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Sometimes the word “lyric” seems to appear everywhere: either it’s used interchangeably with the word “poetry” or it attaches to descriptions of literature, art, film, and even ordinary objects in order to capture some quality of aesthetic appeal or...

During his long and distinguished career as scholar and teacher, Howard Gardner has made vast contributions to our understanding of learning and how to create environments that support growth in all learners across their lifespans. In this compelling...

Since the 2002 implementation of No Child Left Behind, the American public education system has been fundamentally changed. Excessive testing, standardized curriculums, destructive demands on children, corporate-style evaluations, and top-down mandates...

How modernist women writers used biographical writing to resist their exclusion from literary historyIt’s impossible, now, to think of modernism without thinking about gender, sexuality, and the diverse movers and shakers of the early twentieth century...

The quick spread of posthumanism and of critiques of anthropomorphism in the past few decades has resulted in greater attention to concrete objects in critical theories and in philosophy. This new materialism or new object philosophy marks a renewal of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781474481441Author Sophie CorserFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Edinburgh University PressPublisher Edinburgh University Press

In the second volume of The Weight of Words Series, Jeremy Black continues his efforts to present and preserve Britain's literary genius. Its intelligence and enduring influence is in large part reliant on the underlining conservatism that has motivated...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781474481526Author Francesca BrattonFormat PaperbackPage Count 264Imprint Edinburgh University PressPublisher Edinburgh University Press

A study of Shakespeare’s child figures in relation to their own political moment, as well as our own. Politicians are fond of saying that “children are the future.” How did the child become a figure for our political hopes? Joseph Campana’s book locates...

The Romantic period witnessed decisive interest in how feeling might align with forms of artistic expression. Many critical studies have focused on the serious side and melancholic moods of Romantic poets. Romantic Poets and the Laughter of Feeling...

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The second edition of An Introduction to Literary Chinese incorporates recent developments in linguistics and has been expanded to include a lesson on Buddhist texts. Beginning with an overview of literary Chinese—its phonology, morphology, and syntax,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593656952Author Salman KhanFormat HardbackPage Count 272Imprint VikingPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 449g

How to Read Middle English Poetry guides readers through poetry between 1150 and 1500, for study and pleasure. Chapters give down-to-earth advice on enjoying and analyzing each aspect of verse, from the choice of single words, through syntax, metre,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780814101797Author Luke RodesilerFormat PaperbackPage Count 230Imprint National Council of Teachers of English (Ncte)Publisher National Council of Teachers...

Flattery in Seneca the Younger explores the discourse of flattery in Seneca's philosophical texts, and analyses the extent to which Seneca developed a theory of adulation. Martina Russo maps a phenomenology of flattery, tracing its external...

Facing threats like climate change and nuclear warfare, science fiction authors have conjured apocalyptic scenarios of human extinction. Can such gloomy fates help us make sense of our contemporary crises? How important is the survival of our species if...

The Equality of Flesh traces a new genealogy of equality before its formalization under liberalism. While modern ideas of equality are defined through an inner human nature, Brent Dawson argues that the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries conceptualized...

How AI is revolutionizing the future of learning and how educators can adapt to this new era of human thinking.Artificial Intelligence (AI) is revolutionizing the way we learn, work, and think. Its integration into classrooms and workplaces is already...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781939663931Author Pascal QuignardFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint Wakefield PressPublisher Wakefield Press

The Letters of Ernest Hemingway, Volume 6 (June 1934–June 1936) traces the completion and publication of Hemingway's experimental nonfiction book Green Hills of Africa and work on stories including 'The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber' and 'The...

A necessary reconceptualization of Latinx identity, literature, and politics In Latinx Revolutionary Horizons, Renee Hudson theorizes a liberatory latinidad that is not yet here and conceptualizes a hemispheric project in which contemporary Latinx...

Novel Competition describes the literary and institutional struggle to make American novels matter between 1965 and 1999. As corporations took over the book business, Hollywood movies, popular music, and other forms of mass-produced culture competed with...

Reading the impossible has never seemed less possible. A few decades ago, critical readings could view the collapse of foundationalism optimistically. With meaning no longer soldered onto being, there was hope for all those beings whose meaning had been...

THE OFFICIAL ACT (R) PREP GUIDE 2024-2025 The comprehensive guide to the 2024-2025 ACT test-including 9 genuine, full-length practice tests. The Official ACT (R) Prep Guide 2024-2025 book includes six authentic ACT tests-all of which contain the...

Muslims, Arabs, and Arab-Americans is based on Author Nawar Shora's time-tested seminar program that has reached law enforcement, the intelligence community, church groups, academic institutions, and private corporations for the past two decades. His...

The bestselling collection of Official TOEFL iBT (R) Tests straight from ETS, the maker of the test!Are you preparing to take the TOEFL test? Why not study with the only guide on the market that contains real TOEFL questions pulled from recent exams?...

Best Literary Translations is a new, annual anthology that celebrates world literatures in English translation and honors the translators who create and literary journals that publish this work. Best Literary Translations 2024 features both contemporary...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781035825462Author Jon MorrisFormat PaperbackPage Count 104Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley PublishersWeight(grams) 159g

Every educator wants to know: What has the greatest impact on student success? The answer: executive function skills. They are crucial for students′ academic success and personal growth, yet many of our students lack the skills required to engage in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781835390061Author Gruffudd OwenFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint SebraPublisher Sebra

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781546109211Author Liza CharlesworthImprint Scholastic Teaching ResourcesPublisher Scholastic Teaching Resources

'Wild, thrilling, brutally honest and beautifully tender. This is a truly extraordinary new play.' Lucy KirkwoodWINNER OF THE VERITY BARGATE AWARD 2022A father waits for his son. Kids hang around skipping school. Fights break out after nights of drinking...

Contemporary French writers have embarked on various quests for new sources of thematic and formal inspiration which are increasingly tied to issues of postcolonial legacies. However, French literature has never been consistently examined through the...

This book provides a decolonial critique of dominant global agendas concerning teacher professionalism and proposes a new understanding based on UNESCO-funded research with teachers based in Colombia, Ethiopia (Tigray), India, Rwanda and Tanzania. It...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781546109228Author Liza CharlesworthImprint Scholastic Teaching ResourcesPublisher Scholastic Teaching Resources

A comprehensive volume on leadership theories and their applications-with an emphasis on social justice Leadership Theory: Cultivating Critical Perspectives is an interdisciplinary survey text designed for use in undergraduate or graduate classrooms...

The preschool and reception years can be viewed as a stage of preparation for formal schooling. But we must not lose sight of the profound impact this time of play and exploration has as children continue developing the core processes they will later...

Full-length analysis of one of the most politically and socially engaged medieval poems The late fourteenth-century English poem Winner and Waster narrates a debate between the forces of avarice (Winner) and generosity (Waster); it ranges widely over a...

Beyond her most famous creation-the nightmarish vision of Frankenstein's Creature-Mary Shelley's most enduring influence on politics, literature, and art perhaps stems from the legacy of her lesser-known novel about the near-extinction of the human...