Shakespeare in the Movies: From the Silent Era to Shakespeare in Love
Added by: gothicca | Karma: 0 | Non-Fiction, Literature Studies | 24 October 2010
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Shakespeare in the Movies: From the Silent Era to Shakespeare in Love
Shakespeare is now enjoying perhaps his most glorious--certainly his most popular--filmic incarnation. Indeed, the Bard has been splashed across the big screen to great effect in recent adaptations of Hamlet, Henry V, Othello, Twelfth Night, Romeo and Juliet, Much Ado About Nothing, Richard II, A Midsummer Night's Dream, and of course in the hugely successful Shakespeare in Love.
World Literature and Its Times, Volume 7: Italian Literature and Its Times
Added by: rszyma | Karma: 779.66 | Non-Fiction, Literature Studies | 24 October 2010
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World Literature and Its Times, Volume 7: Italian Literature and Its Times
World Literature and Its Times helps students and researchers make connections between the political/social climate during which books were written and the works themselves. Each World Literature and Its Times volume focuses on major fiction, poetry and nonfiction from a particular country or region, presenting approximately 50 works in detailed essays running approximately 10 pages. Volume 7 focuses on major fiction, poetry and nonfiction from Italy.
Britain Explored takes a comprehensive look at the landscape, institutions and daily life of Great Britain. Each unit of the book presents a different aspect of the country, illustrated in full colour with helpful maps and charts. Comprehension Questions guide the students to examine the information closely and draw their own conclusions about key issues. At the end of each unit there is an interview, recorded on cassette, in which the speakers talk about their own varied experiences of life in Britain. They include a farmer. a Member of Parliament, a pensioner and a housewife.
The Human Brain: Prenatal Development and Structure
This book is unique among the current literature in that it systematically documents the prenatal structural development of the human brain. It is based on lifelong study using essentially a single staining procedure, the classic rapid Golgi procedure, which ensures an unusual and desirable uniformity in the observations. The book is amply illustrated with 81 large, high-quality color photomicrographs never previously reproduced.
Body by Design (Complete Health Resource) Vol Vol 5 - 9
UXL has published a group of titles (under the umbrella name UXL Complete Health Resource) that is invaluable as a health-education reference for topics commonly taught in middle and high school: diseases, the human body, and mental and physical wellness.Body by Design consists of 12 chapters. Volume one contains information on the cardiovascular, digestive, endocrine, integumentary, lymphatic, and muscular systems.