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  • FIRST READERS OF SHAKESPEARE’S SONNETS, 1590-1790
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    FIRST READERS OF SHAKESPEARE’S SONNETS, 1590-1790
    FAITH D. ACKER
    For more than four centuries, cultural preferences, literary values, critical contexts, and personal tastes have governed readers’ responses to Shakespeare’s sonnets. Early private readers often considered these poems in light of the religious, political, and humanist values by which they lived. Other seventeenth- and eighteenth- century readers, such as stationers and editors,...

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  • OPERATIVE CARDIAC SURGERY
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    OPERATIVE CARDIAC SURGERY
    THOMAS L. SPRAY AND MICHAEL A. ACKER
    The sixth edition of this acclaimed and established operative atlas continues to provide a unique level of comprehensive detail on operative surgery of the heart and great vessels. With an international list of authors, the chapters have been updated and complemented by the same high quality artwork that has established this operative guide as the gold standard reference for th...

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  • LITERAL MADNESS
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    LITERAL MADNESS
    KATHY ACKER
    A collection of three novels from the experimental feminist writer: “Literal Madness is Acker at her most powerful, disturbing, and provocative.” —Catherine Texier, author of Victorine Kathy Goes to Haiti, the first of three novels in Literal Madness, “speaks to us out of a delightful mock-naivete that reminds one at times of the Dick and Jane readers rewritten as manuals for p...

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  • BLOOD AND GUTS IN HIGH SCHOOL
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    BLOOD AND GUTS IN HIGH SCHOOL
    KATHY ACKER
    “Kathy Acker’s writing is virtuoso, maddening, crazy, so sexy, so painful, and beaten out of a wild heart that nothing can tame. Acker is a landmark writer.” —Jeanette Winterson, New York Times–bestselling author A masterpiece of surrealist fiction, steeped in controversy upon its first publication in 1984, Blood and Guts in High School is the book that established Kathy Acker ...

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  • EDUCATION IN THE NEW CHINA
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    EDUCATION IN THE NEW CHINA
    YVONNE TURNER / AMY ACKER
    The effects of the de-regulation of the Chinese university system have been nothing short of spectacular. For the first time since 1949, students possessing neither gifted intellect nor political connections have been able to share in the benefits of higher education, while a flood of international educators have opened up a previously cloistered and politically sensitized acad...

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  • MARRIAGE AND VALUES IN PUBLIC POLICY
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    MARRIAGE AND VALUES IN PUBLIC POLICY
    ELIZABETH VAN ACKER
    Marriage is a site of political conflict. It is a controversial issue in the UK, Australia and the US where there is a clash of values between neoliberal governments and diverse groups either strongly opposing or supporting marriage. In the meantime, fewer couples are marrying, while other family forms are more widely accepted. This book explores this disconnect by examining po...

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  • QUESTIONING CAPITAL PUNISHMENT
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    QUESTIONING CAPITAL PUNISHMENT
    JAMES R. ACKER
    The death penalty has inspired controversy for centuries. Raising questions regarding capital punishment rather than answering them, Questioning Capital Punishment offers the footing needed to allow for more informed consideration and analysis of these controversies. Acker edits judicial decisions that have addressed constitutional challenges to capital punishment and its admin...

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  • REVISITING THE POETIC EDDA
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    REVISITING THE POETIC EDDA
    PAUL ACKER
    Bringing alive the dramatic poems of Old Norse heroic legend, this new collection offers accessible, ground-breaking and inspiring essays which introduce and analyse the exciting legends of the two doomed Helgis and their valkyrie lovers; the dragon-slayer Sigurðr; Brynhildr the implacable shield-maiden; tragic Guðrún and her children; Attila the Hun (from a Norse perspective!)...

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  • REVISING ORAL THEORY
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    REVISING ORAL THEORY
    PAUL ACKER
    First published in 1998. The following monograph is a revised and updated study which developed as a result of three experiences of the author: an advanced tutorial in Old English, a Fulbright year in Iceland, and a year teaching Old Icelandic. It is intended as a contribution to the ongoing revision of oral theory. ...

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  • MUSICAL CHILDHOODS
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    MUSICAL CHILDHOODS
    BERENICE NYLAND / ALEKSANDRA ACKER / JILL FERRIS / JAN DEANS
     Musical Childhoods is a culmination of more than a decade of research driven by the fact that music has been neglected in early childhood programs in favour of literacy and numeracy.　　 Recent research has identified a connection between academic performance and musical programs and this has given music a renewed status in many schools. This book promotes the idea of children’s...

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  • TRAINING SCHOOL FOR NEGRO GIRLS
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    TRAINING SCHOOL FOR NEGRO GIRLS
    CAMILLE ACKER
    “The lives of the girls and women featured in these stories are rendered with tremendous warmth, humor, and care . . . a wonderful debut.” —Jamel Brinkley, author of A Lucky Man In her debut short story collection, Camille Acker unleashes the irony and tragic comedy of respectability onto a wide-ranging cast of characters, all of whom call Washington, DC, home. A “woke” millenn...

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  • THE LIMITS OF THE WORLD
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    THE LIMITS OF THE WORLD
    JENNIFER ACKER
    A “smart, compassionate and elegant” debut novel about an Asian-Indian immigrant family from Nairobi and the secrets they keep from each other (Lauren Groff, author of Florida).   The Chandaria family—emigrants from the Asian-Indian enclave of Nairobi—has managed to flourish in America. Premchand, the father, is a doctor who has worked doggedly to grow his practice and give his...

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  • WORLD YEARBOOK OF EDUCATION 1984
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    WORLD YEARBOOK OF EDUCATION 1984
    SANDRA ACKER
    Published in the year 2005, World Yearboook of Education 1984 is a valuable contribution to the field of Major Works. ...

    $1,299.00

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  • ABORTO EN LA ESCUELA
    ABORTO EN LA ESCUELA
    ACKER KATHY
    Cuando apareció en los setenta, se dijo de Kathy Acker que era la sucesora de Henry Miller, la primera pornógrafa feminista y la Patti Smith de la literatura pospunk. Sus libros fueron considerados "obscenos", "perturbadores" e "iconoclastas". Robert Mapplethorpe la fotografiaba; en Nueva York se movía en el área de Andy Warhol, Laurie Anderson y los Talking Heads; realizaba pe...
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    $450.00

  • CRIMINAL PROCEDURE: A CONTEMPORARY PERSPECTIVE 3ª EDITION
    CRIMINAL PROCEDURE: A CONTEMPORARY PERSPECTIVE 3ª EDITION
    ACKER / BRODY
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    $2,821.00