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Checkpoints VCE Mathematical Methods, 2002 has been prepared specifically to meet the needs of students sitting for their VCE Mathematical Methods exams in 2002. The easy-to-use text will encourage independent study and revision. Checkpoints are the most up-to-date and valuable exam preparation aid available. They are completely revised and updated each year in line with the changes to the VCE and consist of collections of practice/review questions for the School Assessed Coursework and the final Board of Studies examination. The questions include past examination questions together with author-generated questions in a similar style. Ideal for revision throughout the year and comprehensive solutions are provided for all questions.

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

Product Description: Literature and the English Civil War charts the relationship between literary texts and their historical context during this era of profound change and upheaval for British society and culture. The volume demonstrates that literary texts are not merely passive reflections of the historical events that help to form them...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: This comprehensive study of the literary output of Sir John Suckling reconstructs the various contexts in which the poems, plays, letters, and prose tracts were produced and, by means of close textual analysis, reveals the nature of one writer's engagement - both creative and subversive - with the social, religious, political, and cultural dimensions of Caroline England...read more

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: It is a critical commonplace to note sharp cultural differences between Elizabethan and Jacobean England. But how and why did this transition take place? What kinds of decisions and assumptions were involved as writers responded to the new king? How did residual Elizabethan expectations and habits of mind shape the English response to James I, and what were the consequences? How much control did James have over his reception? This study examines these questions in detail by exploring a wide range of texts written during the first decade of his reign in England, from 1603 to 1613...read more

Product Description: When Aphra Behn published her novella about an African prince and his wife enslaved in Surinam in 1688, she inaugurated a story that has been adapted and told ever since. Here US scholars of literature and culture looks character construction, abolitionist influence, and marketing strategy from th...read more

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Product Description: Written by various experts in the field, this volume of thirteen original essays explores some of the most significant theoretical and practical fault lines and controversies in seventeenth-century English literature. The turn into the twenty-first century is an appropriate time to take stock of the state of the field, and, as part of that stock-taking, the need arises to assess both where literary study of the early modern period has been and where it might desirably go...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: There seems to be a continuing theme in English literature on the freedom of beggars and highwaymen. Beggars and highwaymen pride themselves on their relative honesty, using a rhetoric of liberty. Robin Hood and his outlaws were "free" in the Greenwood, and stole from the rich to give to the poor...read more

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Product Description: Culture and Society in the Stuart Restoration shows how the Restoration produced the concept of a national literature crucial to a new nationalist cultural enterprise: questions of national identity and difference, of what it meant to be English or British or both, came to be framed in terms of international trade and imperial ambition; and religious and royal authority gave way before the advance of a secular literary culture geared to the demands of a developing commercial and imperial nation...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Through a close study of some 500 newsbooks and pulp publications produced from 1640 to 1660, Friedman investigates why Englishmen outside Parliamentary circles were only incidentally concerned with the political, economic, and religious questions that have so preoccupied scholars of the period. And why, instead, the bestselling issues concerned witches, prodigies, apparitions, divine curses, the readmittance of Jews to England, and an obsession with converting the Turks to Christianity. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.

Product Description: Michael C. Schoenfeldt here offers the first major exploration of the connections between George Herbert's devotional poetry and the social practices and political discourse of his day. Viewing The Temple and The Country Parson as part of the larger "civilizing process" of Western Europe, Schoenfeldt shows how Herbert discovers in the discourses of courtesy and theology a common vocabulary of authority, selfhood, petition, and discipline...read more