“maureen whitebrook”

The construction of narrative identity is a public - and hence potentially political - process. Telling and listening to stories about oneself involves narrative techniques. Using modern novels as a reference point, Maureen Whitebrook asks what follows for political identity (be it of a person, grou... More

As well as discussing the artistic development of typical children, this book also includes a discussion of children with intellectual disabilities and those with a talent for art, including autistic children. We tend to think of pictures as a strictly visual medium, but the section on blind childre... More

Marketing Communications Classics brings together, for the first time, a selection of classic and contemporary articles into a single user-friendly volume. With contributions from a range of experts this text includes many of the most important and influential articles in the field of marketing comm... More

English Language & Composition is a user-friendly review book that will make any student—or those trying to help them—feel like he or she has a private tutor. Each chapter includes detailed questions that allow students to assess how well they’ve mastered each idea. Not only does the author pr... More

Designed for readers with little or no computer experience, this book provides a step-by-step progression -- with detailed explanations and many illustrations -- from the basics of mathematical functions and operators to the design and use of such techniques as code, indicators, control-breaks, arra... More

From Arnold Schwarzenegger's Terminator, to C-3PO of the Star Wars trilogy, to the comic robot-butler in Woody Allen's Sleeper, the "android" has long been a familiar figure on the American imaginative landscape. But how far removed from reality are such fictitious creations? Will there ever be an i... More

In this book Dr Alden offers advice on how to read the Iliad through the relationship of major paradigms to the events of the main narrative. The first section offers the first full-length study in English of the paradigmatic functions of secondary narratives and minor-key episodes in the Iliad. Non... More