This innovative reader focuses on writers' purposes and processes for reading and writing, and on the connections between reading and writing. Organized around purposes for writing, it outlines practical guidelines and strategies for achieving specific writing goals. Sixty-four selections by both professional and student writers illustrate these strategies. A diverse group of mainstream and minority professional writers includes works by such authors as Annie Dillard, Peter Elbow, Paule Marshall, Kirsten Cole, John Leonard, Stephen Perrine, and Deborah Tannen. Topics of contemporary issues covered are Generation X, Barbie dolls, the Internet, New Age medicine, fat free foods, current films, and talk shows. For anyone who wants to improve and take control of their reading and writing.

Purpose and Process: A Reader for Writers (4th Edition)

Reference

REID

Foreign Language Study & Reference

PRENTICE/HALL

The Oxford Handbook of Modern African History (Oxford Handbooks)

The Oxford Handbook of Modern African History represents an invaluable tool for historians and others in the field of African studies. This collection of essays, produced by some of the finest scholars currently working in the field, provides the latest insights into, and interpretations of, the history of Africa - a continent with a rich and complex past. An understanding of this past is essential to gain perspective on Africa's current challenges, and this accessible and comprehensive volume will allow readers to explore various aspects - political, economic, social, and cultural - of the continent's history over the last two hundred years. Since African history first emerged as a serious academic endeavour in the 1950s and 1960s, it has undergone numerous shifts in terms of emphasis and approach, changes brought about by political and economic exigencies and by ideological debates. This multi-faceted Handbook is essential reading for anyone with an interest in those debates, and in Africa and its peoples. While the focus is determinedly historical, anthropology, geography, literary criticism, political science and sociology are all employed in this ground-breaking study of Africa's past.

History

PARKER

Africa

Oxford University Press

Esclavos del amor (Harlequin Bianca 33373)

Children's Books

HARLEQUIN)

Venganza Italiana by Michelle Reid released on Mar 23, 2001 is available now for purchase.

Venganza Italiana (Italians Revenge)

Romance

Contemporary

"Narrative Exchanges" shows how a general model of communicative exchanges can be refined in order to deal with the complexities of narrative fiction. Going beyond the two-way structure of reciprocity, it gives particular attention to the processes of framing, substitution and dispossession by which written texts generate meaning. It provides a new way of combining narrative theory and exchange theory, bringing the two areas into a mutually critical relationship. The argument engages critically with linguistic and other theories of exchange. Each stage of the discussion develops through a detailed reading of narrative texts drawn from a range of periods, generic affiliations and cultural situations, and including the non-canonical as well as the canonical. Among authors represented are Flaubert, Achebe, Mansfield, Boccaccio, Duras, Daudet, Moorhouse, DeLillo and Wordsworth. Drawing on perspectives from anthropology, linguistics and education, and combining accessible readings with theoretical debate, Ian Reid makes a significant new contribution to the debate about narrative theory.

Narrative Exchanges Cl

Literature & Fiction

History & Criticism

Other

Literacy World Fiction: Stage 4: Literacy Skills Big Book A (Literacy World)

Education & Teaching

BENTLEY

Schools & Teaching

Heinemann Educational Books - Primary Division

Looks at thirty-four restored railroads in the U.S. and Canada, describes the history of each line, and provides information about the locomotives and rolling stock used

Great American Scenic Railroad

Travel

Berger, Terry

Food, Lodging & Transportation

Plume

The Prentice-Hall Guide for College Writers (A Customized Edition for University of Memphis)

Words, Language & Grammar

Pearson/Custom Publishing

Guide for College Writers: A Custom Edition for UNLV

Lecture Notes on Clinical Pharmacology

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Medicine

WileyBlackwell

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