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The Magic and Mystery of Trees

This breath-taking book about trees takes children on a captivating journey of nature packed leafy exploration, showing them just how special these mighty organisms are.

Forest: A See to Learn Book

Forest: A See to Learn Book is the first book in a series of non-fiction picture books for very young children, using lyrical phrasing to encourage a sensitive perception of the natural world and a caring connection with it.

What Are Temperate Deciduous Forests?

Forests fascinate readers and hikers alike. And the deciduous forest, perhaps the "classic" forest biome, fills our stories and is the go-to spot for many outdoor activities.

What Are Tropical Rainforests?

Known for their astounding biodiversity, tropical rainforests are a perennially popular topic of study in elementary schools. Readers will encounter the fascinating plants and animals that can be found in the canopy, understory, and forest floor.

Deforestation

Studies from around the world showcase both the positive and the negative impacts that development projects can have. This book explores the various consequences of resource management within the forestry industry.

Leaves Fall

Leaves help a tree. Leaves make food for a tree.

Tall Tall Tree

Tall Tall Tree is a tribute to the last remaining old-growth redwood forests that stand along the northern Californian coast.

Globalizing Dissent: Essays on Arundhati Roy

Arundhati Roy is not only an accomplished novelist, but equally gifted in unraveling the politics of globalization, the power and ideology of corporate culture, fundamentalism, terrorism, and other issues gripping today's world.

When Memory Speaks: Exploring the Art of Autobiography

The Matrimonial Trap: Eighteenth-Century Women Writers Redefine Marriage

Mary Delany's phrase "the matrimonial trap" illuminates the apprehension with which genteel women of the eighteenth century viewed marriage.

L'Amant de Marguerite Duras - Incipit

Plongez-vous dans l'analyse de l'incipit de L'Amant de Marguerite Duras pour approfondir votre compréhension de l'auvre! Que retenir de l'incipit de L'Amant, le roman le plus connu de Marguerite Duras?

La vita secondo Jane Austen

Quando William Deresiewicz, all'età di ventisette anni, scopre Jane Austen, è un giovane presuntuoso, sentimentalmente immaturo e persuaso che quei romanzetti da femmine non facciano di certo per lui.

The Cambridge Companion to American Gay and Lesbian Literature

This Companion examines the connections between LGBTQ populations and American literature from the late eighteenth to twenty-first centuries. It surveys primary and secondary writings under the evolving category of gay and lesbian authorship, and incorporates current thinking in US-based LGBTQ studies as well as critical practices within the field of American literary studies.

Transatlantic Travels in Nineteenth-Century Latin America: European Women Pilgrims

American Authors Reinventing Italy

Yet One More Spring: A Critical Study of Joy Davidman

The first comprehensive study of a gifted but largely overlooked American writerJoy Davidman (1915-1960) is probably best known today as the woman that C.S.

Roomscape: Women Writers in the British Museum from George Eliot to Virginia Woolf

Examines the Reading Room of the British Museum using documentary, theoretical, historical, and literary sources Roomscape explores a specific site - the Reading Room of the British Museum - as a space of imaginative potential in relation to the emergence of modern women writers in Victorian and early twentieth-century London. Drawing on archival materials, Roomscape is the first study to integrate documentary, historical, and literary sources to examine the significance of this space and its resources for women who wrote translations, poetry, and fiction.

SCANDALOUS

Serenity Jones is not your average 26 year old. Not only is she still a virgin, but she often envisions herself in situations where she is making love to every attractive man she meets.

Anna Letitia Barbauld: New Perspectives

Anna Letitia Barbauld: New Perspectives is the first collection of essays on poet and public intellectual Anna Letitia Barbauld (1743*1825).

Comedy and the Woman Writer: Woolf, Spark, and Feminism

Recent critics have affirmed the difficulty-perhaps the impossibility-of defining modern comedy; at the same time, some feminist scholars are seeking to understand the special comedy often present in literature written by women.

Lettere a Elena

The House on Mango Street: Study Guide

Don't want to read the actual book? Tired of reading super long reviews?

Surrealist Women: An International Anthology

Women, Epic, and Transition in British Romanticism

Women, Epic, and Transition in British Romanticism argues that early nineteenth-century women poets contributed some of the most daring work in modernizing the epic genre.

A Rosario Castellanos Reader

Thinker, writer, diplomat, feminist Rosario Castellanos was emerging as one of Mexico's major literary figures before her untimely death in 1974.

Literary Poetics of Indonesian and Malaysian Women: A Gynocritical Approach

Kajian feminisme di Malaysia sudah melalui tahap permulaannya.

Latin American Women Writers: A Resource Guide to Titles in English

There is a wealth of published literature in English by Latin American women writers, but such material can be difficult to locate due to the lack of available bibliographic resources.

Vita Sackville-West: Selected Writings

Aristocrat, novelist, essayist, traveler, and lover of Virginia Woolf, Vita Sackville-West lived a fascinating and daring life on the periphery of the Bloomsbury circle.

The Artistry of Anger

In this compelling interdisciplinary study, Linda Grasso demonstrates that using anger as a mode of analysis and the basis of an aesthetic transforms our understanding of American women's literary history. Exploring how black and white nineteenth-century women writers defined, expressed, and dramatized anger, Grasso reconceptualizes antebellum women's writing and illuminates an unrecognized tradition of discontent in American literature.

A Tyrannous Eye: Eudora Welty's Nonfiction and Photographs

A Tyrannous Eye: Eudora Welty's Nonfiction and Photographs is the first book-length study of Eudora Welty's full range of achievements in nonfiction and photography.

Women's Fiction and Post-9/11 Contexts

Ambiguous Discourse

Carefully melding theory with close readings of texts, the contributors to Ambiguous Discourse explore the role of gender in the struggle for narrative control of specific works by British writers Jane Austen, Virginia Woolf, Anita Brookner, Angela Carter, Jeanette Winterson, and Mina Loy. This collection of twelve essays is the first book devoted to feminist narratology-the combination of feminist theory with the study of the structures that underpin all narratives.

Women, Celebrity, and Literary Culture between the Wars

As mass media burgeoned in the years between the first and second world wars, so did another phenomenon-celebrity.

L.M. Montgomery's Rainbow Valleys: The Ontario Years, 1911-1961

Lucy Maud Montgomery (1874-1942) and Anne of Green Gables will always be associated with Prince Edward Island, Montgomery's childhood home and the setting of her most famous novels. Yet, after marrying Rev.

Textual Mothers/Maternal Texts: Motherhood in Contemporary Women's Literatures

Textual Mothers/Maternal Texts focuses on mothers as subjects and as writers who produce auto/biography, fiction, and poetry about maternity.

Opening Acts: Narrative Beginnings in Twentieth-Century Feminist Fiction

In the beginning there was. the beginning.

A Female Poetics of Empire: From Eliot to Woolf

Mosaic of Fire

The Family, Marriage, and Radicalism in British Women's Novels of the 1790s: Public Affection and Private Affliction

Graphic Women

Female cartoonists are playing a central role in the evolution of "graphic novels." Some of the most acclaimed books of the twenty-first century, such as Marjane Satrapi's Persepolis and Alison Bechdel's Fun Home, are autobiographical comics by women.