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007805
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Publication |
Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2008.
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x, 246pPink Spine
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Summary/Abstract |
Ideas, insights and arguments offers a richly diverse and thought-provoking collection of non-fiction texts. All are informative - but they are also, by turns, entertaining, eye-opening, challenging, inspiring and poetic.
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Acknowledgements
General Introduction
The world around us
The world of work
Science
Parents and children
Human rights and wrongs
Notes on authors
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9780521703239 Pb.
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Accession# | Call# | Current Location | Status | Policy | Location |
008167 | 808.8/MAR | Main | On Shelf | General | |
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007897
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Great Britain, Cambridge University Press, 2007.
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Description |
246pBrown Spine
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Series |
Cambridge collections
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Summary/Abstract |
A collection of extracts from novels, newspaper articles, poems and short stories. Covers a variety of themes such as adventures, childhood, urbanisation and relationships.
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Adventures -
The water babies - Charles Kingsley
Around the world in eighty days - Jules Verne
How to reach the pole - The Graphic
Messages without wires - Guglielmo Marconi
A lady's fire in the rocky mountains - Isabella Bird
The war of the worlds - H.G. Wells
Activities
Childhood -
The way of all flesh - Samuel Butler
The adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain
David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
Ragged schools - The illustrated London news
A London child of the seventies - Molly Vivian Hughes
A horseman in the sky - Ambrose Bierce
War and peace - Leo Tolstoy
Activities
Urbanisation -
Children in the coal mines : The 1842 report - R.H. Horne
The cry of the children - Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Narrative of a pickpocket - Henry Mayhew
Song of the shirt - Thomas Hood
Mary Barton - Mrs Gaskell
The disturbances in the manufacturing districts - The Illustrated London News
1851; or the adventures of Mr and Mrs Sandboys - Henry Mayhew
Bleak house - Charles Dickens
Activities
Relationships -
The pickwick papers - Charles Dickens
The son's veto - Thomas Hardy
Laws concerning woman - Barbara Bodichon
The small house at Allington - Anthony Trollope
Definition of a gentleman - John Henry Newman
Adam Bede - George Eliot
The book of household management - Mrs Isabella Beeton
My rights - Susan Coolidge
A doll's house - Henrik Ibsen
Activities
Notes on authors
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97805521703178 Pb.
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Accession# | Call# | Current Location | Status | Policy | Location |
008266 | FIC/MAR | Main | On Shelf | General | |
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