Shakespeare everyone can understand-now in this new EXPANDED edition of MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM! Why fear Shakespeare? By placing the words of the original play next to line-by-line translations in plain English, this popular guide makes Shakespeare accessible to everyone. And now it features expanded literature guide sections that help students study smarter. The expanded sections include: Five Key Questions: Five frequently asked...

Othello SparkNotes Literature Guide by William Shakespeare Making the reading experience fun! When a paper is due, and dreaded exams loom, here's the lit-crit help students need to succeed! SparkNotes Literature Guides make studying smarter, better, and faster. They provide chapter-by-chapter analysis; explanations of key themes, motifs, and symbols; a review quiz; and essay topics. Lively and accessible, SparkNotes is perfect for late-night studying...

Julius Caesar SparkNotes Literature Guide by William Shakespeare Making the reading experience fun! When a paper is due, and dreaded exams loom, here's the lit-crit help students need to succeed! SparkNotes Literature Guides make studying smarter, better, and faster. They provide chapter-by-chapter analysis; explanations of key themes, motifs, and symbols; a review quiz; and essay topics. Lively and accessible, SparkNotes is perfect for late-night...

Heads You Win: A Novel by Jeffrey Archer: Conversation Starters Alexander Karpenko's father is assassinated. He and his mother Elena have to flee Russia and they find themselves at the dock, with two cargo ships in front of them, one leaving for New York and the other is heading to London. Mother and son decide to toss a coin and let fate decide which ship to take. Living parallel lives, Alex and Sasha reestablish themselves in a new country. But...

Summary of Never Split the Difference - After being a police officer in Kansas City, Missouri, for a while, Voss joined the FBI. As a kidnapping negotiator, he met bank robbers, gang leaders, and terrorists. It takes you into Voss's world of high-stakes negotiations and shows you the key principles that helped him and his teammates succeed when it mattered most-when people's lives were at stake.It is based on the real-life experiences of an intelligence...

Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right's Stealth Plan for America by Nancy MacLean: Conversation Starters James McGill Buchanan was an economics professor at George Mason University who died in 2013. He was a Nobel Prize winner whose political ideas could very well be the primary cause behind the political divisiveness that the United States is going through. His teachings directed America's billionaires to adopt an agenda that...

The Diversity Delusion: How Race and Gender Pandering Corrupt the University and Undermine Our Culture by Heather Mac Donald: Conversation Starters American universities are in crisis for undermining humanistic values that further cause divisions among its citizens. The ideologies against racism and sexism are promoted on college campuses as professors overlook Chaucer, Milton, Shakespeare, and American history in favor of identity politics and ideology....

A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for selected works by Samuel Beckett. Titles in this study guide include All That Fall, Endgame, Krapp's Last Tape, Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable, and Waiting for Godot. As an unconventional, but modernist author of the war ravaged 20th century, Beckett focused on essential elements of the human condition in dark, humorous ways. Moreover, Beckett was often associated...

The Virtue of Nationalism by Yoram Hazony Conversation Starters The Virtue of Nationalism is written by one of the leading conservative thinkers in our world today — Yoram Hazony. In his book, he argues that the only realistic guard of liberty in today's world in the nationalist order. He says that nationalism is the real issue of our age. Hazony cites the politics behind Donald Trump's "America First" to the rise of the right in European nations...

The Great Gatsby SparkNotes Literature Guide by F. Scott Fitzgerald Making the reading experience fun! When a paper is due, and dreaded exams loom, here's the lit-crit help students need to succeed! SparkNotes Literature Guides make studying smarter, better, and faster. They provide chapter-by-chapter analysis, explanations of key themes, motifs, and symbols, a review quiz, and essay topics. Lively and accessible, SparkNotes is perfect for late-night...