Teaching & Researching: Computer-Assisted Language Learning
Computers play a crucial and rapidly evolving role in education, particularly in the area of language learning. Far from being a tool mimicking a textbook or teacher, Computer-Assisted Language Learning (CALL) has the power to transform language l...
Emotional Worlds
Are emotions human universals? Is the concept of emotion an invention of Western tradition? If people in other cultures live radically different emotional lives how can we ever understand them? Using vivid, often dramatic, examples from around the...
After the Ancestors
Set on an isolated Indonesian island, this is the gripping true story of a fieldworker's experience of living in a tribal society during a period of crisis. Featuring a cast of unforgettable characters, After the Ancestors follows a bitter feud be...
Age of Betrayal
Age of Betrayal is a brilliant reconsideration of America's first Gilded Age, when war-born dreams of freedom and democracy died of their impossibility. Focusing on the alliance between government and railroads forged by bribes and campaign contributions, Jack Beatty details the corruption of American political culture that, in the words of Rutherford B. Hayes, transformed a government of the people, by the people, and for the people into a government by the corporations, of the corporations, and for the corporations. A passionate, gripping, scandalous and sorrowing history of the triumph of wealth over commonwealth.'
Serafina and the Black Cloak
Read the #1 New York Times best-selling children's fantasy thriller recommended by thousands of teachers nationwide Serafina lives secretly in the basement of the grand Biltmore Estate--but when children begin to disappear from the Gilded Age manor, she must solve a fantastical and dark mystery to save them . . . and herself. 'Never go into the forest, for there are many dangers there, and they will ensnare your soul.' Serafina has never had a reason to disobey her pa and venture beyond the grounds of Biltmore Estate. There's plenty to explore in Mr. and Mrs. Vanderbilt's vast and opulent home, but she must take care to never be seen. None of the rich folk upstairs know that Serafina exists; she and her pa have lived in the basement for as long as Serafina can remember. She has learned to prowl through the darkened corridors at night, to sneak and hide, using the mansion's hidden doors and secret passageways. But when children at the estate start disappearing, only Serafina knows the
White Boy Shuffle
'A thousand-miles-an-hour hoot.' Esquire 'Hilarious?and immensely moving.' The New Yorker 'A blast of satirical heat from the talented heart of black American life.' New York Times White Boy Shuffle is Man Booker-winner Paul Beatty's electrifying ...
Engineered World, An
Engineered World, An
The Batman Family: Year One Box Set
Every story has a beginning... Discover the birth of the Gotham Knights with the early-career adventures of Batgirl, Robin, and Nightwing. The Batman Family: Year One Box Set features the complete collections for Batgirl: Year One, Robin: Year One, and a BOX SET EXCLUSIVE edition of Nightwing: Year One. Witness the birth of legends and the start of journeys that would define the characters forever!
Sellout
A Book of the Decade, 2010-2020 (Independent) * One of the New York Times' '100 Best Books of the 21st Century' A LAUGH-OUT-LOUD SATIRE ABOUT RACE, CLASS AND INEQUALITY IN CONTEMPORARY AMERICA, BY¿A LITERARY GENIUS AT THE TOP OF HIS GAME Winner of...
Looking For Theophrastus
Who is Theophrastus, and why should we care?Once, he was the equal of Plato and Aristotle. Together he and Aristotle invented science. Alone he invented Botany. The character of the Wife of Bath is his invention, the Canterbury Tales as a whole, perhaps, the product of his inspiration. When Linnaeus was developing our modern system of plant taxonomy, it was Theophrastus' work on plants that he used as a basis. So how could one man do so much and still sink almost without a trace?This is the story of a journey to find him and bring him back from oblivion. Looking for Theophrastus, in all the places he must have walked and lived, it tells how he and Aristotle, his friend and tutor, broke with the philosophical conventions of the Academy and left on their own adventure; of how together they invented what we now take for granted as the Natural Sciences; how, not content with that, they made the great experiment of applying philosophy directly to the practicalities of government through the tutoring of Alexander the Great; how they were disappointed and how, in the end, they returned to Athens and founded the famous Lyceum.Against the dramatic context of his time - the end of democracy in Athens and the rise of Alexander the Great; the great battles and vast territorial expansion that followed; the flowering of the philosophy schools on which so much of our culture and thinking is founded - and on, following his cultural legacy through to the modern day, it explores how we perceive, understand and, most importantly, how we relate to the world around us, questioning what we lose from our way of living when we forget those ancients who first taught us how to see.
Svikaren
Berättaren i Svikaren står åtalad i USAs högsta domstol. Hans brott? Att i Los Angeles-stadsdelen Dickens försökt återinföra rassegregationen på det lokala gymnasiet och slaveriet på sin lilla odling av vattenmeloner och marijuana. Detta för att återuppbygga en stad som raserats av knarkhandel, föroreningar och våld så till den grad att inte ens Tjernobyl eller Kinshasa vill bli Dickens vänort. När han räddar livet på stadens enda celebritet, den förbisedda 30-talsbarnstjärnan Hominy, och deras relation utvecklas till slav och Massa blomstrar åter Dickens.När Svikaren av Paul Beatty utkom i USA var det en lika chockerande som revolutionerande roman som nådde läsarna och kom att älskas av såväl dem som en enad kritikerkår. Med en oändlig mängd humor och ett pisksnärtande rastlöst språk, som refererar lika ledigt till Kardashians som Martin Luther King och Tennyson, skriver Paul Beatty en ursinnig och vanvettig satir över dagens USA. Som läsare skrattar du högt åt Beattys humor och vändningar, men det är ett skratt som fastnar i halsen.Svikaren är sylvass och obehaglig när Beatty blottlägger den amerikanska rasismens historia och hur den helt och fullt även idag genomsyrar det amerikanska samhällsbygget. Sällan har någon med sådan skärpa skärskådat det samtida USA och skrivit en samhällsskildring med sådan humor och obehag.
American Bastard
American Bastard is a lyrical inquiry into the experience of being a bastard in America. This memoir travels across literal continents-and continents of desire as Beatty finds her birthfather, a Canadian hockey player who's won three Stanley Cups-...
Rascal King
Twice-jailed scoundrel and the people's champion, builder of hospitals and schools and shameless grafter, compelling orator and master of political farce, James Michael Curley was the stuff of legend long before his life became fiction in Edwin O'...
Slumberland
'Shockingly original' The Times 'A literary freestyler with brio to burn?scabrous and very funny' Guardian 'A no-holds-barred comedic romp' Junot Diaz After creating the perfect beat, DJ Darky goes in search of Charles Stone, aka the Schwa, a litt...
Tuff
'Beatty insistently finds poetry in the projects, dignity on the street.' Guardian 'Beatty's blunt, impious, streetwise eloquence [is] transfixing' New York Times 'The writing here is seamless and teeming with momentum' New York Times Book Review ...
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Play All Night!
The origin story of a groundbreaking album The 1971 Allman Brothers Band album At Fillmore East was a musical manifesto years in the making. In Play All Night!, Bob Beatty dives deep into the motivations and musical background of band founder Duan...
Shadow Falls
Andrew Beatty gives us what no Western writer has been able to do: an intimate picture of how Islamic fundamentalism can displace older and more easygoing forms of belief. He has also written an unforgettably human story set in a beautiful place. ...
Lost Property
Lost Property
Party is Always Right
'A very readable and meticulous take-down that will be seen as a must-read source on left-wing politics' - Paul Le Blanc, author of Lenin Love it or hate it, it's hard to deny that British Trotskyism created some fascinating stories. Finding thems...
L1:Theseus & Minotaur Bk & M-ROM Pk
L1:Theseus & Minotaur Bk & M-ROM Pk
The Ultimate Rule of Law
The Ultimate Rule of Law addresses the age-old tension between law and politics by examining whether the personal beliefs of judges come into play in adjudicating on issues of religious freedom, sex discrimination, and social and economic rights. ...
Being Watched
Being Watched