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Writing that Matters offers practical guidance for becoming a more confident writer. From fundamentals and style to structure and lessons from master writers, you will develop skills that serve you throughout your academic journey.This compelling guide...

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This new theory of reader response describes "perverse attachment," or the powerful desire to intervene in a story, even when it is impossible to do so.Fiction has long inspired resistance in its readers: making them, for example, wish for a different...

This book empowers teachers across content areas to help adolescents become confident readers and writers. Blending sociocognitive research and innovative strategies, the book shows how to foster inclusive literacy instruction, student agency, and...

An experiment in criticism that explores Henry James's late works through the lens of minimalism. Henry James's last completed novels-The Ambassadors, The Wings of the Dove, and The Golden Bowl-are among the greatest and most demanding achievements of...

This book empowers teachers across content areas to help adolescents become confident readers and writers. Blending sociocognitive research and innovative strategies, the book shows how to foster inclusive literacy instruction, student agency, and...

In this edited collection, philosophers and critical theorists develop theoretical tools to conceptualize and evaluate the neoliberal university, working together both to interrogate how it reproduces systems of oppression and exploitation and to...

A timely look at contemporary African American creative works through the lens of Ta-Nehisi Coates's ground-breaking entry into the comic book industry. Writing Black Panther traces Ta-Nehisi Coates's presence in comic books from 2015-2023, focusing on...

Nursery rhymes are easy to remember, recite, and pass on to future generations, but are these transmitters of popular culture still relevant and appropriate? In an increasingly multicultural world, it's critical to examine the lessons children are...

Vivid and daring in Marlowe's time and ours, Edward II has captivated generations of readers, audiences and performers with its evocative portrayal of passionate friendship, kingly power and brutal retribution. Leading scholar Jeffrey Masten's new...

As the latest volume in the Master Class series from AEJMC, this book introduces innovative best practices for teaching in the rapidly growing fields of sports media and communication.This practice-oriented guide equips instructors with proven strategies...

Anger is not simply an affect; it is a complicated and complex emotion that is culturally constructed and at the same time constructive of cultural, political, ecological and even psychological change and awareness.Complexities of Anger examines anger in...

The Music and Literacy Connection is the primary source of in-depth information detailing the relationship between music learning, literacy, and reading.This third edition delivers deeply researched information, provides classroom proven instructional...

An engaging biographical introduction to Sigmund Freud, contextualizing the evolution of his theories within the vibrant and tumultuous climate of early-20th-century Vienna.Freud Explained presents Freud's core ideas as they developed over the course of...

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First bilingual volume on family engagement in multilingual education, providing evidence of the need for schools to work with Latinx families, communities and students, to the benefit of all involved. This book examines the significance of family...

Step into academic success with Critical Reading and Writing for Postgraduates, your trusted companion for reviewing and writing convincingly about the research literature. This detailed guide takes you through the essentials: deciding what to read,...

Step into academic success with Critical Reading and Writing for Postgraduates, your trusted companion for reviewing and writing convincingly about the research literature. This detailed guide takes you through the essentials: deciding what to read,...

This is your essential guide to carrying out research in schools. It walks you through each step offering smart practical guidance supported by real world examples of students' work to help you understand academic research vocabulary, avoid common...

Supporting primary teaching students to develop deep subject knowledge in curriculum subjects beyond literacy and numeracy. Students on primary education courses have a significant breadth of subject knowledge to cover. This book, which is applicable...

This timely and practical guide offers busy SENCOs supportive day-to-day advice on navigating the challenges of the role while maintaining your wellbeing, blitzing the paperwork and keeping up to date with your statutory responsibilities. The Little...

Bringing concepts from critical transitional justice and peacebuilding into dialogue with education, this book examines the challenges youth and their teachers face in the post-conflict settings of Bougainville and Solomon Islands. Youth in these...

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This powerful second edition offers White teachers a timely and research-driven Caring Solidarity framework—complete with updated examples and new chapters addressing digital-age solidarity and resisting identity erasure—to transform divided classrooms...

Multilingualism and Wellbeing is an innovative text that combines sociolinguistic, psychological, and philosophical approaches to explore multilingualism as a source of wellbeing. It challenges the 'monolingual bias' and the common assumption that...

Comprehensively rewritten and updated, this new edition of the leading textbook on dubbing provides a solid overview of the world of dubbing and is fundamentally interactive in its approach. It presents, in an entertaining and easy-to-read manner, all...

The Collins Cambridge IGCSE (TM) Mandarin Chinese course delivers broad coverage of the Cambridge IGCSE (TM) Mandarin Chinese as a Foreign Language (0547) syllabus, for examination from 2028. This topic-based Workbook supports the Student's Book with...

Collins Cambridge IGCSE (TM) Mandarin Chinese as a Foreign Language Teacher's Guide supports the Student's Book and Workbook with a detailed mapping chart, notes in each unit and suggestions for differentiated activities to support teachers. This course...

This is the first and only comprehensive introductory study of Walter Pater, novelist, short story writer, literary critic, and philosopher. One of the late nineteenth century's most important and least understood writers, Pater evinced a new mode of...

*A GUARDIAN, NEW STATESMAN, PROSPECT AND WATERSTONES BEST BOOK OF 2025* 'The fascinating story of ancient words ... new revelations await' The Guardian 'A magisterial...

Navigating the Superintendency: Lessons from the Field on Increasing Longevity and Success addresses the increasing challenges of the superintendency amid heightened accountability and leadership instability. Drawing on interviews with eighteen seasoned...

Navigating the Superintendency: Lessons from the Field on Increasing Longevity and Success addresses the increasing challenges of the superintendency amid heightened accountability and leadership instability. Drawing on interviews with eighteen seasoned...

This is the first and only comprehensive introductory study of Walter Pater, novelist, short story writer, literary critic, and philosopher. One of the late nineteenth century's most important and least understood writers, Pater evinced a new mode of...

This book explores the beliefs and practices of Judaism as a lived religion in the United Kingdom and addresses issues of representation. This book engages with Jewish beliefs and practices in a way that is accurate, accessible and engaging for teachers...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798214462707Imprint Cengage ELTPublisher Cengage Learning, Inc

As literacy expanded in Classical Athens, myths became increasingly fixed through textualization, fostering a more analytical and critical approach to storytelling. Euripides did not merely adapt myths for the stage but actively interrogated their...

This book reexamines William Faulkner's If I Forget Thee, Jerusalem (1939), a novel of increasing sociohistorical importance despite being one of Faulkner's lesser known and studied works. Wainwright traces Faulkner's 1925 visit to Paris, where he...

Trees abound in Shakespeare's plays, and in Tree-Becoming Shannon Kelley explores how he uses his characters' identification with cypress, balsam, bay laurel, myrrh, and pine trees as metaphors to express emotional distress. Opening new avenues for...

The Challenge of Tradition emphasizes the tension between Adorno's critique of tradition as being incompatible with capitalist modernity and his understanding of the need for maintaining aesthetic and cultural connections with the past. Placing the...

A Protestant Air focuses on the Protestant connection linking three intellectual giants of twentieth-century French thought: Andre Gide, Jean-Paul Sartre, and Roland Barthes. All three came from a Protestant background and thus shared a common...