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Building on the groundbreaking research of the MacArthur Foundation's Digital Media & Learning initiative, this book crosses the divide between digital literacies and traditional print culture to engage a generation of students who can read with a book in one hand and a mouse in the other.Reading...

Science Fiction Audiences examines the astounding popularity of two television "institutions" - the series Doctor Who and ^Star Trek. Both of these programmes have survived cancellation and acquired an following that continues to grow. The book is based on over ten years of research including...

Henry Jenkins at Authors@Google (video) Vaudevillians used the term "the wow climax" to refer to the emotional highpoint of their acts-a final moment of peak spectacle following a gradual building of audience's emotions. Viewed by most critics as vulgar and sensationalistic, the vaudeville aesthetic...

Nimrod, the son of Cush was in charge of building a tower called Babel as mentioned in the Bible. There has been much speculation as to what it could have been but Richard Henry believes it was something more and possibly something that would have changed mankind forever. Be ready to take a...

When it was determined to extend the present edition of Fielding, not merely by the addition of Jonathan Wild to the three universally popular novels, but by two volumes of Miscellanies, there could be no doubt about at least one of the contents of these latter. The Journal of a Voyage to Lisbon,...

The September/October 2018 issue of Hugo Award-winning Uncanny Magazine. Our Disabled People Destroy Science Fiction Special Issue! Guest edited by Dominik Parisen and Elsa Sjunneson-Henry, Nicolette Barischoff, S. Qioyi Lu, and Judith Tarr. Featuring new fiction by William Alexander, Rachel...

"The true weird tale has something more than secret murder, bloody bones, or a sheeted form clanking chains according to rule. A certain atmosphere of breathless and unexplainable dread of outer, unknown forces must be present; and there must be a hint, expressed with a seriousness and portentousness...

Stories, essays, and interviews explore dystopias that may offer lessons for the present. As the recent success of Margaret Atwood's novel-turned-television hit Handmaid's Tale shows us, dystopia is more than minatory fantasy; it offers a critical lens upon the present. “It is not only a...

“The Gift of the Magi” is the O. Henry classic Christmas story that has touched generations. -The language of a hundred years ago has been updated making the story easily understood by today’s readers. -End notes, interpretation, and discussion of major themes follow the text....

The small town of Lithopolis, Ohio, is the home of the Wagnalls Memorial Library, designed and donated by publishing heiress Mabel Wagnalls. This charming 1922 volume collects O. Henry’s whimsical musings on writing, music, travel, pets, and life, from letters Wagnalls received from the celebrated short-story writer from 1903 to 1907.

Almost one-hundred years ago, W.E.B. Du Bois proposed the notion of the "talented tenth," an African American elite that would serve as leaders and models for the larger black community. In this unprecedented collaboration, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., and Cornel West--two of Du Bois's most prominent intellectual...

A Dream of Empire William Henry Venable, american author and educator (1836-1920) This ebook presents «A Dream of Empire», from William Henry Venable. A dynamic table of contents enables to jump directly to the chapter selected. TABLE OF CONTENTS -01- ABOUT THIS BOOK -02-...

10 Best Loved Christmas Classic Stories for All Ages (Cambridge World Classics Edition) Christmas Books Classic Literature (Volume 1)   OVERVIEW Living as we do in our hectic modern world with enough distractions in a single day to occupy a lifetime, it is hard to imagine...

The Getting of Wisdom The Getting of Wisdom is a novel by Australian novelist Henry Handel Richardson. It was first published in 1910, and has almost always been in print ever since. Henry Handel Richardson was the pseudonym of Ethel Florence Lindesay Richardson, a writer who was...