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What do we mean when call something a lyric poem? How many kinds of lyric are there? Are there fewer now than there were in 1920 or 1820 or 1620? The purpose of Forms of Late Modernist Lyric is to show that our oldest styles of poetic articulation – the...

Iberian and Translation Studies: Literary Contact Zones offers fertile reflection on the dynamics of linguistic diversity and multifaceted literary translation flows taking place across the Iberian Peninsula. Drawing on cutting-edge theoretical...

Life as Creative Constraint is the first book to focus on the extraordinary life-writing of the French experimental writing group, the Oulipo. The Oulipo's enthusiasm for literary games and formal gymnastics has seen its work caricatured as 'lifeless' -...

This book fills a large gap in our understanding of how to prepare teachers for the challenging but increasingly popular task of integrating content and language instruction. It brings together findings on content-based teacher education from Africa,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798765108703Author Dr. John ParkFormat HardbackPage Count 192Imprint Bloomsbury Publishing USAPublisher Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Collective Vision: Igniting District and School Improvement describes a school district’s ten-year journey of transformation and how research was leveraged to help achieve improved educational outcomes for learners. The journey began with the creation of...

For many Latin students, the second year of study marks an exciting turning point. Having learned the basics of grammar and vocabulary, they are finally ready to encounter “real” Latin authors, usually Caesar or Cicero, for the first time. Yet these same...

Sacrifice and Modern War Writing presents the most extensive study to date of twentieth- and twenty-first-century war writing. Examining works by over 110 authors, Alex Houen surveys how war writing explores sacrifice in relation to major modern and...

Sinophone studies—the study of Sinitic-language cultures and communities around the world—has become increasingly interdisciplinary over the past decade. Today, it spans not only literary studies and cinema studies but also history, anthropology,...

Information and Consciousness: An Exploration connects information and consciousness in ways that will open up potential inquiry into what information is, how it works, and its relationship to human consciousness. Information has been taken to mean many...

Collective Vision: Igniting District and School Improvement describes a school district’s ten-year journey of transformation and how research was leveraged to help achieve improved educational outcomes for learners. The journey began with the creation of...

Recent research has revealed that the borrowings in Yambo Ouologuem’s epochal novel Le Devoir de violence (Bound to Violence) are far more extensive than was previously thought. Accused of plagiarism, Ouologuem quit the Parisian literary world and...

Many physical theories suggest that time does not pass, yet temporality deeply permeates our experience. We perceive change and movement, we are aware of living in the present, of the constant flux of our sensations and thoughts, and of time itself...

Sleuthing Miss Marple mirrors the structure and playful analytic style of a detective novel. Beginning at the ‘scene of the crime’, this investigation places Agatha Christie and the clue-puzzle in historical context, casting light on the methods, the...

Apocalypse is traditional and familiar, and it is an actual threat; it is feared, desired, and banal. Apocalypse in Crisis discusses fictions from the 1940s to the present, examining shifts in the imagination of apocalypse from the postwar British...

A bestselling author’s definitive guide to writing and publishing research-based nonfiction for a wide audience  Writing fact-based nonfiction for large general audiences requires two different skills: the ability to conduct rigorous research and to...

Shortlisted for the Locus Science Fiction Foundation Non-Fiction Award 2023 The Rise of the Cyberzines concludes Mike Ashley's five-volume series, which has tracked the evolution of the science-fiction magazine from its earliest days in the 1920s to its...

With a focus on skills development, this book provides guidance on how to navigate transitions between career stages in higher education and how to maintain wellbeing in the process.In a fast-paced and ever-changing environment, a career path in higher...

Recovers a forgotten and short-lived form of American fiction: the midcentury minor novel

An incisive investigation of the often fraught student-transfer pathways from community colleges to four-year institutions—and a blueprint for process reform In Discredited, education scholars Lauren Schudde and Huriya Jabbar illuminate the successes...

What happens if we reconsider the literature of the Civil War North in light of the transformation of the federal state's power? While literary scholarship about the Civil War has more generally focused on the rise of wartime nationalism, Philip Gould...

In The Sides of the Sea: Caribbean Women Writing Diaspora, Johanna X. K. Garvey examines the works of contemporary writers from eight Caribbean countries, including Haiti, Trinidad and Tobago, and the Dominican Republic. Authors from Anglophone,...

In sixteen chapters devoted to avant-garde contemporary American poets, including Kenneth Goldsmith, Adeena Karasick, Tyrone Williams, Hannah Weiner, and Barrett Watten, prolific scholar and Purdue University professor Daniel Morris engages in a form of...

Performing Parenthood reveals different enactments of motherhood and fatherhood in twentieth- and twenty-first-century Spain, showing how the family has adapted, or at times failed to do so, within the context of Spain’s changing socioeconomic reality...

Part of James Joyce’s genius was his ability to find the poetry in everyday life. For Joyce, even a simple object like a table becomes magical, “a board that was of the birchwood of Finlandy and it was upheld by four dwarfmen of that country but they...

Gothic Appalachian Literature examines the ways contemporary Appalachian authors utilize gothic tropes to explore the complex history and contemporary problems of the region, particularly in terms of their representation of economic and environmental...

Explores how perceptions of rivers shaped identity and culture in Shakespeare's Britain

A warm, witty, passionate cry for living, vital, indigenous languages and the people who speak them.Despite the more than 200 Indigenous languages spoken in Mexico, including 63 that are officially recognized and celebrated by the Mexican government,...

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Realizing more promising futures starts in the here and now. This book seeks to help young people learn how to become the creative authors of their own lives by approaching current and future uncertainties with an unshakeable sense of possibility. It...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781571989932Author Old Farmer's AlmanacFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Old Farmer's AlmanacPublisher Old Farmer's AlmanacWeight(grams) 295g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781571989925Author Old Farmer's AlmanacFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint Old Farmer's AlmanacPublisher Old Farmer's AlmanacWeight(grams) 646g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781571989895Author Old Farmer's AlmanacFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Old Farmer's AlmanacPublisher Old Farmer's AlmanacWeight(grams) 295g

Country is cool now – I think it's cool Conor is 17. He lives with his mum in Croydon. He works at a leisure centre. He’s gay. Life is not what he expected, and he’s worried he might be… well, a loser. He dreams of moving away, of being noticed, of being...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593964217Author DKFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Penguin Young ReadersPublisher Penguin Young ReadersWeight(grams) 567g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781438497297Author Kathryn Rosser RaignFormat PaperbackPage Count 198Imprint State University of New York PressPublisher State University of New York...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781438497259Author Claudia Diaz-RiosFormat PaperbackPage Count 268Imprint State University of New York PressPublisher State University of New York...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780877792574Author Merriam-WebsterFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint Merriam-WebsterPublisher Merriam-WebsterWeight(grams) 254g