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  • The Sense of Style

    The Thinking Person's Guide to Writing in the 21st Century

    by Steven Pinker ...
    Bad writing can't be blamed on the Internet, or on 'the kids today'. Good writing has always been hard: a performance requiring pretense, empathy, and a drive for coherence. In The Sense of Style, cognitive scientist and linguist Steven Pinker uses the latest scientific insights to bring us a style and usage guide for the 21st century. What do skilful writers know about the link between syntax and ... Read more

    RM 44.79

  • How to Write Like a Writer

    A Sharp and Subversive Guide to Ignoring Inhibitions, Inviting Inspiration, and Finding Your True Voice

    The New York Times bestselling author of the beloved classic How to Read Literature Like a Professor teaches you how to write everything from a report for your community association to a meaningful memoir in this masterful and engaging writing guide.Combing anecdotes and hard-won lessons from decades of teaching and writing—and invoking everyone from Hemingway to your third-grade teacher—retired ... Read more

    RM 49.79

  • Förderung der mündlichen Sprachproduktion im Fremdsprachenunterricht

    Perspektiven aus Wissenschaft und Praxis

    Series series narr STUDIENBÜCHER
    Die Förderung der mündlichen Sprachproduktion gehört zu den wichtigsten Bereichen des Fremdsprachenunterrichts. Ein Werk, das den aktuellen Forschungsstand verständlich zusammenfasst und umfangreiche Vorschläge für die unterrichtliche Praxis präsentiert, fehlte bisher. Der vorliegende Band schließt diese Lücke. Er soll Studierende und Referendar:innen in der Vorbereitung auf den Schuldienst ... Read more

    RM 97.29 or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A leitura, outra revolução 2ª edição

    Translated by Newton Cunha ...
    Esta obra reúne uma série de palestras e conferências sobre literatura infantil proferida por María Teresa Andruetto nos anos 2000, todas elas ligadas ao livro, à leitura, à poesia e à linguagem. Para a autora, a questão não é se hoje em dia existem mais ou menos leitores, mas o que fazer para melhorar a qualidade de leitura, uma tarefa que envolve não só as famílias e as escolas, mas espaços de ... Read more

    RM 17.83

  • He Who Fights with Monsters 12

    A LitRPG Adventure

    Twenty years ago, Jason was pulled into a world of magic and monsters.He was promised a life of wandering his new home and having adventures, but things got out of hand pretty quickly. He met with kings and gods, fought interdimensional cults, and got in a knife fight with the guy who creates universes. He didn't win. What he'd never done was roam around, having nice, sensible adventures. He hadn ... Read more

    RM 23.08

  • Eine rekonstruktive Annäherung an Critical Literacy

    Dokumentarische Analyse von Kleingruppengesprächen im Englischunterricht einer zehnten Klasse

    Series series Giessener Beiträge zur Fremdsprachendidaktik
    Sprache ist Macht - und der Schlüssel zu gesellschaftlicher Teilhabe. Genau hier setzt Critical Literacy an: Schüler:innen sollen lernen, sprachliche Machtstrukturen kritisch zu hinterfragen und so gesellschaftliche Zusammenhänge zu verstehen und zu verändern. Dieses Buch untersucht erstmals, wie dieses Bildungsversprechen im Unterricht eingelöst werden kann. Die Autorin analysiert dokumentarisch, ... Read more

    RM 253.49 or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Inde des mille et une pages

    Petite somme et bibliographie

    L’Inde illumine et hante l’imaginaire occidental. Exotique et merveilleuse, diverse à l’infini, multiple par excellence, elle cristallise à profusion l’altérité, dans toutes ses dimensions : images et représentations, croyances et cultes, savoirs ésotériques du corps, santé et sexualité, langues et castes… Aucune surprise donc à ce que les travaux scientifiques, le récit de voyage, la production ... Read more

    RM 224.69

  • Der Rote Baron Manfred von Richthofen

    Manfreds volljähriger Name war Manfred Albrecht Freiherr von Richthofen.

    by Heinz Duthel ...
    Manfred von Richthofen – Der Rote Baron Von Heinz Duthel Er war der Schrecken des Himmels im Ersten Weltkrieg – ein Name, der Freund und Feind gleichermaßen in Ehrfurcht versetzte: Manfred von Richthofen, der legendäre "Rote Baron". Am 21. April 1918 endet sein kurzes, aber ruhmreiches Leben über den Feldern der Somme. In seinem markanten roten Dreidecker errang Richthofen mehr als 80 bestätigte ... Read more

    RM 26.69

  • Niki

    Stories vom Champion

    Ein österreichischer Rennfahrer, der Formel 1-Geschichte schriebImmer ein rotes Kapperl auf dem Kopf und nie um eine schnelle Antwort verlegen: So haben die meisten Niki Lauda in Erinnerung. Herbert Völker, ehemaliger Herausgeber und Chefredakteur der "Autorevue", kannte den berühmten Rennfahrer auch abseits des Ruhms: Die beiden waren schon befreundet, bevor dem Champion der Sprung in die Formel ... Read more

    RM 107.59

  • Literarische Grundbegriffe

    [Kompaktwissen XL] – May, Yomb – sicher durch Abitur und Matura – Oberstufenwissen

    by Yomb May ...
    Series series Kompaktwissen XL
    Das erfolgreiche und vielgenutzte Nachschlagewerk bietet knappe und verständliche Definitionen zu Epochen, Gattungen, Erzähltechniken, rhetorischen Gestaltungsmitteln, kurz: zu den relevanten Fachbegriffen für die Analyse und Interpretation literarischer Texte. Mit nützlichen Querverweisen und vielen Textbeispielen zur Veranschaulichung. Geeignet für den Unterricht in der Oberstufe oder das ... Read more

    RM 34.29

  • Little Universe

    The poems in Natalie Ann Holborow's third collection, Little Universe, are an exploration of tumultuous human emotions and nature's ever-present rhythms. Lives bustle within a busy hospital's walls, humming against the Gower landscape that stretches beyond its windows. The tiny worlds of a wide cast unfold as they deal with their own emergencies, losses, recoveries, hopes and histories. Medical ... Read more

    RM 28.59

  • Summer Stories – Short Tales in German and English

    Englisch/Deutsch lernen durch spannende Geschichten: Abenteuer und Alltag an der Ostsee

    by Falko Braast ...
    Deutsch: Erleben Sie die Faszination der deutschen und englischer Sprache mit dieser einzigartigen Geschichtensammlung! Tauchen Sie ein in spannende Abenteuer, mysteriöse Rätsel und emotionale Erlebnisse, die an der malerischen Ostseeküste spielen. Jede Geschichte enthält sowohl deutsche als auch englische Passagen, um das Lernen der Fremdsprache auf natürliche und unterhaltsame Weise zu fördern. ... Read more

    RM 22.79

  • Biblical References in Shakespeare's Plays

    The hundreds of biblical references in Shakespeare's plays give ample evidence that he was well acquainted with Scripture. Not only is the range of his biblical references impressive, but also the aptness with which he makes them. Hamlet and Othello each have more than fifty biblical references. No study of Shakespeare's plays is complete that ignores Shakespeare's use of scripture.The Bibles that ... Read more

    RM 609.89

  • The Bloomsbury Companion to Holocaust Literature

    Edited by Dr Jenni Adams ...
    Series series Bloomsbury Companions
    The Bloomsbury Companion to Holocaust Literature is a comprehensive reference resource including a wealth of critical material on a diverse range of topics within the literary study of Holocaust writing. At its centre is a series of specially commissioned essays by leading scholars within the field: these address genre-specific issues such as the question of biographical and historical truth in ... Read more

    RM 164.19

  • The Thornton Wilder Encyclopedia

    Thornton Wilder is one of America’s greatest writers, and the only author to win Pulitzer Prizes in both fiction and drama. Equally well known for his plays and novels, his unique and diverse body of work also includes essays, journals, lectures, and film and television scripts.In The Thornton Wilder Encyclopedia, Thomas S. Hischak exhaustively covers Wilder’s life and extensive career. Entries ... Read more

    RM 354.59

  • Bradley, Greg, Folger

    Great Shakespeareans: Volume IX

    by Cary DiPietro ...
    Series series Great Shakespeareans
    A comprehensive critical analysis of the most important Shakespearean critics, editors, actors and directors. This volume focuses on Shakespeare's reception by Bradley, Greg and Folger. ... Read more

    RM 821.89

  • La Petite Dorrit (Intégral, les 2 Tomes)

    Edition complète, Tomes I : PAUVRETÉ et II : RICHESSE

    La Petite Dorrit est un superbe ouvrage du grand romancier anglais Charles Dickens (1812 – 1870).Ce livre est le plus politique des romans de Dickens et aussi celui dont la structure est la plus symbolique : il est en effet divisé en deux tomes, le premier intitulé « Pauvreté » et le second « Richesse ».Œuvre satirique de l'époque victorienne, il dénonce les institutions du royaume, en particulier ... Read more

    RM 13.75 or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Book of Prefaces

    by Alasdair Gray ...
    'Superb ... There is no disputing the enormous knowledge, the sheer love of books that is gathered here' SCOTLAND ON SUNDAY____________________A great and fascinating work from Scottish literary legend Alasdair Gray, beautifully illustrated throughout, chronicling the history of how literature spread and developed throughout the world.This is a unique history of literature as presented through the ... Read more

    RM 68.39

  • Historical Dictionary of Russian Literature

    Series series Historical Dictionaries of Literature and the Arts
    Russian literature is most celebrated for its Romantic and modernist poetry and 19th-century novels. While literary traditions of varying sorts have been part of Slavic and Russian culture for over a millennium, it is only since the 18th century that they came to resemble literature from the West.The Historical Dictionary of Russian Literature contains a chronology, an introductory essay, ... Read more

    RM 560.29

  • A New History of Latvian Literature

    The Long Nineteenth Century

    Series Book 29 - Cross-Roads
    This volume is the outcome of a co-ordinated effort of a group of scholars who set themselves the task of reconsidering nineteenth-century Latvian literary history. We are seeking to pluralize literary history studies by looking for novel insights into Latvian literature and contributing to the research of East-Central European literary cultures. Scholars from diverse but related research fields ... Read more

    RM 257.89

  • Und jetzt queer!

    Lesen jenseits der Norm

    Dieses Buch bläst den Staub aus den BücherregalenDrei Autor:innen zeigen uns, wie vielfältig Literatur sein kann – jenseits des klassischen Kanons.Lesen öffnet uns die Welt. In guten Geschichten erfahren wir etwas über uns selbst und die vielfältigen Formen des Lebens. Literatur kann eine Behausung sein, eine offene Frage, ein Möglichkeitsraum außerhalb des eigenen Alltags. Warum zeigt uns der ... Read more

    RM 76.79

  • The Correspondence of Ezra Pound and the Frobenius Institute, 1930-1959

    by Ezra Pound ...
    Series series Modernist Archives
    Collecting in full for the first time the correspondence between Ezra Pound and members of Leo Frobenius' Forschungsinstitut für Kulturmorphologie in Frankfurt across a 30 year period, this book sheds new light on an important but previously unexplored influence on Pound's controversial intellectual development in the Fascist era.Ezra Pound's long-term interest in anthropology and ethnography ... Read more

    RM 173.69

  • Walt Whitman

    A Companion

    Series series McFarland Companions to 19th Century Literature
    Walt Whitman created, in various editions of Leaves of Grass, what is arguably the most influential book of poems anywhere in the past 200 years. Whitman absorbed the world, transmuting it into poems that address a spectrum of topics--from democracy and religion to sexuality, gender, class, and identity. He exuberantly incarnated his epoch at the same time as he invoked "you"-- readers and "poets ... Read more

    RM 121.59

  • Molière in Context

    Edited by Jan Clarke ...
    Series series Literature in Context
    The definitive guide to Molière's world and his afterlife, this is an accessible contextual guide for academics, undergraduates and theatre professionals alike. Interdisciplinary and diverse in scope, each chapter offers a different perspective on the social, cultural, intellectual, and theatrical environment within which Molière operated, as well as demonstrating his subsequent impact both within ... Read more

    Was RM 405.39 Now RM 127.99