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Engage Literacy is the new reading scheme from Raintree that
introduces engaging and contemporary content to motivate and
support early readers while providing a reliable and instructional
framework. All titles are precisely levelled, with new vocabulary
being introduced and reinforced throughout the levels. This is a
level 23 fiction title in the White book band level.
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Wendy Graham
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Engage Literacy is the new reading scheme from Raintree that
introduces engaging and contemporary content to motivate and
support early readers while providing a reliable and instructional
framework. All titles are precisely levelled, with new vocabulary
being introduced and reinforced throughout the levels. This is a
level 23 non-fiction title in the White book band level.
Engage Literacy is the new reading scheme from Raintree that
introduces engaging and contemporary content to motivate and
support early readers while providing a reliable and instructional
framework. All titles are precisely levelled, with new vocabulary
being introduced and reinforced throughout the levels. This is a
level 25 non-fiction title in the Lime book band level.
Grace and Dad are about to move away from the jetty when all of a
sudden, there is a loud bark! Will Dad let Grace's dog come along
on the fishing trip? Or will Buddy be left behind?
This provocative book argues that in his fiction Henry James was
more canny about sexual identities, more focused on sexual
pleasure, and more insistent on flouting heterosexual convention
than has been acknowledged by his critics and biographers. Without
leaping to the construction of a "gay" Henry James, whose writings
aver a conscious sexual preference, the author demonstrates James's
deep engagement with the construct of sexual "inversion," his
familiarity with the tropes and traffic of the late-Victorian
sexual underground, and his resistance to the cultural codes and
institutions that disciplined social and private behavior.
The volume aligns biographical and textual readings with specific
topics in intellectual and cultural history, placing the novelist
and his works within the key discursive frameworks that emerged
during his lifetime: mental hygiene, sexology, psychiatry, and
cultural anthropology. In reconsidering James's reputed celibacy
and effeminacy, the author makes use of recent gender and queer
theory, while remaining carefully attentive to the contemporary
terms at James's disposal for understanding his own sexuality and
gender identification.
The author also elaborates the family dynamics that affected
James's gender and professional identity conflicts, notably his
turbulent relations with his brother William James, whose
pathologizing of the "unhygienic" creative life conditioned his
thinking about both sexuality and art. Extended discussions of four
novels--"Roderick Hudson," "The Bostonians," "The Princess
Casamassima," and "The Wings of the Dove"--underscore James's
resistance to the disciplinary mechanisms that regulate homoerotic
desire under the aegis of mental hygiene and sexual
"responsibility." Understanding, with queer theory, that
sublimation can be a form of pleasure in a non-heterosexual
community, the book views James's erotic economy of artistic
production--even as it increasingly emphasized self-discipline--as
a means of circumventing the suppression of sexual nonconformity.
Recipes for natural cleaning products from green living blogger Wendy Graham.
Learn how to make your home smell as fresh as a daisy with these eco-friendly, money-saving, germ-busting recipes. Using a base of essential oils and natural ingredients, these cleaning products are easy to make, are kinder to your skin and to the environment, while being as effective as any shop-bought solution. The recipes use simple, inexpensive ingredients that are widely available such as bicarbonate of soda, vinegar, salt and citrus fruit, and will leave your home sparkling clean. You can even customise the fragrances to make your home smell crisp, time and time again.
Fresh Clean Home guides the reader from the kitchen to laundry and the bathroom, and also includes a section of recipes for specific household cleaning products, such as window and mirror cleaner, carpet and upholstery spot cleaner and sticky stuff remover. Clean every nook and cranny, with surface cleaners and bathroom shiners, laundry powder and fabric conditioner, kettle descaler and more, for a beautiful, fresh clean home.
Founded by a band of young iconoclasts, the Pre-Raphaelite
Brotherhood stunned Victorian England with its revaluation of
culture and lifestyle. With Pre-Raphaelitism ascendant in the 1850s
and canonical by the 1880s, the movement's refractory reception
history is an object lesson in how avant-gardes burst upon the
scene, dispense with their antagonistic posture, and become a
mainstay of tradition. Wendy Graham traces the critical discourses
that greeted the Pre-Raphaelites' debut, shaped their contemporary
reception, and continued to inform responses to them well after
their heyday. She explains the mechanics of fame and the politics
of scandal contributing to the rise of aestheticism, providing a
new interpretation of the place of aesthetic counterculture in
Victorian England. Critics, Coteries, and Pre-Raphaelite Celebrity
sheds new light on Victorian discourses on sexuality and
masculinity through a thick description of literary bravado, the
emotions of male bonding within cliques, and homoerotic frissons
among the creators and reviewers of Pre-Raphaelitism. She threads
together the qualities that made William Holman Hunt, John Everett
Millais, and Gabriel Rossetti exemplary figures of aesthetic
celebrity in the 1850s; Algernon Swinburne and Simeon Solomon in
the 1860s; and Edward Burne-Jones and Walter Pater in the 1870s.
The book documents the symbiotic relationship between periodical
writers and the artists and poets they helped make famous,
demonstrating that the origin myth of Bohemian artistic
transcendence was connected with the rise of a professional class
of journalists. Graham shows that the Pre-Raphaelites innovated
many of the phenomena now associated with Oscar Wilde, arguing that
they were foundational for him in forging an artistic and personal
identity with a full-blown publicity apparatus. Wilde had models.
This book is about them.
Pearls are one of the oldest precious gemstones. They have been
revered through history and the best reserved to adorn royalty and
their favourites. Now, with the arrival of freshwater pearls, they
are available to suit every pocket and every style, from the
classic to the most creative. It includes a guide to the types of
pearl and to the farming process. It gives advice on buying pearls;
what to look for and what to avoid and gives instruction on working
with pearls, including drilling, setting and knotting. Finally,
there is information on South Sea, Tahitian, Akoya, freshwater and
natural pearls. This practical book celebrates their exquisite
beauty and enduring elegance.
Engage Literacy is the new reading scheme from Raintree that
introduces engaging and contemporary content to motivate and
support early readers while providing a reliable and instructional
framework. All titles are precisely levelled, with new vocabulary
being introduced and reinforced throughout the levels. This is a
level 20 fiction title in the Purple book band level.
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