Cultures and Languages

Peter G. Beidler, Gay Barton - A Reader’s Guide to the Novels of Louise Erdrich

One of the most widely read and prolific contemporary Native American writers, Louise Erdrich is highly praised for her experimental narratives and richly complex characters. Interweaving plots, characters, locations, and perspectives, Erdr

Martha C. Sims, Martine Stephens - Living Folklore: An Introduction to the Study of People and Their Traditions

Living Folklore is a comprehensive, straightforward introduction to folklore as it is lived, shared and practiced in contemporary settings. Drawing on examples from diverse American groups and experiences, this text gives the student a stro

Thomas Hylland Eriksen - Engaging Anthropology

Engaging Anthropology takes an unflinching look at why the discipline has not gained the popularity and respect it deserves in the twenty-first century.While showcasing the intellectual power of discipline, Eriksen takes the anthropological

Frances Wood - Did Marco Polo Go To China?

Contrary to an assumption basic to European and Chinese history-the tales of Marco Polo’s journey to China-Frances Wood argues that he not only never went to China, but probably never ventured past his family home on the Black Sea. Instead

Japanese Verbs at a Glance (Power Japanese Series)

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Focus on Grammar 3: An Integrated Skills Approach, Third Edition (Book

With a fresh new design and a host of updated exercises and activities, the popular Focus on Grammar series is more practical and accessible than ever. Known for its focus on English grammar through contextualized listening, speaking, reading,

A Companion to the Global Renaissance: English Literature and Culture in the Era of Expansion

The storied achievements of the Renaissance were not simply the result of a cultural rediscovery of shared European classical traditions. A Companion to the Global Renaissance presents a more complex perspective that considers England’s commerc

The Crucified Mind: Rafael Alberti and the Surrealist Ethos in Spain

Why is the Spanish input to Surrealism so distinctive and strong? What do such renowned figures as Dalí, Buuel, Lorca, Aleixandre and Alberti have in common? This book untangles the issue of Surrealism in Spain by focusing on a consistent featu

William L. Fox - In The Desert Of Desire: Las Vegas And The Culture Of Spectacle

The presentation of art, animals, and sex in Las Vegas, and how the creation of spectacle blurs the line between art and business. Las Vegas, says William Fox, is a pay-as-you-play paradise that succeeds through its collective ability to fantasi

Culture Matters: The Peace Corps Cross Cultural Workbook

This workbook, Culture Matters, is a map to guide you through your cross-cultural experience and also a way for you to record your thoughts and feelings as you live and work in your host country. It contains a variety of exercises, as well as st

The Jewish Cultural Tapestry: International Jewish Folk Traditions

Here, in one compact volume, is an illuminating survey of Jewish folkways on five continents. Filled with fascinating facts and keen insights, The Jewish Cultural Tapestry is a richly woven fabric that vividly captures the diversity of Jewish li

Rhetorik - Das Trainingsbuch. Sicher und überzeugend auftreten bei jedem Anlass

Gary R. Edgerton, Jeffrey P. Jones - The Essential HBO Reader

A comprehensive and compelling examination of one of cable television’s most innovative and popular networks, The Essential HBO Reader looks at every aspect of HBO’s development as a corporation, a creative voice, and a brand. The authors expl

Julia Haig Gaisser - Catullus

Oxford Readings in Catullus is a collection of articles that represent a sampling of the most interesting and important work on Catullus from around 1950 to 2000, together with three very short pieces from the Renaissance. The readings, selected

Lincoln Geraghty - Living with Star Trek: American Culture and the Star Trek Universe

This book is a welcome and original contribution to the world of ‘Star Trek.’ The book not only sets ’Star Trek’ in dialogue with ideas and stories of utopia, community, self-improvement, that are central to American culture and history, bu

John Jowett - Shakespeare and Text

Oxford Shakespeare Topics provide students and teachers with short books on important aspects of Shakespeare criticism and scholarship. Each book is written by an authority in its field, and combines accessible style with original discussion of

The Winged Energy of Delight: Selected Translations

The astonishing collection of the translations Robert Bly has been producing for more than fifty years, introducing foreign poets to American readers for the first time. Robert Bly has always been amazingly prescient in his choice of po

European Security Culture

Organized around themes of cultural realism and social constructivism, Monica Gariup develops a theoretical framework to enhance our understanding of security culture at the European Union (EU) level.Using tools from political theory, linguistic

John D H Downing, Charles Husband - Representing Race: Racisms, Ethnicity and the Media

The Media play a diverse and significant role in the practical expression of racism and in the everyday politics of ethnicity. Written by two veterans of research on media and ’race’, this book offers a fresh comparative analyses of the issues

Modernist Literature: Challenging Fictions

This inclusive guide to Modernist literature considers the ‘high’ Modernist writers such as Eliot, Joyce, Pound and Yeats alongside women writers and writers of the Harlem Renaissance. Challenges the idea that Modernism was conservati

T. Van Leeuwen - Introducing Social Semiotics

Social Semiotics is a lively introduction to the ways in which different aspects of modern society combine to create meaning. These

Phillip Swanson - Latin American Fiction: A Short Introduction

The emergence of modern narrative from Spanish-speaking Latin America represents one of the key cultural developments of the twentieth century. This account introduces readers to modern Latin American fiction in its cultural and political contex

What A Life! Stories of Amazing People (Book 1, Beginning)

What A Life! Stories of Amazing People, an engaging reader for high beginning students of English, focuses on the lives of 24 fascinating people from around the world and across history. These biographies--surprising and always intriguing--explo

Translating cultures - An introduction for translators, interpreters and mediators

As the 21st century gets into stride so does the call for a discipline combining culture and translation. This second edition of Translating Cultures retains its original aim of putting some rigour and coherence into these fashionable words

Lecture Ready 2 : Strategies for Academic Listening, Note-taking, and Discussion (Student’s Book Answer Key 2CDs)

Lecture Ready prepares students to deal with academic lectures with skill and confidence. Students attend actual lectures via DVD or video after practice with targeted lecture language. The lectures include elements of natural speech, such as fa

Studying Film (Studying the Media)

This accessible introduction to the study of film aims to stimulate students’ enjoyment and understanding of a wide range of different types of film, and to give them an awareness of the nature of cinema as a medium, as an art form, and as a so

Modals and Quasi-modals in English

Modals and Quasi-modals in English reports the findings of a corpus-based study of the modals and a set of semantically-related ’quasi-modals’ in English. The study is the largest and most comprehensive to date in this area, and is informed by

Key Film Texts

Key Film Texts offers students a stimulating introduction to 50 films which they are likely to encounter during their studies. An introductory chapter outlines the core concepts involved in film study. Each entry then provides a guide to product

Cambridge First Certificate in English 3 for Updated Exam Self-study Pack (Student’s Book with answers and 2 CDs)

Cambridge University Press is the only official publisher of exam papers from Cambridge ESOL. This set contains four complete tests for the First Certificate exam. They provide the most authentic exam preparation available, allowing candidates t

Languages: From Formal to Natural

This Festschrift volume, published in honor of Nissim Francez on the occasion of his 65th birthday, contains 15 papers, written by friends and colleagues, many of whom congregated at a celebratory symposium held on May 24-25, 2009, in Haifa, Isr

Daniel Weissbort, Astradur Eysteinsson - Translation: Theory and Practice: A Historical Reader

Translation: Theory and Practice: A Historical Reader responds to the need for a collection of primary texts on translation, in the English tradition, from the earliest times to the present day. Based on an exhaustive survey of the wealth of ava

Francis O’Gorman - A Concise Companion to the Victorian Novel

This volume presents fresh approaches to classic Victorian fiction from 1830 to 1900. Consisting of a series of original essays written by prominent specialists in the field, it opens up the cultural world in which the Victorian novel was writte

Lecture Ready 1 : Strategies for Academic Listening, Note-taking, and Discussion (Student’s Book Answer Key 2CDs)

101 American English Riddles (Repost)

Humorous riddles with comic illustrations help ESL students gain new insights into American language and culture. Each riddle is accompanied by text that helps students grasp and master the underlying linguistic and cultural reasons why the joke

Argumentieren. So behalten Sie in Diskussionen die Oberhand. Das Trainingsbuch

Culture and Customs of Haiti

Haiti is the only country that is considered Latin American but has a language and culture that are predominantly French and a population that is primarily of African descent. It is also the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere and a countr

The Metaphoric Process: Connections Between Language and Life

In this monumental work of complex and probing proportions, the renowned feminist and psychoanalyst Gemma Corradi Fiumara surveys the vast literature on metaphor. She suggests that metaphorical language communicates via the creation images,

David E. Harris - Key Concepts in Leisure Studies

`This book confirms David Harris’ status as a leading theorist in contemporary culture and leisure in the UK. He offers a distinctive, coherent and authoritative guide to the major concepts and debates that should engage leisure scholars and sc

Tamar Mayer, Suleiman A. Mourad - Jerusalem: History, Religion and Geography

This is a multidisciplinary study of one of the world’s great cities, that is of enormous, historical, religious and political significance. Ever since the Temple crowned the skyline of Jerusalem, the city has captured the imagination

Terry Rugeley - Maya Wars: Ethnographic Accounts from Nineteenth-Century Yucatan

The first collection of documents devoted entirely to the nineteenth-century Yucatec Mayas. This compilation includes writings by priests, missionaries, Hispanic officials and military officers, foreign travelers and explorers, and the Mayas the

Sophie Gilmartin, Rod Mengham - Thomas Hardy’s Shorter Fiction: A Critical Study

This critical study of Hardy’s short stories provides a thorough account of the ruling preoccupations and recurrent writing strategies of his entire corpus as well as providing detailed readings of several individual texts. It relates the forma

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David Blake Willis, Stephen Murphy-Shigematsu - Transcultural Japan

Transcultural Japan provides a critical examination of being Other in Japan. Portraying the multiple intersections of race, ethnicity, class, and gender, the book suggests ways in which the transcultural borderlands of Japan reflect globalizatio

Jackson Lears - Something for Nothing: Luck in America

Jackson Lears has won accolades for his skill in identifying the rich and unexpected layers of meaning beneath the familiar and mundane in our lives. Now, he challenges the conventional wisdom that the Protestant ethic of perseverance, industry,

Focus on Grammar: A Course for Reference and Practice Workbook (Introductory Basic Intermediate High-Intermediate Advanced)

Focus on Grammar, Second Edition, is a four-level grammar series written by practicing professionals. The series focuses on English grammar through lively listening, speaking, reading, and writing activities. In order to learn the formal rules o

Robert Andre Lafleur, Warren Bruce Palmer - China: A Global Studies Handbook

China is a country on the rise, with a rapidly growing economy and a student population of 320 million—a number larger than the entire population of the United States. As the nation’s economic strength, geopolitical importance, and cultural in

Meng Yue - Shanghai and the Edges of Empires

Even before the romanticized golden era of Shanghai in the 1930s, the famed Asian city was remarkable for its uniqueness and East-meets-West cosmopolitanism. Meng Yue analyzes a century-long shift of urbanity from China’s heartland to its shore

Tony M. Kail - Magico-Religious Groups and Ritualistic Activities: A Guide for First Responders

A woman lays unconscious on the floor surrounded by charcoaled symbols, burning candles, a bowl of viscous red liquid, and an array of dried herbs. Was this a healing ritual gone wrong or just straightforward foul play? Increasingly, first respo

Mexico (Modern World Nations)

- Information-packed volumes provide comprehensive overviews of each nation’s people, geography, history, government, economy, and culture- Abundant full-color illustrations guide the reader on a voyage of discovery- Maps reflect current politi

James M. Volo, Dorothy Denneen Volo - Family Life in Native America

This volume provides insight into the family life of Native Americans of the northeast quadrant of the North American continent and those living in the adjacent coastal and piedmont regions. These Native Americans were among the most familiar to