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C is for Construction: Big Trucks and Diggers from A to Z
by CaterpillarExciting photographs are paired with cool facts and simple explanations in this earthmoving ABC. Kids love trucks and diggers and this alphabet book has all their favorites, from the speedy skid steer loader to the giant 797 off-highway truck (one of the biggest trucks in the world!). Seeing real Cat machines at work, digging, hauling, dumping, and lifting, puts young readers right there on the construction site in the middle of the action. (No hard hats necessary!)
C'mon Papa: Dispatches from a Dad in the Dark
by Ryan Knighton<P>Ryan Knighton's humorous and perceptive tales of fatherhood take us inside an unusual new family, one bound by its father's particular darkness and light. <P>C'mon Papa is Ryan Knighton's heartbreaking and hilarious voyage through the first year of fatherhood. Becoming a father is a stressful, daunting rite of passage to be sure, but for a blind father, the fears are unimaginably heightened. Ryan will have to find novel ways to adapt to nearly every aspect of parenting: the most basic skills are nearly impossible to contemplate, let alone master. And how will Ryan get to know this pre-verbal bundle of coos and burps when he can't see her smile, or look into her eyes for hints of the person to come? But this is no pity party, and Ryan has no time for sentimentality. <P>Tackling these hurdles with grace and humour, Ryan is determined to do his part -- and this is where the fun starts. From holding his daughter as she wails into the night to their first nerve-wracking walk to the cafe, no activity between father and daughter is without its pitfalls. In his struggle to "see" Tess, Ryan reimagines the relationship between father and child during that first chaotic year.
C. C. Mehta
by Shailesh TevaniOn the life and works of Chandravadan Chimanlal Mehta, b. 1901, Gujarati author.
C. H. Sisson Reconsidered (The New Antiquity)
by John Talbot Victoria MoulThis book is the first collection of essays dedicated to the work of C. H. Sisson (1915-2003), a major English poet, critic and translator. The collection aims to offer an overall guide to his work for new readers, while also encouraging established readers of one aspect (such as his well-known classical translations) to explore others. It champions in particular the quality of his original poetry. The book brings together contributions from scholars and critics working in a wide range of fields, including classical reception, translation studies and early modern literature as well as modern English poetry, and concludes with a more personal essay on Sisson’s work by Michael Schmidt, his publisher.
C. L. R. James and Creolization: Circles of Influence
by Nicole KingC. L. R. James (1901–1989), one of the most important intellectuals of the twentieth century, expressed his postcolonial and socialist philosophies in fiction, speeches, essays, and book-length scholarly discourses. However, the majority of academic attention given to James keeps the diverse mediums of James's writing separate, focuses on his work as a political theorist, and subordinates his role as a fiction writer. This book, however, seeks to change such an approach to studying James. Defining creolization as a process by which European, African, Amerindian, Asian, and American cultures are amalgamated to form new hybrid identities and cultures, Nicole King uses this process as a means to understanding James's work and life. She argues that, throughout his career, whether writing a short story or a political history, James articulated his attempt to produce revolutionary, radical discourses with a consistent methodology. James, a Trinidad-born scholar who migrated to England and then to the United States and who described himself both as a black radical and a Victorian intellectual, serves as a definitive model of creolization. King argues that James's writings also fit the model of creolization, for each is influenced by diverse types of discourses. James rarely wrote from within the confines of a single discipline, instead choosing to make the layers of history, literature, philosophy, and political theory coalesce in order to make his point. As his West Indian and Western European influences converge in his work and life, he creates texts that are difficult to confine to a specific category or discipline. No matter which writerly medium he uses, James was preoccupied with how to represent the individual personality and at the same time represent the community. The C. L. R. James that emerges from King's study is a man made more compelling and more human because of his complicated, multilayered, and sometimes contradictory allegiances.
C. L. R. James's Caribbean
by Paul Buhle Paget HenryFor more than half a century, C. L. R. James (1901-1989)--"the Black Plato," as coined by the London Times--has been an internationally renowned revolutionary thinker, writer, and activist. Born in Trinidad, his lifelong work was devoted to understanding and transforming race and class exploitation in his native West Indies, as well as in Britain and the United States. In C. L. R. James's Caribbean, noted scholars examine the roots of both James's life and oeuvre in connection with the economic, social, and political environment of the West Indies. Drawing upon James's observations of his own life as revealed to interviewers and close friends, this volume provides an examination of James's childhood and early years as colonial literatteur and his massive contribution to West Indian political-cultural understanding. Moving beyond previous biographical interpretations, the contributors here take up the problem of reading James's texts in light of poststructuralist criticism, the implications of his texts for Marxist discourse, and for problems of Caribbean development.
C. P. Snow and the Struggle of Modernity
by John de la MotheThe condition of modernity springs from that tension between science and the humanities that had its roots in the Enlightenment but reached its full flowering with the rise of twentieth-century technology. It manifests itself most notably in the crisis of individuality that is generated by the nexus of science, literature, and politics, one that challenges each of us to find a way of balancing our personal identities between our public and private selves in an otherwise estranging world. This challenge, which can only be expressed as "the struggle of modernity," perhaps finds no better expression than in C. P. Snow. In his career as novelist, scientist, and civil servant, C. P. Snow (1905-1980) attempted to bridge the disparate worlds of modern science and the humanities. While Snow is often regarded as a late-Victorian liberal who has little to say about the modernist period in which he lived and wrote, de la Mothe challenges this judgment, reassessing Snow's place in twentieth-century thought. He argues that Snow's life and writings-most notably his Strangers and Brothers sequence of novels and his provocative thesis in The Two Cultures and the Scientific Revolution-reflect a persistent struggle with the nature of modernity. They manifest Snow's belief that science and technology were at the center of modern life.
C. S. Lewis - A Life: Eccentric Genius, Reluctant Prophet
by Alister McgrathThe recent Narnia films have inspired a resurgence of interest in C. S. Lewis, the Oxford academic, popular theologian and, most famously, creator of the magical world of Narnia - and this authoritative new biography, published to mark the 50th anniversary of Lewis's death, sets out to introduce him to a new generation. Completely up to date with scholarly studies of Lewis, it also focuses on how Lewis came to write the Narnia books, and why they have proved so consistently engaging. Accessible and engaging, this new biography will appeal to fans of the films, readers of Lewis and of theologian and apologist Alister McGrath himself.
C. S. Lewis Remembered
by Harry Lee Poe Rebecca Whitten PoeSeventeen students, friends and colleagues of C. S. Lewis offer their personal memories of Lewis as a teacher, scholar, writer and Christian apologist. The volume includes pieces by Lewis' godson, Lawrence Harwood, a transcript of an interview with Owen Barfield, who played an important role in Lewis' shift from atheism to Christianity, and a previously unpublished sketch of Lewis by Mary Shelley Neylan. The appendix includes an article from a science fiction fan magazine that transcribes a conversation between Lewis, Kingsley Amis and Brian Aldiss. Annotation ©2007 Book News, Inc. , Portland, OR (booknews. com)
C. S. Lewis and The Crisis of a Christian
by Gregory S. CootsonaC. S. Lewis has long been recognized as a beloved author of children's literature and an apologist for Christian belief to a skeptical modern world. In this new volume, Gregory S. Cootsona shows us how Lewis can also serve as a guide to the ups and downs of the Christian journey. Like many of us, Lewis suffered from a variety of crises of faith and personal experience. Like us, he came to faith in a world that no longer respects Christian commitment or offers much room for belief in God. Like us, he felt the absence of God when those closest to him died. Like us, he wrestled with doubt, wondering if God is real, or simply the projection of his own wishes onto the screen of the universe. Like us, he knew the kinds of temptations he described with such poignancy and humor in The Screwtape Letters. By examining these and the other crises of C. S. Lewis's life, Cootsona shows us how Lewis found God in each one, and how he shared those discoveries with us in his writing. All those wishing to deepen and enrich their own spiritual journey will find much guidance and wisdom in these pages.
C. S. Lewis's Dangerous Idea: In Defense of the Argument from Reason
by Victor ReppertDarwinists attempt to use science to show that our world and its inhabitants can be fully explained as the product of a mindless, purposeless system of physics and chemistry. Lewis claimed in his argument from reason that if such materialism or naturalism were true, then scientific reasoning itself could not be trusted. Claiming that Lewis's arguments have often been too easily dismissed, Reppert revisits the debate between Lewis and the philosopher Elizabeth Anscombe and demonstrates that the basic thrust of the argument from reason can bear up under the weight of the most serious philosophical attacks. Charging dismissive critics, Christian and not, with ad hominem arguments, Reppert's own rigerous reformulation shows that the greatness of Lewis's mind is best measured not by his ability to do our thinking for us but by his capacity to provide sound direction for taking our own thought further up and further in.
C. S. Lewis's Lost Aeneid: Arms and the Exile
by C. S. Lewis A. T. ReyesC. S. Lewis (1898–1963) is best remembered as a literary critic, essayist, theologian, and novelist, and his famed tales The Chronicles of Narnia and The Screwtape Letters have been read by millions. Now, A. T. Reyes reveals a different side of this diverse man of letters: translator. <p><p> Reyes introduces the surviving fragments of Lewis's translation of Virgil's epic poem, which were rescued from a bonfire. They are presented in parallel with the Latin text, and are accompanied by synopses of missing sections, and an informative glossary, making them accessible to the general reader. Writes Lewis in A Preface to Paradise Lost, “Virgil uses something more subtle than mere length of time…. It is this which gives the reader of the Aeneid the sense of having lived through so much. No man who has read it with full perception remains an adolescent.” Lewis's admiration for the Aeneid, written in the 1st century BC and unfolding the adventures of Aeneas, a Trojan who traveled to Italy and became the ancestor of the Romans, is evident in his remarkably lyrical translation. <p><p> C. S. Lewis's Lost Aeneid is part detective story, as Reyes recounts the dramatic rescue of the fragments and his efforts to collect and organize them, and part illuminating look at a lesser-known and intriguing aspect of Lewis's work.
C. S. Lewis's Mere Christianity: A Biography (Lives of Great Religious Books #24)
by George M. MarsdenMere Christianity, C. S. Lewis's eloquent and winsome defense of the Christian faith, originated as a series of BBC radio talks broadcast during the dark days of World War Two. Here is the story of the extraordinary life and afterlife of this influential and much-beloved book. George Marsden describes how Lewis gradually went from being an atheist to a committed Anglican—famously converting to Christianity in 1931 after conversing into the night with his friends J. R. R. Tolkien and Hugh Dyson—and how Lewis delivered his wartime talks to a traumatized British nation in the midst of an all-out war for survival. Marsden recounts how versions of those talks were collected together in 1952 under the title Mere Christianity, and how the book went on to become one of the most widely read presentations of essential Christianity ever published, particularly among American evangelicals. He examines its role in the conversion experiences of such figures as Charles Colson, who read the book while facing arrest for his role in the Watergate scandal. Marsden explores its relationship with Lewis's Narnia books and other writings, and explains why Lewis's plainspoken case for Christianity continues to have its critics and ardent admirers to this day. With uncommon clarity and grace, Marsden provides invaluable new insights into this modern spiritual classic.
C. S. Lewis, Poet: The Legacy of His Poetic Impulse
by Don W. KingThe Legacy of His Poetic Impulse Don W. King contends that Lewis's poetic aspirations enhanced his prose and helped make him the master stylist so revered by the literary world. With its careful examination of early diaries and letters, and the inclusion of four of Lewis's previously unpublished narrative poems and eleven of his previously unpublished short poems.
C. S. Lewis: A Companion and Guide
by Walter HooperThe Life & Works of the Most Beloved Christian Thinker & Storyteller of the Twentieth Century--An Indispensable Resource. In this masterful and authoritative compendium, one of Lewis's keenest interpreters offers an illuminating and utterly entertaining look at his works--from The Chronicles of Narnia to his many essays on Christianity--and the life of the extraordinary man who created them.
C. T. Hsia on Chinese Literature
by Hsia C. T.Best known for the groundbreaking works A History of Modern Chinese Fiction (1961) and The Classic Chinese Novel (1968), C. T. Hsia has gathered sixteen essays and studies written during his Columbia years as a professor of Chinese literature. Wider in range and scope, C. T. Hsia on Chinese Literature stands beside his two earlier books as part of his critical legacy to all readers seriously interested in the subject.
C.S. Lewis on Politics and the Natural Law
by Justin Buckley Dyer Micah J. WatsonConventional wisdom holds that C. S. Lewis was uninterested in politics and public affairs. The conventional wisdom is wrong. As Justin Buckley Dyer and Micah J. Watson show in this groundbreaking work, Lewis was deeply interested in the fundamental truths and falsehoods about human nature and how these conceptions manifest themselves in the contested and turbulent public square. Ranging from the depths of Lewis' philosophical treatments of epistemology and moral pedagogy to practical considerations of morals legislation and responsible citizenship, this book explores the contours of Lewis' multi-faceted Christian engagement with political philosophy generally and the natural-law tradition in particular. Drawing from the full range of Lewis' corpus and situating his thought in relationship to both ancient and modern seminal thinkers, C. S. Lewis on Politics and the Natural Law offers an unprecedented look at politics and political thought from the perspective of one of the twentieth century's most influential writers.
CAE Results: Workbook Resource Pack with Key
by Kathy Gude Lynda EdwardsThe new multi-level exam preparation series for Cambridge ESOL exams which inspires students to better exam results.
CBA
by Sarah Jane DickensonTrialled in schools with young people, CBA is a play that asks the really urgent questions of today. It seems so private, just you and the screen. You click 'send'. Then the whole world crashes through. Keisha has a secret, Georgia has a security problem and Tom is afraid to speak out. When should you tell someone's secret? How can jokes go so wrong? Fast paced and thought-provoking , CBA examines growing up in a digital world.
CCEA GCSE English Language, Third Edition Student Book
by Jenny Lendrum Amanda Barr Aidan LennonThis title has been endorsed for use with the CCEA GCSE English Language specificationEnsure that every student can achieve their best with the market-leading Student Book for CCEA GCSE English Language, fully updated for the 2017 specification with a rich bank of stimulus texts, classroom activities and assessment support.- Offers expert coverage of the new examined elements of the specification (Reading Literary Texts and Creative Writing) from an author with extensive teaching and examining experience- Develops strong reading and writing skills as students work through step-by-step guidance and progressive activities matched to the Assessment Objectives- Provides effective models for students' own writing for different purposes and genres by including a range of literary and non-fiction text extracts- Thoroughly prepares students for assessment with practice questions, sample student responses and trusted advice on the examinations and Controlled Assessment- Helps students monitor their learning and identify their revision needs using self-assessment criteria at the end of each unit
CCEA GCSE English Language, Third Edition Student Book
by Jenny Lendrum Amanda Barr Aidan Lennon Pauline WylieExam Board: CCEALevel: GCSESubject: EnglishFirst Teaching: September 2017First Exam: June 2019This title has been endorsed for use with the CCEA GCSE English Language specificationEnsure that every student can achieve their best with the market-leading Student Book for CCEA GCSE English Language, fully updated for the 2017 specification with a rich bank of stimulus texts, classroom activities and assessment support.- Offers expert coverage of the new examined elements of the specification (Reading Literary Texts and Creative Writing) from an author with extensive teaching and examining experience- Develops strong reading and writing skills as students work through step-by-step guidance and progressive activities matched to the Assessment Objectives- Provides effective models for students' own writing for different purposes and genres by including a range of literary and non-fiction text extracts- Thoroughly prepares students for assessment with practice questions, sample student responses and trusted advice on the examinations and Controlled Assessment- Helps students monitor their learning and identify their revision needs using self-assessment criteria at the end of each unit
CEFR-informed Learning, Teaching and Assessment: A Practical Guide (Springer Texts in Education)
by Noriko Nagai Gregory C. Birch Jack V. Bower Maria Gabriela SchmidtThis book is a practical guide to the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages: Learning, Teaching, Assessment (CEFR) (Council of Europe 2001) and the CEFR Companion Volume (CEFR/ CV; COE 2018), which have increasingly been used to inform the language policies and teaching practices of countries within and outside of Europe. It helps practitioners to (i) grasp essential and core concepts of the Common European Framework of Reference, (ii) identify parts of the CEFR and the CEFR/CV as well as other CEFR-related resources and documents that are relevant for readers’ different purposes, and (iii) utilise and adapt these resources for their own needs. Written by practitioners for practitioners, this hands-on guide covers the philosophy of the CEFR, curricula, assessment, learner autonomy, the task-based approach, and teacher development. Logically explaining all aspects of the framework and its application, this manual helps readers deal with many of the difficulties encountered when using CEFR and the CEFR CV.The book will appeal to a wide audience, including teacher educators; curriculum and materials developers; examination boards unfamiliar with the CEFR; university language departments and language centres responsible for developing their own curricula, teaching/learning approaches and assessment instruments; and policy-makers wanting to learn more about the implications of adopting the CEFR. It is a guidebook, a reference book and a workbook all in your hand.
CEM 11+ Verbal Reasoning & Cloze Procedure Practice Papers
by Alison HeadPractice exam papers to test pupils ahead of the CEM 11+ Verbal Reasoning test, including those taking bespoke tests created by CEM for individual schools. Four levelled papers test pupils' skills in verbal reasoning and cloze procedure.The papers are designed to:- Develop and perfect exam technique for all CEM 11+ tests- Teach pupils to improve their response rates with timed papers- Provide a variety of question formats to suit paper-based and online tests- Identify weaker areas and improve results by studying the answers, which contain references to Galore Park's revision materials for guidance and useful tips- The resource also contains links to downloadable answer sheets so that the tests can be re-sat.These practice papers are part of Galore Park's 11+ revision series, which provides a three-step learning journey that teaches children the skills needed to pass rigorous school entrance exams.
CHamoru Legends: A Gathering of Stories
by Teresita Lourdes PerezCHamoru Legends retells twelve CHamoru legends and features personal reflections from author Teresita Lourdes Perez, unique illustrations of each legend by Guam artists, and versions of the legends in the CHamoru language by Maria Ana Tenorio Rivera. The book includes CHamoru classics like the story of the siblings who created the universe; the two lovers who were pushed to the edge of a cliff because their union was forbidden; and the tale of the son who leapt an island away to escape his jealous father.CHamoru Legends is the 2020 Independent Publisher Book Awards Bronze Medal recipient for Best Regional Fiction for Australia/New Zealand/Pacific Rim.It is a reversible book featuring the legends in English on one side and in CHamoru on the other. Through multiple layers of interpretation, the book weaves together strips of wisdom and cultural lessons like the leaves used to shape the CHamoru guåfak, or mat, upon which the earliest CHamoru storytellers sat sharing their versions of these timeless tales.
CIA Airlines: Cómo un periódico de provincias desveló la trama ilegal contra el terrorismo
by Felipe Armendáriz Marisa Goñi Matías VallésPREMIO DEBATE El 6 de septiembre de 2006 el presidente Bush admitía públicamente la existencia de una red de prisiones secretas organizadas por la CIA. Así culminaba en parte una odisea periodística que comenzó casi un año y medio antes, el 12 de marzo de 2005, cuando Diario de Mallorca titulaba a toda página «La CIA utiliza Son Sant Joan como base de su avión cárcel». Desde entonces las noticias sobre los vuelos de la CIA a través de territorio europeo, en los que presuntamente se trasladaron ilegalmente sospechosos de terrorismo islámico, no han abandonado las primeras páginas de los periódicos. Y detrás de las querellas ante la Audiencia Nacional, los informes del Parlamento Europeo y las portadas del New York Times, está el trabajo de tres periodistas de Diario de Mallorca, que desde un medio regional han llevado a cabo una sobresaliente investigación, merecedora del primer premio Debate de libro reportaje, que ha destapado las oscuras maniobras de los servicios de inteligencia estadounidenses en la «Guerra contra el Terror». En este fascinante libro, el equipo de Diario de Mallorca que sacó a la luz el asunto cuenta la historia de los aviones prisión de la CIA en España, con especial énfasis en el papel de Mallorca y con una mirada a las repercusiones mediáticas mundiales y a la aparición en la era de Internet de un nuevo periodismo no sólo en la difusión, sino sobre todo en la elaboración de las noticias.