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Precocious Children and Childish Adults: Age Inversion in Victorian Literature
Especially evident in Victorian-era writings is a rhetorical tendency to liken adults to children and children to adults. Claudia Nelson examines this literary phenomenon and explores the ways in which writers discussed the child-adult relationship during this period.Though far from ubiquitous, the ... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2012 -
Representing Children in Chinese and U.S. Children's Literature (Studies in Childhood, 1700 to the Present)
Bringing together children’s literature scholars from China and the United States, this collection provides an introduction to the scope and goals of a field characterized by active but also distinctive scholarship in two countries with very different rhetorical traditions. The volume’s five section... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2014 -
Keywords for Children's Literature, Second Edition (Keywords #9)
by Michael Joseph • Beverly Lyon Clark • Michelle Martin • Peter Hunt • Karen Sánchez-Eppler • Colleen Glenney Boggs • Elizabeth Marshall • Clémentine Beauvais • Lynne Vallone • Philip Nel • Lissa Paul • Robin Bernstein • Evelyn Arizpe • Katharine Capshaw • Vanessa Joosen • Patricia Crain • Kerry Mallan • Kenneth Kidd • Kimberley Reynolds • Mavis Reimer • Niigaanwewidam James Sinclair • Clare Bradford • JonArno Lawson • Nicole Markotić • Ute Dettmar • Karen Coats • Louise Joy • Naomi Hamer • Bettina Kümmerling-Meibauer • Jacqueline Reid-Walsh • Joseph T. Thomas • Hugh Crago • Debra Dudek • Claudia Nelson • Derritt Mason • Zoe Jaques • Charles Hatfield • Anna Stemmann • Sandra L. Beckett • Kelly Hager • Mike Cadden • Boel Westin • Lydia Kokkola • Marah Gubar • Victoria Ford Smith • Nina Christensen • Sarah Park Dahlen • Eric L. Tribunella • Richard Flynn • B. j. McDaniel • Ebony Elizabeth Marshall • Elisabeth Lies Wesseling • Deirdre Baker • Karin E. Westman • Peter Hollindale • Michael Heyman • Kevin Shortsleeve • William Moebius • Stine Liv Johansen • Cathryn M. Mercier • Åse Marie Ommundsen • Emer O’SullivanIntroduces key terms, global concepts, debates, and histories for Children's Literature in an updated editionOver the past decade, there has been a proliferation of exciting new work across many areas of children’s literature and culture. Mapping this vibrant scholarship, the Second Edition of Keywo... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2021 -
Rising from Ashes: Discover Your Hidden Power Through Adversity
Rising from Ashes is an inspiring story of what can be accomplished when one refuses to be a victim, one woman’s heroic journey that puts two notorious con men behind bars. The author weaves her secrets of how to overcome any kind of adversity into the harrowing journey of losing her life savings in... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2011 -
Specifications Grading: Restoring Rigor, Motivating Students, and Saving Faculty Time
In her latest book Linda Nilson puts forward an innovative but practical and tested approach to grading that can demonstrably raise academic standards, motivate students, tie their achievement of learning outcomes to their course grades, save faculty time and stress, and provide the reliable gauge o... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2015 -
Social Informatics: 11th International Conference, SocInfo 2019, Doha, Qatar, November 18–21, 2019, Proceedings (Lecture Notes in Computer Science #11864)
by Emilio Zagheni • Fabian Flöck • Ingmar Weber • Kareem M. Darwish • Claudia Wagner • Laura Nelson • Samin ArefThis volume constitutes the proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Social Informatics, SocInfo 2019, held in Doha, Qatar, in November 2019. The 17 full and 5 short papers presented in these proceedings were carefully reviewed and selected from 86 submissions. The papers presented in thi... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2019 -
Leadership At Scale: Better leadership, better results
Traditional approaches to leadership development focus on a small number of individuals at the top. However, in today's world of constant change and decentralized decision-making, organizations need effective leaders at all levels of their organizations. That requires a much broader and deeper pool ... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2018 -
Leadership at Scale: Better leadership, better results
Leadership effectiveness drives organizational performance, yet almost half of all organizations face some kind of leadership gap that they are not able to fill. In Leadership at Scale, McKinsey experts C laudio Feser, Michael Rennie and Nicolai Nielsen share their secrets on how to increase leaders... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2018 -
Animal Welfare
by Richard Bennett • Paul Thompson • David Fraser • Georgia Mason • Clare Palmer • Peter Sandøe • Christine Nicol • Daniel Weary • Michael Appleby • Anna Olsson • Ignacio Viñuela-Fernández • Michael Cockram • Paul Hemsworth • Joy Mench • Ilias Kyriazakis • Linda Keeling • Marek Spinka • Birte Nielsen • Francisco Galindo • Barry Hughes • Dominique Blache • Alain Boissy • Bryan Jones • Andrew Butterworth • Charlotte C. Burn • Grahame J. Coleman • Richard B. D’Eath • Ian J.H. Duncan • Cathy M. Dwyer • Paul Flecknell • Paul M. Hocking • Stella Maris Huertas • Joergen B. Kjaer • Ute Knierim • Shane K. Maloney • Professor Michael Mendl • Ruth C. Newberry • Edmond A. Pajor • Jeff Rushen • Sally L. Sherwen • Claudia Terlouw • Bert Tolkamp • Natalie K. Waran • Francoise Wemelsfelder • Nadja Wielebnowski • Hanno WürbelUpdated and revised, this bestselling textbook continues to provide a broad introduction to the key topics in the welfare of animals both large and small, farm and companion, wild and zoo. It retains all the popular features of the previous editions with coverage of key issues such as ethics, anima... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2018