Author: Graham Butt
Publisher: Continuum
Keywords: classmates, planning, lesson
Number of Pages: 152
Published: 2006-06-06
List price: $26.95
ISBN-10: 0826486649
ISBN-13: 9780826486646

Provides practical advice on how teachers can plan their lessons to avoid chaos in the classroom. This second edition has three new chapters and additions to existing material.

Authors:Manuela Perteghella, Eugenia Loffredo,
Publisher: Continuum
Keywords: translation, open, linguistics, studies, creative, creativity, perspectives, writing
Number of Pages: 208
Published: 2006-03-01
List price: $110.00
ISBN-10: 0826487939
ISBN-13: 9780826487933

Translation and Creativity discusses the links between translation and creative writing from linguistic, cultural, and critical perspectives, through eleven chapters by established academics and practitioners. The relationship between translation and creative writing is brought into focus by theoretical, pedagogical, and practical applications, complemented by language-based illustrative examples. Innovative research and practice areas covered include ideas of self-translation and the ’spaces’ of reading, mental ’black boxes’ and cognition and the book introduces new co

Authors:Spencer-oatey, Helen Spencer-Oatey,
Publisher: Continuum
Keywords: speaking, culturally
Number of Pages: 381
Published: 2004-06-01
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 0826466362
ISBN-13: 9780826466365

Authors:Howard Clark Kee, Lynn H. Cohick,
Publisher: Continuum
Keywords: synagogue, evolution
Number of Pages: 196
Published: 1999-11-01
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 1563382962
ISBN-13: 9781563382963

Nine prominent scholars and researchers into rabbinic Judaism and early Christianity here investigate the literary and archaeological evidence by which the evolution of the synagogue can be traced. This research project began as the theme of the Philadelphia Seminar on Christian origins at the University of Pennsylvania during the academic year 1993/ 1994, chaired by Howard C. Kee and Lynn Cohick. In addition to papers presented at the Seminar, outstanding scholars who have analyzed the relevant literature and/or the archaeological evidence from ancient synagogue sites over the early centuries

Author: Andrea Kenkma
Publisher: Continuum
Keywords: philosophy, teaching
Number of Pages: 218
Published: 2009-04-05
List price: $39.95
ISBN-10: 184706244X
ISBN-13: 9781847062444

This book addresses the complex issues involved in teaching philosophy at undergraduate level. In the current academic climate, teaching is often seen as secondary to research. "Teaching Philosophy" seeks to bring teaching philosophy higher on the academic agenda. An international team of contributors, all of whom share the view that philosophy is a subject that can transform students, offers practical guidance and advice for teachers of philosophy.The book suggests ways in which the teaching of philosophy at undergraduate level might be facilitated. Some of the essays place the emphasis on in

Author: Ben Highmore
Publisher: Continuum
Keywords: culture, analysing, certeau, michel
Number of Pages: 200
Published: 2006-07-30
List price: $39.95
ISBN-10: 0826460739
ISBN-13: 9780826460738

Michel de Certeau is becoming increasingly recognised as a cultural theorist whose methodologies could rival those of Foucault. In this engaging book, Ben Highmore provides a stimulating account of Michel de Certeau’s work and its relation to the field of cultural studies. The book explores those aspects of de Certeau’s work that both challenge and re-imagine cultural studies, highlighting the potential this work has for supplying a critical epistemology and a practical ethics for the study of culture within the arts and humanities more generally. Michel de Certeau: Analysing Cultu

Authors:John Shepherd, Peter Wicke, Paul Oliver, Dave Laing, D
Publisher: Continuum
Keywords: performance, production, volume, part, world, encyclopedia, popular, music, continuum
Number of Pages: 712
Published: 2003-07-08
List price: $360.00
ISBN-10: 0826463223
ISBN-13: 9780826463227

Popular music has been a major force in the world since the 19th century. With the advent of electronic and advanced technology it has become ubiquitous. This is the second volume in a series of encyclopedic works covering popular music of the world. It consists of some 460 entries by 130 contributors from around the world. Entries range between 250 and 5000 words and are arranged in four parts: performers and performing; musical production and transmission; musical instruments; and musical forms and practice. Entries include musical examples, bibliographies, discographies and filmographies.