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Self-Taught
With great skill, Heather Williams demonstrates the centrality of black people to the process of formal education - the establish-ment of schools, the creation of a cadre of teachers, the forging of standards of literacy and numeracy - in the post-emancipation years. As she does, Williams makes the case that the issue of education informed the R...
The Farmerfield Mission
In The Famerfield Mission, Fiona Vernal recounts the history of an African Christian community on South Africa's troubled Eastern Cape frontier. Forged in the secular world of war, violence, and colonial dispossession and subjected to grand evangelical aspirations and social engineering, Farmerfield's heterogeneous mix of former slaves and displaced Africans from polities beyond the borders of the Cape Colony entered the powerful ideological arena of anti-slavery humanitarianism and evangelicalism. As a farm, an African residential site amid a white community, and a Christian mission on a violent frontier, Farmerfield was at once a space, a place, and an idea that Africans, missionaries, whi...
The Concrete Buddha : A Collection of Literary Stories from Corporate World
Writings on Contemporary fiction are based on the various aspects of human life & values. Mostly the budging ones arc that of feminism, caste conflict. economic crashes & affairs in the mediumclan. Very few progressive authors. like Rajesh Jain, have selected corporate culture also as the thematic subject for their core globalized & liberalized economy in India. These stories, such as ones included in this collection, from the corporate world depict not only the complexity of managerial traits but also highlight the impressive dents being caused & Changes emerging in the society-the creatively making. a lot of material available for leisure reading & Multifaceted ease studies in the field of modem management including CSR (corporate social Responsibility).
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In a Quiet Village
In a Quiet Village is a short story collection by Sabine Baring-Gould. Baring-Gould was an Anglican priest, hagiographer, antiquarian, novelist, folk song collector and eclectic scholar. His bibliography consists of more than 1,240 publications, though this list continues to grow. His family home, the manor house of Lew Trenchard, near Okehampton, Devon, has been preserved as he had it rebuilt and is now a hotel. He is remembered particularly as a writer of hymns, the best-known being "Onward, Christian Soldiers", "Sing Lullaby", and "Now the Day Is Over". He also translated the carol "Gabriel's Message" from the Basque language to English. Contents:_x000D_ Dan'l Coombe_x000D_ Timothy Slouch_x000D_ DobleDrewe_x000D_ Mary Trembath_x000D_ The Old Post-boy_x000D_ Auntie_x000D_ Brother Augustine_x000D_ Haroun the Carpenter_x000D_ Shone Evans_x000D_ Henry Frost_x000D_ Milk-maids_x000D_ The Bride's Well_x000D_ Jack Hannaford_x000D_ From Death to Life_x000D_ Cicely Crowe_x000D_ The Weathercock_x000D_ A Plum-Pudding_x000D_ A Christmas Tree_x000D_ Folk-prayers_x000D_ Crazy Jane
The Routledge Companion to Literary Media
The Routledge Companion to Literary Media examines the fast-moving present and future of a media ecosystem in which the literary continues to play a vital role. The term ‘literary media’ challenges the tendency to hold the two terms distinct and broadens accepted usage of the literary to include popular cultural forms, emerging technologies and taste cultures, genres, and platforms, as well as traditions and audiences all too often excluded from literary histories and canons. Featuring contributions from leading international scholars and practitioners, the Companion provides a comprehensive guide to existing terms and theories that address the alignment of literature and a variety of me...
No Excuses
Black and Hispanic students are not learning enough in our public schools, and their typically poor performance is the most important source of ongoing racial inequality in America today—thus, say Abigail and Stephan Thernstrom, the racial gap in school achievement is the nation's most critical civil rights issue and an educational crisis; it's no wonder that "No Child Left Behind," the 2001 revision of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, made closing the racial gap in education its central goal. An employer hiring the typical Black high school graduate or the college that admits the average Black student is choosing a youngster who has only an eighth-grade education. In most subje...
