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War, Women, and the News

How Female Journalists Won the Battle to Cover World War II

By: Catherine Gourley

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War, Women, and the News

How Female Journalists Won the Battle to Cover World War II

By: Catherine Gourley

This action-packed book covers the National Football League from top to bottom, beginning to end, inside and outside—including a complete two-page profile of every team. Here sports fans will learn who "The Stork" was and why a "snot-bubbler" is even grosser than its sounds. They'll take a trip back to football's earliest days, revisit the most recent Super Bowl heroics, and lots more.

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Simon and Schuster

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0689877528

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Scents and Sensibility

Perfume in Victorian Literary Culture

By: Catherine Maxwell

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Scents and Sensibility

Perfume in Victorian Literary Culture

By: Catherine Maxwell

This lively, accessible book is the first to explore Victorian literature through scent and perfume, presenting an extensive range of well-known and unfamiliar texts in intriguing and imaginative new ways that make us re-think literature's relation with the senses. Concentrating on aesthetic and decadent authors, Scents and Sensibility introduces a rich selection of poems, essays, and fiction, exploring these texts with reference to both the little-known cultural history of perfume use and the appreciation of natural fragrance in Victorian Britain. It shows how scent and perfume are used to convey not merely moods and atmospheres but the nuances of the aesthete or decadent's carefully cultivated identity, personality, or sensibility. A key theme is the emergence of the olfactif, the cultivated individual with a refined sense of smell, influentially represented by the poet and critic Algernon Charles Swinburne, who is emulated by a host of canonical and less well-known aesthetic and decadent successors such as Walter Pater, Edmund Gosse, John Addington Symonds, Lafcadio Hearn, Michael Field, Oscar Wilde, Arthur Symons, Mark André Raffalovich, Theodore Wratislaw, and A. Mary F. Robinson. This book explores how scent and perfume pervade the work of these authors in many different ways, signifying such diverse things as style, atmosphere, influence, sexuality, sensibility, spirituality, refinement, individuality, the expression of love and poetic creativity, and the aura of personality, dandyism, modernity, and memory. A coda explores the contrasting twentieth-century responses of Virginia Woolf and Compton Mackenzie to the scent of Victorian literature.

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Oxford University Press

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0191005215

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9780191005213

Wildly Romantic

The English Romantic Poets: The Mad, the Bad, and the Dangerous

By: Catherine M. Andronik

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Wildly Romantic

The English Romantic Poets: The Mad, the Bad, and the Dangerous

By: Catherine M. Andronik

Meet the rebellious young poets who brought about a literary revolution Rock stars may think they invented sex, drugs, and rock and roll, but the Romantic poets truly created the mold. In the early 1800s, poetry could land a person in jail. Those who tried to change the world through their poems risked notoriety—or courted it. Among the most subversive were a group of young writers known as the Romantics: Lord Byron, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Samuel Taylor Cole-ridge, William Wordsworth, and John Keats. These rebels believed poetry should express strong feelings in ordinary language, and their words changed literature forever. Wildly Romantic is a smart, sexy, and fascinating look at these original bad boys—and girls.

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Henry Holt and Company (BYR)

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1429989734

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9781429989732

The Cambridge History of the Gothic: Volume 2, Gothic in the Nineteenth Century

By: Catherine Spooner

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The Cambridge History of the Gothic: Volume 2, Gothic in the Nineteenth Century

By: Catherine Spooner

This second volume of The Cambridge History of the Gothic provides a rigorous account of the Gothic in British, American and Continental European culture, from the Romantic period through to the Victorian fin de siècle. Here, leading scholars in the fields of literature, theatre, architecture and the history of science and popular entertainment explore the Gothic in its numerous interdisciplinary forms and guises, as well as across a range of different international contexts. As much a cultural history of the Gothic in this period as an account of the ways in which the Gothic mode has participated in the formative historical events of modernity, the volume offers fresh perspectives on familiar themes while also drawing new critical attention to a range of hitherto overlooked concerns. From Romanticism, to Penny Bloods, Dickens and even the railway system, the volume provides a compelling and comprehensive study of nineteenth-century Gothic culture.

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1108678408

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9781108678407

The Female Sublime from Milton to Swinburne

Bearing Blindness

By: Catherine Maxwell

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The Female Sublime from Milton to Swinburne

Bearing Blindness

By: Catherine Maxwell

This innovative study of vision, gender and poetry traces Milton's mark on Shelley, Tennyson, Browning and Swinburne to show how the lyric male poet achieves vision at the cost of symbolic blindness and feminisation. Drawing together a wide range of concerns including the use of myth, the gender of the sublime, the lyric fragment, and the relation of pain to creativity, this book is a major re-evaluation of the male poet and the making of the English poetic tradition.The female sublime from Milton to Swinburne examines the feminisation of the post-Miltonic male poet, not through cultural history, but through a series of mythic or classical figures which include Philomela, Orpheus and Sappho. It recovers a disfiguring sublime imagined as an aggressive female force which feminises the male poet in an act that simultaneously deprives and energises him. This book will be required reading for anyone with a serious interest in the English poetic tradition and Victorian poetry.

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Manchester University Press

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0719057523

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9780719057526

Mary Shelley

The Strange True Tale of Frankenstein's Creator

By: Catherine Reef

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Mary Shelley

The Strange True Tale of Frankenstein's Creator

By: Catherine Reef

This YA biography offers “a thorough, sensitive portrayal of one of literature’s most remarkable authors, illustrated with period portraits and engravings” (Kirkus). Most famous for her iconic tale of gothic horror, Frankenstein, Mary Shelley led a life that could itself have been a gothic novel. This “fascinating, scandal-rich” biography recounts a story full of drama, death, and one of the strangest romances in literary history (Booklist). Raised by her father, the political philosopher William Godwin, Shelley ran away to Lake Geneva with the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley when she was only sixteen years old. It was there, during a cold and wet summer, that she first imagined her story about a mad scientist who brought a corpse back to life. Success soon followed for Mary, but also great tragedy and misfortune. In Mary Shelley, Catherine Reef brings this passionate woman, brilliant writer, and forgotten feminist into crisp focus, detailing a life that was remarkable both before and after the publication of her immortal masterpiece.

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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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1328526879

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9781328526878

The Reason

By: Catherine Bennetto

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The Reason

By: Catherine Bennetto

How much is the smile from the person you love worth to you? Brooke’s life has derailed. Her social life and career have evaporated, her daughter is desperately unhappy and being bullied at school, and, for a 43-year-old, she probably spends way too many weekends at her parent’s. But the reason for all this is no mystery. A year and a half ago, Brooke’s husband died. But Brooke does have one secret. Her husband’s death, the worst thing that has ever happened to her, has made her unbelievably rich. Despite her despair, Brooke suddenly realises she has the power to make her daughter’s life, and the world a little brighter.

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Simon and Schuster

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1471165817

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9781471165818

Topographies of the Sacred

The Poetics of Place in European Romanticism

By: Catherine E. Rigby

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Topographies of the Sacred

The Poetics of Place in European Romanticism

By: Catherine E. Rigby

Although the British romantic poets - notably, Blake, Wordsworth, and Byron - have been the subjects of previous ecocritical examinations, this text compares English and German literary models of romanticism.

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University of Virginia Press

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0813922755

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Reading Between the Lines

Understanding Inference

By: Catherine Delamain,Jill Spring

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Reading Between the Lines

Understanding Inference

By: Catherine Delamain,Jill Spring

Suitable for teachers and speech and language therapists working in the fields of language and literacy, and concerned with developing inferencing skills in their students, this book contains a collection of 300 texts which are graded, and lead the student gradually from simple tasks.

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Taylor & Francis

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1351705911

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Constitutional Law

Cases, Materials, and Problems

By: Russell L. Weaver,Steven I. Friedland,Catherine Hancock,Bryan K. Fair,John C. Knechtle,Richard D. Rosen

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Constitutional Law

Cases, Materials, and Problems

By: Russell L. Weaver,Steven I. Friedland,Catherine Hancock,Bryan K. Fair,John C. Knechtle,Richard D. Rosen

Constitutional Law: Cases, Materials, and Problems, Fifth Edition by Russell L. Weaver, Steven Friedland, and Richard Rosen is designed as a teacher’s book by stimulating thought, inviting discussion, and helping profess

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Aspen Publishing

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1543830455

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9781543830453

A Hedonist's Guide to Rome

By: Catherine McCormack

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A Hedonist's Guide to Rome

By: Catherine McCormack

Rome, the eternal city, is everyones favorite European city. From the Roman Empire to the Roman Catholic Church, the city has forged the destinies of countries from around the world for many centuries. Between the splendours of the modern and ancient worlds there are the small backstreets and wide piazzas humming with the hustle and bustle of everyday Roman life small, local trattorias sit beside the chicest and smartest of international restaurants. From the majesty of the Colosseum to the magical frescoes of the Sistine Chapel, Rome oozes history, style and sophistication. However, whilst Rome's cultural splendours are well-documented, surprisingly little is really known of the top bars, restaurants, clubs and cafes.The question of where to go once the museums shut is now answered with Hg2 Rome.We delve into the Rome of the Romans, covering the thriving bar and club scene alongside the best of the best restaurants, intimate caf s and world-class shopping.

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1905428049

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High on a Windy Hill

By: Catherine S. McConnell

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High on a Windy Hill

By: Catherine S. McConnell

This long out-of-print genealogical reference has become much sought after by residents of Washington County, Virginia, and the numerous scattered descendants of that county's forefathers. The work identifies 333 Washington County cemeteries and cites the inscriptions of each tombstone. Seven detailed maps aid in locating the burial sites. This edition also includes a newly compiled comprehensive index of more than 2,400 surnames, many of which include multiple entries.

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The Overmountain Press

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157072041X

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Women’s Letters as Life Writing 1840–1885

By: Catherine Delafield

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Women’s Letters as Life Writing 1840–1885

By: Catherine Delafield

Examining letter collections published in the second half of the nineteenth century, Catherine Delafield rereads the life-writing of Frances Burney, Charlotte Brontë, Mary Delany, Catherine Winkworth, Jane Austen and George Eliot, situating these women in their epistolary culture and in relation to one another as exemplary women of the period. She traces the role of their editors in the publishing process and considers how a model of representation in letters emerged from the publication of Burney’s Diary and Letters and Elizabeth Gaskell’s Life of Brontë. Delafield contends that new correspondences emerge between editors/biographers and their biographical subjects, and that the original epistolary pact was remade in collaboration with family memorials in private and with reviewers in public. Women’s Letters as Life Writing addresses issues of survival and choice when an archive passes into family hands, tracing the means by which women’s lives came to be written and rewritten in letters in the nineteenth century.

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Routledge

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100002511X

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The Revival of Beauty

Aesthetics, Experience, and Philosophy

By: Catherine Wesselinoff

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The Revival of Beauty

Aesthetics, Experience, and Philosophy

By: Catherine Wesselinoff

This book provides original descriptive accounts of two schools of thought in the philosophy of beauty: the 20th-century “Anti-Aesthetic” movement and the 21st-century “Beauty Revival” movement. It also includes a positive defence of beauty as a lived experience extrapolated from Beauty-Revival position. Beauty was traditionally understood in the broadest sense as a notion that engages our sense perception and embraces everything evoked by that perception, including mental products and affective states. This book constructs and places in parallel with one another the Anti-Aesthetic and Beauty-Revival movements. In the author’s view, Anti-Aestheticism is devoted to a decisive negation of beauty—denying its importance as a philosophical notion and its significance as a lived experience. It suggests that beauty is a merely sensual experience, which can be used, at best, as a distraction from justice and, at worst, as an instrument of evil. Alternatively, the Beauty-Revival movement advances arguments for beauty as an experience that extends primarily to sensual experience, but which also calls forth mental products and cognitive and affective states evoked by that experience. After reconstructing these two positions, the author elaborates on the notion of beauty as a lived experience through three key moments which occur in the process of our experiencing beautiful objects. These moments are (a) the conditions that constitute an experience of beauty, (b) the attitudinal features most likely to lead to the experience of beauty, and (c) the results of the experience of beauty. The Revival of Beauty will be of interest to scholars and advanced students working in aesthetics, history of philosophy, and art history.

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1000933903

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The Australian Country Girl: History, Image, Experience

By: Catherine Driscoll

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The Australian Country Girl: History, Image, Experience

By: Catherine Driscoll

The Australian Country Girl: History, Image, Experience offers a detailed analysis of the experience and the image of Australian country girlhood. In Australia, 'country girl' names a field of experiences and life-stories by girls and women who have grown up outside of the demographically dominant urban centres. But it also names a set of ideas about Australia that is surprisingly consistent across the long twentieth century despite also working as an index of changing times. For a long period in Australian history, well before Federation and long after it, public and popular culture openly equated 'Australian character' with rural life. This image of Australian-ness sometimes went by the name of the 'bush man', now a staple of Australian history. This has been counterbalanced post World War II and increased immigration, by an image of sophisticated Australian modernity located in multicultural cities. These images of Australia balance rather than contradict one another in many ways and the more cosmopolitan image of Australia is often in dialogue with that preceding image of 'the bush'. This book does not offer a corrective to the story of Australian national identity but rather a fresh perspective on this history and a new focus on the ever-changing experience of Australian rural life. It argues that the country girl has not only been a long-standing counterpart to the Australian bush man she has, more importantly, figured as a point of dialogue between the country and the city for popular culture and for public sphere narratives about Australian society and identity.

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Jacaranda Maths Quest 7 Victorian Curriculum, 3e learnON and Print

By: Catherine Smith

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Jacaranda Maths Quest 7 Victorian Curriculum, 3e learnON and Print

By: Catherine Smith

Maths quest 7 for the Victorian curriculum' is specifically written and designed to meet the requirements and aspirations of the Victorian mathematics curriculum.

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1394233566

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Jacaranda Maths Quest 7 Victorian Curriculum, LearnON and Print

By: Catherine Smith,James Smart,Geetha James,Caitlin Mahony,Beverly Langsford Willing,Michael Sheedy,Kahni Burrows,Paul Menta

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Jacaranda Maths Quest 7 Victorian Curriculum, LearnON and Print

By: Catherine Smith,James Smart,Geetha James,Caitlin Mahony,Beverly Langsford Willing,Michael Sheedy,Kahni Burrows,Paul Menta

Jacaranda Maths Quest VC The Jacaranda Maths Quest Victorian Curriculum series has been completely refreshed with new content, deeper differentiation and even more innovative tools to enable every student to experience success - ensuring no student is left behind, and no student is held back. Jacaranda learning experience Every student is supported to progress from Simple and Complex Familiar contexts through to Complex Unfamiliar contexts and be able to show WHAT they know plus HOW to apply it. Meaningful differentiation at every stage Every student ability is catered for with access to videos for every lesson, simplified theory, differentiated question sets, interactivities, worked examples and more. Upgrade to the Supercourse for even more opportunities for remediation, extension and acceleration. Learning analytics to support teaching Learning is made more visible, with access to instant reports into student progress in formative and summative assessments including, mapping results against the progression points and results by assignment.

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0730393496

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The Rabbi Finds Her Way

A Pearl Ross-Levy Novel

By: Robert Schoen,Catherine deCuir

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The Rabbi Finds Her Way

A Pearl Ross-Levy Novel

By: Robert Schoen,Catherine deCuir

This rabbi gig. People have no idea what it's all about. The Rabbi Finds Her Way follows Pearl Ross-Levy's first two years as associate rabbi at a large Reform congregation in California. This compelling, inspiring, and often funny narrative weaves the experiences and insights that shape the young rabbi as she finds her way through the challenges of her profession. We see Pearl's lifelong friendship with a high school classmate—the victim of a serious car accident—evolve as it opens her eyes to the world of religion. And whether she's discussing women's rights in the Bible with a bat mitzvah student, meeting the man she'll soon marry, encouraging a congregant with Alzheimer's to tell a joke whose punch line he's forgotten, or struggling with the anguish of a man who believes he's unwittingly committed a murder, Pearl reveals her intelligence, empathy, grit, and humor. The Rabbi's strength and faith grow as she continues to see that God does, indeed, work in strange ways.

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Stone Bridge Press, Inc.

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1611729378

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Fanny Kemble's Civil Wars

By: Catherine Clinton

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Fanny Kemble's Civil Wars

By: Catherine Clinton

A biography of the British stage star turned plantation mistress, whose abolitionist writings made her an unlikely heroine of the Union cause--and whose life intersected in bold and dramatic ways with the most tumultuous of American conflicts, the Civil War. 64 illustrations.

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Simon and Schuster

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0684844141

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9780684844145

Jacaranda Maths Quest 7 Australian Curriculum, 5e learnON and Print

By: Catherine Smith,Beverly Langsford Willing

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By: Catherine Smith,Beverly Langsford Willing

The Jacaranda Maths Quest Australian Curriculum series has been completely refreshed with new content, deeper differentiation and even more innovative tools to enable every student to experience success ensuring no student is left behind, and no student is held back.

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1394194269

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Old Continental Towns

By: Catherine Gasquoine Hartley

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Old Continental Towns

By: Catherine Gasquoine Hartley

Old Continental Towns" by C. Gasquoine Hartley is a captivating exploration of the rich history, charming architecture, and cultural tapestry that defines the old towns of continental Europe. Hartley, with a discerning eye for detail and a passion for history, invites readers on a delightful journey through the cobblestone streets and historic squares of these time-honored European destinations. This literary work serves as a cultural guide, providing insightful glimpses into the heritage of each town, from the medieval charm of narrow alleyways to the grandeur of historic landmarks. Hartley's narrative seamlessly combines historical anecdotes, architectural insights, and the cultural significance of each location, creating a comprehensive and engaging portrait of these continental gems. "Old Continental Towns" is an ideal read for history enthusiasts, architecture aficionados, and anyone with a penchant for the nostalgia and allure of Europe's past. Whether wandering through the vibrant markets of Florence or standing in the shadows of ancient cathedrals in Bruges, readers will find themselves transported through time. Immerse yourself in the pages of "Old Continental Towns" and let C. Gasquoine Hartley be your guide to the enchanting landscapes and captivating histories that grace these venerable European towns.

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Jacaranda Maths Quest 7 Stage 4 NSW Syllabus, 3e learnON and Print

By: Beverly Langsford Willing,Catherine Smith

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Jacaranda Maths Quest 7 Stage 4 NSW Syllabus, 3e learnON and Print

By: Beverly Langsford Willing,Catherine Smith

Jacaranda MathsQuest 7 Stage 4 NSW Syllabus (for the NSW Syllabus) NSW's most supportive Maths resource Developed by expert teachers, every lesson is carefully designed to support learning online, offline, in class, and at home. Supporting students Whether students need a challenge or a helping hand, they have the tools to help them take the next step, in class and at home: concepts brought to life with rich multi-media easy navigation differentiated pathways immediate corrective feedback Worked solutions for every question personalised pathways that also allow for social learning opportunities for remediation, extension, acceleration tracking progress and growth Supporting teachers Teachers are empowered to teach their class, their way with flexible resources perfect for teaching and learning: 100's of ready-made and customisable lessons comprehensive Syllabus coverage and planning documentation a variety of learning activities assessment for, as and of learning marking, tracking, monitoring and reporting capabilities ability to add own materials Supporting schools Schools are set up for success with our unmatched customer service, training and solutions tailored to you: Learning Management System (LMS) integration online class set up dedicated customer specialists tools to manage classes bookseller app integration complimentary resources for teachers training and professional learning curriculum planning data insights flexible subscription services at unbeatable prices

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0730386112

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Modernist Cultural Studies

By: Catherine Driscoll

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Modernist Cultural Studies

By: Catherine Driscoll

For many scholars, cultural studies is viewed as a product of postmodern criticism and as the antithesis of modernism. In this brilliant work, Catherine Driscoll argues persuasively that we must view what we call cultural studies as a direct continuation of the innovations and concerns of modernism and the modernists. In making her case, Driscoll provides a fresh take on arguments--some seemingly unresolvable--that pivot on modernism's desire for novelty. Defining modernity as a critical attitude rather than a time period, she describes the many things these ostensibly different fields of inquiry have in common and reveals why cultural studies must be viewed as a fundamentally modernist project. Casting a wide net across the shared interests of modernism and cultural studies, including cinema, fiction, fashion, art, and popular music, Driscoll explores such themes as love and work, adolescence and everyday life, the significance of the everyday, the popular as a field of power, and the importance of representation to identity and experience in modernity.

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University Press of Florida

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0813043204

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The Pleasures of Reading

A Booklover's Alphabet

By: Catherine Sheldrick Ross

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The Pleasures of Reading

A Booklover's Alphabet

By: Catherine Sheldrick Ross

Based on years of ground-breaking research, this book supplies a look at the unique relationship between each text and the individual reader that results in a satisfying, pleasurable, and even life-changing reading experience. Following up on her critically acclaimed Reading Matters: What the Research Reveals about Reading, Libraries, and Community, Catherine Sheldrick Ross takes a new look at pleasure reading through 30 thought-provoking essays based on themes arranged from A to Z. In short lively chapters, she discusses topics ranging from "Alexia," "Bad Reading," and "Changing Lives" to "Romance Fiction," "Self-help," "Titles," "Vampires," and "Year of Reading." Drawing on her own research as well as other published sources, Ross comments on the significance of each theme, provides examples of the phenomenon, and develops the topic chronologically, through further examples, or through reversals. The essays are unified by an underlying theory of reading that views readers as sense-makers, actively engaged in reading themselves into the text and reading the texts back into their own lives. It gives educators and librarians insights into their roles with readers and offers a message about the importance of pleasure reading. A short list of resources for further reading is supplied with each topic.

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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1610694333

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The Body Economic

Life, Death, and Sensation in Political Economy and the Victorian Novel

By: Catherine Gallagher

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The Body Economic

Life, Death, and Sensation in Political Economy and the Victorian Novel

By: Catherine Gallagher

The Body Economic revises the intellectual history of nineteenth-century Britain by demonstrating that political economists and the writers who often presented themselves as their literary antagonists actually held most of their basic social assumptions in common. Catherine Gallagher demonstrates that political economists and their Romantic and early-Victorian critics jointly relocated the idea of value from the realm of transcendent spirituality to that of organic "life," making human sensations--especially pleasure and pain--the sources and signs of that value. Classical political economy, this book shows, was not a mechanical ideology but a form of nineteenth-century organicism, which put the body and its feelings at the center of its theories, and neoclassical economics built itself even more self-consciously on physiological premises. The Body Economic explains how these shared views of life, death, and sensation helped shape and were modified by the two most important Victorian novelists: Charles Dickens and George Eliot. It reveals how political economists interacted crucially with the life sciences of the nineteenth century--especially with psychophysiology and anthropology--producing the intellectual world that nurtured not only George Eliot's realism but also turn-of-the-century literary modernism.

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Princeton University Press

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1400826845

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Telling It Like It Wasn’t

The Counterfactual Imagination in History and Fiction

By: Catherine Gallagher

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Telling It Like It Wasn’t

The Counterfactual Imagination in History and Fiction

By: Catherine Gallagher

Inventing counterfactual histories is a common pastime of modern day historians, both amateur and professional. We speculate about an America ruled by Jefferson Davis, a Europe that never threw off Hitler, or a second term for JFK. These narratives are often written off as politically inspired fantasy or as pop culture fodder, but in Telling It Like It Wasn’t, Catherine Gallagher takes the history of counterfactual history seriously, pinning it down as an object of dispassionate study. She doesn’t take a moral or normative stand on the practice, but focuses her attention on how it works and to what ends—a quest that takes readers on a fascinating tour of literary and historical criticism. Gallagher locates the origins of contemporary counterfactual history in eighteenth-century Europe, where the idea of other possible historical worlds first took hold in philosophical disputes about Providence before being repurposed by military theorists as a tool for improving the art of war. In the next century, counterfactualism became a legal device for deciding liability, and lengthy alternate-history fictions appeared, illustrating struggles for historical justice. These early motivations—for philosophical understanding, military improvement, and historical justice—are still evident today in our fondness for counterfactual tales. Alternate histories of the Civil War and WWII abound, but here, Gallagher shows how the counterfactual habit of replaying the recent past often shapes our understanding of the actual events themselves. The counterfactual mode lets us continue to envision our future by reconsidering the range of previous alternatives. Throughout this engaging and eye-opening book, Gallagher encourages readers to ask important questions about our obsession with counterfactual history and the roots of our tendency to ask “What if...?”

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022651255X

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