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  • The House on the Brink

    by John Gordon ...
    Returning home through a bog late one night, sixteen-year-old Dick Dodds passes a trail that for some reason sends a chill up his spine. He feels the same inexplicable terror the next day when he explores the trail further and meets a girl, Helen Johnson, who saw something that looked like a man with no arms or legs moving and gliding across the landscape. The mystery deepens when a local widow, ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • South Carolina and the American Revolution

    A Battlefield History

    by John W. Gordon ...
    An assessment of critical battles on the southern front that led to American independenceAn estimated one-third of all combat actions in the American Revolution took place in South Carolina. From the partisan clashes of the backcountry's war for the hearts and minds of settlers to bloody encounters with Native Americans on the frontier, more battles were fought in South Carolina than any other of ... Read more

    $17.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Reminiscences Of The Civil War [Illustrated Edition]

    by General John B. Gordon ...
    Few generals of the Confederate States Army had such a glittering career as John Brown Gordon, although without any formal military training he rose from captain of a company of Georgia mountineers to the rank of Major-General. He was described by the Robert E. Lee as one of his finest commanders and that his actions were "characterized by splendid audacity". He was distinguished in many the early ... Read more

    $0.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Teaching English in Secondary Schools

    by John Gordon ...
    This book is an indispensable guide for anyone training to become a secondary English teacher. It provides an overview of the main topics taught in schools, informed by good teaching practice drawn from the classroom and supported by research and theory, and engages with the requirements of the 2014 National Curriculum for England.Each chapter is based around a ‘lesson feedback’ case study ... Read more

    $53.99 USD

  • Reminiscences of the Civil War (Illustrated Edition)

    by John B. Gordon ...
    John Brown Gordon (1832-1904) was one of the Souths biggest firebrands, and he fought like it, displaying personal courage and toughness unmatched by most of the Souths fighters. The result was multiple wounds at places like the Seven Days Battles, and most notably at Antietam, where he was hit 4 times and continued to fight until a bullet slammed him in the face, passing through his cheek and out ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • Reminiscences of the Civil War

    by John B. Gordon ...
    John Gordon (1832-1904) was one of the Confederacy's most capable generals. A native of Georgia, he went on to serve as governor of the state after the war. His memoirs are one of the most famous accounts of the Civil War, and an example of the Lost Cause view of the war.".... Unconquerable energy, undying enthusiasm — above all, unselfish love — these were the traits which had borne him through ... Read more

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  • Sensational Joyce

    The Psychology of Ulysses

    by John Gordon ...
    Series series The Florida James Joyce Series
    Exploring how Ulysses imitates the human mind at work, connecting close readings to psychological theories of Joyce’s timeIn this book, John Gordon uses historically oriented close readings to demonstrate that Ulysses is a book that mimics the workings of the human mind. Gordon highlights James Joyce’s exceptional ability to capture and represent lived experiences, showing how Joyce’s writings ... Read more

    $80.99 USD

  • Washington's Monument

    And the Fascinating History of the Obelisk

    by John Steele Gordon ...
    The colorful story behind one of America's greatest monuments and of the ancient obelisks of Egypt, now scattered around the world.Conceived soon after the American Revolution ended, the great monument to George Washington was not finally completed until almost a century later; the great obelisk was finished in 1884 and remains the tallest stone structure in the world at 555 feet. The story behind ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Researching Interpretive Talk Around Literary Narrative Texts

    Shared Novel Reading

    by John Gordon ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Applied Linguistics
    Drawing on a multidisciplinary approach integrating insights from conversation analysis, narrative analysis, and narratology, this book theorizes teaching around narrative prose in each level of education, with a focus on a new framework of Pedagogic Literary Narration which emphasizes the practice of shared novel reading and the importance of the role of the teacher in mediating this practice. // ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • Falling Backwards

    A Windowed Chronical of Loss and Finding

    by John Gordon ...
    His second wife divorces him citing no reason. Boredom, another man? He never finds out. The company he works for folds. Taking a job in far away upstate New York. he rents an empty farmhouse on Coal Yard Road giving his only companion and loyal friend, his dog, a huge yard to run in. Winter and his new job are both harsh and endless. His dog dies. He is broken, fallen past the bottom. An act of ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Miss Fit

    Confessions and Lessons from a College Dropout

    by John Gordon ...
    In September of 1964, as my family’s green Chevy pulled away from campus, I choked up. I wondered what the heck am I doing? I know NOBODY here, and I am seven hundred miles from home. I had been a popular and capable student-athlete during high school. However, as a naïve eighteen-year-old, I wasn’t ready for my new situation. To varying degrees, the young men in my dormitory who became my best ... Read more

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  • Society, Politics, and Education in Uncertain Times

    Rethinking Citizenship and Belonging in International Contexts

    Edited by Harry Dyer, Agnieszka Bates, John Gordon, Geoffrey Hinchliffe ...
    Drawing on chapters from a selection of authors from the fields of education, philosophy, political science, and sociology this book presents provocations on how citizenship might be experienced, conceptualised, expressed, and practiced in a range of settings.Comprised of thirteen chapters by a group of international academics, the book engages with the concepts of ‘citizenship’ and ‘political ... Read more

    $60.99 USD