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Immersing trainees into academic research culture helps them learn to think, write, and publish like full-fledged researchers. Teaching Academic Writing in the Health Sciences offers best practice pedagogical strategies to help instructors, mentors,...

A celebration of the transformative effects of James Joyce's time in Trieste Joyce in Trieste is a record of the transformation in text, meaning, and language that Trieste worked upon Joyce. This volume begins with three path-breaking essays: Michael...

Unlocking Chemical Thinking advocates for teaching centered on central disciplinary ideas integrated with authentic chemical practices to encourage students to think and solve problems.

Learn how to create a secondary social studies curriculum that goes beyond memorizing dates and helps students envision and build a better world! In this follow-up to the bestselling book for elementary teachers, the authors show secondary teachers how...

This book looks afresh at the history of hysteria to nuance and complicate existing understandings of the relationship between medicine and women's writing. Through in-depth analyses of both medical texts and women's fiction published between the 1850s...

Embark on an exciting expedition with Logic Safari, where students dive into engaging problem-solving activities! As their excitement grows, so will their critical thinking and reading comprehension skills.Beloved for their versatility, these activities...

The Romance of Real Life, a common title in nineteenth-century European and American fiction, identifies the basic dilemma confronting realists throughout the century: reality is not always interesting, and romance is not always believable. This simple...

A compassionate and encouraging companion, The First-Gen Guide to Grad School has a message for all who aspire to keep learning and developing professionally: You belong. For first-generation college students, navigating undergraduate life is hard enough...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781476696355Author Aaron RickerFormat PaperbackPage Count 191Imprint McFarland & Co IncPublisher McFarland & Co Inc

In this book, Warda Farah brings a fresh perspective to the field of speech and language therapy, challenging traditional approaches and opening crucial conversations about race, culture, and neurodiversity in clinical practice to ensure better outcomes...

The Semiotic Turn is a milestone in semiotics. Written by Paolo Fabbri (1939-2020) at the end of the millennium, it orients semioticians in their purpose to critically analyze different cultural and social worlds. Given the influence of Fabbri's thought...

Embark on an exciting expedition with Logic Safari, where students dive into engaging problem-solving activities! As their excitement grows, so will their critical thinking and reading comprehension skills.Beloved for their versatility, these activities...

The legendary Alcibiades, the renowned Athenian general, cut a charismatic yet enigmatic figure, glorious and provocative, attractive and ambiguous. Isocrates’ Peri tou zeugous (On the Team of Horses; 16), from the early 4th century BC, concerns a legal...

Reflecting thoughtfully on your work is vital for improving your own self-awareness, effectiveness and professional development. This newly updated sixth edition of Gillie Bolton's bestselling book explores reflective writing as a creative and dynamic...

This is the ideal textbook for anyone studying child development on an early years or early childhood degree, or education and psychology courses with a child development component. Packed full of case studies and reflective questions that show how...

Reflecting thoughtfully on your work is vital for improving your own self-awareness, effectiveness and professional development. This newly updated sixth edition of Gillie Bolton's bestselling book explores reflective writing as a creative and dynamic...

This is the ideal textbook for anyone studying child development on an early years or early childhood degree, or education and psychology courses with a child development component. Packed full of case studies and reflective questions that show how...

A complete overview of digital preservation theory and practice for cultural institutions and professions.The third edition of Digital Preservation for Libraries, Archives, and Museums is the most current, complete guide to digital preservation available...

Essays on imagining a better world in dark times, from one of our most esteemed scholars of fairy talesFairy tales take us to a world where magic is commonplace, where wishing works, where the conflicts in our hearts are literalized in the world around...

In 1962, George Ruble Woolfolk, perhaps the foremost Black historian in Texas at the time, published his most well-known work Prairie View: A Study in Public Conscience, 1878-1946, a history of the state's first institution of higher education for...

Early Daoist Hagiographies offers an engaging new translation of six key Daoist texts that illuminate the interplay between religion and literature in medieval China. Five of the texts are hagiographies from the fourth-century Supreme Purity (Shangqing)...

Draws directly on insights from teens to reframe our understanding of bullying in the age of social media and why anti-bullying campaigns have been unsuccessful in combating it. Fitting in and standing out in high school is an eternal rite of passage...

This volume offers a unique transnational and transhistorical exploration of the relationship between women and the Gothic in Spain and the Americas. By examining how women writers have reimagined Gothic conventions, the book delves into the intersection...

Charting how a vast variety of writers, filmmakers, and artists channel Herman Melville, Joseph Allen Boone offers new insights into the author, his works, and his many legacies.

In the Middle Ages, hell was useful because it was vaguely defined. Canonical scriptures scarcely mention hell, leaving much to the imaginations of early Christians, who used it to sort out who belonged within the faith. This book explores how hell...

Offers a fresh interpretation of French Symbolist poetics, showing how Mallarme, Baudelaire, and Rimbaud used visionary, transformative language to challenge modern secular perceptions of reality and reveal the enduring power of poetry. Despite...

This captivating visual book provides an accessible introduction to how laughter affects the holistic development and wellbeing of children from birth to five years. Written by a leading expert, it explores how the developing brain responds to laughter...

The Chronicles of Japan--or The Nihon Shoki--compiled in 720 CE, is the oldest official history of the Japanese state. Following a 672 coup, the state of Wa renamed itself Japan and produced this dynastic historical text, legitimizing its hegemony of the...

Hoaxes! Jokes! Farces and fun! China's Chaplin introduces the imagination of Xu Zhuodai (1880-1958), a comic dynamo who made Shanghai laugh through the tumultuous decades of the pre-Mao era. Xu was a popular and prolific literary humorist who styled...

This practical book will help Black language scholars make informed decisions throughout their academic careers: as a doctoral student, while on the academic job market, when beginning a new faculty position, when transitioning from early-career to...

This practical book will help Black language scholars make informed decisions throughout their academic careers: as a doctoral student, while on the academic job market, when beginning a new faculty position, when transitioning from early-career to...

Russo-Soviet Imperialist Hauntings explores the ghosts of colonial and totalitarian pasts that have resurfaced across international political and cultural landscapes since the collapse of the USSR. Merging postcolonial, post-totalitarian, postcommunist...

Zadie Smith's fiction reimagines subjectivity, relationality, and the conditions of contemporary life. This book offers a timely reassessment of her work, addressing identity, urban experience, and the category of the human. Moving beyond postcolonial...

Embark on an exciting expedition with Logic Safari, where students dive into engaging problem-solving activities! As their excitement grows, so will their critical thinking and reading comprehension skills.Beloved for their versatility, these activities...

'I feel like, soon, the day after tomorrow, some other people are going to come, a strong, bold race, and sweep us off the face of the earth like litter.' It's a hot, beautiful summer in 1905, and Russia's elite retreats to the countryside to swim,...

'Gave it to me when he died. Thought it was a bit odd. Fuck flowers. Have an espresso machine.' 3 a.m. in a London flat. Jude and Kyle return from A&E. Jude has slipped, but they're both falling. A decade after their messy breakup, their surprise...

Lead lasting change for your entire learning community School leadership requires more than good intentions-it demands consequential actions that produce positive and meaningful outcomes for students, teachers, and the whole school community...

Ebook available to libraries exclusively as part of the JSTOR Path to Open initiative. This book examines joy and other related affective practices (pleasure, belonging) in contemporary Irish literature and culture. It corrects characterizations of Irish...

Richard Barnfield and Queer Classicism in Elizabethan England offers a comprehensive reappraisal of the work of Richard Barnfield, the Elizabethan writer who authored homoerotic and pastoral poetry during the last decade of the sixteenth century. While...

This book explores the fictional figure of the drunkard and why it was so important to Victorian thinking about what it meant to be human. From Jos's life-changing hangover in Vanity Fair to Henchard's twenty-one-year pledge of sobriety in The Mayor of...