Which animal has a nose with two pointy horns? It is questions like these, coupled with beautiful photographs, which will invite young readers into the wonderful world of animals. These books provide the building blocks for readers to start asking questions of their own as they explore the world around them.
The eyes have it in this charming book that introduces young readers to an owl, a praying mantis, a tiger, a chameleon, and crab. The reader will see a close-up photo of the animals eye and be asked to guess which animal it belongs to. Reading confidence will soar as they read the simple text that is directly supported by the photos.
Blood. Invention. Language. Resistance. World. Five ordinary words that do a great deal of conceptual work in everyday life and literature. In this original experiment in critical semantics, Roland Greene considers how these five words changed over the course of the sixteenth century and what their changes indicate about broader forces in science, politics, and other disciplines. Greene discusses a broad swath of Renaissance and transatlantic literature - including Shakespeare, Cervantes, Camoes, and Milton - in terms of the development of these words rather than works, careers, or histories. He creates a method for describing and understanding the semantic changes that occur, extending his argument to other words that operate in the same manner. Aiming to shift the conversation around Renaissance literature from current approaches to riskier enterprises, Greene also challenges semantic-historicist scholars, proposing a method that takes advantage of digital resources like full-text databases but still depends on the interpreter to fashion ideas out of ordinary language. "Five Words" is an innovative and accessible book that points the field of literary studies in an exciting new direction.--Page [4] of cover.
It is the first monograph in English on Luis de Morales since the 1960s, which is essential for those who do not read Spanish because most of the literature on Morales is in Spanish It provides an extended consideration of the relationship between Morales’ paintings and the devotional practices of his times, using devotional writing aimed at a lay readership and sermons It highlights the importance of Portuguese cultural influences on his work and notes the significance of his work in Portugal as an influence on Portuguese painters and style.