Product Description: Exploring questions such as How does a blacksmith make fresh life from fire? Why does a creature that is half-man and half-hedgehog decide to take on the human race? and How do you ride a horse through time? this ambitious and prize-winning anthology reclaims the magical short story on behalf of the medium of poetry...read more

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Product Description: 2007 Moonbeam Children's Book Awards:     - Bronze Medalist, Young Adult Non-Fiction Category, and     - Bronze Medalist, Peacemaker Award CategoryCCBC's Best Books for Kids & Teens, 2008 "Starred ChoiceRed Maple Book Award - Non-Fiction nominee 2009Excerpt:"When I tell friends at home in Canada abut the things I have seen, they often say, 'It must be so depressing!' But my work has never felt depressing...read more

Who are the invisible kings? Why do two bears follow them round Britain? And what happens when a gypsy's curse comes miraculously to life? This book reveals extraordinary worlds where the real and imagined converge in stories and charms, just this side of science and magic.

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Containing new thinking and original surveys, Media & Cultural Theory brings together leading international scholars to address key issues and debates within media and cultural studies. Through the use of contemporary media and film texts such as Bridget Jones’ Diary and The Lord of the Rings trilogy, and using case studies of the USA and the UK after September 11th, James Curran and David Morley examine central topics including: media representations of the new woman in contemporary society the creation of self in lifestyle media the nature of globalization the rise of digital actors and media. Ideal as a course reader, with each essay covering a different major area or advance in original research, Media & Cultural Theory is global in its reach. Through its engagement with broad questions, it is an invaluable book that can be applied to the studies of media and cultural studies students the English-speaking world over.

Product Description: The concept of this text is that each piece of writing is a scientific paper of itself, a series of findings. The practices of writing science and poetry are a single discussion of perception carried out with the same eye and ear, and in the same laboratory of language. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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A companion volume to the best-selling Mass Media and Society. this collection provides a lively and authoritative introduction to cultural studies, written by some of the most influential scholars and researchers in the field. It offers a critical guided tour of the key debates raised by feminism, postmodernism, the politics of identity, and theories of ideology. It goes beyond a narrow definition of cultural studies in terms of the audience to consider the entire communication circuit from production to consumption within a wider theoretical framework.

Product Description: A unique and timely set of 22 case studies from around the world, this book illustrates a wide range of approaches in the field of public health and development. Detailed analyses of the success of several global efforts in EPI, ORT and family planning are juxtaposed to difficulties encountered by various communities where commitment to social programs has been shaken by changing governments and economic upheavals...read more

Product Description: A first anthology of the new British and Irish poets of the 80s and 90s, with selected works from over 50 key poets, including John Ash, Ciaran Carson, Michael Donaghy, Paul Durcan and many others.