Bøger af Andrew Smith

Senior year is supposed to be easy, but for Ryan Dean West, there are no guarantees.Ryan Dean finds himself as the rugby team's new captain and stand-off - the position once played by his lost friend, Joey. Plus, somehow he's inherited as his roommate Sam Abernathy, a twelve-year-old cooking whiz with extreme claustrophobia and a serious crush on Annie Altman, Ryan Dean's girlfriend.And Ryan Dean has his own problems, too - he's haunted by things from his past that he can't escape, fear of losing Annie, and the fact that sometimes the uncontrollable force of friendship moves under its own power.

Inspired by the work of economists Ha-Joon Chang and Dani Rodrik, editors Andrew Smith and Dimitry Anastakis bring together essays from both historians and economists in this collection to test claims that wealth comes from either protectionism or free trade.

Ryan Dean West is a fourteen-year-old boy at a boarding school for rich kids. He's living in Opportunity Hall, the dorm for troublemakers, and rooming with the biggest bully on the rugby team. And he's madly in love with his best friend Annie, who thinks of him as a little boy.With the help of his sense of humour, rugby buddies, and his penchant for doodling comics, Ryan Dean manages to survive life's complications and even find some happiness along the way. But when the unthinkable happens, he has to figure out how to hold on to what's important, even when it feels like everything has fallen apart.Filled with hand-drawn illustrations and told in a pitch-perfect voice, this realistic depiction of a teen's experience strikes an exceptional balance of hilarious and heartbreaking.- Publishers Weekly Best Books of 2013- Amazon's Top 20 YA Books of 2013- Publishers Weekly Top 10 Summer Reads of 2013- ALA/YALSA nominee for "e;Best Fiction for Young Adults 2014"e;- 2014 Rainbow List NomineeAndrew Smith knew ever since his days as editor of his high school newspaper that he wanted to be a writer. After graduating college, he experimented with journalistic careers - writing for newspapers and radio stations - but found it wasn't the kind of writing he'd dreamed about doing.Andrew Smith has always wanted to be a writer. After graduating college, he wrote for newspapers and radio stations, but found it wasn't the kind of writing he'd dreamed about doing. Born with an impulse to travel, Smith, the son of an immigrant, bounced around the world and from job to job, before settling down in Southern California. There, he got his first 'real job', as a teacher in an alternative educational program for at-risk teens, married, and moved to a rural mountain location where he lives with his wife, two children, two horses, three dogs, three cats and one irritable lizard named Leo.

New edition of bestselling introductory text outlining the history and ways of reading Gothic literature.This revised edition includes: A new chapter on Contemporary Gothic which explores the Gothic of the early twentieth century and looks at new critical developments An updated Bibliography of critical sources and a revised Chronology The book opens with a Chronology and an Introduction to the principal texts and key critical terms, followed by five chapters: The Gothic Heyday 1760-1820; Gothic 1820-1865; Gothic Proximities 1865-1900; Twentieth Century; and Contemporary Gothic. The discussion examines how the Gothic has developed in different national contexts and in different forms, including novels, novellas, poems, films, radio and television. Each chapter concludes with a close reading of a specific text - Frankenstein, Jane Eyre, Dracula, The Silence of the Lambs and The Historian - to illustrate ways in which contextual discussion informs critical analysis. The book ends with a Conclusion outlining possible future developments within scholarship on the Gothic.

The ghost story 1840-1920: A cultural history examines the British ghost story within the political contexts of the long nineteenth century. By relating the ghost story to economic, national, colonial and gendered contexts' it provides a critical re-evaluation of the period. The conjuring of a political discourse of spectrality during the nineteenth century enables a culturally sensitive reconsideration of the work of writers including Dickens, Collins, Charlotte Riddell, Vernon Lee, May Sinclair, Kipling, Le Fanu, Henry James and M.R. James. Additionally, a chapter on the interpretation of spirit messages reveals how issues relating to textual analysis were implicated within a language of the spectral. This book is the first full-length study of the British ghost story in over 30 years and it will be of interest to academics, graduate students and advanced undergraduates working on the Gothic, literary studies, historical studies, critical theory and cultural studies.

Deals with Plotinus' development of the Platonic Forms, and includes an assessment of Porphyry's contribution to the Platonic tradition. This title embraces a number of issues that have become particularly prominent in the growth of interest in these philosophers of late antiquity.

Stoker is best remembered today as the author of Dracula . Following an Introduction that analyses how Stoker's writings have been critically received in the twentieth century, the book addresses not merely Dracula but also the author's other writings through historicism, psychology and genre.

"Philosophy in Late Antiquity" provides an essential new introduction to the key ideas of the Neoplatonists, which affected approaches to Plato as late as the 19th century.

30 kilometer i sekundet er en sjov og hjertevarm YA-roman om at lære at leve livet.Finn Easton måler livet i kilometer i stedet for minutter.  Alle de mange kilometer, han har levet, har været defineret af hans far, og han har også planlagt Finns fremtid. Finn Easton har nemlig epilepsi efter at være blevet ramt af en flyvende, død hest, og hans far slipper ham nødig af syne.Det gør tilværelsen lidt ensformig,  men der er to gode ting i hans liv: hans bedste ven, den-sandsynligvis-splittergale-men-utroligt-fantastiske-og-fantasifulde Cade Hernandez og Julia, hans livs første kærlighed. Da Julia flytter, bliver Finns hjerte knust, og Cade og han stikker af fra epilepsimedicin og forældreovervågning på en biltur til Oklahoma.  På turen oplever de en ulykke, og de to unge bliver helte på en måde, der ændrer deres livssyn fuldstændig.»Jeg elsker Andrew Smith, og jeg elsker denne bog […] Den har alle de kendetegn, der er ved en Andrew Smith-roman: Fed skrivestil og fede personer. En virkelig sød, sjov og bevægende historie.« Brigid på Goodreads 

I en lille by i Iowa kommer Austin og hans bedste ven, Robby, til at slippe en ustoppelig hær af liderlige, sultne, to meter høje græshopper løs …Græshoppejunglen er en absurd, intens og modig roman om at blive voksen. Fortællingen om Austin og om at være en ung mand i tvivl om sin seksualitet væves på sort humoristisk vis sammen med emner som genmodificeret korns eventuelle påvirkning af formeringsevnen og med kampen for at overleve i et kriseramt hjørne af USA.