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Product Description: This collection of essays addresses the role of literature in radical politics. Topics covered include the legacy of Robert Burns, broadside literature in Munster and radical literature in Wales.

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The Student's Book of College English offers a complete course in writing in one affordable volume, providing an all-in-one guide to college level reading and writing. Comprehensive coverage of the reading process, and the writing process from prewriting to final draft. A section on active reading links reading and the writing process, and provides guidelines for efficient reading. Writing samples demonstrate the writing process in a down-to-earth manner. Checklists provide handy summary charts in question form to help readers easily apply rhetorical principles to their own writing. A chapter on revising and editing, including drafts, helps to visually display the revision process. A section on writing with a computer provides an introduction to the benefits of computer-aided composition. A handbook of grammar, punctuation, mechanics, and spelling is followed by a glossary of commonly misused words. New professional reading selections include pieces by Anna Quindlen, Langston Hughes, Gary Soto, Virginia Woolf, and Andrew DelBanco. New "Having Your Say" exercises develop argumentation skills as a component of the chapter writing assignments. A new chapter, "Business Writing," provides instruction in writing essential business documents, including hardcopy and online resumes and job application letters. For those interested in developing their writing skills for professional, educational, or personal reasons.

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Product Description: Using the Model View View-Model (MVVM) pattern, .NET developers can create more robust and powerful Silverlight and WPF applications, get to market more rapidly, and simplify both maintenance and upgrades. In MVVM Unleashed, two-time Microsoft MVP Mike Brown demonstrates how to use MVVM to overcome many of the most difficult challenges traditionally associated with Silverlight and WPF development...read more

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Product Description: When did medicine become modern? This book takes a fresh look at one of the most important questions in the history of medicine. It explores how the cultures, values and meanings of medicine were transformed across the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries as its practitioners came to submerge their local identities as urbane and learned gentlemen into the ideal of a nationwide and scientifically-based medical profession...read more

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