Distinguished critics examine aspects of Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, Emma, Persuasion, and Sense and Sensibility. Themes explored include manners and morals, comic aggression, knowledge and opinion, gender roles, and the relationship of Austen's novels to William Shakespeare's plays. Essays discuss specifics of the novels and place them within the context of Austen's other works. Characters are examined in depth, as are situations, feelings, and social context. Quotes from the books are used to support interpretations.
One of the most effective ways to implement the research-based instructional strategies from Classroom Instruction That Works is to use them with educational technologies, such as word processing and spreadsheet applications, multimedia and the Internet. This book shows you how and gives you hundreds of lesson-planning ideas and strategies for every grade level and subject. Getting this guide ensures you always know when to use educational technologies, which ones are best for a learning task, and how they help students use new learning strategies.
Following on the success Cool Stuff and How it Works, this spectacular book shows and explains, in a brilliantly visual and easy-to-understand way, exactly how the technology that shapes our world works. Taking the reader on an eye-opening journey from the engine of a hydrogen-fuelled car, into the virtual world of Second Life, and up the earthquake-proofed structure of the world's tallest office building...
All the old rules of marketing are up for grabs. Markets are fragmenting and globalizing;consumers have greater control over when and what media they use; and digital technologies have changed how people shop, work, and relax. But a small number of senior marketing leaders know how to engage consumers and keep them coming back. This book reveals the secrets to their success.
"One of the major works in the development of contemporary criticism and philosophy." -- J. Hillis Miller, Yale University
Jacques Derrida's revolutionary theories about deconstruction, phenomenology, psychoanalysis, and structuralism, first voiced in the 1960s, forever changed the face of European and American criticism.
