Author: Loretta M. Gaffney File Type: pdf This incisive study analyzes young adult (YA) literature as a cultural phenomenon, explaining why this explosion of books written for and marketed to teen readers has important consequences for how we understand reading in America. As visible and volatile shorthand for competing views of teen reading, YA literature has become a lightning rod for a variety of aesthetic, pedagogical, and popular literature controversies.Noted scholar Loretta Gaffney not only examines how YA literature is defended and critiqued within the context of rapid cultural and technological changes, but also highlights how struggles about teen reading matter toand matter inthe future of librarianship and education. The work bridges divides between literary criticism, professional practices, canon building, literature appreciation, genre classifications and recommendations, standard histories, and commentary. It will be useful in YA literature course settings in Library and Information Science, Education, and English departments. It will also be of interest to those who study right wing culture and movements in media studies, cultural studies, American studies, sociology, political science, and history. It is of additional interest to those who study print culture, publishing and the book, histories of teenagers, and research on teen reading. Finally, it will offer those interested in teenagers, literature, libraries, technology, and politics a fresh way to look at book challenges and controversies over YA literature.

Author: Titu Andreescu File Type: pdf Questions of maxima and minima have great practical significance, with applications to physics, engineering, and economics they have also given rise to theoretical advances, notably in calculus and optimization. Indeed, while most texts view the study of extrema within the context of calculus, this carefully constructed problem book takes a uniquely intuitive approach to the subject it presents hundreds of extreme value problems, examples, and solutions primarily through Euclidean geometry. Key features and topics * Comprehensive selection of problems, including Greek geometry and optics, Newtonian mechanics, isoperimetric problems, andrecently solved problemssuch as Malfattis problem * Unified approach to the subject, with emphasis on geometric, algebraic, analytic, and combinatorial reasoning * Presentation and application of classical inequalities, including Cauchy--Schwarz and Minkowskis Inequality basic results in calculus, such as the Intermediate Value Theorem and emphasis on simple but useful geometric concepts, including transformations, convexity, and symmetry * Clear solutions to the problems, often accompanied by figures * Hundreds of exercises of varying difficulty, from straightforward to Olympiad-caliber Written by a team of established mathematicians and professors, this work draws on the authors experience in the classroom and as Olympiad coaches. By exposing readers to a wealth of creative problem-solving approaches, the text communicates not only geometry but also algebra, calculus, and topology. Ideal for use at the junior and senior undergraduate level, as well asin enrichment programs and Olympiad training for advanced high school students, this books breadth and depth will appeal to a wide audience, from secondary school teachers and pupils to graduate students, professional mathematicians, and puzzle enthusiasts.

Author: Kathrin H. Rosenfield File Type: pdf The art of Sophocles has parallels with modern outlooks, although fifth-century Athens was very different from our world. Rosenfields point of departure is a close reading of Friederich Holderlins translation that makes these parallels plausible. She shows that poetic intelligence can be as useful a critical tool as historical or philological knowledge. Following Holderlin, she reveals a historical detail so far unnoticed, the epiclerate, a point of Greek law that gives Antigone political importance and gives the play a fully-rounded tragic plot, ambiguous and paradoxical. Antigone is not an innocent virgin sacrificed by a power-thirsty villain. She is a fierce and unsettling heroine in an almost hitchcockian drama. Building on Holderlin, Rosenfield brings out what is modern in classical Greek drama the conscience of permanent unsettling shifts in human actions, intentions and feelings, the gripping, unspoken secrets hidden in the ironies of the Greek text. Her scholarly argument shows that Holderlin may have come closer to the spirit of Sophocles, Themistocles and Pericles than later, more scholarly, translators and critics. **

Author: Lonn Friend File Type: epub For the generation coming of age in the years from 1987 to 1994, RIP magazine was every bit as crucial as Rolling Stone. Life on Planet Rock describes how Lonn Friend, the editor of RIP, became the Zelig-like chronicler of the biggest musical moments of that timefrom introducing Guns N Roses (in nothing but a top hat, underwear, and cowboy boots) to sitting in during the making of Metallicas Black Album. Life on Planet Rock provides revealing portraits of artists as varied as Kurt Cobain, Gene Simmons, Alice Cooper, Axl Rose, James Hetfield, Steven Tyler, and many more. Part oral history, part candid and humorous memoir, it is a wormhole back to a fast-moving time in music that saw tastes flash from new wave to hair metal to grunge, told as only someone who was there through it all could tell it.**From Publishers WeeklyIn this nomadic, at times humbling memoir, former RIP magazine editor Friend recalls a quarter-century spent as a ringleader in the music industry circus. From the early 1980s to the late 90s, Friend enjoyed an insiders perch for some of rocks greatest momentshe worked as a DJ, a rock journalist, editor of heavy metals most popular magazine and had a segment on MTV. In energetic prose he invites readers along on bonding experiences like golf dates with Alice Cooper and riding in private jets with Kiss, as well as exposing moments of professional soul-searching at the hands of Metallicas Lars Ulrich and Pearl Jam. Remarkably, Friends narrative maintains an even keel, whether hes being ignored by Kurt Cobain or wooed by Gene Simmons, and he candidly portrays the compromised, often confusing role of the rock journalist, constantly teetering between friend and patsy. The most enlightening part of the book is Friends brief, failed stint as an A&R man, when the journalist who made a career on megabands staked his A&R career on the Bogmen, a quirky but brilliant New York outfit, and even made a run at Eels. Through success, excess and failure, music fans will enjoy Friends anecdotes and his clear-eyed, hardly jaded view of the industry. (July) Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. ReviewLonn lives where the reckless heart of rock still thunders in your chest. No one else can throw a literary dinner party where Henry Miller sits side by side with Kurt Cobain and Jon Bon Jovi. Thats Lonns planet, and thats his vivid personality. Soulful and rowdy and always hilarious, Life on Planet Rock reminds you why you ever turned it up, all the way up. Cameron Crowe Dark, brutally honest, and hilarious at the same time, Lonns tales of rock-and-roll debauchery, excess, and bad business are a love letter to the rock gods. Scott Ian Rosenfeld, founderguitarist, Anthrax Lonn Friend. If anybody is entitled to write about rock in L.A. in the 80s and 90s, its him. This is a good book. Steal it! Lemmy Kilmister, lead singer, Motorhead Its humor, insight, and behind-the-scenes honesty have captured me and whisked me away to a very special mind space. I am content. All is well on Planet Rock . . . I ought to know, Ive lived here all my life. Kevin Cronin, lead singer, REO Speedwagon