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Librarians in every community find challenges in serving adult
patrons who struggle to read. Adult book collections are too
daunting...and many children's books are simply too childlike. This
bibliography identifies and describes more than 250 nonfiction
books from the children's department that will support and engage
your adults with special needs. Organized into 15 popular subject
areas, and based on recommendations from respected public library
adult and children's librarians, school librarians, and children's
authors, the books included in this annotated bibliography are
based on specific criteria, including: coverage of popular, but
complex topics, using clear language, and highly readable
presentations; accurate, well-researched texts; appealing,
informative illustrations to enhance text; and, a minimum of
'childish' features. The majority of works recommended are recent
with publishing dates after 1998 and they can be recommended with
confidence because they do not 'talk down' to adult readers or
embarrass those who may be new readers. This new work is both a
handy 'book finding' tool and a terrific resource helping your
library fulfill an important community outreach mission.
Karl Barth (1886-1968) studierte Theologie in Bern, Berlin,
Tubingen, Marburg und war von 1909 bis 1921 Pfarrer in Genf und
Safenwil. Mit seiner Auslegung des Romerbriefes (1919, 1922) begann
eine neue Epoche der evangelischen Theologie. Dieses radikale Buch
trug ihm einen Ruf als Honorarprofessor nach Gottingen ein, spater
wurde er Ordinarius in Munster und Bonn. Er war Mitherausgeber von
Zwischen den Zeiten (1923-1933), der Zeitschrift der Dialektischen
Theologie. Karl Barth war der Autor der Barmer Theologischen
Erklarung und Kopf des Widerstands gegen die Gleichschaltung der
Kirchen durch den Nationalsozialismus. 1935 wurde Barth von der
Bonner Universitat wegen Verweigerung des bedingungslosen
Fuhrereids entlassen. Er bekam sofort eine Professur in Basel,
blieb aber mit der Bekennenden Kirche in enger Verbindung. Sein
Hauptwerk, Die Kirchliche Dogmatik, ist die bedeutendste
systematisch-theologische Leistung des 20. Jahrhunderts.
"Literature and Society," a textbook designed for upper-level
students, usually in their fourth year of studying Chinese,
contains literary works and essays related to the social sciences.
It reflects the social issues China has faced in recent years and
represents a new approach to introducing students to various
aspects of Chinese society. The textbook contains two sections. The
first, entitled "Literature," includes works by Lu Xun, Lin Yutang,
Liang Shiqiu, Wang Li, Xie Bingying, and Wang Meng. The selections
include essays, short stories, and one play. Each selection
reflects a different side of Chinese life, from offering
hospitality to guests and haggling over prices to philosophical
issues. The second section of the textbook, entitled "Society,"
includes essays by Fei Xiaotong, Ma Yinchu, Wu Han, Liang Sicheng,
and Chen Hengzhe. These works cover six issues: marriage and
family, population and ethics, urbanization, intellectuals,
minorities, and the preservation of ancient architecture in a
modern city. The textbook provides a brief introduction to each
author and discussion questions at the end of each piece.
Originally published by Yale University Press, 1972. To order
accompanying audiocassette tapes for this book, contact the
Language Resource Center at Cornell University (http:
//lrc.cornell.edu).
Cambodian-English Glossary contains over 8,800 words. Originally
published by Yale University Press, 1977. Reissued with permission
by Cornell Southeast Asia Program, 1988. This is the third in a
series of Cambodian readers prepared by Franklin Huffman and Im
Proum, following their Cambodian System of Writing and Beginning
Reader and Intermediate Cambodian Reader. The reader contains
thirty-two selections from some of the most important and
best-known works of Cambodian literature in a variety of
genres-historical prose, folktales, epic poetry, didactic verse,
religious literature, the modern novel, poems and songs, and so
forth. The introduction is a general survey in English of Cambodian
literature, and each section has an introduction in Cambodian. For
pedagogical reasons, the selections are presented roughly in
reverse chronological order, from modern prose to the very esoteric
and somewhat archaic verse of the Ream-Kie (the Cambodian version
of the Ramayana). The reader concludes with a bibliography of some
sixty items on Cambodian literature. The glossary combines the
4,000 or so items introduced in this reader with the more than
6,000 introduced in the previous two readers, making it the largest
Cambodian-English glossary compiled to date. The definitions are
more general and complete than one usually finds in a simple reader
glossary, in which definitions are normally context-specific.
Because the glossary is so useful in itself, it is being made
available separately as well as bound with the reader.
A collection of five scholarly essays presenting a thorough study
of the nature of a Welsh identity as reflected in the literature of
the Tudor period, with special reference to the chronicle of Elis
Gruffydd and the strict metre cywyddau of Dafydd Llwyd of
Mathafarn.
Cambridge English Readers is an exciting new series of original fiction, specially written for learners of English. Graded into six levels--from elementary to advanced--the stories in this series provide easy and enjoyable reading on a wide range of contemporary topics and themes.Clare Newton, a journalist, travels to Switzerland to bring home the body of her grandfather which has appeared from the bottom of a glacier 74 years after a climbing accident. Or was it an accident? Clare finds out more about her family's past than she expected and reaches decisions about her personal and professional life.
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