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William Shakespeare: A Compact Documentary Life

Schoenbaum, S.
William Shakespeare: A Compact Documentary Life
Covering 400 years of Shakespeare scholarship, Schoenbaum's now classic William Shakespeare: A Documentary Life received high acclaim from critics and scholars. The New York Review of Books called it "a masterpiece, " and the Guardian labeled it "our best life of Shakespeare."Making the resources of the world's greatest Shakespeare collections more accessible to all readers, this updated "Compact Life" contains a refined and amplified version ...

CHF 30.90

The Public Service in the New States

Younger, Sam
The Public Service in the New States
?A brief study of some typical problems of civil service staffing in newly independent British territories.... The analysis focuses on the difficulties resulting from the dependence of new West African states upon the continued service of British colonial officers while native personnel are in short supply. The author ... reviews the responses to these difficulties and extracts the lessons for other territories approaching independence.?-Ameri...

CHF 106.00

William Styron's Nat Turner

Clarke, John Henrik
William Styron's Nat Turner
Clarke, associate editor of Freedomways Magazine, has assembled a talented and varied group of black intellectuals.... Because this book is angry and because it is so counter to the critical acclaim that met Styron's novel, there is an obvious temptation to cry black racism. But to dismiss [it] out of hand would constitute the rankest sophistry. This is an important book, it deserves a full hearing."-Saturday Review

CHF 149.00

The White Rabbit

Marshall, Bruce / Unknown
The White Rabbit
The true story of Secret Agent Yeo-Thomas, as told here, might easily have been used as the basis for a thrilling adventure tale of espionage. But as Bruce Marshall, who served in Intelligence in the British army in World War II, has chosen to tell it, this might be defined as the factual record behind the melodrama of events. For here we follow the stops by which the Wing-Commander of the R.A.F. became Britain's foremost operator. His mission...

CHF 119.00

The Young Earth

Nisbet, Euan G.
The Young Earth
What are we going to do with a parcel of old stones?' wrote the director of an African museum a century and a half ago, when one of my ancestors presented him with a splendid collection of fossils of mammal-like reptiles. Old stones, however intriguing, are difficult to interpret, dusty, and do not fit well in the neatly ordered contents of a house of learning. Archaean geology, which is the study of the Earth's history in the period from afte...

CHF 69.00

Cultural Studies

Fiske, John
Cultural Studies
Includes papers on `The Girl: a rhetoric of desire', the language of magic in southern Italy, stardom, consumerism and its contradictions, and gender relations, amongst others.

CHF 68.00