Product Description: With more than 4 million Chinese baby girls in orphanages, the number of Americans adopting these orphans is steadily increasing, and this resource for people interested in doing so outlines what to do, where to go, who to see, and how much it costs...read more

Product Description: Kathleen Wheeler's critical guide is a major work of reference analysing the narrative practices and stylistic devices of women novelists all over the English-speaking world.

Product Description: A clear and practical guide to designing critical pathways for a multitude of settings - acute care, ambulatory, home care, rehabilitation and long term care. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This critical guide analyzes in 135 essays the narrative practices and stylistic devices of the fiction of women novelists from all over the English-speaking world. In addition, 11 further chapters focus on fiction, the rise of international English literature, fiction from the post-war period (when the novel was supposed to be dead), post-structuralist theory, postmodernism and magic realism, and feminist theory...read more

Product Description: How does one capture the delightful irony of Edith Wharton's prose or the spare lyricism of Kate Chopin's? Kathleen Wheeler challenges the reader to experiment with a more imaginative method of literary criticism in order to comprehend more fully writers of the Modernist and late Realist period...read more

Product Description: This book is an examination of three major literary, critical and philosophical movements in European and Anglo--American literature. It aims to show their differences (often pointed out) and their similarities (never yet demonstrated) and to make accessible recent post--structuralist theory...read more

Product Description: The Biographia Literaria has long been recognised as one of the central prose texts of the Romantic period, both for its value as a piece of elevated prose writing and for the insights into poetry, criticism and the faculties of the mind that it offers...read more