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Product Description: This is an examination of the wide range of current practice in Learning Centres in Europe, and of their future prospects. As well as chapters reviewing the European experience as a whole, it includes contributions from Austria, Denmark, Germany, Slovenia, Spain and the UK presenting national experiences and describing distinctive visions for the future...read more

Product Description: Critical Essays showcases a critic whom Ezra Pound called in 1914, "the best critic in England, one might say the only critic of any importance." This volume provides access to the best of Ford Madox Ford's essays. The essays are arranged chronologically and span nearly forty years—covering most of Ford's writing life...read more