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Amongst Books
… Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights the function of books is manifold. Both authors use the recurring motif of books and reading as a tool of characterisation, for the advancement of the plot, or for cohesive device in the narrative structure. In my thesis I will pay special attention to the role of …
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Child-ish Books: Presenting Zines and Artist Books for Kids
… personal journey away from mass marketed picture books and towards independent publishing entities and New York City’s zine community; to provide a history of indie publishing and zine counterculture, including the ways these spaces have and have not historically made room for children’s voices; …
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Baseball and Books
Excitement is rumbling through the city just waiting for the grand opening. A fresh new face has been added to the streetscape of downtown Roanoke. A new branch library and baseball stadium is set to open soon. The site is near the edge of downtown Roanoke, Virginia at the intersection of Jefferson …
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Holy Books Or Pocket Books? Class And Values In American Politics
There has been much speculation recently as to the political effect that "moral values" have on Americans and much research has shown inconclusive results as far as the effect of class. This paper aims to study how class and values, including moral values and postmaterialist values, interact with …
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Forms for electronic books
… and looks at possibilities for forms of future books.
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A wall for books
To begin is the time of belief in form. Design is the maker that serves this belief. To build is action from a sense of order. When the work is completed the beginning must be felt. I recall the beginning as Belief. It is the time of realizatlon of Form. It is feeling as religion, and thought as …
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A museum of books
… its presence, the library becomes a museum of books. IN THE ORDER OF THE CIRCLE GEOMETRY WARM GARDEN COLD GARDEN GREEN GARDEN STONE GARDEN IN THE NATURE OE THE WALL HOW TO FINISH THE LAND AT THE WATER’S EDGE
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Banned Books and Educational Censorship: The Necessity of Keeping Queer Books in Schools
… fundamentally disagreeing with the censorship of books, book banning has spiraled out of control in the United States. The number of new book bans rises almost exponentially every school year, and books with queer themes are targeted far more frequently. Pro-ban advocates use deliberately …
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Creating a world of books, friends and flowers: gift books in America, 1825-1860
Books have long been considered appropriate presents. From 1825 to 1860, book publishers in England and America formally acknowledged such a tradition when they published a genre of books known as literary annuals or gift books. Elegantly-bound collections of prose, poetry, and illustrations, gift …
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unruly play in picture books
… study examines a selection of children’s picture books that showcase a kind of play that defies normative narrative pacing, power dynamics, and narrative sequence. Future research is recommended to further interdisciplinary discourse on the complexity of imaginative play in children’s literature …
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Relationship Between Classes of Books Circulated and Classes of Books Requested on Interlibrary Loan (Collection, Evaluation)
This study examined the hypothesis that libraries are most likely to borrow materials in overused classes and least likely to borrow materials in underused classes. An overused class is one in which the library's own holdings are used more than expected (in a probabilistic sense), relative to its …
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Elementary Writing Instruction Using Picture Books
… a 5th grade classroom. The program uses picture books to teach each of the six traits of writing. The traits are: ideas, organization, voice, word choice, sentence fluency and conventions. The sample includes the classroom of the study and a control group. Both groups had twenty-four student …
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Syntactically annotated Ngrams for Google Books
… thesis, we present a new edition of the Google Books Ngram Corpus, describing how often words and phrases were used over a period of five centuries, in eight languages; it aggregates data from 6% of all books ever published. This new edition introduces syntactic annotations: words are tagged …
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An LCA study comparing e-books read on an Apple Air iPad to printed books in South Africa
… and cumulative energy demand of electronic books (e-books)read from a Tablet personal computer (PC) or Apple Air iPad, the digital system, with the equivalent printed paper books (print system) in South Africa, and establish which of two systems has less of an environmental and energy demand …
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SLA research and course books for EFL
Die vorliegende Arbeit beschäftigt sich mit der Grammatikvermittlung im Englischunterricht. Im Rahmen dessen wird ein Schulbuch (English G 21 A2) daraufhin untersucht ob es kompatibel mit aktuellen Theorien zum Zweitspracherwerb ist. Zu Beginn der Arbeit werden historische und aktuelle Auffassungen …
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Evaluation of text books in general science
Thesis (M.A.)--Boston University
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