beginning of the Christian religion. This Bright Notes Study Guide explores...
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PLEASE NOTE: This is a companion to Ron Powers's No One Cares About Crazy People and NOT the original book. Preview: No One Cares About Crazy People: The Chaos and Heartbreak of Mental Health in America (2017) by Ron Powers is a memoir by the father of two schizophrenic sons, Dean and Kevin. Powers incorporates history about the treatment of mental illness into personal narrative about his family... Inside this companion to the book: • Overview...
83) Summary of Indianapolis: The True Story of the Worst Sea Disaster in U.S. Naval History and the Fift
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Indianapolis: The True Story of the Worst Sea Disaster in U.S. Naval History and the Fifty-Year Fight to Exonerate an Innocent Man by Lynn Vincent and Sara Vladic: Conversation Starters
Authors Lynn Vincent and Sara Vladic team up to write the definitive true story of USS Indianapolis and its unfortunate fate. In Indianapolis, Vincent and Vladic take us back to the midnight of July 30, 1945. This was days after the Indianapolis delivered the atomic...
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A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for Charles Dickens's David Copperfield, an autobiographical novel of the main character.
As a 1800s English work, David Copperfield shows how power leads to corruption, a still-relevant theme today. Moreover, the novel draws from several of Charles Dickens's own personal experiences and demonstrates the harsh life caused by greed along with the hope that is born from...
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A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for selected works by Sigmund Freud, an Austrian neurologist known for founding psychoanalysis. Titles in this study guide include his introductory lectures, divided into three divisions: The Psychology of Errors, The Dream, and General Theory of the Neuroses.
As a collection of notorious psychoanalysis lectures, Freud's ideas helped form the basis of psychotherapy, influencing...
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A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for William Shakespeare's Coriolanus, one of Shakespeare's last two tragedies.
As an unusual and intense, intellectual drama, Shakespeare employs single narrative line and striking images, but the most effective moments in the play are developed through understated silence. Moreover, he implements late, lean, and compact style, in which images are, used for their intellectual...
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Act Like a Lady, Think Like a Man, Expanded Edition: What Men Really Think About Love, Relationships, Intimacy, and Commitment by Steve Harvey: Conversation Starters
Act Like a Lady, Think Like a Man: What Men Really Think About Love, Relationships, Intimacy, and Commitment is a #1 New York Times bestselling book from television host and new relationship guru, Steve Harvey. Act Like a Lady, Think Like a Man is an indispensable self-help book that...
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Beartown: A Novel by Fredrik Backman: Conversation Starters
Beartown is a town just about to be condemned to insignificance. Its economy has been stagnant for years and people are slowly leaving for better opportunities outside. It has one more chance to redeem itself though. Its junior hockey team has made it to the semifinals. Victory for the team means more jobs and economic opportunities for the town. But Kevin, its 17-year-old star player is...
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A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for Alexander Solzhenitsyn's One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, the first openly distributed account of Stalinist repression in Soviet literary history.
As a historical fiction novel of the Soviet Union, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich gives readers an intimate look into a day in the life of a prisoner in a Soviet labor camp in the 1950s. Moreover, protagonist...
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Where the Red Fern Grows (SparkNotes Literature Guide) by Wilson Rawls
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Created by Harvard students for students everywhere, SparkNotes is a new breed of study guide: smarter, better, faster. Geared to what today's students need to know, SparkNotes provides: *Chapter-by-chapter analysis
*Explanations of key themes, motifs, and symbols
*A review quiz and essay topicsLively and accessible, these guides are perfect...
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The Narrow Road to the Deep North, Richard Flanagan's newest novel set during the Second World War, is a story of love, lust, pain, and unimaginable suffering. Rich in Australian history that is still applicable in this century, the narrative begins when 77-year-old Dr. Dorrigo Evans experiences a flashback, contemplating the most terrifying time of his life. Starvation, sickness, and exhaustion are killing the Australian war prisoners, as the ruthless...
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Cat On a Hot Tin Roof (SparkNotes Literature Guide) by Tennessee Williams
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Created by Harvard students for students everywhere, SparkNotes is a new breed of study guide: smarter, better, faster.
Geared to what today's students need to know, SparkNotes provides: chapter-by-chapter analysis
*explanations of key themes, motifs, and symbols
*a review quiz and essay topics. Lively and accessible, these guides are...
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The Art of Hearing Heartbeats: by Jan-Philipp Sendker Conversation Starters. Julia is baffled by her father's mysterious disappearance from his life in New York City-until the day she finds a love letter that he had written to a Burmese woman. Desperate for answers, she puts everything on hold and heads to a small village in Burma looking for this mysterious woman from her father's past. On her journey, Julia learns about her father's secret past,...
94) Spanish Tragedy
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Spanish Tragedy (SparkNotes Literature Guide) by Thomas Kyd
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Created by Harvard students for students everywhere, SparkNotes is a new breed of study guide: smarter, better, faster. Geared to what today's students need to know, SparkNotes provides: *Chapter-by-chapter analysis
*Explanations of key themes, motifs, and symbols
*A review quiz and essay topicsLively and accessible, these guides are perfect for...
95) Summary of Messing with the Enemy: Surviving in a Social Media World of Hackers, Terrorists, Russian
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Messing with the Enemy: Surviving in a Social Media World of Hackers, Terrorists, Russians, and Fake News by Clint Watts: Conversation Starters
Clint Watts, leading cyber-security expert and former FBI Special Agent provides readers with an overwhelming but crucial look at the misinformation campaigns and fake news. He also explains everything about the electronic surveillance operations that are the predominant form of current warfare but teaches...
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A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for selected works by E.M. Forster, one of the most gifted writers of his time. Titles in this study guide include Howards End and A Passage to India.
As a thirteen-time Nobel Prize in Literature nominee, Forster created well-plotted and ironic stories that explored themes of class and hypocrisy in English society. Moreover, Forster employed an intricate structure of...
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A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for William Shakespeare's Henry IV, Part 1, the second play in Shakespeare's tetralogy portraying the succeeding reigns of Richard II, Henry IV, and Henry V.
As a historical drama of the sixteenth century, Shakespeare combines history and comedy to illustrate the rise of the English Royal House of Lancaster. Moreover, he remarkably devises a variety of rich texture,...
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Killing the Deep State: The Fight to Save President Trump by Jerome R. Corsi: Conversation Starters
The Deep State is plotting to remove Donald Trump from office. Author Jerome Corsi identifies members of the Deep State which include House Speaker Paul Ryan, GOP leaders, and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell. These politicians intend to block legislation by the Trump camp. They vow not to let Trump govern effectively. The Deep State also includes...
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A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for selected works by D.H. Lawrence, distinguished British writer and poet. Titles in this study guide include Sons and Lovers, The Plumed Serpent, The Rainbow, and Women in Love.
As a controversial writer of the twentieth-century, Lawrence unknowingly shaped early modernism. Moreover, his reflections of human behavior depict the effects that industrialism had on the...
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White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism by Robin DiAngelo: Conversation Starters
The New York Times best-selling book White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism explores the reactions that white people have when their personal assumptions about race are challenged. DiAngelo observes that when their reactions are challenged, they maintain racial inequality. DiAngelo is an anti-racist educator...
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