Why Read? [Audiobook] download free by Mark Edmundson
- Listen audiobook: Why Read?
- Author: Mark Edmundson
- Release date: 2005/9/21
- Publisher: BLOOMSBURY PUBLISHING PLC
- Language: English
- Genre or Collection: Teaching Resources and Education
- ISBN: 9781582346083
- Rating: 9.07 of 10
- Votes: 285
- Review by: Leroy Armstrong
- Review rating: 9.37 of 10
- Review Date: 2018/9/17
- Duration: 2H5M42S in 256 kbps (32 MB)
- Date of creation of the audiobook: 2018-08-17
- You can listen to this audiobook in formats: MPEG-4 DST, AIFF, OGG, WAV, MP3, MPEG4, WMA, FLAC (compression ISO, TGZ, BZ, RAR, ZIP)
- Total pages original book: 160
- Includes a PDF summary of 16 pages
- Duration of the summary (audio): 12M3S (3.2 MB)
- Description or summary of the audiobook: -A PSLA Young Adult Top 40 (or so) non-fiction title 2004 In this important book, acclaimed author Mark Edmundson reconceives the value and promise of reading. He enjoins educators to stop offering up literature as facile entertainment and instead teach students to read in a way that can change their lives for the better. At once controversial and inspiring, this is a groundbreaking book written with the elegance and power to change the way we teach and read. Praise for Why Read? 'Edmundson is dead on target.'-Washington Post Book World 'Edmundson's an engaging teacher, earnest, knowledgeable, witty.'-Boston Globe 'Why Read? makes passionate arguments for literature's soul-making potential.'-Raleigh News and Observer 'An engaging blend of social criticism, self-improvement wisdom, and appeal to fellow humanities professors...Edmundson writes with a rare combination of force and humility.'-Willamette Weekly Mark Edmundson is NEH/Daniels Family Distinguished Teaching Professor at the University of Virginia. A prizewinning scholar, he is the author of Literature Against Philosophy, Plato to Derrida, and the widely praised memoir, Teacher: The One Who Made the Difference. He has written for the New Republic, the New York Times Magazine, the Nation, and Harper's, where he is a contributing editor. Featured on Brian Lamb's final Booknotes Also available: HC 1-58234-425-6 ISBN 13: 978-158234-425- $21.95
- Other categories, genre or collection: Popular Psychology, Literature: History & Criticism, Personal Development, Literary Studies: General, Teaching Resources & Education
- Download servers: Hotfile, MegaCloud, FileServe, Dropbox, DivShare, Uploaded. Compressed in ISO, TGZ, BZ, RAR, ZIP
- Format: Paperback
- Approximate value: 15.13 USD
- Dimensions: 143x204x11mm
- Weight: 154g
- Printed by: Not Available
- Published in: New York, United States
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