Bloomsbury

Bringingtogether leading scholars and teacher educators from across the world, fromEurope and the USA to Asia, this book presents the latest research and newperspectives into the uses of children's literature in second language teachingfor children and young adults. Children'sLiterature in Second Language Education covers such topics asextensive...

During the European Renaissance, an age marked equally by revolutionary thought and constant warfare, it was armies, rather than philosophers, who shaped the modern European nation state. "e;Mobile cities"e; of mercenaries and other paid soldiers-made up of astonishingly diverse aggregations of ethnicities and nationalities-marched across...

Yerma (meaning ’Barren’) is one of three tragic plays about peasants and rural life that make up Lorca’s ’rural trilogy’.It is possibly Lorca’s harshest play following a woman’s Herculeanstruggle against the curse of infertility. The woman’s barrennessbecomes a metaphor for her marriage in a traditional...

A provocative argument for a mystical, rather than historical, understanding of Jesus, leading to a radical rebirth of Christianity in our time. For forty years, scholar and religious commentator Tom Harpur has challenged church orthodoxy and guided thousands of readers on subjects as controversial as the true nature of Christ and life after death....

You know you've joined the MOB when you hear...'My, are they all yours?''Bless you!' (Occasionally)'Poor you!' (Frequently)'Lucky you!' (Once)And of course, the ultimate: 'So ... are you going for a girl?' Hannah Evans has three small boys. In her world, farting is so much more interesting than phonics, dam-building trumps damsels in distress any...

Born in the late 1930s on the Central Asian steppe, Naja is the daughter of a clan chieftain of the Tushan nomads, proud descendants of Genghis Khan. When her fiercely independent father, U’lan, hears of Stalin’s plan to bring the Tushan under state control and make them settle permanently in collective farms, he pledges to join forces...