Bøger af Michael Meyer

The Compact Bedford Introduction to Literature is a bestseller for a reason: It brings literature to life for students, helping to make them lifelong readers, better writers, and more critical thinkers in any path they choose. Classic works drawn from many periods and cultures appear alongside a strong showing from today's authors. There is plenty of support for students, with critical reading and writing support, helpful sample close readings, writing assignments, and student papers in up-to-date MLA style.And, because everyone teaches and learns differently, there are many options for working with the literature, including case studies on individual works and themes that everyone can relate to. In-depth chapters on major authors including Flannery O'Connor and Nathaniel Hawthorne take students deeper into their work, and three chapters on the fiction of Dagoberto Gilb and the poetry of Billy Collins and Julia Alvarez--created in collaboration with the authors themselves--are one more way that the anthology showcases literature as a living, changing art form.Achieve with Meyer, Compact Bedford Introduction to Literature, puts student reading, writing, and revision at the core of your course, with interactive close reading modules, reading comprehension quizzes for the selections in the book, videos of professional writers and students discussing literary works, and a dedicated composition space that guides students through draft, review, source check, reflection, and revision. For details, visit macmillanlearning.com/college/us/englishdigital.

London, 1877. A petite young woman stands before an all-male jury, about to risk everything. She takes a breath, and opens her defence.Annie Besant and her confidant Charles Bradlaugh are on trial for the sordid crime of publishing and selling a birth control pamphlet. Remarkably - forty-five years before the first woman will be admitted to the English bar - Annie is defending herself. Before Britain's highest judge she declares it is a woman's right to choose when, and if, to have children. At a time when women were legally and socially subservient to men, Annie's defiant voice was a sensation. The riveting trial scandalised newspapers, captivated the British public and sparked a debate over morals, censorship and sex.Drawing on unpublished archives, private papers and courtroom transcripts - and featuring an incredible cast including Queen Victoria, George Bernard Shaw and London itself - A Dirty, Filthy Book tells the gripping story of a forgotten pioneer who refused to accept the role the Establishment assigned to her. Instead, she chose to resist.

The incredible story of Benjamin Franklin's parting gift to the working-class people of Boston and Philadelphia?a deathbed wager that captures the Founder's American Dream and his lessons for our current, conflicted age.Benjamin Franklin was not a gambling man. But at the end of his illustrious life, the Founder allowed himself a final wager on the survival of the United States: a gift of two thousand pounds to Boston and Philadelphia, to be lent out to tradesmen over the next two centuries to jump-start their careers. Each loan would be repaid with interest over ten years. If all went according to Franklin's inventive scheme, the accrued final payout in 1991 would be a windfall. In Benjamin Franklin's Last Bet, Michael Meyer traces the evolution of these twin funds as they age alongside America itself, bankrolling woodworkers and silversmiths, trade schools and space races. Over time, Franklin's wager was misused, neglected, and contested?but never wholly extinguished. With charm and inquisitive flair, Meyer shows how Franklin's stake in the ?leather-apron? class remains in play to this day, and offers an inspiring blueprint for prosperity in our modern era of growing wealth disparity and social divisions.

This foundational coursebook offers an accessible and up-to-date introduction to all relevant areas of Teaching English. Definitions and practical examples guide the understanding and reflection of basic and advanced concepts of foreign language learning. The fully revised second edition responds to new developments in language education: (1) Recent policies from the Kultusministerkonferenz and updates of the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages with its Companion Volume (2020) pay more attention to language awareness, mediation, and media literacy. (2) New empirical research explores the aims, methods, and impact of professional teacher education, Task-Based Language Teaching, and Content-and-Language-Integrated Learning. (3) The dramatic need for online teaching has met with refined concepts of multimodal media competence and cutting-edge tools for the digital classroom. This essential introduction and the PowerPoint presentations online facilitate multimodal teaching and learning.

This text aims to show that philosophy as foundational is possible and necessary, and that rhetoric can flourish alongside, but the conception of reason must be changed. It argues that questioning rather than answering must be considered as the guiding principle in philosophy.

An overview of linguistic and sociological approaches to text and discourse analysis.

The prolonged boom in the U.S. and European stock markets has led to increased interest in the mathematics of security markets, most notably in the theory of stochastic integration. This text gives a rigorous development of the theory of stochastic integration as it applies to the valuation of derivative securities. It includes all of the tools rea

A Journey in Time Reveals a Family Mystery When Daniel, a successful writer, tries to escape his midlife crisis and the current stress of a high-tech pace, he's suddenly thrust into the cradle of the Civil War. In this journey in time he discovers a family mystery, one that delights his fancy, brings him to the brink of death, and drives him to question his sanity. Toggling between the characters that intertwine from his past and present teaches him what he's missing, and becomes the key to his future happiness. His elusive mentor is time and his final deliverance is The Ancestor. Who is this Ancestor?

As a storyteller, I have been able to meet so many great people in the first year of my craft beer journey. In doing so I wanted to share with everyone these stories so that when you come to Nebraska you can enjoy the same experiences I have. The stories are just as much if not more about the people but I will definitely describe the great craft beers that I have tried along the way! I hope you enjoy reading the stories as much as I have writing them. Cheers!

Offers a development of the theory of stochastic integration as it applies to the valuation of derivative securities. This book includes the tools readers need to understand how the stochastic integral is constructed with respect to a general continuous martingale.

Includes the plays Lunatic and Lover, A Meeting in Rome, The Summer in Gossensass from Michael Meyer.