This innovative collection of essays explores the ways in which islands have been used, imagined and theorised, both by island dwellers and continentals. This study considers how island dwellers conceived of themselves and their relation to proximate mainlands, and examines the fascination that islands have long held in the European imagination. The collection addresses the significance of islands in the Atlantic economy of the eighteenth century, the exploration of the Pacific, the important role played by islands in the process of decolonisation, and island-oriented developments in...
This innovative collection of essays explores the ways in which islands have been used, imagined and theorised, both by island dwellers and continenta...
Timely and penetrating, War of Words shows how the stories we told after the attacks fashioned a post-9/11 American identity and reinscribed our national beliefs.
Timely and penetrating, War of Words shows how the stories we told after the attacks fashioned a post-9/11 American identity and reinscribed our natio...
Mark A. Clarke Barbara K. Dobson Sandra Silberstein
The two volumes of Choice Readings, International Edition, contain all the high-quality reading skills and strategies in the highly acclaimed first ed-ition of Choice Readings. These separate and self-contained reading texts provide flexibility for classroom use while focusing on the skills intermediate-level ESL/EFL students of English need to develop and practice their reading skills: stems and affixes sentence study paragraph reading restatement and inference dictionary use contextual cues composition The International Editions of Choice...
The two volumes of Choice Readings, International Edition, contain all the high-quality reading skills and strategies in the highly acclaimed f...
