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A team of distinguished and internationally acclaimed writers and illustrators share their personal insights into the maps they love, the maps they use and the maps that set them dreaming.

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Offering a creative and fun approach to math (and problem solving) for children who love hands-on learning, this fill-in book helps children to think like mathematicians by introducing key mathematical concepts in a highly visual--and entertaining--way. Full color. 7 5/8 x 9 13/16.

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The second edition of Friedman's stage history of Shakespeare's Titus Andronicus adds an examination of twelve major theatrical productions and one film that appeared in the years 1989-2009, identifying four lines of descent in the recent performance history of the play: the stylised, realistic, darkly comic, and political approaches. -- .

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A photographic facsimile of the quarto held by the British Library, printed in 1601. The play combines a plot based on a real-life London murder case of 1594 with one deriving from an Italian tale of an evil father and his son.

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An account English weather, which is at the very heart of English life and culture, as it is experienced physically, emotionally and spiritually. It catches the distinct voices of compelling individuals: 'Bloody cold', says Jonathan Swift in the 'slobbery' January of 1713; Percy Shelley wants to become a cloud and John Ruskin wants to bottle one.

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Women's Work challenges influential accounts about gender and the novel by revealing the complex ways in which labour (as material reality and philosophical concept) shaped the lives and writings of a number of women authors working in the second half of the long eighteenth century -- .

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This publication brings together some of New Zealand's finest literary practitioners: 15 writers and 15 literary critics - in discussions about each author's work, the nature of writing and the place of land, culture, belonging, society, family and art in their work.

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Melvyn Bragg explores a controversial selection of British books and their huge impact on history

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Modern poetry is often represented as difficult or remote from most people's experience. This is a passionate attempt to introduce and examine all aspects of contemporary poetry and make it a familiar part of our lives.

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The man and the plays - without the boring bits - with commentary by Peter Ackroyd.

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The complete guide to the world's most famous detective.

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Two of the most trusted reviewers in the field join with top authors, illustrators, and critics in the definitive guide to choosing books for children and young adults--and nurturing their love of reading.

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This book maps the development of autofictional modes from the 18th century to the 21st, setting them against socio-historical changes, cultural trends and philosophical-psychological discussions around self and the mind.

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Michael Longley has remarkable powers of reinvention. And Longley's interlacing of individual lyrics, so that a diverse collection seems a single poem, intensifies in the shadow of mortality.

A sequence about his grandchildren's births is counterpointed by elegies, including Longley's continuing elegy for the Great War dead.

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A fascinating discussion with one of America's greatest living writers about language, literature, and life.

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From the former U.S. Poet Laureate, Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award-winner, an illuminating dissection of poetic form for students, enthusiasts, and newcomers alike

A Little Book on Form brilliantly synthesizes Hasss formidable gifts as both a poet and essayist.

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Filled with the remarkable wit and humor of America's favorite storyteller, A Mark Twain Christmas gives readers insight into Twain's life through little known stories about how he and his family celebrated this treasured holiday.