Richard Roberts draws on insights from psychology and cognitive science to show that adults can master a foreign language just as easily as children can if they bring to bear the skills and knowledge they have honed over a lifetime.
Literary arts
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Author:Kreuz, Roger J., Roberts, RichardSummary: - Author:Bilodeau, AnnikSummary:
Belonging Beyond Borders maps the evolution of cosmopolitanism in Spanish American narrative literature through a generational lens. Drawing on a new theoretical framework that blends intellectual studies and literary history with...
- Author:Nelson, Holly Faith, Alker, SharonSummary:
Siege literature has existed since antiquity but has not always been understood as a crucial element of culture. Focusing on its magnetic force, Besieged brings to light its popularity and potency between the British Civil War and the...
- Author:Scott, A. O.Summary:
Few could explain, let alone seek out, a career in criticism. Yet what A.O. Scott shows in Better Living Through Criticism is that we are, in fact, all critics: because critical thinking informs almost every aspect of artistic creation...
- Author:Plotnik, ArthurSummary:
The essential guide for describing the extraordinary--the must-have reference for anyone wishing to rise above tired superlatives.
- Author:Schwager, EdieSummary:
"Would you like to find new, exciting words to use in your speech and writing' Would you like to be a fascinating conversationalist' Would you like to be a Scrabble expert' Better Vocabulary In 30 Minutes a Day offers a lively and...
- Author:Davies, RichardSummary:
A multi-genre anthology catering to the college-bound student. Timely, relevant, contemporary themes engage students and provide opportunities for discussion and reflection.
- Author:Norris, MarySummary:
Mary Norris has spent more than three decades in The New Yorker's copy department, maintaining its celebrated high standards. Now she brings her vast experience, good cheer, and finely sharpened pencils to help the rest of us in a...
- Author:Tanti, MelissaSummary:
The dismantling of “Understanding Canada”—an international program eliminated by Canada’s Conservative government in 2012—posed a tremendous potential setback for Canadianists. Yet Canadian writers continue to be celebrated globally by...
- Author:Woodcock, GeorgeSummary:
Beyond the Blue Mountains details Woodcock’s life in the British Columbia bush, his close and longstanding relationship with the Doukhobors, his battles with US immigration officials. We learn of the founding of the influential Canadian...
- Author:Armas, Liuba González deSummary:
A multi-genre anthology on visual experiences from 8 hyphened-Canadian writers.
- Author:Lamott, AnneSummary:
"A warm, generous and hilarious guide through the writer's world and its treacherous swamps."-Los Angeles Times. Advice on writing and on life from an acclaimed bestselling author: "Thirty years ago my older brother, who was ten years...
- Author:Proulx, AnnieSummary:
Proulx vividly recounts the ups and downs of building her dream house on a nature preserve in Wyoming.
- Author:Scott, Gail, Gluck, Robert, Roy, Camille, Burger, MarySummary:
What is the best way to tell a story? In this anthology, the first-ever collection of essays by innovative, cutting-edge writers on the theme of narration, forty of the continent's top experimental writers describe their engagement with...
- Author:Vint, SherrylSummary:
Anxieties about embodiment and posthumanism have always found an outlet in the science fiction of the day. In Bodies of Tomorrow, Sherryl Vint argues for a new model of an ethical and embodied posthuman subject through close readings of...
- Author:Chabon, MichaelSummary:
Pulitzer Prize-winning author Michael Chabon offers a compilation of pieces about literature--age-old classics as well as his own--that presents a unique look into his literary origins and influences.
- Author:LaFleur, Robert AndréSummary:
Compiled centuries before the birth of Jesus, the Analects of Confucius is anything but dry ancient philosophy. Many of its passages hold the same power as any great Socratic dialogue. Which makes trying to get to the heart of the...
- Author:Mathewes, Charles T.Summary:
Augustine of Hippo's masterpiece The City of God is one of the greatest books ever written, yet its size - nearly 1,000 pages - too often intimidates even serious readers. Composed in the years after the sack of Rome in the 5th...
- Author:Carri'n', JorgeSummary:
Jorge Carri'n collects bookshops: from Gotham Book Mart and the Strand Bookstore in New York City to City Lights Bookshop and Green Apple Books in San Francisco and all the bright spots in between (Prairie Lights, Tattered Cover, and...
- Author:Schmaltz, EricSummary:
Beginning in 1963 and continuing through the late 1980s, a loose coterie of like-minded Canadian poets challenged the conventions of writing and poetic meaning by fusing their practice with strategies from visual art, sound art,...
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