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  • EMERGING LITERACY: UNLOCKING INSTRUCTION FOR EVERY CHILD
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    EMERGING LITERACY: UNLOCKING INSTRUCTION FOR EVERY CHILD
    JAMES MCTAGGART / JAMES COOK / REBECCA CASTELO / JENNIFER PICKERING
    Being able to read and write with ease does not just open up imagination and learning, it also helps us to thrive and cope in a world increasingly based on complex information from coding to utility bills. Everyone wants children to make the best start with literacy, but despite the existence of evidence-based programmes of instruction, some do not respond as hoped at first, or...

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  • HISTORY AS FANTASY IN MUSIC, SOUND, IMAGE, AND MEDIA
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    HISTORY AS FANTASY IN MUSIC, SOUND, IMAGE, AND MEDIA
    JAMES COOK, ALEXANDER KOLASSA, ALEXANDER ROBINSON, AND ADAM WHITTAKER
    Exploring how music is used to portray the past in a variety of media, this book probes the relationship between history and fantasy in the imagination of the musical past. The volume brings together essays from multidisciplinary perspectives, addressing the use of music to convey a sense of the past in a wide range of multimedia contexts, including television, documentaries, o...

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  • THE THREE VOYAGES OF CAPTAIN COOK ROUND THE WORLD, VOL. I (OF VII)
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    THE THREE VOYAGES OF CAPTAIN COOK ROUND THE WORLD, VOL. I (OF VII)
    JAMES COOK
    Excerpt: "With Lieutenant Cook, in this voyage, embarked Joseph Banks, Esquire, a gentleman possessed of considerable landed property in Lincolnshire. He received the education of a scholar rather to qualify him for the enjoyments than the labours of life; yet an ardent desire to know more of Nature than could be learnt from books determined him, at a very early age, to forego ...

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  • A VOYAGE TOWARDS THE SOUTH POLE AND ROUND THE WORLD VOLUME 2
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    A VOYAGE TOWARDS THE SOUTH POLE AND ROUND THE WORLD VOLUME 2
    JAMES COOK
    Excerpt: "FROM ULIETEA TO NEW ZEALAND. CHAPTER I. Passage from Ulietea to the Friendly Isles, with a Description of several Islands that were discovered, and the Incidents which happened in that Track. 1774 June. On the 6th, being the day after leaving Ulietea, at eleven o'clock a.m., we saw land bearing N.W., which, upon a nearer approach, we found to be a low reef island abou...

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  • THE THREE VOYAGES OF CAPTAIN COOK ROUND THE WORLD, VOL. II (OF VII)
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    THE THREE VOYAGES OF CAPTAIN COOK ROUND THE WORLD, VOL. II (OF VII)
    JAMES COOK
    Excerpt: "At four o’clock in the afternoon of Friday the 9th of February, we tacked, and stood S. W. till eight o’clock the next morning; when, being not above three or four miles from the shore, we stood off two hours, and then again S. W. till noon, when, at the distance of about two miles from the shore, we had twenty-six fathom water. We continued to make sail to the southw...

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  • CAPTAIN COOK'S JOURNAL DURING HIS FIRST VOYAGE ROUND THE WORLD
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    CAPTAIN COOK'S JOURNAL DURING HIS FIRST VOYAGE ROUND THE WORLD
    JAMES COOK
    Excerpt: "Strange it must appear that the account of perhaps the most celebrated and, certainly to the English nation, the most momentous voyage of discovery that has ever taken place--for it practically gave birth to the great Australasian Colonies--has never before been given to the world in the very words of its great leader. It has fallen out in this wise.vAfter the return ...

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  • THE THREE VOYAGES OF CAPTAIN COOK ROUND THE WORLD, VOL. IV (OF VII)
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    THE THREE VOYAGES OF CAPTAIN COOK ROUND THE WORLD, VOL. IV (OF VII)
    JAMES COOK
    Excerpt: "On the 6th, being the day after leaving Ulietea, at eleven o’clock A. M. we saw land bearing N. W., which, upon a nearer approach, we found to be a low reef island about four leagues in compass, and of a circular form. It is composed of several small patches connected together by breakers, the largest lying on the N. E. part. This is Howe island, discovered by Captain...

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  • A VOYAGE TOWARDS THE SOUTH POLE AND ROUND THE WORLD VOLUME 1
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    A VOYAGE TOWARDS THE SOUTH POLE AND ROUND THE WORLD VOLUME 1
    JAMES COOK
    Excerpt: "GENERAL INTRODUCTION. Whether the unexplored part of the Southern Hemisphere be only an immense mass of water, or contain another continent, as speculative geography seemed to suggest, was a question which had long engaged the attention, not only of learned men, but of most of the maritime powers of Europe. To put an end to all diversity of opinion about a matter so c...

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  • THE CYCLIC MASS
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    THE CYCLIC MASS
    JAMES COOK
    England in the fifteenth century was the cradle of much that would have a profound impact on European music for the next several hundred years. Perhaps the greatest such development was the cyclic cantus firmus Mass, and scholarly attention has therefore often been drawn to identifying potentially English examples within the many anonymous Mass cycles that survive in continenta...

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  • CULTURAL TURNS/GEOGRAPHICAL TURNS
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    CULTURAL TURNS/GEOGRAPHICAL TURNS
    SIMON NAYLOR / JAMES RYAN / IAN COOK / DAVID CROUCH
    Introduces undergraduates to the key debates regarding space and culture and the key theoretical arguments which guide cultural geographical work. This book addresses the impact, significance, and characteristics of the 'cultural turn' in contemporary geography. It focuses on the development of the cultural geography subdiscipline and on what has made it a peculiar and unique r...

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  • RECOMPOSING THE PAST: REPRESENTATIONS OF EARLY MUSIC ON STAGE AND SCREEN
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    RECOMPOSING THE PAST: REPRESENTATIONS OF EARLY MUSIC ON STAGE AND SCREEN
    JAMES COOK
    Recomposing the Past is a book concerned with the complex but important ways in which we engage with the past in modern times. Contributors examine how media on stage and screen uses music, and in particular early music, to evoke and recompose a distant past. Culture, popular and otherwise, is awash with a stylise - sometimes contradictory - musical history. And yet for all its...

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  • THE VOYAGES OF CAPTAIN JAMES COOK
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    THE VOYAGES OF CAPTAIN JAMES COOK
    JAMES COOK / JOHN HAWKESWORTH / GEORG FORSTER / JAMES KING
    The first-ever illustrated account of the explorer and cartographer's epic eighteenth-century Pacific voyages, complete with excerpts from his journals. This is history's greatest adventure story. In 1766, the Royal Society chose prodigal mapmaker and navigator James Cook to lead a South Pacific voyage. His orders were to chart the path of Venus across the sun. That task comple...

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  • THE CULTURAL TURN IN U. S. HISTORY
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    THE CULTURAL TURN IN U. S. HISTORY
    JAMES W. COOK, LAWRENCE B. GLICKMAN AND MICHAEL O’MALLEY
    A definitive account of one of the most dominant trends in recent historical writing, The Cultural Turn in U.S. History takes stock of the field at the same time as it showcases exemplars of its practice.   The first of this volume’s three distinct sections offers a comprehensive genealogy of American cultural history, tracing its multifaceted origins, defining debates, and int...

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  • AFRICAN AMERICAN WRITERS AND CLASSICAL TRADITION
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    AFRICAN AMERICAN WRITERS AND CLASSICAL TRADITION
    WILLIAM W. COOK / JAMES TATUM
    Constraints on freedom, education, and individual dignity have always been fundamental in determining who is able to write, when, and where. Considering the singular experience of the African American writer, William W. Cook and James Tatum here argue that African American literature did not develop apart from canonical Western literary traditions but instead grew out of those ...

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