Authoritative, thorough, and engaging, Life: The Science of Biology achieves an optimal balance of scholarship and teachability, never losing sight of either the science or the student. The first introductory text to present biological concepts through the research that revealed them, Life covers the full range of topics with an integrated experimental focus that flows naturally from the narrative.
AdventureBox is a magazine for 6-9 year old children who enjoy the challenge of reading by themselves. The colourful cover, small format and range of contents will also appeal to those who perhaps need a little more encouragement to pick up a book.
AdventureBox is a magazine for 6-9 year old children who enjoy the challenge of reading by themselves. The colourful cover, small format and range of contents will also appeal to those who perhaps need a little more encouragement to pick up a book.
From a Modernist/Postmodernist perspective, this title addresses questions of literary and cultural nationalism. The authors reveal that since the seventeenth century, American writing has reflected the political and historical climate of its time and helped define America's cultural and social parameters. Above all, they argue that American literature has always been essentially 'modern', illustrating this with a broad range of texts: from Poe and Melville to Fitzgerald and Proud, to Wallace and Stevens, Gwendolyn Brooks, and Thomas Pynchon.
Reading Victorian Poetry offers close readings of poems from the Victorian era by a renowned scholar. The selection includes a range of canonical and lesser known writers
