This text for ESL writing teachers and prospective teachers blends current reviews of research with extensive coverage of practical topics related to the teaching of ESL writers in academic settings.
Traditional Christian art depicts Paul the letter writer, pen in hand, attentive to the Spirit. We might think we know better and imagine him pacing in agitation as he rapidly dictates to a secretary
Contemporary biblical scholarship on the Psalter is represented by 27 essays, four of them in German, by invited scholars from Europe, North America, Asia, and Africa. Though by no means comprehensive
"In this remarkable book, Nadine Hubbs demonstrates that our understanding of modernist American culture will remain impoverished so long as we ignore the gay social networks and patronage and distinc
Here’s a great new journal designed for the introspective poet or the accomplished singer-songwriter. Our musical journals have been strong sellers (The Musician’s Notebook sold more than
"In this remarkable book, Nadine Hubbs demonstrates that our understanding of modernist American culture will remain impoverished so long as we ignore the gay social networks and patronage and distinc
This book provides a broad source of reference on oils and fats chemistry for graduates entering the food and oleochemical industries, postgraduate researchers and nutritionists. It offers a point of
As new media mature, the changes they bring to writing in college are many and suggest implications not only for the tools of writing, but also for the contexts, personae, and conventions of writing.
Every well-rounded artist needs to be adept at sketching with pencils. Here is advice on the use of different types of pencil and appropriate papers, as well as instruction on sketching virtually eve
This book offers a much needed alternative to the more traditional texts used to teach writing instruction. Grounded in history, the book clarifies changing theoretical and practical approaches to tea
In the setting of multi-party computation, sets of two or more parties with private inputs wish to jointly compute some (predetermined) function of their inputs. General results concerning secure two-
How should we understand the stories of the Babylonian Talmud? Where do they come from? Why are they in the Talmud? How do they relate to Talmudic law? In Talmudic Stories, Jeffrey Rubenstein deepens
For students of classical, medieval, and early modern literature and of the history of education, Kennedy (classics emeritus, U. of North Carolina-Chapel Hill) presents and comments on four Greek tre
Eminently readable despite the complexity of its subject, this book guides the reader in studying the 48 fugues of the composer's Well-Tempered Clavier. Author Joseph Groocock analyzes each of the fug
TheAlgorithmicNumberTheorySymposiabeganin1994atCornellUniversity inIthaca,NewYorktorecognizethegrowingimportanceofalgorithmicwork in the theory of numbers. The subject of the conference is broadly con
The performance tasks in this book are linked directly to instructional strategies and include holistic rubrics, analytic rubrics, and assessment lists. They can be photocopied and distributed to your
The performance tasks in this book are linked directly to instructional strategies and include holistic rubrics, analytic rubrics, and assessment lists. They can be photocopied and distributed to your
International experts offer fresh insights into: (1) Review of Scholarship and Context; (2) Near Eastern Milieu; (3) Interpretation of Specific Passages; (4) Social Setting; (5) Literary Context, Incl
Italian "workerism" (or operaismo ), an anti-statist Marxist tendency that developed in the 1960s and 1970s, saw itself as storming the "heavens" of class rule. Wright (research fellow, School of Inf
By analyzing Flavius Josephus' portrayal of the Pharisees, this study clarifies some of the crucial evidence that is necessary for scholars to evaluate anew the history of the Pharisees. Included in t
This ancillary offers a range of perspectives, from Aristotle to the present day, on argument and on teaching argument. The 28 readings — many of them classic works in the field present essenti
Ten chapters explore both the theoretical and pedagogical approaches to "resistance." Contributors discuss the various meanings of resistance in both a political and an historical framework. They also
This is the second volume to appear (following Writing and Reading the Scroll of Isaiah. Studies of an Interpretative Tradition) in the collection The Formation and Interpretation of Old Testament Lit
Where most of the literature in the psychology of music has focused on the processes involved when listening to music, little has been written about the processes involved in making music. Reissued by
The National Council of Teachers of English produced this volume of 14 essays, all based on personal experience, by academics and three graduate students in writing, rhetoric, literature, and English.
Reprint of the 1985 edition with a new (5 p.) preface by Hroch (history, Charles University, Prague). Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
Rubenstein (Hebrew and Judaic studies, New York U.) investigates how to understand the stories of the Babylonian Talmud, where they come from, why they are in the Talmud, and how they relate to Talmud
"A History of the Synoptic Problem", by David Laird Dungan, is an accessible, academic study of a question that has needled readers of the New Testament since before the Bible was canonized: How does
An increasing number of students graduate from U.S. high schools and enter college while still in the process of learning English. This group--the "1.5 generation"--consisting of immigrants and U.S. r
Explores the varied roles that composers, performers, listeners, critics, and theorists play in musical culture and the interactions between them. The 11 essays, developed from presentations to the 19
The essays in this book, stemming from a national conference of the same name, focus on the single subject required of nearly all college students?composition.Despite its pervasiveness and its signifi
Based on a sizable and coherent sample of poetry (the twenty-two major panegyrics to Sayf al-Dawla), this study identifies and describes the compositional rules and predilections that played a dominan
Confronting arguments that denigrate women's ability to compose, Halstead (Liverpool Institute of Performing Arts) asks why women composers are still such a rarity in Britain at the end of the 20th ce
George Schuyler, a renowned and controversial black journalist of the Harlem Renaissance, and Josephine Cogdell, a blond, blue-eyed Texas heiress and granddaughter of slave owners, believed that inter
This long-awaited, authoritative account of Bartok's compositional processes stresses the composer's position as one of the masters of Western music history and avoids a purely theoretical approach or
