Little Worlds

Suspense, humor, horror, betrayal, excitement: Little Worlds transports your students into the stuff of life that steals their attention, even that of stubborn readers. Featuring some of literature's finest authors and stories culled from the best short fiction, Little Worlds provides two short stories for each key aspect of fiction: plot, character, setting, atmosphere, point of view, irony, symbol, and theme. With an additional 16 stories, you may add or substitute stories based on your knowledge of what is best for your students. With the confidence of knowing every story was selected for accessibility and artistic merit, you'll feel comfortable using this impressive best seller geared to your students' interests and abilities.Course Preparation Instant DownloadTeacher Supplement contains questions for every storyIn a modern fiction landscape dominated by romantic witches and handsome werewolves, Little Worlds encourages you to cast your own spell without sacrificing literary quality. These timeless tales glow with the authentic enchantment of fine fiction, irresistible stories you and your students will relish reading and discussing.Little Worlds offers the magic of the perfect anthology by providing:Great authors: Including Eudora Welty, Ernest Hemingway, Willa Cather, Nathaniel Hawthorne, O. Henry, Flannery O'Connor, Edgar Allan Poe, Katherine Anne PorterVariety: With 30 terrific stories, Little Worlds provides many choices to introduce students to a variety of themes, conflicts, narrative styles, and points of viewBreadth and depth: Even a quick look at the table of contents below will convince you of the creativity and usefulness of the editor's choice of stories. The reading ease and style ranges from O. Henry's The Gift of the Magi" to Poe's "The Masque of the Red Death." The organization of classic works coupled with the study of the elements of fiction provide a solid foundation for more advanced English classes.Flexibility:

This is a collection of 5 stories about 5 different people who are what might be called today 'big fish in a small pond'. They are in no way exceptional persons, but they have events in their lives or relationships or characteristics that make them seem so.

In this innovative study of the South Carolina Low Country, author Stephanie McCurry explores the place of the yeomanry in plantation society--the complex web of domestic and public relations within which they were enmeshed, and the contradictory politics of slave society by which that class of small farmers extracted the privileges of masterhood from the region's powerful planters. Insisting on the centrality of women as historical actors and gender as a category of analysis, this work shows how the fateful political choices made by the low-country yeomanry were rooted in the politics of the household, particularly in the customary relations of power male heads of independent households assumed over their dependents, whether slaves or free women and children. Such masterly prerogatives, practiced in the domestic sphere and redeemed in the public, explain the yeomanry's deep commitment to slavery and, ultimately, their ardent embrace of secession. By placing the yeomanry in the center of the drama, McCurry offers a significant reinterpretation of this volatile society on the road to Civil War. Through careful and creative use of a wide variety of archival sources, she brings vividly to life the small worlds of yeoman households, and the larger world of the South Carolina Low Country, the plantation South, and nineteenth-century America.

Everybody has their own little world... Pablo likes singing with the birds up in his treehouse, Frank and Melvin build fantastic mystery machines, and Clara dreams of faraway planets and galaxies... Where is your little world? Includes a Note to Parents and Caregivers with tools to spark your child's imagination, encourage free play and creativity, and foster empathy for others wherever their little world may be.

Little Worlds documents three years of conversations and projects in Diploma Unit 9's ongoing enquiry into context. At a time when architecture is trying to redefine itself, the issue of context - how to collect it, make it, shape it, talk about it, and enter one's architecture within it - is more pressing than ever. The book pulls together a collection of utterly unique and singular worlds that together argue for a positioning of architecture: not geographically, but rather set within its rich cultural context shaped by real histories and imagined futures. Ultimately, Little Worlds addresses a question all architects face at the beginning of their bright futures - how to shape an identity.

The full story of how changes in style and taste take place Why do millions of people end up wearing the same style of clothing? Or have the same style in electronics, cars, and furniture? It's because of trends-the powerful process of change that takes place in the same way again and again across the globe. Drawing on his own and other sociologists' groundbreaking research, trend sociologist Henrik Vejlgaard unearths what happens when a new style emerge and go mainstream and examines the influential individuals who make trends happen. He documents that 6 very different groups of individuals play a huge role in the trend process. Style Eruptions is a follow-up to Anatomy of a Trend, his first book on the trend process which presented trends from a business perspective. With Style Eruptions he completes the story of one of the most puzzling mysteries of modern culture: how do changes in style and taste come about?

Publication of Lost Worlds introduces to English-speaking readers one of the most original and engaging historians in Germany today. Known for his work in historical demography, Arthur E. Imhof here branches out into folklore, religion, anthropology, psychology, and the history of art. Imhof begins by reconstructing the world and worldview of Johannes Hooss, a farmer in a remote Hessian village. The everyday life of such a man was particular to his region; he spoke a local dialect and shared a regional culture. By exploring the various systems that made sense out of this circumscribed existence - astrology, the folklore of the seasons, and Christian interpretations of birth, confirmation, marriage, and death - Imhof expands the book into a speculation on why life in the late twentieth century can seem meaningless and difficult. Rooted in Imhof's belief that we need stability and values that transcend the individual, Lost Worlds inspires us to examine our own ways of seeing the world.