"The fourth edition has been significantly revised and updated with a wide choice of literary selections that include a more contemporary and diverse selection of fiction, several canonical poets and fresh and contemporary poems, and four ...
The Politics Book charts the development of long-running themes, such as attitudes to democracy and violence, developed by thinkers from Confucius in ancient China to Mahatma Gandhi in 20th-century India.
Unlike Sartre , Adorno is less concerned with generating specific disclosure or implementing change than with disrupting fundamental attitudes . His own aesthetic theory sees the representation ( " gesture toward reality " ) achieved by ...
This is the ideal book to help prospective teachers improve children's reading and language arts skills and instill in them a genuine and lasting love of reading....
For the devoted reader, By the Book is a way to invite sixty-five of the most interesting guests into your world. It's a book party not to be missed.
Designed for literature-based writing courses, Text Book introduces students to the idea that literary texts and ordinary spoken and written language share many of the same features.
In her collection A Street in Bronzeville (1945), the poet Gwendolyn Brooks includes a sonnet sequence titled “Gay Chaps at the Bar,” dedicated as a “souvenir for Staff Sergeant Raymond Brooks and every other soldier.
A reader’s fictional tour of the art and lives of some of the great 20th-century Surrealists An author (a version of Vila-Matas himself) presents a short “history” of a secret society, the Shandies, who are obsessed with the concept ...
"This volume provides a decolonial framework for reading Maya and Indigenous texts"--Provided by publisher.
In the 1980s, however, we Second Hand Band members still had to explain the Music of the Americas title of our show to ... didactic panel for American Sabor: Latinos in U.S. Popular Music, “including jazz,R&B, rock 'n'roll and hip hop.
This developmental, integrated language arts program based on Ruth Beechick s philosophies was designed especially for homeschoolers.