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Companion to the Contemporary Irish Novel

by Kathleen Costello-Sullivan, Neil Murphy, Anne Fogarty, Michelle Wang, Prof. Dr. Katharina Rennhak, Mary M. McGlynn, Lianghui LI, Adel Cheong0, Sylvie Mikowski1, Katherine O'Callaghan2, Michael G Cronin3, Molly Ferguson4, Deirdre Flynn5, Seán Golden6, Margarita Estévez-Saá7, Eoghan Smith8, Christine Cusick9, Gerry Smyth0, Hedwig Schwall1, Graham Matthews2, Joseph Valente3, Patricia Malone4, Jack Fennell5, Jennifer Mooney6, Keith O’Sullivan7, Brian Cliff8, Ondrej Pilný9, Hana Zahradníková0, Kersti Powell1, Paula Murphy2 ...

Since the 1980s, Ireland has gone through a profound social, demographic, and religious disruption, the impact of which has been seen across recent fiction from Irish writers. Companion to the Contemporary Irish Novel traces this cultural shift and its impact by examining how modern novels have reckoned with a new conception of Irishness.Despite the heady mix of cultural and social destabilization ... Read more

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Since the 1980s, Ireland has gone through a profound social, demographic, and religious disruption, the impact of which has been seen across recent fiction from Irish writers. Companion to the Contemporary Irish Novel traces this cultural shift and its impact by examining how modern novels have reckoned with a new conception of Irishness.Despite the heady mix of cultural and social destabilization
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Tales from the Grave

by Zimbell House Publishing, Patrick Alven, Ross Baxter, Michelle Biddex-Simmons, Peter Cooper, Curtis & Janet Dewey, Shawn L. Dixon, E. W. Farnsworth, Sharon Frame Gay, David J. Gibbs, Lionel Ray Green, David Groveman, Couri Johnson, Mac Jones, B.T. Joy, David W. Landrum, Karly Malone, Bruce Markuson, Jason McDonald, Kip McKnight, Chad McLendon, Stephen McQuiggan, Melisa Meyers, Kristina R. Mosley, Kathleen Murphey, Jeremiah Murphy, John Robinson, Jon Shank, A. E. Santana, Parineeta Singh, Dawn Sooy, C.E. Stokes, DJ Tyrer, Alexandra L. Vogel, Matthew Wilson, Myles Wren ...

Tales From The Grave is a ghostly collection of short stories brought to you by Zimbell House Publishing, showcasing thirty-six new voices to tempt you.Some of these stories are sure to have you looking over your shoulder...Others will have you hiding under the covers...Some will simply haunt you to your grave. ... Read more

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Tales From The Grave is a ghostly collection of short stories brought to you by Zimbell House Publishing, showcasing thirty-six new voices to tempt you.Some of these stories are sure to have you looking over your shoulder...Others will have you hiding under the covers...Some will simply haunt you to your grave.
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IPv6 Network Administration

Teaching the Turtle to Dance

by Niall Richard Murphy, David Malone ...

What once seemed nearly impossible has turned into reality. The number of available Internet addresses is now nearly exhausted, due mostly to the explosion of commercial websites and entries from an expanding number of countries. This growing shortage has effectively put the Internet community--and some of its most brilliant engineers--on alert for the last decade.Their solution was to create IPv6 ... Read more

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What once seemed nearly impossible has turned into reality. The number of available Internet addresses is now nearly exhausted, due mostly to the explosion of commercial websites and entries from an expanding number of countries. This growing shortage has effectively put the Internet community--and some of its most brilliant engineers--on alert for the last decade.Their solution was to create IPv6
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Breaking the Mold of School Instruction and Organization

Innovative and Successful Practices for the Twenty-First Century

by Nadine Binkley, Nancy Boxler, József Braun, Furman Brown, Douglas Carney, Patricia Chesbro, Alan J. Daly, Maria G. Dove, Lois Favre, Marc Ferris, Karen Bostic Frederick, Mary Ellen Freeley, Joan R. Fretz, Alice E. Ginsberg, Diane W. Gómez, Fleur Harris, Madeleine F. Holzer, Charles F. Howlett, Nora E. Hyland, Judit Kováts, Diane E. Lang, Suzanne M. Lasser, Anastasia Legakes, Michael A. Malone, JudithR Merz, Mária Molnár, Suzanne D. Morgan, Audrey Murphy, Irene Nigaglioni, Stephen M. Noonan, Scott Noppe-Brandon, Margaret S. Parsons, Michael Pezone, Robert Pillar, Philip J. Poinelli, James H. Powell, Lori Langer de Ramirez, Susan Rundle, Mavis G. Sanders, Ingvar Sigurgeirsson, Linda Kantor Swerdlow, Zoila Tazi, Thomas DeVere Wolsey, Sally Brown, James P. Capolupo, Alan J. Cooper, Douglas Fisher, Diane Lapp, Alan Singer, Monisha Bajaj, Dr. Richard Hanzelka ...

This one-of-a-kind collection of chapters takes the reader on a tour to explore innovative practices from classrooms, schools, districts, communities, and faraway places in the world. Each of the chapters-organized under six headings-tells an authentic, compelling story of a pioneering and successful initiative that breaks the traditional mold of instructional delivery and time-honored school ... Read more

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This one-of-a-kind collection of chapters takes the reader on a tour to explore innovative practices from classrooms, schools, districts, communities, and faraway places in the world. Each of the chapters-organized under six headings-tells an authentic, compelling story of a pioneering and successful initiative that breaks the traditional mold of instructional delivery and time-honored school
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Children's Literature

A Very Short Introduction

by Kimberley Reynolds ...

Series series Very Short Introductions
Children's literature takes many forms - works adapted for children in antiquity, picture books and pop-ups - and now includes the latest online games and eBooks. This vast and amorphous subject is both intimately related to other areas of literary and cultural investigation but also has its own set of concerns, issues and challenges. From familiar authors including Beatrix Potter and Roald Dahl, ... Read more

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Children's literature takes many forms - works adapted for children in antiquity, picture books and pop-ups - and now includes the latest online games and eBooks. This vast and amorphous subject is both intimately related to other areas of literary and cultural investigation but also has its own set of concerns, issues and challenges. From familiar authors including Beatrix Potter and Roald Dahl,
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The Year's Best Crime and Mystery Stories 2016

by Kristine Kathryn Rusch, John Helfers, Joyce Carol Oates, Mary Higgins Clark, Tendai Huchu, Genevieve Valentine, Amity Gaige, Kelly Washington, Tananarive Due, R.S. Brenner, Jedidiah Ayers, Annie Reed, Charles Todd, Christina Milletti, T. Jefferson Parker, Dan Duval, Thomas Pluck, Neil Schofield, Angela Penrose, Carrie Vaughn, SJ Rozan, Thomas H. Cook, René Appel, Megan Abbott ...

The Year's Best Crime & Mystery Stories contains the best crime and mystery stories that were originally published in 2015 in either print or electronic format as selected by editors Kristine Kathryn Rusch and John Helfers.Reading through thousands of titles and carefully narrowing their favorite reads down to the ultimate list that is presented in this volume, the editors chose their top picks of ... Read more

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The Year's Best Crime & Mystery Stories contains the best crime and mystery stories that were originally published in 2015 in either print or electronic format as selected by editors Kristine Kathryn Rusch and John Helfers.Reading through thousands of titles and carefully narrowing their favorite reads down to the ultimate list that is presented in this volume, the editors chose their top picks of
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Parfit

A Philosopher and His Mission to Save Morality

by David Edmonds ...

From the bestselling coauthor of Wittgenstein’s Poker, an entertaining and illuminating biography of a brilliant philosopher who tried to rescue morality from nihilismDerek Parfit (1942–2017) is the most famous philosopher most people have never heard of. Widely regarded as one of the greatest moral thinkers of the past hundred years, Parfit was anything but a public intellectual. Yet his ideas ... Read more

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From the bestselling coauthor of Wittgenstein’s Poker, an entertaining and illuminating biography of a brilliant philosopher who tried to rescue morality from nihilismDerek Parfit (1942–2017) is the most famous philosopher most people have never heard of. Widely regarded as one of the greatest moral thinkers of the past hundred years, Parfit was anything but a public intellectual. Yet his ideas
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The Largesse of the Sea Maiden

Stories

by Denis Johnson ...

Twenty-five years after Jesus’ Son, a haunting new collection of short stories on mortality and transcendence, from National Book Award winner and two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist Denis Johnson**NATIONAL BESTSELLER • ONE OF BARACK OBAMA’S FAVORITE BOOKS OF THE YEAR • ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: Dwight Garner, The New York Times; Maureen Corrigan, NPR’s Fresh Air; Chicago Tribune; ... Read more

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Twenty-five years after Jesus’ Son, a haunting new collection of short stories on mortality and transcendence, from National Book Award winner and two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist Denis Johnson**NATIONAL BESTSELLER • ONE OF BARACK OBAMA’S FAVORITE BOOKS OF THE YEAR • ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: Dwight Garner, The New York Times; Maureen Corrigan, NPR’s Fresh Air; Chicago Tribune;
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The Cambridge Companion to Children's Literature

Edited by M. O. Grenby, Andrea Immel ...

Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
Some of the most innovative and spell-binding literature has been written for young people, but only recently has academic study embraced its range and complexity. This Companion offers a state-of-the-subject survey of English-language children's literature from the seventeenth century to the present. With discussions ranging from eighteenth-century moral tales to modern fantasies by J. K. Rowling ... Read more

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Some of the most innovative and spell-binding literature has been written for young people, but only recently has academic study embraced its range and complexity. This Companion offers a state-of-the-subject survey of English-language children's literature from the seventeenth century to the present. With discussions ranging from eighteenth-century moral tales to modern fantasies by J. K. Rowling
... Read more
Genders

by David Glover, Cora Kaplan ...

Series series The New Critical Idiom
The concept of gender continues to be a central issue in literary and cultural studies, with a significance that crosses disciplinary boundaries and provokes lively debate. In this fully revised and updated second edition, David Glover and Cora Kaplan offer a lucid and illuminating introduction to ’gender’ and its implications, including:an overview of the critical language and concepts ... Read more

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The concept of gender continues to be a central issue in literary and cultural studies, with a significance that crosses disciplinary boundaries and provokes lively debate. In this fully revised and updated second edition, David Glover and Cora Kaplan offer a lucid and illuminating introduction to ’gender’ and its implications, including:an overview of the critical language and concepts
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When Things Get Dark

Stories inspired by Shirley Jackson

by Joyce Carol Oates, Josh Malerman, Carmen Maria Machado, Paul Tremblay, Stephen Graham Jones, Karen Heuler, Elizabeth Hand, Benjamin Percy, John Langan, M. Rickert, Richard Kadrey, Seana McGuire, Genevieve Valentine, Jeffery Ford ...

The Stoker Award-winning chilling anthology of 18 short stories in tribute to the genius of Shirley Jackson, collecting today’s best horror writers.Featuring Joyce Carol Oates, Josh Malerman, Paul Tremblay, Richard Kadrey, Stephen Graham Jones, Elizabeth Hand and more.A collection of new and exclusive short stories inspired by, and in tribute to, Shirley Jackson.Shirley Jackson is a seminal writer ... Read more

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The Stoker Award-winning chilling anthology of 18 short stories in tribute to the genius of Shirley Jackson, collecting today’s best horror writers.Featuring Joyce Carol Oates, Josh Malerman, Paul Tremblay, Richard Kadrey, Stephen Graham Jones, Elizabeth Hand and more.A collection of new and exclusive short stories inspired by, and in tribute to, Shirley Jackson.Shirley Jackson is a seminal writer
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Communication Studies

The Essential Resource

Edited by Andrew Beck, Peter Bennett, Peter Wall ...

Series series Essentials
This book brings together a huge range of material including academic articles, film scripts and interplanetary messages adrift on space probes with supporting commentary to clarify their imporatance to the field. Communication Studies: The Essential Resource is a collection of essays and texts for all those studying communication at university and pre-university level.Individual sections address: ... Read more

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This book brings together a huge range of material including academic articles, film scripts and interplanetary messages adrift on space probes with supporting commentary to clarify their imporatance to the field. Communication Studies: The Essential Resource is a collection of essays and texts for all those studying communication at university and pre-university level.Individual sections address:
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