Product Description: In recent years there has been a sustained growth of interest in medieval literary culture, and the range of critical activity within this field has expanded greatly, largely in response to the challenges of modern critical theory. Some of the most stimulating work has tackled the subject of sexual difference and gender construction in medieval texts. Reponding to this tendency, editors Rudy Evans and Lesley Johnson have gathered a singularly effective and impressive collection of essays ranging from writing on such figures as Margery Kempe, Christine de Pisan, Langland, and Chaucer. As one of the first texts ever published on theories of sexual difference and medieval literature, Evans and Johnson contribute incisively both to the debate and discussion of sexual difference in pre-modern literature.
This publication presents 30 persuasive recommendation letters that were written on behalf of successful candidates to top-tier US business schools. The authors (including professors, employers, clients, peers and community leaders) document the candidates' achievements in an eloquent manner and explain extenuating circumstances in their academic and professional histories. The editor, an Ivy League admissions expert, explains why each letter made a difference in the committee's admissions decision. At top MBA programs, where the competition is fierce, the quality and depth of a candidate's reference letters can make the difference between acceptance and rejection. Whether you are an applicant who needs a persuasive letter of recommendation, or someone who has been asked to write one, this exceptional book is mandatory reading.
With this collection of subversive essays, Jacques Derrida exploded onto the scene of post-modern philosophy in Europe and the US though he didn't have a doctorate or teaching position at the time. In it, he demonstrates for the first time his conception of `deconstruction,' an apparently inexplicable concept which enables the analysis of `inter-textuality' and `binary-oppositions,' to be revealed. `Writing and Difference,' is of course a difficult text, and analytic philosophers don't even bother with it, though that may be their greatest mistake, for Derrida attempts (and not without success) to demonstrate that the notion of purely objective, enlightened truth seeking is an impossibility. That the essence of thought always operates within a given schema, a given facticity. "Differance," the famous phrase of Derrida, indicates that writing is necessarily primary to speech, we can see the `differ a nce' in text, not phonetically.
Added by: Maria | Karma: 3098.81 | Kids | 26 May 2008
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Everyone needs to know where to put an apostrophe
to make a word plural or possessive (Are those sticky things your
brother’s or your brothers?) and leaving one out of a contraction can
give someone the completely wrong impression (Were here to help you).
Full of silly scenes that show how apostrophes make a difference, too,
this is another picture book that will elicit bales of laughter and
better punctuation from all who read it.
What is humpty-dumptying? Do arguments from analogy ever stand up?
How do I know when someone is using weasel words?
What's the difference between a red herring and a straw man?
