Please enter a valid search term.
Currently Displaying Results
438376-438400 of 1543525
View book details for The colonisation of time
Ritual, routine and resistance in the British Empire
The Colonisation of Time is a highly original and long overdue examination of the ways that western-European and specifically British concepts and rituals of time were imposed on other cultures as a fundamental component of colonisation during the nineteenth century. …
View book details for Beyond representation
Television drama and the politics and aesthetics of identity
Beyond representation explores whether the last thirty years witnessed signs of 'progress or progressiveness in the representation of marginalised or subaltern identity categories within television drama in Britain and the US. In doing so, it interrogates some of the key …
View book details for Representation, recognition and respect in world politics
The case of Iran-US relations
This timely book explains how recognition and misrecognition have the power to fuel conflict and to initiate reconciliation. Constance Duncombe presents a detailed conceptual and empirical investigation of one of the most significant flashpoints in global politics: the fraught bilateral …
The career of Wisconsin-born Joseph Losey spanned over four decades and several countries. A self-proclaimed Marxist and veteran of the 1930s Soviet agit-prop theater, he collaborated with Bertholt Brecht before directing noir B-pictures in Hollywood. A victim of McCarthyism, he …
This book is the first ever English-language study of Julien Duvivier (1896-1967), once considered one of the world's great filmmakers. It provides new contextual and analytical readings of his films that identify his key themes and techniques, trace patterns of …
Winner of the Elma Dangerfield Prize 2018Byron in Italy Venetian debauchery, Roman sight-seeing, revolution, horse-riding and swimming, sword-brandishing and pistol-shooting, the poets last attachment forms part of the fabric of Romantic mythology. Yet Byrons time in Italy was crucial to …
Recent years have witnessed an explosion of interest in the 'spatialities of cinema' across the social sciences and humanities, yet to date critical inquiry has tended to explore this issue as a question of the 'city' and the 'urban'. For …
View book details for Acceptable words
Essays on the poetry of Geoffrey Hill
Geoffrey Hill has said that some great poetry 'recognises that words fail us'. These essays explore Hill's struggle over fifty years with the recalcitrance of language. This book seeks to show how all his work is marked by the quest …
View book details for Vielfaltsbewusste Padagogik und Denken in Moglichkeiten
Theoretische Grundlagen und Handlungsperspektiven
Alex de la Iglesia, initially championed by Pedro Almodovar, and at one time the enfant terrible of Spanish film, still makes film critics nervous. The director of some of the most important films of the Post-Franco era Accion mutante, El …
View book details for Beyond the Rational Realm
Lifting the Veil of the Spirit World
There is a realm that is waiting for you that might have answers to questions that have been on your mind since you were little. This is the world of Spirit, were other doors to dimensions and portals to knowledge, …
Isabella Lilias Trotter was an artist and a Christian missionary for over 38 years to the Muslims of Algeria. After serving God in England for a time with the YWCA, she went with her own funding to Algeria to serve …
View book details for Small Changes, Big Impact
Ten Strategies to Promote Student Efficacy and Lifelong Learning (A pocket guide to school reform through research-based instructional strategies)
Discover a pathway to improvement that is simple and field tested. Designed as a practical guide to school reform, this resource outlines a series of ten small-scale changes powerful enough to make a lasting impact in schools and districts. Within …
View book details for Best Practices at Tier 3, Secondary
(A Response to Intervention Guide to Implementing Tier 3 Teaching Strategies)
Confidently support the students who struggle most. Written for secondary educators, this practical resource details how to provide intensive interventions at Tier 3 of the RTI at WorkTM process. Rely on the book's toolkit of best practices and easy-to-use strategies …
View book details for I'm Listening
How Teacher-Student Relationships Improve Reading, Writing, Speaking, and Listening (Drive student engagement and empower learners through teacher-student relationships)
Rely on I'm Listening to help you drive deeper, more meaningful learning by integrating relationship building into lesson design. Written by practitioner Beth Pandolpho, this student engagement resource outlines how to foster a sense of belonging while also maintaining the …
Tarzan disenchanted with civilized life leaves America for Europe. But after numerous scrapes and adventures Tarzan is ultimately ambushed and thrown overboard the ship he has taken passage on. He swims for his life and miraculously finds himself in the …
In 1768, Scottish physician Andrew Turnbull arrived in Florida with more than 1,200 indentured servants. He and his partners dreamed of establishing a plantation settlement that would make them wealthy. Despite some successes, New Smyrna was not the financial windfall …
View book details for African Americans in Glencoe
The Little Migration
The village of Glencoe has a proud history of early African American settlement. In recent years, however, this once thriving African American community has begunto disperse. Robert Sideman, a thirty-year Glencoe resident, relates this North Shore suburbs African American history …
Located north of Cincinnati in the Mill Creek Valley, Lincoln Heights was the first African American self-governing community north of the Mason-Dixon Line.The development of Lincoln Heights began in 1923 when the Haley-Livingston Land Company of Chicago sold lots to …
It's quite unlikely that Pierre Laclede and Auguste Chouteau could have comprehended the scope of their undertaking in 1764 when they laid out the settlement on the western banks of the Mississippi that was to become the metropolis of St. …
Since Reconstruction, African Americans have served as key protagonists in the rich and expansive narrative of American social protest. Their collective efforts challenged and redefined the meaning of freedom as a social contract in America. During the first half of …
In the northwest corner of the Adirondack Park lie Cranberry Lake and the village of Wanakena.This remote area was the last-settled part of New York State; from the mid-1800s to the early 1900s, its name evoked the very essence of …
Explore the rich history of Grand Rapids, Michigan through its' nineteenth and twentieth-century postcard heritage.Grand Rapids, Michigan, began to take shape when settlers found power, transportation, and abundant natural resources on the banks of the Grand River.A gateway to the …
While other cities are credited for birthing and honing the legendary crime figures who inevitably influenced and shaped their susceptible surroundings and culture, Miami is where the Mob, like many American citizens, often turned when seeking vacation, vice, or a …
View book details for Detroit
The Black Bottom Community
Between 1914 and 1951, Black Bottom's black community emerged out of the need for black migrants to find a place for themselves.Because of the stringent racism and discrimination in housing, blacks migrating from the South seeking employment in Detroit's burgeoning …
Currently Displaying Results
438376-438400 of 1543525