An engaging and accessible guide to Russian writing of the past thousand years covering the entire span of Russian literature, from the Middle Ages to the post-Soviet period, and exploring all the forms that have made it so famous.
Middle English is a student guide to the most influential critical writing on Middle English literature.
* A student guide to the most influential critical writing on Middle English literature. * Brings together extracts from some of the major authorities in the field. * Introduces readers to different critical approaches to key Middle English texts. * Treats a wide range of Middle English texts, including The Owl and the Nightingale, The Canterbury Tales and Morte d'Arthur. * Organized around key critical concerns, such as authorship, genre, and textual form. * Each critical concern can be used as the basis for one week's work in a semester-long course. * Enables readers to forge new connections between different approaches.
Added by: otherwordly | Karma: 222.42 | Fiction literature | 18 September 2008
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A remote mountain community is suddenly besieged by a rash of grisly murders encroaching upon it from the surrounding forest. Bizarre reports start to spread, at the middle of which is the mansion of the Umbrella Corporation. The Special Tactics and Rescue Squad (STARS) is sent in response.
With age-appropriate, inquiry-centered curriculum materials and sound teaching practices, middle school science can capture the interest and energy of adolescent students and expand their understanding of the world around them. Resources for Teaching Middle School Science, developed by the National Science Resources Center (NSRC), is a valuable tool for identifying and selecting effective science curriculum materials that will engage students in grades 6 through 8. The volume describes more than 400 curriculum titles that are aligned with the National Science Education Standards.
Added by: Maria | Karma: 3098.81 | Non-Fiction | 29 August 2008
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The towns of Italy in the later Middle Ages presents over one hundred fascinating documents, carefully selected and coordinated from the richest, most innovative and most documented society of the European Middle Ages: the urban civilization of Italy. After a general introduction, the book is divided into five sections on physical environment, civic religion, economy, society and politics. Each document is individually introduced and set in its own context.
