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Twice-Told Children's Tales: The Influence of Childhood Reading on Writers for Adults
ISBN: 9780415867153 / Angielski / Miękka / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. First published in 2005. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
First published in 2005. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
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257,72 |
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Educating for Cosmopolitanism: Lessons from Cognitive Science and Literature
ISBN: 9781137392268 / Angielski / Twarda / 141 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Drawing on developments in cognitive science, Bracher formulates pedagogical strategies for teaching literature in ways that develop students' cognitive capabilities for cosmopolitanism, the pursuit of global equality and justice. Several staple classroom texts, such as Things Fall Apart, provide detailed examples for teaching practices.
Drawing on developments in cognitive science, Bracher formulates pedagogical strategies for teaching literature in ways that develop students' cogniti...
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201,24 |
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Teaching Information Literacy Through Short Stories
ISBN: 9781442255456 / Angielski / Miękka / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Teaching Information Literacy through Short Stories examines information literacy themes through 18 short stories. The book provides librarians and instructors a fresh approach to introduce, accompany, and supplement their teaching. The book is divided into six sections corresponding with the six pillars of Association of College and Research Libraries Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education. Accompanying each short story are questions to stimulate thought and discussion around various aspects of information and scholarship including authority, process, value, inquiry,...
Teaching Information Literacy through Short Stories examines information literacy themes through 18 short stories. The book provides librarians and in...
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186,11 |
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Teaching Information Literacy through Short Stories
ISBN: 9781442255449 / Angielski / Twarda / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Teaching Information Literacy through Short Stories examines information literacy themes through 18 short stories. The book provides librarians and instructors a fresh approach to introduce, accompany, and supplement their teaching. The book is divided into six sections corresponding with the six pillars of Association of College and Research Libraries Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education. Accompanying each short story are questions to stimulate thought and discussion around various aspects of information and scholarship including authority, process, value, inquiry,...
Teaching Information Literacy through Short Stories examines information literacy themes through 18 short stories. The book provides librarians and in...
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382,02 |
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The Oxford Critical and Cultural History of Modernist Magazines: Volume III: Europe 1880 - 1940
ISBN: 9780198778431 / Angielski / Miękka / 1528 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The third of three volumes devoted to the cultural history of the modernist magazine in Britain, North America, and Europe, this collection contains fifty-six original essays on the role of "little magazines" and independent periodicals in Europe in the period 1880-1940. It demonstrates how these publications were instrumental in founding and advancing developments in European modernism and the avant-garde. Expert discussion of approaching 300 magazines, accompanied by an illuminating variety of cover images, from France, Italy, Germany, Spain and Portugal, Scandinavia, Central and...
The third of three volumes devoted to the cultural history of the modernist magazine in Britain, North America, and Europe, this collection contains f...
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382,14 |
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The Bloomsbury Introduction to Popular Fiction
ISBN: 9781441172013 / Angielski / Twarda / 344 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Guiding readers through key writers and genres, historical contexts and major theoretical approaches, this is a comprehensive introduction to the study of popular fiction. Charting the rise of commercial fiction from the 19th century to today, The Bloomsbury Introduction to Popular Fiction includes introductory surveys, written by leading scholars, to a wide range of popular genres, including: Science Fiction Part II of the book also... Guiding readers through key writers and genres, historical contexts and major theoretical approaches, this is a comprehensive introduction to the s... |
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721,77 |
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Information Literacy Instruction That Works: A Guide to Teaching by Discipline and Student Population
ISBN: 9781555708603 / Angielski / Miękka / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Information literacy and library instruction are at the heart of the academic library's mission. But how do you bring that instruction to an increasingly diverse student body and an increasingly varied spectrum of majors? In this updated, expanded new second edition, Ragains and 16 other library instructors share their best practices for reaching out to today's unique users. Readers will find strategies and techniques for teaching college and university freshmen, community college students, students with disabilities, and those in distance learning programs. Alongside sample lesson plans,...
Information literacy and library instruction are at the heart of the academic library's mission. But how do you bring that instruction to an increasin...
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357,54 |
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Imagining an English Reading Public, 1150-1400
ISBN: 9781107694613 / Angielski / Miękka / 302 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This original study explores the importance of the concept of habitus that is, the set of acquired patterns of thought, behavior and taste that result from internalizing culture or objective social structures in the medieval imagination. Beginning by examining medieval theories of habitus in a general sense, Katharine Breen goes on to investigate the relationships between habitus, language, and Christian virtue. While most medieval pedagogical theorists regarded the habitus of Latin grammar as the gateway to a generalized habitus of virtue, reformers increasingly experimented with vernacular...
This original study explores the importance of the concept of habitus that is, the set of acquired patterns of thought, behavior and taste that result...
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206,36 |
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Necessary Luxuries
ISBN: 9780801479403 / Angielski / Miękka / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The consumer revolution of the eighteenth century brought new and exotic commodities to Europe from abroad coffee, tea, spices, and new textiles to name a few. Yet one of the most widely distributed luxury commodities in the period was not new at all, and was produced locally: the book. In Necessary Luxuries, Matt Erlin considers books and the culture around books during this period, focusing specifically on Germany where literature, and the fine arts in general, were the subject of soul-searching debates over the legitimacy of luxury in the modern world. Building on recent... The consumer revolution of the eighteenth century brought new and exotic commodities to Europe from abroad coffee, tea, spices, and new textiles to... |
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151,83 |
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Adventures Among Books
ISBN: 9781491201824 / Angielski / Miękka / 170 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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56,45 |
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Roberto Bolaño's Fiction: An Expanding Universe
ISBN: 9780231168069 / Angielski / Twarda / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Since the publication of The Savage Detectives in 2007, the work of Roberto Bolano (1953-2003) has achieved an acclaim rarely enjoyed by literature in translation. Chris Andrews, a leading translator of Bolano's work into English, explores the singular achievements of the author's oeuvre, engaging with its distinct style and key thematic concerns, incorporating his novels and stories into the larger history of Latin American and global literary fiction. Andrews provides new readings and interpretations of Bolano's novels, including 2666, The Savage Detectives, and...
Since the publication of The Savage Detectives in 2007, the work of Roberto Bolano (1953-2003) has achieved an acclaim rarely enjoyed by litera...
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412,44 |
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Representing Multiculturalism in Comics and Graphic Novels
ISBN: 9781138025158 / Angielski / Twarda / 286 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Multiculturalism, and its representation, has long presented challenges for the medium of comics. This book presents a wide ranging survey of the ways in which comics have dealt with the diversity of creators and characters and the (lack of) visibility for characters who don't conform to particular cultural stereotypes. Contributors engage with ethnicity and other cultural forms from Israel, Romania, North America, South Africa, Germany, Spain, U.S. Latino and Canada and consider the ways in which comics are able to represent multiculturalism through a focus on the formal elements of the... Multiculturalism, and its representation, has long presented challenges for the medium of comics. This book presents a wide ranging survey of the w... |
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824,88 |
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Alan Power Exposed: Hundreds of Errors in "The Princess Diana Conspiracy"
ISBN: 9781494318192 / Angielski / Miękka / 184 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This extensive book review - written by an expert on the murder of Princess Diana - exposes Alan Power as a fraudster. Over 200 separate errors are shown, but with Power's propensity for repetition there are actually well over 500. The most disturbing factor is the nature of the errors - the 180 page review reveals that Power has deliberately duped his readers. There are many instances of Power fraudulently altering sworn witness evidence to fit with his pre-determined false scenario of what occurred. Alan Power Exposed shows that Power's book is a minefield of deceptive writing, manipulation...
This extensive book review - written by an expert on the murder of Princess Diana - exposes Alan Power as a fraudster. Over 200 separate errors are sh...
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54,42 |
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Adventures Among Books
ISBN: 9781494486082 / Angielski / Miękka / 230 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The book has no illustrations or index. Purchasers are entitled to a free trial membership in the General Books Club where they can select from more than a million books without charge. Subjects: English literature; Literature; Literary Collections / General; Literary Criticism / General; Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Literary Criticism / Books
The book has no illustrations or index. Purchasers are entitled to a free trial membership in the General Books Club where they can select from more t...
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48,51 |
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Tottel's Songes and Sonettes in Context
ISBN: 9781409464655 / Angielski / Twarda / 228 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Though printer Richard Tottel s Songes and Sonettes (1557) remains the most influential poetic collection printed in the sixteenth century, the compiliation has long been ignored or misundertood by scholars of early modern English culture. Embracing a broad range of critical and historical perspectives, the eight essays within this volume offer the first sustained analysis of the many ways that consumers read and understood Songes and Sonettes as an anthology over the course of the early modern period. Copied by a monarch, set to music, sung, carried overseas, studied, appropriated, rejected,...
Though printer Richard Tottel s Songes and Sonettes (1557) remains the most influential poetic collection printed in the sixteenth century, the compil...
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734,66 |
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Designing Information Literacy Instruction: The Teaching Tripod Approach
ISBN: 9780810885844 / Angielski / Miękka / 220 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Designing Information Literacy Instruction: The Teaching Tripod Approach provides a working knowledge of how instructional design (ID) applies to information literacy instruction (ILI). Its "how to do it" approach is directed at instruction librarians in all library settings and deals with both face-to-face and online ID issues. No matter where an instruction librarian works, whom they are teaching, or what delivery mode they will be using, the ID process remains the same: -Start with the user and the user's needs. -Identify the instructional problem(s). -Develop outcomes that address these...
Designing Information Literacy Instruction: The Teaching Tripod Approach provides a working knowledge of how instructional design (ID) applies to info...
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347,74 |
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Online by Design: The Essentials of Creating Information Literacy Courses
ISBN: 9780810891111 / Angielski / Miękka / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. As more and more academic libraries consider offering online credit courses or converting face-to-face courses to online, instructional librarians need to quickly get up to speed about online course design and delivery. Even the most seasoned instruction librarian may be intimidated by the thought of converting their classroom course into an online course. Based on both sound research in the area on of online pedagogy and extensive teaching experience, this book includes ideas for: 1.Creating innovative and interactive information literacy tutorials that engage students. 2.Addressing common...
As more and more academic libraries consider offering online credit courses or converting face-to-face courses to online, instructional librarians nee...
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288,97 |
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Blast, Corrupt, Dismantle, Erase: Contemporary North American Dystopian Literature
ISBN: 9781554589890 / Angielski / Miękka / 450 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. What do literary dystopias reflect about the times? In "Blast, Corrupt, Dismantle, Erase, "contributors address this amorphous but pervasive genre, using diverse critical methodologies to examine how North America is conveyed or portrayed in a perceived age of crisis, accelerated uncertainty, and political volatility. Drawing from contemporary novels such as Cormac McCarthy s "The Road," Neil Gaiman s "American Gods," and the work of Margaret Atwood and William Gibson (to name a few), this book examines dystopian literature produced by North American authors between the signing of... What do literary dystopias reflect about the times? In "Blast, Corrupt, Dismantle, Erase, "contributors address this amorphous but pervasive genre... |
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215,50 |
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Romantic Feuds: Transcending the 'Age of Personality'
ISBN: 9781409432722 / Angielski / Twarda / 204 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Romantic writers such as Robert Southey and Samuel Taylor Coleridge aspired to rise above the so-called 'age of personality, ' a new culture of politicized print gossip and personal attacks. Nevertheless, Southey, Coleridge, and other Romantic-era figures such as Leigh Hunt, William Hazlitt, Sydney Owenson, and the explorer John Ross became enmeshed in lively feuds with the major periodicals of the day, the Edinburgh Review and the Quarterly Review. Kim Wheatley focuses on feuds from the second and third decades of the nineteenth century, suggesting that by this time the vituperative rhetoric...
Romantic writers such as Robert Southey and Samuel Taylor Coleridge aspired to rise above the so-called 'age of personality, ' a new culture of politi...
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465,23 |
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The Road to Middle-Earth: How J.R.R. Tolkien Created a New Mythology
ISBN: 9780544311817 / Angielski / Twarda / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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134,87 |