Becoming a Reader argues that, whatever our individual differences of personality and background, there is a regular sequence of attitudes we go through as we mature, which affect how we experience fiction, from the five-year-old child absorbed in the world of fantasy play, through the seventeen year old critical seeker of the truth, to the middle-aged reader recognizing their own experiences in fictional characters. Becoming a Reader argues that this sequence of responses can be worked out a...

Strong, Sassy women and hard-luck hardheaded men, all searching for the middle ground between Native American tradition and the modern world, perform an elaborate dance of approach and avoidance in this magical, rollicking tale by Cherokee author Thomas King. Alberta is a university professor who would like to trade her two boyfriends for a baby but no husband; Lionel is forty and still sells televisions for a patronizing boss; Eli and his log cabin stand in the way of a profitable dam proje...

In dit derde deel van de Basiscursus Fins staat de geschreven tekst centraal. Het boek bevat authentieke teksten van Finse auteurs, waaronder verhalen, krantenberichten en tijdschriftartikelen. Door het lezen van deze teksten raakt de cursist vertrouwd met de Finse manier van uitdrukken. Daarnaast wordt hiermee de woordenschat en de grammatica uitgebreid, wat bij het leren van een nieuwe taal natuurlijk van groot belang is.

Een standaardwerk voor iedereen die zich in Nederland met organisatiepsychologie bezighoudt. Voor wie zich wil verdiepen in de complexiteit van het menselijk handelen in organisaties biedt dit boek een samenhangend overzicht van wat voor uw dagelijkse praktijk van belang is.

Het uitgangspunt van Psychologische aspecten van de organisatie is de organisatie te beschrijven in dynamische wisselwerking met de mensen die er werken en haar vormgeven en met de externe omgeving waarin zij opereert. Wer...

Om goed taalonderwijs te kunnen geven is het noodzakelijk te weten hoe iemand een vreemde of tweede taal leert. De laatste decennia is veel onderzoek gedaan naar het verloop van tweede- of vreemde-taalverwerving en de factoren die van invloed zijn op het verwervingsproces. Ook is veel duidelijk geworden over de toepassing van deze kennis in het onderwijs.

Now available in paperback, Mozart is a brilliant study of the great composer's life and creative genius, written by one of the most important social thinkers of our time. In Mozart, Elias provides insight into this case of tragic conflict between personal creativity and the tastes of a society which sought to control it.

Portrays the lives of politicians, soldiers, and slaves during the Civil War

Paris in the twenties: Pernod, parties and expatriate Americans, loose-living on money from home. Jake is wildly in love with Brett Ashley, aristocratic and irresistibly beautiful, but with an abandoned, sensuous nature that she cannot change. When the couple drifts to Spain to the dazzle of the fiesta and the heady atmosphere of the bullfight, their affair is strained by new passions, new jealousies, and Jake must finally learn that he will never possess the woman he loves.

Powerful, intense...

This anthology of the work of Baruch de Spinoza (1632-1677) presents the text of Spinoza's masterwork, the Ethics, in what is now the standard translation by Edwin Curley. Also included are selections from other works by Spinoza, chosen by Curley to make the Ethics easier to understand, and a substantial introduction that gives an overview of Spinoza's life and the main themes of his philosophy. Perfect for course use, the Spinoza Reader is a practical tool with which to approach one of the w...

From the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, this is the fourth instalment in the visionary novel cycle ‘Canopus in Argos: Archives’. The handsome, intelligent people of Planet 8 of the Canopean Empire know only an idyllic existence on their bountiful planet, its weather consistently nurturing, never harsh. They live long, purposeful, untroubled lives.

Then one day The Ice begins, and ice and snow cover the planet’s surface. Crops and animals die off, and the people must learn to ...