In recent years, history has been increasingly popularized through television docudramas, history museums, paperback historical novels, grassroots community history projects, and other public representations of historical knowledge. This collection of lively and accessible essays is the first examination of the rapidly growing field called 'public ...
Based on Bransford and Stein's IDEAL model for problem-solving and decision-making, this comprehensive text explicitly illustrates the thought processes of successful teachers as they plan, implement, and evaluate instruction. Decision-Making in Planning and Teaching invites dialogue, application, and critical examination of thought processes by ...
This book considers the profound influence of fairy tales on contemporary fiction, including the work of Margaret Atwood, A.S. Byatt, Angela Carter, Robert Coover, Salman Rushdie, and Jeanette Winterson.Recent decades have witnessed a renaissance of interest in the fairy tale, not least among writers of fiction. In "Contemporary Fiction and the ...
This powerful volume chronicles the unique and important mission of the Prix Pictet: to use photography to inform worldwide audiences about environmental issues. Launched in April 2008, this is the first photographic award dedicated to sustainability. It is a remarkable enterpriseaart of the highest order tackling the most important issues of our ...
The vision of Gym Bag Bible is to empower people to live as radiant children of God. Through the intentional combination of body, mind and soul, Gym Bag Bible creates a dynamic energy where a person expresses in thought and action the living presence of God. It takes seriously the notion that we are called by God through Jesus to live as people of ...
Music is commonly felt to offer a valued experience, yet to put that experience into words is no easy task. Rather than view verbal representations of music as somehow secondary to the music itself, "Literary Music" argues that it is in such representations that our understanding of music and its meanings is constituted and explored. Focusing on ...
In this wide ranging and insightful analysis, Stephen Benson proposes a poetic of narrative for postmodernism by placing new emphasis on the folktale. Postmodernist fictions have evidenced a return to narrative - to storytelling centred on a sequence of events, rather than a "spiralling" of events as found in modernism - and recent theorists have ...
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