Nuala Ní Dhomhnail included Michael Longley's 'Ceasefire' in her choice of ten representative poems of the 1990s in Irish poetry in the following terms: 'it made its first electrifying appearance in print in The Irish Times to coincide with the announcement by the IRA of the first Northern Ireland ceasefire. . .
This book demystifies concepts relating to ecology and sustainable development at a time when these ideas are being introduced into the primary school curriculum. Written in non-academic language, it provides a wide range of illustrative examples reflecting the everyday experiences of teachers and children. But simply explaining eco-literacy would not be enough to make a difference to teachers' practice. So the book is organized around the que...
This book addresses the variety and complexity of Ireland's leading living dramatist by bringing together a range of academic and other professional and creative approaches. The contributors, including Nobel laureate Seamus Heaney, invoke the intellectual richness, humanity, and protean skill and invention of Friel's work.
This is the account of a young naval officer who acted as a seagoing eavesdropper in World War II. Sir Alan Peacock presents graphic recollections of life on the lower deck, being torpedoed in a Channel action, and contributing to intelligence information required to foil enemy attacks on Russian convoys.
With Authors and Artists for Young Adults, teens have a source where thy can discover fascinating and entertaining facts about the writers, artists, personalities and cartoonists that most interest them. International in scope, each volume contains 20-25 entries offering personal behind-the-scenes information, portraits, movie stills, bibliographies, a cumulative index and more.
With an emphasis on skills not facts, this book for pupils describes over 100 activities. The investigations it covers are flexible enough to relate to any science course.
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This volume is a collection of ten essays in which the authors assess the contribution of the German Ordo-liberals fifty years after the founders of the liberal movement in Germany stated their aims and objectives. The Ordo-liberals were a group of liberal economic and legal thinkers in the Federal Republic of Germany who came into prominence as a result of their influence on, and participation in, post-war economic policy in the Federal Repub...
This collection of papers is intended as a background to the field of discussion in public finance. One of the main strands of thought in the collection asks under what conditions can Pareto optimality be achieved in an economic system in which some goods supplied are indivisible?
The essays in this volume have been translated from the German to bring to the notice of a wider public the contemporary views of a group of prominent German economists and lawyers who have all participated in the development of post-war economic policy in the Federal Republic of Germany.
An easy-to-use source for librarians, students and other researchers, each volume in this series provides illustrated biographical profiles of approximately 75 childrens authors and artists. This critically acclaimed series covers more than 12, 000 individuals, ranging from established award winners to authors and illustrators who are just beginning their careers. Entries typically cover: personal life, career, writings, works in progress, ada...
