“ Gee , thanks . ” I looked around . We were on a pretty suburban street , big , old Tudor mansions on either side , some surrounded by stone walls . I didn't see a tree that afforded enough privacy to allow me to relieve myself and I ...
Professor Wilson is the author of books and articles about Thailand and also about higher education. The story will be interesting to the author's contemporaries as well as younger readers.
"Anyone who doesn't read Cortázar is doomed."—Pablo Neruda Written in 1950 (just before the fall of Perón's government), Final Exam is Julio Cortázar's bitter and melancholy allegorical farewell to an Argentina from which he would soon ...
Cortázar witnessed a great deal of political unrest and violence before his definitive departure for Paris in 1951 , when he took a position with UNESCO as a translator . This too is relevant to Final Exam , which juxtaposes the crises ...
... but I mustered both the Hollywood stoicism (without blinking, Alan Ladd took the full force of the heroine's slap. ... after all, applying to life the comparative method I'd learnt to apply, week by week, to writers down the ages?
In a series of reflections on the world of modern medicine, a young doctor describes how physicians must deal with the inescapable reality of death, the risks and rewards of emotional involvement, patients' expectations concerning their ...
This work aims to disquiet the idea that school today is both rooted in some distant past and a force for decolonization and the postcolonial moment.
Final exams are difficult enough for Kelly without being stalked by a killer, and as she faces off against the exam week executioner, failing could be fatal.
Final Exam
Viewers often comment on how clever Toby is, and fans have dubbed him The Wonderdog.In this book Katrina reveals the secrets to teaching Toby his tricks. With a little patience and a lot of love, you too can turn your dog into a Wonderdog!
The witchy TV reporter of Salem, MA, is out to solve a cold case—and predict a killer’s next move—in this cozy mystery by the author of Caught Dead Handed.
St. Thomas, the small college north of New York City where Professor Alison Bergeron teaches, has had its share of scandals involving both its students and its staff, not to mention Alison herself, so when a resident director goes missing ...
Final Exam: A Study of the Perpetual Scrutiny of American Education : Historical Perspectives on Assessment, Standards, Outcomes, and Criticism...
"It started with a poem torn out of The New Yorker," says J. Barry Koops of this collection of poems.