Added by: Au_claire | Karma: 26.92 | Fiction literature | 16 January 2011
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Gossip Girl #11: Don't You Forget About Me
In just ten short days, Blair, Serena, Nate, Vanessa, and Dan will depart the Upper East Side for college. End-of-summer festivities, now-or-never kisses, and heartbreaking farewells await—and it's never too late for one last scandal. Blair learns that her family is relocating to California. Dan finally figures out to whom his heart really belongs. Nate is forced to choose between Blair and Serena.
How Skeptics do Ethics - A Brief History of the Late Modern Linguistic Turn
Enlightenment philosophers are often credited with formulating many theories about humankind and society, and in our post-modern age, we still live with some of the very same compelling, contentious and often unresolved questions about ourselves and the world we live in. Author Aubrey Neal suggests that one of these issues that lingers with us today is scepticism, and in 'How Skeptics do Ethics', he unravels the thread of this philosophy from its origins in enlightenment thinking down to our present age. He contends that linguistics and language have not brought modern philosophy any closer to understanding the role and nature of ethics in our current science-based society.
P. D. James examines the genre of detective fiction from top to bottom, beginning with the mystery plots at the hearts of such novels as Great Expectations and Jane Eyre, and bringing us firmly into the present with such writers as Amanda Cross and Henning Mankell. Along the way she writes about Arthur Conan Doyle, Dorothy L. Sayers, Agatha Christie, Edgar Allan Poe, Wilkie Collins, and Josephine Tey, among many others. She traces the facts of their lives into and out of their work; clarifies their individual styles; and gives us indelible portraits of the characters they've created...
Join Justin, Mr Tumble and their friends in five 'Something Special' programmes as they find out about nursery rhymes. As well as learning about favourite things, children of all ages can learn to sign. The signs and symbols used in the programmes are from Makaton, which uses signs from British Sign Language, combined with symbols to aid communication, especially for those with communication and learning difficulties. A superb resource to develop children's communication skills Will build young children's knowledge and understanding of the world.
Managing the Monstrous Feminine takes a unique approach to the study of the material and discursive practices associated with the construction and regulation of the female body. Jane Ussher examines the ways in which medicine, science, the law and popular culture combine to produce fictions about femininity, positioning the reproductive body as the source of women's power, danger and weakness.
