1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910691767003321

Titolo

Building bridges [[electronic resource] ] : a Peace Corps classroom guide to cross-cultural understanding

Pubbl/distr/stampa

[Washington, D.C.] : , : National Geographic Education Foundation : , : Paul D. Coverdell Worldwise Schools, , [2002]

Soggetti

Cultural relations - Study and teaching (Middle school) - United States

Intercultural communication - Study and teaching (Middle school) - United States

Cultural relations - Study and teaching (Secondary) - United States

Intercultural communication - Study and teaching (Secondary) - United States

Handbooks and manuals.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from title screen (viewed on June 3, 2003).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Sommario/riassunto

Lesson plans for cultural study in middle and high schools, based on Peace Corps training materials and World Wise Schools curriculum resources.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910816564403321

Autore

Hicok Bob <1960->

Titolo

Insomnia diary / / Bob Hicok

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania : , : University of Pittsburgh Press, , [2004]

©2004

ISBN

0-8229-9092-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (97 p.)

Collana

Pitt poetry series

Disciplina

811/.54

Soggetti

American poetry

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

""Contents""; ""Bottom of the ocean""; ""Small purchase""; ""The semantics of flowers on Memorial Day""; ""Dropping the euphemism""; ""Calling him back from layoff""; ""My life with a gardener""; ""An old story""; ""The documentary art""; ""Becoming bird""; ""Another awkward stage of convalescence""; ""The bald truth""; ""After working sixty hours again for what reason""; ""Oath to my former life""; ""Spirit ditty of no fax-line dial tone""; ""Insomnia diary""; ""Go Greyhound""; ""Finally opening the anthology to Kunitz""; ""Free-floating anxiety sounds like a pretty balloon""

""Tuesday's walk""""1935""; ""American Studies""; ""Sur Coast diary""; ""Capital crime""; ""Now and then I am direct""; ""Growing at the speed of fashion""; ""Bars poetica""; ""Translator's note""; ""Echo""; ""Mortal shower""; ""Meteor shower""; ""Building a painting a home""; ""Commission by attrition""; ""Goodbye in the shape of a knot""; ""The edge""; ""Radical neck""; ""It's not so much the heat as the stupidity""; ""Cure for the common cold""; ""Cutting edge""; ""Truth about love""; ""Shopping at the ocean""; ""Acknowledgments""

Sommario/riassunto

"The most potent ingredient in virtually every one of Bob Hicok's compact, well-turned poems is a laughter as old as humanity itself, a sweet waggery that suggests there's almost no problem that can't be solved by this poet's gentle humor."New York Times Book Review