Greg (Kelley School of Business Fisher Indiana University),John (W.P. Carey School of Business Wisneski Arizona State University),Rene (Rotterdam School of Management Bakker Erasmus University)
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John Carey (EDT)/ William V. Dunlap (EDT)/ R. John Pritchard (EDT)
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Alexander Hamilton (EDT)/ John Jay/ James Madison/ George Wescott Carey (EDT)/ James McClellan (EDT)/ Alexander Hamilton/ John Jay (EDT)/ James Madison (EDT)
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Alfred Kentigern Siewers (EDT)/ John Carey (CON)/ Jeffrey Jerome Cohen (CON)/ Katherine M. Faull (CON)/ Timo Maran (CON)
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Alfred Kentigern Siewers/ John Carey (CON)/ Jeffrey Jerome Cohen (CON)/ Katherine M. Faull (CON)/ Timo Maran (CON)
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Brian Todd Carey,Joshua B Allfree; John Cairns
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Brian Todd Carey/ Joshua B. Alfee/ John Cairns
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Brian Todd Carey/ Joshua B. Allfree/ John Cairns
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Brian Todd Carey/ Joshua B. Allfree/ John Cairns/ Brian Todd
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Carey Curtis (EDT)/ John L. Renne (EDT)/ Luca Bertolini (EDT)
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A vital, engaging, and hugely enjoyable guide to poetry, from ancient times to the present, by one of our greatest champions of literature--selected as the literature book of the year by the London Times “[A] fizzing, exhilarating book.”—Sebastian Faulks, Sunday Times, London“Delightful.’”—New York Times Book Review What is poetry? If music is sound organized in a particular way, poetry is a way of organizing language. It is language made special so that it will be remembered and valued. It does not always work—over the centuries countless thousands of poems have been forgotten. But this Little History is about some that have not. John Carey tells the stories behind the world’s greatest poems, from the oldest surviving one written nearly four thousand years ago to those being written today. Carey looks at poets whose works shape our views of the world, such as Dante, Chaucer, Shakespeare, Whitman, and Yeats. He also looks at more recent poets, like
Hailed as "exhilarating and suggestive" (Spectator), "thought-provoking and entertaining" (David Lodge, Sunday Times), and "incisive and inspirational" (Guardian), What Good are the Arts? offers a de
Imagine. . . Witnessing the destruction of Pompeii. . . Accompanying Julius Caesar on his invasion of Britain. . . Flying with the crew of The Great Artiste en route to dropping the atomic bomb on Na
In 1954 William Golding was 43 years old and a nobody. He had been demobbed from the navy at the end of World War Two and returned to his pre-war job teaching English at Bishop Wordsworth’s Scho
What is poetry? If music is sound organized in a particular way, poetry is a way of organizing language. It is language made special so that it will be remembered and valued. It does not always work—o
In this landmark study, John Carey analyzes the elitest views of some of the most highly respected literary icons of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. This book, as defined in his preface, "is a
Does strolling through an art museum, admiring the old masters, improve us morally and spiritually? Would government subsidies of "high art" (such as big-city opera houses) be better spent on local c
William Golding was born in 1911 and educated at his local grammar school and Brasenose College, Oxford. Lord of the Flies, his first novel, was an immediate success, and was followed by a series of r
William Golding was born in 1911 and educated at his local grammar school and Brasenose College, Oxford. Lord of the Flies, his first novel, was an immediate success, and was followed by a series of r
A funny memoir of John Carey, best known for his provocative stance on the arts and the academic establishment. It shows his journey from an ordinary background to Oxford's oldest literary professorsh
So too are today's experts - Steve Jones on the Human Genome Project, Richard Dawkins on DNA and many other representatives of the contemporary genre of popular science-writing which, John Carey argue
An experienced and imaginative anthologist, editor of The Faber Book of Reportage and The Faber Book of Science, Carey has gathered together a vast range of texts from Ancient Egypt to modern Californ
What was it like to be caught in the firestorm that destroyed Pompeii? John Carey's best-selling Faber Book of Reportage draws its eyewitness account from memoirs, travel books and newspapers. There
Yeats and other canonized writers, he relates this to the cult of the Nietzschean Superman, which found its ultimate exponent in Hitler. Carey's assault on the founders of modern culture caused cons