by Joan van Emden and Lucinda Becker (2004)
The ability to speak clearly, fluently and persuasively is essential to students in all courses of study. This text discusses a wide range of speaking occasions, such as giving a seminar or a project presentation.
Margit Böck and Norbert Pachler
Gunther Kress, one of the founders of social semiotics and multimodality, has made lasting contributions to these fields through his work in semiotics and meaning-making; power and identity; agency, design, production; and pedagogy and learning; in varied sites of transformation.
Barbara Tomlinson
"Drawing on some three thousand published interviews with contemporary authors, Authors on Writing: Metaphors and Intellectual Labor reveals new ways of conceiving of writing as intellectual labor. Authors' metaphorical stories about composing highlights not interior worlds but socially situated cultures and apparatuses of authorship."--Jacket.
John Hollander
"The first new volume in five years by the distinguished poet-teacher and MacArthur Fellow, of whose last collection, Harp Lake, Harold Bloom has written, "It confirms his authentic eminence, comparable in my judgment to that of Merrill, Ashbery, Ammons and only a few others in his own generation of American poets.""--BOOK JACKET. "The long and very beautiful title sequence, "Tesserae," winds its way through the book, embracing a varied and fascinating collection of lyrics, narratives, puzzles, and translations. It confirms the poet's reputation for dazzling ingenuity, technical brilliance, and erudition of a delightful kind, as when in "The See-Saw" he mocks, by way of nursery rhyme, one of the sillier statements of Hegel: "Of the remedies acting primarily on the body, the see-saw especially has proved efficacious, especially with raving lunatics. The see-saw movement induces giddiness in the patient and loosens his fixed ideas.""--BOOK JACKET. "John Hollander's Selected Poetry is published simultaneously with Tesserae. It provides a generous overview of a marvellous body of work spanning the thirty years from Hollander's first collection, A Crackling of Thorns, chosen by W. H. Auden for the Yale Series of Younger Poets, to Harp Lake, published in 1988."--BOOK JACKET.
Marie-Eve Huot
A la mort de son père, Amélie, 11 ans, se réfugie dans le silence et se plonge dans l'univers passionnant de l'aviation. Au-dessus de son lit, elle épingle les photos de A. Earhart, de C. Lindbergh et de Léonard de Vinci. Elle imagine son père, enfant, partageant la même passion. En convoquant ce dernier pour raconter l'histoire de l'aviation, Amélie parvient à surmonter la douleur de la perte.--[Memento].