In his Duino Elegies, Rainer Maria Rilke suggests that animals enjoy direct access to a realm of being—the open—concealed from humans by the workings of consciousness and self-consciousness. In his ow
Traces the economic journey of sea island cotton from the Andes and Caribbean to its cultivation throughout the southeastern United States, its demise as an important agricultural force in the region,
A guide for adult children who want to record special memories about growing up alongside their mothers serves as an inspirational keepsake for storing photographs, mementos, and favorite stories, in
What a Lesbian Looks Like gives a vivid picture of lesbian life as it is lived today. It draws on the mass-observation material of the National Lesbian and Gay Survey to provide an anthology of person
"Tigor is an adventure novel, the minute details of which read real to the extremeóthey appear as though they had been seen, touched, smelled, and tasted by the author himself. The reading offers
Includes: Student Math Journals (Volumes 1 & 2) – These consumable books provide lesson support material for students to analyze and complete. They provide a long-term record of each student’s mathema
The field of task-based language teaching has developed considerably since the publication of Designing Tasks for the Communicative Classroom (Nunan, 1989) a book which helped to set the research agen
The Flickering Mind, by National Magazine Award winner Todd Oppenheimer, is a landmark account of the failure of technology to improve our schools and a call for renewed emphasis on what really works.
The only official book on the making of the new film from the director of Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragona full-color, behind-the-scenes companion to the eagerly awaited blockbuster from Universal Pict
Grammar is central to language pedagogy and teachers need a clear description of what constitutes grammar and how it can best be taught in the English language classroom. This book illustrates a new w
WHEN A YOUNG WRITER named Lorne Michaels talked NBC executives into taking a chance on a new weekend late-night comedy series, nobody really knew what to expect-not even Michaels. But Saturday Night L
This text investigates the state of panoptic art at a time when issues of security and civil liberties are on many people's minds. Traditional imaging and tracking systems have given way to infinitely
This book is about applying what is known about financial options to many everyday decisions that arise in business finance. The book has as its basis a specialized field in financial economics that
This incisive analysis of where Palestinians and Israelis are and the possible avenues to a just and durable peace has been fully updated in the aftermath of September 11 and the Israeli Defence Force
The second volume in the East Hampton Historical Collection launched in 1998 with the publication of Awakening The Past: The East Hampton 350th Anniversary Lecture Series. Tracing The Past collects si
* Will the United States dominate the 21st century?* How does the United States see its role in the coming years?* Can a single superpower make the world a safer and more just place inwhich to live?At
Now combined in a new series with The Year's Work in English Studies, The Year's Work in Critical and Cultural Theory, edited by Kate McGowan, is an annual narrative bibliography which aims to provide
Written to celebrate the Bicentenary of the Royal College of Surgeons of England, this beautifully illustrated book traces the history of surgery and the surgical profession from the days of the Worsh
The people of East Timor voted overwhelmingly in August 1999 for independence and an end to Indonesian occupation. In this updated and much expanded edition of Indonesia's Forgotten War: The Hidden Hi
有沒有人跟你說，其實貓咪也有自己的聖誕節、聖誕歌謠和過節方式？或者，當初瑪麗亞生下耶穌的那一刻，同時也有一窩小貓在馬槽內出生？作者簡介史蒂芬妮‧薩麥克(Stefanie Samek)／曾任廣告主管，在為「維斯卡和西巴貓食公司」所做的促銷活動中，獲得「麥迪遜大道貓淑女」的美譽。她還著有《貓咪的千禧年守則》(Cat’s Guide to the Millennium)和《怒吼燈光》(Purring i
Jennie Levinsky has an amazing secret -- and only her best friend, Beth, knows about it. Jennie can "hear" what her neighbor's sheepdog, Sam, is thinking! And what Sam is usually thinking is how to fi
This text documents a sampling of paintings, prints, drawings and sculptures owned by Clark Atlanta University, Fisk University, Hampton University, Howard University, North Carolina Central Universit
This book focuses on two of the most cited figures in the debate on radical education - Antonio Gramsci and Paulo Freire. Both regarded forms of adult education as having an important role to play in
Virginia Woolf's biography of Elizabeth Barrett Browning's spaniel was what she called 'a little escapade', begun 'to ease my brain' in the wake of The Waves (1931).For all its fun and frivolity, Flus
The human race has just begun. In the Bay Area in the mid-1960s, several people are struck by a cosmic blue light that "quickens" their DNA, causing them instantaneously to evolve far beyond
Charity Alive: Sisters of Charity, Halifax, 1950-1980 is the sequel to Sister Maura Power's chronicle of the first one hundred years of the congregation's history (Ryerson, 1956). Based on congregatio
Noted political philosopher Judith Shklar declined to write a book about American political thought because, she once claimed, "the subject is too hard." She finally took on this formidable
