The Onion Book of Known Knowledge
The Onion Book of Known Knowledge

Author: The Onion

Publisher: Little, Brown

Published: 2012-10-23

Total Pages: 259

ISBN-13: 031613323X

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Are you a witless cretin with no reason to live? Would you like to know more about every piece of knowledge ever? Do you have cash? Then congratulations, because just in time for the death of the print industry as we know it comes the final book ever published, and the only one you will ever need: The Onion's compendium of all things known. Replete with an astonishing assemblage of facts, illustrations, maps, charts, threats, blood, and additional fees to edify even the most simple-minded book-buyer, The Onion Book of Known Knowledge is packed with valuable information -- such as the life stages of an Aunt; places to kill one's self in Utica, New York; and the dimensions of a female bucket, or "pail." With hundreds of entries for all 27 letters of the alphabet, The Onion Book of Known Knowledge must be purchased immediately to avoid the sting of eternal ignorance.

The Shallows
The Shallows

Author: Nicholas Carr

Publisher:

Published: 2020-09-29

Total Pages: 320

ISBN-13: 9781838952587

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The 10th-anniversary edition of this landmark investigation into how the Internet is dramatically changing how we think, remember and interact, with a new afterword.

Working with Academic Literacies
Working with Academic Literacies

Author: Theresa Lillis

Publisher: Parlor Press LLC

Published: 2015-11-04

Total Pages: 442

ISBN-13: 1602357633

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The editors and contributors to this collection explore what it means to adopt an “academic literacies” approach in policy and pedagogy. Transformative practice is illustrated through case studies and critical commentaries from teacher-researchers working in a range of higher education contexts—from undergraduate to postgraduate levels, across disciplines, and spanning geopolitical regions including Australia, Brazil, Canada, Cataluña, Finland, France, Ireland, Portugal, South Africa, the United Kingdom, and the United States.

The Object of the Atlantic
The Object of the Atlantic

Author: Rachel Price

Publisher: Northwestern University Press

Published: 2014-11-30

Total Pages: 286

ISBN-13: 0810130130

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The Object of the Atlantic is a wide-ranging study of the transition from a concern with sovereignty to a concern with things in Iberian Atlantic literature and art produced between 1868 and 1968. Rachel Price uncovers the surprising ways that concrete aesthetics from Cuba, Brazil, and Spain drew not only on global forms of constructivism but also on a history of empire, slavery, and media technologies from the Atlantic world. Analyzing Jose Marti’s notebooks, Joaquim de Sousandrade’s poetry, Ramiro de Maeztu’s essays on things and on slavery, 1920s Cuban literature on economic restructuring, Ferreira Gullar’s theory of the “non-object,” and neoconcrete art, Price shows that the turn to objects—and from these to new media networks—was rooted in the very philosophies of history that helped form the Atlantic world itself.

Moving the Chains
Moving the Chains

Author: Charles P. Pierce

Publisher: Macmillan + ORM

Published: 2007-10-16

Total Pages: 290

ISBN-13: 0374707111

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“Moving the Chains is a study of so much that is too often lost in victory: grace and character and humility. This is a magnificent biography, a meticulous and illuminating tale for those of us who still want to believe in champions. Put simply, Charles Pierce on Tom Brady is America's best sportswriter writing on one of America's best champions.”—New York Times bestselling author Adrian Wojnarowski When Tom Brady entered the 2005 NFL season as lead quarterback for the New England Patriots, the defending Super Bowl champions, he was hailed as the best to ever play the position. And with good reason: he was the youngest quarterback to ever win a Super Bowl; the only quarterback in NFL history to win three Super Bowls before turning twenty-eight; the fourth player in history to win multiple Super Bowl MVP awards. He started the season with a 57–14 record, the best of any NFL quarterback since 1966. Award-winning sports journalist Charles P. Pierce's Moving the Chains explains how Brady reached the top of his profession and how he stays there. It is a study in highly honed skills, discipline, and making the most of good fortune, and is shot through with ironies—a sixth-round draft pick turned superstar leading a football dynasty that was once so bedraggled it had to play a home game in Birmingham, Alabama, because no stadium around Boston would have it. It is also about an ordinary man and an ordinary team becoming extraordinary. Pierce interviewed Brady's friends, family, coaches, and teammates. He interviewed Brady (notably for Sports Illustrated's 2005 Sportsman of the Year cover article). And then he got the one thing he needed to truly take Brady's measure: 2005 turned out to be the toughest Patriots season in five years.

The Undivine Comedy
The Undivine Comedy

Author: Teodolinda Barolini

Publisher: Princeton University Press

Published: 1992-10-30

Total Pages: 369

ISBN-13: 1400820766

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Accepting Dante's prophetic truth claims on their own terms, Teodolinda Barolini proposes a "detheologized" reading as a global new approach to the Divine Comedy. Not aimed at excising theological concerns from Dante, this approach instead attempts to break out of the hermeneutic guidelines that Dante structured into his poem and that have resulted in theologized readings whose outcomes have been overdetermined by the poet. By detheologizing, the reader can emerge from this poet's hall of mirrors and discover the narrative techniques that enabled Dante to forge a true fiction. Foregrounding the formal exigencies that Dante masked as ideology, Barolini moves from the problems of beginning to those of closure, focusing always on the narrative journey. Her investigation--which treats such topics as the visionary and the poet, the One and the many, narrative and time--reveals some of the transgressive paths trodden by a master of mimesis, some of the ways in which Dante's poetic adventuring is indeed, according to his own lights, Ulyssean.

The Tempest: Workbook
The Tempest: Workbook

Author: Classical Comics

Publisher: Classic Graphic Novels

Published: 2011-02

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781111220068

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One of eighteen timeless classics for independent student reading and preparation for mainstream classrooms. Also thematically linked to core series such as Visions.

Holt Handbook
Holt Handbook

Author: John E. Warriner

Publisher:

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780030661426

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Designed for middle school teachers and students in California. Offer teachers and students a method to focus on the written and oral language convention required by the standards--to provide an effective way to teach and learn grammar, usage, and mechanics skills.

Literature for Young Children
Literature for Young Children

Author: Joan I. Glazer

Publisher: Prentice Hall

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 348

ISBN-13:

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This text is appropriate for undergraduate courses in Children's Literature and Early Literacy. This broad introduction to early childhood literature focuses on literacy analysis and on specific techniques and methods of effective literature-based education. The author uses an inviting writing style to help students understand ways to involve children ages 2-8 with literature. This text includes a number of valuable methods and suggestions that are designed to enhance both understanding and enjoyment of literature.

Experience Design 1.1
Experience Design 1.1

Author: Nathan Shedroff

Publisher:

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780982233900

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Experience Design 1.1 is the update to the seminal book Experience Design 1, published in 2001. This update expands the text in the descriptive chapters and adds may new online and offline examples. It is a book about today's intersection of disciplines, such as: interaction design, information design, visual design, and more related methodologies are just parts of the whole. Practiced by many people around the world, experience design is as much an approach and ethic, as it is a field of work. Experience Design is not only a way of designing online experience (such as websites), as but more importantly, it is a way of approaching all design, including products, services, environments, and events. Read cover to cover, Experience Design 1.1 is a kind of text book containing theory as well as examples. Opened to a page at random, it's a source of inspiration that can be used to challenge your thinking when working on a creative project.