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PRACTICAL CREATIVITY Activities and Ideas for Your Language Classroom Anne Cummings Hlas This text supplies foreign language, dual language, and English as a second language educators with a research-based model for using creativity to support language acquisition in the classroom. The book includes innovative learning exercises and teaching guidelines that are based on research of the cognitive, sociocultural, and critical aspects of creativity and learning. Anne Cummings Hlas is an associate professor of Spanish at the University of Wisconsin, Eau Claire. She has taught language methods courses and varying levels of Spanish for more than 10 years.

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ADAPTATIONS NOW The Past, Present, and Future of Film and Literature Brian R. Brems

This anthology features readings that inspire students to question why filmmakers who adapt material will make certain changes to it based on historic, generic, and authorial context. The progression of articles is designed to explore why something is different as it changes from form to form and to spark analysis rather than simplistic comparisons of “which is better.”

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WRITING AFTER MIDNIGHT An Advanced Guide to Composition and Research Ernesto Rueda

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This text addresses the specific writing and research skills students need to succeed in their academic careers. Recognizing that good academic thinking precedes good academic writing, the book offers practical instruction in a clear, precise way that introduces students to both the steps and styles of college and university level writing.

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VOICES OF COLOR Original Writings Rooted in Authentic Experience Gail A. Bauman, Ph.D.

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This anthology contains powerful personal narratives from young adults of color. The selections are by turns joyous, heart-wrenching, wise, sassy, humorous, hopeless, hopeful, tragic, and triumphant. Each chapter includes thought-provoking questions that allow readers to explore their responses and consider how the works relate to their own experiences. This book is well suited to classes on diversity, African-American studies, and social justice.

FROM CLASSIC TO CONTEMPORARY Readings in Applied Sociocultural Anthropology Orit Tamir

ÂŠ 2018 This anthology features both classic and contemporary readings coupled with an up-to-date applied perspective. The selections first introduce students to the discipline of anthropology and its origins, then present topics including linguistic anthropology, cross-cultural communication, applied anthropology as it relates to the studies of family, kinship, and marriage, ecology and the environment, beliefs, and practices, issues of globalization, and more.

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ACADEMIC LITERACY A Holistic Approach Molly Maynard

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This text covers the essentials of college-level reading skills to prepare students to successfully read, comprehend, analyze, and retain information. The book features college-level readings from across the disciplines, and prepares students to engage with textbooks, academically-oriented journals, and other reading materials commonly used in college classrooms.

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CRITICAL AND CREATIVE THINKING Debra L. Welkley and Santos Torres, Jr.

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This text helps students both think in new ways and employ the basic skills involved in the identification and evaluation of an argument. It provides students with the critical and creative thinking fundamentals required to thoughtfully consider the ideas and opinions surrounding current social issues. The text is ideal for courses in critical thinking, social problems, social work, and sociology.

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CHALLENGING INEQUALITIES Readings in Race, Ethnicity, and Immigration Hortencia Jiménez

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This collection examines the histories and historiographies of racism on both the micro (individual) and macro (institutional) levels. The anthology highlights the ways in which race is and has long been structured in social institutions, as well as the various ways in which institutional systems maintain and perpetuate social inequalities.

WORKING WRITING A Conversational Textbook on Technical Writing Dr. Brian Quinn

This text gives readers essential information on how to write well for instructional, informational, or technical purposes. The book addresses topics such as thinking and organizing to write, writing mechanics, developing first drafts, proofreading effectively, editing, and incorporating visuals, and is based on thirty years of the author’s real-world experience as a working writer.

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REALITY’S WRITTEN LANGUAGE A Critical Anthology of Classical and Contemporary Film Theory Jon Wagner and Denise Spampinato

© 2018 This text combines fundamental sources in classical and contemporary film theory with extensive commentary to provide readers with tools to understand the philosophical, aesthetic, and historical evolution of film and its cultural critique. The readings, accompanying lecture commentary, and filmographies are appropriate for advanced undergraduate courses in film theory and visual studies.

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NAVIGATING VISUAL CULTURE Theoretical Perspectives on Visual Media Amy Mattson Lauters

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This text presents an eclectic collection of theory-driven readings to help students understand and navigate the visual culture in which they live. The readings explore the nature of the visual and how people identify what they see around them; how they interpret, explain, and understand visual culture; and how they participate in visual culture.

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INTRODUCTION TO MASS COMMUNICATION People, Platforms, and Practices Joshua Dickhaus and Sara Baker Netzley

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This anthology features readings that prompt students to reflect on and discuss diverse topics in communication disciplines, ethics, and history. Students learn about major subject areas in communication, such as journalism and strategic communication, as well as various platforms including print, radio, film, comic books, television, video games, and social media. It is ideal for introductory communication courses.

MYTHS FOR ALL TIME Selected Greek Stories Retold Patrick Hunt

In this book, author Patrick Hunt retells twelve of the most well-known Greek myths, ranging from Midas’ golden touch to the dreaded opening of Pandora’s Box, bringing to life ancient stories of old.

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Venus in Furs is a groundbreaking account of mistress-slave roleplay, fetishism, and mutual seduction. Bookish Severin falls in love with the rich and beautiful widow Wanda and reveals to her that he yearns to be the slave of an abusive goddess wrapped in fur. Together they set out to make his fantasy a reality, but what begins as a game soon turns deadly serious.

FRENCH FAIRY TALES

This text provides a unique opportunity to revisit and deepen the appreciation and understanding of French fairy tales. This anthology includes essays that analyze the complexities and importance of these tales, as well as a bibliography and filmography that give readers a chance to explore the genre further.

This book uses authentic French documents, particularly well-crafted literary texts, to expose readers of the language to customary French grammar. The selected readings clearly exhibit the grammatical structures typically covered in a French grammar review course, and exercises constructed around the readings help to solidify grammatical concepts such as determiners, adjectives and adverbs, comparatives and superlatives, prepositions, conjunctions, and pronouns.

ONCE UPON A DIGITAL STORY A MODERN APPROACH TO AN ANCIENT ART

This book teaches readers the concepts, principles, and construction of storytelling across a variety of digital formats and platforms in our technological age. These range from fiction and nonfiction linear narrative to nonlinear interactive media including online, video, performance, game scenarios, and transmedia.

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SMARTER WRITING

This text helps students gain the writing skills needed to produce college level summaries, critiques, analyses, syntheses, and documented research papers, and provides instruction in analysis, argument, research techniques, and critical thinking skills. Students learn to write effective theses, introductions, bodies, and conclusions to the standard college essay.

This developmental text helps students build confidence through the use of a five-step writing process of prewriting, drafting, revising, editing, and presenting their final work. Each distinct chapter features learning objectives, checklists to support self-correction, and review activities.

OCCULTUS

Occultus: The Hidden and Macabre in Literature and Film is an intellectually rigorous examination of esotericism, magic, and the macabre. The book uses film and literature to conduct an exploration of concepts such as secrecy, hiddenness, and how mystery is defused once it becomes widely understood.

LITERATURE OF EXILE AND DISPLACEMENT AMERICAN IDENTITY IN A TIME OF CRISIS

This book includes excerpts and short stories from an international body of writers examining almost 100 years of literature. Through the selections readers will investigate how the authors have portrayed the journeys, hopes, and hardships of dislocation and alienation, and the role literature may play in creating a sense of community for immigrants, refugees, and people living in exile.

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This text includes key poems, excerpts from prose works, and full-length texts that explore the complexities of emotional life during the British Victorian period. The material introduces readers to the Victorian idealization of the family as well as challenges to the family’s moral authority.

This text features works of short fiction, primarily American, that provide a firm foundation in the study of literature, complete with a guide for writing research papers. The short fiction exposes students to the universal human qualities that good literature highlights. Each story instigates a personal response from readers.

SUMMER EVENING, PRAIRIE NIGHT, LAND OF GOLDEN WHEAT THE OUTSIDE WORLD IN KAZAKH LITERATURE

This book features, in English translation, works from pre-soviet, soviet, and post-soviet Kazakhstan, and introduces students to the rich literary traditions that formed between nomads and nature. It offers students the best examples of Kazakh literature covering the twentieth century.

As an introduction to the classics, this anthology is both challenging and accessible, providing a foundation essential in any humanities education. Modern poetry is presented alongside the classics, highlighting the relevance of the ancient texts and fostering an appreciation for contemporary work as well.

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LANGUAGE, LITERATURE, AND CULTURE

This text prepares students to discuss, in a thoughtful and informative way, how common ideas across differing fields of study can serve as both linking and explanatory devices. The material combines the examination of the history of ideas with traditional philosophical analysis to show that these three different disciplines are, at heart, linked by common concepts.

This book shows how grammar and rhetoric complement each other in generative sentences, with their multiple statements in hierarchical patterns. It is intended for undergraduate students in a one-semester course, allowing that some need to start at the very beginning but all need to understand generative writing.

The readings by prominent literary authors and journalists chosen for this anthology highlight the many ways in which human rights are being violated through practices such as human trafficking, intellectual piracy, organ trade, and female feticide. Through a variety of original sources, students are given several gateways through which to approach complex social issues.

MAKE STRAIGHT YOUR ARROW

This text addresses the difficulties students experience in thinking clearly and writing precisely – and expressively! It teaches students to pay attention to their own critical thinking processes and to the language involved in both careful thinking and effective writing.

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In Stitching Together an Essay: A Guide to College Writing students examine an essay about Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein in order to learn how various pieces of writing are combined to create a cohesive body. The emphasis is on writing practice, with instruction on grammar, audience, thesis, and argument embedded.

This book provides clear guidelines for mechanical correctness, appropriate attribution, and paraphrasing. The use of paragraph breaks for stylistic purposes is also addressed. Students will learn how to write quotes with style, clarity, and consistency. It also addresses the importance of ethics in writing, especially as these relate to plagiarism and academic dishonesty.

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This text teaches critical thinking skills that students can then apply to potential solutions to societal problems. Students will explore deductive, inductive, and syllogistic reasoning as well as enthymemes and fallacies. Each of the nine chapters features high-interest and challenging activities that allow for immediate application of the target skills.

This text focuses on the three areas developmental students most need in order to improve their academic writing skills – grammar, essay development, and revision strategies. The book combines student-friendly instruction with practice exercises and activities to target each step of the writing process.

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This book teaches students the fundamentals of good reporting tactics and gives them a solid command of basic writing techniques. It is a concise, current, engaging exploration of practical tools and techniques that writers can employ immediately and use every day.

A SURVEY OF LANGUAGE AND CULTURE

This text is a survey of language and culture from an anthropological perspective. Through nine chapters students explore everything from the actual definition of language to language acquisition, from theoretical perspectives on language development to applied linguistics.

STORYTELLING

This anthology focuses on how people share cultural ideals through traditional folktales. The selected readings emphasize the idea that the practice of faceto-face oral narrative strengthens cultural beliefs, attitudes, and values. It brings forth stories from past and present, from near and far to demonstrate their power to teach, heal, unify, and empower.

This book includes several features to aid students in understanding the novel as both a literary work and an insightful exploration of important issues in Victorian society, including the role of women, poverty, inequality, and urban development. By immersing themselves in Besant’s tale of Lady Mildred Eldridge and her two daughters, one of whom is actually adopted from her former servant, students will gain fascinating insights into Victorian life.

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PATHWAYS TO THE HEART

This book invites readers on a journey through time. The works are presented in chronological order, many in English translation for the first time. Students will become familiar with the heritage of a literature that began thirty centuries ago with Mayan poetry. It gives readers the opportunity to experience literature that is new to them in a rich cultural and historical context.

This unique literary collection provides an introduction to key moments in cultural history, including the Renaissance, Romanticism, and Realism. The included works portray unforgettable fictional rebels and tyrants. The texts are organized around the subversive and creative ways in which the authors themselves were also rebels—rebels who challenged literary conventions and shaped daring new perspectives on what literature should be about.

CARL SANDBURG’S AMERICA

Covering sixty years of writing, this is the first text to survey and analyze all the complete works of this most famous and beloved American poet. The text helps readers understand the works and shows them how Sandburg’s writing contributed to and influenced American literature in the 20th Century.

This text takes the devices and forms of creative writing and breaks them down into straightforward explanations of specific skills, thus helping students navigate the landscape of creative writing with ease and confidence. Students first explore the differences between concrete and abstract language and learn forms of figurative speech. They then focus on specific forms of creative writing.

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WHAT’S THE STORY?

THE ART OF WRITING AND COMMUNICATION

This book offers a general introduction to effective communication and good writing and helps students understand that what is considered good writing differs based on the context, audience, and purpose. It provides students with a comprehensive overview of different genre writing skills and prepares them to write successfully in the working world.

This text successfully blends academic writing and fiction to address issues such as death and dying, sexuality, criminal justice and deviance, and social movements and change. Other topics include families, globalization, science and technology, and war and politics.

CULTURE AND CONTEXT (VOLUMES I-II) AN INTERDISCIPLINARY APPROACH TO LITERATURE

These volumes present many of the best literary works of western culture within the context of the arts, politics, philosophies, and cultural developments of the same time periods. They help readers approach challenging texts by first introducing them to accessible, complementary art forms such as architecture, sculpture, and painting.

This text introduces readers to selected tales from the Russian/Slavic tradition and to methods of examining and critiquing them. The material examines fairy tales from their folk origins to their literary and filmic versions, and provides contextual ties to Western presentations of fairy tales such as the Brothers Grimm, Charles Perrault, and Disney.

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VAMPIRES OVER THE AGES

A CULTURAL ANALYSIS OF SCIENTIFIC, LITERARY, AND CINEMATIC REPRESENTATIONS

This book gives students the materials to analyze the way the vampire image has changed over the centuries, particularly as it relates to politics, sexuality, and culture. It can be used in film and literature courses, as well as those that focus on popular culture and early scientific theories about vampire plagues.

MORE THAN JUST FAIRY TALES

NEW APPROACHES TO THE STORIES OF HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN

This text takes an innovative look at the classic tales of Hans Christian Andersen. It provides fresh insights into a seminal figure in European and international children’s literature. It demonstrates that Andersen’s stories have stood the test of time by addressing issues and ideas that are constants of the human condition.

This text presents a diverse and colorful spectrum of supernatural phenomena— automatons, ghosts, talking animals, detached body parts with a life of their own, magical transformations, animated objects, mad scientists, and angels— offering a vivid display of the endless powers of the imagination.

THE STORIES OF THE GREAT STEPPE THE ANTHOLOGY OF MODERN KAZAKH LITERATURE

Featuring first-time translations of numerous examples of modern Kazakh literature for publication in the USA, this anthology provides excellent examples of literary life in both Soviet and post-Soviet Kazakhstan, and introduces readers to the rich literary traditions of the region.

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This text provides comprehensive exploration of Feature Theory Grammar, which breaks down the components of traditional “parts-of-speech” words, allowing for fine-grained analysis. The book presents the kind of theoretical syntax that is highly regarded among Chomskyan linguists.

A Marriage Below Zero (1889) is a tragicomic account of a desperate woman’s attempts to uncover the secret at the center of her husband’s life. Her quest for the truth will take her to London, New York, and Paris, where she finally discovers what everyone else has suspected all along.

The most famous Anglo-Indian novel of the nineteenth century, Confessions of a Thug is a canonical example of British Orientalism, as well as an unsettling invitation to early Victorian readers to identify with an unrepentant predator.

Organized around eight topics, including “The Slum,” “Streetwalking,” “Monstrosity,” and “Death,” the two volumes that comprise this anthology map the Victorian obsession with crime and horror, with phenomena that rattle one’s sense of self.

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With over 40 different writing assignments, students learn to engage in a variety of information gathering activities, work collaboratively, problem-solve, explore, investigate, ponder, and learn.

This two-volume compilation of readings in Hungarian exilic literature is a selective guide through the genres of a body of work that until recently was all but inaccessible to English readers, specialist and student alike.

GREEN DESERT

This is the first c omprehensive t ranslation o f Olzhas S uleimenov’s p oetry i n English. The book provides a concise overview of the poet’s rich literary heritage and serves as an introduction to the contemporary literature of Kazakhstan and Eurasia.

This is a one-of-a-kind hands-on student’s companion to better collegiate writing. In comparison to other rhetorical pedagogy, it is a reader-friendly helper that targets specific weak areas of writing to help alleviate the frustration that a number of students encounter in college writing. It is specifically written to help learners who prefer a simpler book to improve their writing.

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