Linda Hutcheon - The Politics of Postmodernism (New Accents)
Continuing the project begun in The Poetics of Postmodernism, the writer focuses on the politics of representation. Looking at both mass media and high art forms, she challenges the seeming transparency and apparent apolitical innocence of our visual images and verbal stories, asserting that these construct rather than reflect or express our experience of the world.
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The Great Book of Mind Teasers and Mind Puzzlers
This book consists of 75 utterly original and totally tantalizing brain teasers from master puzzler George J. Summers. He brings out fascinating challenges in situations as common as a game of tic-tac-toe or tennis, or as strange as a land of habitual Truth tellers and Liars. These puzzles and teasers are constructed with clues, helpful solution and detailed answers that show you step-by-step how a teaser or a puzzle is unravelled
Can a human being really spontaneously burst into flames? Just how deadly is the Bermuda Triangle? And what's the real story behind all those alien abductions? The answers to these and many other questions lie within the covers of The Skeptic's Guide to the Paranormal.
Bernie Bridges and his Rotten House pals win a trip to the snooty prep school Preppy Prep Prep. They get to stay there for a whole week to compete in the National Student Inventors Competition. Winner gets a cash prize and a chance to appear on MTV-5!
Bernie wants to win. No problem, he thinks. He can punk and skunk these preppy wimps and get them to make his winning invention.
But, whoa-who is being punk’d and skunked here? Bernie quickly learns that even the preppies at Preppy Prep Prep can also play to win!
Write Like the Masters: Emulating the Best of Hemingway, Faulkner, Salinger, and Others
Inspirational and informative, "Write Like the Masters" is the first book-length explanation of the rhetorical technique of imitation for the modern writer. Comprised of practical, inspirational, easy-to-apply advice, this helpful guide analyses the writing styles of twenty-one great novelists, explaining how readers can imitate these authors and, in the process, learn advanced writing secrets to fire up their own work.
