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Would you read this book if a computer wrote it? Would you even know? And why would it matter? Today's eerily impressive artificial intelligence writing tools present us with a crucial challenge: As writers, do we unthinkingly adopt AI's time-saving...

How do we read southern literature in a postplantation, postregional, and posthuman moment? How do we address the urgent contemporary catastrophes of the Anthropocene in these newly leveled landscapes? Put simply, how do we parse the levels of human...

Beyond his iconic newspaper strips, the legendary American cartoonist and author Jules Feiffer has enjoyed a long and varied career, with a wide creative output in comics, theatre, film, and children's literature, from illustrating The Phantom Tollbooth...

A first-of-its-kind handbook outlining best practices and common pitfalls for students and textual scholars interested in beginning to work with manuscripts While manuscripts are rare in most of the world today, they were once ubiquitous. Before the...

Beyond his iconic newspaper strips, the legendary American cartoonist and author Jules Feiffer has enjoyed a long and varied career, with a wide creative output in comics, theatre, film, and children's literature, from illustrating The Phantom Tollbooth...

The volume reevaluates the common notions of a good childhood, which are influenced in various ways by the Covid-19 pandemic. The perspectives of children and adolescents on the pandemic have rarely been the subject of discussion. Thematically, this...

This interdisciplinary volume addresses the progress made regarding mental illness stigma in the realm of higher education while acknowledging how stigma has transformed to present more subtle challenges in this context and how it may be addressed to...

Arabic linguistics encompasses a range of language forms and functions from formal to informal, classical to contemporary, written to spoken, all of which have vastly different research traditions. Recently however, the increasing prominence of new...

Composite Predicates (CPs) are of particular interest to linguists in that only some of them are semantically restricted in present-day English, while others are not. This book explores the semantic-syntactic evolution of twenty-four different CPs in...

This book advances the argument that schools are no place for education and reimagines education without the school. The authors describe this as a worrying and frightening place in which we must ‘unthink’ education, recognising it as fragile and...

This book critiques creativity as a 'keyword' in contemporary society. This is illustrated through an analysis of the uses of creativity within cultural, urban and educational policy. While there have been critiques and debates of the uses of creativity...

Kaplan's MCAT Behavioral Sciences Review 2026-2027 offers an expert study plan, detailed subject review, and hundreds of online and in-book practice questions-all authored by the experts behind Kaplan's score-raising MCAT prep course. Prepping for the...

Few studies of Henry James and travel attend to the act of travelling itself: a formative experience for the author and for his invariably itinerant characters. This book explores the relationship between transport and representation in James's later...

Pass the notorious Series 7 with helpful review material, practice, and insider tips Series 7 Exam 2026-2027 For Dummies is your trusted guide to conquering the Series 7-a required securities exam necessary for launching your career in finance as a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780813079356Author John GordonFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint University Press of FloridaPublisher University Press of Florida

Exploring the importance of Ernest Hemingway's time in Italy to his writing and legacyFrom his World War I service in Italy through his transformational return visits during the decades that followed, Ernest Hemingway's Italian experiences were...

The contributors to this volume document and analyze the evolution of an international, organic network of collaborating teacher educators. Educators at the Stanford Teacher Education Program launched the iSTEP Institute, a professional learning and...

Making math accessible to young learners is especially challenging. This hands-on book provides a method for teaching math with fun stories that allow students to experience math concepts in real-world contexts. Teachers can choose from a selection of...

What comes before phonics? The teaching of phonics is strongly embedded in early literacy teaching in schools and early years settings. It has been shown to be an important part of becoming literate. There is, however, significant concern about the...

This book guides you through the complexities of difference and diversity in counselling and psychotherapy practice. It introduces contemporary thinking on the construction of difference, social justice and social identity and applies the theories to...

Your #1 resource for carrying out educational research as part of postgraduate study. High-quality educational research requires careful consideration of every aspect of the process. This all-encompassing textbook written by leading international...

Completing Assignments in TESOL and Applied Linguistics: A Practical Guide is an invaluable companion for anyone dealing with assignments in these fields.This hands-on guide walks students through every stage of assignment preparation, from unpacking...

Finding new grant-makers is a time-consuming and intricate business. The Guide to New Trusts takes the legwork out of the process to help you take a short cut to new funders who might support your cause.The grant-makers in this guide, all registered in...

The Waltzing Body in Victorian Literature: Narratives of Sexuality and Power traces the evolution of the waltz from a taboo dance in the early nineteenth century to a gracefully nostalgic practice that must be preserved by the century's end. While...

This fully updated second edition offers an advanced introduction to quantitative methods that focuses on why and how to conduct research that contributes to social justice.Providing both inspiration and step-by-step guidance on how to conceive, design,...

How to Activate and Accelerate Student Learning Have you ever given instructions to your students, only to receive blank stares or confusion? Clarity is an essential part of teaching and learning, and every interaction we have with students is the...

This book presents strategies to help educators understand, communicate with, and support their multilingual nonspeaking children. We often tell parents and caregivers to carry over specific skills and strategies that are taught to their children in...

This book presents strategies to help educators understand, communicate with, and support their multilingual nonspeaking children. We often tell parents and caregivers to carry over specific skills and strategies that are taught to their children in...

Expanded and revised to include four entirely new chapters, this thoroughly updated edition presents a model for how educators can design high-quality, challenging, and supportive learning opportunities for multilingual learners. Starting with the...

The Routledge Introduction to Canadian Literature and Illness considers the key literary and historical frameworks for reading stories about sickness. Transcending disciplinary boundaries, this book analyzes narrative depictions of major epidemics,...

This book provides a wealth of rich cases describing how Research-Practice Partnerships (RPPs) in K-12 schools navigate equity in the design and implementation of their projects, and shares insightful recommendations for both research-side and...

This collection of essays by a team of internationally respected researchers at the cutting edge of translation studies was inspired by the idea of "writing forward" as a strategy for theatre translation proposed by David Johnston, the award-winning...

Building on the foundations of Roderick Jones' authoritative and popular text, this brand-new textbook is a comprehensive, up to date and easily accessible introduction to conference interpreting. Elisabet Tiselius combines practical approaches and their...

This edited collection explores the contemporary interplay among three pivotal areas found in cultures around the world: communication, entertainment, and messages of social justice. Each chapter centralizes communication as instrumental in creating...

How do people become informed about risk and why is this important? This book draws upon three case studies to interrogate risk's informational thread, including how people map and orient themselves to risk information as well as how these activities...

This book guides you through the complexities of difference and diversity in counselling and psychotherapy practice. It introduces contemporary thinking on the construction of difference, social justice and social identity and applies the theories to...

Robinson and Sun's book goes in search of the neglected metaphorics of translation in pornography using poststructuralist rethinkings and reframings of porn (and masturbation) from Jacques Derrida to Judith Butler.In his 1684 "Essay on Translated Verse,"...

Originally published in 1948, The Clue to the Brontes was written in part as response to a previous biography of Charlotte Bronte by Mrs Gaskell. The author argues that Gaskell's biography gets it all wrong. Harrison draws connections between Patrick...

Students love math games and puzzles, but how much are they really learning from the experience? Too often, math games are thought of as just a fun activity or enrichment opportunity. Well Played, Grades 3-5: Building Mathematical Thinking Through Number...

Writing Comedy for Television (1983) is a practical, step-by-step manual about how and what to write. It contains many examples from the scripts of various sitcoms and sketch shows. It demonstrates how to construct a storyline for a series, how to lay...