Posts Tagged ‘Peter Beidler’
Parkinson Pete On Living and Dying with Parkinson’s Disease, by Peter G. Beidler
Parkinson Pete on Living and Dying with Parkinson’s Disease is a direct, honest, and sometimes funny assessment of what it can be like to face a life and a death with a neurodegenerative disease like Parkinson’s. Most of the writers of the books Pete reviewed in Parkinson Pete’s Bookshelves dealt exclusively with the easy early stages of the disease. Then they mumbled…
Read MoreWriting Matters (Second Edition), by Peter G. Beidler’s
For several years, Peter G. Beidler’s Writing Matters has been a popular textbook for high school and college students. In the revised second edition of Writing Matters (230 pages), Beidler improves on the first by presenting an expanded section on editing. Many students dread writing essays because no one has bothered to break down the…
Read MoreArmy of the Potomac, by Peter G. Beidler
Peter G. Beidler’s newest work is a slice of history from the American Civil War, as revealed in the letters of his great grandfather, William Cross Hazelton. Army of the Potomac: The Civil War Letters of William Cross Hazelton of the Eighth Illinois Cavalry Regiment (242 pages) is an absorbing mix of love letters, historical…
Read MoreRisk Teaching, by Peter G. Beidler
Risk Teaching: Reflections from Inside and Outside the Classroom (250 pages), by Peter G. Beidler, is a retrospective of an award-winning college professor’s teaching career. Both students and teachers can learn from its valuable insights. “Strongly worth considering for any teacher who often finds themselves overwhelmed by their profession, Risk Teaching is a solid and…
Read MoreA Reader’s Companion to J.D. Salinger’s The Catcher in the Rye (Second Edition), by Peter G. Beidler
The second edition of A Reader’s Companion to J.D. Salinger’s Catcher in the Rye by Peter G. Beidler is a valuable and entertaining resource for American literature students as well as fans of J.D. Salinger and his ground-breaking novel. “For those of us who have not read or taught The Catcher in the Rye for…
Read MoreChaucer’s Canterbury Comedies and A Student Guide to Chaucer’s Middle English, by Peter Beidler
Chaucer’s Canterbury Comedies: Origins and Originality 328 pp, $18.95, ISBN: 978-1-60381-075-3 Chaucer’s Canterbury Comedies, by Peter G. Beidler, is a collection of essays that represents nearly forty years of scholarly research. **CLICK THE IMAGE TO ORDER ** Chaucer’s Canterbury Comedies has received generous advance praise from many renowned Chaucerian scholars. Here is a sampling: “Reading…
Read MoreThank you, Mr. Salinger, by Peter Beidler
Thank you, Mr. Salinger The death of J. D. Salinger left me feeling that I had lost a boyhood friend. Salinger himself was never a personal friend of mine, but his creation Holden Caulfield was. Holden was one of the very few who understood my young self, who shared my amusement in the sound of…
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