This book treats arts as part of science, from the unified perspective of Science Matters. It contains 17 chapters, with 18 contributors who are prominent humanists, professional artists, or scientists. It consists of three parts: Part I: Philosophy and History of Arts; Part II: Arts in Action; Part III: Understanding Arts. The book is aimed at both research scholars and lay people, and is unique in two important aspects.
Reading T.S. Eliot: Four Quartets and the Journey toward Understanding
This book offers an exciting new approach to T. S. Eliot's Four Quartets through both a close reading and a comparison to Eliot's other works, notably the poems "The Waste Land", "The Hollow Men", and "Ash-Wednesday". G. Douglas Atkins reveals that in Four Quartets, incarnation is the universal, timeless pattern in Eliot's work.
INTERMEDIATE STEPS TO UNDERSTANDINGThis new L.A. Hill series, Steps to Understanding, is a development from the highly successful approach used in Stories for Reproduction. The all new stories are accompanied by a variety of exercises, as before; but in this series, there is a greater emphasis on comprehension work. There are true/false questions, to be used as a quick check on understanding, as well as "thinking questions that require the student to work more creatively.
Stories to help students' reading and listening comprehension.
A four-level serie. Each story is about 150 words long.
Provides summaries, new theoretical frameworks and new findings on how children learn to read. This book highlights how research has moved from descriptions of changes during learning towards understanding the processes by which learning takes place.
