In this highly acclaimed revision, grammatical descriptions and teaching suggestions are organized into sections dealing with Form, Meaning, and Use. THE GRAMMAR BOOK helps teachers and future teachers grasp the linguistic system and details of English grammar, providing more information on how structures are used at the discourse level.
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Offbeat movie buffs, discerning video renters, and critical viewers
will benefit from this roll call of the best overlooked films of the
last 70 years. Richard Crouse, film critic and host of television’s
award-winning Reel to Real, details his favorite films, from the sublime Monsoon Wedding to the ridiculous Eegah! The Name Written in Blood.
Each movie is featured with a detailed description of plot, notable
trivia tidbits, critical reviews, and interviews with actors and
filmmakers. Featured interviews include Bill Wyman on a little-known
Rolling Stones documentary, schlockmeister Lloyd Kaufman on the history
of the Toxic Avenger, reclusive writer and director Hampton Fancher on
his film The Minus Man, and B-movie hero Bruce Campbell on playing Elvis Presley in Bubba Ho-Tep. Sidebars feature quirky details, including legal disclaimers and memorable quotes.
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The image of the great artist as a suffering visionary is a recent
invention, observes sociologist Nathalie Heinich - an invention rooted
in the "canonization" of Vincent van Gogh as a cultural hero for the
twentieth century. Heinich explores how and why the impoverished and
mentally tormented van Gogh came to be glorified shortly after his
suicide at the age of 37. Did the secular art world need a rebel-saint
of its own? In considering this possibility, the author explores the
history of efforts to celebrate van Gogh, whether in biographies or on
T-shirts, showing how the details of his life have been constructed
according to the pattern of a Christian saint's rise to recognition.
These biographical details circulated first as anecdotes, then as
historical truths, and finally became legendary motifs defining
individual greatness.
Heinich organizes her book around the stages that characterize the life
of a saint-deviation, renewal, reconciliation, and pilgrimage, the
latter culminating in visits to van Gogh's burial site and the
competition to buy his paintings or "relics." Heinich explores the
economics of the art market and the themes that make up the van Gogh
myth, such as the personalization of artistic grandeur, the celebration
of the interiority of the creator, and the glorification of
abnormality. By examining the mythology that helps drive artistic
investment, she forces us to reconsider the nature of admiration and
particularly the notion that obscurity during an artist's lifetime is a
guarantee of true genius.
Finding information is one thing: working out what information is required in the first place, knowing where to look for it, how to recognize it when it is discovered, how to get hold of it, and then what to do with it are equally necessary.
This book works through the skills and tools required by the researcher to achieve these ends. It deals mainly with electronic services and resources, although other formats are included.
The content is built on the following framework:
• deciding what information is required
• finding details of what is available
• obtaining the required information
• managing and using that information
The building blocks for information seeking are explained and a controlled, logical approach to information gathering is expounded.
Main Idea and Details contains ready-to-use activity pages to provide students with skill practice. The fun activities can be used to supplement and enhance what you are already teaching in your classroom. Give an activity page to students as independent classwork, or send the pages home as homework to reinforce skills taught in class. An answer key is included at the end of the book.
This book provides activities that will directly assist students in practicing skills and concepts related to main idea and details. Students will receive reinforcement in the following skills:
• Identifying the main idea
• Identifying details
• Creating details to support a main idea
• Creating a main idea to go with a list of details
• Outlining
• Creating webs
“Recharge” skill review with the ready-to-go activities in this book, and give students the power to succeed!