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The periodic table
\"The periodic table is the way scientists have organized the 118 known elements. But up-and-coming scientists can learn much from the periodic table as well. In this book, they'll learn how to read the periodic table, including what an element's atomic number means and what the rows and columns signify. They'll gather facts about common and interesting elements and even discover how they can predict how elements might chemically react from their position in the table. Fact boxes and images add additional information to the accessible text.\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Transnational books for children 1750-1900
This is the first study to take a comprehensive look at transnational children's literature in the period before 1900. The chapters examine what we mean by 'children's literature' in this period, as well as what we mean by 'transnational' in the context of children's culture. They investigate who transmitted children's books across borders (authors, illustrators, translators, publishers, teachers, relatives, readers), through what networks the books were spread (commercial, religious, colonial, public, familial), and how the new local identities of imported texts were negotiated. They ask which kinds of books were the most mobile, and they consider what happens to texts when they migrate, as well as what effects transnational dissemination had on individual readers, and on societies and cultures more broadly. Geographically, the case studies gathered here range right across Europe, from Dublin to St Petersburg, then onto North America, India and China. They extend widely across the many genres and formats of children's reading, from cheap print such as almanacs and ABCs to fairy tales and fables, children's novels, textbooks, and beautifully illustrated gift-books.
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Investigating atoms & molecules
This title provides an overview of atoms and molecules. Text includes a simple overview of atoms and molecules and examines nuclei, protons, neutrons, electrons, shells, bonds, isomers, and polymers. Includes the periodic table. Information is explained using real-world examples and supported with graphics and photos. This book concludes with two simple, kid-friendly experiments. Aligned to Common Core standards and correlated to state standards.
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Emotion in Texts for Children and Young Adults
Emotion in Texts for Children and Young Adults: Moving stories takes up key issues in affect studies while putting forward new approaches and ways of thinking about the intricate entanglements of emotion, affect, and story in relation to the functions, processes, and influences of texts designed for youth.
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Consumable Reading and Children's Literature
By examining material and sensory interactions in children's literature in the past, present and theorizing on the future, this monograph studies how multisensory experiences may enhance early childhood literacy practices.
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Poetic metaphors : creativity and interpretation
This book uses interviews, questionnaires and think-aloud protocols to investigate the meanings and functions of metaphors from a poet's perspective and to explore how readers interpret and engage with this poetry.
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Cognitive rhetoric : the cognitive poetics of political discourse
This book sets out a framework for investigating audience responses to political discourse. It starts from the premise that audiences are active participants who bring their own background knowledge and political standpoint to the communicative event. To operationalise this perspective, the volume draws on concepts from classical rhetoric alongside contemporary research in cognitive stylistics and cognitive linguistics (including schema theory, Text World Theory, Cognitive Grammar, and mind-modelling, amongst others). It examines the role played by the speaker's identity, the arguments they make, and the emotions of the audience in the - often critical - reception of political text and talk, using a diversity of examples to illustrate this three-dimensional approach - from political speeches, interviews and newspaper articles, to more creative text-types such as politicised rap music, television satire and filmic drama. The result of this wide-ranging application is a holistic and systematic account of the rhetorical and ideological effects of political discourse in reception.
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Nordic Utopias and Dystopias
Through the varied subjects -- ranging from avant-garde literature and long poems to noir TV-series, young adult fiction, popular historiography, and political discourse in literature outside of Norden -- the volume brings forth a historically rich, multi-layered picture of social, cultural and environmental imagination in the Nordic countries.
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Language in place : stylistic perspectives on landscape, place and environment
The contributions in this collection offer a wide range of stylistic perspectives on landscape, place and environment, by focusing on a variety of text-types ranging from poetry, the Bible, fictional and non-fictional prose, to newspaper articles, condo names, online texts and exhibitions. Employing both established and cutting-edge methodologies from, among others, corpus linguistics, metaphor studies, Text World Theory and ecostylistics, the eleven chapters in the volume provide an overview of how landscape, place and environment are encoded and can be investigated in literary and non-literary discourse. The studies collected here stand as evidence of the possibility of, and the need for, a \"stylistics of landscape\", which emphasises how represented spaces are made manifest linguistically; a \"stylistics of place\", which focuses on the discursive and affective qualities of those represented spaces; and a \"stylistics of environment\", which reiterates the urgency for environmentally-responsible humanities, able to support a change in the anthropocentric narrative which poses humans as the most important variable in the human-animal and human-environment relationships.
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