In Peter Schilling's wonderful novel, the extraordinary baseball season of 1944 comes vividly to life. Bill Veeck, the maverick promoter, returned from Guadalcanal with a leg missing and $500 to his n
First published for private circulation in Vienna in 1900, Arthur Schnitzler's famous play looks at the sexual morality and class ideology of his day through a series of sexual encounters between pair
Building on his enormously successful series of Philosophers in 90 Minutes, Paul Strathern now applies his witty and incisive prose to brief biographical studies of the world's great writers. He brin
Building on his enormously successful series of Philosophers in 90 Minutes, Paul Strathern now applies his witty and incisive prose to brief biographical studies of the world's great writers. He brin
Building on his enormously successful series of Philosophers in 90 Minutes, Paul Strathern now applies his witty and incisive prose to brief biographical studies of the world's great writers. He bring
Dorothy Louise's remarkable new adaptation of Mary Shelley's classic story rescues it from simplistic notions of horror and fear. She remains faithful to Shelley's intention to show how the Creature o
For many years now, historians and political observers have vilified Mao Zedong and placed him in a class with Hitler and Stalin as one of the twentieth century's most notorious tyrants. Mao's reputat
Kierkegaard wasn't really a philosopher in the academic sense. Yet he produced what many people expect of philosophy. He didn't write about the world, he wrote about life - how we live, and how we ch
In Marx in 90 Minutes, Paul Strathern offers a concise, expert account of Marx’s life and ideas, and explains their influence on man’s struggle to understand his existence in the world. The book also
This new interpretation of the New England Witch Trials offers an innovative, well-grounded explanation of witchcraft's link to organic illness. While most historians have concentrated on the accused,
In Schopenhauer in 90 Minutes, Paul Strathern offers a concise, expert account of Schopenhauer’s life and ideas, and explains their influence on man’s struggle to understand his existence in the world
As bleak and agonizing a portrait of war as ever to appear on the stage,The Trojan Women is a masterpiece of pathos as well as a timeless and chilling indictment of war’s brutality. Plays for Performa
In Hume in 90 Minutes, Paul Strathern offers a concise, expert account of Hume’s life and ideas, and explains their influence on man’s struggle to understand his existence in the world. The book also
In Machiavelli in 90 Minutes, Paul Strathern offers a concise, expert account of Machiavelli’s life and ideas, and explains their influence on man’s struggle to understand his existence in the world.
Oedipus, the former ruler of Thebes, has died. Now, when his young daughter Antigone defies her uncle, Kreon, the new ruler, because he has prohibited the burial of her dead brother, she and he enact
Here is a practical introduction to one of the most complex jobs in theatre. Linda Apperson clearly and concisely leads the reader through the procedures and responsibilities of stage management, from
In Thomas Aquinas in 90 Minutes, Paul Strathern offers a concise, expert account of Aquinas’s life and ideas, and explains their influence on man’s struggle to understand his existence in the world. T
Just a century after it had begun, philosophy entered its greatest age with the appearance of Socrates, who spent so much of his time talking about philosophy on the streets of Athens that he never g
In Hegel in 90 Minutes, Paul Strathern offers a concise, expert account of Hegel’s life and ideas, and explains their influence on man’s struggle to understand his existence in the world. The book als
In Kant in 90 Minutes, Paul Strathern offers a concise, expert account of Kant’s life and ideas, and explains their influence on man’s struggle to understand his existence in the world. The book also
In Aristotle in 90 Minutes, Paul Strathern offers a concise, expert account of Aristotle’s life and ideas, and explains their influence on man’s struggle to understand his existence in the world. The
In an age when philosophers had scarcely glimpsed the horizons of the mind, a boy named Aristocles decided to forgo his ambitions as a wrestler. Adopting the nickname Plato, he embarked instead on a
In Descartes in 90 Minutes, Paul Strathern offers a concise, expert account of Descartes’s life and ideas, and explains their influence on man’s struggle to understand his existence in the world. The
"If we accept Wittgenstein's word for it," Paul Strathern writes, "he is the last philosopher. In his view, philosophy in the traditional sense was finished." Ludwig Wittgenstein was a superb logician
Focusing on a neglected aspect of the Civil War’s social history, Mr. Logue describes the character and experience of its soldiers, North and South, and how their postwar lives affected the history of
Analyzing the struggle by evangelical Protestants for the mind and soul of America in the decades before the Civil War, Johnson lucidly explores the nature of the evangelical message, the conflict of
Electra recounts the murders of Clytemnestra and Aegisthus by Clytemnestra's son Orestes, to avenge their murder of his father Agamemnon, commander of the Greeks at Troy, upon his return home. Sophocl
Atomic and biological warfare have already destroyed most of the earth when, in the twenty-second century, an expedition is sent forth from New Zealand to explore North America
The ancient world is gripped by a long and futile war. While the men of Athens fight in a foreign land, the women of Athens can take no more. In secret, they meet with the enemy women and form a pact.
Marlowe's classic treatment of the myth of man's greed and ambition has contemporary reverberations that make it compelling drama. Plays for Performance Series.
Written and first performed in 1599, The Shoemaker's Holiday was the most popular non-Shakespearean comedy of its day - a hearty brew of character and overflowing good humor, occasionally ribald, abou
The only play in which Ibsen denies the validity of revolt, The Wild Duck suggests that under certain conditions, domestic falsehoods are entirely necessary to survival. Plays for Performance Series.
Reprint of the Hill & Wang edition of 1991 and beneficiary of very fulsome praise in PW (6/7/91), LJ (6/15/91), Booklist (9/1/91). Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.
What businessmen thought—or thought they thought—in the age of the “robber barons.” “Brightly written and thoughtful...a stimulating integration of economic and social history.”—Journal of American Hi
