This second edition of The Cambridge Companion to Dante isdesigned to provide an accessible introduction to Dante forstudents, teachers and general readers. The volume has been fullyupdated to take account of the most up-to-date scholarship andincludes three new essays on Dante's works. The suggestions forfurther reading now include the most recent secondary works andtranslations as well as online resources. The essays cover Dante'searly works and their relation to the Commedia, his literaryantecedents, both vernacular and classical, biblical andtheological influences, the historical and political dimensions ofDante's works, and their reception. In addition there areintroductory essays to each of the three canticles of the Commediathat analyse their themes and style. This new edition will ensurethat the Companion continues to be the most useful single volumefor new generations of students of Dante. · The second edition of a Companion used in many coursesworldwide · Fully updated to reflect rece

In this accessible presentation of the famous Bates method,Thomas R. Quackenbush (who teaches the Bates method in Californiaand Oregon) describes how eyesight can improve naturally, at anyage and regardless of heredity. This book is a wonderful tribute tothe genius of Dr. Bates, who was a pioneer in discovering howvision becomes blurred and how it restores itself naturally toclarity and acuity. Now 80 years later, his findings and teachingsremain light years ahead of our contemporaries. His approach totreating vision problems was truly holistic and the themethroughout this book is very much an extension of that holisticapproach. Dr. Quackenbush is to be commended for his dedication ingetting the truth out and keeping the torch burning in this "bible"on vision improvement.

Problem-solving techniques for all aspects of the Englishteacher's job This unique time-saving book is packed with tested techniques andmaterials to assist new and experienced English teachers withvirtually every phase of their job from lesson planning toeffective discipline techniques. The book includes 175easy-to-understand strategies, lessons, checklists, and forms foreffective classroom management and over 50 reproducible samplesteachers can adopt immediately for planning, evaluation, orassignments. It is filled with creative and functional ideas forreading response activities, writing assignments, group andindividual projects, and speeches. Offers instructions for creating and implementing an effectiveclassroom-wide behavior management program Shows how to practice the art of teaching English effectively andreduce time on labor intensive tasks Reveals how to work effectively with parents, colleagues,substitute teachers, administrators, and community resources The seco

This richly detailed biography captures both the personal lifeand the scientific career of Isaac Newton, presenting a fullyrounded picture of Newton the man, the scientist, the philosopher,the theologian, and the public figure. Professor Westfall treatsall aspects of Newton's career, but his account centres on a fullde*ion of Newton's achievements in science. Thus the core ofthe work describes the development of the calculus, theexperimentation that altered the direction of the science ofoptics, and especially the investigations in celestial dynamicsthat led to the law of universal gravitation.

Harold Pinter was one of the world's leading and mostcontroversial writers, and his impact and influence continues togrow. This Companion examines the wide range of Pinter's work – hiswriting for theatre, radio, television and screen, and also hishighly successful work as a director and actor. Substantiallyupdated and revised, this second edition covers the manydevelopments in Pinter's career since the publication of the firstedition, including his Nobel Prize for Literature win in 2005, hisappearance in Samuel Beckett's play Krapp's Last Tape and recentproductions of his plays. Containing essays written by bothacademics and leading practitioners, the volume places Pinter'swriting within the critical and theatrical context of his time andconsiders its reception worldwide. Including three new essays, newproduction photographs, five updated and revised chapters and anextended chronology, the Companion provides fresh perspectives onPinter's work. Contains essays by practitioners who have worked wi

David Hare is one of the most important playwrights to haveemerged in the UK in the last forty years. This volume examines hisstage plays, television plays and cinematic films, and is the firstbook of its kind to offer such comprehensive and up-to-datecritical treatment. Contributions from leading academics in thestudy of modern British theatre sit alongside those frompractitioners who have worked closely with Hare throughout hiscareer, including former Director of the National Theatre SirRichard Eyre. Uniquely, the volume also includes a chapter onHare's work as journalist and public speaker; a personal memoir byTony Bic?t, co-founder with Hare of the enormously influentialPortable Theatre; and an interview with Hare himself in which heoffers a personal retrospective of his career as a film maker whichis his fullest and clearest account of that work to date.

The Cambridge Companion to Postcolonial Literary Studiesoffers a lucid introduction and overview of one of the mostimportant strands in recent literary theory and cultural studies.The volume aims to introduce readers to key concepts, methods,theories, thematic concerns, and contemporary debates in the field.Drawing on a wide range of disciplines, contributors explain theimpact of history, sociology and philosophy on the study ofpostcolonial literatures and cultures. Topics examined includeeverything from anti-colonial nationalism and decolonisation toglobalisation, migration flows, and the 'brain drain' whichconstitute the past and present of 'the postcolonial condition'.The volume also pays attention to the sociological and ideologicalconditions surrounding the emergence of postcolonial literarystudies as an academic field in the late 1970s and early 1980s. TheCompanion turns an authoritative, engaged and discriminating lenson postcolonial literary studies. ? Presents a lucid overview of the iss

Originally published in 1897, this is Durkheim's pioneering attempt to offer a sociological explanation for a phenomenon regarded until then as exclusively psychological and individualistic.

The essential guidelines for leading effective change in your school From an education expert comes a much-needed resource that gives teacher leaders the strategies and tools they need to improve their practice and assume new leadership roles in their schools. The author outlines the everyday acts of teacher leadership and shows how to lead effectively through collaboration. The book also contains suggestions for leading change beyond the classroom. Discusses what works when taking on the role of teacher leader in a school Contains proven strategies and tools for implementing school change Includes activities in each chapter that are teacher-tested and can be used by individuals, teams, or larger groups This important resource offers school leaders a much-needed guide for learning how to lead and implement school change.

Artists, teachers, army officers, housewives, elderly people,parents, and children with vision problems write about theirexperiences with the Bates Method and giving up their glasses inBetter Eyesight. Major eye conditions (myopia, astigmaticsm,farsightedness, presbyopia, amblyopia, strabismus, cataract,gluacome, blindness) are discussed by Bates, other opthalmologists,the medical community, and readers. The significance of thisliterature is both historical and immediate. For the first time,the connection between eyestrain to shoulder and neck pain,headaches, and other muscular tension is discussed.

Mary Douglas is a central figure within British social anthropology. Studying under Evans-Pritchard at Oxford immediately after the war, she formed part of the group of anthropologists who established social anthropology's standing in the world of scholarship. Her works, spanning the second half of the twentieth century, have been widely read and her theories applied across the social sciences and humanities.

Andrew Marvell is one of the greatest English lyric poets ofthe seventeenth century and one of its leading polemicists. ThisCompanion brings a set of fresh questions and perspectives to bearon the varied career and diverse writings of a remarkable writerand elusive man. Drawing on important new editions of Marvell'spoetry and of his prose, scholars of both history and literatureexamine Marvell's work in the contexts of Restoration politics andreligion, and of the seventeenth-century publishing world in bothmanu* and print. The essays, individually and collectively,address Marvell within his literary and cultural traditions andcommunities; his almost prescient sense of the economy and ecologyof the country; his interest in visual arts and architecture; hisopaque political and spiritual identities; his manners incontroversy and polemic; the character of his erotic andtransgressive imagination and his biography, still full ofintriguing gaps.

An effective resource for improving young students′ comprehension skills With 100 high–interest reading activities, this book is designed to help students gain fundamental comprehension skills so they can succeed in reading complex and varied types of texts. Each lesson includes a brief reading selection followed by questions, multiple–choice selections, and thinking and writing activities. The activities, all on reproducible worksheets, can be used to give individual students or groups extra practice, or as supplemental skill–building and test–prep activities for the full class. Activities are grouped within seven units, each focusing on an important aspect of comprehension Units increase in difficulty level so that students gain proficiency as they work through the material High–interest themes include stories about robots, animal helpers, space, and famous people Offers activities that build the advanced cognitive skills called for in the National Assessment of Education Progress (NAEP)

This second edition of the popular math teaching resource bookMath Stories for Problem Solving Success offers updatedtrue-to-life situations designed to motivate teenagers to use mathskills for solving everyday problems. The book features intriguingshort stories followed by sets of problems related to the storiesthat are correlated to the standards of the National Council ofTeachers of Mathematics. Each of the easy-to-read stories is followed by threeincreasingly difficult groups of problem sets. This makes it simplefor teachers to select the appropriate problem set for students ofdifferent abilities and at different grade levels. To furtherenhance student involvement, the stories feature recurringcharacters and can be used either sequentially or out of order. Theproblems in the book cover many basic math topics, includingdecimals, fractions, and percents; measurement; geometry; data,statistics, and probability; algebra; and problem solving. In addition to having all the answers, an Answer

In this classic text, David Bohm explores Albert Einstein's celebrated theory of relativity through inspiring and visionary lectures. First published in 1905, Einstein's ideas forever transformed the way we think about time and space. Yet for Bohm the implications of the theory were far more revolutionary both in scope and impact even than this. Stepping back from dense theoretical and scientific detail in this eye-opening work, Bohm describes how the notion of relativity strikes at the heart of our very conception of the universe, whether we are physicists, philosophers or none of the above.

If in this book harshwords are spoken about some of the greatest among the intellectualleaders of mankind, my motive is not, I hope, to belittle them. Itsprings rather from my conviction that, if our civilization is tosurvive, we must break with the habit of deference to great men.' -Karl Popper, from the Preface Written in political exile during theSecond World War and first published in two volumes in 1945, KarlPopper's The Open Society and Its Enemies is one of the mostinfluential books of all time. Hailed by Bertrand Russell as a'vigorous and profound defence of democracy', its now legendaryattack on the philosophies of Plato, Hegel and Marx exposed thedangers inherent in centrally planned political systems and throughunderground editions become an inspiration to lovers of freedomliving under communism in Eastern Europe. Popper's highlyaccessible style, his erudite and lucid explanations of thethoughts of great philosophers and the recent resurgence oftotalitarian regimes around the world are jus