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21. Wild Flower Finder's Calendar by David Lang | |
Hardcover: 192
Pages
(1985-09)
-- used & new: US$10.06 (price subject to change: see help) Asin: 0907486916 Canada | United Kingdom | Germany | France | Japan | |
22. Oedipus Burning by David Lang | |
Paperback:
Pages
(1984-10)
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23. Britain's Orchids by David Lang | |
Hardcover: 192
Pages
(2004-08-21)
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The definitive field guide to Britain's orchids |
24. The Georgians (Ancient peoples and places) by David Marshall Lang | |
Hardcover: 244
Pages
(1966)
Asin: B0006D729S Canada | United Kingdom | Germany | France | Japan | |
25. European Perspectives on Disabled People: Behinderte Menschen aus Europaischen Blickwinkeln (European Social Inclusion\Sozialgemeinschaft Europa) by Peter Lang | |
Paperback: 237
Pages
(2004-02)
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26. Penguin Companion to Literature: Classical, Byzantine, Oriental, African v. 4 | |
Hardcover: 368
Pages
(1971-10)
Isbn: 0713902515 Canada | United Kingdom | Germany | France | Japan | |
27. The Historians of Scotland by Androw wyntou, David Lang | |
Hardcover: 500
Pages
(2009-11-13)
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28. The Bulgarians (Ancient Peoples and Places) by David Marshall Lang | |
Hardcover: 208
Pages
(1976-05-17)
Isbn: 0500020825 Canada | United Kingdom | Germany | France | Japan | |
29. Models, Strategies, and Methods for Effective Teaching by Hellmut R. Lang, David N. Evans | |
Paperback: 528
Pages
(2005-10-07)
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Editorial Review Product Description Practical in approach, this text focuses on how both pre-service and experienced teachers can demonstrate the attributes, acquire the competencies, and meet the standards essential to effective teaching. The framework for the text is the “Teacher Competency Profile.” Chapter by chapter, the essential knowledge and skills for effective teaching are presented. Each chapter contains recent research and best practice information with respect to the theme discussed. This is followed within each chapter with guidelines for teaching, practical approaches to information, extensive examples, cases, and activities. The sequential framework guides the pre-service student’s professional development from basic teaching approaches to sophisticated strategies, methods, and skills. By identifying the essential competencies of teaching and providing guidelines for meeting professional standards, this text is also of value for use in seminars, workshops, and professional reading by practicing teachers. Customer Reviews (2)
Excellent Resource for Instructors and Facilitators
Review of Models, Strategie, and Methods |
30. First Russian Radical, Alexander Radischev, 1749-1802 by David Marshall Lang | |
Hardcover: 298
Pages
(1977-11)
Isbn: 083719637X Canada | United Kingdom | Germany | France | Japan | |
31. The Arts of Ancient Georgia. Forword by David M. Lang. by Rusudan & C'inc'aze, Vaxtang Gerontis ze. Mepisashvili | |
Paperback:
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(1979)
Asin: B003U40U4E Canada | United Kingdom | Germany | France | Japan | |
32. Introduction to Electronic Commerce (3rd Edition) (Spectrum Books) by Efraim Turban, David King, Judy Lang | |
Paperback: 552
Pages
(2010-10-09)
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33. History of American Education: Primer (Peter Lang Primer) by David Boers | |
Paperback: 152
Pages
(2007-08)
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34. The Peoples of the Hills: Ancient Ararat and Caucasus (History of Civilization series) by Charles Burney, David Marshall Lang | |
Paperback: 323
Pages
(2001-12-31)
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Above the fertile crescent
Pottery and more pottery. |
35. Energy, Economics and the Environment, 3d (University Casebook) by Fred Bosselman, Joel B. Eisen, Jim Rossi, David B. Spence, Jacqueline Lang Weaver | |
Hardcover: 1207
Pages
(2010-07-08)
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36. Clinical Perspectives in the Management of Down Syndrome (Disorders of Human Learning, Behavior, and Communication) | |
Hardcover: 246
Pages
(1989-12-11)
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37. A Guide to Eastern Literatures by David M. Lang | |
Hardcover: 501
Pages
(1971-08-26)
Isbn: 0297002740 Canada | United Kingdom | Germany | France | Japan | |
38. Vietnam If Kennedy Had Lived : Virtual JFK by James Blight, Janet M. Lang, David A. Welch | |
Hardcover: 456
Pages
(2009-02-16)
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***NOT*** What I Expected.... **Don't** Waste Your $$ On This One..
Don't Bother
Virtual JFK: Vietnam if Kennedy Had Lived
Virtual JFK,Vietnam if Kennedy had lived |
39. Arguing the Modern Jewish Canon: Essays on Literature and Culture in Honor of Ruth R. Wisse (Harvard Center for Jewish Studies) | |
Hardcover: 721
Pages
(2009-01-15)
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Editorial Review Product Description Over the past four decades Ruth R. Wisse has been a leading scholar of Yiddish and Jewish literary studies in North America, and one of our most fearless public intellectuals on issues relating to Jewish society, culture, and politics.In this celebratory volume, edited by four of her former students, Wisse's colleagues take as a starting point her award-winning book The Modern Jewish Canon (2000) and explore an array of topics that touch on aspects of Yiddish, Hebrew, Israeli, American, European, and Holocaust literature.Arguing the Modern Jewish Canon brings together writers both seasoned and young, from both within and beyond the academy, to reflect the diversity of Wisse's areas of expertise and reading audiences. The volume also includes a translation of one of the first modern texts on the question of Jewish literature, penned in 1888 by Sholem Aleichem, as well as a comprehensive bibliography of Wisse's scholarship. In its richness and heft, Arguing the Modern Jewish Canon itself constitutes an important scholarly achievement in the field of modern Jewish literature. |
40. Richard Wagner, Fritz Lang, and the Nibelungen by David J. Levin | |
Hardcover: 224
Pages
(1998-01-26)
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Editorial Review Product Description Levin begins with an explanation of the book's theoretical foundations and then applies these theories to close readings of, in turn, Wagner's cycle and Lang's film. He concludes by tracing how Germans have dealt with the Nibelungen myths in the wake of the Second World War, paying special attention to Michael Verhoeven's 1989 film The Nasty Girl. His fresh and interdisciplinary approach sheds new light not only on Wagner's Ring and Lang's Die Nibelungen, but also on the ways in which aesthetics can be put to the service of aggression and hatred. The book is an important contribution to scholarship in film and music and also to the broader study of German culture and national identity. Customer Reviews (3)
Richard Wagner, Fritz Lang, and the Nibelungen
Save your money His rant really ticked me off, it is very puerile and boring. If ya gotta buy the book, buy it used.
The misrepresentation is mainly by omission Levin's arguments for these twin accusations will cause jaw-dropping disbelief in anyone familiar with Wagner's or Lang's work. He writes: "Thus Mime is repeatedly shown to be narrating (a terrible thing in Wagner's eyes and works) while Alberich embodies a version of 'Hollywood' cinema (a terrible thing in Lang's eyes and works)." Anyone who's seen or heard a Wagner opera knows that far from narration being "a terrible thing in Wagner's eyes", it's a Wagner specialty. All Wagner's important characters are incorrigible narrators, to an extent that's notoriously off-putting for newcomers. (Levin later claims that Mime is unique because he narrates events that haven't previously been represented in dramatic form. Nice try, but so do most of Wagner's other characters, from Senta and the Dutchman to Wotan and Gurnemantz.) This isn't just a minor error. It's actually Levin's whole argument concerning Wagner: that Wagner's character Mime was a narrator, Wagner hated narrators and thought narration was somehow Jewish, therefore Mime is an antisemitic representation and the _Ring_ is an antisemitic parable. But if we took Levin's test seriously, all the major Wagnerian characters would be Jewish representations, and Wagner would emerge as the most obsessively philosemitic dramatist in history. (Except that according to Levin's test, everyone in Greek tragedy and Japanese Noh drama is Jewish too.) Levin's accusation against Fritz Lang is that his _Nibelungen_ film, made in Germany in 1920, was antisemitic in its depiction of the dwarf Alberich. Levin gave two grounds for his claim that Lang's Alberich is an antisemitic representation. First, Levin said that Lang's biographer Lotte Eisner had claimed that critic Siegfried Kracauer had thought that Lang's depiction of Alberich was antisemitic. Unfortunately for Levin, Kracauer's discussion of Lang's film is in print, and Kracauer made no such allegation. More importantly, Kracauer's opinion would only have weight if Kracauer had actually provided arguments or evidence in support of this reading of Lang's film. So Levin's first piece of supporting evidence is unsubstantiated hearsay; that one critic, Kracauer, may or may not have thought Lang's Alberich was a Jewish caricature, but provided no arguments in support of that interpretation, which he probably did not support. Well, you can't get much more convincing than that! And Levin doesn't. His other argument is that Alberich took Siegfried into an underground cave and shone an image on the wall: the Nibelungs mining for gold. Levin argued, essentially, that projecting images on a wall (a symbol of filmmaking) is somehow a Jewish thing to do. Therefore Lang's Alberich is an antisemitic Jewish caricature. Obviously that's not much of an argument, expressed so baldly. So Levin expressed it hairily. Delving into the works of Freud, Klein, Lacan, etc, he engaged in a great deal of oracular pronouncing and general arm-waving. It's probably fair to describe Freudianism as a dead religion now the Freud Wars are over, and Levin did his case little good by tying so much of it to the Freudian tradition. But against Levin's psychoanalytic flights of fancy there's just one awkward fact. It's that Fritz Lang was of Jewish descent, and he fled Nazi Germany to America (to Hollywood) partly because of politics and partly because of his Jewish ancestry. How did Levin deal with that awkward fact? The same way he dealt with the awkward fact that _everybody_ in Wagner is a narrator, not just Mime. Levin simply didn't mention it. But at one point he cited a biography of Fritz Lang, so he can't credibly claim ignorance of the awkward fact. An intellectually honest academic has to mention facts that hurt their thesis, and argue around them. A book that simply buries awkward facts, presumably in the hope that the readers won't know better, is not an intellectually honest book. Levin does a lot of omitting awkward facts. For example Levin tells us that when Wagner's Siegfried (_Siegfried_ Act II) killed Mime it was because Mime was sort of Jewish; Siegfried heard Mime narrating, and realised that narrators are aliens who should be killed. Next stop, Levin suggests, is the Holocaust. But Levin can only argue this by omitting the actual content of Mime's speech. Mime was telling Siegfried, inadvertently but truthfully, that he intended to drug Siegfried unconscious and then decapitate him. Thus Siegfried could not risk sleeping, if he wanted to wake up again. In a forest, unattended by a police service with the resources to apprehend murderous stalkers, Siegfried killed Mime in self-defence: not because Mime was a narrator, but because Mime would kill him the next time he fell asleep. (By the way Mime's threat to Siegfried was not even narration. It was exposition. Since "narration" is such a central concept in Levin's book, he should at least know what "narration" means.) Here, as with his claims about narration in Wagner, and whether Fritz Lang is likely to have made antisemitic movies, Levin used the technique known as "misrepresentation by omission". He also applied this technique in his discussion of Wagner's prose. But although I'd meant to discuss such things as Levin's claim that Siegfried burnt down the world ash tree in order to forge Nothung (a false claim that suggests that Levin may not have actually read the _Ring_ libretto), and many other things, I'm close to the word limit. Basically this book is nonsense. Wagner students are used to this sort of thing; Wagner brings out this sort of tin-foil-hatted lunacy in some academics. But admirers of Fritz Lang, in the real world a victim rather than a perpetrator of Nazi bigotry, have the right to be a little annoyed by this mildly misleading piece of work. Cheers! Laon ... Read more |
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