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The New York Times bestseller, praised as "hilariously funny . . . the only way to understand why so many Americans have decided to vote against their own economic and political interests" (Molly Ivins)

Hailed as "dazzlingly insightful and wonderfully sardonic" (Chicago Tribune), "very funny and very painful" (San Francisco Chronicle), and "in a different league from most political books" (The New York Observer), What's the Matter with Kansas? unravels the great political mystery of our day: Why do so...

Ciceros zweite philippische Rede ist nach Auffassung des Autors der vorliegenden Studie das beruhmteste Beispiel fur die Existenz von Flugschriften in der spaten romischen Republik. Sie wurde offensichtlich wie ihr poetisches Pendant, Varros Bimarcus, im November 44 v. Chr. verbreitet. Sie war Bestandteil eines typischen Adelskonflikts, mobilisierte kurzfristig erfolgreich den Widerstand gegen M. Antonius und war ein Mittel Ciceros, den Senat als Machtzentrum zu erhalten. Sie gab den Befreiern um Brutus ein Handlungskonzept vor und trug wahrscheinlich zum Tod ihres Verfassers...

" Thomas Frank is] perhaps the most provocative young cultural critic of the moment."--Gerald Marzorati, New York Times Book Review

"An indispensable...

Becoming a more effective learner and boosting your productivity will help you earn better grades - but it'll also cut down on your study time. This is a short, meaty book that will guide you through ten steps to achieving those goals:

• Pay better attention in class
• Take more effective notes
• Get more out of your textbooks
• Plan like a general
• Build a better study environment
• Fight entropy and stay organized
• Defeat Procrastination
• Study smarter
• Write better papers
• Make group projects suck less
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The Introduction to African American Preaching is an important, groundbreaking book. This book acknowledges African American preaching as an academic discipline, and invites all students and preachers into a scholarly, dynamic, and useful exploration of the topic.

Author Frank Thomas opens with a "bus tour" study of African American preaching. He shows how African American preaching has gradually moved from an almost exclusively oral to an oral/written tradition. Readers will gain insight into the history of the study of the African American preaching tradition, and catch the author's...