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“annet de jong”

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  • A stake in the ground

    Poems

    by Martin de Jong, Trish Harris, Adrienne Jansen, Judy McMillan, Anne Powell, Peter Rawnsley, Miriam Richardson, Barbara Sampson, Wendy Vink, Michael Watson ...
    Eleven Poets coming from a range of backgrounds and experiences present a collection of poems. Their spiritual roots are varied – Christian, Buddhist, Jewish, no category. But they share a common sense of a bigger reality. The collection explores life, but always underneath there is that strong, or faint, sense of mystery.This collection of poems comes from two decades of writing together. The ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • English Language Learners in the Southeastern United States

    Considerations for Practice, Policy, and Advocacy

    by Ester J. de Jong, Eric Dwyer, Mary Elizabeth Wilson-Patton, Zijing An, Elisabeth L. Chan, Maria R. Coady, Ryan W. Pontier, Joan Lachance0, Eleni Pappamihiel1, Susan Spezzini2, Linda Harklau3, Anna Her Yang4, Tu Thi Cam Dang5, Leslie Mendez6, Donita Grissom7, Joyce Nutta8, Kisha Bryan-Jordan9, Amber N. Warren0, Jenna Davis1, Lou Anne Wilkes2, Judith Hobson3 ...
    This book examines the impact of and response to the rapidly growing English language learner (ELL) populations in the southeastern United States on K-16 schooling. Using examples of policy and practice from seven states (Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, North Carolina, and Tennessee), the book explores how the contemporary context of accountability regimes and neoliberal tenets affect ... Read more

    $93.19 USD

  • Toward a Female Genealogy of Transcendentalism

    by Helen R. Deese, Eric Gardner, Laura Dassow Walls, Sarah Ann Wider, Susan M. Stone, Carol Strauss Sotiropoulos, Sterling Delano, Katherine Adams, Noelle Baker, Dorri Beam, Mary De Jong, Monika Elbert, Ivonne Garcia, Daniel Malachuk, Jeffrey A. Steele, Gary Williams ...
    Traditional histories of the American transcendentalist movement begin in Ralph Waldo Emerson’s terms: describing a rejection of college books and church pulpits in favor of the individual power of “Man Thinking.” This essay collection asks how women who lacked the privileges of both college and clergy rose to thought. For them, reading alone and conversing together were the primary means of ... Read more

    $42.29 USD

  • Museums and Biographies

    Stories, Objects, Identities

    by Kate Hill, Helen Rees Leahy, Jeffrey Abt, Julie Sheldon, Laura Gray, Linda Sandino, Louise Tythacott, Lucie Carreau, Mariana Francozo, Mark Elliott0, Alexandra Stara1, Sophie Forgan2, Steffi De Jong3, Stuart Burch4, Suzanne MacLeod5, Wallis Miller6, Alison Booth7, Anne Whitelaw8, Belinda Nemec9, Chris Whitehead0, Donald Preziosi1, Elizabeth Crooke2, Felicity Bodenstein3 ...
    Museums and biographies both tell the stories of lives. This innovative collection examines for the first time biography - of individuals, objects and institutions - in relationship to the museum, casting new light on the many facets of museum history and theory, from the lives of prominent curators, to the context of museums of biography and autobiography. Separate sections cover individual ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Running Toward the Guns

    A Memoir of Escape from Cambodia

    by Chanty Jong, Lee Ann Van Houten-Sauter ...
    Running Toward the Guns is an autobiographical story and an accounting of Chanty Jong's personal inner self-healing journey that led to a successfully unexpected discovery. Jong survived the Cambodian genocide during the Khmer Rouge regime of 1975-1979, witnessing the horrors of the killing fields, torture, starvation and much more. Her vivid narrative recounts the suffering under the Khmer Rouge, ... Read more

    $11.89 USD

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  • The Trials of Phillis Wheatley

    America's First Black Poet and Her Encounters with the Founding Fathers

    by Henry Louis Gates Jr ...
    In 1773, the slave Phillis Wheatley literally wrote her way to freedom. The first person of African descent to publish a book of poems in English, she was emancipated by her owners in recognition of her literary achievement. For a time, Wheatley was the most famous black woman in the West. But Thomas Jefferson, unlike his contemporaries Ben Franklin and George Washington, refused to acknowledge ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • procession

    by katherena vermette ...
    procession: a line of people moving in the same direction; a formal ceremony or celebration, as in a wedding, a funeral, a religious parade. Bestselling novelist and Governor General’s Award–winning poet katherena vermette’s third collection presents a series of poems reaching into what it means to be (at once) a descendant and a future ancestor, exploring the connections we have with one another ... Read more

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  • Mary Chesnut's Civil War Epic

    by Julia A. Stern ...
    A genteel southern intellectual, saloniste, and wife to a prominent colonel in Jefferson Davis’s inner circle, Mary Chesnut today is remembered best for her penetrating Civil War diary. Composed between 1861 and 1865 and revised thoroughly from the late 1870s until Chesnut’s death in 1886, the diary was published first in 1905, again in 1949, and later, to great acclaim, in 1981. This complicated ... Read more

    $48.29 USD

  • Pioneers of Modern Design

    From William Morris to Walter Gropius

    by Nikolaus Pevsner ...
    One of the most widely read books on modern design, Nikolaus Pevsner's landmark work today remains as stimulating as it was when first published in 1936. This expanded edition of Pioneers of Modern Design provides Pevsner's original text along with significant new and updated information, enhancing Pevsner's illuminating account of the roots of Modernism. The book now offers many beautiful colour ... Read more

    $14.29 USD

  • Conamara Blues

    Poems

    by John O'Donohue ...
    In his third poetry collection, the poet explores the natural and emotional landscape of his native Irish home."[John O'Donohue] is the real thing: a poetic priest with the soul of a pagan." — BooklistTranslating the beauty and splendor of his native Conamara into a language exquisitely attuned to the wonder of the everyday, John O'Donohue takes us on a moving journey through real and imagined ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • American Transcendentalism

    A History

    by Philip F. Gura ...
    The first comprehensive history of the nineteenth-century American intellectual movement.American Transcendentalism is a comprehensive narrative history of America's first group of public intellectuals, the men and women who defined American literature and indelibly marked American reform in the decades before and following the America Civil War. Philip F. Gura masterfully traces their ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Psychogeography

    by Merlin Coverley ...
    In recent years the term "psychogeography" has been used to illustrate a bewildering array of ideas from ley lines and the occult, to urban walking and political radicalism. But where does it come from and what exactly does it mean? This book examines the origins of psychogeography in the Paris of the 1950s, exploring the theoretical background and its political application in the work of Guy ... Read more

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