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This integrated teacher resource provides lesson ideas for the instruction of social studies and history concepts within the context of quality multicultural children's books and picture books.

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Multicultural and Marginalized Voices of Postcolonial Literature traces multifarious facets of marginalized literature across the world, giving a brilliant overview of the historical roots of multiculturalist and marginalized sections.

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A reference of alphabetically-arranged entries for over 100 world writers from antiquity to 1945, who were influenced by cultures other than their own. Each entry includes a biography, discussion of multicultural themes and contexts, a summary of the writer's reception, and bibliographies.

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Multiliterate Ireland explores the literature of a selection of Irish writers through the prism of multiliteracy. Through this wide-ranging analysis of literature, history, strategic influence, and culture, this book examines the decisions of Irish writers who crossed linguistic boundaries between English and Irish, and other languages, and why these multiliterate choices were made.

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Identifies musical terms found in the Shakespeare canon. This book, an A-Z of over 300 entries, includes a definition of each musical term in its historical and theoretical context, and explores the extent of Shakespeare's use of musical imagery across the full range of his dramatic and poetic work.

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First published: London: Thoemmes Continuum, 2005.

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Marks a literary milestone. This title collects 129 poems from the four leading literary traditions of the Middle East which provide an unusual window into Middle Eastern history. These poems come from diverse languages and traditions - Arabic, Persian, Turkish, and Hebrew - and span more than a thousand years.

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Luiz Carlos Martins Penna was a formative figure in Brazilian theater, creating the comedy of manners in the period after the country gained its independence in 1822. This book examines the interactions of music, theater, and society in Martins Pennas body of work, exploring music theater, music history, and theater history in the Americas.

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A new and exciting interdisciplinary resource which integrates the worlds of music and literature. The first primary and secondary source collection of its kind to focus on the relationship between words and music and between musical and literary forms. -- .

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Professor Colie brings together all previous and partial perspectives on Andrew Marvell, adds new ones harvested from her own deep learning and wide research, and transforms the whole into what Professor Joseph Summers of the University of Michigan has called "the best critical book on Marvell's poetry." Rich in details and knowledge of seventeenth

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In 1954, in Orlando, Florida, nine-year-old Pat Conroy discovered the game of basketball.

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The books listed are found in most children's library collections, and many are award winners (e.g., Boston Globe-Horn Book, Jane Addams, Coretta Scott King, Caldecott, Newbery, state readers' choices) or are listed in Children's Catalog or Elementary School Library Collection.

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Mystic Moderns examines divergent but overlapping treatments of mysticism in the fiction of early twentieth-century British authors Evelyn Underhill, May Sinclair, and Mary Webb. These authors challenged assumptions of a modern, secularized age by seeing sensitivity to a greater reality as integral to their identities as modern women.

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This book discusses the various cultural forms and literary works by which information, myth and misinformation on medical practices and personages were spread during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, and some of the reasons for this, from authorial self-interest to scientific ignorance.