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If We Must Die: From Bigger Thomas to Biggie Smalls
by Aimé J. EllisInvestigates a variety of texts in which the self-image of poor, urban black men in the U.S. is formed within, by, and against a culture of racial terror and state violence.
If You Want to Write: A Book About Art, Independence and Spirit
by Brenda UelandFirst published in 1938, Carl Sandburg called this the best book ever written on how to write.
If You Want to Write
by Brenda UelandBrenda Ueland was a journalist, editor, freelance writer, and teacher of writing. In If You Want to Write: A Book about Art, Independence and Spirit she shares her philosophies on writing and life in general. Ueland firmly believed that anyone can write, that everyone is talented, original, and has something important to say. In this book she explains how find that spark that will make you a great writer. Carl Sandburg called this book the best book ever written about how to write. Join the millions of others who've found inspiration and unlocked their own talent.
If You Want to Write: A Book about Art, Independence and Spirit
by Brenda UelandTHE GRAYWOLF BESTSELLER NOW AVAILABLE IN EBOOK FORMBut we must try to find our True Conscience, our True Self, the very Center, for this is the only first-rate choice-making center. Here lies all originality, talent, honor, truthfulness, courage and cheerfulness. Here lies the ability to choose the good and the grand, the true and the beautiful.In her ninety-three remarkable years, Brenda Ueland published six million words. She said she had two rules she followed absolutely: to tell the truth, and not to do anything she didn't want to do. Her integrity shines throughout If You Want to Write, her bestselling classic on the process of writing that has already inspired thousands to find their own creative center. Carl Sandburg called this book "the best book ever written about how to write." Yet Ueland reminds us that "whenever I say ‘writing' in this book, I also mean anything that you love and want to do or make."
If You Were A Noun
by Michael DahlIf you were a noun, you would be a person, place or thing. You could answer the questions who, when and where. You could be singular or plural.
If You Were A Preposition (Word Fun Ser.)
by Nancy Loewen Sara GrayIf you were a preposition, you would connect a noun or pronoun to other words in a sentence. You could go WITH you friends INTO the movie theater. What else could you do if you were a preposition?
Ifigenia en Forest Hills: Anatomía de un asesinato
by Janet MalcolmUno de los mejores libros sobre un juicio jamás escritos. «Ella no lo pudo haber hecho, pero tenía que haberlo hecho». Ese es el enigma del que parte el fascinante nuevo libro de Janet Malcolm: la crónica de un juicio por asesinato en la cerrada comunidad de judíos bujaríes de Forest Hills, en el distrito neoyorquino de Queens. La joven y atractiva doctora Mazoltuv Borujova es acusada de haber contratado a un sicario para acabar con su ex marido, Daniel Malakov, un dentista respetado, en presencia de la hija de ambos, de cuatro años. El fiscal lo considera un acto de venganza: pocas semanas antes del asesinato a sangre fría de Malakov, este, inexplicablemente, había obtenido la custodia de la niña. La tragedia dickensiana del niño inocente es el hilo conductor del relato de Malcolm. Con la precisión intelectual y emocional que la caracteriza, Malcolm contempla el juicio («una pugna entre dos relatos antagónicos») desde todos los ángulos imaginables. El abismo entre nuestros ideales de justicia y los factores humanos que influyen en su aplicación (de la habilidad de los distintos abogados a la naturaleza de la selección de los jurados, la maleabilidad de las pruebas o la predisposición del juez) quizá sea la conclusión más dura. Reseñas:«Tan intrigante y emocionante como una historia de detectives, con todo el interés moral e intelectual de una gran novela.»Jeffrey Rosen «Seca y fascinante, Ifigenia en Forest Hills provoca desde sus primeras páginas un auténtico hechizo, el tipo de hechizo al que los admiradores de Janet Malcolm nos hemos hecho adictos.»The New York Times «Otro logro asombroso de Janet Malcolm. Aquí, como siempre, Malcolm provoca el mejor tipo de inquietud en el lector: la obligación de pensar.»Jeffrey Toobin
Ignazio Silone in Exile: Writing and Antifascism in Switzerland 1929–1944 (Warwick Studies in the Humanities)
by Deborah HolmesItalian writer and political activist Ignazio Silone spent fifteen years from 1929 to 1944 as a political exile in Switzerland. Focusing on this period, this book throws new light on Silone's complex biography and shows how his literary production influenced and was influenced by fellow antifascist German émigrés and the Swiss socialist intelligentsia. Using previously unknown archival materials, letters, and diaries, and following a flexible chronological structure, the book examines the developing role Silone played in the intellectual life of Zurich. Its analysis of Silone's links with 'Bauhaus' circles, disciples of C.J. Jung, and Zurich's socialist city council offers an interdisciplinary and comparative perspective on Silone's exile that both questions and celebrates his status as an 'un-Italian' Italian author. Holmes also considers wider topics such as the functions of the engagé writer in times of crisis, the dynamics of cultural transfer through translation, and the phenomenon of exile literature. Italian antifascist exile writing is an area of Italian literature that has never been explored as an entity. With its painstaking archival research and critical approach to the pioneering methods and results of German 'Exilforschung,' Ignazio Silone in Exile opens the way for further studies on this little known aspect of Italian emigration culture.
Igniting a Passion for Reading: Successful Strategies for Building Lifetime Readers
by Steven LayneIn his new book, Igniting a Passion for Reading, Steve Layne shows teachers how to develop readers who are not only motivated to read great books, but also love reading in its own right. Packed with practical ways to engage and inspire readers from kindergarten through high school, this book is a “must-have” on every teacher’s professional book shelf.
The Igor Tale: An Annotated Bibliography of 20th Century Non-Soviet Scholarship on the Slovo O Polku Igoreve (Routledge Revivals)
by Henry R. Cooper, Jr.The great Slavic medieval epic, The Igor Tale, recounts the story of a Russian prince who leads his men into battle against the Mongols. In 1935, Soviet scholar P.N. Berkov began to compile a bibliography of Western European translations of the poem, later followed by several Soviet Union biographies compiling the works on the epic that had appeared in the Russian Empire or the Soviet Union. Here, Cooper attempts to remedy the shortcomings of previous scholar work: to seriously survey the large body of non-Soviet scholarship on the poem particularly Western contributions to Igor scholarship. Originally published in 1978, Cooper traces foreign scholarship and translations from 1900-1976 from a wide variety of Western and some Eastern nations including the United States, Great Britain, France, Italy, Poland, Japan and many other countries. This title is a valuable resource for students of Literature and Slavic Studies.
Iguanas in the Snow and other Winter Poems
by Francisco X. AlarcónIn the final installment in the series, Francisco X. Alarcón shows children a city where people are bridges to each other and children sing poetry in two languages. A family frolic in the snow reminds the poet of the iguanas playing by his grandmother's house in Mexico. Readers are dazzled by the promise of the seedling redwoods — like all children — destined to be the ancestors of tomorrow. <P><P> Maya Christina Gonzalez creates a spirited family of children and adults who swing their way through colorful pages. Collages of old maps of Mexico and California provide intriguing backgrounds, and fun-loving iguanas peek out from the most surprising places.
IJAL vol 81 num 2
by The University of Chicago PressThis is volume 81 issue 2 of International Journal of American Linguistics. The International Journal of American Linguistics (IJAL) is dedicated to the documentation and analysis of the indigenous languages of the Americas. Founded by Franz Boas and Pliny Earle Goddard in 1917, the journal focuses on the linguistics of American Indigenous languages. IJAL is an important repository for research based on field work and archival materials on the languages of North and South America.
IJAL vol 81 num 4
by The University of Chicago PressThis is volume 81 issue 4 of International Journal of American Linguistics. The International Journal of American Linguistics (IJAL) is dedicated to the documentation and analysis of the indigenous languages of the Americas. Founded by Franz Boas and Pliny Earle Goddard in 1917, the journal focuses on the linguistics of American Indigenous languages. IJAL is an important repository for research based on field work and archival materials on the languages of North and South America.
IJAL vol 82 num 3
by The University of Chicago PressThis is volume 82 issue 3 of International Journal of American Linguistics. The International Journal of American Linguistics (IJAL) is dedicated to the documentation and analysis of the indigenous languages of the Americas. Founded by Franz Boas and Pliny Earle Goddard in 1917, the journal focuses on the linguistics of American Indigenous languages. IJAL is an important repository for research based on field work and archival materials on the languages of North and South America.
IJAL vol 82 num 4
by The University of Chicago PressThis is volume 82 issue 4 of International Journal of American Linguistics. The International Journal of American Linguistics (IJAL) is dedicated to the documentation and analysis of the indigenous languages of the Americas. Founded by Franz Boas and Pliny Earle Goddard in 1917, the journal focuses on the linguistics of American Indigenous languages. IJAL is an important repository for research based on field work and archival materials on the languages of North and South America.
IJAL vol 84 num 4
by The University of Chicago PressThis is volume 84 issue 4 of International Journal of American Linguistics. The International Journal of American Linguistics (IJAL) is dedicated to the documentation and analysis of the indigenous languages of the Americas. Founded by Franz Boas and Pliny Earle Goddard in 1917, the journal focuses on the linguistics of American Indigenous languages. IJAL is an important repository for research based on field work and archival materials on the languages of North and South America.
IJAL vol 85 num 2
by The University of Chicago PressThis is volume 85 issue 2 of International Journal of American Linguistics. The International Journal of American Linguistics (IJAL) is dedicated to the documentation and analysis of the indigenous languages of the Americas. Founded by Franz Boas and Pliny Earle Goddard in 1917, the journal focuses on the linguistics of American Indigenous languages. IJAL is an important repository for research based on field work and archival materials on the languages of North and South America.
IJAL vol 86 num 4
by The University of Chicago PressThis is volume 86 issue 4 of International Journal of American Linguistics. The International Journal of American Linguistics (IJAL) is dedicated to the documentation and analysis of the indigenous languages of the Americas. Founded by Franz Boas and Pliny Earle Goddard in 1917, the journal focuses on the linguistics of American Indigenous languages. IJAL is an important repository for research based on field work and archival materials on the languages of North and South America.
IJAL vol 87 num 1
by The University of Chicago PressThis is volume 87 issue 1 of International Journal of American Linguistics. The International Journal of American Linguistics (IJAL) is dedicated to the documentation and analysis of the indigenous languages of the Americas. Founded by Franz Boas and Pliny Earle Goddard in 1917, the journal focuses on the linguistics of American Indigenous languages. IJAL is an important repository for research based on field work and archival materials on the languages of North and South America.
Ikujiro Nonaka's A Dynamic Theory of Organisational Knowledge Creation (The Macat Library)
by Stoyan StoyanovIkujiro Nonaka’s A Dynamic Theory of Organisational Knowledge Creation outlines the creation of organisational knowledge through the constant conversion of the two types of knowledge, tacit and explicit, which Nonaka believes has the potential to guide managers’ knowledge creation strategies. This argument is centred on the conviction that companies are not passive parties that simply utilise existing knowledge for providing solutions to the customers, and that organisations and environments simultaneously influence knowledge creation. This text is considered fundamental for the knowledge management field and as such, it has been utilised by a large number of academics.
Il Filostrato: Poema (1789) (Routledge Revivals)
by Giovanni BoccaccioOriginally published in 1986, this translated version of Giovanni Boccaccio's Il Filostrato is of particular interest as the principal source for Chaucer's great work, the Troilus. This edition includes the original Italian alongside the translation, so that even the English reader with no knowledge of Italian will be able to make out a good deal of the original assisted by a close translation.
Il Piccolo Libro delle Muse: Frasi Ispiratrici per Scrittori
by Khaled Talib AndreaIl Piccolo Libro delle Muse è una raccolta di frasi personali che si propone di aiutare gli scrittori e gli aspiranti autori a trovare e conservare la gioia di scrivere.
Il Punto di Vista: Scrittura creativa facile
by Susan PalmquistI tuoi racconti e romanzi vengono rifiutati dagli editori e non ti spieghi il perché? Ti viene detto spesso che pecchi di intrusione dell’autore o che la tua storia manca di emozione? Il tuo manoscritto è stato rifiutato per problemi di head-hopping? Scrittura creativa facile – Il Punto di Vista ti aiuta a dare forza alla tua storia e a eliminare gli errori che ti fanno apparire uno scrittore principiante, e ti suggerisce dei pratici modi per agganciare il lettore a ciascun personaggio da te creato. Cosa imparerai Le differenze tra raccontare in prima e in terza persona, e come sono collegate al Punto di Vista. Come capire quale PdV è quello giusto per la tua storia. Un modo facile per individuare gli errori di head-hopping nella tua storia, e un modo facile per evitarlo. Il PdV profondo e quali vantaggi comporta usarlo. I capitoli sono brevi e di facile lettura, ognuno corredato da un esercizio specifico, Fai pratica.
Il Teatro di Eduardo de Filippo: La Crisi della Famiglia Patriarcale
by Donatella Fischer"Eduardo De Filippo (1900-1984) e uno dei maggiori drammaturghi del novecento. Nel suo teatro, la famiglia rappresenta il punto nevralgico della societa. Attraverso quest'unita archetipica, le opere qui considerate si propongono come un lungo esame dei rapporti familiari e sono, al contempo, il barometro dei mutamenti sociali e culturali delle diverse epoche in cui si svolge l'azione. In questo nuovo lavoro, Donatella Fischer analizza ogni commedia come un ulteriore passo verso l'inarrestabile frantumazione dell'universo familiare e, soprattutto, della famiglia patriarcale i cui precetti si rivelano sempre piu anacronistici. Eduardo De Filippo ritrae famiglie divise dal conflitto fra illusione e realta (Natale in casa Cupiello), aggrappate alla speranza (Napoli Milionaria! e Questi fantasmi!), sovversive dietro la cornice borghese (Filumena Marturano), in balia del proprio tempo (Mia famiglia) e ridotte infine all'involucro di se stesse nell'ultima opera dell'autoreGli esami non finiscono mai."
Ilan Manouach in Review: Critical Approaches to his Conceptual Comics (Routledge Advances in Comics Studies)
by Pedro MouraThis book takes an interdisciplinary and diverse critical look at the work of comic artist Ilan Manouach, situating it within the avant-garde movement more broadly. An international team of authors engages with the topic from diverse theoretical approaches, from traditional narratology and aesthetic close readings of some of Manouach's books, engaging with comics' own distinctive history, modes of production, circulation and reception, to perspectives from disability studies, post-colonial studies, technological criticism, media ecology, ontography, posthumanist philosophy, and issues of materiality and media specificity. This innovative and timely volume will interest students and scholars of comic studies, media studies, media ecology, literature, cultural studies, and visual studies.