Author: Robert Lumsden
Publisher: Cambria Press
Keywords: deconstruction, literature, reading
Number of Pages: 428
Published: 2009-02-18
List price: $119.95
ISBN-10: 1604975261
ISBN-13: 9781604975260

This book is, above all, a highly informed guide to students and readers of literature, for whom the world of literary study has become a maze of theoretical hurdles. The intention is to equip readers with the necessary skills to restore vitality to the act of reading literary texts, crucially, in the moment of engagement with text. Beyond this central aim lies the attendant wish to restore the study of literature to the centre of civil life within modern society. This book makes an enormous and timely contribution to the study of literature in the context of the major debates surrounding lite

Author: David, F. Waterman
Publisher: Cambria Press
Keywords: fiction, space, lessing, doris, identity
Number of Pages: 168
Published: 2006-11-16
List price: $79.95
ISBN-10: 1934043222
ISBN-13: 9781934043226

In this study of identity in Doris Lessing’s space fiction, David Waterman devotes a chapter to each of the five novels in the Canopus in Argos: Archives series, as well as Briefing for a Descent into Hell, Memoirs of a Survivor and finally The Reason for It. This is an important addition to understanding the works of this prolific author. His major argument is that Lessing’s space fiction identifies the universal problem - society’s division into competitive and predatory groups - and places it outside the bounds of time and space, encouraging a social critique which take

Author: Imes Chiu
Publisher: Cambria Press
Keywords: international, study, comparative, automobile, horse, evolution
Number of Pages: 328
Published: 2008-08-28
List price: $109.95
ISBN-10: 1604975466
ISBN-13: 9781604975468

Little work has been done to explicate the motivational factors of agency, particularly in cases where an artifact initially deemed ineffective or superfluous becomes an everyday necessity, such as the automobile at the turn of the twentieth century. Farmers saw it as a "devil wagon" but later adopted it for use as an all-around device and power source. What makes a social group change its position about a particular artifact? How did the devil wagon overcome its notoriety to become a prosaic mainstream device? These questions direct the research in this book. While they may have been asked

Author: Matthew C. Price
Publisher: Cambria Press
Keywords: policy, foreign, american, persuasion, wilsonian
Number of Pages: 296
Published: 2007-11-18
List price: $104.95
ISBN-10: 1934043826
ISBN-13: 9781934043820

In this remarkably well-written book, Dr. Price examines the epochal transformation of the United States from a largely isolationist nation, to one which has come to play a central role in world affairs, using its vast political resources and, in the final analysis, its military capabilities, to dramatically alter the world order in the twentieth century. This shift required the active promotion of internationalism by key political leaders such as Woodrow Wilson himself, Franklin Roosevelt, and others, often in response to the shifting facts of global power, and working tirelessly to sway Amer

Authors:Lee Rainie, Janna Anderson,
Publisher: Cambria Press
Keywords: volume, internet, future, fears, hopes
Number of Pages: 488
Published: 2008-12-28
List price: $124.95
ISBN-10: 1604975717
ISBN-13: 9781604975710

About the series: Technology builders, entrepreneurs, consultants, academicians, and futurists from around the world share their wisdom in The Future of the Internet surveys conducted by the Pew Internet & American Life Project and Elon University. The series of surveys garners smart, detailed assessments of multi-layered issues from a variety of voices, ranging from the scientists and engineers who created the first Internet architecture a decade ago to social commentators to technology leaders in corporations, media, government, and higher education. Among the respondents are people a

Author: Cyrus Manasseh
Publisher: Cambria Press
Keywords: museum, art, video, problematic
Number of Pages: 278
Published: 2009-11-28
List price: $114.99
ISBN-10: 1604976500
ISBN-13: 9781604976502

Throughout the mid-1970s until the early 1990s, video art as vehicles for social, cultural, and political analysis were prominent within global museum based contemporary art exhibitions. For many, video art during this period stood for contemporary art. Yet from the outset, video art’s incorporation into art museums has brought about specific problems in relation to its acquisition and exhibition. This book analyses, discusses, and evaluates the problematic nature and form of video art within four major contemporary art museums--the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York, the Georges Po

Author: Mindi Donaldson
Publisher: Cambria Press
Keywords: study, biology, museum, online, case, school, destinations, student, learning, middle, virtual
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 2007-02-18
List price: $104.95
ISBN-10: 1934043273
ISBN-13: 9781934043271

Educators increasingly leverage the internet to enhance traditional programs and approaches. One strategy in this respect is to employ virtual destination sites for curriculum delivery which are embedded into traditional learning experiences. Virtual Destinations and Student Learning in Middle School provides the most detailed case study of such an approach ever undertaken. It examines the impact of an online museum called Museum Explorer! on middle school students’ knowledge and learning engagement when combined with traditional pedagogy. This book provides important res