The Making of the Modern Child

The Making of the Modern Child

Author: Andrew O'Malley

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2004-06-01

Total Pages: 204

ISBN-13: 1135947325

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This book explores how the concept of childhood in the late-18th century was constructed through the ideological work performed by children's literature, as well as pedagogical writing and medical literature of the era. Andrew O'Malley ties the evolution of the idea of "the child" to the growth of the middle class, which used the figure of the child as a symbol in its various calls for social reform.


Children's Books of Yesterday

Children's Books of Yesterday

Author:

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2015-02-19

Total Pages: 195

ISBN-13: 1107487269

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Originally published in 1946, this book contains a catalogue of an exhibition of children's books held that year at the National Book League's headquarters. The books range in date from the sixteenth century to the early twentieth and include a number of works by celebrated authors and illustrations such as John Calvin and Randolph Caldecott.


Hearing the Mermaid's Song

Hearing the Mermaid's Song

Author: Lindsay Hale

Publisher: University of New Mexico Press

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 208

ISBN-13: 0826347339

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Based on personal experience as a participant and observer over nearly a decade, Hale explores the unique spiritual beliefs of this Afro-Brazilian religion originated in Rio de Janeiro in the early twentieth century.


The Horn Book Magazine

The Horn Book Magazine

Author: Bertha E. Mahony Miller

Publisher:

Published: 1942

Total Pages: 510

ISBN-13:

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Vol. 2 includes extra number, "Experimental schools in England," Jan. 1926.


A Feast for Crows (HBO Tie-in Edition): A Song of Ice and Fire: Book Four

A Feast for Crows (HBO Tie-in Edition): A Song of Ice and Fire: Book Four

Author: George R. R. Martin

Publisher: Bantam

Published: 2014-04-01

Total Pages: 1106

ISBN-13: 0553390562

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THE BOOK BEHIND THE FOURTH SEASON OF THE ACCLAIMED HBO SERIES GAME OF THRONES A SONG OF ICE AND FIRE: BOOK FOUR After centuries of bitter strife, the seven powers dividing the land have beaten one another into an uneasy truce. Few legitimate claims to the Iron Throne still exist, and the war that has turned the world into little more than a wasteland has finally burned itself out. Or so it appears. For it’s not long before the survivors, outlaws, renegades, and carrion eaters of the Seven Kingdoms gather. Now, as the human crows assemble over a banquet of ashes, daring new plots and dangerous new alliances are formed, while surprising faces—some familiar, others only just appearing—emerge from an ominous twilight of past struggles and chaos to take up the challenges of the terrible times ahead. Nobles and commoners, soldiers and sorcerers, assassins and sages, are coming together to stake their fortunes . . . and their lives. For at a feast for crows, many are the guests—but only a few are the survivors. Praise for George R. R. Martin and A Feast for Crows “The American Tolkien . . . Of those who work in the grand epic-fantasy tradition, [George R. R. Martin] is by far the best.”—Time “Long live George Martin . . . a literary dervish, enthralled by complicated characters and vivid language, and bursting with the wild vision of the very best tale tellers.”—The New York Times “A fantasy series for hip, smart people, even those who don’t read fantasy.”—Chicago Tribune