The Oxford Book Of Work
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Author | : Keith Thomas |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 664 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : |
Compiled by a respected social historian, this unique anthology on the changing experience of work draws upon more than 500 writers from classical antiquity to modern times.
Author | : Stephen Ackroyd |
Publisher | : OUP Oxford |
Total Pages | : 678 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 0199299242 |
Aims to bring together, present, and discuss what is known about work and organizations and their connection to broader economic change in Europe and America. This volume contains a range of theoretically informed essays, which give comprehensive coverage of changes in work, occupations, and organizations.
Author | : D. J. Enright |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 351 |
Release | : 2008-10-01 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 0199556520 |
The inescapable reality of death has given rise to much of literature's most profound and moving work. D. J. Enright's wonderfully eclectic selection presents the words of poet and novelist, scientist and philosopher, mystic and sceptic. And alongside these 'professional' writers, he allows the voices of ordinary people to be heard; for this is a subject on which there are no real experts and wisdom lies in many unexpected places.
Author | : Peter W. G. Morris |
Publisher | : OUP Oxford |
Total Pages | : 576 |
Release | : 2012-07-19 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 0191629383 |
The Oxford Handbook of Project Management presents and discusses leading ideas in the management of projects. Positioning project management as a domain much broader and more strategic than simply 'execution management', this Handbook draws on the insights of over 40 scholars to chart the development of the subject over the last 50 years or more as an area of increasing practical and academic interest. It suggests we could be entering an emerging 'third wave' of analysis and interpretation following its early technical and operational beginnings and the subsequent shift to a focus on projects and their management. Topics dealt with include: the historical evolution of the subject; its theoretical base; professionalism; business and societal context; strategy; organization; governance; innovation; overruns; risk; information management; procurement; relationships and trust; knowledge management; practice and teams. This handbook is of particular relevance to those interested in the research issues underlying project management.
Author | : Joyce Carol Oates |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 788 |
Release | : 1992 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780195092622 |
This volume offers a survey of American short fiction in 59 tales that combine classic works with 'different, unexpected gems', which invite readers to explore a wealth of important pieces by women and minority writers. Authors include: Amy Tan, Alice Adams, David Leavitt and Tim O'Brien.
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Total Pages | : 656 |
Release | : 2001 |
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Author | : Robin Hanbury-Tenison |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 595 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0192805568 |
Selected by Robin Hanbury-Tenison, whom the Sunday Times called the 'greatest explorer of the last twenty years', this is a comprehensive anthology of the writings of explorers through the ages, now fully revised and updated. The ultimate in travel writing, these are the words of those who changed the world through their pioneering search for new lands, new peoples, and new experiences. Divided into geographical sections, the book takes us to Asia with Vasco da Gama, Francis Younghusband, and Wilfred Thesiger, to the Americas with John Cabot, Sir Francis Drake, and Alexander Von Humboldt, to Africa with Dr David Livingstone and Mary Kingsley, to the Pacific with Ferdinand Magellan and James Cook, and to the Poles with Robert Peary and Wally Herbert. Driven by a desire to discover that transcends all other considerations, the vivid writings of these extraordinary people reveal what makes them go beyond the possible and earn the right to be known as explorers.
Author | : John Gross |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 680 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 0199556555 |
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 appear for many years, it includes 140 essays by 120 writers: classics, curiosities, meditations, diversions, old favorites, recent examples that deserve to be better known. A particularly welcome feature is the amount of space allotted to American essayists, from Benjamin Franklin to John Updike and beyond. This is an anthology that opens with wise words about the nature of truth, and closes with a consideration of the novels of Judith Krantz. Some of the other topics discussed in its pages are anger, pleasure, Gandhi, Beau Brummell, wasps, party-going, gangsters, plumbers, Beethoven, potato crisps, the importance of being the right size, and the demolition of Westminster Abbey. It contains some of the most eloquent writing in English, and some of the most entertaining.
Author | : John Mortimer |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 431 |
Release | : 1992 |
Genre | : Villains in literature. |
ISBN | : 9780192141958 |
Gathers selections from literature and history depicting both real and fictitious criminals, murderers, confidence men, hypocrites, traitors, spies, and tyrants
Author | : T. A. Shippey |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 499 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780192803825 |
'So you won't sell me your soul?' said the Devil. 'Thank you,' replied the student, 'I had rather keep it myself, if it's all the same to you.' So begins this rich and intriguing collection of fantasy stories. Figures such as the devil, trolls and werewolves, sorcerers and dragons have long been part of the human psyche, and the authors of these marvellous tales draw upon this deep well of images, characters, and landscapes with great imagination and subtlety. With thirty-one tales by writers as diverse as John Buchan and Mervyn Peake, Angela Carter and Terry Pratchett, this is an anthology for the newcomer and dedicated fan alike.