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Literature, Modernism, and Dance
AvSusan Jones
E-bok
PDF, Engelska, 2013
1 609 kr
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This book explores the complex relationship between literature and dance in the era of modernism. During this period an unprecedented dialogue between the two art forms took place, based on a common aesthetics initiated by contemporary discussions of the body and gender, language, formal experimentation, primitivism, anthropology, and modern technologies such as photography, film, and mechanisation. The book traces the origins of this relationship to thephilosophical antecedents of modernism in the nineteenth century and examines experimentation in both art forms. The book investigates dance''s impact on the modernists'' critique of language and shows the importance to writers of choreographic innovations by dancers of the fin de siècle, of the Ballets Russes,and of European and American experimentalists in non-balletic forms of modern dance. A reciprocal relationship occurs with choreographic use of literary text. Dance and literature meet at this time at the site of formal experiments in narrative, drama, and poetics, and their relationship contributes to common aesthetic modes such as symbolism, primitivism, expressionism, and constructivism. Focussing on the first half of the twentieth century, the book locates these transactions in atransatlantic field, giving weight to both European and American contexts and illustrating the importance of dance as a conduit of modernist preoccupations in Europe and the US through patterns of influence and exchange. Chapters explore the close interrelationships of writers and choreographers of this periodincluding Mallarmé, Nietzsche, Yeats, Conrad, Woolf, Lawrence, Pound, Eliot, and Beckett, Fuller, Duncan, Fokine, Nijinsky, Massine, Nijinska, Balanchine, Tudor, Laban, Wigman, Graham, and Humphrey, and recover radical experiments by neglected writers and choreographers from David Garnett and Esther Forbes to Andrée Howard and Oskar Schlemmer.
Conrad and Women
AvSusan Jones
Inbunden, Engelska, 1999
3 130 kr
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Supported by an enduring critical paradigm, the traditional account of Conrads career privileges his public image as man of the sea, addressing himself to a male audience and male concerns. This book challenges received assumptions by recovering Conrad's relationship to women not only in his life but in his fiction and among his readers. The existing interplay of criticism, biography, and marketing has contributed to a masculinist image associated with a narrow body of modernist texts. Instead, Susan Jones reinstates the female influences arising from his early Polish life and culture; his friendship with the French writer Marguerite Poradowska; his engagement with popular women's writing; and his experimentation with visuality as his later works appear in the visual contexts of womens pages of popular journals. By foregrounding less familiar novels such as Chance (1913) and the neglected Suspense (unfinished and published posthumously, 1925), she emphasises the range and continuity of Conrad's concerns, showing that his later discussions of gender and genre often originate in the period of the great sea tales. Conrad also emerges as an acute reader and critic of popular forms, while his unexpected entry into important contemporary debates about female identity invites us to rethink the nature of his contribution to modernism.
Literature, Modernism, and Dance
AvSusan Jones
Inbunden, Engelska, 2013
2 492 kr
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This book explores the complex relationship between literature and dance in the era of modernism. During this period an unprecedented dialogue between the two art forms took place, based on a common aesthetics initiated by contemporary discussions of the body and gender, language, formal experimentation, primitivism, anthropology, and modern technologies such as photography, film, and mechanisation. The book traces the origins of this relationship to the philosophical antecedents of modernism in the nineteenth century and examines experimentation in both art forms. The book investigates dance's impact on the modernists' critique of language and shows the importance to writers of choreographic innovations by dancers of the fin de siècle, of the Ballets Russes, and of European and American experimentalists in non-balletic forms of modern dance. A reciprocal relationship occurs with choreographic use of literary text. Dance and literature meet at this time at the site of formal experiments in narrative, drama, and poetics, and their relationship contributes to common aesthetic modes such as symbolism, primitivism, expressionism, and constructivism. Focussing on the first half of the twentieth century, the book locates these transactions in a transatlantic field, giving weight to both European and American contexts and illustrating the importance of dance as a conduit of modernist preoccupations in Europe and the US through patterns of influence and exchange. Chapters explore the close interrelationships of writers and choreographers of this period including Mallarmé, Nietzsche, Yeats, Conrad, Woolf, Lawrence, Pound, Eliot, and Beckett, Fuller, Duncan, Fokine, Nijinsky, Massine, Nijinska, Balanchine, Tudor, Laban, Wigman, Graham, and Humphrey, and recover radical experiments by neglected writers and choreographers from David Garnett and Esther Forbes to Andrée Howard and Oskar Schlemmer.
Talking, Listening, Learning
AvDebra Myhill,Susan Jonesm. fl.
Häftad, Engelska, 2005
385 kr
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This book looks at an issue which is at the heart of every classroom – the role that talk plays in children’s learning. Drawing on a substantial research base, the book provides useful suggestions to facilitate successful talk between teachers and children to improve learning and raise standards.
Through analysing the talk that goes on in primary school classrooms, the book examines the process of talk and learning in detail and shows how teachers’ questions, instructions and statements can support and extend children’s learning. It highlights the central influence of teacher talk on developing children’s learning and looks at international perspectives in the field, including the work of Shirley Brice Heath, Douglas Barnes, Gordon Wells, Neil Mercer and Robin Alexander.
This innovative book provides ideas, techniques, and practical suggestions for making classroom talk effective. It is key reading for student and qualified teachers who are interested in improving learning by generating higher levels of participation and interactive talk in their classrooms.
Talking, Listening and Learning
AvRosemary Hopper,Susan Jonesm. fl.
E-bok
PDF, Engelska, 2005
372 kr
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This book looks at an issue which is at the heart of every classroom – the role that talk plays in children’s learning. Drawing on a substantial research base, the book provides useful suggestions to facilitate successful talk between teachers and children to improve learning and raise standards.
Through analysing the talk that goes on in primary school classrooms, the book examines the process of talk and learning in detail and shows how teachers’ questions, instructions and statements can support and extend children’s learning. It highlights the central influence of teacher talk on developing children’s learning and looks at international perspectives in the field, including the work of Shirley Brice Heath, Douglas Barnes, Gordon Wells, Neil Mercer and Robin Alexander.
This innovative book provides ideas, techniques, and practical suggestions for making classroom talk effective. It is key reading for student and qualified teachers who are interested in improving learning by generating higher levels of participation and interactive talk in their classrooms.
Essential Primary Grammar
AvDebra Myhill,Susan Jonesm. fl.
Häftad, Engelska, 2016
347 kr
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Essential Primary Grammar is an invaluable resource to ensure that you are firmly equipped to teach grammar. It helps you get to grips with your knowledge of grammar for the national curriculum - including the spelling, punctuation and grammar test - as well as providing you with some tried and tested ways to teach grammar. Underpinned by a series of research studies which have investigated the teaching of grammar, it will support you in how to teach grammar in creative and meaningful ways whilst supporting you in developing your own fundamental knowledge of grammar.
Uniquely, the book takes a systematic step-by-step approach to explain the grammatical terminology specified in the national curriculum. It also illustrates how you might develop children’s grammatical knowledge by offering a range of practical activities which are rich, meaningful and support children’s development as confident and curious language investigators.
Key features include:
• Easy-to-read chapters which systematically focus on grammatical subject knowledge at word, phrase and clause level• Guidance in each chapter addressing typical grammar problems or misconceptions, and some grammar jokes• Inspiring suggestions for teaching activities to help children develop grammatical knowledge in meaningful learning contexts• Reference to authentic children’s books to illuminate the grammatical explanations and suggested teaching activities• Ideas on how high quality talk about grammar and texts can be fostered in the classroom
“This book gives an excellent research evidence based approach that puts the teaching of grammar firmly onto a book rich curriculum that not only enhances subject knowledge but also awakens an interest in the grammar.”Jo Tregenza, Senior Teaching Fellow and head of initial teacher training at The University of Sussex, UK
“Myhill et al manage to tackle some of the trickiest aspects of grammar with clarity and a lightness of touch that ensures the reader never feels they have been taken too far into the depths of linguistics. Every primary teacher needs a copy in their bag!”Rebecca Cosgrave: Primary English Adviser Babcock LDP
“This is extremely practical, explaining grammatical concepts in clear and helpful terms, and offering a range of engaging teaching activities for the classroom.”Marcello Giovanelli, Assistant Professor in English Education, University of Nottingham, UK
Essential Primary Grammar
AvAnnabel Watson,Helen Linesm. fl.
E-bok
Engelska, 2016
335 kr
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Essential Primary Grammar is an invaluable resource to ensure that you are firmly equipped to teach grammar. It helps you get to grips with your knowledge of grammar for the national curriculum - including the spelling, punctuation and grammar test - as well as providing you with some tried and tested ways to teach grammar. Underpinned by a series of research studies which have investigated the teaching of grammar, it will support you in how to teach grammar in creative and meaningful ways whilst supporting you in developing your own fundamental knowledge of grammar.
Uniquely, the book takes a systematic step-by-step approach to explain the grammatical terminology specified in the national curriculum. It also illustrates how you might develop children’s grammatical knowledge by offering a range of practical activities which are rich, meaningful and support children’s development as confident and curious language investigators.
Key features include:
• Easy-to-read chapters which systematically focus on grammatical subject knowledge at word, phrase and clause level• Guidance in each chapter addressing typical grammar problems or misconceptions, and some grammar jokes• Inspiring suggestions for teaching activities to help children develop grammatical knowledge in meaningful learning contexts• Reference to authentic children’s books to illuminate the grammatical explanations and suggested teaching activities• Ideas on how high quality talk about grammar and texts can be fostered in the classroom
Dopamine - Glutamate Interactions in the Basal Ganglia
AvSusan Jones
Häftad, Engelska, 2019
1 048 kr
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The basal ganglia are involved in complex brain functions, from voluntary movement control to learning and reward processing, and they are implicated in numerous neurological and psychiatric disorders. Information from the cerebral cortex and thalamus is conveyed to basal ganglia nuclei via glutamate release, while dopamine from the midbrain is released in close proximity to glutamate. At the heart of both function and dysfunction of basal ganglia circuits is the interaction of these two neurotransmitters, dopamine and glutamate.Elucidating the relationship between their molecular and cellular effects and behavioural significance has been challenging, but in the past 5–10 years, improved labeling, imaging, recording, and genetic manipulation approaches have yielded new information on how dopamine and glutamate interact to generate the circuit activity underpinning basal ganglia function. Dopamine–Glutamate Interactions in the Basal Ganglia synthesizes this recent research from the level of receptor molecules all the way to complex behaviours and disease. Current insights from research on individual neurons and synapses, detailed circuit analysis, and learning and action functions of the basal ganglia are presented against a historical perspective. The book also discusses compromised dopamine–glutamate interaction in disorders of basal ganglia function, including Parkinson’s disease, Huntington’s disease, and drug addiction.
Jane Austen's Guide to Thrift
An Independent Woman’s Advice on Living within One’s Means
AvKathleen Anderson,Susan Jones
Häftad, Engelska, 2013
298 kr
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English Collocation Studies
The OSTI Report
AvRobert Daley,Susan Jonesm. fl.
Inbunden, Engelska, 2004
2 579 kr
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This is the first published edition of John Sinclair, Susan Jones and Robert Daley's research on collocation undertaken in 1970. The unpublished report was circulated amongst a small group of academics and was enormously influential, sparking a growth of interest in collocation amongst researchers in linguistics. Collocation was first viewed as important in computational linguistics in the work of Harold Palmer in Japan. Later M.A.K. Halliday and John Sinclair published on collocation in the 1960s. English Collocation Studies is a report on empirical research into collocation, devised by Halliday with Sinclair acting as the Principal Investigator and editor of the resultant OSTI report. The present edition contains an introduction by Professor Wolfgang Teubert based on his interview with John Sinclair. The introduction assesses the extent to which the findings of the original research have developed in the intervening years, and how some of the techniques mentioned in the report were implemented in the COBUILD project at Birmingham University in the 1980s.
English Collocation Studies
The OSTI Report
AvRobert Daley,Susan Jonesm. fl.
Häftad, Engelska, 2004
621 kr
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This is the first published edition of John Sinclair, Susan Jones and Robert Daley's research on collocation undertaken in 1970. The unpublished report was circulated amongst a small group of academics and was enormously influential, sparking a growth of interest in collocation amongst researchers in linguistics. Collocation was first viewed as important in computational linguistics in the work of Harold Palmer in Japan. Later M.A.K. Halliday and John Sinclair published on collocation in the 1960s. English Collocation Studies is a report on empirical research into collocation, devised by Halliday with Sinclair acting as the Principal Investigator and editor of the resultant OSTI report. The present edition contains an introduction by Professor Wolfgang Teubert based on his interview with John Sinclair. The introduction assesses the extent to which the findings of the original research have developed in the intervening years, and how some of the techniques mentioned in the report were implemented in the COBUILD project at Birmingham University in the 1980s.
How to Meditate
AvSusan Jones
Häftad, Engelska, 1997
106 kr
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Use affirmative mind power to enhance your health.
Dopamine - Glutamate Interactions in the Basal Ganglia
AvSusan Jones
E-bok
Engelska, 2016
1 226 kr
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The basal ganglia are involved in complex brain functions, from voluntary movement control to learning and reward processing, and they are implicated in numerous neurological and psychiatric disorders. Information from the cerebral cortex and thalamus is conveyed to basal ganglia nuclei via glutamate release, while dopamine from the midbrain is rel
Redington
Stories from Norfolk with love
AvSusan Jones
Häftad, Engelska, 2026
208 kr
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Jane Austen's Guide to Thrift
An Independent Woman''s Advice on Living within One''s Means
AvSusan Jones,Kathleen Anderson
E-bok
Engelska, 2013
106 kr
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Embrace your inner Jane and find a new way of life in thrift!

Jane Austen knew that wealth and grandeur had little to do with happiness, and that fashionable new dresses and reticules to impress Mr. Darcy simply were not the path to fulfillment—especially when one accrues debt in the process. It’s as true today as it was then . . .

Whether you have a fortune or not, you’re well advised to make the most of your income—and save for your future. Now, using the timeless wisdom and example of Jane Austen’s memorable heroines, this book offers everything the modern lady needs to know about:
*Clever investing
*Keeping up appearances on a budget
*Giving and receiving graciously
*Finding treasures at flea markets and church rummage sales
*Planning a party that only looks extravagant
*And more
Jane Austen’s Guide to Thrift shows how to make your circumstances significantly less reduced, and how to live a life of elegent economy and joyful generosity—whether you’ve as much as Emma Woodhouse or as little as Miss Bates.
Dopamine - Glutamate Interactions in the Basal Ganglia
AvSusan Jones
Inbunden, Engelska, 2011
3 085 kr
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The basal ganglia are involved in complex brain functions, from voluntary movement control to learning and reward processing, and they are implicated in numerous neurological and psychiatric disorders. Information from the cerebral cortex and thalamus is conveyed to basal ganglia nuclei via glutamate release, while dopamine from the midbrain is released in close proximity to glutamate. At the heart of both function and dysfunction of basal ganglia circuits is the interaction of these two neurotransmitters, dopamine and glutamate.Elucidating the relationship between their molecular and cellular effects and behavioural significance has been challenging, but in the past 5–10 years, improved labeling, imaging, recording, and genetic manipulation approaches have yielded new information on how dopamine and glutamate interact to generate the circuit activity underpinning basal ganglia function. Dopamine–Glutamate Interactions in the Basal Ganglia synthesizes this recent research from the level of receptor molecules all the way to complex behaviours and disease. Current insights from research on individual neurons and synapses, detailed circuit analysis, and learning and action functions of the basal ganglia are presented against a historical perspective. The book also discusses compromised dopamine–glutamate interaction in disorders of basal ganglia function, including Parkinson’s disease, Huntington’s disease, and drug addiction.
Dopamine - Glutamate Interactions in the Basal Ganglia
AvSusan Jones
E-bok
PDF, Engelska, 2016
1 239 kr
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The basal ganglia are involved in complex brain functions, from voluntary movement control to learning and reward processing, and they are implicated in numerous neurological and psychiatric disorders. Information from the cerebral cortex and thalamus is conveyed to basal ganglia nuclei via glutamate release, while dopamine from the midbrain is rel
English Collocation Studies
The Osti Report
AvRobert Daley,Susan Jonesm. fl.
E-bok
PDF, Engelska, 2004
675 kr
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This is the first published edition of John Sinclair, Susan Jones and Robert Daley's research on collocation undertaken in 1970. The unpublished report was circulated amongst a small group of academics and was enormously influential, sparking a growth of interest in collocation amongst researchers in linguistics. Collocation was first viewed as important in computational linguistics in the work of Harold Palmer in Japan. Later M.A.K. Halliday and John Sinclair published on collocation in the 1960s. English Collocation Studies is a report on empirical research into collocation, devised by Halliday with Sinclair acting as the Principal Investigator and editor of the resultant OSTI report. The present edition contains an introduction by Professor Wolfgang Teubert based on his interview with John Sinclair. The introduction assesses the extent to which the findings of the original research have developed in the intervening years, and how some of the techniques mentioned in the report were implemented in the COBUILD project at Birmingham University in the 1980s.
Using Talk to Support Writing
AvDebra Myhill,Shirley Larkinm. fl.
E-bok
Engelska, 2010
552 kr
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Using Talk to Support Writing presents a new and innovative approach to the teaching of early writing. The authors discuss both theoretical and practical issues around using talk in the classroom to support children as they learn to write.
Set within the context of national concern for achievement in the development of writing ability, it addresses the gap in understanding early teaching and focuses on the exploration of how talk and writing interface. This includes:

-Numerous examples of teaching and activities for using talk to support writing
-Using extensive data from classrooms; video and audio recordings, and transcripts of children′s talk
-Exploring three aspects of talk when used to support writing: talk for idea generation; talk for oral rehearsal and talk for reflection.
This book is for students on Primary ITT courses, particularly for English specialists. Students on M-level English and literacy courses will also find it useful.
Text and Context
Document Storage and Processing
AvSusan Jones
E-bok
PDF, Engelska, 2012
732 kr
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Text and Context: Document Storage and Processing describes information processing techniques, including those which do not appear in conventional textbooks on database systems. It focuses on the input, storage, retrieval and presentation of primarily textual information, together with auxiliary material about graphic and video data. There are chapters on text analysis as a basis for lexicography, full-text databases and information retrieval, the use of optical storage for both ASCII text and scanned document images, hypertext and multi-media systems, abstract document definition, and document formatting and imaging. The material is treated in an informal way with an emphasis on real applications and software. There are, among others, case studies from Reuters, British Airways, St. Bartholomew''s Hospital, Sony, and HMSO. Relevant industry standards are discussed including ISO 9660 for CD-ROM file storage, CCITT Group4 data compression, the Standard Generalised Markup Language and Office Document Architecture, and the Postscript language. Readers will benefit from the way Susan Jones has brought together this information, in a logical sequence, to highlight the connections between related topics. This book will be of interest to second and third year undergraduates and MSc students in computer science, to B/TEC HTD final year computing and information science students either specialising in IT or taking an IT option, and to students taking courses in IT and in business computing systems.
Clausdrum: Life Without Parole
AvSusan Jones
Häftad, Engelska
219 kr
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Dark Deception: The Exorcism
AvSusan Jones
Häftad, Engelska
206 kr
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Redington
A collection of fiction stories from a village in mid-Norfolk
AvSusan Jones
Häftad, Engelska, 2015
145 kr
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Factory Affair
AvSusan Jones
Häftad, Engelska, 2017
160 kr
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Hats off to Love
AvSusan Jones
Häftad, Engelska, 2024
136 kr
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Del 2 - Redington
Murder in the Villlage
Another Year in Redington
AvSusan Jones
Häftad, Engelska, 2017
136 kr
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From the Margins to the Cutting Edge
Community Media and Empowerment
AvPeter M. Lewis,Susan Jones
Inbunden, Engelska, 2006
701 kr
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This book is about the training needed for the effective use of community radio by social groups whose voices and opinions are rarely head in mainstream media. Such training includes Internet and computer skills, web site creation, digital audio editing, live broadcasting of local events, the creation of local sound archives for music, webcasting, and community radio training for refugees and asylum seekers. Introductory chapters set the historical and theoretical context for the community radio tradition that underpinned the training and discuss the connection between access and participation and the local level and the demands for a voice for civil society at the global level.
From the Margins to the Cutting Edge
Community Media and Empowerment
AvPeter M. Lewis,Susan Jones
Häftad, Engelska, 2007
298 kr
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My First Book of Bible Verses
AvSusan Jones
E-bok
Engelska, 2017
178 kr
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This full-color, illustrated book of verses is the quintessential children’s guide to the core teachings of the Bible. With a treasured verse featured on every spread along with a simple, kid-friendly explanation to help clarify the verse’s meaning, this book provides a fun way to build on a child’s understanding of their faith. Four pages of colorful stickers are included to encourage and reward children as they succeed in memorizing each verse. Parents will appreciate the wide selection of scripture covering key topics like God’s love, the importance of faith, the value of family, and the teachings of Jesus. Kids will appreciate the colorful and inspiring illustrations that accompany each verse and the positive, interactive approach to Bible study. This is the perfect gift for preschool and elementary school-aged children and a valuable resource for Bible camps, study groups, and other educational settings. Featured verses will include:“In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.” (Genesis 1:1)“Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path.” (Psalm 119:105)“Honor thy father and thy mother.” (Exodus 20:12)
Daily Promises from God
AvSusan Jones
E-bok
Engelska, 2021
158 kr
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Lighten any dreary day, and start every bright morning off with Daily Promises from God. This special book is a 365-day devotional filled with uplifting scripture to fill each day with a reassuring reminder of God’s love. Peaceful, colorful backgrounds complement the beauty of the words on each page, creating a tranquil way to engage with every verse. This beautiful collection of God’s loving words will help you weather everyday challenges and fortify your relationship with God.Promises scripture will include:When you pass through the waters, I will be with you. (Isaiah 43:2)Call to me and I will answer you and tell you great and unsearchable things you do not know, says the LORD. (Jeremiah 33:3)Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called children of God. (Matthew 5:9)The perfect little gift book or personal keepsake, this small book is just the right size to carry with you in your bag, on your daily commute to work, or on the way to school. Read the promises, commit them to memory, and hide them in your heart for when the going gets tough. Daily Promises from God ensures that each day comes with heartening reminders of how God is always with us.

Susan Jones – författare

Literature, Modernism, and Dance

Conrad and Women

Literature, Modernism, and Dance

Talking, Listening, Learning

Talking, Listening and Learning

Essential Primary Grammar

Essential Primary Grammar

Dopamine - Glutamate Interactions in the Basal Ganglia

Jane Austen's Guide to Thrift

English Collocation Studies

English Collocation Studies

How to Meditate

Dopamine - Glutamate Interactions in the Basal Ganglia

Redington

Jane Austen's Guide to Thrift

Dopamine - Glutamate Interactions in the Basal Ganglia

Dopamine - Glutamate Interactions in the Basal Ganglia

English Collocation Studies

Using Talk to Support Writing

Text and Context

Clausdrum: Life Without Parole

Dark Deception: The Exorcism

Redington

Factory Affair

Hats off to Love

Murder in the Villlage

From the Margins to the Cutting Edge

From the Margins to the Cutting Edge

My First Book of Bible Verses

Daily Promises from God