Author: Brian Vickers File Type: pdf The Critical Heritage gathers together a large body of critical sources on major figures in literature. Each volume presents contemporary responses to a writers work, enabling student and researcher to read the material themselves. The Critical Heritage series gathers together a large body of critical sources on major figures in literature. Each volume presents contemporary responses to a writers work, enabling students and researchers to read for themselves, for example, comments on early performances of Shakespeares plays, or reactions to the first publication of Jane Austens novels. The selected sources range from important essays in the history of criticism to journalism and contemporary opinion, and documentary material such as letters and diaries. Significant pieces of criticism from later periods are also included, in order to demonstrate the fluctuations in an authors reputation. Each volume contains an introduction to the writers published works, a selected bibliography, and an index of works, authors and subjects. The Critical Heritage is available as a set of 67 volumes, as mini-sets selected by period (in slipcase boxes) or as individual volumes.

Author: Vivienne Westwood File Type: epub Vivienne Westwood began Get A Life, her online diary, in 2010 with an impassioned post about Native American activist Leonard Peltier. Since then, she has written two or three entries each month, discussing her life in fashion and her involvement with art, politics and the environment. Reading Viviennes thoughts, in her own words, is as fascinating and provocative as you would expect from Britains punk dame - a woman who always says exactly what she believes. And what a life! One week, you might find Vivienne up the Amazon, highlighting tribal communities struggles to maintain the rainforest another might see her visiting Julian Assange in the Ecuadorian Embassy, or driving up to David Camerons house in the Cotswolds in a full-on tank. Then again, Vivienne might be hanging out with her friend Pamela Anderson, or in India for Naomi Campbells birthday party, or watching Black Sabbath in Hyde Park with Sharon Osbourne. The beauty of Vivienne Westwoods diary is that it is so fresh and unpredictable. In book form, generously illustrated with her own selection of images, it is irresistible.

Author: Joel Bakan File Type: pdf Corporations have found a new resource to be mined for profit our children. In this shocking and indelible behind-the-scenes journey, Joel Bakan, acclaimed author and award-winning maker of the renowned film and international bestselling book The Corporation, uncovers the astonishing degree to which companies exploit the special vulnerabilities of children, manipulate parents fears, and operate with callous disregard for childrens health and well-being. The problem today, Bakan reveals, is that business interests have made protecting children extremely difficult. Corporations pump billions into rendering parents and governments powerless to shield children from an unrelenting commercial assault, with the result that after a century of progress, during which protective laws and regulations were widely promulgated, children are once again exposed to substantial harms at the hands of economic actors. Childhood Under Siege leaves no room for doubt that this assault on childhood is a major crisis of our time. A powerful manifesto for urgent change, it empowers us to shield our own children while offering concrete and realistic proposals for legal reforms that would protect all children from these predatory practices.ReviewChildhood Under Siege outlines the powerful strategies at play in the corporate war against children. Bakan maintains that, while most families do their best, they are outmaneuvered by well-paid experts serving the needs of greedy and heartless corporations. This engaging, carefully researched and important book is a call to action to those who believe we have a responsibility to protect all our children with our laws and public policies as well as our hearts.Mary Pipher, author of The Shelter of Each Other and Seeking PeaceChildhood Under Siege is a compelling call to arms in the covert war for our childrens minds, health, and future. Joel Bakan empowers us all to stop lamenting the destruction of childhood and do something to rescue it.Jane M. Healy, Ph.D., Educational Psychologist and author of Different Learners Identifying, Preventing, and Treating Your Childs Learning ProblemsThe assault on childhood in our corporate-dominated and profit-driven society, painfully dissected in this penetrating study, is a tragedy not only for the immediate victims but for hopes for a better future. It can be resisted, as Joel Bakan discusses. And it is urgent not to delay.Noam Chomsky, author of Hopes and ProspectsJoel Bakan documents and depicts a modern disaster-in-the-making as ominous as our societys assault on the natural environment the social and economic destruction of the conditions for healthy childhood. An eloquent and prophetic work we need most urgently to heed.Gabor MatE, M.D., author of In The Realm of Hungry Ghosts Close Encounters With AddictionTo be a child today, even in affluent countries like ours, is no longer a time of innocence, idyll and discovery, as Bakan reveals in Childhood Under Siege. Most children today grow up on a planet in which billions of tons of toxic chemicals have been poured into the air, water and soil in a big city where the opportunity to encounter nature has been replaced by concrete, fast cars, video games and shopping malls in a world in which childhood represents a marketing challenge and opportunity. Read this important book and then start working for change.David Suzuki, co-author of The Sacred Balance Rediscovering Our Place in NatureJoel Bakans new book is a compelling, informed alarm about the insidious and invisible ways children are being manipulated into thoughtless consumers. Childhood Under Seige is an essential read for anyone who works for or cares about children because we simply cant advocate for and teach them effectively if we dont know what we are up against. As a mother and a teacher, it was sometimes overwhelming to read this book, but for my own work and parenting I forced myself to keep going. At times it was deeply frightening--and I do media literacy training as part of my work. Its very simple If you want to be relevant in a childs life, you need to read this book. Rosalind Wiseman, author of Queenbees and WannabeesOur new century of unlimited private profits has put an end to the era of publicly protected childhood. Separated by corporate design from their parents, kids have become capitalisms newest and most lucrative (and most vulnerable) consumers. In his Childhood Under Siege, Joel Bakan offers an angry but careful analysis of how the market flourishes today by selling our children everything from dangerous drugs, toxic plastics and unhealthy snack foods to violent and addictive video games and for-profit standardized tests. The villains here are not playground stalkers but supposedly child-friendly companies like Nickelodeon, Facebook, Pfizer and Edison Schools, along with a trillion dollar childrens marketing machine and a government is the problem ideology that hasmade public regulation of the interests of children all but impossible. If they read Bakan carefully, once they get over their rage, both parents and policy makers may be ready to lift the corporate siege that is threatening not just our children but childhood itself.Benjamin R. Barber,author of Consumed How Markets Infantilize Adults, Corrupt Children andSwallow Citizens WholeBakan offers passionate argument and copious research in this compelling call for parents to stand up for their children. Booklist (starred review)[Bakan] calls for government regulation of big business, citing examples sure to make parents take notice...A provocative argument. -- KirkusAbout the AuthorJoel Bakan is a professor of law at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada. His book The Corporation was published in twenty languages, was an international bestseller, and inspired the critically acclaimed hit documentary of the same name.

Author: Django Paris File Type: pdf Book DescriptionUsing an innovative blend of critical ethnography and social language methodologies, Paris offers the voices and experiences of South Vista youth as a window into how todays young people challenge and reinforce ethnic and linguistic difference in demographically changing urban schools and communities. About the AuthorDjango Paris is Assistant Professor of Language and Literacy in the College of Education at Michigan State University. He is also on the faculty of the Bread Loaf School of English, a summer graduate program at Middlebury College. He received his BA in English from the University of California, Berkeley, his MA in Curriculum and Teacher Education from Stanford University, and his Ph.D. in English EducationLiteracy Studies with a minor in Applied Linguistics from Stanford University. He spent six years as an English language arts teacher in California, Arizona and the Dominican Republic before entering graduate school. Paris research focuses on language and literacy in multiethnic schools and communities. He is particularly interested in understanding how pluralism works in multiethnic youth communities and in how we can re-vision language and literacy learning to foster understanding within and across difference. His teaching focuses on youth language and literacy practices, the training of teachers to work in multiethnic high schools, and qualitative and social language research methods. His research has appeared in the Harvard Educational Review, the journal English Education, and the Journal of Language, Identity, and Education and is forthcoming in the International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education. Dr Paris is also first author of a chapter in the Handbook of Research on Literacy and Diversity and has several other chapters in press. His research has been supported by fellowships from the Spencer Foundation, the Ford Foundation, and the National Council of Teachers of English Research Foundation. Paris serves on the editorial boards of Research in the Teaching of English and Reading and Writing Quarterly and is a member of the National Council of Teachers of English Standing Committee on Research.