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80 produkter
Modernism
Av Peter Childs
Häftad, 2016
476 kr
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Modernist movements radically transformed the late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century literary establishment, and their effects are still felt today. Modernism introduces and analyzes what amounted to nothing less than a literary and cultural revolution.In this fully updated, expanded, and …
Van Morrison in the 1970s
Decades
Av Peter Childs
Häftad, 2022
192 kr
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After the singularity of Astral Weeks in 1968, the 1970s were the formative years for the solo career of one of the acknowledged giants of modern music. Van Morrison was one of the music legends who defined the decade, with every album bringing out different aspects to Morrison's vast musical …
Practical Temperature Measurement
Av Peter Childs
E-bok, 2001
1548 kr
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Practical Temperature Measurement introduces the concepts of temperature and its measurement to engineers, physicists and chemists of all disciplines. The author describes the wide range of techniques and specific devices available for temperature measurement and provides guidance for the selection …
Mechanical Design Engineering Handbook
Av Peter Childs
E-bok, 2013
1105 kr
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Mechanical Design Engineering Handbook is a straight-talking and forward-thinking reference covering the design, specification, selection, use and integration of machine elements fundamental to a wide range of engineering applications.Develop or refresh your mechanical design skills in the areas of …
Mechanical Design Engineering Handbook
Av Peter Childs
Häftad, 2018
1393 kr
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Mechanical Design Engineering Handbook, Second Edition, is a straight-talking and forward-thinking reference covering the design, specification, selection, use and integration of the machine elements that are fundamental to a wide range of engineering applications. This updated edition includes new …
Mechanical Design Engineering Handbook
Av Peter Childs
E-bok, 2018
1980 kr
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Mechanical Design Engineering Handbook, Second Edition, is a straight-talking and forward-thinking reference covering the design, specification, selection, use and integration of the machine elements that are fundamental to a wide range of engineering applications. This updated edition includes new …
Rotating Flow
Av Peter Childs
E-bok, 2010
900 kr
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Rotating flow is critically important across a wide range of scientific, engineering and product applications, providing design and modeling capability for diverse products such as jet engines, pumps and vacuum cleaners, as well as geophysical flows.Developed over the course of 20 years'' research …
Rotating Flow
Av Peter Childs
Häftad, 2016
957 kr
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Rotating flow is critically important across a wide range of scientific, engineering and product applications, providing design and modeling capability for diverse products such as jet engines, pumps and vacuum cleaners, as well as geophysical flows.Developed over the course of 20 years' research …
An Introduction To Post-Colonial Theory
Av Peter Childs, Patrick Williams
Häftad, 1996
1221 kr
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The first book of its kind in the field, this timely introduction to post- colonial theory offers lucid and accessible summaries of the major work of key theorists such as Frantz Fanon, Edward Said.Homi Bhabha and Gayatri Spivak. The Guide also Explores the lines of resistance against colonialism …
Reading Fiction: Opening the Text
Av Peter Childs
Häftad, 2001
592 kr
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In what ways does the opening of a novel relate to the narrative that unfolds from it? What are the different approaches to close reading a page of prose fiction? How does reading a text for a second time affect our understanding of the significance of its opening?In this unique book, Peter Childs …
Mechanical Design
Av Peter Childs
Häftad, 1998
722 kr
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Mechanical Design describes the design process for students of mechanical engineering. It introduces the reader to the concept that engineering design is applicable to the entire process of product manufacture. All phases of product design are considered, including marketing, specification, …
Encyclopedia of Contemporary British Culture
Av Peter Childs, Michael Storry
Inbunden, 1999
4591 kr
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Boasting more than 970 alphabetically-arranged entries, the Encyclopedia of Contemporary British Culture surveys British cultural practices and icons in the latter half of the twentieth century. It examines high and popular culture and encompasses both institutional and alternative aspects of …
Twentieth Century in Poetry
Av Peter Childs
Inbunden, 1998
3599 kr
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Until now, most teaching has focused on the novel as the most useful way of raising issues of gender, ethnicity, theory, nationality, politics and social class. In The Twentieth Century in Poetry Peter Childs places literature in a wider social context and demonstrates that all poetry is …
Twentieth Century in Poetry
Av Peter Childs
Häftad, 1998
744 kr
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Until now, most teaching has focused on the novel as the most useful way of raising issues of gender, ethnicity, theory, nationality, politics and social class. In The Twentieth Century in Poetry Peter Childs places literature in a wider social context and demonstrates that all poetry is …
E.M. Forster's A Passage to India
A Routledge Study Guide and Sourcebook
Av Peter Childs
Inbunden, 2002
1748 kr
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E. M. Forster's most challenging work, A Passage to India has since 1924 provoked debate on topics from imperialism to modernism to ethnicity, sexuality and symbolism. This sourcebook introduces not only the novel but the key issues which surround it.This sourcebook offers:* a contextual and …
E.M. Forster's A Passage to India
A Routledge Study Guide and Sourcebook
Av Peter Childs
Häftad, 2002
426 kr
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E. M. Forster's most challenging work, A Passage to India has since 1924 provoked debate on topics from imperialism to modernism to ethnicity, sexuality and symbolism. This sourcebook introduces not only the novel but the key issues which surround it.This sourcebook offers:* a contextual and …
Routledge Dictionary of Literary Terms
Häftad, 2005
727 kr
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A twenty-first century version of Roger Fowler’s 1973 Dictionary of Modern Critical Terms, this latest edition of The Routledge Dictionary of Literary Terms is the most up-to-date guide to critical and theoretical concepts available to students of literature at all levels.With over forty newly …
Ian McEwan's Enduring Love
A Routledge Study Guide
Av Peter Childs
Inbunden, 2006
2886 kr
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Ian McEwan is one of Britain's most inventive and important contemporary writers. Also adapted as a film, his novel Enduring Love (1997) is a tale of obsession that has both troubled and enthralled readers around the world. Renowned author Peter Childs explores the intricacies of this haunting …
Ian McEwan's Enduring Love
A Routledge Study Guide
Av Peter Childs
Häftad, 2006
744 kr
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Ian McEwan is one of Britain's most inventive and important contemporary writers. Also adapted as a film, his novel Enduring Love (1997) is a tale of obsession that has both troubled and enthralled readers around the world. Renowned author Peter Childs explores the intricacies of this haunting …
Routledge Dictionary of Literary Terms
Inbunden, 2005
2451 kr
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A twenty-first century version of Roger Fowler’s 1973 Dictionary of Modern Critical Terms, this latest edition of The Routledge Dictionary of Literary Terms is the most up-to-date guide to critical and theoretical concepts available to students of literature at all levels.With over forty newly …
Mechanical Design Engineering Handbook
Häftad, 2024
1611 kr
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Mechanical Design Engineering Handbook, Third Edition discusses the mechanical engineering skills that are essential to power generation, production, and transportation. Machine elements such as bearings, shafts, gears, belts, chains, clutches and belts represent fundamental building blocks for a …
Mechanical Design Engineering Handbook
E-bok, 2024
1993 kr
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Mechanical Design Engineering Handbook, Third Edition discusses the mechanical engineering skills that are essential to power generation, production, and transportation. Machine elements such as bearings, shafts, gears, belts, chains, clutches and belts represent fundamental building blocks for a …
Julian Barnes
Av Peter Childs
Inbunden, 2011
1291 kr
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Julian Barnes is a comprehensive introductory overview of the novels that situates his work in terms of fabulation and memory, irony and comedy. It pursues a broadly chronological line through Barnes's literary career, but along the way it also shows how certain key thematic preoccupations and …
Julian Barnes
Av Peter Childs
Häftad, 2015
418 kr
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Now available in paperback, Julian Barnes is a comprehensive introductory overview of the novels that situates his work in terms of fabulation and memory, irony and comedy. It pursues a broadly chronological line through Barnes's literary career, but along the way it also shows how certain key …
Practical Temperature Measurement
Av Peter Childs
Inbunden, 2001
1470 kr
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Practical Temperature Measurement introduces the concepts of temperature and its measurement to engineers, physicists and chemists of all disciplines. The author describes the wide range of techniques and specific devices available for temperature measurement and provides guidance for the selection …
Modernist Literature: A Guide for the Perplexed
Av Peter Childs
Inbunden, 2011
1632 kr
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This is a complete introduction to Modernist writers, ideas and movements that considers the precursors as well as the legacy of Modernist Literature. Literary Modernism can be described as the flourishing of avant-garde literature over a forty year period but it can be difficult to see how the …
Modernist Literature: A Guide for the Perplexed
Av Peter Childs
Häftad, 2011
430 kr
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This is a complete introduction to Modernist writers, ideas and movements that considers the precursors as well as the legacy of Modernist Literature. Literary Modernism can be described as the flourishing of avant-garde literature over a forty year period but it can be difficult to see how the …
Modernism and the Post-Colonial
Literature and Empire 1885-1930
Av Peter Childs
Inbunden, 2007
1794 kr
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This book considers the shifts in aesthetic representation over the period 1885-1930 that coincide with both the rise of literary Modernism and imperialism's high point. If it is no coincidence that the rise of the novel accompanied the expansion of empire in the eighteenth-century, then the …
Essential Guide to English Studies
Av Peter Childs
Inbunden, 2008
2119 kr
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'English' can seem like a vague subject - this guide gives potential and 1st year students a practical guide to what it involves, how to develop skills and crucially, for today's generation of goal-oriented students, succeeding in assessment.Focusing on what it means to study English in higher …
