The Leading eBooks Store Online
for Kindle Fire, Apple, Android, Nook, Kobo, PC, Mac, Sony Reader...
Most popular at the top
Kiekertak en Klotterbooke
Amsterdam University Press 2004; US$ 10.50De afgelopen decennia hebben zich grote veranderingen voltrokken in het voortgezet en universitair onderwijs. Bij die veranderingen is een cruciale vraag goeddeels buiten beschouwing gebleven: wat willen wij onze kinderen leren?. De kern van deze kwestie is de discussie over de canon. Wat vinden wij belangrijk om over te dragen, welke geschiedenis... more...
"Und es trieb die Rede mich an..."
De Gruyter 2008; US$ 154.00On the occasion of his 65th birthday, one of the most prominent German rhetoricians, literary critics and publicists, Gert Ueding, was honoured with a festschrift by the School of Rhetoric at the University of Tübingen. In their contributions, his friends, companions and colleagues reflect the wide range of Gerd Ueding?s interests, which encompass... more...
Fundamental Concepts of Children?s Literature Research
Taylor and Francis 2009; US$ 39.95In this book, Ewers provides students and professors with a new system of categorization for a differentiated description of children?s literature. In the early 1970s, Swedish children?s literature scholar Göte Kingberg worked to establish a system of scientific terminology for international use, but these terms are now somewhat antiquated. This book... more...
Figuring Modesty in Feminist Discourse Across the Americas, 1633-1700
Ashgate Publishing Ltd 2008; US$ 99.95Inventive in its approach, this study offers fresh readings of the arguments and practices of four seventeenth-century Euro-American women: Anne Bradstreet, Anne Hutchinson, Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, and Marie de l'Incarnation. Tamara Harvey offers a new way to think of corporeality as a device in literary and religious expressions of modesty... more...
Surviving Your Stupid, Stupid Decision to Go to Grad School
Crown Publishing Group 2010; US$ 12.00This is a book for dedicated academics who consider spending years masochistically overworked and underappreciated as a laudable goal. They lead the lives of the impoverished, grade the exams of whiny undergrads, and spend lonely nights in the library or laboratory pursuing a transcendent truth that only six or seven people will ever care about. These... more...
Power, Voice and Subjectivity in Literature for Young Readers
Taylor and Francis 2009; US$ 42.95This book considers one of the most controversial aspects of children?s and young adult literature: its use as an instrument of power. Children in contemporary Western society are oppressed and powerless, yet they are allowed, in fiction written by adults for the enlightenment and enjoyment of children, to become strong, brave, rich, powerful, and... more...
Point of View, Perspective, and Focalization
De Gruyter 2009; US$ 168.00Stories do not actually exist in the world but are created and structured? modeled? through the process of mediation, i.e. through the means and techniques by which they are represented. This is an important field, not only for narratology but also for literary and media studies. The articles in this volume, contributed by international scholars from... more...
Grenzen der Literatur
De Gruyter 2009; US$ 182.00The concept of "literature" is notoriously vague and defies definition, yet at the same time it is indispensable in an age where traditional subject boundaries are breaking down. This volume discusses possible ways of defining the concept in such a manner that it can be productively deployed heuristically in varied historical and cultural contexts.... more...
Love to Love You Bradys
ECW Press 2009; US$ 16.95Chronicling a production rife with conflictsfrom drug addiction and power struggles to sexuality and weight issuesthis behind-the-scenes history of the rarely seen Brady Bunch Variety Hour investigates how the show was conceived, produced, and ended up ranked one of the Worst Shows of All-Time.” Featuring hundreds of never-before-published... more...
You Know You're 60 When . . .
Crown Publishing Group 2010; US$ 9.99Are you ?getting on in years,? or know someone who is? Thinking of changing your birth certificate to show a more favorable birth date? You may lie about your age, but your age won?t lie to you! Not sure how to tell when you?re about to reach that fun sixtieth birthday? Here are some clues: WebMD is your home page When asked, ?Who?s... more...









