Personal Takes – serie
Visar alla böcker i serien Personal Takes. Handla med fri frakt och snabb leverans.
11 produkter
Exposés and Excess
Muckraking in America, 1900 / 2000
E-bok, 2013
427 kr
Lägg i varukorg
From robber barons to titanic CEOs, from the labor unrest of the 1880s to the mass layoffs of the 1990s, two American Gilded Ages-one in the early 1900s, another in the final years of the twentieth century-mirror each other in their laissez-faire excess and rampant social crises. Both eras have …
Musically Speaking
A Life Through Song
E-bok, 2013
450 kr
Lägg i varukorg
"Music, I have come to realize, is for me a kind of golden thread running through my life. It has helped maintain my connection with the past that otherwise might have been severed by catastrophe and time. I am often asked-indeed, I often wonder myself-why it is that I should always have had such …
Daphne Du Maurier, Haunted Heiress
Häftad, 2002
383 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Auerbach examines the writer of depth and recklessness now largely known only as the author of Rebecca, looking at the way her sharp-edged fiction, with its brutal and often perverse family relationships, has been softened in film adaptations of her work. She reads both du Maurier's life in her …
Exposés and Excess
Muckraking in America, 1900 / 2000
Häftad, 2005
343 kr
Lägg i varukorg
From robber barons to titanic CEOs, from the labor unrest of the 1880s to the mass layoffs of the 1990s, two American Gilded Ages-one in the early 1900s, another in the final years of the twentieth century-mirror each other in their laissez-faire excess and rampant social crises. Both eras have …
Criminal Case 40/61, the Trial of Adolf Eichmann
An Eyewitness Account
Häftad, 2009
425 kr
Lägg i varukorg
The trial of Adolf Eichmann began in 1961 under a deceptively simple label, "criminal case 40/61." Hannah Arendt covered the trial for the New Yorker magazine and recorded her observations in Eichmann in Jerusalem: The Banality of Evil. Harry Mulisch was also assigned to cover the trial for a Dutch …
Faculty Towers
The Academic Novel and Its Discontents
Häftad, 2009
317 kr
Lägg i varukorg
"I have been a character in academic fiction at least twice," Elaine Showalter writes, "once a voluptuous, promiscuous, drug-addicted bohemian, once a prudish, dumpy, judgmental frump. I hope I am not too easily identified in either of these guises . . . although I can tell you that I preferred …
When Men Were the Only Models We Had
My Teachers Fadiman, Barzun, Trilling
Inbunden, 2001
464 kr
Lägg i varukorg
"Once upon a time there were three men who exemplified, without knowing it, my ideal in life. All of them became famous as writers, influential thinkers, and public figures. Their names are Clifton Fadiman, Lionel Trilling, and Jacques Barzun. They met in college, they remained aware of one another …
Musically Speaking
A Life Through Song
Inbunden, 2003
368 kr
Lägg i varukorg
"Music, I have come to realize, is for me a kind of golden thread running through my life. It has helped maintain my connection with the past that otherwise might have been severed by catastrophe and time. I am often asked-indeed, I often wonder myself-why it is that I should always have had such …
Fugitive in Flight
Faith, Liberalism, and Law in a Classic TV Show
Av Stanley Fish
Inbunden, 2010
395 kr
Lägg i varukorg
"In the 1990s when I was watching reruns of The Fugitive on the Arts and Entertainment Network twice a day, I couldn't take my eyes off it. . . . No one in The Fugitive ever relaxes as you watch and you can't relax either, even though for long stretches absolutely nothing happens. It was the …
Fugitive in Flight
Faith, Liberalism, and Law in a Classic TV Show
Av Stanley Fish
E-bok, 2024
545 kr
Lägg i varukorg
"In the 1990s when I was watching reruns of The Fugitive on the Arts and Entertainment Network twice a day, I couldn't take my eyes off it. . . . No one in The Fugitive ever relaxes as you watch and you can't relax either, even though for long stretches absolutely nothing happens. It was the …
Tropic of Venice
Inbunden, 2007
855 kr
Tillfälligt slut
Named one of the "Big Ten Outstanding Books from University Presses for 2006" by ForeWord magazineFor Margaret Doody, Venice, poised between East and West, earth and sea, sacred and profane, occupies a place only its own. Appearances confound. Renaissance ladies achieved their blond beauty by …
