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In early 1867, a book of poems stunned the French literary world. Titled The Book of Jade, it featured Chinese calligraphy and named ancient Chinese poets as sources, leaving readers uncertain whether the collection was a translation or a French author's...

The labor of literature is often thought of as a specialized craft, distinct from everyday work. In Stitch, Unstitch, Kristin Grogan traces an alternative vision of writing and the writer, arguing that modernist poetry was deeply shaped by ordinary labor...

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The labor of literature is often thought of as a specialized craft, distinct from everyday work. In Stitch, Unstitch, Kristin Grogan traces an alternative vision of writing and the writer, arguing that modernist poetry was deeply shaped by ordinary labor...

This book introduces dialogist interpretation as an innovative approach within interpreting studies, offering a critical examination of interpreter-mediated asylum encounters. Based on a case study of a legal consultation in the Netherlands, the book...

Timely and thoroughly updated, the second edition of Early Years Education and Care in Canada explores the histories, philosophies, theories, and approaches that have shaped the ways that we teach and care for children in Canada. Featuring multiple...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781800997103Author D. Geraint LewisFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Y LolfaPublisher Y LolfaDimensions(mm) 210mm * 148mm * 10mm

Support colleagues, inspire collaboration, and drive impactful school improvement. Designed for instructional coaches, grade-level leaders, subject coordinators, and team leaders, Teachers Who Lead highlights proven strategies to enhance teaching...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781800997097Author D. Geraint LewisFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Y LolfaPublisher Y LolfaDimensions(mm) 210mm * 148mm * 7mm

The Oxford Critical Guide to Tacitus presents eighteen chapters surveying individual works and books by Tacitus. The chapters treat a range of interpretive issues, including Tacitus' language and style; historical issues; literary devices; and narrative...

Counter-Modernities in Nineteenth-Century French Literature explores a counterview of modernity in late nineteenth-century French literature (1848-1891). The principal claim of this book is that what we find in the works of Baudelaire, Rimbaud, and...

Comics have long been a subject of moral panics, no doubt thanks to their in-your-face illustrations and their association with young readers. Indeed, the politicians and parents behind today's book-banning campaigns reserve special ire for graphic...

Berserk Violence, Racial Vengeance, and Settler Colonialism in American Writing from Franklin to Melville studies the literary and cultural tradition of the "Indian Hater" in American writing from the decades between the Revolution and the Civil War. In...

The Oxford Critical Guide to Tacitus presents eighteen chapters surveying individual works and books by Tacitus. The chapters treat a range of interpretive issues, including Tacitus' language and style; historical issues; literary devices; and narrative...

Actor Trainers on Acting is a comprehensive, diverse and forward-thinking examination of the craft of acting written by leading experts from across the world.The book reflects on the evolving relationship between actor training and the contemporary and...

Urban theater took shape in postindependence India as a large and complex field produced in more than sixteen major languages, including Bengali, Marathi, Hindi, Gujarati, and Kannada. The cosmopolitan engagement of leading playwrights with modernist and...

Urban theater took shape in postindependence India as a large and complex field produced in more than sixteen major languages, including Bengali, Marathi, Hindi, Gujarati, and Kannada. The cosmopolitan engagement of leading playwrights with modernist and...

Ethics for Apocalyptic Times is about the role literature can play in helping readers cope with our present-day crises, including the COVID-19 pandemic, climate change, and the shift toward fascism in global politics. Using the lens of Mennonite...

This book is a groundbreaking exploration of how to empower students as innovative creators in an increasingly technology-driven world.With rapid advancements in artificial intelligence and other technologies reshaping society, this text champions the...

Black graduate deans at historically white institutions have long navigated the complexities of higher education leadership while advocating for diversity, equity, and student success. This compelling volume brings together their stories, insights, and...

Use these teaching tips and activities to create high-quality settings and interactions that empower infants and toddlers. This book presents an expanded view of infant and toddler development to equip educators with the knowledge, dispositions, and...

This edited volume explores how to effectively and ethically conduct social science research and work with marginalized and vulnerable populations. The contributors draw on their own studies to guide readers through the main phases of research, including...

Previously, most studies in this area have focused on the reciprocal effects of language teachers' emotions, identity, well-being and agency, with emotions often being portrayed as consequential entities. However, this book advances the field by...

This accessible book guides early career teachers (ECTs) through key areas of inclusion, providing context and understanding, sharing diverse reflections from practice, and introducing the essential principles of inclusive teaching.Chapters explore a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798765133729Author Professor Emerita Suzanne Jill LevineFormat HardbackPage Count 192Imprint Bloomsbury Publishing USAPublisher Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798765129159Author Dr. or Prof. Daniela KukrechtovaFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint Bloomsbury Publishing USAPublisher Bloomsbury Publishing USA

This is an original study of the notion of space in surviving New Comedy plays by Menander, Plautus and Terence, informed by theoretical discussion on its specific categories. The main focus is on scenic space (what the audience sees) and extra-scenic...

For about five hundred years - between Ovid's death (17 AD) and Maximianus' Elegies (6th century AD) - the genre of love elegy disappears. Does this mean that love poetry in general was no longer being written? This was certainly not the case. Poets...

This book takes students step-by-step through the process of planning and writing a reflective essay, beginning with crucial guidance on planning and structure. It introduces different reflective frameworks and shows readers how to structure a piece of...

Using Wordsworth as a focal point, this book describes how, in the period of Romanticism and beyond, the historical practice of pilgrimage became internalised figuratively and psychologically so as to represent Christian discourse in nineteenth-century...

This book innovatively combines medieval manuscript study with contemporary cultural game theory to show how the Middle English romance Sir Gawain and the Green Knight launches a multidimensional game with its late-fourteenth-century elite reader. The...

The Oxford International Handbook of Creativity and Education brings together cutting-edge scholarship about the global trends and future directions of creativity in education. Diverse models and frameworks capture the state of the field with a focus on...

Offering a cognitive approach to semantics, this highly accessible textbook place cognitive linguistics at the centre of lexical semantics while covering the field in a broader sense. It explains the fundamental concepts underlying the study of lexical...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781625348579Author Daniel A NelsonFormat HardbackPage Count 174Imprint University of Massachusetts PressPublisher University of Massachusetts Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781625348562Author Daniel A NelsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 174Imprint University of Massachusetts PressPublisher University of Massachusetts Press

This reader is part of a five-volume-edition and comprises an in-depth presentation of the state of the art in word-formation. Volume 2 concentrates on select aspects of word-formation processes and their patterns including how they conform to more...

Offering for the first time a student introduction to Aristophanes' most explosive political satire, this volume is an essential guide to the context, themes and later reception of Cavalry. The ancient comedy is a fascinating insight into power ...

In this innovative re-casting of the genre and its received canon, Emily Horton explores fictional investments in the Gothic within contemporary British literature, revealing how such concepts as the monstrous, spectral and uncanny work to illuminate the...

This book offers a nuanced analysis of the ways in which Egyptian and British novels represent the Egyptian nationalist project in its struggle against British hegemony in the aftermath of two revolutions: the 1881-82 Urabi Revolution, known for...

In this cultural history of the computer, Benjamin Mangrum shows that comedy has been central to how we've made sense of the technology's sweeping effects on public life and private experience. From the first Broadway play to include a computer in the...