Senest opdateret 10. september
fra 2015 på forlaget Wadsworth Publishing Co Inc
ISBN: 978-1-285-46506-7
Kategorier: Litteraturhistorie, Litteraturvidenskab, Studiebøger
pris: 320 kr – stand: ★★★★★★
Vægt: 594 gram
Suitable for all serious students of literature, this book contains a glossary of essential literary terms presented as a series of crafted essays that explore the terms, place them in context, and suggest related entries and additional reading. It covers terms useful in discussing literature and literary history, theory, and criticism.
Senest opdateret 24. august
fra 2006 på forlaget DC Comics
ISBN: 978-1-4012-0315-3
Kategorier: Grafik, Skønlitteratur
pris: 95 kr – stand: ★★★★★★
Vægt: 243 gram
Comic book, graphic novel The startlingly original look at life on the streets of Baghdad during the Iraq War inspired by true events arrives in a stunning new softcover edition. In his award-winning work on Y: The Last Man and Ex Machina (one of Entertainment Weekly's 2005 Ten Best Fiction titles), writer Brian K. Vaughan has displayed an understanding of both the cost of survival and the political nuances of the modern world. Now, in this provocative graphic novel, Vaughan examines life on the streets of war-torn Iraq. The experience is made all the more evocative by the lush, spectacular artwork of Niko Henrichon.In the spring of 2003, a pride of lions escaped from the Baghdad Zoo during an American bombing raid. Lost and confused, hungry but finally free, the four lions roamed the decimated streets of Baghdad in a desperate struggle for their lives. In documenting the plight of the lions, Pride of Baghdad raises questions about the true meaning of liberation - can it be given, or is it earned only through self-determination and sacrifice? And in the end, is it truly better to die free than to live life in captivity?
Senest opdateret 24. august
fra 2004 på forlaget University Of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 0-8032-8621-X
Kategorier: Amerika/USA, Historie:Kultur, Skønlitteratur
pris: 170 kr – stand: ★★★★★★
Vægt: 236 gram
Yonnondio follows the heartbreaking path of the Holbrook family in the late 1920s and the Great Depression as they move from the coal mines of Wyoming to a tenant farm in western Nebraska, ending up finally on the kill floors of the slaughterhouses and in the wretched neighborhoods of the poor in Omaha, Nebraska.Mazie, the oldest daughter in the growing family of Jim and Anna Holbrook, tells the story of the family's desire for a better life Anna's dream that her children be educated and Jim's wish for a life lived out in the open, away from the darkness and danger of the mines. At every turn in their journey, however, their dreams are frustrated, and the family is jeopardized by cruel and indifferent systems.
Senest opdateret 24. august
fra 2000 på forlaget Flamingo
ISBN: 978-0-00-729157-1
Kategorier: Afrika, Skønlitteratur
pris: 220 kr – stand: ★★★★★★
Vægt: 401 gram
A thrilling journey into the minds of African elephants as they struggle to survive. If, as many recent nonfiction bestsellers have revealed, animals possess emotions and awareness, they must also have stories. In The White Bone, a novel imagined entirely from the perspective of African elephants, Barbara Gowdy creates a world whole and separate that yet illuminates our own. For years, young Mud and her family have roamed the high grasses, swamps, and deserts of the sub-Sahara. Now the earth is scorched by drought, and the mutilated bodies of family and friends lie scattered on the ground, shot down by ivory hunters. Nothing-not the once familiar terrain, or the age-old rhythms of life, or even memory itself-seems reliable anymore. Yet a slim prophecy of hope is passed on from water hole to water hole: the sacred white bone of legend will point the elephants toward the Safe Place. And so begins a quest through Africa's vast and perilous plains-until at last the survivors face a decisive trial of loyalty and courage. In The White Bone, Barbara Gowdy performs a feat of imagination virtually unparalleled in modern fiction. Plunged into an alien landscape, we orient ourselves in elephant time, elephant space, elephant consciousness and begin to feel, as Gowdy puts it, "what it would be like to be that big and gentle, to be that imperiled, and to have that prodigious memory."
Senest opdateret 24. august
fra 2013 på forlaget Canongate Books Ltd
ISBN: 978-1-78211-114-6
Kategorier: Amerika/USA, Politik, Skønlitteratur, Sygdom/sundhed
pris: 130 kr – stand: ★★★★★★
Vægt: 323 gram
A cross-cultural tale of two women brought together by the intersections of television and industrial agriculture, fertility and motherhood, life and love, from the Booker-shortlisted author. In a single eye-opening year two women, worlds apart, experience parallel awakenings. In New York, Jane Takagi-Little lands a job producing a Japanese television show sponsored by an American meat-exporting business, exposing some unsavoury truths - about the meat industry and herself. In Tokyo, housewife Akiko Ueno diligently prepares the recipes from Jane's programme. Struggling to please her husband, she increasingly doubts her commitment to the life she has fallen into. As Jane and Akiko both battle to assert their individuality on opposite sides of the globe, they are drawn together in a startling story of strength, courage and love.
Senest opdateret 24. august
1. udgave fra 2013 på forlaget Ajour
Oplag: 1
ISBN: 978-87-92816-40-5
Kategorier: Interviewmetoder, Journalistik, Studiebøger
pris: 120 kr – stand: ★★★★★
Vægt: 226 gram
Kan man som forsker fange og fastholde folks opmærksomhed, når man vil fortælle andre mennesker om noget fra sit fag - uden at gå på kompromis med fagligheden? Ja, det kan man! Bogen er skrevet af folk fra videnskab.dk, som nu i fem år med succes har bevist, at det kan lade sig gøre. Hjemmesiden har over 1 million besøg - om måneden!Filosofiprofessor og forsker Vincent F. Hendricks siger i bogen om formidling af forskning: "Du er nødt til at finde ud af, hvad der er nødvendigt at have med, og det skal skrives i et muntert og let sprog uden at være plat. Du skal kunne se din læser og din forskerkollega i øjnene bagefter." Bogen fortæller hvordan. Fagligt og let. Konstruktivt og konkret. Med engagement.
Senest opdateret 24. august
fra 2014 på forlaget Routledge
ISBN: 978-0-415-69922-8
Kategorier: Litteraturhistorie, Litteraturvidenskab, Studiebøger
pris: 170 kr – stand: ★★★★★
Vægt: 343 gram
Literature in English deals with the fundamental concepts of literary form and genre; the history of English-language literature from the medieval period to the present; relations between the study of literature and other disciplines; literary theory; researching a topic; and writing a paper
Senest opdateret 24. august
fra 2010 på forlaget W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 978-0-393-93138-9
Kategorier: Amerika/USA, Skønlitteratur
pris: 70 kr – stand: ★★★
Vægt: 387 gram
This Norton Critical Edition is based on the 1985 corrected text and is accompanied by detailed explanatory annotations. “Backgrounds and Contexts” is divided into three sections, each of which includes a concise introduction by Michael Gorra that carefully frames the issues presented, with particular attention to As I Lay Dying’s place in Faulkner’s literary life. “Contemporary Reception” reprints American, English, and French reviews by Clifton Fadiman, Henry Nash Smith, Edwin Muir, and Maurice Coindreau, among others, along with Valery Larbaud’s never-before-translated preface to the first French edition of the novel. “The Writer and His Work” examines Faulkner’s claim to have written the novel in six weeks without changing a word. It includes his comments on the book’s composition along with his later thoughts on and changing opinions of it, sample pages from the manuscript, his Nobel Prize address, and the little-known short story in which he first used the title. “Cultural Context” reprints an essay by Carson McCullers and an excerpt from James Agee’s Let Us Now Praise Famous Men along with other materials that address questions of Southern Agrarianism and the Southern grotesque. “Criticism” begins with the editor’s introduction to As I Lay Dying’s critical history and scholarly reception. Eleven major essays are provided by Olga W. Vickery, Cleanth Brooks, Calvin Bedient, André Bleikasten, Eric Sundquist, Stephen M. Ross, Doreen Fowler, Patrick O’Donnell, Richard Gray, John Limon, and Donald M. Kartiganer. A Chronology and a Selected Bibliography are also included. Forside er skadet, men ellers er bogen fin
© 2003 - 2024 | Bogbasen.dk - All rights reserved/Alle rettigheder er reserveret
