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Reading the World

Author : Ann Morgan
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 9780099584643
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (846 download)

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Download or read book Reading the World written by Ann Morgan and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2022-09-29 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'A brilliant, unlikely book' Spectator How can we celebrate, challenge and change our remarkable world? In 2012, the world arrived in London for the Olympics...and Ann Morgan went out to meet it. She read her way around all the globe's 196 independent countries (plus one extra), sampling one book from every nation. It wasn't easy. Many languages have next to nothing translated into English; there are tiny, tucked-away places where very little is written down; some governments don't like to let works of art escape their borders. Using Morgan's own quest as a starting point, Reading the World explores the vital questions of our time and how reading across borders might just help us answer them. 'Revelatory... While Morgan's research has a daunting range...there is a simple message- reading is a social activity, and we ought to share books across boundaries' Financial Times

Read the World

Author : Kristin Ziemke
Publisher : Heinemann Educational Books
ISBN 13 : 9780325108919
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book Read the World written by Kristin Ziemke and published by Heinemann Educational Books. This book was released on 2019-11 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The book traces an arc from (1) teaching students to make sense of today's influx of information with the help of comprehension skills to (2) broadening students' empathy and their understanding of the world by teaching them how to listen to the diverse voices that technology brings us to (3) using their technological skills and broadened understanding of the world to take action in the world"--

Reading the World, 4th Edition

Author : Michael Austin
Publisher : W. W. Norton
ISBN 13 : 9780393420685
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (26 download)

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Download or read book Reading the World, 4th Edition written by Michael Austin and published by W. W. Norton. This book was released on 2019-10-08 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The only global great ideas reader, with new chapters on Ethics & Empathy and Visual Arguments

The World Between Two Covers: Reading the Globe

Author : Ann Morgan
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 1631490680
Total Pages : 387 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (314 download)

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Download or read book The World Between Two Covers: Reading the Globe written by Ann Morgan and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2015-05-04 with total page 387 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A beguiling exploration of the joys of reading across boundaries, inspired by the author’s year-long journey through a book from every country. Ann Morgan writes in the opening of this delightful book, "I glanced up at my bookshelves, the proud record of more than twenty years of reading, and found a host of English and North American greats starting down at me…I had barely touched a work by a foreign language author in years…The awful truth dawned. I was a literary xenophobe." Prompted to read a book translated into English from each of the world's 195 UN-recognized countries (plus Taiwan and one extra), Ann sought out classics, folktales, current favorites and commercial triumphs, novels, short stories, memoirs, and countless mixtures of all these things. The world between two covers, the world to which Ann introduces us with affection and no small measure of wit, is a world rich in the kind of narratives that engage us passionately: we meet an irreverent junk food–obsessed heroine in Kuwait, an explorer from Togo who spent years among the Inuit in Greenland, and a former child circus performer of Roma background seeking sanctuary in Switzerland. Ann's quest explores issues that affect us all: personal, political, national, and global. What is cultural heritage? How do we define national identity? Is it possible to overcome censorship and propaganda? And, above all, why and how should we read from other cultures, languages, and traditions? Illuminating and inspiring, The World Between Two Covers welcomes us into the global community of stories.

Reading the World

Author : Michael Austin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780393656015
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (56 download)

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Download or read book Reading the World written by Michael Austin and published by . This book was released on 2019-10 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "With readings by some of the world's great thinkers-from Plato to Gandhi, Carl Jung to Nicholas Carr, Virginia Woolf to Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie-Reading the World is the only great ideas reader to offer a global perpective across eras and cultures. Selections strike a balance between western and non-western, classic and contemporary, longer and shorter, verbal and visual. The new edition features a new chapter on ethics and empathy, a new chapter on visual arguments, and new guidance on recognizing biases"--

Freedom Or Death

Author : Nikos Kazantzakis
Publisher : New York : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (55 download)

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Download or read book Freedom Or Death written by Nikos Kazantzakis and published by New York : Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 1965 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Literacy

Author : Paulo Freire
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 113578485X
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (357 download)

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Download or read book Literacy written by Paulo Freire and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005-10-05 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Freire and Macedo analyse the connection between literacy and politics according to whether it produces existing social relations, or introduces a new set of cultural practices that promote democratic and emancipatory change.

Reading the World

Author : Mary Franklin-Brown
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226260682
Total Pages : 474 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (262 download)

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Download or read book Reading the World written by Mary Franklin-Brown and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2012-09 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The thirteenth century saw such a proliferation of new encyclopedic texts that more than one scholar has called it the “century of the encyclopedias.” Variously referred to as a speculum, thesaurus, or imago mundi—the term encyclopedia was not commonly applied to such books until the eighteenth century—these texts were organized in such a way that a reader could easily locate a collection of authoritative statements on any given topic. Because they reproduced, rather than simply summarized, parts of prior texts, these compilations became libraries in miniature. In this groundbreaking study, Mary Franklin-Brown examines writings in Latin, Catalan, and French that are connected to the encyclopedic movement: Vincent of Beauvais’s Speculum maius; Ramon Llull’s Libre de meravelles, Arbor scientiae, and Arbre de filosofia d’amor; and Jean de Meun’s continuation of the Roman de la Rose. Franklin-Brown analyzes the order of knowledge in these challenging texts, describing the wide-ranging interests, the textual practices—including commentary, compilation, and organization—and the diverse discourses that they absorb from preexisting classical, patristic, and medieval writing. She also demonstrates how these encyclopedias, like libraries, became “heterotopias” of knowledge—spaces where many possible ways of knowing are juxtaposed. But Franklin-Brown’s study will not appeal only to historians: she argues that a revised understanding of late medievalism makes it possible to discern a close connection between scholasticism and contemporary imaginative literature. She shows how encyclopedists employed the same practices of figuration, narrative, and citation as poets and romanciers, while much of the difficulty of the imaginative writing of this period derives from a juxtaposition of heterogeneous discourses inspired by encyclopedias. With rich and innovative readings of texts both familiar and neglected, Reading the World reveals how the study of encyclopedism can illuminate both the intellectual work and the imaginative writing of the scholastic age.

I the Supreme

Author : Augusto Roa Bastos
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0525564691
Total Pages : 450 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (255 download)

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Download or read book I the Supreme written by Augusto Roa Bastos and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2019-02-26 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I the Supreme imagines a dialogue between the nineteenth-century Paraguayan dictator known as Dr. Francia and Policarpo Patiño, his secretary and only companion. The opening pages present a sign that they had found nailed to the wall of a cathedral, purportedly written by Dr. Francia himself and ordering the execution of all of his servants upon his death. This sign is quickly revealed to be a forgery, which takes leader and secretary into a larger discussion about the nature of truth: “In the light of what Your Eminence says, even the truth appears to be a lie.” Their conversation broadens into an epic journey of the mind, stretching across the colonial history of their nation, filled with surrealist imagery, labyrinthine turns, and footnotes supplied by a mysterious “compiler.” A towering achievement from a foundational author of modern Latin American literature, I the Supreme is a darkly comic, deeply moving meditation on power and its abuse—and on the role of language in making and unmaking whole worlds.

Reading the World

Author : Dianne C. Luce
Publisher : Univ of South Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 9781570038242
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (382 download)

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Download or read book Reading the World written by Dianne C. Luce and published by Univ of South Carolina Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Reading the World Dianne C. Luce explores the historical and philosophical contexts of Cormac McCarthy's early works crafted during his Tennessee period from 1959 to 1979 to demonstrate how McCarthy integrates literary realism with the imagery and myths of Platonic, gnostic, and existentialist philosophies to create his unique vision of the world. Luce begins with a substantial treatment of the east Tennessee context from which McCarthy's fiction emerges, sketching an Appalachian culture and environment in flux. Against this backdrop Luce examines, novel by novel, McCarthy's distinctive rendering of character through mixed narrative techniques of flashbacks, shifts in vantage point, and dream sequences. Luce shows how McCarthy's fragmented narration and lyrical style combine to create a rich portrayal of the philosophical and religious elements at play in human consciousness as it confronts a world rife with isolation and violence.

The World Is a Book, Indeed

Author : Peter LaSalle
Publisher : LSU Press
ISBN 13 : 0807174246
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book The World Is a Book, Indeed written by Peter LaSalle and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2020-10-07 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The World Is a Book, Indeed chronicles in eleven rich personal essays the ongoing quest of award-winning writer Peter LaSalle to embark on offbeat, often startlingly revelatory literary travel. LaSalle spends a summer roaming the lesser-known quarters of Paris, haunted by the writing of the French surrealists. In Hanoi, he meets for beers with the editors—two military men—of the Army Literature and Arts Magazine while investigating Vietnam’s acknowledged great modern novel, Bao Ninh’s The Sorrow of War. Other pieces find LaSalle on a strange nighttime drive through the streets of sprawling São Paulo in search of landmarks associated with Brazilian modernist poetry, bouncing around Africa to interview writers there when very young, exploring Argentine author Jorge Luis Borges's memorable stay in Texas, and traveling to Istanbul, Lisbon, Tunis, and elsewhere, as he considers major writers amid the settings that produced their works. Deeply felt and replete with insight into literature and life itself, even capable of evoking valid mind leaps in its innovative approaches, this is a collection for readers who love books and want to learn more about the places they originated, presented by a well-traveled guide with an intimate voice and a gift for the essay form.

Reading to Reading

Author : Tim Millikin
Publisher : Tim Millikin
ISBN 13 : 9781527273566
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (735 download)

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Download or read book Reading to Reading written by Tim Millikin and published by Tim Millikin. This book was released on 2021-02-16 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "If you like the books by Alastair Humphreys or Anna Mcnuff you are going to love this" " I seriously recommend this to anyone who enjoys cycling or nature in general. Brilliant book" "Amazing book about a journey around the world. Inspired me to get outdoors more. Well done Tim!" "Love the book! It's such an inspiration. We should all step outside our lives and do something this amazing." "Having read cycle touring & other adventure books for over 60 years Dervala, Josie Dew etc this is up there with the best of them in my opinion." Humourus, heartwarming and always honest, you'll join Tim on his exploration through Europe, Central Asia, China, South-East Asia, Australia, New Zealand, South, Central and North America. A journey of reflection and adventure by bicycle across three years, 46500km and 39 countries. Tim Millikin set off in May 2015 with partner Finola to cycle across the world but it was not all free-wheeling as he got hit by a car, separated from his partner, nearly ran out of money and was halfway around the world when his granddad died. "I waved for the final time before turning the corner and pushed forward to places I had only ever dreamed about." Tim had a dream to cycle the world. With no experience of riding long-distance, limited funds and little understanding of the challenges he might face, he simply jumped on his bike and started riding Read on to find out if the world really is a beautiful place.

The Kite Runner

Author : Khaled Hosseini
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 140882485X
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (88 download)

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Download or read book The Kite Runner written by Khaled Hosseini and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2011-09-05 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Afghanistan, 1975: Twelve-year-old Amir is desperate to win the local kite-fighting tournament and his loyal friend Hassan promises to help him. But neither of the boys can foresee what will happen to Hassan that afternoon, an event that is to shatter their lives. After the Russians invade and the family is forced to flee to America, Amir realises that one day he must return to Afghanistan under Taliban rule to find the one thing that his new world cannot grant him: redemption.

Reading about the World

Author : Paul Brians
Publisher : Cengage Learning
ISBN 13 : 9780155674257
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (742 download)

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Download or read book Reading about the World written by Paul Brians and published by Cengage Learning. This book was released on 1999-08 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This anthology consists of short selections sharply focused on major topics of interest to beginning students of World Civilizations. It combines traditional historical sources with literary and philosophical selections using annotated source readings. This text's mix of poetry, drama, philosophy, and other literary and historical sources offers readers an in-depth look at many aspects of Western Civilization before 1500.

The Merry Heart

Author : Robertson Davies
Publisher : Penguin Books
ISBN 13 : 9780140275865
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (758 download)

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Download or read book The Merry Heart written by Robertson Davies and published by Penguin Books. This book was released on 1998 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Readers around the world continue to mourn the 1995 death of a beloved literary icon, but this rich and varied collection of Robertson Davies's writings on the world of books and the miracle of language captures his inimitable voice and sustains his presence among us. Coming almost entirely from Davies? own files of unpublished material, these twenty-four essays and lectures range over themes from "The Novelist and Magic" to "Literature and Technology," from "Painting, Fiction, and Faking," to "Can a Doctor Be a Humanist?" and "Creativity in Old Age." For devotees of Davies and all lovers of literature and language, here is the "urbanity, wit, and high seriousness mixed by a master chef" (Cleveland Plain Dealer)?vintage delights from an exquisite literary menu. Davies himself says merely: "Lucky writers. . .like wine, die rich in fruitiness and delicious aftertaste, so that their works survive them." Viking will publish Robertson Davies? Happy Alchemy in July 1998 Many fine works by Robertson Davies are available from Penguin including The Deptford Trilogy, The Cornish Trilogy, and The Salterton Trilogy

Reading the World's Stories

Author : Annette Y. Goldsmith
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1442270861
Total Pages : 301 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (422 download)

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Download or read book Reading the World's Stories written by Annette Y. Goldsmith and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2016-08-11 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reading the World’s Stories is volume 5 in the Bridges to Understanding series of annotated international youth literature bibliographies sponsored by the United States Board on Books for Young People. USBBY is the United States chapter of the International Board on Books for Young People (IBBY), a Switzerland-based nonprofit whose mission is bring books and children together. The series promotes sharing international children’s books as a way to facilitate intercultural understanding and meet new literary voices. This volume follows Children’s Books from Other Countries (1998), The World though Children’s Books (2002), Crossing Boundaries with Children’s Books (2006), and Bridges to Understanding: Envisioning the World through Children’s Books (2011) and acts as a companion book to the earlier titles. Centered around the theme of the importance of stories, the guide is a resource for discovering more recent global books that fit many reading tastes and educational needs for readers aged 0-18 years. Essays by storyteller Anne Pellowski, author Beverley Naidoo, and academic Marianne Martens offer a variety of perspectives on international youth literature. This latest installment in the series covers books published from 2010-2014 and includes English-language imports as well as translations of children’s and young adult literature first published outside of the United States. These books are supplemented by a smaller number of culturally appropriate books from the US to help fill in gaps from underrepresented countries. The organization of the guide is geographic by region and country. All of the more than 800 entries are recommended, and many of the books have won awards or achieved other recognition in their home countries. Forty children’s book experts wrote the annotations. The entries are indexed by author, translator, illustrator, title, and subject. Back matter also includes international book awards, important organizations and research collections, and a selected directory of publishers known for publishing books from other countries.

World of Reading: The Avengers: Assemble!

Author : Tomas Palacios
Publisher : Disney Electronic Content
ISBN 13 : 1423195302
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (231 download)

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Download or read book World of Reading: The Avengers: Assemble! written by Tomas Palacios and published by Disney Electronic Content. This book was released on 2013-07-16 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Read along with Marvel! No single hero can defeat the evil Trickster, Loki—but with six of Earth's Mightiest Heroes combined, they stand a chance! Follow along with word-for-word narration and find out how Thor, Captain America, Iron Man, Black Widow, Hawkeye, and the Hulk all first met and what forces them to band together to form the Avengers!