Peter Knapp

Megan Watkins

A comprehensive reference text that examines how the three aspects of language (genre, text and grammar) can be used as resources in teaching and assessing writing. It provides an accessible account of current theories of language and language learning, together with practical ideas for teaching and assessing the genres and grammar of writing across the curriculum.

Technologies for Teaching and Assessing Writing

Genre, Text, Grammar

Vincent van Gogh

Wouter van der Veen

Vincent van Gogh s'installe le 20 mai 1890 à Auvers-sur-Oise, et passe les soixante-dix derniers jours de sa vie dans la petite Auberge Ravoux. En deux mois, il peint presque autant de tableaux que Klimt en toute une vie. Ce livre réunit pour la première fois l'ensemble de ses dernières oeuvres, et les met en regard avec les lettres, souvent illustrées, qu'il a écrites à son frère Theo, à sa belle-soeur Johanna, à sa famille et à ses amis. En étudiant de près cette correspondance, ainsi que d'autres documents inédits, Wouter van der Veen met aussi en évidence, pour la première fois, le rôle de Johanna Bonger dans la reconnaissance de l'oeuvre de Van Gogh. Cet ouvrage contient le fac-similé du brouillon d'une lettre à Theo, que Vincent van Gogh portait sur lui le jour de son suicide.

Vincent Van Gogh à Auvers

The painter moved to Auvers-sur-Oise, an artistic enclave outside of Paris, in 1890 at the urging of Dr. Gachet, whom he later immortalized on canvas. Leading a life sheltered from temptations, van Gogh entered an astoundingly creative period, producing paintings inspired by the surrounding landscape and town. This book reveals the complexity of van Gogh's personality through fascinating historical documents and stunning reproductions of his last paintings that allow the reader fully into his psyche and through the thoughts and events that led to his tragic early death.

His Last Days

Van Gogh in Auvers

Jane C. Kronick

R. William Marks

Miriam G. Vosburgh

A defense of affirmative action, welfare, and other liberal social welfare policies against the attacks from the new political right.

The Assault on Equality

Alan Spector

Crisis and Change Today provides a solid introduction to Marxist social theory. The work's unique voice is expressed in its Socratic-dialogic approach, structured around forty questions that students have about society and social change. Topics range from theories of history, economics, unemployment, racial oppression, the state, fascism, the collapse of the Soviet bloc, and points of convergence and difference between the dialectical approach and other approaches to social science. The content and tone of the work invites students to evaluate various traditional and current explanations of social institutions and social processes and encourages them to weigh the debates and investigate further. The first edition was very well received (Distinguished Scholarship Award of the Section on Marxist Sociology of the ASA), and the second edition has been thoroughly revised and updated to be relevant for students today. Though the first edition was written during the wake of the fall of the Berlin Wall and the collapse of the Soviet Union, the growing gap between the rich and the poor and the economic crisis have generated more interest in using Marxist analysis both as a tool to analyze and understand capitalism and the weaknesses of past Marxist praxis.

Peter Knapp

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