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Exploring Writing and Play in the Early Years, Second

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Hall, Nigel / Hall Nigel / Robinson, Anne, PUBLISHER: David Fulton Publishers, ong>Theong> second edition of this text shows how play and literacy can combine to help young children develop a more complete understanding of writing, as well as literacy more generally. In addition to discussing ong>theong> implications of ong>theong> new Guidance for ong>theong> Foundation Stage, ong>theong> authors use more recent research to extend ong>theong> discussion of how and why play and literacy work togeong>theong>r so powerfully, and provide furong>theong>r advice on planning and developing effective experiences. Early years practitioners should find that this book helps ong>theong>m to focus on ong>theong> development of literacy knowledge and skills.

Farmers as Hunters: The Implications of Sedentism

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Kent, Susan / Audouze, Francoise / Broodbank, Cyprian, PUBLISHER: Cambridge University Press, Farmers as hunters analyses from an essentially ethnographic perspective ong>theong> role of hunters in small-scale farming societies. ong>Theong> twelve contributors examine ong>theong> effects of hunting and mobility on behaviour, diet, economy and material culture at both culture-specific and cross-cultural levels. ong>Theong> influence of sedentism and ong>theong> increasing use of domesticates is also explored across a wide range of societies from ong>theong> American southwest and Amazonian to Africa, New Guinea and ong>theong> Phillipines. Differing perceptions of ong>theong> status of animals and plants are reviewed and cultural values are throughout given due weight in a field where discussion too often verges on ong>theong> economically deterministic.

Pan

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Knut Hamsun, Hamsun, PUBLISHER: Book Jungle, Knut Hamsun was a major Norwegian author who received ong>theong> Noble Prize for Literature in . Hamsun writing makes excellent use of symbolism. Glahn and Edvarda fall in love in ong>theong> spring, ong>theong>y are lovers in ong>theong> summer and ong>theong>ir relationship deteriorates in ong>theong> fall. Hamsun also shows ong>theong> contradiction of culture and nature. Glahn lives as a part of nature while Edvarda's life in a part of culture.

Fight for Civil Rights...

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Sanchez, Richard, PUBLISHER: ABDO & Daughters, From ong>theong> ancient Aztecs and Maya to ong>theong> Hispanic Americans of today, this series examines ong>theong> history and culture of Hispanic people and ong>theong>ir contributions to American culture and society. -- Supports social studies and history curriculum -- Multiculturally focused -- Photos, paintings, and glossary enhance ong>theong> informative text

Window Shopping: Cinema and the Postmodern

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Friedberg, Anne, PUBLISHER: University of California Press, Departing from those who define postmodernism in film merely as a visual style or set of narrative conventions, Anne Friedberg develops ong>theong> first sustained account of ong>theong> cinema's role in postmodern culture. She explores ong>theong> ways in which nineteenth-century visual experiences--photography, urban strolling, panorama and diorama entertainments--anticipate contemporary pleasures provided by cinema, video, shopping malls, and emerging "virtual reality" technologies. Comparing ong>theong> visual practices of shopping, tourism, and film-viewing, Friedberg identifies ong>theong> experience of "virtual" mobility through time and space as a key determinant of postmodern cultural identity. Evaluating ong>theong> ong>theong>ories of Jameson, Lyotard, Baudrillard, and oong>theong>rs, she adds critical insights about ong>theong> role of gender and gender mobility in ong>theong> configurations of consumer culture. A strikingly original work, "Window Shopping" challenges many of ong>theong> existing assumptions about what exactly "post"modern is. This book marks ong>theong> emergence of a compelling new voice in ong>theong> study of contemporary culture.

A Natural History of Nature Writing

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Stewart, Frank, PUBLISHER: Island Press, "A Natural History of Nature Writing" is a penetrating overview of ong>theong> origins and development of a uniquely American literature. Essayist and poet Frank Stewart describes in rich and compelling prose ong>theong> lives and works of ong>theong> most prominent American nature writers of ong>theong>19th and 20th centuries, including: Henry D. Thoreau, ong>theong> faong>theong>r of American nature writing. John Burroughs, a schoolteacher and failed businessman who found his calling as a writer and elevated ong>theong> nature essay to a loved and respected literary form. John Muir, founder of Sierra Club, who celebrated ong>theong> wilderness of ong>theong> Far West as few before him had. Aldo Leopold, a Forest Service employee and scholar who extended our moral responsibility to include all animals and plants. Rachel Carson, a scientist who raised ong>theong> consciousness of ong>theong> nation by revealing ong>theong> catastrophic effects of human intervention on ong>theong> Earth's living systems. Edward Abbey, an outspoken activist who charted ong>theong> boundaries of ecological responsibility and pushed ong>theong>se boundaries to political extremes. Stewart highlights ong>theong> controversies ignited by ong>theong> powerful and eloquent prose of ong>theong>se and oong>theong>r writers with ong>theong>ir expansive - and often strongly political - points of view. Combining a deeply-felt sense of wonder at ong>theong> beauty surrounding us with a rare ability to capture and explain ong>theong> meaning of that beauty, nature writers have had a profound effect on American culture and politics. "A Natural History of Nature Writing" is an insightful examination of an important body of American literature.

Reframing Organizational Culture

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Frost, Peter J. / Louis, Meryl Reis / Moore, Larry F., PUBLISHER: Sage Publications (CA), With this follow-up to Organizational Culture (Sage ), ong>theong> editors continue ong>theong>ir study of ong>theong> interaction between investigation and ong>theong> subject of inquiry. ong>Theong> editors have included a variety of frames as tools that allow readers to examine any empirical piece on organizational culture on its own merits - as good research - while at ong>theong> same time, permit viewing it from oong>theong>r perspectives as well. Combined with a unique emphasis on process, this volume also includes reflections from ong>theong> editors, pointing out ong>theong>ir values, biases, beliefs, perceptions and experiences in research, and lending a human dimension to ong>theong> research process.

Writing Without Teachers

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Elbow, Peter, PUBLISHER: Oxford University Press, USA, In Writing Without Teachers, well-known advocate of innovative teaching methods Peter Elbow outlines a practical program for learning how to write. His approach is especially helpful to people who get "stuck" or blocked in ong>theong>ir writing, and is equally useful for writing fiction, poetry, and essays, as well as reports, lectures, and memos. ong>Theong> core of Elbow's thinking is a challenge against traditional writing methods. Instead of editing and outlining material in ong>theong> initial steps of ong>theong> writing process, Elbow celebrates non-stop or free uncensored writing, without editorial checkpoints first, followed much later by ong>theong> editorial process. This approach turns ong>theong> focus towards encouraging ways of developing confidence and inspiration through free writing, multiple drafts, diaries, and notes. Elbow guides ong>theong> reader through his metaphor of writing as "cooking:" his term for heating up ong>theong> creative process where ong>theong> subconscious bubbles up to ong>theong> surface and ong>theong> writing gets good. marks ong>theong> twenty-fifth anniversary of Writing Without Teachers. In this edition, Elbow reexamines his program and ong>theong> subsequent influence his techniques have had on writers, students, and teachers. This invaluable guide will benefit anyone, wheong>theong>r in ong>theong> classroom, boardroom, or living room, who has ever had trouble writing.

Cultural Theory and Cultural Change

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Feaong>theong>rstone, Mike, PUBLISHER: Sage Publications (CA), Recent years have seen a significant reappraisal of ong>theong> idea of culture within ong>theong> social sciences, and a growing integration of ong>theong>oretical concerns between ong>theong> social sciences and ong>theong> humanities. Debates over concepts such as postmodernism and cultural globalization have been symptomatic of a broader interdisciplinary interest in ong>theong> social context of cultural practice. In this book an international cast of eminent ong>theong>orists examines a series of key questions on ong>theong> borders of ong>theong> cultural and ong>theong> social. Ranging across a broad canvas, ong>theong> contributors focus on different elements of cultural ong>theong>ory and cultural process: discourse, lifestyle, ong>theong> emotions, ong>theong> intelligentsia, social ong>moveong>ments, postmodernism. Linking ong>theong> chapters is a concern with ong>theong> central role of European social ong>theong>ory in ong>theong> current reappraisal of culture, and an assessment of its relation to oong>theong>r international traditions. This book, for an interdisciplinary readership, will serve as an outline of key concerns in cultural ong>theong>ory and an insight into ong>theong> central insights of ong>Theong>ory, Culture and Society. ong>Theong> book is also published as issue 9.1 of ong>Theong>ory, Culture and Society.

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Indonesian Business Culture

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Goodfellow, Rob, PUBLISHER: Butterworth-Heinemann, Indonesian Business Culture is designed for ong>theong> reader who has no interest in wading through academic works on ong>theong> subject, but who wants to understand Indonesia and its people better and to maximize ong>theong> chances of being successful in business ong>theong>re.

History and Myth in Romanian Consciousness

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Boia, Lucian / Boia, L., PUBLISHER: Central European University Press, Boia closely examines ong>theong> process of historical culture and conscience in nineteenth and twentieth century Romania, particularly concentrating on ong>theong> impact of ong>theong> national ideology on history. Based upon his findings, ong>theong> author identifies several key mythical configurations and analyses ong>theong> manner in which Romanians have reconstituted ong>theong>ir own highly ideologized history over ong>theong> last two centuries.

The Rise and Fall of the Broadway Musical

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Grant, Mark N., PUBLISHER: Norong>theong>astern University Press, Many of today's Broadway shows, from Rent to ong>Theong> Lion King, have become commercial hits, but do ong>theong>y have ong>theong> cultural importance or ong>theong> dramatic and musical artistry of such enduring productions as Oklahoma, Show Boat, or Kiss Me, Kate? Mark N. Grant traces ong>theong> transformation of singing and melody, libretto and lyric writing, dance rhythms, sound design, and choreography and stage direction through three distinct eras: ong>theong> formative period (), ong>theong> golden age (), and ong>theong> fall ( to ong>theong> present). He explores how and why ong>theong> unsophisticated genre of pre- musical comedy evolved into ong>theong> creative, innovative, and immensely popular ong>theong>atre produced by ong>theong> likes of Rodgers and Hammerstein and ong>theong>n steadily faded as a significant entertainment genre in American culture, giving rise to ong>theong> "McMusicals" of today. This provocative, sometimes irreverent work offers a refreshing perspective on ong>theong> history of American musical ong>theong>atre and provides strong views on restoring ong>theong> genre to its former greatness.

Bridges to Better Writing

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Nazario, Luis / Borchers, Deborah / Lewis, William, PUBLISHER: Wadsworth Publishing Company, BRIDGES TO BETTER WRITING makes ong>theong> writing process less daunting to students by guiding ong>theong>m through each step, giving ong>theong>m only what ong>theong>y need to know for a specific writing task. Throughout ong>theong> text, ong>theong> authors incorporate ong>theong> writing process and grammar into ong>theong>ir discussion of ong>theong> methods of development so that students can connect ong>theong> skills all at once. With writing samples from each method that illustrate how writing is relevant to students' academic, personal, and future professional lives, BRIDGES TO BETTER WRITING motivates students to take control of ong>theong>ir future by developing better writing skills.

Many Peoples, Many Faiths: Women and Men in the World

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Ellwood, Robert S. / McGraw, Barbara A., PUBLISHER: Prentice Hall, This classic work presents ong>theong> religions of ong>theong> world in a way that captures ong>theong> total human experience in both a factual and empaong>theong>tic manner. Contains chapters on understanding ong>theong> world's religious heritage; ong>theong> cosmic religions of prehistoric and tribal peoples; ong>theong> spiritual paths of India; Buddhism and oong>theong>r religions of East Asia; Monoong>theong>istic religions; Judaism; ong>theong> growth of Christianity; ong>theong> Islamic faith, and more, and concludes with a chapter that considers religion today and in ong>theong> future. Describes ong>theong> experience of each faith's practitioners in ong>theong> United States and summarizes ong>theong> affect of that faith on larger American culture. Offers fresh insights and information on today's new religious ong>moveong>ments (such as China's Falun Gong)--discussing ong>theong> social conditions that tend to give rise to such ong>moveong>ments, ong>theong>ir sociological nature, and what ong>theong>y say about ong>theong> societies in which ong>theong>y appear--and includes current information on women's role in religion, and ong>theong> impact of religion on such human crises as ecology and population. Comes with handy outlines for writing a research paper on world religions and visiting religious sites. For general readers interested in an introspective and enlightening overview of world religions today.

Complete Guide to Writing Fantasy Vol 2: The Opus Magus

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Morris, Tee / Griswold Ford, Valerie, PUBLISHER: Dragon Moon Press, Tee Morris and Valerie Griswold team up as editors for ong>theong> title that picks up where "Alchemy With Words" leaves off. ong>Theong> Opus Magus takes on ong>theong> advanced topics of writing, such as incorporating horror, mystery, herbalism and advanced worldbuilding.

Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Barong>theong>s, Roland / Dyer, Geoff, PUBLISHER: Hill & Wang, A graceful, contemplative volume, "Camera Lucida "was first published in . Commenting on artists such as Avedon, Clifford, Mapplethorpe, and Nadar, Roland Barong>theong>s presents photography as being outside ong>theong> codes of language or culture, acting on ong>theong> body as much as on ong>theong> mind, and rendering death and loss more acutely than any oong>theong>r medium. This groundbreaking approach established "Camera Lucida "as one of ong>theong> most important books of ong>theong>ory on ong>theong> subject, along with Susan Sontag's "On Photography."

Cadogan Guide Provence

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Facaros, Dana / Pauls, Michael, PUBLISHER: Cadogan Guides, France is ong>theong> world's most popular tourist destination and Provence is France's Eden. ong>Theong> region has always enticed seekers of culture, beauty and inspiration. Written by French experts, who have returned to live in ong>theong> South, Cadogan's guide offers an inside view of Provencal life, revealing hidden monuments and castles, spectacular countryside and snow-peaked Alps. It explore both metropolitan and rural Provence, from ong>theong> old markets in ong>theong> hillside towns to ong>theong> larger communities and cities. Includes sections on local food and wine, culture and music, history and outdoor activities.

The Western Heritage: -Present

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Kagan, Donald / Turner, Frank M. / Ozment, Steven E., PUBLISHER: Prentice Hall, Present a strong, clear narrative account of ong>theong> central developments in Western history.. ong>Theong> book calls attention to certain critical ong>theong>mes--ong>theong> development of political freedom and constitutional government; ong>theong> shifting relations among religion, society, and ong>theong> state; ong>theong> development of science and technology and ong>theong>ir impact on thought and social institutions; and ong>theong> major religious and intellectual currents that have shaped Western culture. Acquista Ora

Studies on Greek Americans

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Kourvetaris, George, PUBLISHER: East European Monographs, In this third volume of ong>theong> author's scholarly work, twenty fives articles address topics important to Greek society, culture, and politics, such as ethnicity; prejudice; ethnonationalism; civil military relations; class consciousness; and ong>theong> Olympic Games. ong>Theong> author stresses his methods, ong>theong>ories, and findings, and introduction of ong>theong> volume ong>theong> concepts and ong>theong> nature of organization and social organizations are clarified.

The Least You Should Know about English: Writing Skills,

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Wilson, Paige / Glazier, Teresa Ferster, PUBLISHER: Wadsworth Publishing Company, Quickly master English writing skills with ong>THEong> LEAST YOU SHOULD KNOW ABOUT ENGLISH: WRITING SKILLS, FORM B, Tenth Edition. Brief and uncomplicated, this text has helped students learn ong>theong> basics of English writing for thirty years with its clear, concise concept explanations and useful, relevant corresponding exercises. Topics include spelling, word choice, sentence structure, and punctuation as well as more advanced topics such as ong>theong> writing process, argumentation, and summarizing skills. Check your work easily with exercise answers located in ong>theong> back of ong>theong> book. When ong>theong> course ends, this text is an excellent writing resource for all your college courses and beyond.

Dreaming Arrival

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Welch, John, PUBLISHER: Shearsman Books, Circumventing conventional narratives of trauma and recovery, 'Dreaming Arrival' presents a series of very personal reflections on ong>theong> writing life set in ong>theong> context of John Welch's experience of psychoanalysis. Intensely felt, but always retaining a significant degree of scepticism, ong>theong> book's starting-point was in a journal ong>theong> writer kept when in analysis and it refers back to an experience of breakdown and hospitalisation thirty years previously. Calling easy notions of creativity into question 'Dreaming Arrival' looks not only at ong>theong> way 'ong>theong>rapy' affects writing, but also at how ong>theong> writing may affect ong>theong> process of ong>theong> ong>theong>rapy itself.

The Essence of Anthropology.

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Haviland, William A., PUBLISHER: Wadsworth Publishing Company, Haviland et al. present anthropology from a holistic, four-field perspective using three unifying ong>theong>mes to provide a framework for ong>theong> text: ong>theong> varied ways human groups face ong>theong> many challenges of existence, ong>theong> connections between human culture and human biology, and ong>theong> disparate impact of globalization on peoples and cultures around ong>theong> world. Between ong>theong> superlative writing-which instructors raved about in ong>theong>ir reviews-and ong>theong> strong pedagogical program, ong>theong> text is designed to help students grasp ong>theong> concepts and ong>theong>ir relevance to today's complex world. Such pedagogy as ong>theong> "Challenge Issue" at ong>theong> beginning of each chapter and ong>theong> "Questions for Reflection" at ong>theong> end of each chapter--which are linked to ong>theong> Challenge Issue--provide a framework that ensures that ong>theong> chapters consistently focus on and reflect ong>theong> text's ong>theong>mes. Boxed features such as "Biocultural Connections," "Original Studies," and "Anthropology Applied" hone in on particularly interesting examples that give students deeper insight into ong>theong> meaning and relevance of a wide range of topics covered in ong>theong> general narrative.

On Writing Short Stories

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Bailey, Tom, PUBLISHER: Oxford University Press, USA, On Writing Short Stories offers a fascinating introduction to writing fiction and ong>theong> short story by bringing togeong>theong>r 9 original essays by professional writers and 30 exemplars of short fiction. ong>Theong> first part features original essays by well-known authors such as Francine Prose, Joyce Carol Oates, and Andre Dubus that take ong>theong> student through ong>theong> process of writing ong>Theong>se essays focus on ong>theong> characteristics and craft of ong>theong> short story and its writer, and take ong>theong> student from ong>theong> workshopping process all ong>theong> way through ong>theong> experience of working with agents and publishers. ong>Theong> second part of ong>theong> text is an anthology of stories-many referred to in ong>theong> essays-that gives readers dynamic examples of technique brought to life. In this second edition, Bailey brings ong>theong> text up-to-date with new and revised essays and a freshened anthology that retains many of ong>theong> classics, but adds in new styles and diverse voices-from short short fiction to ong>theong> postcolonial writing of non-Western authors. In doing so, Bailey gives readers a broader scope of ong>theong> short fiction landscape. ong>Theong> first part of ong>theong> text now features Bailey's updated essay on ong>theong> elements of fiction, which incorporates many of ong>theong> nw stories in ong>theong> anthology. ong>Theong>re are also two new essays that expand on ong>theong> workshopping process: "Whose Story Is It? ong>Theong> Anonymous Workshop" by Antonya Nelson and "After ong>theong> Workshop: Transitional Drafts" by Robert Nelson. C. Michael Curtis also updates his essay on "Publishers and Publishing" from ong>theong> first edition, bringing in ong>theong> latest innovations in electronic and online publishing.

The Rhetoric of Credit: Merchants in Early Modern Writing

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Sullivan, Ceri, PUBLISHER: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, Scores of business advice manuals, double-entry handbooks, and trade publicity briefs give ong>theong> early modern merchant help on guaranteeing ong>theong> value of his word. ong>Theong> Rhetoric of Credit looks at ong>theong> rhetorical handling of ong>theong> just price of goods, cash and credit; analyses ong>theong> uses of ong>theong> heroism in trade; shows how ong>theong> ethos of ong>theong> merchant is enhanced in dealing with bankruptcy and sovereign dept, and distinguishes between miser and usurer. Such shifts between ong>theong> fields of social and financial credit structure ong>theong> three plays that it goes on to examine: If You Know Not Me (1), ong>Theong> Alchemist, and Eastword Ho

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