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  • Field Guide to Gestures

    How to Identify and Interpret Virtually Every Gesture Known to Man

    by Nancy Armstrong ...
    Series series Field Guide
    Here's easy access to the essential information about common (and some not-so-common) gestures you may encounter at home or abroad. Field Guide to Gestures is organized into handy sections for quick reference when time is of the essence and interpretation is everything. If a man bends his torso forward when meeting you, turn to the "Arrival/Departure" chapter to learn more about the bowing gesture ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Desire and Domestic Fiction

    A Political History of the Novel

    by Nancy Armstrong ...
    Desire and Domestic Fiction argues that far from being removed from historical events, novels by writers from Richardson to Woolf were themselves agents of the rise of the middle class. Drawing on texts that range from 18th-century female conduct books and contract theory to modern psychoanalytic case histories and theories of reading, Armstrong shows that the emergence of a particular form of ... Read more

    $51.99 USD

  • Desire and Domestic Fiction

    A Political History of the Novel

    by Nancy Armstrong ...
    Desire and Domestic Fiction argues that far from being removed from historical events, novels by writers from Richardson to Woolf were themselves agents of the rise of the middle class. Drawing on texts that range from 18th-century female conduct books and contract theory to modern psychoanalytic case histories and theories of reading, Armstrong shows that the emergence of a particular form of ... Read more

    $51.99 USD

  • How Novels Think

    The Limits of Individualism from 1719-1900

    by Nancy Armstrong ...
    Nancy Armstrong argues that the history of the novel and the history of the modern individual are, quite literally, one and the same. She suggests that certain works of fiction created a subject, one displaying wit, will, or energy capable of shifting the social order to grant the exceptional person a place commensurate with his or her individual worth. Once the novel had created this figure, ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Field Guide to Stains

    How to Identify and Remove Virtually Every Stain on Earth

    by Virginia M. Friedman, Melissa Wagner, Nancy Armstrong ...
    Series series Field Guide
    From wine to wiper fluid, Field Guide to Stains provides effective techniques for rescuing clothes, upholstery, carpet, and wallpaper from stains caused by:Fruits and vegetablesDairy productsHousehold itemsOffice suppliesSauces and condimentsBeauty productsBodily functionsAnd more!Featuring a glossary of cleaning techniques and the basic products any would-be clean person should hav... ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Big Bad Ass Book of Sex

    by Nancy Armstrong ...
    Whether you're going solo, looking to heighten your pleasure with a longtime partner, or in search of threesomes, a crowd, or even extreme kinkiness, this menu of delights offers something to fit every taste. So open up for basic information and answers, tips on getting it on in style, and sizzling erotica—all served with just the right touch of snark and heat. ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • Navajo Long Walk

    by Nancy M. Armstrong ...
    Illustrated by Paulette Livers Lambert ...
    Navajo Long Walk is the story of Kee, a young boy who traveled this long, arduous route with his mother, grandmother, sister and what few domestic animals they could bring. Over the four-year period, Kee learns to adapt to his inhospitable surroundings. Ultimately, Kee realizes the frailty of his people in the presence of the white soldiers and that to survive, they must find a way to get along ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • nEvermore!

    Tales of Murder, Mayhem and the Macabre

    by Margaret Atwood, Kelley Armstrong, Nancy Kilpatrick, Caro Soles, Tanith Lee, David Morrell, Richard Christian Matheson, and more ...
    Enjoy this anthology of Neo-Gothic fiction inspired by the imagination of Edgar Allan Poe.  Winner of the Paris Book Festival Award – Best anthology of the yearNominated for a Bram Stoker Award – Superior Achievement in an Anthology"Make sure your belt is done up good and tight when you read nEvermore!. It's very embarrassing to have your... ... Read more

    $5.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Novels in the Time of Democratic Writing

    The American Example

    by Nancy Armstrong, Leonard Tennenhouse ...
    Series series
    During the thirty years following ratification of the U.S. Constitution, the first American novelists carried on an argument with their British counterparts that pitted direct democracy against representative liberalism. Such writers as Hannah Foster, Isaac Mitchell, Royall Tyler, Leonore Sansay, and Charles Brockden Brown developed a set of formal tropes that countered, move for move, those ... Read more

    $53.99 USD

  • Teaching Soft Skills in a Hard World

    Skills for Beginning Teachers

    by Nancy Armstrong Melser ...
    This book will introduce fourteen of the most important soft skills in the field of education. It will explain how each skill is used in teaching as well as ideas for how to model and explain them in college classrooms, field experiences, and student teaching. The chapters also contain ideas for administrators and mentor teachers who are working with beginning teachers. Hopefully, by learning the ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • The Ideology of Conduct (Routledge Revivals)

    Essays in Literature and the History of Sexuality

    Edited by Nancy Armstrong, Leonard Tennenhouse ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    In The Ideology of Conduct, first published in 1987,scholars from various fields, from the medieval period to the present day, discuss literature in which the sole purpose is to instruct women in how to make themselves desirable.This collection investigates how middle-class writers who had long emulated the behaviour of the aristocracy began to criticise that behaviour by formulating an ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • The Violence of Representation (Routledge Revivals)

    Literature and the History of Violence

    Edited by Nancy Armstrong, Leonard Tennenhouse ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    First published in 1989, this collection of essays brings into focus the history of a specific form of violence – that of representation. The contributors identify representations of self and other that empower a particular class, gender, nation, or race, constructing a history of the west as the history of changing modes of subjugation. The essays bring together a wide range of literary and ... Read more

    $73.99 USD