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The Acquisition of Two Languages from Birth: A Case Study The Acquisition of Two Languages from Birth: A Case Study Price: $146.25 (more details) This book deals with the question of how children exposed to two languages simultaneously from birth learn to speak those two languages. After a critical and comprehensive survey of most of the literature on the subject, the author concludes that empirically well-documented knowledge in this area is very scant indeed. The core of the book concerns a naturalistic study of a Dutch-English bilingual girl ar...	History of the Gothic: Gothic Literature 1825-1914 History of the Gothic: Gothic Literature 1825-1914 Price: $82.88 (more details) History of the Gothic: Gothic Literature 1825-1914
The Grateful Dead: The History of a Folk Story The Grateful Dead: The History of a Folk Story Price: $34.13 (more details) Who, if not a rock group, were the grateful dead? In this classic study, originally published in 1908, Gordon Hall Gerould explores a body of literature devoted to the ghosts of the departed who showed gratitude to those who took care of their bodies and assisted in getting rid of demons. Typically, the grateful dead stories concern a young hero who takes on the responsibility of seeing that an unburied corpse recei...	Twins in Contemporary Literature and Culture; Look Twice Twins in Contemporary Literature and Culture; Look Twice Price: $62.36 (more details) Twins in Contemporary Literature and Culture; Look Twice
Kaplan AP English Literature and Composition 2006 Kaplan AP English Literature and Composition 2006 Price: $14.04 (more details) Provides techniques for achieving high scores on the AP English literature exam and includes three full-length practice tests.	Postcolonial Criticism: History, Theory and the Work of Fiction Postcolonial Criticism: History, Theory and the Work of Fiction Price: $26.28 (more details) In the field of postcolonial studies, the full richness and complexity of the connections between literature, history, and ideology are often overlooked by critics hurrying to stake out their political positions. As a result, many arguments are built on unjustified assumptions about the sort of work that literature and criticism can and cannot do. This important and timely book sheds new light on wh...
Lille and the Dutch Revolt: Urban Stability in an Era of Revolution, 1500â�?... Lille and the Dutch Revolt: Urban Stability in an Era of Revolution, 1500â�?��??1582 Price: $146.25 (more details) In the literature on the Dutch revolt--indeed, in the scholarship on revolution as a whole--the experience of the leading textile and trading center of Lille stands out as singular. Although affected by powerful economic, political, and religious currents that provoked rebellion in many other cities, it was renowned for adhering to the existing order. In this comprehensive stu...	Friends & Relations: Using Literature With Social Themes, Grades 3-5 Friends & Relations: Using Literature With Social Themes, Grades 3-5 Price: $13.00 (more details) Friends & Relations: Using Literature With Social Themes, Grades 3-5
Travel Knowledge; European 'Discoveries' in the Early Modern Period Travel Knowledge; European 'Discoveries' in the Early Modern Period Price: $74.84 (more details) Travel Knowledge examines European travel writing from 1500-1800, with an emphasis on travel to the East Indies, Africa, and the Levant. The importance of travel literature has grown in the humanities as scholars plumb such texts for their insights on colonialism, the other, and the nation, but this is one of the first volumes on European travel in the early modern period. The essays further dis...	Of Literature and Knowledge Of Literature and Knowledge Price: $28.04 (more details) Of Literature and Knowledge
Can the Moral Hazard Caused by Imf Bailouts Be Reduced?: Geneva Reports on th... Can the Moral Hazard Caused by Imf Bailouts Be Reduced?: Geneva Reports on the World Economy. Special Report 1 Price: $14.63 (more details) The need to limit IMF financial rescues is a theme of the literature on how to make the world a safer financial place. Those who propose to simply prohibit IMF rescues assume that it is politically feasible for the Fund to stand aside when a crisis erupts. The reality is that the costs of inaction (a severe economic contraction, an extended interruptio...	A Home in the West: Emigration and Its Consequences A Home in the West: Emigration and Its Consequences Price: $15.55 (more details) This is the first novel published in Iowa. Printed in Dubuque in 1858, it was written to recruit emigrants to Iowa; what makes it unique among emigration literature is the fact that it was directed at women, using the form of a domestic novel loaded with gentle mothers and stalwart fathers, flower-gemmed prairies and vine-draped cottages, and lots of tender words and humble weddings to encourage women to settle...
Anthology of Spanish Literature Volume II, An Anthology of Spanish Literature Volume II, An Price: $93.19 (more details) Anthology of Spanish Literature Volume II, An	A Handbook of Greek Literature: From Homer to the Age of Lucian A Handbook of Greek Literature: From Homer to the Age of Lucian Price: $41.93 (more details) A brief yet comprehensive survey of Greek literature from Homer to Lucian. Rose's stated intention for this companion volume to A Handbook of Latin Literature was that it be a work that 'covers the whole field, is of moderate length yet not so short as to include the principle authors only...'
Banks and Industrial Finance in Britain, 1800â�?��??1939 Banks and Industrial Finance in Britain, 1800â�?��??1939 Price: $53.63 (more details) This accessible study investigates the role of banks in financing British industry. Despite the City of London's importance as a financial center, there has been much dispute over the level of support that banks have given to British industry. Michael Collins weighs the conflicting arguments. Is there evidence of failure in the money markets? Has the estrangement of financial and industrial capital hinder...	The Alchemy Reader: From Hermes Trismegistus to Isaac Newton The Alchemy Reader: From Hermes Trismegistus to Isaac Newton Price: $81.90 (more details) Ranging from the pre-Christian era to Robert Boyle and Isaac Newton at the end of the seventeenth century, this Reader covers a broad range of alchemical authors and works. Organized chronologically, it includes around thirty selections in authoritative but lightly-modernized versions. The selections will provide the reader with a basic introduction to the field and its interdisciplinary links with sci...