Author: Marilyn Dover Newman
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
This book is a compilation of outstanding children's authors' websites, children's literature websites, and notable storybook character websites that go beyond the ordinary content. Provided at your fingertips, this directory helps teachers to obtain biographic information about authors and illustrators, to learn how authors get their ideas for stories, to learn how books are made and illustrations created, to learn how to extend the books within the framework of the curriculum, and to know which websites to go to for recommended lesson plans and book-related activities for classroom projects and units.
CyberLit
Author: Marilyn Dover Newman
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
This book is a compilation of outstanding children's authors' websites, children's literature websites, and notable storybook character websites that go beyond the ordinary content. Provided at your fingertips, this directory helps teachers to obtain biographic information about authors and illustrators, to learn how authors get their ideas for stories, to learn how books are made and illustrations created, to learn how to extend the books within the framework of the curriculum, and to know which websites to go to for recommended lesson plans and book-related activities for classroom projects and units.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
This book is a compilation of outstanding children's authors' websites, children's literature websites, and notable storybook character websites that go beyond the ordinary content. Provided at your fingertips, this directory helps teachers to obtain biographic information about authors and illustrators, to learn how authors get their ideas for stories, to learn how books are made and illustrations created, to learn how to extend the books within the framework of the curriculum, and to know which websites to go to for recommended lesson plans and book-related activities for classroom projects and units.
Latin American Cyberculture and Cyberliterature
Author: Claire Taylor
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
ISBN: 184631061X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
This highly-innovative volume provides the first sustained academic focus on cyberliterature and cyberculture in Latin America, investigating the ways in which this form of cultural production is providing new configurations of subjects, narrative voices, and even political agency. Despite cyberculture’s spread throughout the Hispanic diaspora, much of the influence of this new discipline on Latin American culture remains undocumented. This timely volume focuses on the inclusivity of this new scholarship and provides extensive geographical coverage of topics as diverse as Chicano border writing and Brazilian and Argentine cybercultural phenomena.
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
ISBN: 184631061X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
This highly-innovative volume provides the first sustained academic focus on cyberliterature and cyberculture in Latin America, investigating the ways in which this form of cultural production is providing new configurations of subjects, narrative voices, and even political agency. Despite cyberculture’s spread throughout the Hispanic diaspora, much of the influence of this new discipline on Latin American culture remains undocumented. This timely volume focuses on the inclusivity of this new scholarship and provides extensive geographical coverage of topics as diverse as Chicano border writing and Brazilian and Argentine cybercultural phenomena.
Asian America.Net
Author: Rachel C. Lee
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135449597
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 358
Book Description
Asian America.Net demonstrates how Asian Americans have both defined and been defined by electronic technology, illuminating the complex networks of identity, community, and history in the digital age.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135449597
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 358
Book Description
Asian America.Net demonstrates how Asian Americans have both defined and been defined by electronic technology, illuminating the complex networks of identity, community, and history in the digital age.
Hive of Dreams
Author: Grace L. Dillon
Publisher: Northwest Readers
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 326
Book Description
This unique collection brings together for the first time the work of a dozen internationally prominent science fiction writers who make their home in the Pacific Northwest. Editor Grace L. Dillon's informative introduction shows how the region's culture, economy, and natural environment are reflected in the work of these different authors. Exploring tensions between our increasing affinity with technology and traditional concerns with environmental sustainability, the works presented here demonstrate the spirit that makes Northwest science fiction distinctive. "Hive of Dreams begins in the forests and mountains of the Northwest with Ursula Le Guin's "The Good Trip" and ends in the cities and multinational conglomerates of the Pacific Rim with William Gibson's "Idoru. In the space between, readers will encounter writings by such notable authors as Greg Bear, Octavia Butler, Douglas Coupland, Molly Gloss, Richard Powers, Joanna Russ, Neal Stephenson, and John Varley, among others. "Hive of Dreams will clearly establish the unique signature of Northwest writers within the broader world and traditions of science fiction. Lovers of great science fiction, as well as teachers and students of contemporary literature in general, will find much of interest in this exciting collection. The book will also appeal to readers looking for new writers or for an introduction to the genre.
Publisher: Northwest Readers
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 326
Book Description
This unique collection brings together for the first time the work of a dozen internationally prominent science fiction writers who make their home in the Pacific Northwest. Editor Grace L. Dillon's informative introduction shows how the region's culture, economy, and natural environment are reflected in the work of these different authors. Exploring tensions between our increasing affinity with technology and traditional concerns with environmental sustainability, the works presented here demonstrate the spirit that makes Northwest science fiction distinctive. "Hive of Dreams begins in the forests and mountains of the Northwest with Ursula Le Guin's "The Good Trip" and ends in the cities and multinational conglomerates of the Pacific Rim with William Gibson's "Idoru. In the space between, readers will encounter writings by such notable authors as Greg Bear, Octavia Butler, Douglas Coupland, Molly Gloss, Richard Powers, Joanna Russ, Neal Stephenson, and John Varley, among others. "Hive of Dreams will clearly establish the unique signature of Northwest writers within the broader world and traditions of science fiction. Lovers of great science fiction, as well as teachers and students of contemporary literature in general, will find much of interest in this exciting collection. The book will also appeal to readers looking for new writers or for an introduction to the genre.
Folklore
1001 Programming Resources
Author: Edward J. Renehan
Publisher: Singular
ISBN: 9781884133503
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 532
Book Description
"1001 Programming Resources" features key Web sites programmers must visit and shows how to access product descriptions and detailed documentation in minutes. Download sample programs in C/C++, Java, Perl, Visual Basic, and more. The CD-ROM contains programming tools, Java and Perl, an electronic book, and demos.
Publisher: Singular
ISBN: 9781884133503
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 532
Book Description
"1001 Programming Resources" features key Web sites programmers must visit and shows how to access product descriptions and detailed documentation in minutes. Download sample programs in C/C++, Java, Perl, Visual Basic, and more. The CD-ROM contains programming tools, Java and Perl, an electronic book, and demos.
Korea Briefing
Author: Kong Dan Oh
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 9780765606105
Category : Financial crises
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
While mainly focusing on the Kim Dae Jung era, the essays in this book examine persistent problems and new opportunities in Korean politics, economy, and culture. In 1997, Kim Ae Jung was elected to head the government of the Seventh Republic, after 30 years in opposition.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 9780765606105
Category : Financial crises
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
While mainly focusing on the Kim Dae Jung era, the essays in this book examine persistent problems and new opportunities in Korean politics, economy, and culture. In 1997, Kim Ae Jung was elected to head the government of the Seventh Republic, after 30 years in opposition.