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Literature for Children
Taylor and Francis 1992; US$ 38.95This volume reprints some of the most important essays published in the field of children's literature in the last five years and includes three new essays on folklore and science fiction, psychology, and cultural studies. more...
International Companion Encyclopaedia of Children's Literature
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 448.00The International Companion Encyclopedia answers these questions and provides comprehensive coverage of children's literature from a wide range of perspectives. Over 80 substantial essays by world experts include Iona Opie on the oral tradition, Gillian Avery on family stories and Michael Rosen on audio, TV and other media. The Companion covers... more...
International Companion Encyclopedia of Children's Literature
Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 520.00Children's literature continues to be one of the most rapidly expanding and exciting of interdisciplinary academic studies, of interest to anyone concerned with literature, education, internationalism, childhood or culture in general. The second edition of Peter Hunt's bestselling International Companion Encyclopedia of Children's Literature offers... more...
Understanding Children's Literature
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 105.00Edited by Peter Hunt, a leading figure in the field, this book introduces the study of children?s literature, addressing theoretical questions as well as the most relevant critical approaches to the discipline. The fourteen chapters draw on insights from academic disciplines ranging from cultural and literary studies to education and psychology,... more...
War, Peace, and Alliance in Demosthenes' Athens
Cambridge University Press 2010; US$ 86.00Explores the thinking and feelings, often surprisingly modern, that determined Athenian foreign policy decisions in the fourth century BC. more...
Liberalism, Conservatism, and Hayek's Idea of Spontaneous Order
Palgrave Macmillan 2007; US$ 105.00For Hayek, spontaneous order - the emergence of complex order as the unintended consequence of individual actions that have no such end in view - is both the origin of the Great Society and its underlying principle. These sometimes critical essays assess Hayek's position and argue that his work can inform contemporary social and political dilemmas. more...
Alternative Worlds in Fantasy Fiction
Continuum International Publishing 2004; US$ 130.00This book provides an illuminating guide to literature that creates alternative worlds for young readers. Focusing on the work of Ursula Le Guin, Terry Pratchett and Philip Pullman, the book considers both the genre of 'alternative worlds' and the distinctiveness of these authors' texts, including Philip Pullman's The Amber Sypglass.... more...
The Wind in the Willows
OUP Oxford 2010; US$ 8.99Believe me, my young friend, there is nothing - absolutely nothing - half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats.'So says Rat to Mole, as he introduces him to the delights of the river and his friends Toad, the spirit of rebellion, and Badger, the spirit of England. But it is a world where the motor-car is about to wreck the gipsy... more...
Lady Chatterley's Legacy in the Movies
Rutgers University Press 2010; US$ 24.95A new "body guy" genre has emerged in film during the last twenty years-a working-class man of the earth or bohemian artist awakens and fulfills the sexuality of a beautiful, intelligent woman frequently married or engaged to a sexually incompetent, educated, upper-class man. Lady Chatterley's Legacy in the Movies relates a host of wide-ranging... more...
Treasure Island
OUP Oxford 2011; US$ 6.99there were only seven out of the twenty-six on whom we knew we could rely; and out of those seven one was a boy ...'When a mysterious seafarer puts up at the Admiral Benbow, young Jim Hawkins is haunted by his frightening tales; the sailor's sudden death is the beginning of one of the most exciting adventure stories in literature. The discovery... more...









