the importance of being earnest

Vygotsky's Educational Theory in Cultural Context

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Kozulin, Alex / Ageyev, Vladimir / Miller, Suzanne, PUBLISHER: Cambridge University Press, Innovative ideas in educational psychology, learning, and instruction, originally formulated by Russian psychologist and educator Lev Vygotsky, are currently enjoying unprecedented popularity in the U.S., Latin America, Europe, and Russia. An international team of scholarly contributors provides comprehensive coverage of all the main concepts of Vygotsky's sociocultural theory. They emphasize its importance for the understanding of child development, and propose specific classroom applications.

The African-American Bookshelf

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Mason, Clifford, PUBLISHER: Citadel Press, Much more than a cursory list of must-reads, The African-American Bookshelf provides sharp political commentary on and meaningful critiques of the classic works on subjects of interest to all Americans -- from politics and sports to the arts, and from cultural trends and civil rights to military history. Author and scholar Clifford Mason explores titles that are obscure and well-known, from the canonical (Booker T. Washington's Up From Slavery) to the radical (David Walker's Appeal to the Coloured Citizens of the World). Including books written by authors from the beginning of the country's history to contemporary writers (ranked from #1 to #50 in order of importance), Mason guides the reader through the highlights -- and lowlights -- of America's past. The African-American Bookshelf illustrates the contributions of black men and women to every part of the nation's history. This essential volume belongs in the library of every informed American reader and will appeal to scholars and historians as well as students of history and literature. Acquista Ora

Forestry

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Drake, Jane / Love, Ann / Cupples, Pat, PUBLISHER: Kids Can Press, In a picture-book format, the Canada at Work series introduces young children to the people, machines and environmental concerns involved in forestry. It explores the different methods used to cut down trees, the inside workings of a sawmill, pulp and paper mill and the importance of reseeding. Canadian in every detail, this book will help kids appreciate the work involved in bringing forestry products to their homes.

The Crimson Gardenia and Other Tales of Adventure

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Beach, Rex, PUBLISHER: Wildside Press, Rex Beach () was an American novelist and playwright. He was born in to a prominent family and pursued a career as a lawyer before being drawn to Alaska at the time of the Klondike Gold Rush. After five years of unsuccessful prospecting, he turned to writing. His first novel, The Spoilers was based on a true story of corrupt government officials stealing gold mines from prospectors, which he witnessed while he was prospecting in Nome, Alaska. The Spoilers became one of the best selling novels of . His adventure novels were immensely popular throughout the early s.

Rocks & Minerals

Discover the Earth's rocks and minerals in close-up - their creation, beauty, and importance in everyday life. Written by Dr R.F. Symes and the staff of the Natural History Museum, London Eyewitness Books Copertina cartonata rigida Volume in perfette condizioni

The Labour Party's Political Thought: A History

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Foote, Geoffrey, PUBLISHER: St. Martin's Press, This book provides a synoptic and accessible history of the development of political ideas within the Labour Party. It traces the complex relationship between power and political thought and illustrates how Labour's political ideas have been shaped and formed by the Labour Party's political experience. It presents "labourism" or trade union politics as a clear theory and stresses its importance in understanding the different phases in the party's history, arguing that it constitutes the bedrock of the party's thought and that its crisis has caused the recent changes in party ideology.

Winter of Grace

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Funderburk, Robert, PUBLISHER: Bethany House Publishers, Book 3 of the Dylan St. John Novels. The story of one man's struggle against the sometimes lethal working of the criminal justice system, and of the woman who refused to stop believing in him. Set in the Cajun Bayous of southern Louisiana.

The Children

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Wharton, Edith, PUBLISHER: Scribner Book Company, A bestseller when it was first published in , Edith Wharton's "The Children" is a comic, bittersweet novel about the misadventures of a bachelor and a band of precocious children. The seven Wheater children, stepbrothers and stepsisters grown weary of being shuttled from parent to parent "like bundles," are eager for their parents' latest reconciliation to last. A chance meeting between the children and the solitary forty-six-year-old Martin Boyne leads to a series of unforgettable encounters. Among the colorful cast of characters are the Wheater adults, who play out their own comedy of marital errors; the flamboyant Marchioness of Wrench; and the vivacious fifteen-year-old Judith Wheater, who captures Martin's heart. With deft humor and touching drama, Wharton portrays a world of intrigues and infidelities, skewering the manners and mores of Americans abroad.

The Heidegger Controversy: A Critical Reader

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Wolin, Richard, PUBLISHER: MIT Press (MA), This anthology is a significant contribution to the debate over the relevance of Martin Heidegger's Nazi ties to the interpretation and evaluation of his philosophical work. Included are a selection of basic documents by Heidegger, essays and letters by Heidegger's colleagues that offer contemporary context and testimony, and interpretive evaluations by Heidegger's heirs and critics in France and Germany. In his new introduction, "Note on a Missing Text," Richard Wolin uses the absence from this edition of an interview with Jacques Derrida as a springboard for examining questions about the nature of authorship and personal responsibility that are at the heart of the book. Richard Wolin is Professor of Modern European Intellectual History and Humanities at Rice University. He is the author of "Walter Benjamin, The Politics of Being: The Political Thought of Martin Heidegger, and The Terms of Cultural Criticism: The Frankfurt School, Existentialism and Poststructuralism."

The Essence

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Derting, Kimberly, PUBLISHER: Margaret K. McElderry Books, "Danger, dread, mystery, and romance" ("Booklist") continue in the second book of The Pledge trilogy, as Charlie's reign is under siege from the most unusual of enemies. At the luminous conclusion of" The Pledge," Charlaina defeated the tyrant Sabara and took her place as Queen of Ludania. But Charlie knows that Sabara has not disappeared: The evil queen's Essence is fused to Charlie's psyche, ready to arise at the first sign of weakness. Charlie is not weak, but she's being pushed to the brink. In addition to suppressing the ever-present influence of Sabara, she's busy being queen--and battling a growing resistance determined to return Ludania to its discriminatory caste system. Charlie wants to be the same girl Max loves, who Brook trusts, but she's Your Majesty now, and she feels torn in two. As Charlie journeys to an annual summit to meet with leaders of nearby Queendoms--an event where her ability to understand all languages will be the utmost asset--she is faced with the ultimate betrayal. And the only person she can turn to for help is the evil soul residing within.

The Art of Fieldwork

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Wolcott, Harry F., PUBLISHER: Altamira Press, One of anthropology's premier writers on fieldwork methodology looks at the essential elements that constitute the art of his discipline. In The Art of Fieldwork, Wolcott compares the fieldworker to the artist, while recognizing the inherent differences between the labors of each.

Religion in the Public Square: The Place of Religious

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Audi, Robert / Wolterstorff, Nicholas, PUBLISHER: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, This vigorous debate between two distinguished philosophers presents two views on a topic of worldwide importance: the role of religion in politics. Audi argues that citizens in a free democracy should distinguish religious and secular considerations and give them separate though related roles. Wolterstorff argues that religious elements are both appropriate in politics and indispensable to the vitality of a pluralistic democracy. Each philosopher first states his position in detail, then responds to and criticizes the opposing viewpoint.

Reflexology

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Oxenford, Rosalind, PUBLISHER: Southwater Publishing, The world of alternative disciplines and therapies is a vast maze -- there is overwhelming evidence of their benefits, but little guidance on getting started and knowing more. This series of no-nonsense guides introduces you to a wealth of alternative approaches, enabling you to maximise your personal well-being, improve your health, and develop the inner self.

Papers Poetry & Prose Volume V: An Anthology of Eighth Grade

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Students at Pierce Middle School, PUBLISHER: iUniverse.com, Middle school is a crazy, busy, confusing and difficult time in our lives. Papers, Poetry & Prose is a look at the middle school experience through the eyes of eighth graders. The young authors openly discuss the passions in their lives, the pain and the joys. It is a collection of stories, memories and poems that capture all that they are focused on. Inside you will see the importance of friendship, family, sports and acceptance. "Papers, Poetry & Prose" will remind you of how challenging it is to be a teen. Enjoy their heartfelt words.

The Plays of David Garrick, Volume 4: Garrick's Adaptations

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Pedicord, Harry William / Bergman, Fredrick Louis, PUBLISHER: Southern Illinois University Press, David Garrick's accomplishments as an actor, manager, and theatrical innovator brought him great fame and fortune, and his ideas influenced not only his own age but succeeding ages as well. Yet as a playwright, a part of the elegant combination of talents that was David Garrick, he has never achieved the critical reputation he richly deserves, in main because of the unavailability of texts and the lack of proper assessment of the historic importance of his plays in the English theatre. This first complete edition makes available to scholars and students all the plays of Gar-rick in well edited texts, with commentary and notes. Contents: "Antony"" and Cleopatra. An Historical Play," ; "Cymbeline. A Tragedy," ; "A Midsummer Night's Dream," ; "Hamlet, Prince of Denmark. A Tragedy, "; and "The Tempest. A Comedy, ".""

Amazing Optical Illusions

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: IllusionWorks, PUBLISHER: Firefly Books, "A child's introduction to the world of optical illusions." Optical illusions are a window into how the brain perceives. Part of the fun is being fully aware that you're being tricked, fooled and misled. This collection of illusions will definitely do that Amazing Optical Illusions features thirty of the most fascinating images guaranteed to dazzle the eye and trick the mind. It includes examples of every type of optical illusion: Ground/field reversal images where one shape switches into another and back again Escher's Impossible Crate Eternal spirals and dazzling graphic patterns Enigmatic designs and hidden figures Baffling shapes that change before your eyes. The illusions are rendered in photography, artwork and the latest computer imaging. Each illusion is explained in clear language for young readers. Amazing Optical Illusions is a child's exciting introduction to the world's most startling optical illusions. It is a fascinating collection that will have all ages wondering exactly what they are seeing.

Oblivion, Tyrants, Crumbs

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Levy, John, PUBLISHER: First Intensity Press, Poetry. John Levy's first full length book of poetry revives and personalizes some familiar poetic ground: light, color, perception, death, childhood reflections and the daily realities of being a poet. "It's no fortress. But that word tress in there has something of the loveliness of my books, of being surrounded by books. When I'm dead no one will love them as I have. I even love to hold them when they're closed" - from "My Library." Levy is a lawyer, working as a public defender, and lives in Tucson, Arizona with his wife and two children.

Between Two Streams

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Herzberg, Abel J. / Santcross, Jack, PUBLISHER: I. B. Tauris & Company, At the height of the Holocaust it was Nazi policy to preserve small groups of "privileged" Jews for possible use in exchanges with Allied-held German civilians. Held in the special "Sternlager" at Bergen-Belsen their "privilege" amounted to being kept alive rather than gassed - although 70 per cent of the internees perished before the camp's liberation, victims of disease, starvation, beatings or sheer despair. One such privileged internee - Abel Herzberg, a Dutch lawyer and writer - managed in the hell of Bergen-Belsen to keep a diary which chronicles the reality of daily existence in the camp, with its grotesquely dehumanizing conditions and the magnanimity and pettiness which they engendered. He describes the relations between inmates and the civic code of the internees.

Fisher of Men

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Rhodes, Pam, PUBLISHER: Lion Hudson Plc, A heart-warming comedy of manners set in an English country town The country church of St Stephen's, Dunbridge, under the leadership of the formidable Rev. Margaret Prowse, is getting a new curate. The whole congregation is abuzz as the shy but earnest Neil Fisher arrives to take up his very first post. Though intimidated by Margaret, he is determined to overcome his shyness and immediately sets out to meet the congregation. As often occurs when a man of the cloth is single, his mission becomes somewhat sidetracked when his attention is first drawn to Ros, the spiky single mum who looks after the vicarage garden, and then commandeered by Wendy, leader of the church music group, who is determined to bag herself a vicar for a husband. And if that isn't enough, he also has to contend with his opinionated mother, who strongly disapproves of her son's vocation. Featuring a charming mix of colorful characters, Fisher of Men transports readers to the quaint village of Dunbridge where the quiet miracle of life is revealed.

Apollinaire on Art: Essays and Reviews

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Breunig, LeRoy C. / Shattuck, Roger / Suleiman, Susan Rubin, PUBLISHER: MFA Publications, Poet, critic, impresario, gadfly, visionary, tastemaker: more than anyone, Guillaume Apollinaire embodies the frenzied art world of Paris in the early 20th century. His rampant enthusiasms and antipathies, and his remarkable acumen, make him still today the most evocative commentator on the intellectual ferment of the time. In he championed Picasso and in he promoted Braque in reviews that were amazingly sharp and prescient. He first identified the importance of Delaunay, Duchamp, and Rousseau, coined the word "Surrealism," and almost singlehandedly pushed Cubism into the mainstream. With a new preface by Roger Shattuck, this edition of Apollinaire on Art is the only collection in English of these seminal and ever fresh writings.

The Illustrated Guide to the Tarot

The Illustrated Guide to the Tarot: Interpret the Symbols of the Tarotand Increase Your Understanding of the Cards Kathleen McCormack - Quarto Publishing plc The Tarot is one of the oldest and most intr iguing systems of divination, or fotune-telling. This lavish ly illustrated book displays some of the most beautiful exam ples of Tarot packs from the past, and from around the world. 10 euro + shipping delivery

Managing Alcoholism: Matching Clients to Treatments

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Lindstrom, Lars / Nord, Richard, PUBLISHER: Oxford University Press, USA, This book provides an in-depth review and concise analysis of studies on alcoholism and psychosocial treatment. In this English edition, which has been extensively revised from the original Swedish version, the major conceptual approaches to alcoholism are evaluated. The ongoing debate on whether alcoholism should be regarded as a disease or not is examined, and a discussion on the importance of psychological versus genetic factors is included. This cohesive work analyzes the methodological strategies of comparative outcome research, and suggests alcoholism treatment services from the perspective of public health.

The Physician Within You: Medicine for the Millennium

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: McGarey, Gladys / Stearn, Jess, PUBLISHER: Health Communications, Dr. Gladys Taylor McGarey gives readers an exhilarating glimpse of what medicine can be by sharing the philosophy and case histories of her 50-year medical practice. By taking responsibility for their own health, accepting a full partnership with physicians and being open to alternative modalities, patients can be healed into life or ushered into death with grace and dignity. Dr. McGarey teaches her patients to access that natural healing process inherent in every human being.

New Perspectives on the Shakespearean World

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Marienstras, Richard / Marienstras, PUBLISHER: Cambridge University Press, Le Proche et Le Lointain (literally The Near and the Far) was first published in France in , and this translation now makes available to English-speaking readers one of the most significant European contributions to Elizabethan cultural history to appear in recent years. In the conjunction - or conflict - of the 'near' and the 'far' Professor Marienstras discerns an underlying dichotomy of major importance to an understanding of the Shakespearean world. Otbello, The Tempest and John Ford's 'Tis Pity She's a Whore are amongst the works discussed in detail in this highly imaginative series of inter-disciplinary studies, and the author sees in the juxtaposition of nature and culture, sacrifice and sacrilege, purity and impurity, nourishment and poison a structural opposition that renders unified and comprehensible thematic material at first sight random and meaningless.

In the Eyes of a Tiger: Poetry Unleashed

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: McBride, Candi, PUBLISHER: Authorhouse, White stars shine in the vastness of the night Such tiny little specks of hope such strength in such small light Peace wells within my heart & in my mind Just because those stars I've left the world behind Left alone to find my peace & my inner being How can this world survive without the beauty I am seeing? When I look upon the stars at night all else starts to fade For such a perfect work of art what price have we paid?

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