Adapting Shahrazad's Odyssey (American University Studies, #40)
by Eda Dedebas Dundar
Adapting Shahrazad's Odyssey: The Female Wanderer and Storyteller in Victorian and Contemporary Middle Eastern Literature focuses on a comparative study of the figure of the female traveler and storyteller in nineteenth-century Victorian literature and contemporary Anglophone Middle Eastern writing. Eda Dedebas Dundar's cutting-edge study is the first to discover a strong link between traveling texts and the traveling women in fiction, analyzing the ways in which she is molded by her previous ex...
White Amnesia - Black Memory? (Bremer Beitrage zur Literatur- und Ideengeschichte, v. 25)
by Sabine Brock
Reading a series of prose texts by 20th century white women writers ranging from The Making of Americans to Civil Wars this study interrogates a correlation between authors' subject positions as white and their textual investments in American history. It displaces the diffuse acceptance of whiteness as a given property by foregrounding it as a shared, and unquestioned feature of the white reader's and the text's consciousness. To trace the literary legacies of white amnesia about the Middle Pass...
The Beautiful and the Doomed: Essays on Literary Value (Dis/Continuities, #2)
by Miroslawa Buchholtz
The book addresses the problem of literary value in North American literature, children’s literature, film and poetry. Chapter One: The Ennob(e)led focuses on institutions which are instrumental in attributing value to literature: literary critics (e.g. D.H. Lawrence) and award givers (e.g. the Swedish Academy). It explores W.B. Yeats’s, T.S. Eliot’s, Czesław Miłosz’s and William Golding’s lives with the Nobel Prize. In Chapter Two: The Forgotten homage is paid to four authors who lost popularit...
Colloquial English provides a step-by-step course in English as it is written and spoken today. Combining a user-friendly approach with a thorough treatment of the language, it equips learners with the essential skills needed to communicate confidently and effectively in English in a broad range of situations. Key features include: progressive coverage of speaking, listening, reading and writing skillsstructured, jargon-free explanations of grammaran extensive range of focused and stimulating...
Beagle Patrol (Footprint Reading Library: Level 5)
by Rob Waring
Beagles are dogs with an extremely powerful sense of smell. They often work at airports to find illegal or unsafe items. Before they can do the job, they must go through training. What does it take to be on the Beagle Patrol? What happens to dogs that don't make it?
Modified Mastering Health with Pearson Etext -- Combo Access Card -- For Get Fit, Stay Well!
by Janet Hopson, Rebecca Donatelle, and Tanya Littrell
Macmillan Explorers 2018 The Secret Garden
by Frances Hodgson Burnett and Gill Munton
Fox Fables in Greek and English (Fables from Around the World)
by Dawn Casey
Impact helps teenage learners to better understand themselves, each other, and the world they live in. By encouraging self-expression, global citizenship, and active participation, Impact motivates students to explore who they are and who they want to be, all while learning English!
Additional practice and extension activities to accompany the Student Edition plus learning checklists and end of-unit reviews, including practice in: Vocabulary Phonics Comprehension Grammar Writing and Spelling Fluency
Shortlisted for the 2014 BAAL Book Prize This book explores the meaning of modernization in contemporary Chinese education. It examines the implications of the implementation of reforms in English language education for experimental-urban schools in the People’s Republic of China. Pérez-Milans sheds light on how national, linguistic, and cultural ideologies linked to modernization are being institutionally (re)produced, legitimated, and inter-personally negotiated through everyday practice in t...
Preston Lee's Beginner English 100 Words Searches For French Speakers
by Matthew Preston and Kevin Lee
Assessing Second Language Students with Learning and Other Disabilities (Studies on Education)
by Dina Tsagari and George Spanoudis
Macmillan Explorers 2018 Treasure Island Reader
by Robert Louis Stevenson and Gill Munton
"Penguin Readers" is a series of simplified novels, film novelizations and original titles that introduce students at all levels to the pleasures of reading in English. Originally designed for teaching English as a foreign language, the series' combination of high interest level and low reading age makes it suitable for both English-speaking teenagers with limited reading skills and students of English as a second language. Many titles in the series also provide access to the pre-20th century li...
English for Everyone Illustrated English Dictionary (English for Everyone)
Learn more than 10,000 of the most useful words and phrases in English with this beautifully illustrated dictionary for English-language students. Building on the success of the English for Everyone program and DK’s Bilingual Visual Dictionary series, English for Everyone: Illustrated English Dictionary uses crystal-clear illustrations to show the meaning of over 10,000 words of English vocabulary. The words are shown in a visual context in themed sections covering practical or everyday...
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Includes reprinted informational texts from the Student Edition. Offers students opportunities to apply skills and strategies Promotes active reading as students interact with text
New Cornerstone, Grade 4 Student Edition with eBook (soft cover)
by Pearson
Six thematic units per level organised around a Big Question Engaging videos that explore the Big Question and key themes in the unit Three readings per unit from a wide range of genres including informational texts, biographies, and poems, as well as classic and contemporary literature Key vocabulary taught explicitly before each reading Clear and step-by-step grammar presentations followed by thorough and focused practice Skills workshops and hands-on projects to provide students the opportuni...