Authors:Angela W. Little, Fiona E. Leach, Angela W. Little, F
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: education, books, international, reference, dilemmas, cultures, economics, development
Number of Pages: 422
Published: 1999-10-01
List price: $145.00
ISBN-10: 0815327838
ISBN-13: 9780815327837

This edited volume reviews the conflict between economic prescriptions for improved education in the developing world and local cultures. Among the issues reviewed are: conceptions of culture and economics in development and education literature, economic considerations of school systems to promote cultural goals, the differentiation of schools from other sites of cultural reproduction, learning experiences of various cultural groups, and the cross-cultural work of development agencies.

Authors:Jerry W. Leach, Edmund Leach,
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: exchange, massim, perspectives, new, kula
Number of Pages: 588
Published: 1983-07-29
List price: $120.00
ISBN-10: 0521232023
ISBN-13: 9780521232029

Authors:Howard Gaskill Fiona Stafford, Fiona Stafford, Howar
Publisher: Rodopi Bv Editions
Keywords: romantic, gaelic
Number of Pages: 264
Published: 1998-01
List price: $47.00
ISBN-10: 9042007818
ISBN-13: 9789042007819

The appearance of James Macpherson’s Ossian in the 1760s caused an international sensation. The discovery of poetic fragments that seemed to have survived in the Highlands of Scotland for some 1500 years gripped the imagination of the reading public, who seized eagerly on the newly available texts for glimpses of a lost primitive world. That Macpherson’s versions of the ancient heroic verse were more creative adaptations of the oral tradition than literal translations of a clearly identifiable "original" may have exercised contemporary antiquarians and contributed eventually to a

Authors:Jane Austen, Fiona Stafford, Fiona Stafford,
Publisher: Penguin Classics Hardcover
Keywords: classics, penguin, emma
Number of Pages: 512
Published: 2010-03-10
List price: $20.00
ISBN-10: 014119247X
ISBN-13: 9780141192475

Beautiful, clever, rich - and single - Emma Woodhouse is perfectly content with her life and sees no need for either love or marriage. Nothing, however, delights her more than interfering in the romantic lives of others. But when she ignores the warnings of her good friend Mr. Knightley and attempts to arrange a suitable match for her protegee Harriet Smith, her carefully laid plans soon unravel and have consequences that she never expected. With its imperfect but charming heroine and its witty and subtle exploration of relationships, "Emma" is often seen as Jane Austen’s most flawless w

Authors:Fiona Somerset, Fiona Somerset, Nicholas Watson,
Publisher: Pennsylvania State Univ Pr
Keywords: vernacularity, postmedieval, medieval, tongue, vulgar
Number of Pages: 277
Published: 2003-11-01
List price: $68.95
ISBN-10: 0271023104
ISBN-13: 9780271023106

Deeply embedded in the history of Latin Europe, the vernacular (’the language of slaves’) still draws us towards urgent issues of affiliation, identity, and cultural struggle. Vernacular politics in medieval Latin Europe were richly complex and the structures of thought and feeling they left behind permanently affected Western culture. The Vulgar Tongue explores the history of European vernacularity through more than a dozen studies of language situations from twelfth-century England and France to twentieth-century India and North America, and from the building of nations, empires,

Author: LEACH WM
Publisher: Kendall Hunt Publishing
Keywords: design, amplifier, audio, electroacoustics, introduction
Number of Pages: 298
Published: 2008-07-30
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 0757503756
ISBN-13: 9780757503757

Author: Jim Leach
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
Keywords: milestones, doctor
Number of Pages: 112
Published: 2009-04
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 0814333087
ISBN-13: 9780814333082

This is a comprehensive account of "Doctor Who" as a television series and product of popular culture. "Doctor Who", the iconic British science-fiction series following a time-traveling alien scientist, was first broadcast November 23, 1963, on BBC Television. Though modestly conceived and produced, its depiction of the alien but strangely human ’Doctor’ proved to be such a commercial success that the program was shown in more than forty countries over twenty-six seasons - from 1963 to 1989 - and returned successfully to television in 2005. In "Doctor Who", Jim Leach explores the r