The Borzoi College Reader
The Borzoi College Reader

Author: Charles Muscatine

Publisher: McGraw-Hill Humanities, Social Sciences & World Languages

Published: 1991-12

Total Pages: 896

ISBN-13:

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This highly regarded, thematic reader for freshman composition offers students an introduction to issues in the arts and sciences. It includes a good balance of classic and contemporary selections from mixed genres and provides a wide range of viewpoints and voices. The readings are supported by introductions to each theme and individual headnotes.

Lara's Gift
Lara's Gift

Author: Annemarie O'Brien

Publisher: Yearling

Published: 2014-07-22

Total Pages: 210

ISBN-13: 0307931757

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In 1914 Russia, Lara is being groomed by her father to be the next kennel steward for the Count's borzoi dogs unless her mother bears a son, but her visions, although suppressed by her father, seem to suggest she has a special bond with the dogs.

Reading and Writing for Civic Literacy
Reading and Writing for Civic Literacy

Author: Donald Lazere

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2015-12-03

Total Pages: 417

ISBN-13: 1317264606

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This brief edition of a groundbreaking textbook addresses the need for college students to develop critical reading, writing, and thinking skills for self-defense in the contentious arena of American civic rhetoric. Designed for first-year or more advanced composition and critical thinking courses, it is one-third shorter than the original edition, more affordable for students, and easier for teachers to cover in a semester or quarter. It incorporates up-to-date new readings and analysis of controversies like the growing inequality of wealth in America and the debates in the 2008 presidential campaign, expressed in opposing viewpoints from the political left and right. Exercises help students understand the ideological positions and rhetorical patterns that underlie such opposing views. Widely debated issues of whether objectivity is possible and whether there is a liberal or conservative bias in news and entertainment media, as well as in education itself, are foregrounded as topics for rhetorical analysis.

The Changing Light at Sandover
The Changing Light at Sandover

Author: James Merrill

Publisher: Scribner

Published: 1982

Total Pages: 560

ISBN-13: 9780689112836

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Mystical poems explore the author's experiences communicating with a spirit named Ephraim through an Ouija board

The Way to Cook
The Way to Cook

Author: Julia Child

Publisher: Knopf

Published: 1993-09-28

Total Pages: 530

ISBN-13: 0679747656

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An instructive cookbook with more than eight hundred recipes in which Julia Child blends classic techniques with American cooking and emphasizes freshness and simpler preparation.

The God Pumpers
The God Pumpers

Author: Marshall William Fishwick

Publisher: Popular Press

Published: 1987

Total Pages: 212

ISBN-13: 9780879724009

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The rituals of religion these days as practiced in the United States on television, have become big theatre, a big show. Televangelism is big business, amounting to billions of dollars each year. Televangelists discussed are Billy Graham, Jimmy Swaggert, Jerry Falwell, Jim and Tammy Bakker, Terry Cole-Whittaker, Marilyn Hickey, Danuto Rylko Soderman, and Beverly LaHaye.

On Monosemy
On Monosemy

Author: Charles Ruhl

Publisher: State University of New York Press

Published: 1989-07-17

Total Pages: 320

ISBN-13: 1438418272

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In this book, the author argues that words should be presumed initially to be monosemic: having a single, highly abstract meaning. Semantic research should first seek a unitary meaning, resorting to polysemy, homonymy or idiomaticity only when an extended attempt fails. Utilizing a large data base, this book shows that some supposed "lexical" semantic meaning is actually pragmatic or extralinguistic. Included are extensive treatments of the verbs bear, hit, kick and slap, the phrase take off, and the noun ice. Ruhl studies linguistic research methods and theory, most directly relevant to the fields of semantics and pragmatics, and also to lexicography, cognitive science, and artificial intelligence. The hypothesis of monosemy implies significant changes of perspective and application for all fields which deal in lexical definition.

Seeing through Race
Seeing through Race

Author: Martin A. Berger

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 2011-05-02

Total Pages: 259

ISBN-13: 0520948343

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Seeing through Race is a boldly original reinterpretation of the iconic photographs of the black civil rights struggle. Martin A. Berger’s provocative and groundbreaking study shows how the very pictures credited with arousing white sympathy, and thereby paving the way for civil rights legislation, actually limited the scope of racial reform in the 1960s. Berger analyzes many of these famous images—dogs and fire hoses turned against peaceful black marchers in Birmingham, tear gas and clubs wielded against voting-rights marchers in Selma—and argues that because white sympathy was dependent on photographs of powerless blacks, these unforgettable pictures undermined efforts to enact—or even imagine—reforms that threatened to upend the racial balance of power.