Author: Meredith Minkler
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351842102
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
Includes 16 essays which address many issues from a different perspective suggested by the experience of aging in America. This study explores the political, social, and economic realities which have an impact on Americans as they grow older.
Readings in the Political Economy of Aging
Author: Meredith Minkler
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351842102
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
Includes 16 essays which address many issues from a different perspective suggested by the experience of aging in America. This study explores the political, social, and economic realities which have an impact on Americans as they grow older.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351842102
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
Includes 16 essays which address many issues from a different perspective suggested by the experience of aging in America. This study explores the political, social, and economic realities which have an impact on Americans as they grow older.
The Church of All Ages. Four Addresses on the Christian Revelation
Author: William Josiah Irons
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Revelation
Languages : en
Pages : 480
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Revelation
Languages : en
Pages : 480
Book Description
Sermons on the Passages of the Psalms
Author: John Mason Neale
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bible
Languages : en
Pages : 408
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bible
Languages : en
Pages : 408
Book Description
Reading the Bible in an Age of Crisis
Author: Bruce Worthington
Publisher: Fortress Press
ISBN: 1506400396
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
We live in an age in which economic, ecological, and political crises are not the exception, but the rule. The Cold War polarities that shaped an earlier “political exegesis” have been replaced; increasingly, crisis is the engine of a global “turbo-capitalism.” Here, biblical scholars and activists describe and exemplify the shape of a biblical interpretation that takes contemporary crisis seriously. Succinct opening essays summarize the salient aspects of our critical situation; in later parts, contributions address themes of economic, political, and environmental crisis in dialogue with biblical texts.
Publisher: Fortress Press
ISBN: 1506400396
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
We live in an age in which economic, ecological, and political crises are not the exception, but the rule. The Cold War polarities that shaped an earlier “political exegesis” have been replaced; increasingly, crisis is the engine of a global “turbo-capitalism.” Here, biblical scholars and activists describe and exemplify the shape of a biblical interpretation that takes contemporary crisis seriously. Succinct opening essays summarize the salient aspects of our critical situation; in later parts, contributions address themes of economic, political, and environmental crisis in dialogue with biblical texts.
Latin American Readings for a Cultural Age
Author: E. Santi
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137122455
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 286
Book Description
Gathered in one volume are seven of the best essays written in the last fifteen years or so by the eminent Latin Americanist Enrico Mario Santí. The essays cover a wide range of topics in Latin American poetry, narrative, film, and intellectual history and also explore Spanish Peninsular subject-matter: the Spanish Generation of 98's response to Spain's loss of Cuba in the Spanish-American War of 1898. The essays are introduced by a long text in which the author develops a bracing critique of some dominant trends in current critical practice, and spells out an alternative methodology.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137122455
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 286
Book Description
Gathered in one volume are seven of the best essays written in the last fifteen years or so by the eminent Latin Americanist Enrico Mario Santí. The essays cover a wide range of topics in Latin American poetry, narrative, film, and intellectual history and also explore Spanish Peninsular subject-matter: the Spanish Generation of 98's response to Spain's loss of Cuba in the Spanish-American War of 1898. The essays are introduced by a long text in which the author develops a bracing critique of some dominant trends in current critical practice, and spells out an alternative methodology.
Slow Reading in a Hurried Age
Author: David Mikics
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674728327
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 230
Book Description
Wrapped in the glow of the computer or phone screen, we cruise websites; we skim and skip. We glance for a brief moment at whatever catches our eye and then move on. Slow Reading in a Hurried Age reminds us of another mode of reading--the kind that requires our full attention and that has as its goal not the mere gathering of information but the deeper understanding that only good books can offer. Slow Reading in a Hurried Age is a practical guide for anyone who yearns for a more meaningful and satisfying reading experience, and who wants to sharpen reading skills and improve concentration. David Mikics, a noted literary scholar, demonstrates exactly how the tried-and-true methods of slow reading can provide a more immersive, fulfilling experience. He begins with fourteen preliminary rules for slow reading and shows us how to apply them. The rules are followed by excursions into key genres, including short stories, novels, poems, plays, and essays. Reading, Mikics says, should not be drudgery, and not mere escape either, but a way to live life at a higher pitch. A good book is a pathway to finding ourselves, by getting lost in the words and works of others.
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674728327
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 230
Book Description
Wrapped in the glow of the computer or phone screen, we cruise websites; we skim and skip. We glance for a brief moment at whatever catches our eye and then move on. Slow Reading in a Hurried Age reminds us of another mode of reading--the kind that requires our full attention and that has as its goal not the mere gathering of information but the deeper understanding that only good books can offer. Slow Reading in a Hurried Age is a practical guide for anyone who yearns for a more meaningful and satisfying reading experience, and who wants to sharpen reading skills and improve concentration. David Mikics, a noted literary scholar, demonstrates exactly how the tried-and-true methods of slow reading can provide a more immersive, fulfilling experience. He begins with fourteen preliminary rules for slow reading and shows us how to apply them. The rules are followed by excursions into key genres, including short stories, novels, poems, plays, and essays. Reading, Mikics says, should not be drudgery, and not mere escape either, but a way to live life at a higher pitch. A good book is a pathway to finding ourselves, by getting lost in the words and works of others.
Reading Marx in the Information Age
Author: Christian Fuchs
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 131736449X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
Renowned Marxist scholar and critical media theorist Christian Fuchs provides a thorough, chapter-by-chapter introduction to Capital Volume 1 that assists readers in making sense of Karl Marx’s most important and groundbreaking work in the information age, exploring Marx’s key concepts through the lens of media and communication studies via contemporary phenomena like the Internet, digital labour, social media, the media industries, and digital class struggles. Through a range of international, current-day examples, Fuchs emphasises the continued importance of Marx and his work in a time when transnational media companies like Amazon, Google, and Facebook play an increasingly important role in global capitalism. Discussion questions and exercises at the end of each chapter help readers to further apply Marx’s work to a modern-day context.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 131736449X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
Renowned Marxist scholar and critical media theorist Christian Fuchs provides a thorough, chapter-by-chapter introduction to Capital Volume 1 that assists readers in making sense of Karl Marx’s most important and groundbreaking work in the information age, exploring Marx’s key concepts through the lens of media and communication studies via contemporary phenomena like the Internet, digital labour, social media, the media industries, and digital class struggles. Through a range of international, current-day examples, Fuchs emphasises the continued importance of Marx and his work in a time when transnational media companies like Amazon, Google, and Facebook play an increasingly important role in global capitalism. Discussion questions and exercises at the end of each chapter help readers to further apply Marx’s work to a modern-day context.
Catalogue of Books in the Lending Library
Author: Edinburgh (Scotland). Public Library
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Dictionary catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 564
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Dictionary catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 564
Book Description
Children Reading for Pleasure in the Digital Age
Author: Natalia Kucirkova
Publisher: SAGE
ISBN: 1529729858
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 235
Book Description
What does it mean to become a reader? What are the challenges and opportunities of engaging children in reading for pleasure in the 21st century? This book explores the ways in which reading for pleasure is changing in the era of globalisation, multiculturalism and datafication. Raising the next generation of engaged readers requires knowledge of the enduring characteristics of engagement and markers of quality in books and e-books. In addition, in order to develop new insights into children’s experience of reading on and off screen, nuanced understandings of psychological and socio-cultural research are offered. The cross-disciplinary examination integrates key research from educational psychology, new literacies, multimodality and socio-cultural perspectives and explores consequences for practice. An authoritative guide - it invites graduates, researchers and teachers to participate in the authors’ interdisciplinary dialogue about reading for pleasure.
Publisher: SAGE
ISBN: 1529729858
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 235
Book Description
What does it mean to become a reader? What are the challenges and opportunities of engaging children in reading for pleasure in the 21st century? This book explores the ways in which reading for pleasure is changing in the era of globalisation, multiculturalism and datafication. Raising the next generation of engaged readers requires knowledge of the enduring characteristics of engagement and markers of quality in books and e-books. In addition, in order to develop new insights into children’s experience of reading on and off screen, nuanced understandings of psychological and socio-cultural research are offered. The cross-disciplinary examination integrates key research from educational psychology, new literacies, multimodality and socio-cultural perspectives and explores consequences for practice. An authoritative guide - it invites graduates, researchers and teachers to participate in the authors’ interdisciplinary dialogue about reading for pleasure.
The Necessary Mental Age for Beginning Reading
Author:
Publisher: Ardent Media
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 12
Book Description
Publisher: Ardent Media
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 12
Book Description