Author: Reading
Publisher: Holt McDougal
ISBN: 9780547093291
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Alexander the Great Below Level Leveled Readers Unit 4 Selection 4 Book 19 6pk, Grade 6
Author: Reading
Publisher: Holt McDougal
ISBN: 9780547093291
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Publisher: Holt McDougal
ISBN: 9780547093291
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Alexander The Great Below Level Reader Level 6 Book 19
Author: Reading
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780547365497
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : es
Pages : 16
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780547365497
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : es
Pages : 16
Book Description
Curtius Rufus, Histories of Alexander the Great, Book 10
Author:
Publisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 019156785X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
This book presents a translation, with commentary, of a major Roman source on the end of the reign of Alexander the Great. Book 10 of Curtius' Histories covers the reign of terror and mutiny that followed upon Alexander's return from India; and offers the fullest account of the power struggle that began in Babylon immediately after his death. The Introduction establishes a profile of Curtius Rufus (quite probably a Roman Senator of the first century AD), and his agenda as a historian. John Yardley's translation and the commentary are designed for the reader without Latin. The Commentary provides detailed analysis of the historical events of the crucial period 325-3 BC covered by Curtius, and also tries to get behind the surface level of meaning to show how Curtius intended his history to be a text for his time. Curtius' text is also examined as a literary achievement in its own right.
Publisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 019156785X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
This book presents a translation, with commentary, of a major Roman source on the end of the reign of Alexander the Great. Book 10 of Curtius' Histories covers the reign of terror and mutiny that followed upon Alexander's return from India; and offers the fullest account of the power struggle that began in Babylon immediately after his death. The Introduction establishes a profile of Curtius Rufus (quite probably a Roman Senator of the first century AD), and his agenda as a historian. John Yardley's translation and the commentary are designed for the reader without Latin. The Commentary provides detailed analysis of the historical events of the crucial period 325-3 BC covered by Curtius, and also tries to get behind the surface level of meaning to show how Curtius intended his history to be a text for his time. Curtius' text is also examined as a literary achievement in its own right.
The Communion of the Book
Author: David Williams
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 0228015863
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 482
Book Description
The modern world was not created by the civilization of Renaissance Italy, the advent of the printing press, or the marriage restrictions imposed by the medieval church. Rather, it was widespread reading that brought about most of the cognitive, psychological, and social changes that we recognize as peculiarly modern. David Williams combines book and communications history with readings of major works by Petrarch, Bruni, Valla, Reuchlin, Erasmus, Foxe, and Milton to argue that expanding literacy in the Renaissance was the impetus for modern civilization, turning a culture of arid logic and religious ceremonialism into a world of individual readers who discovered a new form of communion in the act of reading. It was not the theologians Luther and Calvin who first taught readers to become what they read, but the biblical philologist Erasmus, who encountered the divine presence on every page of the gospels. From this sacramental form of reading came other modes of humanist reading, particularly in law, history, and classics, leading to the birth of the nation-state. As literacy rates rose, readers of all backgrounds gained and embodied the distinctly modern values of liberty, free speech, toleration, individualism, self-determination, and democratic institutions. Communion and community were linked, performed in novel ways through revolutionary forms of reading. In this conclusion to a quartet of books on media change, Williams makes a compelling case for readers and acts of reading as the true drivers of social, political, and cultural modernity – and for digital media as its looming nemesis.
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 0228015863
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 482
Book Description
The modern world was not created by the civilization of Renaissance Italy, the advent of the printing press, or the marriage restrictions imposed by the medieval church. Rather, it was widespread reading that brought about most of the cognitive, psychological, and social changes that we recognize as peculiarly modern. David Williams combines book and communications history with readings of major works by Petrarch, Bruni, Valla, Reuchlin, Erasmus, Foxe, and Milton to argue that expanding literacy in the Renaissance was the impetus for modern civilization, turning a culture of arid logic and religious ceremonialism into a world of individual readers who discovered a new form of communion in the act of reading. It was not the theologians Luther and Calvin who first taught readers to become what they read, but the biblical philologist Erasmus, who encountered the divine presence on every page of the gospels. From this sacramental form of reading came other modes of humanist reading, particularly in law, history, and classics, leading to the birth of the nation-state. As literacy rates rose, readers of all backgrounds gained and embodied the distinctly modern values of liberty, free speech, toleration, individualism, self-determination, and democratic institutions. Communion and community were linked, performed in novel ways through revolutionary forms of reading. In this conclusion to a quartet of books on media change, Williams makes a compelling case for readers and acts of reading as the true drivers of social, political, and cultural modernity – and for digital media as its looming nemesis.
Reader's Guide to Periodical Literature Supplement
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Humanities
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Humanities
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
Book Review Digest
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 578
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 578
Book Description
Children's Books in Print
Author: R R Bowker Publishing
Publisher: R. R. Bowker
ISBN:
Category : Children's literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1662
Book Description
Publisher: R. R. Bowker
ISBN:
Category : Children's literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1662
Book Description
English Mechanic and Mirror of Science
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Technology
Languages : en
Pages : 644
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Technology
Languages : en
Pages : 644
Book Description
The Spectator
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1210
Book Description
A weekly review of politics, literature, theology, and art.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1210
Book Description
A weekly review of politics, literature, theology, and art.
Gardeners' Chronicle and Agricultural Gazette
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 668
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 668
Book Description