Beginning theory has been helping students navigate through the thickets of literary & cultural theory for well over a decade now. This new & expanded third edition continues to offer students & readers the best one-volume introduction to the field. The bewildering variety of approaches theorists & technical language is lucidly & expertly unravelled. Unlike many books which assume certain positions about the critics & the theories they represent Peter Barry allows readers to develop their own ideas once first principles & concepts have been grasped. The book has been updated &

Includes:: two new chapters one of which (Literary theory
- a history in ten events) innovatively surveys the course of theory while the other (Theory after ' Theory') maps the arrival of new 'isms' since the second edition appeared in 2002. Liberal humanism
- Structuralism
- Post-structuralism & deconstruction
- Postmodernism
- Psychoanalytic criticism
- Feminist criticism
- Lesbian/gay criticism
- Marxist criticism
- New historicism & cultural materialism
- Postcolonial criticism
- Stylistics
- Narratology
- Ecocriticism
- Presentism/ Transversal poetics/ New aestheticism/ Historical formalism/ Cognitive poetics.















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Learn to use exciting new development tools & create applications for Windows 8 If youre a beginning developer theres no better place to get up to speed on the Windows 8 SDK than this Wrox guide. A team of Microsoft experts provides a complete course in Windows 8 programming helping you take full advantage of the innovative new SDK. Written in an easy-to-read style this book is packed with reusable examples that showcase the endless possibilities of the Windows SDK & also introduces the new Windows 8 app store. It explains how to set up the development environment & covers user interface design using special effects & graphics working with C & C++ & much more. Provides a complete introduction to the Windows SDK & Windows 8 starting with setting up the development environment & building your first application Covers user interface design touch- & event-driven design elements leveraging windows-based services & offline application development with HTML 5 Explores creating C applications for the Windows 8 system XNA 4 & Silverlight 5 considerations & the role of C++ Shows how to debug certify & deploy your applications Introduces the new Windows 8 app store & offers advice on marketing your apps Beginning Windows 8 Application Development is perfect for anyone whos ready to get started developing apps for the exciting new Windows 8 OS. ...

This wide-ranging textbook provides a broad overview of the current state of animal behavior studies. It is an ideal textbook for undergraduate & graduate courses in biology experimental psychology & neuroscience. It comprises a series of contributions from international experts. It represents a diverse set of approaches to animal behavior. It ranges across the subject all levels from molecules & neurons to individuals & populations. It draws on the work of the pioneering Dutch ethologist Niko Tinbergen. It addresses all four of Tinbergens key questions: causation development function & evolution. It deals with contemporary subjects such as animal welfare conservation neurobiology & animal cognition. ...

Discover a structured applied approach to behavioral finance with the first academic text of its kind--Ackert/ Deaves BEHAVIORAL FINANCE: PSYCHOLOGY DECISION MAKING & MARKETS International Edition. This comprehensive text--ideal for todays behavioral finance elective--links finance theory & practice to human behavior. The book begins by building upon the established conventional principles of finance before moving into psychological principles of behavioral finance including heuristics & biases overconfidence emotion & social forces. Readers learn how human behavior influences the decisions of individual investors & professional finance practitioners managers & markets. The book clearly explains what behavioral finance indicates about observed market outcomes as well as how psychological biases potentially impact the behavior of managers. Readers see first-hand the implications of behavioral finance on retirement pensions education debiasing & client management. This book spends a significant amount of time examining how behavioral finance can be used by practitioners today. Readers utilize theory & applications in every chapter with a wide variety of end-of-chapter exercises discussion questions simulations & experiments that reinforce the books applied approach. ...

Behaviour for Learning offers teachers a clear conceptual framework for making sense of the many behaviour management strategies on offer allowing them to make a critical assessment about their appropriateness & effectiveness in the classroom. Teachers need to be asking themselves the question How can I improve a child's learning?" rather than " How can I get them to behave?" The authors present a unique focus on the relationships which underpin learning placing an emphasis on the development of 'learning behaviours' & endorses OFSTED's view that it is essential to evaluate the efficacy of behaviour management against progress in learning. Essentially this book will help teachers: decide what strategy is best for individuals in their classroom be aware of the evidence / theoretical base that underpins that strategy use be able to evaluate the effectiveness of that strategy. Located within emerging agendas for enhanced individual holistic outcomes & increased partnership working this book seeks to synthesise the practical with the theoretical. Authoritative & timely Behaviour for Learning is compelling reading for all trainees & practicing teachers CPD coordinators & other professionals working with challenging pupils." ...

Jenny grew up in a house where no-one was safe. Born one of five children in the East End her childhood was spent in squalor & terror. Her father's violent beatings humiliations & sexual abuse were part of daily life; her mother
- also his sexual victim & savagely beaten
- was no source of help. Deprived of love & all comforts the children would turn to each other for support & to the only adult they could trust Auntie. This is the story of how Jenny her sister Kim & brother Laurence not only survived but ultimately transcended the unimaginable degradations heaped on them. With the power of love cunning the blackest of black humour & an indestructible self-belief Jenny eventually broke free of her past.

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Hugo Vickers has an encyclopaedic knowledge of the Royal Family & has had a fascination with the story of the Duchess of Windsor since he was a young man. There have been a number of books about this doomed couple but this book brings a new perspective on the story by focussing on the later years of exile. While Vickers has his own theories about the Abdication itself & he makes it very clear that Mrs Simpson did not lure the King from the throne the drama of this narrative comes from the criminal exploitation of an old sick woman after the death of her husb&. She was ruthlessly exploited by a French lawyer called Suzanne Blum. Some members of the Royal Family like Mountbatten & the Queen Mother dont emerge with much credit either. Hugo Vickers relates a tragic story which has lost none of its resonance over the years since the Duchess died in 1986. ...

In this brilliant work Amanda Vickery unlocks the homes of Georgian England to examine the lives of the people who dwelt there. Writing with her customary wit & verve she introduces us to men & women from all walks of life: gentlewoman Anne Dormer in her stately Oxfordshire mansion; bachelor clerk & future novelist Anthony Trollope in his dreary London lodgings; genteel spinsters keeping up appearances in two rooms with yellow wallpaper; servants with only a locking box to call their own. Vickery makes ingenious use of upholsterers ledgers burglary trials & other unusual sources to reveal the roles of house & home in economic survival social success & political representation during the long 18th century. Through the spread of formal visiting the proliferation of affordable ornamental furnishings the commercial celebration of feminine artistry at home & the currency of the language of taste even modest homes turned into arenas of social campaign & exhibition. ...

With three Military Crosses three Croix de guerre a Legion d'honneur & a papal knighthood for his heroics during the Second World War Sir Tommy Macpherson is the most decorated living soldier of the British Army. Yet for 65 years the Highlander's story has remained untold. Few know how aged 21 he persuaded 23 000 SS soldiers of the feared Das Reich tank column to surrender or how Tommy almost single-handedly stopped Tito's Yugoslavia annexing the whole of north-east Italy. Twice captured he escaped both times marching through hundreds of miles of German-held territory to get home. Still a schoolboy when war broke out Tommy quickly matured into a legendary commando & his remarkable story features a dizzyingly diverse cast of characters including Winston Churchill Field Marshal Montgomery & Charles de Gaulle. ...

Annawadi is a slum at the edge of Mumbai Airport in the shadow of shining new luxury hotels. Its residents are garbage recyclers ...