Language readers Books
University of Illinois Press On Gender Labor and Inequality
Book SynopsisRuth Milkman''s groundbreaking research in women''s labor history has contributed important perspectives on work and unionism in the United States. On Gender, Labor, and Inequality presents four decades of Milkman''s essential writings, tracing the parallel evolutions of her ideas and the field she helped define. Milkman''s introduction frames a career-spanning scholarly project: her interrogation of historical and contemporary intersections of class and gender inequalities in the workplace, and the efforts to challenge those inequalities. Early chapters focus on her pioneering work on women''s labor during the Great Depression and the World War II years. In the book''s second half, Milkman turns to the past fifty years, a period that saw a dramatic decline in gender inequality even as growing class imbalances created greater-than-ever class disparity among women. She concludes with a previously unpublished essay comparing the impact of the Great Depression and the Great ReceTrade Review"Milkman's book is a must read, not only to remind those of us influenced by her excellent work how significant her scholarship was and is, but also for new scholars who can trace the intellectual evolution of a labor studies author whose writing has always been grounded in painstaking empirical research, and simultaneously dedicated to analyzing the origins and operation of social inequality, even as specific topics, theories, and approaches have shifted over time."--Labour/ Le Travail"Milkman's collection will well serve scholars of the Great Plains with its comprehensive coverage, from a 1976 study of Great Depression female workers to an essay written for this volume that reprises the same questions for the 2008 Great Recession. The 11 essays constitute a history of women's relationships to both the workforce and unions across the twentieth century. . . . Milkman's decades of study provide a solid foundation for new work in Great Plains labor history."--Great Plains Quarterly "A fascinating and timely set of articles. . . What Milkman's four decades of illuminating scholarship reveals is both the uphill battle the movement will face precisely because many of these fast-growing occupations have been sex-typed as 'women's work.' But there is hope in these chapters too."--Dissent "This volume illuminates mechanisms of gendered inequality in the work force, illustrating how class inequality and gendered inequality are inextricably linked. Students and scholars of gendered dynamics of labor and society will appreciate the breadth and abundance of macrosociological research as well as Milkman's accessible and effective writing style."--Labor: Studies in Working-Class History"What a pleasure to have in a single volume these brilliant, eye-opening essays by Ruth Milkman. It's all here--her stunning 1970s rethinking of Marx and sex-segregated labor markets to her recent revelatory studies of the stark class divides separating women today. Each essay is a gem, rigorous analytically and elegant in formation. A remarkable, intellectual game-changer of a collection."--Dorothy Sue Cobble, co-author of Feminism Unfinished: A Short, Surprising History of American Women's Movements"Throughout her distinguished career as a scholar-activist, Ruth Milkman has focused attention on the struggles of wage-earning women. An antidote to Lean In, her collection of essays explains why the fight for gender equality in a capitalist society typically only benefits elite women. When feminism focuses on the needs of working-class women, everyone wins."--Christine Williams, author of Inside Toyland: Working, Shopping, and Social Inequality
£87.55
University of Illinois Press A Latin American Music Reader Views from the
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewBruno Nettl Prize, Society for Ethnomusicology, 2017 "Bravo! This critical gloss of Latin American music scholarship and compendium of works by Latin American scholars is much needed, long overdue, well-conceived, and well-informed."--Daniel Sheehy, Director and Curator, Smithsonian Folkways Recordings"I love this book. A major contribution to Latin American research--in both ethnomusicology and musicology--as well as related fields such as anthropology, sociology, political science, and gender studies."--Craig Russell, author of From Serra to Sancho: Music and Pageantry in the California Missions"This book fulfils the aims of the editors and it is an essential reading for those interested in the study of Latin American popular music."--Journal of the International Association for the Study of Popular Music
£25.19
University of Illinois Press On Gender Labor and Inequality
Book SynopsisRuth Milkman''s groundbreaking research in women''s labor history has contributed important perspectives on work and unionism in the United States. On Gender, Labor, and Inequality presents four decades of Milkman''s essential writings, tracing the parallel evolutions of her ideas and the field she helped define. Milkman''s introduction frames a career-spanning scholarly project: her interrogation of historical and contemporary intersections of class and gender inequalities in the workplace, and the efforts to challenge those inequalities. Early chapters focus on her pioneering work on women''s labor during the Great Depression and the World War II years. In the book''s second half, Milkman turns to the past fifty years, a period that saw a dramatic decline in gender inequality even as growing class imbalances created greater-than-ever class disparity among women. She concludes with a previously unpublished essay comparing the impact of the Great Depression and the Great ReceTrade Review"Milkman's book is a must read, not only to remind those of us influenced by her excellent work how significant her scholarship was and is, but also for new scholars who can trace the intellectual evolution of a labor studies author whose writing has always been grounded in painstaking empirical research, and simultaneously dedicated to analyzing the origins and operation of social inequality, even as specific topics, theories, and approaches have shifted over time."--Labour/ Le Travail"Milkman's collection will well serve scholars of the Great Plains with its comprehensive coverage, from a 1976 study of Great Depression female workers to an essay written for this volume that reprises the same questions for the 2008 Great Recession. The 11 essays constitute a history of women's relationships to both the workforce and unions across the twentieth century. . . . Milkman's decades of study provide a solid foundation for new work in Great Plains labor history."--Great Plains Quarterly "A fascinating and timely set of articles. . . What Milkman's four decades of illuminating scholarship reveals is both the uphill battle the movement will face precisely because many of these fast-growing occupations have been sex-typed as 'women's work.' But there is hope in these chapters too."--Dissent "This volume illuminates mechanisms of gendered inequality in the work force, illustrating how class inequality and gendered inequality are inextricably linked. Students and scholars of gendered dynamics of labor and society will appreciate the breadth and abundance of macrosociological research as well as Milkman's accessible and effective writing style."--Labor: Studies in Working-Class History"What a pleasure to have in a single volume these brilliant, eye-opening essays by Ruth Milkman. It's all here--her stunning 1970s rethinking of Marx and sex-segregated labor markets to her recent revelatory studies of the stark class divides separating women today. Each essay is a gem, rigorous analytically and elegant in formation. A remarkable, intellectual game-changer of a collection."--Dorothy Sue Cobble, co-author of Feminism Unfinished: A Short, Surprising History of American Women's Movements"Throughout her distinguished career as a scholar-activist, Ruth Milkman has focused attention on the struggles of wage-earning women. An antidote to Lean In, her collection of essays explains why the fight for gender equality in a capitalist society typically only benefits elite women. When feminism focuses on the needs of working-class women, everyone wins."--Christine Williams, author of Inside Toyland: Working, Shopping, and Social Inequality
£19.79
Yale University Press War with Hannibal
Book SynopsisPresents a Latin prose for beginning and intermediate Latin students in secondary schools and colleges. This book helps students make the transition from the simplified Latin of a first-year textbook to the complex prose of the second-year curriculum. It offers explanations of grammar and syntax.Trade Review"Exceedingly accurate, clearly presented, and annotated with just the right amount of help . . . it answers better than any other text I've seen the perennial problem of how to do the transition from learning the basics of Latin to actually reading Latin texts."—Denis Feeney, Princeton University"To the best of my knowledge, this is the only easy reader (suitable for a beginning to intermediate level Latin student) that presents a sustained story in authentic, unabridged Latin."—Margaret Brucia, Temple University, Rome Campus"Eutropius writes in good, standard classical Latin . . . [His style] challenges the emerging Latin students without annihilating their confidence. . . . Beyer supplements the readings with generous notes, which deftly point out the way."—Dale Grote, University of North Carolina, Charlotte, from the preface
£25.00
John Wiley & Sons Inc Mundo unido
Book SynopsisMundo unido is a two-volume intermediate Spanish series. Using a contextual approach to language learning, Mundo unido focuses on language and how it functions in everyday situations. The Mundo unido program consists of Repaso y conversación, a conversational grammar book, and Lectura y escritura a text aimed at developing reading and writing skills. Mundo unido: Repaso y conversación focuses on a comprehensive review of grammar and promotes conversation and cultural awareness through the inclusion of many vignettes, media, and photos. Reviewers praised the clarity of the grammatical explanations and the diversity of the numerous realia-based exercises. The exercises promote an active use of the language with pair and group and self-expression activities. Closely coordinated with the accompanying reader, workbook, and cassette program, this grammar review may be used alone in an Intermediate Spanish, Grammar Review, or Composition/Conversation course or in conjunction Table of ContentsUnidad I: La Escuela Y El Hogar Entre Estudiantes La Familia La Casa Vida Doméstica Unidad II: Vida De Ciudad Y Vida De Campo La Ciudad Maneras De Vestir ¡Que Aproveche! ¡Vamos Al Campo! Unidad III: Trabajo Y Diversiones Hay Que Ganarse La Vida Los Deportes Los Espectáculos Viajando Por El Mundo Hispánico
£121.55
LUP - University of Michigan Press Choice Readings
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£16.95
Princeton University Press Literature and Society
Book SynopsisSuitable for upper-level students, usually in their fourth year of studying Chinese, this book contains literary works and essays related to the social sciences. It reflects the social issues China has faced in the years and presents a fresh approach to introducing students to various aspects of Chinese society.
£64.00
Princeton University Press A Kaleidoscope of China
Book SynopsisOffers a look at contemporary Chinese society. This book covers such topics as: buying a home versus having a child; consumer exports to America; depression; online dating; cell phones; empty-nest syndrome; fast food; the Virginia Tech massacre; medicine; the 2008 Sichuan earthquake; and, global warming.Trade Review"Chou and his colleagues have once again produced a superb Chinese language textbook. This crack team of seasoned teachers is probably the best in the world when it comes to teaching Chinese as a second language. A Kaleidoscope of China presents a veritable feast of fascinating essays. Students will not only find it stimulating but, more importantly, will learn well from it."—James M. Hargett, University at Albany, State University of New York"The well-chosen texts in A Kaleidoscope of China cover a wide spectrum of social and cultural issues in contemporary China. The targeted exercises not only help consolidate grammar points, sentence structures, and vocabulary, but also train students other language skills appropriate at this level. This book will be very well received by students and teachers alike."—Baozhang He, College of the Holy Cross
£57.80
Voltaire Foundation Lettres dune Peruvienne VIF
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£31.56
Johns Hopkins University Press The Implied Reader
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewWhen the present flurry of works on theory of narrative fiction comes to an end... this seems likely to be one of the survivors. -- Frank Kermode Times Literary Supplement Well-written, scholarly, perceptive... A basic framework for a rational theory of literary effects and responses based on the novel. Library JournalTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroductionChapter 1. Bunyan's Pilgram's Progress: The Doctrime of Predestination and the Shaping of the NovelChapter 2. The Role of the Reader in Fielding's Joseph Andrews and Tom JonesChapter 3. The Generic Control of the Esthetic Response: An Examination of Smollett's Humphry ClinkerChapter 4. Fiction—The Filter of History: A Study of Sir Walter Scott's WaverleyChapter 5. The Reader as a Component Part of the Realistic novek: Esthetic Effects in Thackery's Vanity FairChapter 6. Self-ReductionChapter 7. Doing Things in Style: An Interpretation of "The Oxen of the Sun: in James joyce's UlyssesChapter 8. Patterns of Communication in Joyce's UlyssesChapter 9. Dialogue of the Unspeakable: Ivy Compton-Burnett: A Heritage and Its HistoryChapter 10. When is the End Not the End? The Idea of Fiction in BeckettChapter 11. The Reading Process: A Phenomenological ApproachName IndexSubject Index
£24.75
University of Hawai'i Press Modern Korean An Intermediate Reader
Book SynopsisAn intermediate-level reader in Korean. Each of the 24 lessons consists of: a main text; a dialogue; a discussion of new word usage and structural patterns; substitution and grammar drills; exercises; and a vocabulary list. Chinese characters found in each lesson are also introduced.
£23.96
Cornell University Press Intermediate Spoken Vietnamese
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£18.99
Wilfrid Laurier University Press Plotting the Reading Experience:
Book SynopsisThis book is about the experience of reading-what reading feels like, how it makes people feel, how people read and under what conditions, what drives people to read, and, conversely, what halts the individual in the pursuit of the pleasures of reading. The authors consider reading in all of its richness as they explore readers' relationships with diverse textual and digital forms.This edited volume is divided into three sections: Theory, Practice, and Politics. The first provides insights into ways of seeing, thinking, and conceptualizing the experience of reading. The second features a variety of individual and social practices of reading. The third explores the political and ethical aspects of the reading experience, raising questions about the role that reading plays in democracy and civic participation.With contributions from multidisciplinary scholars from around the world, this book provides provocative insights into what it means to be a reader reading in and across various social, cultural, and political contexts. Its unifying theme of the reader's experience of reading is put into dialogue with theories, practices, and politics, making this a rewarding read for graduate students, faculty, researchers, and librarians working across a range of academic fields.Table of ContentsTable of ContentsList of Figures and TablesAcknowledgements1 Introduction: Plotting the Reading Experience • Kjell Ivar Skjerdingstad and Paulette RothbauerPART 1 • THEORY2 The Hidden Foundations of Critical Reading • Magnus Persson3 What Is a Reading Experience? The Development of a Theoretical and Empirical Understanding • Gitte Balling4 Reimagining Reading • Gabrielle Cliff Hodges5 Evidence of Reading? The Swedish Public's Letters to Selma Lagerlöf: Quantitative and Qualitative Approaches to the History of Reading • Jenny Bergenmar and Maria Karlsson6 Byatt versus Bloom: or, Reading by Patricide versus Reading by Love • Marianne Borch7 A Cognitive Poetic Approach to Researching the Reading Experience • Sara Whiteley8 Tempering Ambiguity - The Quality of the Reading Experience • Kjell Ivar Skjerdingstad and Knut OterholmPART 2 • PRACTICE9 Fun "" and Other Reasons for Sharing Reading with Strangers: Mass Reading Events and the Possibilities of Pleasure • Danielle Fuller and DeNel Rehberg Sedo10 The Once and Future Self: (Re)reading Personal Lists, Notes, and Calendars • Pamela McKenzie and Elisabeth Davies11 More Benefit from a Well-Stocked Library Than a Well-Stocked Pharmacy: How Do Readers Use Books as Therapy? • Liz Brewster12 Literary Reading as a Social Technology: An Exploratory Study on Shared Reading Groups • Mette Steenberg13 The Indescribable Described: Readers' Experiences When Reading about Tragic Loss • Eva Maria (Emy) Koopman14 When Comics Set the Pace: The Experience of Time and the Reading of Comics • Lucia Cedeira Serantes15 Reading Groups in Swedish Public Libraries • Kerstin RydbeckPART 3 • POLITICS16 ""I readed it!"" (Marissa, 4 years): The Experience of Reading from the Perspective of Children Themselves: A Cautionary Tale • Lynne (E.F.) McKechnie17 Reading the Readers: Tracking Visible Online Reading Audiences • Marianne Martens18 Literature in Common: Reading for Pleasure in School Reading Groups • Teresa Cremin and Joan Swann19 Desire and Becoming - Multilingual Pupils' Reading Experiences • Joron Pihl and Kristin Skinstad van der Kooij20 Experiencing the Social Melodrama in the Twenty-First Century: Approaches of Amateur and Professional Criticism • Cecilie Naper 21 The Republic of Readers: Book Clubs in the United Kingdom of the Netherlands, 1815-1830 • Arnold Lubbers22 ""Crazy Thirst for Knowledge"": Chinese Readers and the 1980s ""Book Series Fever"" • Shih-Wen Sue Chen23 Enabling Testimonies and Producing Witnesses: Exploring Readers' Responses to Two Norwegian Post-Terror Blogs • Tonje VoldNotes on Contributors Index
£31.46
Collective Ink In A Faraway Land
Book SynopsisThis book consists of a collection of 56 traditional and contemporary tales, graded Pre-intermediate, Intermediate, Upper Intermediate or Advanced. These come with photocopiable worksheets, as well as an answer key that contains notes for teachers with pre-listening, while-listening, and post-listening tasks. Stories not only entertain; they can also alter our experience so as to facilitate growth and change, and the tales included in this book have all been chosen with this aim in mind. Storytellers, unlike folklorists, who make statistical samplings of all the stories they have gathered, choose in the end those stories they believe in. Stories have been chosen that deal with topics that tend to be featured in course books so they can be incorporated into an integrated programme.Trade ReviewThis is yet another one of Michael Berman's masterpieces and its originality is a breath of fresh air in the classroom. (Makkie Malyari, teacher and teacher trainer, Greece) The truly international collection of stories it contains will transform the learning environment of your classroom. (Wayne Rimmer, Director of Studies, International House, Moscow)
£14.99
John Wiley & Sons Inc Star Track Reading and Spelling
Book SynopsisWhy another reading scheme? STAR TRACK is for pupils who have not gained any skills from a random exposure to text and need a guided introduction to the rules of literacy. STAR TRACK'S structured worksheets and stories introduce the pupil to only one phonic element at a time. STAR TRACK builds skills cumulatively, and confidence is established because the pupil is never asked to read what he has not been taught. STAR TRACK'S photocopiable masters provide material for class work, homework, easy assessment and record-keeping. STAR TRACK provides worksheets and stories for the famous "exceptions" of English, which are easily tackled once the regular phonic rules have been learnt. Further copies of each of the tracks may be purchased in packs of ten.Table of ContentsIntroduction. 1. The Placement Test. A guide to starting at the right Track. 2. The Alphabet. A Key to how vowels and consonants are introduced. 3. Worksheets, Spelling sheets and Stories (photocopiable) Teacher's Notes Precede each track. Track 1. Alphabet lower-case letter shapes and sounds. Track 2. Consonant digraphs, e.g: bl, tr,nt, ld, str. Track 4. Suffixes and word endings, e.g: ed, er, le. Track 5. Vowels. Names/sound discrimination. Track 6. Magic 'e'. Soft 'c' and 'g'. Track 7. Word endings. To double or not, e.g. super supper. Track 8. Vowel an vowel/consonant combinations. Track 9. Family groups, e.g. -ough. Track 10. Stories for the end of Star Track. 4. Reference supplements. 1. Days, months, seasons, numbers, colours. 2. Parts of the body. 3. Alphabetical order and capital letters. 5. Index. 6. Order sheet for extra copies of the Tracks in multiples of 10. 7. List of publications of related interest.
£82.76
OUP Oxford Oxford Read and Imagine Level 4 Lost In The
Book SynopsisOxford Read and Imagine is a fiction series written for primary and pre-primary students. Young learners follow Rosie, Ben and Grandpa on their adventures and grow up with the characters as they read and learn. Listen while you read with the included audio CD.The van is broken, Grandpa is sick, there's something wrong with Clunk - and Rosie, Ben, and Max are lost in a desert! It's hot in the day and cold at night, and they don't have a lot ofwater. Can they find help?CEFR A1/A2Word count: 1,371
£13.85
Oxford University Press Oxford Bookworms Library Level 1 Little Lord
Book SynopsisWord count 7,250 Suitable for young readers
£13.94
Pearson Education Limited Level 5 Rebecca
Book SynopsisClassic / British English After the death of his beautiful wife Rebecca, Maxim de Winter goes to Monte Carlo to forget the past. There he meets and marries a quiet young woman and takes her back to Manderley, his family home in Cornwall. But will the memory of Rebecca destroy the new marriage?
£13.74
Express Publishing UK Ltd Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde: Reader
£17.66
Express Publishing UK Ltd Robinson Crusoe: Reader
£12.29
Fernand Nathan La demoiselle aux yeux verts - Livre + Audio
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£14.21
Fernand Nathan La belle au bois dormant
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£10.05
Espanol Santillana Universidad de Salamanca El caballero del jubon amarillo
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£18.67
Espanol Santillana Universidad de Salamanca El oro del rey / The King's Gold
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£17.95
Alianza Editorial SA Conchita Piquer biografa no autorizada
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£27.77
Alianza Editorial SA Noche Terrible
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£4.50
Grupo Anaya, S.A. Mi primer libro de poemas
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£20.06
Grupo Anaya, S.A. Cuentos para todo el ano
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£16.99
Editorial Lumen Mafalda 1
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£11.70
Editorial Lumen SA Mafalda 3
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£11.13
Editorial Lumen SA Mafalda 5
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£11.11
Editorial Seix Barral LA Ciudad De Los Prodigios
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£23.32
Editorial Seix Barral, S.A. El Siglo De Las Luces
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£18.29
Editorial Seix Barral La Aventura Del Tocador De Senoras Biblioteca
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£19.61
Editorial Anagrama S.A. El Hueco De Tu Cuerpo
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£19.34
Editorial Anagrama S.A. Adiós a las novias
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£19.34
Ediciones Ctedra El hombre y su poesía
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£12.85
Ediciones Catedra, S.A. El Estudiante De Salamanca
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£12.69
Ediciones Catedra, S.A. Romancero Viejo
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£15.98
Ediciones Catedra, S.A. Libro De La Vido
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£20.96
Ediciones Catedra, S.A. La invencin de Morel El gran Serafn
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£15.76
Ediciones Ctedra Yo El Supremo
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£18.03
Ediciones Ctedra La Regenta I
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£17.28
Ediciones Ctedra La Camisa El Cuarto Poder Fiction Poetry Drama
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£14.93
Ediciones Ctedra En Las Orillas Del Sar
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£13.15
Ediciones Catedra, S.A. Vida de Don Quijote y Sancho
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£16.11
Ediciones Catedra, S.A. Poemas y Antipoemas
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£17.26
Ediciones Ctedra Los Muchachos Terribles
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£14.33
