Highlights the important people, dates, and events in human history, primarily through a chronology of world events and an alphabetical listing of famous people

Highlights the important people, dates, and events in human history, primarily through a chronology of world events and an alphabetical listing of famous people

Product Description: Covering the principal hill-walking areas of Ireland, this is one of a series of three books, each containing approximately 70 walks, ranging in difficulty and length from gentle strolls for all the family up to demanding climbs on the higher peaks...read more

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Product Description: Filled with maps and photographs, this handy guide can lead every traveler on unforgettable excursions. The difficulty of each walk is indicated. For meandering around the canals of Kildare, exploring Mount Eagle, or hiking about the Glencoaghan Horseshoe, the perfect tour leader can be brought along -- in any backpack, rucksack, or tote bag...read more

Product Description: In a major rethinking of the functions, methods, and aims of narrative poetics, David Herman exposes important links between modernist and postmodernist literary experimentation and contemporary language theory. Ultimately a search for new tools for narrative theory, his work clarifies complex connections between science and art, theory and culture, and philosophical analysis and narrative discourse...read more

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One of the top players in the game teams up with his trainer to introduce readers to a fitness plan that will help golfers of all levels shave a few strokes off their game. 25,000 first printing. (view table of contents)

One of the top players in the game teams up with his trainer to introduce readers to a fitness plan that will help golfers of all levels shave a few strokes off their game. Reprint. 15,000 first printing. (view table of contents)

Product Description: The primal scene of all nineteenth-century Western thought might well be the moment an observer gazed at someone poor, most commonly on the streets of a great metropolis, and wondered what the spectacle meant in human, moral, political, and metaphysical terms...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: This remarkable roman policier introduces us to the formidable and yet very human detective-writer, Superintendent Llob and his devoted lieutenant Lino. It follows Llob in his search for the missing daughter of Ghoul Malek, one of the top power brokers in Algiers...read more

Product Description: Research on human intelligence has postulated that studying the structure and use of stories can provide important insight into the roots of self and the nature of thinking. In that spirit, this volume focuses on narrative as a crossroads where cognitive and social psychology, linguistics, literary theory, and the recent hybrid called "cognitive narratology" intersect, suggesting new directions for the cognitive sciences...read more

A comprehensive examination of the Eichmann trial discusses such topics as his controversial capture in 1960, the impact of the trial on Israeli foreign relations, and the division that resulted from the trial within Israeli society itself. 12,500 first printing.

Basic Elements of Narrative outlines a way of thinking about what narrative is and how to identify its basic elements across various media, introducing key concepts developed by previous theorists and contributing original ideas to the growing body of scholarship on stories. Includes an overview of recent developments in narrative scholarship Provides an accessible introduction to key concepts in the field Views narrative as a cognitive structure, type of text, and resource for interpersonal communication Uses examples from literature, face to face interaction, graphic novels, and film to explore the core features of narrative Includes a glossary of key terms, full bibliography, and comprehensive index Appropriate for multiple audiences, including students, non-specialists, and experts in the field

Product Description: Dame Muriel Spark―the highly acclaimed Scottish writer―published over twenty novels and more than a dozen short-story collections from the late 1950s until her death in 2006. Two of her novels, The Public Image and Loitering with Intent, were short-listed for the Booker Prize, and another, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, was made into an Academy Award–winning movie...read more

Product Description: The last two decades have seen a burst of renewed interest in narrative theory across many academic disciplines as scholars analyze the power of storytelling in print and other media. Teaching Narrative Theory provides a comprehensive resource for instructors who aim to help students identify and understand the distinctive features of narrativity in a text or discourse and make use of the terms and concepts of the field...read more

Product Description: From Chaucer’s Pardoner to Eliot’s Edward Casaubon, from Behn’s Oroonoko to Woolf’s Clarissa Dalloway—the multifarious perceptions, inferences, memories, attitudes, and emotions of such characters are in some cases as vividly familiar to us readers as those of the living, breathing individuals we know from our own day-to-day experiences in the world at large...read more