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Vitality Politics: Health, Debility, and the Limits of Black Emancipation (Corporealities: Discourses Of Disability)
by Stephen KnadlerVitality Politics focuses on a slow racial violence against African Americans through everyday, accumulative, contagious, and toxic attritions on health. The book engages with recent critical disability studies scholarship to recognize that debility, or the targeted maiming and distressing of Black populations, is a largely unacknowledged strategy of the U.S. liberal multicultural capitalist state. This politicization of biological health serves as an instrument for insisting on a racial state of exception in which African Americans’ own unhealthy habits and disease susceptibility justifies their legitimate suspension from full rights to social justice, economic opportunity, and political freedom and equality. The book brings together disability studies, Black Studies, and African American literary history as it highlights the urgent need and gives weight to a biopolitics of debilitation and medicalization to better understand how Black lives are made not to matter in our supposedly race-neutral multicultural democracy.
Vivir con un psicópata: Las emociones no tienen inteligencia
by María José García-ToméTODOS SOMOS VULNERABLES A INSTALAR UN PSICÓPATA EN NUESTRA VIDA Una mujer madura, psicóloga de profesión, con dos hijos adultos, se reencuentra con un antiguo amor de juventud. Después de treinta años sin saber nada el uno del otro, el destino los pone frente a frente en el último tramo de sus vidas. El deseo de escribir el final de una historia no vivida, que a menudo queda latente en ese primer amor, les empuja a dar rienda suelta a esa segunda oportunidad que disipe sus frustraciones. La protagonista viene de un desierto emocional de largo recorrido deseosa de reivindicar su condición de mujer, y sin apenas darse cuenta se va dejando atrapar por la tela de araña tejida por un psicópata que la maneja con habilidad. Descubre sus engaños a través de la red y aquella visión atroz de su mundo virtual la deja en estado de shock, instalándose en una lucha desesperada contra ella misma sin saber que camino tomar. Apoyada por su profesión estudia en profundidad los rasgos de la personalidad psicopática, elaborando un perfil del personaje que le va a servir para superar la situación. Dedicado a todas las mujeres y hombres que aun siendo capaces de afrontar cualquier reto que les plantee la vida, en sus relaciones se muestran sumisos y soportan desprecios, humillaciones y engaños, esperando un cambio que nunca llega.
Vivir peligrosamente en tiempos extraordinarios
by OshoOsho es conocido como una de las figuras más provocadoras de nuestro tiempo. Este libro, compuesto de una selección de sus intempestivos discursos, nos presenta una visión general de los conceptos clave del ideal de «vivir peligrosamente». Crítico con las religiones tradicionales y sus normas y doctrinas, que imponen una «esclavitud psicológica», su ideario pone énfasis en la responsabilidad personal y la libertad. Su misión, según él, era conseguir que regresaran a la vida aquellos que vivían como si estuvieran muertos. Esta selección de sus discursos nos proporciona el contexto para entender el singular acercamiento de Osho al camino de la espiritualidad, destaca aquellos temas a los que recurre reiteradamente para encontrar respuesta a sus preguntas y nos ofrece sus invitaciones para un nuevo mundo poblado de seres ilustrados. «Mi palabra para los que rezan es "amor"... el amor no es haciaun dios invisible. Es amor a todo lo visible: seres humanos, animales, árboles, océanos, montañas...»
Vivisection and Late-Victorian Literary Culture (Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture)
by Asha HornsbyThe nineteenth-century antivivisection movement was supported by a striking number of poets, authors, and playwrights who attended meetings, signed petitions, contributed funds, and lent their pens to the cause. Yet live animal experimentation also permeated the Victorian imagination and shaped British literary culture in ways that the movement against it did not anticipate and could not entirely control. This is the first sustained literary-critical study of the topic. It traces responses to the practice through an extensive corpus of canonical, popular, and ephemeral texts including newspapers, scientific books, and government documents. Asha Hornsby sheds light on the complex entanglement of art and science at the fin-de-siècle and explores how the representational and aesthetic preoccupations opened up by vivisection debates often sat uneasily alongside a socio-political commitment to animal protection. Despite efforts to present writing and vivisecting as rivalrous activities, author and experimenter, pen and scalpel, often resembled each other.
Vladimir Lenin (SparkNotes Biography Guide)
by SparkNotesVladimir Lenin (SparkNotes Biography Guide) Making the reading experience fun! SparkNotes Biography Guides examine the lives of historical luminaries, from Alexander the Great to Virginia Woolf. Each biography guide includes:An examination of the historical context in which the person lived A summary of the person&’s life and achievements A glossary of important terms, people, and events An in-depth look at the key epochs in the person&’s career Study questions and essay topics A review test Suggestions for further reading Whether you&’re a student of history or just a student cramming for a history exam, SparkNotes Biography guides are a reliable, thorough, and readable resource.
Vladimir Nabokov
by Paul D. MorrisVladimir Nabokov (1899-1977), the eminent Russian-American writer and intellectual, is best known for his novels, though he was also the author of plays, poems, and short stories. In this important new work, Paul D. Morris offers a comprehensive reading of Nabokov's Russian and English poetry, until now a neglected facet of his oeuvre. Morris' unique and insightful study re-evaluates Nabokov's poetry and demonstrates that poetry was in fact central to his identity as an author and was the source of his distinctive authorial - lyric - voice.After offering a critical overview of the multi-staged history of the reception of Nabokov's poetry and an extensive analysis of his poetic writing, Morris argues that Nabokov's poetry has largely been misinterpreted and its place in his oeuvre misunderstood. Through a detailed examination of the form and content of Nabokov's writings, Morris demonstrates that Nabokov's innovations in the realms of drama, the short story, and the novel were profoundly shaped by his lyric sensibility.
Vladimir Nabokov
by Norman PageThis set comprises of 40 volumes covering nineteenth and twentieth century European and American authors. These volumes will be available as a complete set, mini boxed sets (by theme) or as individual volumes. This second set compliments the first 68 volume set of Critical Heritage published by Routledge in October 1995.
Vladimir Nabokov
by David RamptonVladimir Nabakov considers the novelist's aesthetic precepts and practice and the distinctive character of his work and the book also gives consideration of his fiction in the larger context of the modernist and postmodernist enterprise. It analyses the importance of the novels' challenges to all sorts of aesthetic and moral presumptions (including some of Nabakov's own). Readers are thus encouraged to draw their own conclusions about the issues raised in Nabakov's work.
Vladimir Nabokov in Context
by Siggy Frank David BetheaVladimir Nabokov, bilingual writer of dazzling masterpieces, is a phenomenon that both resists and requires contextualization. This book challenges the myth of Nabokov as a sole genius who worked in isolation from his surroundings, as it seeks to anchor his work firmly within the historical, cultural, intellectual and political contexts of the turbulent twentieth century. Vladimir Nabokov in Context maps the ever-changing sites, people, cultures and ideologies of his itinerant life which shaped the production and reception of his work. Concise and lively essays by leading scholars reveal a complex relationship of mutual influence between Nabokov's work and his environment. Appealing to a wide community of literary scholars this timely companion to Nabokov's writing offers new insights and approaches to one of the most important, and yet most elusive writers of modern literature.
Vocabu-Lit, Book C: Building Vocabulary Through Literature
by PLC Editors StaffIn this literature-based vocabulary program, students first read a short, unabridged passage with 10 targeted vocabulary words. The students then complete six exercises that teach strategies and reinforce word meanings. After every 10 lessons students complete a review lesson. <p><p>Grade 3
Vocabularies of Public Life: Empirical Essays in Symbolic Structure (Routledge Revivals)
by Robert WuthnowFirst published in 1992, Vocabularies of Public Life explores the revolution that has taken place in our understanding of contemporary culture and decodes a number of the symbols which now dominate public life. Wuthnow divides the essays collected here into three distinct ‘vocabularies.’ Part I examines the ways in which religious and scientific languages function as vocabularies of conviction in public life, Part II focuses on music and art as vocabularies of expression, and Part III considers law, ideology, and public policy as vocabularies of persuasion. The contributors discuss such diverse subjects as American spiritualism, the syntax of modern dance and the social contexts of number one songs. What unifies the book is the common concern with the concrete, everyday manifestations of culture and the importance of understanding its basic structure. This book will be of interest to specialists and scholars of various disciplines such as linguistics, literature, media studies, popular culture, and sociology.
Vocabulario de la vida femenina
by Martha RoblesEsta obra, única por sus características y aspiraciones, desvela un sentido del idioma que hasta hace poco se mantuvo oculto: su aspecto femenino. En una época de grandes transformaciones en la que es necesario que los avances de género se asienten y permeen toda manifestación social y cultural, es indudable la exigencia de contar con un vocabulario que dé cuenta de este escenario en el que se desarrollan las sociedades actuales. Así, mediante la búsqueda de lo que esconden los vocablos, a veces desde la orilla de la denuncia y lo pocas veces expresado, Martha Robles se da a la inmensa tarea de registrar significados actuales, dando luz nueva a la palabra que nombra e indaga a la mujer y su universo. "Este Vocabulario de la vida femenina ha buscado a la mujer y lo femenino en los senderos del lenguaje, en los placeres, en las costumbres, en la enfermedad, entre expresiones coloquiales en reductos de la miseria, en las presiones padecidas por las agitadas relaciones sociales, amorosas y de trabajo o en la soledad de las viudas, en el dolor de la abandonada, en la mordida del hambre".
Vocabulary (Language Workbooks)
by Laurie BauerRoutledge Language Workbooks are practical introductions to specific areas of language for absolute beginners. They provide comprehensive coverage of the area as well as a basis for further study. Language Workbooks can be used for independent study or as part of a taught class.Vocabulary:* covers issues such as the power of words to influence our perceptions* looks at the origins of words from English and other languages* explores the relationships between the meanings and shapes of words* examines the correlation of different kinds of words with different style levels* uses striking and entertaining examples to make fundamental points about the words we use* lays the groundwork for further study in morphology, lexical semantics, historical linguistics and lexicography.
Vocabulary: Applied Linguistic Perspectives (Routledge Linguistics Classics)
by Ronald CarterHow do we teach and learn vocabulary? How do words work in literary texts? In this book, Ronald Carter provides the necessary basis for the further study of modern English vocabulary with particular reference to linguistic descriptive frameworks and educational contexts. Vocabulary: Applied Linguistic Perspectives includes an introductory account of linguistic approaches to the analysis of the modern lexicon in English and discusses key topics such as vocabulary and language teaching, dictionaries and lexicography and the literary, stylistic study of vocabulary. This Routledge Linguistics Classic includes a substantial new introductory chapter situating the book in the current digital age, covering changes and developments in related fields from lexicography and corpus linguistics to vocabulary testing and assessment as well as additional new references. Vocabulary: Applied Linguistic Perspectives has been widely praised since first publication for the breadth, depth and clarity of its approach and is a key text for postgraduate students and researchers studying vocabulary within the fields of English Language, Applied Linguistics and Education.
Vocabulary and English for Specific Purposes Research: Quantitative and Qualitative Perspectives (Routledge Research in English for Specific Purposes)
by Averil CoxheadThis volume provides an important contribution to the study of vocabulary and its relationship to English for Specific Purposes (ESP) research and teaching. Focussing on quantitative and qualitative approaches, this book draws on a wide range of literature to explores key issues that include: how to identify and categorise specialised vocabulary; and the role and value of word list research in English for Academic Purposes (EAP) and ESP. This book features: An analysis of material in a range of different contexts that include secondary school education, pre-university and university-based education, professional and occupational ESP, and the trades. inclusion of many examples of specialised vocabulary from research in Aotearoa/New Zealand and from many other areas in the world. a review of the application of vocabulary research to professional and pedagogical practice suggestions for future directions for research. Written by a leading researcher, Vocabulary and English for Specific Purposes Research provides key reading for those working in this area.
Vocabulary and Language Teaching (Applied Linguistics and Language Study)
by Ronald Carter Michael MccarthyThe material in this book reviews work dating back to the vocabulary control movement in the 1930s and also refers to more recent work on the role of lexis in language learning. Two chapters describe the main foundations of lexical semantics and relevant research and pedagogical studies in vocabulary and lexicography; and a further chapter discusses recent advances in the field of lexis and discourse analysis. There is also a series of specially commissioned articles which investigate the structure and functions of the modern English lexicon in relation to its exploitation for classroom vocabulary teaching.
Vocabulary and Spelling
by Mcdougal LittellThe Vocabulary and Spelling Book contains lessons designed to help you understand and remember important vocabulary skills and strategies. You will often need to use basic reference sources to master these new techniques and to complete the exercises within the book.
Vocabulary and Spelling Book (Grade #8)
by Mcdougal LittellThe Vocabulary and Spelling Book contains lessons designed to help you understand and remember important vocabulary skills and strategies. You will often need to use basic reference sources to master these new techniques and to complete the exercises within the book.
Vocabulary and the Four Skills: Pedagogy, Practice, and Implications for Teaching Vocabulary (Routledge Studies in Applied Linguistics)
by Jon ClentonThis edited volume provides a single coherent overview of vocabulary teaching and learning in relation to each of the four skills (reading, writing, listening, speaking). Each of the four sections presents a skill area with two chapters presented by two leading experts in the field, relating recent advances in the field to the extent that each skill area relates differently to vocabulary and how this informs pedagogy and policy. The book opens with a summary of recent advances in the field of vocabulary, and closes by drawing conclusions from the skill areas covered. The chapters respond to emerging vocabulary research trends that indicate that lexical acquisition needs to be treated differently according to the skill area. The editors have chosen chapters to respond to recent research advances and to highlight practical and pedagogical application in a single coherent volume.
Vocabulary Assessment to Support Instruction: Building Rich Word-Learning Experiences
by Judith A. Scott Margaret G. Mckeown Paul D. Deane René R. Lawless Robert KrovetzVocabulary development is essential for learning, but conventional vocabulary assessments lack the range and flexibility to support K–12 classroom teachers in making instructional decisions. Drawing on linguistics, educational psychology, and educational measurement, this book offers a fresh perspective on word learning and describes powerful, precise assessment strategies. Guidelines are presented for selecting which words to teach, evaluating the depth and richness of students' word knowledge and their ability to apply it in complex contexts, designing effective instructional practices, and using technology to create adaptive and scalable assessments. User-friendly features include sample test items, classroom examples, a glossary, and suggested print and online resources.
Vocabulary Basics
by Judith Nadell Beth JohnsonIt is important to have a strong vocabulary. Words can make you a better reader, speaker, thinker, and learner. By working with the chapters in this book, you will greatly add to your vocabulary--and to your life as well.
Vocabulary Basics, Third Edition
by Eliza Comodromos Paul LanganWords have power. They express our emotions, convey our ideas, articulate our opinions, and reveal our thoughts. Students without an expansive vocabulary are challenged when asked to do these tasks. Furthermore, weak vocabularies limit students' understanding of what they read and the clarity of what they write. Many teachers tell us that their students' vocabularies are inadequate for academic demands. Vocabulary Basics aims to correct this problem. In 30 chapters divided into five units, it teaches 240 important words and several word-learning strategies.
The Vocabulary Book: Learning And Instruction (Language And Literacy Series)
by Michael F. Graves Anne Haas DysonThis text presents a comprehensive plan for vocabulary instruction from kindergarten through high school, one broad enough to instruct students with small vocabularies, exceptional vocabularies, and every child in between. Written by one of the top experts in the field, this practical book presents a research-based program with plenty of classroom examples and strategies that teachers can use. The comprehensive plan includes four parts: rich and varied language experiences, teaching individual words, teaching word learning strategies, and fostering word consciousness.
The Vocabulary Builder Workbook: Simple Lessons and Activities to Teach Yourself Over 1,400 Must-Know Words
by Chris LeleImprove your vocabulary with simple lessons and activitiesBuilding your vocabulary requires more than flash cards. That's why leading test-prep expert, Chris Lele, developed a new method for introducing words into your vocabulary. With The Vocabulary Builder Workbook, you'll gain and retain a fundamental understanding of more than 1,400 essential words.Ideal for those taking the SAT, ACT, or GRE—or for those who simply want to practice and boost their reading, writing and speaking skills— this workbook for adults and teens makes the task of expanding your vocabulary an opportunity for real learning and growth.If you're looking for books to better your vocabulary, this vocabulary workbook includes:Expert Lessons—Explore lessons organized by theme to help you identify roots, form associations, and recognize thousands of additional words outside of this workbook.A progressive approach—Build up your SAT vocabulary with lessons that steadily increase in difficulty for continued advancement.Retention-focused activities—Discover exercises designed to help you remember every word long after the test is over.Increase your vocabulary and become a better reader, writer, and test-taker with The Vocabulary Builder Workbook.