(Re) Visioning Composition Textbook: Conflicts of Culture, Ideology and Pedagogy (in Paperback)
An exploration of the sometimes tenuous relationship between textbooks and the discipline of composition and rhetoric, (Re)Visioning Composition Textbooks critically scrutinizes the culture of textbooks from the vantage point of scholars and teachers. It examines a variety of textbooks including: standard rhetorics, handbooks, cross-cultural anthologies, readers, technical textbooks, and argumentation textbooks. Different perspectives are used [...]
Discovering American Culture (Alliance : the Michigan State University Textbook Series of Theme-Based Content Instruction for Esl/Efl) (in Paperback)
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Consuming History: Historians and Heritage in Contemporary Popular Culture (for Kindle)
Reviewde Groot casts a wide net that catches not only movies, television, and pop fiction, but also video games, historical reenactments, genealogy, museum exhibitions, antiques, local history practice, and other popular enthusiasms that public historians too often ignore as sanitized heritage. He explores how a range of emerging technologies is shaping and rapidly re-shaping popular [...]
Arts and Culture : An Introduction to the Humanities, Combined – Textbook Only [STUDENT EDITION] (in Hardcover)
Arts and Culture is richly illustrated, beautifully designed, engaging, and now includes a media demonstration CD-ROM to ensure students see and learn about the arts. This text offers an integrated exploration of Western civilization’s cultural heritage. Students move chronologically through major periods and styles to gain insight into the achievements and ideas in painting, sculpture, [...]
Sexuality in Greek and Roman Culture (Ancient Cultures) (in Paperback)
Review “What has long been badly needed is a comprehensive survey that examines Greco-Roman sexuality, non-judgementally, in its own cultural context. Marilyn Skinner’s Sexuality in Greek and Roman Culture does just that … Non-ideological, its vast scholarship distilled in elegant prose for the general reader, sensible in its judgements, and equipped with a formidable bibliography, [...]