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This resource provides teachers, librarians, parents, and others who work with children with an annotated bibliography of children's books that contain characters who display positive values as they relate to others. Includes sample activities and lessons.

A collection of poems that explore the raw merging of American pastoral and urban squalor.

Thinking Italian Translation is a comprehensive and practical translation course. It focuses on improving translation quality and gives clear definitions of translation theories. Texts are taken from sources including journalism, technical texts and screenplays. Translation issues addressed include cultural differences, genre, and revision and editing.Adapted from the successful French-based Thinking Translation (1992), the course has been pil...

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In a letter, Katherine Mansfield writes: 'I hate the sort of licence that English people give themselves - to spread over and flop and roll about. I feel as fastidious as though I write with acid'. This book explores Mansfield's idiosyncratic aesthetic by focusing on her position as an outsider in Britain: a New-Zealander, a woman writer, a Fuavist, and eventually a consumptive. Her sharp-edged fiction is discussed in relation to her involveme...

This book focuses on the place sand purpose of emotions in the research process, and explores the appropriate boundaries. Designed to explore how to manage the emotional content of research, the text service as a supplemental to qualitative research method courses, and is an excellent reference for the professional as well.

This is a comprehensive and up-to-date survey of contemporary work on moral relativism. The selections are divided topically under the following headings: General Issues Concerning Moral Relativism, Relativism and Moral Diversity, the Coherence of Moral Relativism, Defense and Criticism of Moral Relativism, and Relativism, Realism and Rationality. The volume includes a comprehensive topical bibliography and a large introduction with explanator...

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Further and Higher Education in the UK has expanded greatly in recent years, bringing into education large numbers of young people who present teachers with new challenges. At the same time, there is an immense pressure to improve the quality of learning and teaching, and to encourage students to be active participants in the process. This book is aimed at teachers, aspiring teachers and other professionals in upper secondary schools, further ...

Harrison tells a personal story of Jimmy, a little boy who injures his eye and must learn life's meaning through adversity. This injury leads to his discovery of nature, and his ability to overcome intense suffering. Color illustrations.

How did the universe come to exist? What is the nature of its creator? Is there a purpose to human existence? What is it to live a good life?The Routledge Dictionary of Religious and Spiritual Quotations offers not just one, but many, answers to these questions. Geoffrey Parrinder has drawn on all the great books of world religions - the Bible, the Qur'an, Zoroastrian Gathas, Hindu Vedas, Bhagavad Gita, Jewish Mishnah, Sikh Adi Granth and Chin...

The Archaeology of Difference presents a new and radically different perspective on the archaeology of cross-cultural contact and engagement.

Lull gathers leading contributors from the fields of communication, cultural studies, anthropology, media studies, sociology and psychology to provide a series of interdisciplinary perspectives on the meaning of 'culture' in contemporary society.

A modern anthology for the general reader asw well as students, covering "only" the key British and Irish writers of the last century. Excluding minor and fashionable authors, the works of less than 40 major writers are presented in depth and with a linking commentaries.

The Antibiotic Alternative" shows how the best defense against infectious disease is to strengthen the immune system. With advice on stress management and diet and complete monographs of a dozen readily available herbs, Jones shows readers how to ward off infectious diseases naturally without antibiotic overdependence.

Drawing on ancient Indian "ragas" that are inspired by the sounds of nature, Harish Johari has created meditation music especially for the morning and evening hours, played on flute and tambura.

Die deutsche Sprache entwickelte in der DDR eine besondere Prägung. In der offiziellen Sprache wurden neue Worte entwickelt, um z.B. Lehnworte aus dem Amerikanischen nicht verwenden zu müssen (z.B. Wurfrotationsflachkegel für Frisbee-Scheibe). Es wurden Begriffe erfunden, um das Leben im real existierenden Sozialismus zu beschreiben wie z.B. Arbeiterkorrespondent oder Passowmethode. Ebenso erhielten eine Vielzahl von Wörtern wie Auflage, Anges...

Provides an overview of a variety of characterization methods. This book explains physical principles and gives emphasis to the application of the techniques to polymers, with plenty of illustrations. It covers topics such as molecular weight determination, molecular and structural characterization by spectroscopic techniques, and others.

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The Russian Diaspora:1917-1941 is a complete reference work to be used as an overview of the mass exodus from the Russian Empire after the revolutions and civil war (1917-1921). This book provides Russian Studies scholars, as well as students of world culture, with an accessible guide and overview of the emigres own lives, as well as of their contributions to the literature, music, arts, science and technology of their host countries. As such,...