How To Use Google Books
TeachersBooksEducationTeacher CafeTechnologyWhen students are shown how to use Google Books it can become a valuable search and research tool for them.
Why should you read Flannery O’Connor?
AdultsBooksCreativityLifeFind out why Flannery O’Connor, an American novelist, is known as a master of the grotesque in Southern Gothic literature.
Why should you read "A Midsummer Night's Dream"? - Iseult Gillespie
AdultsCreativityCultureLifeBooksPsychologyPsychedelicsBy the light of the moon, a group sneaks into the woods, where they take mind-altering substances, switch it up romantically and brush up against creatures from another dimension.
Harry Potter & The Prisoner of Azkaban: Why It's The Best
AdultsArtFilmBooksHarry, Ron and Hermione return as teenagers for a third term at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. But Harry's fate, and that of the entire community of wizards, looks bleak when the infamous Sirius Black--convicted of abetting evil Lord Voldemort by killing 13 people with a single curse--escapes from prison.
Three anti-social skills to improve your writing - Nadia Kalman
AdultsArtBooksCreativityWritingEducationYou need social skills to have a conversation in real life -- but they're quite different from the skills you need to write good dialogue. Educator Nadia Kalman suggests a few "anti-social skills," like eavesdropping and muttering to yourself, that can help you write an effective dialogue for your next story.
The world's most mysterious book - Stephen Bax
AdultsBooksHistoryLanguageDeep inside Yale's Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library lies a 240 page tome. Recently carbon dated to around 1420, its pages feature looping handwriting and hand drawn images seemingly stolen from a dream. It is called the Voynich manuscript, and it's one of history's biggest unsolved mysteries. The reason why? No one can figure out what it says. Stephen Bax investigates this cryptic work.
LITERATURE - Goethe
AdultsBooksCreativityCultureGoethe is one of the great minds of European civilisation, though his work is largely unknown outside of the German speaking countries. He deserves our renewed attention.
LITERATURE - George Orwell
AdultsBooksCreativityHistoryGeorge Orwell is the most famous English language writer of the 20th century, the author of Animal Farm and 1984. What was he trying to tell us and what is his genius?
LITERATURE - Voltaire
AdultsCreativityHistoryPhilosophyBooksVoltaire was one of the wisest, funniest and cleverest people of the 18th century. He continues to have lots to teach us about toleration, modesty and kindness.
Why should you read Tolstoy's "War and Peace"? - Brendan Pelsue
AdultsBooksCreativityCultureHistory"War and Peace." A tome. A slog. The sort of book you shouldn't read in bed because if you fall asleep it could give you a concussion. Right? Only partly. "War and Peace" is a long book, sure, but it's also a thrilling examination of history populated with some of the deepest, most realistic characters you'll find anywhere. Brendan Pelsue shares everything you need to know to read this classic book.