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The Eloquence of Mary Astell
The Eloquence of Mary Astell makes an important contribution to the knowledge and understanding of the important role that women, and one woman in particular, played in the history of rhetoric. Mary Astell (1666-1731) was an unusually perceptive thinker and writer during the time of the Enlightenment. Here, author Christine Sutherland explores her importance as a rhetorician, an area that has, …
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- 978-1-55238-661-3
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- 305.420 92 SUT e
Lectures on the English Comic Writers
This volume contains an essay on Hogarth, written by the great English essayist and critic, William Hazlitt. This volume is a later printing of Hazlitt's writings, which were first published in 1818.
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Édith Piaf : A Cultural History
The world-famous French singer Édith Piaf (1915-63) was never just a singer. Dozens of biographies of her, of variable quality, have seldom got beyond the well known and usually contested ‘facts' of her life. This book suggests new ways of understanding her. A ‘cultural history' of Piaf means exploring her cultural, social and political significance as a national and internation…
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- 78-1-78138-425-1
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- 927 LOO e
The Dynamics of Conflict and Peace in Contemporary South Asia : The State, De…
This book engages with the concept, true value, and function of democracy in South Asia against the background of real social conditions for the promotion of peaceful development in the region. In the book, the issue of peaceful social development is defined as the conditions under which the maintenance of social order and social development is achieved – not by violent compulsion but thro…
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- 9781000331363
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- 303.6 DYN
The Dragoman Renaissance : Diplomatic Interpreters and the Routes of Orientalism
In The Dragoman Renaissance, E. Natalie Rothman traces how Istanbul-based diplomatic translator-interpreters, known as the dragomans, systematically engaged Ottoman elites in the study of the Ottoman Empire—eventually coalescing in the discipline of Orientalism—throughout the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Rothman challenges Eurocentric assumptions still pervasive in Renaissance st…
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- 9781501758508
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- 327.560 409 ROT d
Theories in and of Mathematics Education
Mathematics Education; Learning; Teaching
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Teenagers, Literacy and School
This unique and timely book follows the experiences of four Arabic teenagers, their families and their community, focusing on the role of literacy in their daily lives and the differences between home and school. The author looks at the conflict between expectations and practices at school and in the home, arguing that problems are inevitable where class and cultural differences exist. Emerging…
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Team Teaching and Team Learning in the Language Classroom: Collaboration for …
This book reignites discussion on the importance of collaboration and innovation in language education. The pivotal difference highlighted in this volume is the concept of team learning through collaborative relationships such as team teaching. It explores ways in which team learning happens in ELT environments and what emerges from these explorations is a more robust concept of team learning i…
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- 9781317513186
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Teaching Under Pressure
This text is based on the author's research into primary school teacher's stress. The research has been linked with the author's belief in the need to understand ourselves, our personal and professional situations and how they relate. The resulting book is a practical text designed to address the reader in such a way that they can readily identify with what is being discussed. Futhermore, reade…
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Teaching Mathematics at Secondary Level
Teaching Mathematics is nothing less than a mathematical manifesto. Arising in response to a limited National Curriculum, and engaged with secondary schooling for those aged 11 ? 14 (Key Stage 3) in particular, this handbook for teachers will help them broaden and enrich their students’ mathematical education. It avoids specifying how to teach, and focuses instead on the central principles an…
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