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Seventeenth Summer
Seventeen-year-old Angie, who lives with her family in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, finds herself in love for the first time the summer after high school graduation.
Early Years Management in Practice
Fully up to date with the latest information and theories, this text supports students and practitioners working in early years management.
Acts of Love
High school junior Retta Caldwell finds her life suddenly complicated two strong and troubling forces, a new highway that threatens to destroy her family's land and the arrival of an enigmatic and secretive boy for whom she feels an overwhelming attractio
Authoring A Discipline
Authoring a Discipline traces the post-World War II emergence of rhetoric and composition as a discipline within departments of English in institutions of higher education in the United States. Goggin brings to light both the evolution of this discipline and many of the key individuals involved in its development. Drawing on archival and oral evidence, this history offers a comprehensive and systematic investigation of scholarly journals, the editors who directed them, and the authors who contributed to them, demonstrating the influence that publications and participants have had in the emergence of rhetoric and composition as an independent field of study. Goggin considers the complex strug...
Women and the Material Culture of Death
Examining the compelling and often poignant connection between women and the material culture of death, this collection focuses on the objects women make, the images they keep, the practices they use or are responsible for, and the places they inhabit and construct through ritual and custom. Women?s material practices, ranging from wearing mourning jewelry to dressing the dead, stitching memorial samplers to constructing skull boxes, collecting funeral programs to collecting and studying diseased hearts, making and collecting taxidermies, and making sculptures honoring the death, are explored in this collection as well as women?s affective responses and sentimental labor that mark their expe...
Women and Things, 1750-1950
Reframing the scholarship on women and material culture, this volume explores how women from widely different times and places made meaning, and formed identities, through the materials they created and consumed, with focus on the fiber arts, consumption and collecting, and the production of material objects.
The Materiality of Color
The purpose of this essay collection is to recover color's complex and sometimes morally troubling past. By emphasising color's materiality, and how it was produced, exchanged and used, contributors draw attention to the disjuncture between the beauty of color and the blood, sweat, and tears that went into its production, circulation and application as well as to the complicated and varied social meanings attached to color within specific historical and social contexts.
Understanding Early Years Theory in Practice
Suitable for anyone considering a career as a professional childminder or nanny, this full-colour easy-to-use book contains practical advice to help you get registered and started. It also contains information on what you need to know for unit 1 of the Diploma in Home-based Childcare. Packed with real-life examples and case-studies to set theory in context. Covers all the major theorists and theories covered in early years courses, so it's an ideal resource for students at level 3 and above. Provides hints on where students can find out more information, encouraging further reading outside lessons.
The Small War of Sergeant Donkey
Donkeys by the hundreds! Twelve-year-old Chico Filippo, whose own donkeys were confiscated years before by the German army, can t stay away from the newly set up American Remount Depot. Here, in the last months of World War II in Italy, thousands of supply mules and donkeys are processed and sent onto the fierce mountain fighting in the Apennines. One of the handlers introduces Chico to a small courageous animal the boy names Sergeant Donkey. Drawn into friendship and then into unexpected danger, Chico must demonstrate his own simple courage. More than an animal or war story, this short book has a depth of truth about people of different ages and nationalities who still share a common love of the land and of human dignity. Age 8-up"
The Norton Field Guide to Writing, with Handbook
Flexible, easy to use, just enough detail?and now thenumber-one best seller. With just enough detail ? and color-coded links that sendstudents to more detail if they need it ? this is therhetoric that tells students what they need to know and resists thetemptation to tell them everything there is to know. Designed foreasy reference ? with menus, directories, and a combinedglossary/index. The Third Edition has new chapters on academicwriting, choosing genres, writing online, and choosing media, aswell as new attention to multimodal writing. The Norton Field Guide to Writing is available with ahandbook, an anthology, or both ? and all versions are nowavailable as low-cost ebooks.
