The Bible of the music industry which is now in its tenth edition, "This Business of Music" has been revised and completely updated to reflect the latest changes in the ever-evolving music business. Commentary on recent legislation, a reader-friendly summary of the laws on copyright duration and much more insightful analysis - plus fully updated ...
The essay is one of the richest of literary forms. Its most obvious characteristics are freedom, informality, and the personal touch - though it can also find room for poetry, satire, fantasy, and sustained argument. All these qualities, and many others, are on display in 'The Oxford Book of Essays'. The most wide-ranging collection of its kind to ...
Praise for the Third Edition: 'This is one of the best books available. Its excellent organizational structure allows quick reference to specific models and its clear presentation ...solidifies the understanding of the concepts being presented' - "IIE Transactions on Operations Engineering". Thoroughly revised and expanded to reflect the latest ...
From Chaucer to Vikram Seth and Victoria Wood; from Byron to John Updike; from Augustan satire to advertising jingles; from G. K. Chesterton to Wendy Cope - this superb anthology is notable above all for its breadth. It is truly international in scope, bringing together poets from far beyond the British Isles. Drawing on many different types of ...
Shylock, Shakespeare's moneylender from The Merchant of Venice has attained a legendary stature, capturing the imagination of each new generation of actors, writers, thinkers, and readers. Literary/theater critic Gross presents a wide-ranging cultural study of the controversial character who has inspired the likes of Marcel Proust, Henry James, T ...
This anthology demonstrates just how rewarding an art-form the aphorism can be, and just how brilliantly the aphorist can reveal the hidden truths or ironies of existence. Containing the wit and wisdom of such writers and philosophers as Marcus Aurelius, La Rochefoucauld, Dr Johnson, Oscar Wilde, Bertrand Russell, and Virginia Woolf, the ...
An unrivalled collection of literary gossip and intimate sidelights on the lives of the authors The dictionary defines an anecdote as 'a short account of an entertaining or interesting incident', and the anecdotes in this collection more than live up to that description. Many of them are funny, often explosively so. Others are touching, ...
Forced into a loveless marriage with Auberon, Titania is soon with child. But the shocking truth about the baby's lineage forces her into a sinister pact with the malignant sprite Armadan. Magical forces, both good and evil, contend for the child's life or death.
/John Ney Rieber /Peter Gross, Peter Snejbjerg and /John Ridgway, illustrators Timothy Hunter, destined to become the world's greatest sorcerer, takes his girlfriend Molly to visit a secret Lot where only Tim's childhood imaginary friends exist. But nothing is as it seems in the Lot, and Tim and Molly are sucked into a dangerous adventure, ranging ...
The 2006 supplement includes the following updates: Chapter 15 was expanded to include the disclosure required by GASB Statement 40, Deposit and Investment Risk Disclosures, an amendment of GASB 3; Chapter 26 on Investments has been expanded to address Auditing Interpretations 9328, Auditing Fair Value Measurements, and 9332, Auditing Derivative ...
The sixth graphic novel in the popular series "The Books of Magic", originally launched by Sandman writer Neil Gaiman. Tim Hunter, the young magician who could become the world's most powerful mystic, has left his London home. First stop: the American southwest, where Tim runs into a snake-spirit who teaches him a thing or two about power. And in ...
No writer has served as such a powerful source of inspiration for other writers as Shakespeare. No writer has attracted such widespread and varied comment. This unique anthology draws on the vast literature that plays little part in formal Shakespeare criticism and scholarship, but that shows with immediacy and passion the enormous impact ...
John Gross is the son of a Jewish doctor who practised in Mile End at the time of the Second World War. His parents were the children of immigrants, steeped in the language and traditions of a European past, yet outside the home he grew up in a very English world of schools and books. Looking back on his childhood, Gross reflects on this double ...
Murphy's law applies to everything...including manufacturing equipment! Since the machines people depend on will always break down - generally at the worst possible moment - companies need to institute preventive-maintenance management programs in order to both maximize equipment life and minimize downtime. Fundamentals of Preventive Maintenance ...
For the past ninety years the "Times Literary Supplement "has scrutinized, dissected, applauded, and occasionally disparaged the work of the twentieth century's leading writers. It has taken a major role in the making--and breaking--of literary reputations. In "The Modern Movement," John Gross has assembled an entertaining selection of 155 ...
This collection of essays examines the moral rights of subjects portrayed in documentary film and television. The discussion is placed largely in the context of art, rather than news, and recognizes that the time is now over when photographers and film-makers can use images of their subjects and justify their actions as the right of the artist. ...
This anthology ranges across several centuries, selecting only the most polished and inspired samples of English prose. It includes prose selections from early masters such as Milton and Donne as well as more recent benchmarks such as the writing of Hemingway and Salman Rushdie.
Nonprofit organizations are subject to complex sets of regulations that reflect the diverse organizations that are covered under these rules: charitable organizations, social welfare organizations, memberships organizations, advocacy groups, and many more. Nonprofit accounting is especially difficult in the areas of fund accounting, cash vs. ...
A theater critic and former editor of the Times Literary Supplement remembers coming of age in London between the World Wars. A Jew, he experienced two Londons--one colored by the Jewish community, and one by British identity. A New York Times Notable Book for 2002.
Tim Hunter, teenaged sorcerer in training, turns 14, becomes a cat, finds himself transformed back to normal (with the addition of a magical tattoo) and encounters Death of the Endless in this latest "Books of Magic" collection.
Examines the online embodied experiences of gay men. At once scholarly and sensual, this unique book is the result of a three-year ethnographic study chronicling the activities on three distinct social scenes in the world of Internet Relay Chat - virtual spaces constructed by gay men for the erotic exploration of the male body.
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