Portrays the lives of politicians, soldiers, and slaves during the Civil War

Becoming a Reader argues that, whatever our individual differences of personality and background, there is a regular sequence of attitudes we go through as we mature, which affect how we experience fiction, from the five-year-old child absorbed in the world of fantasy play, through the seventeen year old critical seeker of the truth, to the middle-aged reader recognizing their own experiences in fictional characters. Becoming a Reader argues that this sequence of responses can be worked out a...

Now available in paperback, Mozart is a brilliant study of the great composer's life and creative genius, written by one of the most important social thinkers of our time. In Mozart, Elias provides insight into this case of tragic conflict between personal creativity and the tastes of a society which sought to control it.

In dit derde deel van de Basiscursus Fins staat de geschreven tekst centraal. Het boek bevat authentieke teksten van Finse auteurs, waaronder verhalen, krantenberichten en tijdschriftartikelen. Door het lezen van deze teksten raakt de cursist vertrouwd met de Finse manier van uitdrukken. Daarnaast wordt hiermee de woordenschat en de grammatica uitgebreid, wat bij het leren van een nieuwe taal natuurlijk van groot belang is.

Om goed taalonderwijs te kunnen geven is het noodzakelijk te weten hoe iemand een vreemde of tweede taal leert. De laatste decennia is veel onderzoek gedaan naar het verloop van tweede- of vreemde-taalverwerving en de factoren die van invloed zijn op het verwervingsproces. Ook is veel duidelijk geworden over de toepassing van deze kennis in het onderwijs.

Strong, Sassy women and hard-luck hardheaded men, all searching for the middle ground between Native American tradition and the modern world, perform an elaborate dance of approach and avoidance in this magical, rollicking tale by Cherokee author Thomas King. Alberta is a university professor who would like to trade her two boyfriends for a baby but no husband; Lionel is forty and still sells televisions for a patronizing boss; Eli and his log cabin stand in the way of a profitable dam proje...

This anthology of the work of Baruch de Spinoza (1632-1677) presents the text of Spinoza's masterwork, the Ethics, in what is now the standard translation by Edwin Curley. Also included are selections from other works by Spinoza, chosen by Curley to make the Ethics easier to understand, and a substantial introduction that gives an overview of Spinoza's life and the main themes of his philosophy. Perfect for course use, the Spinoza Reader is a practical tool with which to approach one of the w...

Since publication in 1979 Isabel Rivers' sourcebook has established itself as the essential guide to English Renaissance poetry. It:provides an account of the main classical and Christian ideas, outlining their meaning, their origins and their transmission to the Renaissance;illustrates the ways in which Renaissance poetry drew on classical and Christian ideas;contains extracts from key classical and Christian texts and relates these to the extracts of the English poems which draw on them;inc...

Presents a formulation of the kinematics, dynamics, and control of robot manipulators. This book emphasizes the geometry of robot motion and allows a large class of robotic manipulation problems to be analyzed within a unified framework.