Literature has always played a central role in creating and disseminating culturally specific notions of citizenship, nationhood, and belonging. In Reconfiguring Citizenship and National Identity in the North American Literary Imagination, author Kathy-Ann Tan investigates metaphors, configurations, parameters, and articulations of U.S. and Canadian citizenship that are enacted, renegotiated, and revised in modern literary texts, particularly during periods of emergence and crisis.Tan brings together for the first time a selection of canonical and lesser-known U.S. and Canadian writings for critical consideration. She begins by exploring literary depiction of "willful" or "wayward" citizens and those with precarious bodies that are viewed as threatening, undesirable, unacceptable-including refugees and asylum seekers, undocumented migrants, deportees, and stateless
V naší podkategorii Knihy v kategorii Hobby najdete široký výběr knih, které vám pomohou rozšířit vaše hobby do nových dimenzí. S našimi knihami se dozvíte nejen nové techniky a triky, ale také se seznámíte s historií a teorií za vaším koníčkem. Od knih o malování a kreslení přes knihy o fotografii, ušití oblečení a pletení až po knihy o zahradničení a vaření. Prohlédněte si naší širokou nabídku a vyberte si tu, která vás bude zajímat nejvíce. Buďte kreativní a nechte se inspirovat!
Does this sound like you?Food will make me fat. My body should be perfect. I am ashamed of how I eat. I am not in control of my body. I am only lovable when I\'m thin. Eating is the only pleasure I have in life.An unhealthy relationship with food, weight, and body image can cause scores of irrational beliefs--beliefs that will affect every aspect of your life. The Rules of \"Normal\" Eating targets
Draw 50 People teaches aspiring artists how to draw with ease by following simple, step-by-step instructions. Acclaimed author Lee J. Ames shows you how to draw a wondrous diversity of people from around the world and throughout history. Included here are people from ancient times, like an Egyptian mathematician, a medieval troubadour, and a Roman athlete. But there are also pirates, queens, soldiers
Improve your grade by focusing on the lessons learnt from previous exams. This write-in workbook targets the tricky topics in A-level Chemistry with insights from the examiners\' reports, model answers and practice questions to secure understanding and improve exam
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Throughout an astonishing criminal career, Johnny Ramensky was the foremost safe-blower of his era. Gentle Johnny Ramensky is the remarkable story of a boy reared in poverty who became one of the world\'s most extraordinary safe-blowers both as a criminal and as a war hero who wore the Green Beret with
They are the last children on Earth... who also happen to be vampires. For longer than they can remember, these child vampires have lived a life of eternal wonder amongst the ruins of humanity. But shocking events fracture the group and set them on a path of discovery that will shatter their innocence forever. It\'s Lord of The Flies meets vampires in the first volume of a bold new ongoing series from
Whether writing of the Alps, the high seas, or the North Pole, Fergus Fleming has won acclaim as one of today\'s most vivid and engaging historians of adventure and exploration. The Sword and the Cross takes us to the Sahara at the end of the nineteenth century, when France had designs on a hostile wilderness dominated by deadly Tuareg nomads.Two fanatical adventurers, Charles de Foucauld and Henri
Attempted murder and a mysterious stalker are a little close for comfort for DCC Skinner, in this thrilling crime novel. As Bob Skinner takes an evening stroll with a gorgeous filmstar on his arm, surely the worst of his worries is that back at headquarters, an ambitious new colleague is scheming to enlarge his territory at Skinner\'s expense. But when a frightening shot-gun attack sends Skinner and
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This pioneering book stands as the most comprehensive treatment of the lives, ideas, and art works of the remarkable group of women who were an essential part of the Surrealist movement. Leonora Carrington, Frida Kahlo, and Dorothea Tanning, among many others, embodied their age as they struggled toward artistic maturity and their own \"liberation of the spirit\" in the context of the Surrealist revolution.
* EATING FIRE - Margaret Atwood\'s poetry - reissued with a stunning new jacket along with other titles from Margaret Atwood\'s
The five volumes in the Loeb Classical Library edition of Greek Lyric contain the surviving fragments of solo and choral song. This poetry was not preserved in medieval manuscripts, and few complete poems remain. Later writers quoted from the poets, but only so much as suited their needs; these quotations are supplemented by papyrus texts found in Egypt, most of them badly damaged. The high quality
Hugh Aldersey-Williams transports us to the Dutch Golden Age a time of immense scientific and artistic innovation - in this histo-biography of Christiaan Huygens, one of Europes leading, yet unsung,
\"Above all, do not lose your desire to walk: every day I walk myself into a state of well-being and walk away from every illness.\" --S ren Kierkegaard Duncan Minshull has always walked and in the last twenty years has made use of it by writing and publishing books on the subject. He has described the whys, hows, and wheres of traveling on foot for various magazines and newspapers, including The Times
Essentially, the goal of this book is to provide the fundamentals of the cutting-edge smart technology-driven production maneuver known as Industry 4.0, primarily to determine and validate its potential as a practice that promotes green manufacturing to ultimately revolutionize the competitiveness of businesses and
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