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Amsterdam University Press 2009; US$ 10.50Onderwijs-op-maat moet bij iedere basisschool op de kwaliteitsagenda staan. Het gaat dan om het zoeken naar antwoorden hoe het onderwijs zodanig kan worden ingericht dat het recht doet aan de verschillende onderwijsbehoeften en ontwikkelingskansen van leerlingen. Maatwerk gaat verder dan zorgverbreding, differentiatie en adaptief onderwijs. Maatwerk... more...
Suddenly They Heard Footsteps
Knopf Canada 2010; US$ 21.00Canada?s best-known storyteller, Dan Yashinsky, lives his life as teller and listener, and shows how storytelling can and does create vital connections between individuals, communities and families. In an age of instant messaging, entertainment systems and digital interaction, why is it that more and more people are being drawn to the art of oral... more...
From Utopia to Apocalypse
University of Minnesota Press 2010; US$ 60.00Revolutionary narratives in recent science fiction graphic novels and films compel audiences to reflect on the politics and societal ills of the day. Through character and story, science fiction brings theory to life, giving shape to the motivations behind the action as well as to the consequences they produce.In From Utopia to Apocalypse , Peter Y.... more...
The Cambridge Introduction to Edward Said
Cambridge University Press 2010; US$ 17.00A concise, informative and clearly written introduction for students beginning to study Said. more...
Beckett's Proust/Deleuze's Proust
Palgrave Macmillan 2009; US$ 105.00An encounter between Deleuze the philosopher, Proust the novelist, and Beckett the writer creating interdisciplinary and inter-aesthetic bridges between them, covering textual, visual, sonic and performative phenomena, including provocative speculation about how Proust might have responded to Deleuze and Beckett. more...
Postmodern Science Fiction and Temporal Imagination
Continuum International Publishing 2010; US$ 110.00Are we living in a post-temporal age? Has history come to an end? This book argues against the widespread perception of postmodern narrativity as atemporal and ahistorical, claiming that postmodernity is characterized by an explosion of heterogeneous narrative “timeshapes” or chronotopes. Chronological linearity is being challenged by quantum... more...
Political Novel
Continuum International Publishing 2010; US$ 90.00Scholars from a variety of academic disciplines have been drawn into exhaustive analyses of what went wrong in “the terrible 20th Century”, as Winston Churchill dubbed it. In this book Scheingold adds political novels to those inquiries and argues that they make a distinctive and hitherto neglected contribution to the collective memory... more...
Encyclopedia of Literary Romanticism
Infobase Publishing 2010; US$ 90.00The Romantics valued nature, spontaneity, visionary experience, powerful feeling, and the artist's individual response to the experience of life. Encyclopedia of Literary Romanticism provides a comprehensive A-to-Z guide to the Romantic movement, including such great writers as William Wordsworth, John Keats, and Mary Shelley. Entries in this new... more...
Historical Fiction for Young Readers (Grades 4-8): An Introduction
ABC-CLIO 2008; US$ 65.00Enhance your historical fiction collection - and its popularity with readers and value in the classroom - with this wide-ranging guide. After discussion of various aspects of the genre (its importance, history, criteria for evaluation, and methods of presentation), the author takes an in-depth look at 80 of the best historical fiction novels published... more...
Language, Gender and Children's Fiction
Continuum International Publishing 2010; US$ 140.00This is an original, scholarly yet accessible contribution to the field of children's fiction. It focuses on gender in relation to children's fiction and the role that language plays in this relationship. Girls' and boys' reading itself is looked at, as well as the books that they encounter – including the Harry Potter... more...









