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AQA A level English Literature A (PDF)
by Nicola Onyett Luke Mcbratney Andrew WardThis book prepares students and teachers for the requirements of the 2015 AQA A Level English Literature A specification. Structured and written to develop the skills on which students will be assessed in the exams and coursework, students of all abilities, through the source texts, book features and approach, will be able to make clear progress. The book offers students the opportunity to build on skills acquired at GCSE, extending them into their A Level course,ensuring that they are fully prepared for the assessment requirements of the qualifications and that students become successful, independent all-round learners. Building on years of development work on earlier editions, this brand new book includes the latest thinking and research, thus maintainingrelevance and instilling confidence. Whether students are taking AS or A Level AQA English Literature specification A, this resource offers guidance and activities to help all students achieve their potential.
Aqa A Level English Literature B
by Adrian Beard Pete Bunten Graham Elsdon Alan KentThis book prepares students and teachers for the requirements of the 2015 AQA A Level English Literature B specification. Structured and written to develop the skills on which students will be assessed in the exams and coursework, students of all abilities, through the source texts, book features and approach, will be able to make clear progress. The book offers students the opportunity to build on skills acquired at GCSE, extending them into their A Level course, ensuring that they are fully prepared for the assessment requirements of the qualifications and that students become successful, independent all-round learners. Building on years of development work on earlier editions, this brand new book includes the latest thinking and research, thus maintaining relevance and instilling confidence. Whether students are taking AS or A Level AQA English Literature B specification, this resource offers guidance and activities to help all students achieve their potential.
AQA GCSE 9-1 English: Love and Relationships - Poetry Anthology (PDF) (Collins Gcse 9-1 Revision Guide Series)
by CollinsExam Board: AQA Level: GCSE Grade 9-1 Subject: English First Teaching: September 2015, First Exams: June 2017 Revision that Sticks! Collins WJEC Eduqas GCSE Grade 9-1 Love and Relationships Poetry Anthology Complete All-in-One Revision and Practice, uses a revision method that really works: repeated practice throughout. A revision guide, workbook and practice paper in one book! With clear and concise revision for every topic, plus seven practice opportunities, Collins offers the best revision at the best price. Includes: • quick tests as you go • end-of-topic practice questions • topic review questions later in the book • mixed practice questions at the end of the book • audio download to practice listening • more topic-by-topic practice in the workbook • a complete exam-style paper • free Q&A flashcards to download online • an ebook version of the revision guide.
AQA GCSE 9-1 Poetry Anthology: Power and Conflict Revision Guide (PDF) (Collins Gcse Revision And Practice Ser.)
by Collins UK Publishing Staff Collins Gcse StaffExam Board: AQA Level: GCSE Grade 9-1 Subject: English First Teaching: September 2015, First Exams: June 2017 Revision that Sticks! Collins AQA GCSE Grade 9-1 Power and Conflict Poetry Anthology Complete All-in-One Revision and Practice, uses a revision method that really works: repeated practice throughout. A revision guide, workbook and practice paper in one book! With clear and concise revision for every topic, plus seven practice opportunities, Collins offers the best revision at the best price. Includes: • quick tests as you go • end-of-topic practice questions • topic review questions later in the book • mixed practice questions at the end of the book • audio download to practice listening • more topic-by-topic practice in the workbook • a complete exam-style paper • free Q&A flashcards to download online • an ebook version of the revision guide
AQA GCSE English Literature: Student Book (PDF)
by Ken Haworth Julia WainesThis Literature Student Book develops the key skills that students will be assessed on in Paper 1 and Paper 2 of the AQA GCSE English Literature qualification. Structured around the exam papers, the book offers comprehensive support for the poetry anthology and unseen poetry requirements with additional sections showing how those skills apply to the other areas of the specification. Through the focus on the Assessment Objectives and skills, students will be able toapply the skills they are developing to their specific set texts. Through a range of example texts, activities, stretch and support features as well as tips and key terms, this book helps students ofall abilities develop their literature response skills. With marked sample student responses, at different levels, students can improve their own responses and gain an enhanced understanding of the skills required to succeed in the exams. In addition to the regular peer and self-assessment activities, teachers can monitor progress through the sample exam paper questions.
AQA GCSE English Literature, Set Text Teacher Guide: Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (PDF)
by Sue Bennett Dave StockwinConfidently teach Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde using classroom-ready, manageable schemes of work that ensure you cover the full text in 10-12 weeks. This Set Text Teacher Guide: - Enables you to navigate efficiently through Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, improving your students' textual understanding and analytical skills week by week - Reduces your planning time by providing explanatory teaching notes and photocopiable student worksheets that are closely aligned to the Assessment Objectives - Caters for students of varying abilities with extra support for the less able and suitably challenging activities to stretch high achievers - Helps you map student progress across the course through a mix of short activities and more formal assessments - Includes a dedicated section on exam preparation with practice questions, student-friendly mark schemes and advice on writing high-level answers in timed conditions
AQA GCSE English Literature Set Text Teacher Guide: Animal Farm (PDF)
by Kevin RadfordConfidently teach Animal Farm using classroom-ready, manageable schemes of work that ensure you cover the full text in 10-12 weeks. This Set Text Teacher Guide: - Enables you to navigate efficiently through Animal Farm, improving your students' textual understanding and analytical skills week by week - Reduces your planning time by providing explanatory teaching notes and photocopiable student worksheets that are closely aligned to the Assessment Objectives - Caters for students of varying abilities with extra support for the less able and suitably challenging activities to stretch high achievers - Helps you map student progress across the course through a mix of short activities and more formal assessments - Includes a dedicated section on exam preparation with practice questions, student-friendly mark schemes and advice on writing high-level answers in timed conditions
AQA GCSE English Literature Set Text Teacher Guide: A Christmas Carol (PDF)
by Dave StockwinConfidently teach A Christmas Carol using classroom-ready, manageable schemes of work that ensure you cover the full text in 10-12 weeks. This Set Text Teacher Guide: - Enables you to navigate efficiently through A Christmas Carol, improving your students' textual understanding and analytical skills week by week - Reduces your planning time by providing explanatory teaching notes and photocopiable student worksheets that are closely aligned to the Assessment Objectives - Caters for students of varying abilities with extra support for the less able and suitably challenging activities to stretch high achievers - Helps you map student progress across the course through a mix of short activities and more formal assessments - Includes a dedicated section on exam preparation with practice questions, student-friendly mark schemes and advice on writing high-level answers in timed conditions
AQA GCSE English Literature Set Text Teacher Guide: The Sign of Four (PDF)
by Sue Bennett Dave StockwinConfidently teach The Sign of Four using classroom-ready, manageable schemes of work that ensure you cover the full text in 10-12 weeks. This Set Text Teacher Guide: - Enables you to navigate efficiently through The Sign of Four, improving your students' textual understanding and analytical skills week by week - Reduces your planning time by providing explanatory teaching notes and photocopiable student worksheets that are closely aligned to the Assessment Objectives - Caters for students of varying abilities with extra support for the less able and suitably challenging activities to stretch high achievers - Helps you map student progress across the course through a mix of short activities and more formal assessments - Includes a dedicated section on exam preparation with practice questions, student-friendly mark schemes and advice on writing high-level answers in timed conditions
Araminta Spook: Skeleton Island
by Angie Sage John KellyWhen Araminta and her best friend Wanda go on a school trip to Skeleton Island, they don't expect to get stranded there overnight. And they certainly don't expect the island to be haunted by ghostly skeletons of pirates! It certainly makes for a spooky sleepover. Luckily these ghoulish pirates just want someone to help them find their lost treasure, then they'll happily set sail on their ghost ship once more. But someone else wants the treasure for themselves – can Araminta find what is lurking in the depths before it's too late?
Arax the Soul Stealer: Early Reader Arax The Soul Stealer (ebook) Beast Quest: Early Reader Arax The (Beast Quest Early Reader #3)
by Adam BladeArax the Soul Stealer has snatched away good Wizard Aduro's spirit, leaving the kingdom exposed to the evil of Wizard Malvel. To save Aduro, Tom tracks Arax to his cave - but the terrible Beast wants Tom's soul, too...Beast Quest Early Readers are perfect for children learning to read and for families to enjoy together, with text vetted by a literacy expert and bright new colour illustrations.Look out for Beast Quest Early Reader 4: Creta the Winged Terror in November!
Arbitrary Power: Romanticism, Language, Politics
by William KeachThis book explores previously unexamined links between the arbitrary as articulated in linguistic theories on the one hand, and in political discourse about power on the other. In particular, Willam Keach shows how Enlightenment conceptions of the arbitrary were contested and extended in British Romantic writing. In doing so, he offers a new paradigm for understanding the recurrent problem of verbal representation in Romantic writing and the disputes over stylistic performance during this period. With clarity and force, Keach reads these phenomena in relation to a rapidly shifting literary marketplace and to the social pressures in Britain generated by the French Revolution, the Napoleonic Wars, and the class antagonisms that culminated in the Peterloo Massacre. The question of what it means to think of language or politics as arbitrary persists through postmodern thinking, and this book advances an unfinished dialogue between Romantic culture and the critical techniques we currently use to analyze it. Keach's intertwined linguistic and political account of arbitrary power culminates in a detailed textual analysis of the language of revolutionary violence. Including substantial sections on Blake, Wollstonecraft, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, P. B. Shelley, Keats, and Anna Jameson, Arbitrary Power will engage not only students and scholars of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century literature but also those interested in critical and linguistic theory and in social and political history.
Arbitrary Power: Romanticism, Language, Politics (PDF)
by William KeachThis book explores previously unexamined links between the arbitrary as articulated in linguistic theories on the one hand, and in political discourse about power on the other. In particular, Willam Keach shows how Enlightenment conceptions of the arbitrary were contested and extended in British Romantic writing. In doing so, he offers a new paradigm for understanding the recurrent problem of verbal representation in Romantic writing and the disputes over stylistic performance during this period. With clarity and force, Keach reads these phenomena in relation to a rapidly shifting literary marketplace and to the social pressures in Britain generated by the French Revolution, the Napoleonic Wars, and the class antagonisms that culminated in the Peterloo Massacre. The question of what it means to think of language or politics as arbitrary persists through postmodern thinking, and this book advances an unfinished dialogue between Romantic culture and the critical techniques we currently use to analyze it. Keach's intertwined linguistic and political account of arbitrary power culminates in a detailed textual analysis of the language of revolutionary violence. Including substantial sections on Blake, Wollstonecraft, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, P. B. Shelley, Keats, and Anna Jameson, Arbitrary Power will engage not only students and scholars of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century literature but also those interested in critical and linguistic theory and in social and political history.
Arcadia: Advent Trilogy 3 (The\advent Trilogy #Bk. 3)
by James TreadwellAll the men are dead - now it's the boys' turn. On a tiny archipelago, cut off from the rest of the world by a cursed sea, a handful of survivors live a precarious existence, clinging to their memories of the time before magic and their hope that those times will return.As far as he knows, Rory is the only boy left.Then the man comes, weaving his tales of a quest to find a powerful ring, and Rory finds himself embarking on a journey through terrors and marvels, once more in the world of men.And the moment of reckoning, when it comes, will bring an end to stories unimaginably older than his own.
Archaeology and State Theory: Subjects and Objects of Power (Debates in Archaeology)
by Bruce RoutledgeAfter neo-evolutionism, how does one talk about the pre-modern state? Over the past two decades archaeological research has shifted decisively from check-list identifications of the state as an evolutionary type to studies of how power and authority were constituted in specific polities. Developing Gramsci's concept of hegemony, this book provides an accessible discussion of general principles that serve to help us understand and organise these new directions in archaeological research. Throughout this book, conceptual issues are illustrated by means of case studies drawn from Madagascar, Mesopotamia, the Inca, the Maya and Greece.
Archangel's Enigma: Book 8 (The Guild Hunter Series #8)
by Nalini SinghNaasir is the most feral of the powerful group of vampires and angels known as the Seven, his loyalty pledged to the Archangel Raphael. When rumors surface of a plot to murder the former Archangel of Persia, now lost in the Sleep of the Ancients, Naasir is dispatched to find him. For only he possesses the tracking skills required-those more common to predatory animals than to man.Enlisted to accompany Naasir, Andromeda, a young angelic scholar with dangerous secrets, is fascinated by his nature-at once playful and brilliant, sensual and brutal. As they race to find the Sleeping archangel before it's too late, Naasir will force her to question all she knows . . . and tempt her to walk into the magnificent, feral darkness of his world. But first they must survive an enemy vicious enough to shatter the greatest taboo of the angelic race and plunge the world into a screaming nightmare . . .
Archetype and Allegory in the "Dream of the Red Chamber" (PDF)
by Andrew H. PlaksSurprisingly little has been written in Western languages about the eighteenth- century Chinese novel Dream of the Red Chamber, perhaps the supreme masterpiece of its entire tradition. In this study, Andrew H. Plaks has used the conceptual tools of comparative literature to focus on the novel's allegorical elements and narrative structure. He thereby succeeds in accounting for the work's greatness in terms that do justice to its own narrative tradition and as well to recent advances in general literary theory.A close textual reading of the novel leads to discussion of a wide range of topics: ancient Chinese mythology, Chinese garden aesthetics, and the logic of alternation and recurrence. The detailed study of European allegorical texts clarifies the directions taken by comparable works of Chinese literature, and the critical tool of the literary archetype helps to locate the novel within the Chinese narrative tradition from ancient mythology to the more recent "novel" form. Professor Plaks' innovative use of traditional criticism suggests the levels of meaning the eighteenth-century author might have expected to convey to his immediate audience.This book provides not only an illuminating analysis of this important novel, but also a significant demonstration that critical concepts derived primarily from Western literary models may be fruitfully applied to Chinese narrative works.Originally published in 1976.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Archie Greene and the Magician's Secret (Archie Greene #1)
by D. D. EverestArchie Green receives a mysterious present on his birthday. Deep within an ancient wooden box he finds an old book, written in a language he doesn't recognise. With the book comes a Special Instruction - Archie must travel to Oxford to return the book to the Museum of Magical Miscellany.Soon Archie will meet family that he never knew he had, and discover the world of the Flame Keepers - a community devoted to finding and preserving magical books. But the magical book under Archie's protection is dangerous, and dark spirits hunt it out. With the help of his cousins, Archie must do everything he can to uncover the book's hidden powers and save the Flame Keepers from evil.Welcome to a wonderful, magical world where bookshelves are enchanted, librarians are sorcerers and spells come to life.
The Architect's Apprentice: A Novel
by Elif ShafakThe Architect's Apprentice is a dazzling and intricate tale from Elif Shafak, bestselling author of The Bastard of Istanbul.'There were six of us: the master, the apprentices and the white elephant. We built everything together...'Sixteenth century Istanbul: a stowaway arrives in the city bearing an extraordinary gift for the Sultan. The boy is utterly alone in a foreign land, with no worldly possessions to his name except Chota, a rare white elephant destined for the palace menagerie.So begins an epic adventure that will see young Jahan rise from lowly origins to the highest ranks of the Sultan's court. Along the way he will meet deceitful courtiers and false friends, gypsies, animal tamers, and the beautiful, mischievous Princess Mihrimah. He will journey on Chota's back to the furthest corners of the Sultan's kingdom and back again. And one day he will catch the eye of the royal architect, Sinan, a chance encounter destined to change Jahan's fortunes forever.Filled with all the colour of the Ottoman Empire, when Istanbul was the teeming centre of civilisation, The Architect's Apprentice is a magical, sweeping tale of one boy and his elephant caught up in a world of wonder and danger.'Fascinating and gripping' Rosamund Lupton on HonourElif Shafak is the acclaimed author of nine novels including The Bastard of Istanbul, The Forty Rules of Love and Honour, and is the most widely read female writer in Turkey. Her work has been translated into more than forty languages and she contributes to numerous international publications, including the New York Times, Financial Times, Guardian, Independent, Newsweek and Time magazine. She is also a public speaker working with The London Speaker Bureau and is a TED Global speaker. Elif Shafak has previously been longlisted for the Orange Prize, the Baileys Prize and the IMPAC Dublin Award, and shortlisted for the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize. She is based in London with her two children. www.elifshafak.com
Architecture, Materiality and Society: Connecting Sociology of Architecture with Science and Technology Studies
by Anna-Lisa Müller Werner ReichmannThis book examines the extent to which the insights of STS can be used to analyse the role of architecture in and for social life. The contributions examine the question of whether architecture and thus materiality as a whole has agency. The book also proposes a theoretical and methodological approach on how to research architecture's agency.
Arctic Summer: Shortlisted for the 2015 Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction
by Damon GalgutShortlisted for the 2015 Walter Scott Prize for Historical FictionShortlisted for the 2015 Sunday Times Barry Ronge Fiction Prize Shortlisted for the 2015 University of Johannesburg English Literary Award Nominated for the 2014 Folio PrizeIn 1912, the SS Birmingham approaches India. On board is Morgan Forster, novelist and man of letters, who is embarking on a journey of discovery. As Morgan stands on deck, the promise of a strange new future begins to take shape before his eyes. The seeds of a story start to gather at the corner of his mind: a sense of impending menace, lust in close confines, under a hot, empty sky. It will be another twelve years, and a second time spent in India, before A Passage to India, E. M. Forster's great work of literature, is published. During these years, Morgan will come to a profound understanding of himself as a man, and of the infinite subtleties and complexity of human nature, bringing these great insights to bear in his remarkable novel.At once a fictional exploration of the life and times of one of Britain's finest novelists, his struggle to find a way of living and being, and a stunningly vivid evocation of the mysterious alchemy of the creative process, Arctic Summer is a literary masterpiece, by one of the finest writers of his generation.
Are You There, God? It's Me, Margaret (Lrs Large Print Cornerstone Ser.)
by Judy BlumeLife isn't easy for Margaret. She's moved away from her childhood home, she's starting a new school, finding new friends - and she's convinced she's not normal. For a start she hasn't got a clue whether she wants to be Jewish like her father or Christian like her mother. Everyone else seems really sure of who they are. And, worst of all, she's a 'late developer'. She just knows that all her friends are going to need a bra before she does. It's too embarrassing to talk to her parents about these things. So she talks to God instead - and waits for an answer . . .Are You There, God? It's Me, Margaret? is a teen classic and loved around the world. Judy Blume has written some of the best books of our time about real-life issues - family stress and pressures, what happens when your parents divorce, the problems of growing up and sexual awakening, bereavement - with insight, sensitivity and honesty. The response of readers all around the world continues to make her one of the best-loved writers ever published.
Are You Watching Me?: DS Claire Boyle 2: a totally gripping story of obsession with a chilling twist
by Sinéad CrowleyStalking, addiction and obsession - Detective Claire Boyle returns in this gripping new psychological thriller from Sinead Crowley, for fans of Patricia Gibney and Angela Marsons.Dear Elizabeth, I've been watching you. I hope to see you . . . Soon. Liz Cafferky is on the up. Rescued from her dark past by the owner of a drop-in centre for older men, Liz soon finds herself as the charity's face - and the unwilling darling of the Dublin media.Amidst her claustrophobic fame, Liz barely notices a letter from a new fan. But then one of the centre's clients is brutally murdered, and Elizabeth receives another, more sinister note.Running from her own ghosts, Liz is too scared to go to the police. And with no leads, there is little Sergeant Claire Boyle can do to protect her.'Compulsively readable . . . an absorbing variation on the "domestic noir" genre' Irish Times'A crackingly paced thriller, featuring a totally believable female detective' Sunday Mirror
Arena 13: The Prey (Arena 13 #1)
by Joseph DelaneyThe first book in the exhilarating new fantasy sequence from Joseph Delaney, the multi-million-selling author of The Spook's Apprentice.Welcome to Arena 13. Here warriors fight. Death is never far away . . .Leif has one ambition: to become the best fighter in the notorious Arena 13. Here, punters place wagers on which fighter will draw first blood. And in grudge matches, they bet on which fighter will die.But the country is terrorized by the creature Hob, an evil being who delights in torturing its people, displaying his devasting power by challenging an Arena 13 combatant in a fight to the death whenever he chooses. And this is exactly what Leif wants . . .For he knows Hob's crimes well. and at the heart of his ambition burns the desire for vengeance. Leif is going to take on the monster who destroyed his family. Even if it kills him.
Ariana the Firefighter Fairy: The Helping Fairies Book 2 (Rainbow Magic)
by Daisy MeadowsGet ready for an exciting fairy adventure with the no. 1 bestselling series for girls aged 5 and up. It's time for the Tippington Helper Award to be given and Rachel and Kirsty are excited to meet the nominees. Jack Frost has decided the winner, though, will be him! He's stolen all of the Helping Fairies' magical items - can Rachel and Kirsty get them back before the Tippington Helper Award is given to least helpful Ice Lord there ever was? 'These stories are magic; they turn children into readers!' ReadingZone.com Read all four fairy adventures in the Helping Fairies set! Martha the Doctor Fairy; Ariana the Firefighter Fairy; Perrie the Paramedic Fairy; Lulu the Lifeguard Fairy. If you like Rainbow Magic, check out Daisy Meadows' other series: Magic Animal Friends and Unicorn Magic!