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Adaptation and Appropriation
Taylor and Francis 2005; US$ 24.95From the apparently simple adaptation of a text into film, theatre or a new literary work, to the more complex appropriation of style or meaning, it is arguable that all texts are somehow connected to a network of existing texts and art forms. Combining theoretical grounding with the aesthetic pleasure of reading and writing, this book explores: ... more...
Selected Papers from the International Conference on Heating by Electromagnetic Sources
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...
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...
Morning Miracle
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2010; US$ 15.00An in-depth look at the Washington Post from a Pulitzer Prize?nominated Post veteran. Morning Miracle definitively answers the question ?Do newspapers still matter?? with a resounding yes. What The Kingdom and the Power did for the New York Times , Morning Miracle will do for the Washington Post . A reporter for more than forty years,... more...
Beg, Borrow, Steal
Other Press 2009; US$ 13.99In Beg, Borrow, Steal Michael Greenberg regales us with his wry and vivid take on the life of a writer of little means trying to practice his craft or simply stay alive. He finds himself doctoring doomed movie scripts; selling cosmetics from an ironing board in front of a women's department store; writing about golf, a game he has never played; and... 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...
"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...
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...
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...
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...









