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From the New York Times bestselling author of Lost in Translation comes a beautifully illustrated dictionary that reconnects us to nature, time and place.This heartfelt collection celebrates the poetry of language and the quiet power of noticing...

Ideal societies, better worlds, more just and peaceful ways of living: these have long been the stuff of human beings' social dreaming. In this compact volume, two leading scholars from different disciplines join to consider the life of utopian imagining...

Excavating narrative memories, Across Canons examines literary allusions to a classic Latin American canon that resurface in the work of Latin American writers who live and work in the United States. The immigrant literature of Edmundo Paz Soldan,...

Doing Pragmatics is a popular reader-friendly introduction to pragmatics. Embracing the comprehensive and engaging style which characterized the previous editions, this fifth edition has been fully revised. Doing Pragmatics extends beyond theory to...

Globally and across industries, professions are being reshaped by rapid advancements in digital technologies. From AI-powered diagnostic tools in healthcare to automated legal research systems and predictive financial platforms, the very foundations of...

Ideal societies, better worlds, more just and peaceful ways of living: these have long been the stuff of human beings' social dreaming. In this compact volume, two leading scholars from different disciplines join to consider the life of utopian imagining...

This is the first in-depth study of the theatrical afterlives of nineteenth-century women novelists. Whereas previous scholarship has shown a strong bias towards male writers, especially Charles Dickens, this book innovatively brings woman-authored...

This book invites readers to reimagine a movement for educational justice, one in which justice workers recognize imperialist white supremacist capitalist cis-hetero patriarchy as the broad, interlocking system of domination that continues to oppress...

Nurture faith from the earliest years with this innovative worship and Bible storytelling resource for babies, toddlers, and young children. Sowing Seeds Book 3 provides churches, preschools, and families with 16 weeks of fully developed sessions that...

The Narrative Inquiry Primer is an introductory guide to the philosophical roots, practical strategies, and writing conventions of narrative inquiry. This experiential, qualitative research method challenges technical-rational approaches to educational...

Unfixable Forms explores how theatrical form remakes - and is in turn remade by - early modern disability. Figures described as "deformed," "lame," "crippled," "ugly," "sick," and "monstrous" crowd the stage in English drama of the sixteenth and...

How can social critique respond to a catastrophic world? From Emerson to Adorno, a tradition of radical social critique has flourished that utilize methods which disclose rather than judge the form of life: instead of trying to say what is wrong and what...

How the "Asian girl" is central to the story of US imperialism and the formation of Asian AmericaRepresentations of the "Asian girl" as lucky objects of humanitarian rescue and rehabilitation have been used to advance America's imperial ambitions from...

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Contributions by Lea Beka, Collin M. Bright, Justin D Burton, Amy Chu, John P. Craig, Michael B. Norton Dando, Jayanti Datta, Brea M. Heidelberg, Kathryn Hobson, Sheena C. Howard, Johnny Jones, Riggs Morales, Spenser Nellis, Patrick A. Reed, Michael...

How can social critique respond to a catastrophic world? From Emerson to Adorno, a tradition of radical social critique has flourished that utilize methods which disclose rather than judge the form of life: instead of trying to say what is wrong and what...

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...

Taking you on a voyage of discovery through R and RStudio, this completely updated second edition combines real-world examples and humour with a hands-on 'how to' approach that brings statistics and programming to life. In his characteristic irreverent...

This book provides pragmatic advice and guidance on how to undertake educational research. Using the concept of research as a 'quest', it takes you on a journey from planning stages, through data collection to analysis, to writing up your findings,...

''As flies to th' wanton boys are we to th' gods: They bite us for their sport.' Set in the recesses of British antiquity, King Lear broods on gift-giving, gratitude, service and love; the bonds that sustain human life within families, communities...

'It is required You do awake your faith' Variously seen as a romance, a comedy, and a tragic fairytale, The Winter's Tale is a radical experiment with genre, character, and storytelling towards the end of Shakespeare's career as a playwright...

'No, no, I am but shadow of myself...' Henry VI, Part I paints a vivid picture of political ambition, civil unrest, and war. One of Shakespeare's most collaborative plays, it was a theatrical hit when it was first performed in 1592. Scenes alternate...

Since its founding, the United States has colonized more than five hundred Indigenous nations in North America and dozens more in the Pacific and the Caribbean. Alyssa Hunziker considers how American imperialism in the Pacific-typically thought of as...

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...

.About the AuthorAndre M. Carrington is a scholar of race, gender/sexuality, and genre in Black and American cultural production. He is associate professor of English at the University of California, Riverside where he directs the program in Speculative...

The Only Book You Will Need to HomeschoolMaybe you're brand new to homeschooling and are overwhelmed by where to begin. Maybe you pulled your kids from public school midyear and are now panicking at the kitchen table. Or maybe you're a seasoned...

Get ready for ACT test day with Barron's and crush your goals.Fully Updated for the ENHANCED ACT-Your Complete Guide to Success Barron's ACT Premium, 2026 is a comprehensive and up-to-date resource for students preparing to conquer the redesigned ACT...

Between the Civil War and the Cold War, American literary modernism and philosophy both grappled with the challenge of novelty and the chance to make it new. Bringing together modern poetry's aesthetic experimentation and modern philosophy's attention to...

This invigorating volume explores the literary worlds inhabited by the pioneering Irish author George Moore (1852-1933). With an eye to Moore's innovative embrace of visual art, feminism and literary history, and in the spirit of his feisty resistance to...

Bringing together modern poetry’s aesthetic experimentation and modern philosophy’s attention to the problem of induction, Lyric Logic argues that poems use logical form as literary form.

Black women earn 67% of all doctorates earned by Blacks in the United States, yet their presence in higher education as tenured professors remains dismally low. This drastic gap between educational attainment and employment can largely be traced to the...

Going through Hell offers readers an accessible and thoughtful tour of the Inferno, retelling the events of the 34 cantos in engaging, modern language. Accompanying commentary explores the drama and imagery in each canto, stimulating further thought and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781638042075Author Ralph MaudFormat HardbackPage Count 216Imprint Clemson University Digital PressPublisher Clemson University Digital Press

A sweeping account of how we are at our most human when we turn away from the pains of the world.Why do we look away from the suffering of others? Why do we cover our faces in shame? Why do we lower our heads in grief? Few gestures are as universal as...

This classic text, updated with new material, introduces students clearly and effectively to a 'gendered' way of understanding translation by convincingly constructing a link between translation studies and the interdisciplinary field of women's studies...

Honourable Mention in the 2023 British Association for Contemporary Literary Studies Monograph Prize The Short Story after Apartheid offers the first major study of the anglophone short story in South Africa since apartheid's end. By focusing on the...

This provocative and timely volume examines the activity of seeking justice through literature during the 'age of revolutions' from 1750 to 1850 - a period which was marked by efforts to expand political and human rights and to rethink attitudes towards...

Many critics classify Vladimir Nabokov as a highbrow humourist, a refined wordsmith overly fond of playful puzzles and private in-jokes whose art appeals primarily to an intellectually-sophisticated readership. This study presents a more balanced...

Failure and Ethics in Contemporary American Literature contends that failure is both a response to the social and economic conditions of neoliberalism and a site of ethical imagining where alternative modes of being and being together are proposed...

Supernatural Japan examines the role of Japanese writer Izumi Kyoka (1873-1939) in the formation of modern literature of the fantastic in Japan as a global literary genre. Kyoka wrote some of the most famous stories of ghosts, monsters, and the...