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Reach out before they drop out Student dropout rates continue to soar, despite decades of funding, research, programs, and professional development initiatives. This is a wakeup call. Written by a former school dropout, Confronting the School Dropout...

In the 1950s, America was in the grip of Cold War paranoia and McCarthyism. Communism and ‘gender maladjustment’ were twin threats to the social ideals of family and security. Yet, previous readings of Plath and her heroine have ignored much of the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798869012067Author Bolakale AremuFormat PaperbackPage Count 114Imprint Ojula Technology InnovationsPublisher Ojula Technology InnovationsWeight(grams) 163g

Crime Fiction in the Caribbean: Reframing Crime and Justice is the first academic book to focus on crime fiction by anglophone Caribbean writers. It explores how contemporary writers experiment with the crime genre in order to convey, contextualize, and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781119933205Author Christina ShewellFormat PaperbackPage Count 470Imprint Wiley-BlackwellPublisher John Wiley and Sons Ltd

A groundbreaking new account of the author of The Spanish Tragedy that establishes him as a major Elizabethan dramatistThomas Kyd (1558–1594) was a highly regarded dramatist and the author of The Spanish Tragedy, the first revenge tragedy and the most...

This is an innovative text for teacher educators exploring detailed research and information that novice teachers need to know about group work in school settings. There is more to learn about group work than simply sitting children together and letting...

'Invaluable - and hugely entertaining ... It is an absolute romp and a must-have for history and fantasy enthusiasts alike' - Eleanor Janega 'Endlessly fascinating'- the Spectator Old English was spoken over a thousand years ago, when every animal was a...

As education becomes more dependent on data-intensive algorithmic systems, private corporate power continues to grow. Left unregulated, the implications for children’s basic rights and future life chances are not to be underestimated. In this book,...

Consulting Students on Classroom Practice, ‘Good’ Teaching, and Teacher Performance is about the consultation of students on teaching and learning matters in schools, as part of typical school life as opposed to students being consulted as part of a...

How early modern theatrical practice helped construct the category of “pagan” as a tool of European self-definition and colonial ambition In Making Pagans, John Kuhn argues that drama played a powerful role in the articulation of religious difference in...

The book provides new perspectives on the historical context surrounding Kraus' writing during the Third Reich as well as an analysis of the Third Walpurgnis Night. The contributions place Kraus’s work in dialogue with a broader spectrum of critical...

Radical Black feminist refusal through the works of mid-twentieth-century African American women writers Monstrous Work and Radical Satisfaction offers new and insightful readings of African American women’s writings in the 1930s–1950s, illustrating how...

This book sets out to search for the Second World — the (post)socialist context — in dance studies and examines the way it appears and reappears in today’s globalized world. It traces hidden and invisibilized legacies over the span of one century,...

This volume reframes the critical conversation about Shakespeare’s histories and national identity by bringing together two growing bodies of work: early modern race scholarship and adaptation theory. Theorizing a link between adaptation and...

A meditative reflection on what medieval disaster writing can teach us about how to respond to the climate emergency. When a series of ecological disasters swept medieval England, writers turned to religious storytelling for precedents. Their depictions...

The chapters in this book constitute a timely response to an important moment for early modern cultural studies: the academy has been called to attend to questions of social justice. It requires a revision of the critical lexicon to be able to probe the...

This book offers a deep dive into sex education pedagogy in the Australian context, taking a close look at the language used to teach the key topics of consent and respect. It examines questions students ask, how teachers accommodate different beliefs in...

Normas sencillas para escribir y citar fuentes en español siguiendo las directrices de la MLA Easy-to-follow standards for writing and citing sources in Spanish from the MLAGeneración tras generación, los escritores confían en el MLA Handbook. Publicado...

With the social, economic and political challenges alongside implications of the digital era and environmental sustainability in the 21st century, understanding how children feel about themselves, particularly within the complex web of their...

Where is the line that separates the “normal” from the “abnormal”? Liubov, a young Ukrainian woman of small nobility, struggles with this question in Lesia Ukrainka’s The Blue Rose. Living in Ukraine at the turn of the twentieth century, she finds...

Learn how to take an apolitical, unbiased stance to support students as they pursue research, literature connections, maker activities, and civic engagement projects in their communities, nationally, and globally. This book outlines school and public...

This volume offers innovative perspectives that reassess and update so-called Oral Theory, bridging classical scholarship with cutting-edge theoretical contributions, and host a dialogue with cognitive sciences (linguistics and neuroscience),...

A yearlong learning adventure designed to help you build a vibrant math community A powerful math community is an active group of educators, students, and families, alive with positive energy, efficacy, and a passion for mathematics. Students, teachers,...

In recent years, the expansion of screen media, including film, TV, music videos, and computer games, has inspired new tools for both educators and learners. This book illustrates how screen media can be exploited to support foreign language (L2)...

What is 'translation'? Even as the scholarly viewpoint of translation studies has expanded over recent years, the notion of 'translation' has remained fixedly defined by its interlinguistic element. However, there are many different contexts and...

Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, InspiringAnthony Trollope is among the best-loved novelists in the English language. His strongly drawn characters and skilful plots are compelling, while his moral judgements are often subtly challenging. He...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781036011246Author Shaan PatankarFormat PaperbackImprint John Catt Educational LtdPublisher Hodder Education

A super-cute, full-color phrasebook covering all situations you are likely to encounter in Korea!Essential phrases for every situation — whether watching your favorite K-drama series, catching up on the latest K-Pop news, hanging out with your friends,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781636702186Author Jez ButterworthFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Theatre Communications Group Inc.,U.S.Publisher Theatre Communications Group Inc.,U...

Explores the history of Batgirlfrom her groundbreaking comics debut to her disappointing live-action appearances and beyond.For over sixty years, every woman who took on the mantle of Batgirl has been a powerful, independent heroine, belying the sidekick...

Exploring the relationship between theory and practice in Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL), this volume offers a state-of-the-art overview of Appliable Linguistics. Featuring both internationally-renowned scholars and rising stars from Argentina,...

The Inwardness of Things considers Joseph Conrad as a modern voice in an ancient and enduring quarrel between the poets and the philosophers. Beginning from the polemical poetics of his 1897 preface, Debra Romanick Baldwin focuses on Conrad’s...

CRASH! explores the fascinating, revealing, and surprising cultural impact of plane crashes across art, literature, music, media, and creative nonfiction. Plane crashes are covered extensively but they are not analyzed very deeply, beyond rote media...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781036011475Author Andrew GintyFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Hodder EducationPublisher Hodder Education

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781916040151Author Martin BirchallFormat HardbackImprint High Fliers Publications LtdPublisher High Fliers Publications Ltd

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798765113929Author David GramlingFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint Bloomsbury Publishing USAPublisher Bloomsbury Publishing USAWeight(grams) 454g

A fascinating survey of the history of political and economic ideas in the US that have led to an increasingly entrenched ultra-rich class of oligarchs.To an American, oligarchy is something that happens somewhere else. In Oligarchy in America, Luke...

‘Your pipe is drawing sweetly, the sofa cushions are soft underneath you, the fire is well alight, the air is warm and stagnant. In these blissful circumstances, what is it that you want to read about? Naturally, about a murder.’ George Orwell set out...

Research Methods in Linguistics guides the reader through the key issues, principles, and contributions of core methods in linguistic research. It is an essential resource for researchers and graduate students looking for clear introductions to key...