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Author : Ian Hodder
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521528849
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (288 download)
Download or read book Reading the Past written by Ian Hodder and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2003-12-04 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Table of contents
Author : C. B. Walker
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520074316
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (743 download)
Download or read book Reading the Past written by C. B. Walker and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1990-01-01 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains six previously published titles brought together in a single volume.
Author : Raymond Ian Page
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520061149
Total Pages : 72 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (611 download)
Download or read book Runes written by Raymond Ian Page and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1987 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes the ancient writing system used by Northmen, Anglo-Saxons, and Vikings, and the inscriptions found in Scandanavia, the British Isles, and North America.
Author : C. B. F. Walker
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520061156
Total Pages : 68 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (611 download)
Download or read book Cuneiform written by C. B. F. Walker and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1987 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes the writing system used from before 3000 BC to AD 75 by Sumer, Babylon, Assyria, and other Mesopotamian cultures.
Author : Sarah L. Johnson
Publisher : Libraries Unlimited
ISBN 13 : 159158129X
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (915 download)
Download or read book Historical Fiction written by Sarah L. Johnson and published by Libraries Unlimited. This book was released on 2005-04-30 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive guide to the historical fiction genre that explains its general characteristics, its appeal to readers, benchmark and representative titles, and publishing trends.
Author : Kate Quinn
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0063310570
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (633 download)
Download or read book A Day of Fire written by Kate Quinn and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2023-08-08 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From six bestselling authors, including New York Times bestseller Kate Quinn, comes a vividly imagined novel following the lives of those in ancient Pompeii on the fateful day Mount Vesuvius erupts. Pompeii was a lively resort flourishing in the shadow of Mount Vesuvius at the height of the Roman Empire. When Vesuvius erupted in an explosion of flame and ash, the entire town would be destroyed. Some of its citizens died in the chaos, some escaped the mountain’s wrath . . . and these are their stories: A boy loses his innocence in Pompeii’s flourishing streets. An heiress dreads her wedding day, not knowing it will be swallowed by fire. An ex-legionary stakes his entire future on a gladiator bout destined never to be finished. A crippled senator welcomes death, until a tomboy on horseback comes to his rescue. A young mother faces an impossible choice for her unborn child as the ash falls. A priestess and a prostitute seek redemption and resurrection as the town is buried. Six authors bring to life overlapping stories of patricians and slaves, warriors and politicians, villains and heroes who cross each other’s paths during Pompeii’s fiery end. But who will escape, and who will be buried for eternity?
Author : Oliver Moore
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520228443
Total Pages : 84 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (284 download)
Download or read book Chinese written by Oliver Moore and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes and demystifies one of the world's oldest writing systems, including the basic principles of the language, the formation of written characters, and the ways these characters have developed.
Author : Mitali Perkins
Publisher : Broadleaf Books
ISBN 13 : 1506469116
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (64 download)
Download or read book Steeped in Stories written by Mitali Perkins and published by Broadleaf Books . This book was released on 2021-08-31 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The stories we read as children shape us for the rest of our lives. But it is never too late to discover that transformative spark of hope that children's classics can ignite within us. Award-winning children's author Mitali Perkins grew up steeped in stories--escaping into her books on the fire escape of a Flushing apartment building and, later, finding solace in them as she navigated between the cultures of her suburban California school and her Bengali heritage at home. Now Perkins invites us to explore the promise of seven timeless children's novels for adults living in uncertain times: stories that provide mirrors to our innermost selves and open windows to other worlds. Blending personal narrative, accessible literary criticism, and spiritual and moral formation, Perkins delves into novels by Louisa May Alcott, C. S. Lewis, L. M. Montgomery, Frances Hodgson Burnett, and other literary "uncles" and "aunts" that illuminate the virtuous, abundant life we still desire. These novels are not perfect, and Perkins honestly assesses their critical frailties and flaws related to race, culture, and power. Yet reading or rereading these books as adults can help us build virtue, unmask our vices, and restore our hope. Reconnecting with these stories from childhood isn't merely nostalgia. In an era of uncertainty and despair, they lighten our load and bring us much-needed hope.
Author : J.R. Martin
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9027296022
Total Pages : 277 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)
Download or read book Re/reading the past written by J.R. Martin and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2003-11-17 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Re/reading the Past is concerned with the discourses of history, from the complementary perspectives of Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) and Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL). The papers in the book stress the discursive construction of the past, focussing on the different social narratives which compete for official acknowledgement. Issues of collective and cultural memory are addressed, reflecting the "linguistic turn" in the Social Sciences. The book covers a range of discourses, interpreting texts from popular culture to academic discourse including the construction and evaluation of past events in a variety of places around the world. It is especially timely in its focus on the construction of time and value in a post-colonial world where history discourses are central to on-going processes of reconciliation, debates on war crimes, and the issues of amnesty and restitution. As such the book fills a significant gap in interdisciplinary debates as well as in register and genre analysis, and will be of general interest to historians, political scientists and discourse analysts as well as students and teachers of ESP (English for Specific Purposes) and EAP (English for Academic Purposes).
Author : Brenda Deen Schildgen
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137558857
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (375 download)
Download or read book Reading the Past Across Space and Time written by Brenda Deen Schildgen and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-03-02 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Featuring leading scholars in their fields, this book examines receptions of ancient and early modern literary works from around the world (China, Japan, Ancient Maya, Ancient Mediterranean, Ancient India, Ancient Mesopotamia) that have circulated globally across time and space (from East to West, North to South, South to West). Beginning with the premise of an enduring and revered cultural past, the essays go on to show how the circulation of literature through translation and other forms of reception in fact long predates modern global society; the idea of national literary canons have existed just over a hundred years and emerged with the idea of national educational curricula. Highlighting the relationship of culture and politics in which canons are created, translated, promulgated, and preserved, this book argues that such nationally-defined curricula were challenged by critics and writers in the wake of the Second World War.
Author : Alberto Manguel
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0698178971
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (981 download)
Download or read book A History of Reading written by Alberto Manguel and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2014-08-26 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At one magical instant in your early childhood, the page of a book—that string of confused, alien ciphers—shivered into meaning, and at that moment, whole universes opened. You became, irrevocably, a reader. Noted essayist and editor Alberto Manguel moves from this essential moment to explore the six-thousand-year-old conversation between words and that hero without whom the book would be a lifeless object: the reader. Manguel brilliantly covers reading as seduction, as rebellion, and as obsession and goes on to trace the quirky and fascinating history of the reader’s progress from clay tablet to scroll, codex to CD-ROM.
Author : Diana Gabaldon
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1982139587
Total Pages : 34 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (821 download)
Download or read book Past Prologue written by Diana Gabaldon and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2019-07-23 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Where should we go? All that we knew is gone, and all that we have is each other… In this short story from the thrilling anthology MatchUp, bestselling authors Diana Gabaldon and Steve Berry—along with their popular series characters Jamie Fraser and Cotton Malone—team up for the first time ever.
Author : Lafcadio Hearn
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0241381274
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (413 download)
Download or read book Japanese Ghost Stories written by Lafcadio Hearn and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2019-09-24 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brilliantly entertaining and eerie ghost stories, regarded as major classics in Japan, by the Irish writer and Japanophile Lafcadio Hearn—whose life inspired bestselling writer Monique Truong's novel The Sweetest Fruits A Penguin Classic In this collection of classic ghost stories from Japan, beautiful princesses turn out to be frogs, paintings come alive, deadly spectral brides haunt the living, and a samurai delivers the baby of a Shinto goddess with mystical help. Here are all the phantoms and ghouls of Japanese folklore: "rokuro-kubi," whose heads separate from their bodies at night; "jikininki," or flesh-eating goblins; and terrifying faceless "mujina" who haunt lonely neighborhoods. Lafcadio Hearn, a master storyteller, drew on traditional Japanese folklore, infused with memories of his own haunted childhood in Ireland, to create the chilling tales in Japanese Ghost Stories. They are today regarded in Japan as classics in their own right.
Author : Michael P. Johnson
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0312563779
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (125 download)
Download or read book Reading the American Past: Volume II: From 1865 written by Michael P. Johnson and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2012-01-05 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With five carefully selected documents per chapter, this two-volume primary source reader presents a wide range of documents representing political, social, and cultural history in a manageable, accessible way. Thirty-two new documents infuse the collection with the voices of an even wider range of historical actors. Expertly edited by Michael P. Johnson, one of the authors of The American Promise, the readings can be used to spark discussion in any classroom and fit into any syllabus. Headnotes and discussion questions help students approach the documents, and comparative questions encourage students to make connections across documents. Reading the American Past is FREE when packaged with The American Promise, The American Promise: A Compact History, and Understanding the American Promise. For more information on the reader or on package ISBNs, please contact your local sales representative or click here
Author : Erika Lindemann
Publisher : National Council of Teachers of English (Ncte)
ISBN 13 : 9780814138762
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (387 download)
Download or read book Reading the Past, Writing the Future written by Erika Lindemann and published by National Council of Teachers of English (Ncte). This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This rich and thoughtful history of our discipline and organization is for every teacher of the English language arts and English studies who wonders where we've been, how we got where we are today, and where we all might be traveling as literacy educators in the 21st century. Reading the Past, Writing the Future celebrates NCTE's centennial by emphasizing the role the organization has played in brokering and advancing the many traditions and countertraditions engaging literacy educators since the organization was chartered in 1911. Leila Christenbury's introductory essay discusses trends in American literacy education. Then, prominent scholars focus on activities and subject matters central to teaching English language arts and college English: teaching reading, writing, language, and literature; using new media effectively; working for social justice in the classroom, school, and community; devising responsible means to assess the work of students and teachers; initiating the next generation into the profession; cultivating an ethos for action among those who support as well as critique this work; and looking toward the work that remains to be done in the century ahead. Finally, the afterword offers a telescopic view of the last 100 years and describes several critical problems currently facing literacy educators. Appendixes provide details of NCTE's history, including a timeline and listings of NCTE presidents, executive directors, section chairs, journal editors, commissions and assemblies, and convention sites and themes. This rich and thoughtful history of our discipline and organization is for every teacher of the English language arts and English studies who wonders where we've been, how we got where we are today, and where we all might be traveling as literacy educators in the 21st century.
Author : Jim Cullen
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1405182784
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (51 download)
Download or read book Essaying the Past written by Jim Cullen and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2009-02-04 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Part research manual, part study guide, and part introduction to the study of history, Essaying the Past guides the reader through the nuts and bolts of producing good historical prose, offering key strategies and useful tips. Includes expert advice on writing about history, conducting good research, and learning how to think analytically Covers important topics such as framing questions, developing a strong introduction and topic sentences, choosing good evidence, and the crucial role of revision An annotated case study takes the reader through one student’s process of writing an essay and illustrates how strategies discussed in the book can be successfully implemented Six appendices cover the major issues facing students today, such as the dangers of plagiarism and the role of the internet
Author : W. V. Davies
Publisher : British Museum Press
ISBN 13 : 9780714180632
Total Pages : 64 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (86 download)
Download or read book Egyptian Hieroglyphs written by W. V. Davies and published by British Museum Press. This book was released on 1987 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
