wyszukanych pozycji: 24
Parkinson Pete on LIving & Dying with Parkinson's
ISBN: 9781603815628 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 178 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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54,12 zł |
Army of the Potomac: The Civil War Letters of William Cross Hazelton of the Eighth Illinois Cavalry Regiment
ISBN: 9781603810012 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 242 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. William Cross Hazelton spent four years as a brave and devoted member of the Union cavalry in the Civil War. During that time he corresponded with Fannie Morrill, the young woman who would become his fiancee and eventually his wife. His letters describe the life of an Illinois volunteer in the Army of the Potomac, the military unit that fought Lee's Army of Northern Virginia in most of the big battles of the Civil War: Williamsburg, Richmond, Antietam, Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, and Gettysburg. Hazelton describes the battles from the viewpoint of an ordinary cavalryman slogging through...
William Cross Hazelton spent four years as a brave and devoted member of the Union cavalry in the Civil War. During that time he corresponded with Fan...
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58,30 zł |
Chaucer's Canterbury Comedies: Origins and Originality
ISBN: 9781603810753 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 332 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. The written and spoken voice of Peter G. Beidler is well-known to scholars interested in Geoffrey Chaucer's comic tales. In this gathering of essays old and new, Beidler articulates his views on the literary relationships of Chaucer's most widely-read and often-taught tales-those of the Miller, the Wife of Bath, the Shipman, the Merchant, and the Pardoner. He discusses in clear language not only the most likely sources for these tales-their origins-but also the many changes Chaucer made in transforming them in accordance with his own purposes-their originality. He explicates key passages to...
The written and spoken voice of Peter G. Beidler is well-known to scholars interested in Geoffrey Chaucer's comic tales. In this gathering of essays o...
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79,19 zł |
Parkinson Pete's Bookshelves: Reviews of Eighty-Nine Books about Parkinson's Disease
ISBN: 9781603817462 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 260 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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66,65 zł |
Chaucer's Canterbury Comedies: Origins and Originality
ISBN: 9781603810913 / Angielski / Twarda / 2011 / 328 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. The written and spoken voice of Peter G. Beidler is well-known to scholars interested in Geoffrey Chaucer's comic tales. In this gathering of essays old and new, Beidler articulates his views on the literary relationships of Chaucer's most widely-read and often-taught tales-those of the Miller, the Wife of Bath, the Shipman, the Merchant, and the Pardoner. He discusses in clear language not only the most likely sources for these tales-their origins-but also the many changes Chaucer made in transforming them in accordance with his own purposes-their originality. He explicates key passages to...
The written and spoken voice of Peter G. Beidler is well-known to scholars interested in Geoffrey Chaucer's comic tales. In this gathering of essays o...
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146,27 zł |
The Turn of the Screw: Complete, Authoritative Text with Biographical and Historical Contexts, Critical History, and Essays from Five Contemp
ISBN: 9780333634370 / Angielski / Miękka / 1995 / 313 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. |
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80,70 zł |
A Reader's Companion to Catcher in the Rye: Second Edition
ISBN: 9781603810371 / Angielski / Twarda / 2011 / 294 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. This second edition of Peter G. Beidlers Readers Companion builds on the success of the first edition. It will be an indispensable guide for teachers, students, and general readers who want fully to appreciate Salingers perennial bestseller. Now six decades old, The Catcher in the Rye contains references to people, places, books, movies, and historical events that will puzzle many twenty-first century readers. This edition includes a new section on reactions to Salingers death in January, 2010./Beidler provides some 250 explanations to help readers make sense of the culture through which...
This second edition of Peter G. Beidlers Readers Companion builds on the success of the first edition. It will be an indispensable guide for teachers,...
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125,16 zł |
Risk Teaching: Reflections from Inside and Outside the Classroom
ISBN: 9781603811064 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 250 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Must we always teach from the inside of a classroom? Do periodic exams encourage learning as well as daily quizzes do? Do you schedule individual conferences with each student at the start of the term? Is lecturing an effective way to teach? If a student falls in love with you-or vice versa-are you doing something right or something wrong? If you have a pedagogical idea that will probably fail, should you try it anyhow? How do we know when it is time to retire from a profession we love? Such questions may make readers uncomfortable, but they may also lead them to change the way they think...
Must we always teach from the inside of a classroom? Do periodic exams encourage learning as well as daily quizzes do? Do you schedule individual conf...
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58,30 zł |
Chaucer's Wife of Bath's Prologue and Tale: An Annotated Bibliography 1900 - 1995
ISBN: 9780802043665 / Angielski / Twarda / 1998 / 426 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. One of Chaucer's most popular and complex characters, the Wife of Bath has inspired a rich and diverse range of published scholarship. This work is the latest in the University of Toronto Press's Chaucer Bibliographies series, a series which aims to provide annotated bibliographies for all of Chaucer's works, and summarizes twentieth-century commentary on the Chaucer's Wife of Bath's Prologue and Tale. There are six sections to the bibliography, with items arranged chronologically in each section: editions and translations, sources and analogues, the marriage group, gentillesse or... One of Chaucer's most popular and complex characters, the Wife of Bath has inspired a rich and diverse range of published scholarship. This work is... |
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484,54 zł |
Murdering Indians: A Documentary History of the 1897 Killings That Inspired Louise Erdrich's the Plague of Doves
ISBN: 9780786475643 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. In February of 1897 a family of six - four generations, including twin infant sons and their aged great-grandmother - was brutally murdered in rural North Dakota. The weapons used were a shotgun, an axe, a pitchfork, a spade, and a club. Several Dakota Indians from the nearby Standing Rock reservation were soon arrested, and one was tried, pronounced guilty, and sentenced to be hanged. The conviction was subsequently reversed by the state supreme court, which ordered a new trial. Only a week later, however, a mob of thirty angry men broke into the county jail in the middle of the night,...
In February of 1897 a family of six - four generations, including twin infant sons and their aged great-grandmother - was brutally murdered in rural N...
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181,52 zł |
Masculinities in Chaucer
ISBN: 9780859914345 / Angielski / Twarda / 1998 / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. How does Chaucer portray the various male pilgrims in the Canterbury Tales? How manly is Troilus? To what extent can the spirit and terminology of recent feminist criticism inform the study of Chaucer's men? Is there such a thing as a distinct Chaucerian masculinity', or does it appear in a multitude of different forms? These are some of the questions that the contributors to this ground-breaking and provocative volume attempt to answer, using a diversity of critical methods and theories. Some look at the behaviour of noble or knightly men; some at clerics, or businessmen, or churls; others...
How does Chaucer portray the various male pilgrims in the Canterbury Tales? How manly is Troilus? To what extent can the spirit and terminology of rec...
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403,79 zł |
Rafts and Other Rivercraft: In Huckleberry Finn
ISBN: 9780826221384 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 212 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. The raft that carries Huck and Jim down the Mississippi River is often seen as a symbol of adventure and freedom, but the physical specifics of the raft itself are rarely considered. Peter Beidler shows that understanding the material world of Huckleberry Finn, its limitations and possibilities, is vital to truly understanding Mark Twain's novel.
The raft that carries Huck and Jim down the Mississippi River is often seen as a symbol of adventure and freedom, but the physical specifics of the ra...
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228,20 zł |
The Collier's Weekly Version of the Turn of the Screw
ISBN: 9781603810180 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 236 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. "She was the most beautiful child I had ever seen, and I afterward wondered that my employer had not told me more of her." For the first time since 1898, readers can experience Henry Jamess eerie The Turn of the Screw the way his original readers did, as a twelve-part weekly serial. The Coffeetown Press edition showcases the novel as it first appeared, complete with provocative illustrations by John La Farge and Eric Pape, in Colliers Weekly. This unique edition, with an analytical introduction by Peter G. Beidler, will of course be valuable to scholars. It will be particularly useful,...
"She was the most beautiful child I had ever seen, and I afterward wondered that my employer had not told me more of her." For the first time since 18...
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70,83 zł |
The Turn of the Screw: A Case Study in Contemporary Criticism
ISBN: 9780312597061 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 448 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. This volume presents the text of the New York Edition of James's classic 1898 short novel, along with documents that place the work in historical context and critical essays that read The Turn of the Screw from several contemporary critical perspectives. The text and essays are complemented by biographical and critical introductions, bibliographies, and a glossary of critical and theoretical terms. In this third edition, a new section details in unique depth the revisions James made from the serialized Colliers Weekly edition to the New York Edition. New documents...
This volume presents the text of the New York Edition of James's classic 1898 short novel, along with documents that place the work in historical cont...
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197,46 zł |
A Reader's Companion to J.D. Salinger's the Catcher in the Rye
ISBN: 9781603810135 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 258 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. This second edition of Peter G. Beidlers Readers Companion builds on the success of the first edition. It will be an indispensable guide for teachers, students, and general readers who want fully to appreciate Salingers perennial bestseller. Now six decades old, The Catcher in the Rye contains references to people, places, books, movies, and historical events that will puzzle many twenty-first century readers. This edition includes a new section on reactions to Salingers death in January, 2010. Beidler provides some 250 explanations to help readers make sense of the culture through which...
This second edition of Peter G. Beidlers Readers Companion builds on the success of the first edition. It will be an indispensable guide for teachers,...
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75,01 zł |
Writing Matters
ISBN: 9781603811743 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 230 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Many students dread writing essays because no one has bothered to break down the process in a clear, down-to-earth fashion. Writing Matters is the remedy. This revised second edition improves on the first by presenting actual student essays for classroom discussion and by expanding the section on editing. Award-winning English Professor Peter G. Beidler offers solid advice that includes, in part: how to find a topic, what constitutes a bold thesis, how to select and organize evidence, what to include in an introduction, how to develop a voice, and how to doctor a sickly paragraph. Although...
Many students dread writing essays because no one has bothered to break down the process in a clear, down-to-earth fashion. Writing Matters is the rem...
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58,30 zł |
A Reader's Guide to the Novels of Louise Erdrich
ISBN: 9780826216700 / Angielski / Twarda / 2006 / 448 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. This revised and expanded edition of Beidler and Barton's indispensable A Reader's Guide to the Novels of Louise Erdrich builds on the sellout success of the first edition. Every serious reader of Erdrich's fiction will want access to this comprehensive new edition, which includes valuable new material.- Completely updated with information on four new novels published since the first edition: The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse, The Master Butchers Singing Club, Four Souls, and The Painted Drum- Easy-to-use genealogical charts for the various...
This revised and expanded edition of Beidler and Barton's indispensable A Reader's Guide to the Novels of Louise Erdrich builds on the sellout ...
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345,35 zł |
The Wife of Bath's Prologue and Tale
ISBN: 9780333657065 / Angielski / Miękka / 1996 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. This edition of Chaucer's classic tale includes a lengthy introduction to the biographical and historical context as well as five critical essays representing a variety of contemporary critical approaches and a glossary of theoretical and critical terms.
This edition of Chaucer's classic tale includes a lengthy introduction to the biographical and historical context as well as five critical essays repr...
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90,27 zł |
Chaucer's Wife of Bath's Prologue and Tale: An Annotated Bibliography 1900 - 1995
ISBN: 9781487525477 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 426 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 18-20 dni roboczych. The Chaucer Bibliography series aims to provide annotated bibliographies for all of Chaucer's work. This book summarizes 20th-century commentaries on Chaucer's "Wife of Bath's Prologue" and "Tale."
The Chaucer Bibliography series aims to provide annotated bibliographies for all of Chaucer's work. This book summarizes 20th-century commentaries on ...
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191,27 zł |
A Student Guide to Chaucer's Middle English
ISBN: 9781603811026 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 68 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. A Student Guide to Chaucer's Middle English shows where Chaucer's English came from, when it developed, and especially how to pronounce it. The guide contains information on the International Phonetic Alphabet, iambic pentameter, and the Great Vowel Shift. It also has word lists and transcription exercises. Refined during four decades of Beidler's own teaching, this booklet is now widely available for the first time.
A Student Guide to Chaucer's Middle English shows where Chaucer's English came from, when it developed, and especially how to pronounce it. The guide ...
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41,58 zł |