Product Description: Taking Sides volumes present current controversial issues in a debate-style format designed to stimulate student interest and develop critical thinking skills. Each issue is thoughtfully framed with Learning Outcomes, an Issue Summary, an Introduction, and an Exploring the Issue section featuring Critical Thinking and Reflection, Is There Common Ground?, and Additional Resources...read more

Blueberry Pie is the first book in the series of books that was inspired by my brother-in-law John. It all started as a joke he played on my two girl's when they were on vacation.The entire series will grow and mature in content and writing style and will encourage your child to keep reading as they grow and mature in their own reading abilities. Parents will also enjoy reading the books to their younger children until they are ready to read themselves. New characters are introduced throughout the series while the main characters stay the same so the child can enjoy reading about the adventures of their new friends....Blueberry is a sweet bear who gets into some serious trouble. The book goes on to describe her heroing experience as her friends rally together to save her.Come along on the adventure and start your journey with Blueberry and her friends.

Product Description: The guide to Renaissance Literature and Culture provides students with the ideal introduction to literature and its context from 1533-1642, including: - the historical, cultural and intellectual background including religion, politics, exploration and visual culture - major writers and genres including Spenser, Sidney, Marlowe, Shakespeare and Jonson - concise explanations of key terms needed to understand the literature and criticism - key critical approaches to modernism from contemporary critics to the present - a chronology mapping historical events and literary works and further reading including websites and electronic resources...read more

Product Description: This collection explores the concept of civility in the early modern period. It addresses a range of writings in English and Scots - among them, conduct manuals, colonial tracts, diaries, letters, dialogues, poetry, drama, chronicles - by English, Welsh and Scots men and women in and about the Atlantic archipelago...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This study explores the use of allegory in Renaissance travel drama. Recent criticism has shown how travel writing tells two stories: it describes events in colonial locations and speaks to the wishes of the home nation. This book further develops our understanding of the allegorical nature of colonial discourse by focusing on the negotiations between gender and monarchy in "geographic" drama...read more

Product Description: This work explores the ways in which a range of early modern plays such as Shakespeare's "King Lear", "Cymbeline", and "Richard II", Heywood's "Edward IV", Brome's "A Jovial Crew", and the anonymous Arden of Faversham and Woodstock intervene in the ongoing reconceptualization of land and land ownership in the late 16th and early 17th centuries...read more

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Product Description: This book examines six plays by Shakespeare (Love's Labour's Lost, Hamlet, As You Like It, Twelfth Night, The Winter's Tale, and The Tempest) as dramatizations of the Renaissance court in its developing history - a history searched by Shakespeare to disclose its most characteristic gains and losses...read more

Product Description: The Historical Renaissance both exemplifies and examines the most influential current in contemporary studies of the English Renaissance: the effort to analyze the interplay between literature, history, and politics. The broad and varied manifestations of that effort are reflected in the scope of this collection...read more