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Modern Tibetan Literature and Social Change is the first systematic and detailed overview of modern Tibetan literature, which has burgeoned only in the last thirty years. This comprehensive collection brings together fourteen pioneering scholars in the...

This book highlights the complexities of gender and social equity in primary education in India. It makes an assessment of the District Primary Education Programme and supplements this with six qualitative micro-studies from different states for a more...

Jack London has long been recognized as one of the most colorful figures in American literature. He is America's most widely translated author (into more than eighty languages), and although his works have been neglected until recently by academic...

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Key Features: Study methods Introduction to the text Summaries with critical notes Themes and techniques Textual analysis of key passages Author biography Historical and literary background Modern and historical critical approaches Chronology Glossary...

What makes a film "work," so that audiences come away from the viewing experience refreshed and even transformed in the way they understand themselves and the world around them? In The Death and Life of Drama, veteran screenwriter and screenwriting...

This series provides fun and accessible careers information for young people choosing what to study post-14. Each title offers a behind-the-scenes tour of a high-interest job typically entered through a vocational route. Snappy, easy-to-digest...

This is a powerful historical novel that brings to life an unforgettable story of love, hope and royal duty, from a hugely talented new author. The life of Lady Jane Grey, the Nine Day Queen, is all too often remembered as just a line in a history book,...

An action-packed novel that brings drone racing to life! Carson and his friends love racing drones, and they can't believe their luck when they stumble across a discarded one at a junkyard. But this new find is full of surprises...

MORE! is a four-level course from a highly respected author team that's bursting with features for lower secondary students. With dedicated reading, culture, grammar, vocabulary, skills and cross-curricular learning sections, plus a wide range of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781428808850Author McDonaldFormat PaperbackPage Count 248Imprint Cram101Publisher Cram101Weight(grams) 567gDimensions(mm) 280mm * 210mm * 13mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781428814523Author 5th Edition MunroFormat PaperbackPage Count 108Imprint Cram101Publisher Cram101Weight(grams) 263gDimensions(mm) 280mm * 210mm * 6mm

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Cambridge Discovery Education Interactive Readers are the next generation of graded readers - captivating topics, high-impact video, and interactive exercises designed to motivate and engage. Discover the fashion, architecture, cuisine, art, and history...

Super Minds American English is an exciting course that develops young learners' thinking skills and sharpens their memory, as they learn English. This exciting seven-level course enhances your students' thinking skills, improving their memory along...

Kid's Box is a six-level general English course that follows the Cambridge English Qualifications for young learners. Perfect preparation for Cambridge English Young Learners: Movers Well-loved by children and teachers the world over, Kid's Box is...

Cambridge Discovery Education Interactive Readers are the next generation of graded readers - captivating topics, high-impact video, and interactive exercises designed to motivate and engage. The human brain is an amazing organ controlling our speech,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780886451547Author Peter ColemanFormat PaperbackPage Count 149Imprint The Institute for Research on Public PolicyPublisher The Institute for Research on...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780874139952Author William J. BergFormat HardbackPage Count 272Imprint University of Delaware PressPublisher Associated University PressesWeight(grams) 590g

Challenging the standard periodization of American literary history, Reconstituting the American Renaissance reinterprets the works of Ralph Waldo Emerson and Walt Whitman and the relationship of these two authors to each other. Jay Grossman argues that...

Colonialism left an indelible mark on writers from the Caribbean. Many of the mid-century male writers, on the eve of independence, looked to England for their models. The current generation of authors, many of whom are women, have increasingly...

How does one teach Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn, a book as controversial as it is central to the American literary canon? This collection of essays edited by James S. Leonard offers practical classroom methods for instructors dealing with the racism,...

Taking King Lear as her central text, Judy Kronenfeld seriously questions the critical assumptions of much of today's most fashionable Shakespeare scholarship. Charting a new course beyond both New Historicist and deconstructionist critics, she suggests...

In virtually every aspect of human behavior, ritual, language, and art, perceptions are organized through the act of framing. In the writing of Benito Perez Galdos, Spain's most prolific and innovative nineteenth-century novelist, Hazel Gold finds this...

Essayists survey the recent thought and research concerning outstanding authors, trends, and movements in American literature.Book InformationISBN 9780822304234Author James Leslie WoodressFormat HardbackPage Count 569Imprint Duke University...

Essayists survey the recent thought and research concerning outstanding authors, trends, and movements in American literature.Book InformationISBN 9780822301981Author James Leslie WoodressFormat HardbackPage Count 314Imprint Duke University...

How would teaching and learning be different if environmental and social concerns were taken seriously?How would teaching and learning be different if environmental and social concerns were taken seriously?About the AuthorPeggy Tripp is professor,...

Indian Nation documents the contributions of Native Americans to the notion of American nationhood and to concepts of American identity at a crucial, defining time in U.S. history. Departing from previous scholarship, Cheryl Walker turns the...

Modern vernacular comedy took shape in early sixteenth-century Italy with the many plays adapted from and modeled on Plautine New Comedy. As Jackson I. Cope demonstrates in this study, some Italian dramatists reacted to the widespread success of this...

Machine Art and Other Writings presents previously unpublished and rare writings by one of the literary giants of the modernist period, Ezra Pound. Written from the late 1920s to the early part of the 1940s, these essays, selected by Maria Luisa...

"I knew a Man, who having nothing but a summary Notion of Religion himself, and being wicked and profligate to the last Degree in his Life, made a thorough Reformation in himself, by labouring to convert a Jew."-Daniel Defoe, The Farther Adventures of...

Stendhal, George Sand, Rachilde, Georges Bataille: Forgoing the patronym, with its weight of meaning, these modern French writers renamed themselves in their work. Their use of pseudonyms, as Maryline Lukacher demonstrates in this provocative study, is...

With the Spanish conquest of Islamic Granada and the expulsion of the Jews from Spain, the year 1492 marks the exile from Europe of crucial strands of medieval culture. It also becomes a symbolic marker for the expulsion of a diversity in language and...

In a controversial look at the study of linguistics today, Morteza Mahmoudian examines twentieth-century theories of language in light of empirical evidence. In the past, linguists have had to choose between a general linguistic theory aimed at universal...

An entire generation of Russian writers have been living in exile from their homeland. Although today's glasnost has special meaning for many of these banished writers, it does not dissolve their experience of forced separation from their country of...

This volume takes an important step toward the discovery of a common critical heritage that joins the diverse literatures of North America and Latin America. Traditionally, literary criticism has treated the literature of the Americas as "New...

Essayists survey the recent thought and research concerning outstanding authors, trends, and movements in American literature.Book InformationISBN 9780822306405Author American Literary ScholarshipFormat HardbackPage Count 551Imprint Duke University...

MORE! is a four-level course from a highly respected author team that's bursting with features for lower secondary students. The Teacher's Resource Pack contains unit tests, review tests, and term tests, as well as entry-level tests and end-of-year...

Essential Telephoning in English is a short skills course for adult learners of Business and general English. Its 11 core units cover a wide range of communication skills such as beginning and ending a call, taking messages, dealing with problems, making...

Kid's Box is a six-level course for young learners. Bursting with bright ideas to inspire both teachers and students, Kid's Box gives children a confident start to learning English. It also fully covers the syllabus for the Cambridge Young Learners...