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Nuclear Cultures: Irradiated Subjects, Aesthetics and Planetary Precarity (Routledge Studies in World Literatures and the Environment)
by Pramod K. NayarNuclear Cultures: Irradiated Subjects, Aesthetics and Planetary Precarity aims to develop the field of nuclear humanities and the powerful ability of literary and cultural representations of science and catastrophe to shape the meaning of historic events. Examining multiple discourses and textual materials, including fiction, poetry, biographies, comics, paintings, documentary and photography, this volume will illuminate the cultural, ecological and social impact of nuclearization narratives. Furthermore, this text explores themes such as the cultures of atomic scientists, the making of the bomb, nuclear bombings and disasters, nuclear aesthetics and art, and the global mobilization against nuclearization. Nuclear Cultures breaks new ground in the debates on "the nuclear" to foster the development of nuclear humanities, its vocabulary and methodology.
Nuestro Autobús
by Suzanne BloomTess is excited. Today is her first day of school and her very first ride on a school bus. Waiting at the bus stop with her older friend Gus, Tess eagerly asks, "Is this the bus for us, Gus?" as each vehicle passes by. From fire engine to front loader, Suzanne Bloom introduces young readers to a variety of vehicles through a simple text and spirited illustrations.
Nueva York con Norman Mailer (Colección Endebate #Volumen)
by V.S. NaipaulV.S. Naipaul sigue como periodista la legendaria campaña de Norman Mailer a la alcaldía de Nueva York en 1969. La política estadounidense vivió numerosos sobresaltos en los años 60. Uno de ellos fue la mediática campaña del polémico escritor Norman Mailer a la alcaldía de Nueva York. A su lado, durante la mayor parte de la campaña, estuvo Naipaul, que fue recogiendo en sus crónicas cómo la trituradora de la política iba deshaciendo la ilusión y la resistencia del incauto Mailer y su entusiasta equipo.
Nuevas maneras de matar a tu madre
by Colm Tóibín¿Quién dijo que todas las familias felices, o que lo parecen, son iguales? Toibin tiene su propia opinión al respecto. Colm Toibín aborda en este libro inclasificable, a caballo entre el ensayo y la narración, la siempre problemática y jugosa relación de los escritores y sus familias. Con una asombrosa perspicacia psicológica, con fino sentido del humor, lucidez crítica y contagioso fervor, reconstruye, entre otras, la historia de W. B. Yeats con su padre, la terrible paternidad de Thomas Mann o el tortuoso matrimonio de John Cheever. En piezas que tratan de la importancia de las parientes pobres o la muerte de los padres en la novela del XIX, hasta la perversa vinculación entre una generación y otra, Toibín nos habla de algo muy próximo, íntimo, pero acaba celebrando el poder y el misterio de la gran literatura. Divertido, hondo y sagaz, Nuevas maneras de matar a tu madre muestra una vez más el talento de uno de los grandes escritores de la actual literatura anglosajona. Reseña:«Toibín es un guía perfecto para llevarnos a la tierra de los deseos inconfesables.»London Evening Standard
Number and Pattern in the Eighteenth-Century Novel: Defoe, Fielding, Smollett and Sterne (Routledge Library Editions: 18th Century Literature)
by Douglas BrooksNumerological patterning in literature, where structural details of a literary work are symbolically related to its meaning on the verbal level, was particularly common from the Middle Ages up to the seventeenth century. Originally published in 1973, the author breaks new ground in revealing that familiarity with this technique lived on into the eighteenth century, supplying the more artistically aware of the early British novelists with meaningful formal guidelines. An account is given of the origins and continuity of the numerological tradition in Western European – and particularly English – thought as it affected literary structure. The careful structural patterning in the novels of Defoe and in Fielding’s Joseph Andrews and Tom Jones is examined in detail. Smollett, too, is shown to have been interested in exploring the possibilities of number and pattern, and the clear-cut numerological framework of Sterne’s Tristram Shandy is revealed. This original and controversial study combines structural analysis with fresh interpretative insights, and draws parallels with painting, music and architecture. It also has an important bearing on the history of ideas in the first half of the eighteenth century.
Number the Stars (SparkNotes Literature Guide Series)
by SparkNotesNumber the Stars (SparkNotes Literature Guide) by Lois Lowry Making the reading experience fun! Created by Harvard students for students everywhere, SparkNotes is a new breed of study guide: smarter, better, faster. Geared to what today's students need to know, SparkNotes provides: *Chapter-by-chapter analysis *Explanations of key themes, motifs, and symbols *A review quiz and essay topicsLively and accessible, these guides are perfect for late-night studying and writing papers
Numbers Everywhere
by Elliott KaufmanAs in Alphabet Everywhere, where there was a world of letters just waiting to be discovered, Numbers Everywhere reveals how digits and mathematical symbols can be found in the world around us -- if we know how to look for them.
Numbers and the Making of Us: Counting and the Course of Human Cultures
by Caleb EverettNumber concepts are a human invention developed and refined over millennia. They allow us to grasp quantities precisely: recent research shows that most specific quantities are not perceived in the absence of a number system. Numbers are not innate or universal; yet without them, the world as we know it would not exist.
Numeracy and Learning Difficulties: Approaches to Teaching and Assessment (Learning Difficulties Ser.)
by Peter WestwoodBy understanding why children struggle with maths, teachers are better equipped to provide effective support and nurture confidence in low-achievers. Numeracy and Learning Difficulties includes how to tackle common learning difficulties by following different teaching practices and principles, identifying gaps in students' knowledge and developing curricula that bridges these gaps, improves numerical literacy using problem-solving strategies and skills, and a handy checklist of benchmarks in achievement.
Numeral Classifiers and Classifier Languages: Chinese, Japanese, and Korean (Routledge Studies in East Asian Linguistics)
by Chungmin Lee; Young-Wha Kim; Byeong-uk YiFocusing mainly on classifiers, Numeral Classifiers and Classifier Languages offers a deep investigation of three major classifier languages: Chinese, Japanese, and Korean. This book provides detailed discussions well supported by empirical evidence and corpus analyses. Theoretical hypotheses regarding differences and commonalities between numeral classifier languages and other mainly article languages are tested to seek universals or typological characteristics. The essays collected here from leading scholars in different fields promise to be greatly significant in the field of linguistics for several reasons. First, it targets three representative classifier languages in Asia. It also provides critical clues and suggests solutions to syntactic, semantic, psychological, and philosophical issues about classifier constructions. Finally, it addresses ensuing debates that may arise in the field of linguistics in general and neighboring inter-disciplinary areas. This book should be of great interest to advanced students and scholars of East Asian languages.
Nunca lo hubiera dicho: Los secretos bien guardados (o no tanto) de la lengua española
by Real Academia Española Asociación de Academias de la Lengua EspañolaEl desembarco de la Real Academia Española en la divulgación. Nunca lo hubiera dicho es el primer volumen de la colección «Hablantes», preparada por la Real Academia Española y la Asociación de Academias de la Lengua Española. En él se abordan de manera clara y amena asuntos poco conocidos y anécdotas relacionados con la historia del español, el léxico, la ortografía o la gramática: castellano o español, el mito del español más puro, el «color especial» de América, la discreción de la letra hache, los acentos que engañan, la palabra que no se puede escribir... Los abundantes ejemplos tomados de la realidad (prensa, publicidad, etc.) resultan divertidos o sorprendentes para todos los lectores. Porque disfrutar de nuestra lengua descubriendo sus secretos puede ser el mejor plan. Con prólogo de Soledad Puértolas, de la Real Academia Española.
Nur Baba: A Sufi Novel of Late Ottoman Istanbul (Routledge Sufi Series)
by Yakup Kadri KaraosmanoğluThis first-ever English translation of Nur Baba – a classic of modern Turkish literature written by Yakup Kadri Karaosmanoğlu – offers a unique window into Sufi lodges, social dilemmas, and intellectual life in early twentieth-century Istanbul. Inspired by Karaosmanoğlu’s personal experiences with Islamic mystical orders, it is a story of illicit romance and spiritual inquiry, depicting a colourful lodge of Sufi dervishes led by a charismatic, yet morally suspect, spiritual master named Nur Baba. The plot follows his attempts to seduce an attractive married woman from an elite family and recounts her dramatic experiences in the life of a Sufi community. The setting shuttles between the grand mansions of Istanbul’s elite families and a Sufi lodge where rich and poor intermingle. Exploring questions of gender, morality, and religious bias throughout, it captures the zeitgeist of early twentieth-century modernist thinkers who criticised Sufism for impeding social progress and debated the public roles of women in a rapidly modernising society. Alongside the editor’s meticulous translation, the volume includes a scholarly introduction, maps, and images, as well as explanatory footnotes that will aid both students and scholars alike. The novel will be of particular interest to those studying world literature, Sufi studies, and Ottoman-Turkish history.
Nurse Memoirs from the Great War in Britain, France, and Germany (Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine)
by Jerry PalmerNurse Memoirs from the Great War in Britain, France, and Germany examines an understudied corpus of memoirs in English, French, and German stemming from the unprecedented involvement of women in the war effort. Jerry Palmer considers the memoirs in relationship to public opinion, collective memory and other women’s writing about the war. Through close-readings of the memoirs and their contexts, the book identifies themes present in the texts and considers the nurse memoir as rhetoric—examining to what extent the texts are promoting or countering arguments in the public sphere about their involvement or more widely about women’s position in society. Palmer explores the multiple contexts related to the nurse memoirs, including public response to volunteer wartime nursing, the organisation of the military health services of the three nations and their conduct in the war, and changes in the post-war organization of public health services and the professionalization of nursing.
Nurturing Primary Readers in Grades K-3: Reading Instruction Centered in Students' Social Emotional Needs
by Lane W. Clarke Krysten GorrivanWeaving together reading pedagogy and social emotional learning (SEL) frameworks, this text presents an integrated, research-based approach to reading instruction grounded in instructional and collaborative strategies that address students’ social emotional needs. The text features real stories from the classroom to invite readers to learn alongside the students, teachers, families, and professionals as they experience journeys of growth. The authentic case studies cover best practices in reading instruction in a way that centers students, promotes the whole child, and supports reading growth. Following a cyclical framework – discovering, nurturing, growing – each chapter addresses typical student reading needs and explains the role of collaborative relationships in effective instruction. Through the medium of storytelling, readers gain profound insights into key topics, including teaching multilingual students, phonological awareness, reading fluency, and more. Accessible and comprehensive, this book steers away from a prescriptive recipe for instruction but rather leaves readers with an effective framework for incorporating data-based decision-making, collaboration, and research-supported literacy practices to foster each student's social and emotional skills in the classroom. With a targeted focus on K-3 classrooms, this text is a key resource for pre-service and in-service educators in literacy education and elementary education, enriching the perspectives of all educators.
Nutzungsmuster digitaler Anwendungen im Fachunterricht: Empirische Analysen unter besonderer Berücksichtigung von Fremdsprachenlehrkräften in Deutschland
by Jan NiemannIn diesem Buch werden empirische Befunde zu Mediennutzungsmustern digitaler Anwendungen im Fachunterricht in Verbindung mit Bedingungsfaktoren der Mediennutzung präsentiert, wobei insbesondere das Mediennutzungsverhalten von Fremdsprachenlehrkräften in Deutschland fokussiert wird. Die Ergebnisse der auf quantitativen Sekundäranalysen der International Computer and Information Literacy Study (ICILS) beruhenden empirischen Studie deuten auf fachgruppenspezifische Unterschiede in den Mediennutzungsmustern und den jeweiligen Bedingungsfaktoren hin. Dabei scheinen für Fremdsprachenlehrkräfte u.a. digitale Verknüpfungen mit Schulbüchern und digitale Schulbücher besonders relevante digitale Anwendungen für die Nutzung im Fachunterricht zu sein. Als zentraler Bedingungsfaktor für die Zugehörigkeit zu einem bestimmten Mediennutzungsmuster werden für Fremdsprachenlehrkräfte in Deutschland darüber hinaus digitalisierungsbezogene Einstellungen identifiziert. Die Ergebnisse werden im Hinblick auf ihre forschungs- und praxisbezogene Relevanz im Kontext der empirischen Bildungsforschung diskutiert.
Nyx in the House of Night: Mythology, Folklore and Religion in the PC and Kristin Cast Vampyre Series
by Jordan Dane Kristin CastThe House of Night is no ordinary school—and not just because it's for vampyres. It's a place where magic, religion, folklore, and mythology from multiple traditions merry meet and meld to create something incredible and new. In Nyx in the House of Night—a 2-color illustrated companion to the House of Night series—some of your favorite YA authors, plus a few experts, help you navigate the influences behind the House of Night series in a guide that would get even Damien's seal of approval. Travel with P.C. Cast as she gets her first tattoo in Ireland, climbs the ruins of Sgiach's castle, and discovers the lore that led to the Isle of Skye vampyres. Read Kristin Cast's defense of women in history and mythology who, like Zoey, have made a practice of juggling multiple men. Sit in on a vampyre lecture by Bryan Lankford, the real-life basis for House of Night instructor Dragon Lankford, on the parallels between Wiccan and vampyre circle rituals. Tour Tulsa's House of Night landmarks with local Amy H. Sturgis. Plus: Karen Mahoney on Nyx and other goddesses of the night John Edgar Browning on vampires in folklore, fiction, and reality Jana Oliver on tattoos and other Marks Ellen Steiber on feline familiars Yasmine Galenorn on priestesses and goddess worship Jordon Dane on Zoey's Cherokee heritage Jeri Smith-Ready on the Raven Mockers and Kalona's less than heavenly inspiration Christine Zika on the connection between Nyx and the Virgin Mary Triniy Faegen on the Greek version of the Otherworld Nyx in the House of Night also includes an appendix of character names that reveals the myth behind Zoey's last name, which House of Night cats have ties to Camelot, Egypt, and Middle-earth, and more!
Nähe, Distanz und Anonymität - Untersuchungen zum sein-Modalpassiv und Gerundiv: am Beispiel der Presse-, Politik- und Rechtssprache (Linguistik in Empirie und Theorie/Empirical and Theoretical Linguistics)
by Igor TrostUntersuchungsgegenstand sind die Grammatik, die Modal-, Temporal- und Aspekt-Semantik, die Pragmatik und die Funktion der beiden modalpassivischen Konstruktionen sein-Modalpassiv und Gerundiv im Deutschen am Beispiel von drei für den Gebrauch dieser beiden Konstruktionen einschlägigen Domänen, nämlich der Presse-, Politik- und Rechtssprache. Von ihrer syntaktisch-semantischen und textlinguistischen Grundausrichtung schlägt die korpusbasierte Arbeit den Bogen zur variationslinguistischen Pragmatik, linguistischen Sprachgebrauchsanalyse und Sprachgebrauchskritik.
O / Exorcismos de esti(l)o
by Guillermo Cabrera InfanteDos libros experimentales reunidos en un volumen en el que brilla el inigualable talento lúdico de Guillermo Cabrera Infante En este volumen conviven dos libros próximos en el tiempo de Guillermo Cabrera Infante: la colección de artículos y ensayos O, publicada originalmente en 1975, y el libro de piezas experimentales Exorcismos de esti(l)o, aparecido en 1976. En el primero, el autor despliega su peculiar ingenio creador, en ocasiones satírico y burlón, para describir facetas de su cotidianidad y de la vida contemporánea, haciendo referencia a protagonistas tan diversos como su inigualable gato Offenbach y los miembros de la policía secreta. En Exorcismos, una colección repleta de saber clásico y sarcásticas investigaciones literarias, brilla el talento lúdico del Cabrera Infante, así como su obsesión por las sorpresas del lenguaje, plasmada en una serie de retruécanos, juegos de palabras multilingües e ingeniosas manipulaciones tipográficas que evocan a e.e. cummings y al OuLiPo. La crítica ha dicho:«Guillermo Cabrera Infante era un grandísimo escritor.»Mario Vargas Llosa «Uno de los mayores y mejores renovadores de la prosa en castellano, un clásico de vanguardia.»Fernando Savater «Su talento verbal era extraordinario, tanto de viva voz como por escrito, aunque esto último lo sepa cualquiera que haya leído sus libros.»Javier Marías «Cabrera Infante trajo al sector desarraigado a la fuerza de Cuba las virtudes de la parodia, la sátira y el humor.»José Miguel Oviedo, Letras Libres
O Albany!: Improbable City of Political Wizards, Fearless Ethnics, Spectacular, Aristocrats, Splendid Nobodies, and Underrated Scoundrels
by William KennedyKennedy's O Albany! is in part the non-fictional stories he covered in his novels, Legs and Billy Phelan's Greatest Game. Kennedy retells the exploits of the bootlegger Jack 'Legs' Diamond, the bungled 1933 kidnapping of John O'Connell, Jr., heir to the Albany Democratic machine and explores the Albany of his past, including its demographics and vanished neighborhoods.
O Alienista
by Machado De AssisA sarcastic criticism of the science of its day, O Alientista, considered a classic of Brazilian literature, tells the story of psychiatrist Simão Bacamarte, who convinces the town of Itaguaí to pay for an assylum, and begins to fill it with residents he believes insane. While the assylum at first has a few patients, it grows quickly until, after a revolt by many in the town is fought off, it includes 4/5ths of the town! Realizing something is wrong, Bacamarte releases those committed saying that those committed are infact normal. Instead, he concludes, the insane are those who are considered normal or exemplary. Then his friends convince him that he is, in fact, exemplary. . .
O Is for Ocean
by Ashley Marie Mireles<p>A is for anemone<p> <p>B is for barracuda<p> <p>C is for clown fish . . .<p> <p>With F for the flounder, K for kelp, and T for tide pool, going from A to Z has never been more fun! Take an alphabetized voyage under the sea and discover the plants, animals, and places that make the ocean so amazing!<p>
O Pioneers! (SparkNotes Literature Guide Series)
by SparkNotesO Pioneers! (SparkNotes Literature Guide) by Pearl Buck Making the reading experience fun! Created by Harvard students for students everywhere, SparkNotes is a new breed of study guide: smarter, better, faster. Geared to what today's students need to know, SparkNotes provides: *Chapter-by-chapter analysis *Explanations of key themes, motifs, and symbols *A review quiz and essay topicsLively and accessible, these guides are perfect for late-night studying and writing papers
O Roteiro de Durões da Luta na Escola Secundária Killimore
by Joe RasselorAgora, o clássico e-book de wrestling, Wrestling Thugs of Killimore High School, foi escrito como roteiro. Possui muitas linhas opcionais e terminações alternativas. Leia, aja e lute por sua conta e risco.
O Westport In The Light Of Asia Minor
by Paul DurcanO Westport in the Light of Asia Minor was first published in a tiny edition in Dublin in 1975. It was Paul Durcan's first fully-fledged collection, and already displays an astonishingly mature, visionary power, shot through with the surrealism and heart-breaking comedy that have since become his hallmark. It won him the Patrick Kavanagh Award. Now Durcan's readers can discover what they have been missing. The poems are printed in the order he originally intended, and the volume concluded with six poems from his very first collaborative collection, Endsville (1967), with Brian Lynch.
O funambulista, o ateu intolerante e outras histórias reais
by Manuel MonteiroDo autor de POR AMOR À LÍNGUA e SOBRE O POLITICAMENTE CORRECTO um livro onde a realidade ultrapassa a ficção. Em O Funambulista, o Ateu Intolerante e Outras Histórias Reais, Manuel Monteiro relata, com talento, algumas das histórias que o marcaram, versando os temas do quotidiano a que dificilmente alguém consegue fugir nesta lide de estar vivo e existir em comunidade. Do trabalho à religião, passando pela violência, o sexo ou a vaidade, todos os episódios são narrados com a minúcia e a frieza de um cirurgião, acompanhados de uma utilíssima panaceia de sugestões literárias e da Sétima Arte, cumprindo o papel que melhor lhes cabe: o de bússola. Em conversa com amigos, familiares, taxistas, colegas e desconhecidos, viajamos entre a comédia e a tragédia, para descobrir que o mundo e as opiniões são tão diversos como as pessoas que nele habitam. E que, não raras vezes, a realidade nada fica a dever à ficção. Entre o insólito e o quotidiano, o abismo da alma humana.