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Translating for Childrenby Riitta Oittinen
Garland Science 2000; US$ 100.00Translating for Children is not a book on translations of children's literature but a book on translating for children. Translators never translate words in isolation but whole situations: they bring to the translation their cultural heritage, their reading experience, and, in the case of children's books, their image of childhood and their own child image. more...
International Companion Encyclopedia of Children's Literatureby Peter Hunt
Routledge 1996; US$ 438.00The Encyclopedia offers comprehensive and international coverage of children's literature from a number of perspectives - theory and critical approaches, types and genres, context, applications and individual country essays. more...
International Companion Encyclopedia of Children's Literatureby Professor Peter Hunt
Routledge 2004; US$ 510.00Children's publishing is a huge international industry and there is ever-growing interest from researchers and students in the genre as cultural object of study and tool for education and socialization. more...
Deconstructing The Heroby Margery Hourihan
Taylor & Francis 1997; US$ 57.50This book sets out to explore the structure and meaning of one of the most popular literary genres - the adventure story. It offers analytical readings of some of the most popular adventure stories and looks at their influence on children. more...
Voracious Childrenby Carolyn Daniel
Routledge 2006; US$ 99.75Exploring the way food is used to seduce, and coerce within children's literature, and its readers, this book tackles questions concerning the quantity and quality of the food featured in children's fiction. It coves topics such as childhood obesity and anorexia, and demonstrates how this literature attempts to regulate childhood eating practices. more...
Representing Africa in Children's Literatureby Vivian Yenika-Agbaw
Taylor & Francis 2007; US$ 133.00Representing Africa in Childrens Literature explores how African and Western authors portray youth in contemporary African societies, critically examining the dominant images of Africa and Africans in books published between 1960 and 2005. more...
Radical Children's Literatureby K. Reynolds
Palgrave Macmillan Ltd. 2007; US$ 90.00This book reappraises the place of children's literature, showing it to be a creative space where writers and illustrators try out new ideas about books, society, and narratives in an age of instant communication and multi-media. It looks at the stories about the world and young people; the interaction with changing childhoods and new technologies. more...
Selected Papers from the International Conference on Heating by Electromagnetic Sourcesby Sergio Lupi; Fabrizio Dughiero; Egbert Baake
Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2008; US$ 199.00HES is becoming a traditional meeting for scientists and engineers dealing with the development and application of new methodologies for the solution of scientific and technical problems concerning the use of electromagnetic fields in the industrial heating and melting processes as well as in the electromagnetic processing of materials (EPM). more...
Critical Approaches to Food in Childrens Literatureby Kara K. Keeling; Scott T. Pollard
Taylor & Francis 2008; US$ 134.00This book is the first scholarly volume to connect children's literature to the burgeoning discipline of food studies. Spanning genres and regions, the essays utilize a variety of approaches, including archival research, cultural studies, formalism, gender studies, post-colonialism, post-structuralism, race studies, structuralism, and theology. more...
Neo-Imperialism in Children's Literature About Africaby Yulisa Amadu Maddy; Donnarae MacCann
Taylor & Francis 2008; US$ 133.00In this book, the authors expose the neo-imperialist overtones of contemporary children's fiction about Africa. Examining the portrayal of African social customs, religious philosophies, and political structures in fiction for young people, Maddy and MacCann reveal the Western biases that often infuse stories by well-known Western authors. more...









