Reading the Past - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Reading the Past write by Ian Hodder. This book was released on 2003-12-04. Reading the Past available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Table of contents
Reading the Past
Reading the Past - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Reading the Past write by C. B. Walker. This book was released on 1990-01-01. Reading the Past available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Contains six previously published titles brought together in a single volume.
Re/reading the past
Re/reading the past - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Re/reading the past write by J.R. Martin. This book was released on 2003-11-17. Re/reading the past available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Re/reading the Past is concerned with the discourses of history, from the complementary perspectives of Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) and Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL). The papers in the book stress the discursive construction of the past, focussing on the different social narratives which compete for official acknowledgement. Issues of collective and cultural memory are addressed, reflecting the "linguistic turn" in the Social Sciences. The book covers a range of discourses, interpreting texts from popular culture to academic discourse including the construction and evaluation of past events in a variety of places around the world. It is especially timely in its focus on the construction of time and value in a post-colonial world where history discourses are central to on-going processes of reconciliation, debates on war crimes, and the issues of amnesty and restitution. As such the book fills a significant gap in interdisciplinary debates as well as in register and genre analysis, and will be of general interest to historians, political scientists and discourse analysts as well as students and teachers of ESP (English for Specific Purposes) and EAP (English for Academic Purposes).
A Day of Fire
A Day of Fire - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Day of Fire write by Kate Quinn. This book was released on 2023-08-08. A Day of Fire available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. From six bestselling authors, including New York Times bestseller Kate Quinn, comes a vividly imagined novel following the lives of those in ancient Pompeii on the fateful day Mount Vesuvius erupts. Pompeii was a lively resort flourishing in the shadow of Mount Vesuvius at the height of the Roman Empire. When Vesuvius erupted in an explosion of flame and ash, the entire town would be destroyed. Some of its citizens died in the chaos, some escaped the mountain’s wrath . . . and these are their stories: A boy loses his innocence in Pompeii’s flourishing streets. An heiress dreads her wedding day, not knowing it will be swallowed by fire. An ex-legionary stakes his entire future on a gladiator bout destined never to be finished. A crippled senator welcomes death, until a tomboy on horseback comes to his rescue. A young mother faces an impossible choice for her unborn child as the ash falls. A priestess and a prostitute seek redemption and resurrection as the town is buried. Six authors bring to life overlapping stories of patricians and slaves, warriors and politicians, villains and heroes who cross each other’s paths during Pompeii’s fiery end. But who will escape, and who will be buried for eternity?
Steeped in Stories
Steeped in Stories - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Steeped in Stories write by Mitali Perkins. This book was released on 2021-08-31. Steeped in Stories available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The stories we read as children shape us for the rest of our lives. But it is never too late to discover that transformative spark of hope that children's classics can ignite within us. Award-winning children's author Mitali Perkins grew up steeped in stories--escaping into her books on the fire escape of a Flushing apartment building and, later, finding solace in them as she navigated between the cultures of her suburban California school and her Bengali heritage at home. Now Perkins invites us to explore the promise of seven timeless children's novels for adults living in uncertain times: stories that provide mirrors to our innermost selves and open windows to other worlds. Blending personal narrative, accessible literary criticism, and spiritual and moral formation, Perkins delves into novels by Louisa May Alcott, C. S. Lewis, L. M. Montgomery, Frances Hodgson Burnett, and other literary "uncles" and "aunts" that illuminate the virtuous, abundant life we still desire. These novels are not perfect, and Perkins honestly assesses their critical frailties and flaws related to race, culture, and power. Yet reading or rereading these books as adults can help us build virtue, unmask our vices, and restore our hope. Reconnecting with these stories from childhood isn't merely nostalgia. In an era of uncertainty and despair, they lighten our load and bring us much-needed hope.
