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A philosophical inquiry into the difficulties of researching, and the dangers of prescribing, teaching methods, with a particular focus on the synthetic phonics method of teaching reading.

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(Paperback, Main)

Osip Mandelstam is one of the greatest of twentieth-century poets in any language, and his work, which sounds the depths of the Russian language, has presented a fertile and constant challenge to translators. This book covers two years of the poet's life, from the spring of 1935, when, in a state of physical and mental collapse.