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Originally published in 1991. The style of this startlingly original appraisal of a broad range of women’s writing suggests a new direction for feminist criticism, combining as it does challenging, intellectual debate and fresh textual analysis with...

The Victorians are usually painted as prim, proper and repressed. Yet it was in Victoria’s Britain that the comic paper was born and her subjects eagerly devoured their ‘Penny Dreadfuls’ and ‘Comic Cuts’. Originally published in 1976, this first ever...

This comprehensive, research-backed textbook equips teachers with tools they need to comprehend and document the learning progression and academic growth of young learners.An ideal text to enhance teacher preparatory standards for trainees, the book...

Innovative and creative teaching methods tailored to meet the demands of the current era of Industrial Revolution 4.0 are becoming increasingly prevalent in Higher Education Institutions. Educators must cultivate and implement these strategies in their...

This book provides a rich and full analysis of female Swahili novelists from a feminist perspective, highlighting their important contributions to the living Swahili literary and intellectual tradition.Compared to the diverse and centuries-old oral...

This book provides a comprehensive introduction to Audiovisual Translation (AVT) in India. It examines the AVT of TV advertisements, analyses trends and practices of AVT in India, and studies the challenges faced by AV translators, including...

Learn how to integrate nature-based pedagogy in this practical and inviting book. Nature-based teaching is getting more attention in early childhood education settings and can positively impact the development of young children’s curiosity, confidence,...

A fascinating exploration of the roles many spy novelists played during World War II and the influence of intelligence work on their writing.World War II deception operations created elaborate fictions and subterfuges to prevent the enemy from...

Providing an engaging, accessible and practically-focused introduction to cognitive grammar, this book demonstrates how central cognitive grammar principles can be used in stylistic analyses. Assuming no prior knowledge, it leads students through the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593517505Author Robert FranekFormat PaperbackPage Count 896Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA Inc

How do students acquire a second language? How can teachers most effectively teach a second language? How do students and teachers develop communication in the language classroom? This textbook is written specifically for a language teacher education...

This book explores the pervasive and globalized trajectory of domestic disinformation. It describes specific operations and general apparatuses of disinformation that are sponsored by the State institutions in several countries around the world, such as...

The Big Lie About Race in America’s Schools delivers a collective response to the challenge of racially-charged misinformation, disinformation, and censorship that increasingly permeates and weakens not only US education but also our democracy. In this...

Supporting Early Childhood Practice Through Difficult Times encourages early years students and practitioners to take stock of current practices and pedagogies in the light of challenges like the Covid-19 pandemic, ecological concerns, and regulatory...

The novel has often been characterized as the art form without a form. Although there may not be any rules for how to write a novel, as Matthew Clark shows in his new work of practical analysis, a good novel is as carefully formed as a good poem.From...

Transforming Hanzi Pedagogy in the Digital Age 电写时代的汉字教学 brings together expert researchers and practitioners to offer a coherent theoretical, empirical, pedagogical, and experiential justification for a shift in pedagogical focus from handwriting to...

This book introduces the concept of Picnic Society – a society which we all belong to today because social media has given us unlimited opportunities to create or destroy our own and our circle’s (our bubble’s) realities, possibilities, and reputations...

Speaking to the need to move beyond traditional formulations, this textbook presents radical visions for transforming civic education in the United States.Drawing on the experience of educators and scholars—including those rooted in feminist, queer,...

This book analyzes crisis communication in Asia, focusing on how culture plays a central role in the way a crisis develops and is resolved.Using the case study method, this book offers the reader glimpses of the variety of cultures in the continent,...

Adult education offers the potential to enhance the individual’s sense of agency to direct and improve their future; this is especially important in times of significant societal unrest. It may lead to social change and even social justice. This book...

The world today needs mindful leaders who care for the holistic well-being of their students and staff, and to inspire all to renew schools with compassion, creativity and courage. But what is mindful leadership, and how can leaders create and sustain...

A book designed for play. Expertly curated by @allaboutearlyyears’ Hayley Winter, this full colour book is filled to the brim with creative ideas to ignite children’s curiosity and encourage them to explore and experiment. This book supports...

A collaboration between a seasoned math teacher and a research mathematician, this resource offers balanced instructional ideas based around student intellectual engagement and skilled teacher leadership. It is solidly grounded in many areas of classroom...

A collaboration between a seasoned math teacher and a research mathematician, this resource offers balanced instructional ideas based around student intellectual engagement and skilled teacher leadership. It is solidly grounded in many areas of classroom...

“An Introduction to Quantitative Text Analysis for Linguistics: Reproducible Research Using R” is a pragmatic textbook that equips students and researchers with the essential concepts and practical programming skills needed to conduct quantitative text...

Translation technology is essential for translation students, practising translators, and those working as part of the language services industry, but looming above others are the tools for automating translation: machine translation and, more recently,...

Drawing on 10 years of research into whole of school teaching improvement, this engaging text explains what teaching improvement requires, how it is achieved and how to maintain it in your classroom and school.Based on studies involving real schools and...

Warsaw Tales is an anthology of short stories and non-fiction set in the Polish capital. Beginning in 1911 with Boleslaw Prus' Apparitions, the collected stories provide a chronological account of the city's tumultuous and dramatic history. Each story...

This book offers a unique exploration of attachment aware schools, bringing together empirical teacher views along with wider theoretical and policy perspectives. Attachment aware schooling demonstrates an understanding of the emotional and behavioural...

The study of the full career of an award-winning writer who evolved from traditional to radicalAmong the most celebrated American poets of the past half century, Adrienne Rich was the recipient of awards ranging from the Bollingen Prize, to the National...

This essential and urgent book presents research-based understandings about Asian American early childhood, bringing to light the battle Asian Americans face against American nativism from their early years’ experiences. The first of its kind in academic...

This collection synthesizes perspectives on Neonatal Opioid Withdrawal Syndrome (NOWS), providing a comprehensive resource for those in speech-language pathology and healthcare providers working within an interprofessional approach to treat and support...

National Health Education Standards, Third Edition, empowers preK-12 health educators to develop high-quality health education programs that improve outcomes for students, providing them with skills for lifelong health and well-being. Created by SHAPE...

Supercharge your code with macros, the real power tools of the Rust programming language!Macros are instructions to generate new Rust code at compile-time, saving you hours of tedious code writing. The top Rust developers have built macros into...

First published in 1979, Texts and Contexts identifies those classics of Roman literature which deserve to survive because of their intrinsic quality and their lasting significance. The most important of these texts are placed in the context of the...

Equity Audits and School Resource Allocation explores how to apply Critical Resource Theory (CReT) to conduct school equity audits, ultimately preparing educational leaders to find equity disparities, engage in more equitable resource allocation in their...

This fully updated and revised fourth edition of Theory/Theatre is a unique and highly engaging introduction to cultural theory as it relates to theatre and performance. It is a comprehensive and accessible examination of current theoretical approaches,...

This book asserts that authority is a contested category and explores why traditional notions of authority are increasingly in tension with progressive and postmodern claims, devolving into stalemate, schizophrenia, or power plays. Offering a Christian...

Archival Science in Interdisciplinary Theory and Practice brings together scholars, practicing archivists, and records managers to discuss key issues in the conceptual and theoretical frameworks of the profession. The contributors examine the state of...

This is the first book on Richard III and the Tower of London, shedding new light on the King’s reputation, the Castle’s lore, and early-modern literature’s role in building associations between them. It is also one of the first books to integrate...