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In this authoritative and accessible account of French literature, sixteen essays by leading specialists offer provocative insights into French literary culture, its genres, movements, themes, and historic turning points, including the cultural and linguistic challenges of today's multi-ethnic France. The French have, over the centuries, invented and reinvented writing, from the Arthurian romances of Chrétien de Troyes to Montaigne's Essays, w...

In this authoritative and accessible account of French literature, sixteen essays by leading specialists offer provocative insights into French literary culture, its genres, movements, themes, and historic turning points, including the cultural and linguistic challenges of today's multi-ethnic France. The French have, over the centuries, invented and reinvented writing, from the Arthurian romances of Chrétien de Troyes to Montaigne's Essays, w...

A staple of the school poetry anthology, John Lyons' latest collection of poems for children aged 7-11 conjures up vivid images, situations and emotions which appeal both for their universality and their newness.

Essays by one of the most influential scholars in modern linguistics, including previously unpublished pieces.

This comprehensive text features an American political culture theme throughout. Pedagogy and features demonstrate how political culture (values, expectations, beliefs) is revealed through popular culture (movies, cartoons, TV, music). The text also has extensive coverage of the traditional topics and the historical context from which they arose.

Feuerwehrmann Sam und seine Kollegen haben im beschaulichen Städtchen Pontypandy mächtig was zu tun. Für alle, dies nicht wissen: Pontypandy liegt im englischen Wales, dort wo sich ein Dörfchen ans andere reiht, Schafe auf satten Wiesen grasen und jeder jeden kennt. So ist es zum Beispiel kein Geheimnis, dass Lausebengel Norman meist hinter den kleinen und größeren Katastrophen in und um Pontypandy steckt. Wenn Sam also zum Einsatz gerufen wir...

Feuerwehrmann Sam und seine Kollegen haben im beschaulichen Städtchen Pontypandy mächtig was zu tun. Für alle, dies nicht wissen: Pontypandy liegt im englischen Wales, dort wo sich ein Dörfchen ans andere reiht, Schafe auf satten Wiesen grasen und jeder jeden kennt. So ist es zum Beispiel kein Geheimnis, dass Lausebengel Norman meist hinter den kleinen und größeren Katastrophen in und um Pontypandy steckt. Wenn Sam also zum Einsatz gerufen wir...

Examples, crucial links between discourse and society's view of reality, have until now been largely neglected in literary criticism. In the first book-length study of the rhetoric of example, John Lyons situates this figure by comparing it with more frequently studied tropes such as metaphor and synecdoche, discusses meanings of the terms example and exemplum, and proposes a set of descriptive concepts for the study of example in early modern...

Everyday Health and Fitness with Multiple Sclerosis is a program designed to help people living with Multiple Sclerosis maintain a healthy lifestyle through fitness and nutrition.

Placing the conflict between chance and order at the center of early modern French culture, these essays cluster around four problems: Providence in Question, Aesthetics and Poetics of Chance, Law and Ethics of Chance, and Chance and its Remedies. By demonstrating the breadth and intensity of the early modern questioning of chance, they offer an illuminating new perspective on French culture in the period.

Multimedia Histories: From the Magic Lantern to the Internet is the first book to explore in detail the vital connections between today's digital culture and an absorbing history of screen entertainments and technologies. Its range of coverage moves from the magic lantern, the stereoscope and early film to the DVD and the internet.

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Presents memoirs of intellectual lives. In conversation with cliometricians of the next generation, this title features twenty-five scholars who reflect on changes in the practice of economic history they have observed and have helped to bring about.

Teaching History Online is a very short introduction to developing and using online resources in history teaching. It offers practical advice that will help the history teacher develop online assignments and provides a guide to the myriad resources and tools available for use in the online classroom.

Excerpt from Guidebook for Field Trips in Central New Hampshire and Contiguous AreasTurn right on Laconia By - Pass for 2 miles to NH - 106 exit and turn there to the pits just to the north. Here we follow the Winnipesaukee Surficial Geologic Map (this new road is not on it).About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an importan...

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The residents of Three Corners, Texas are in shock to realize that, even in the time following the Civil War, their quiet town is a lawless place. They are threatened by the news of a gang of desperados who have slaughtered a group of innocent people from another state. The townspeople know that they may be next, and so they enlist the help of Elias Trace, a man battle-tested from the Civil War. Even though he's seen enough blood to last a lif...

The residents of Three Corners, Texas are in shock to realize that, even in the time following the Civil War, their quiet town is a lawless place. They are threatened by the news of a gang of desperados who have slaughtered a group of innocent people from another state. The townspeople know that they may be next, and so they enlist the help of Elias Trace, a man battle-tested from the Civil War. Even though he's seen enough blood to last a lif...