Marianne Moore: Comprehensive Research and Study Guide (Bloom's Major Poets)A collection of critical essays on the poetry of Marianne Moore. Also includes a chronology of events in her life.
Along with poets Ezra Pound and H.D., Marianne Moore was an influential member of the Imagist movement. She served as acting editor of the highly respected literary journal Dial and she won both the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize. Among the works covered here are her poems "Marriage," "The Fish," and "The Steeple-Jack.
"Of all the economic bubbles," the editors of The Economist recently observed, "few have burst more spectacularly than the reputation of economics itself." The crisis of 2008 destroyed the credibility of the economic thinking that had guided policymakers for years.
In How the Economy Works, one of our leading economists provides a jargon-free exploration of the current crisis, offering a powerful argument for how economics must change to get us out of it.
This introductory book provides students and readers of Faulkner with a clear overview of the life and work of one of America's most prolific writers of fiction. His nineteen novels, including The Sound and the Fury and Absalom, Absalom! are discussed in detail, as are his short stories and nonfiction. Focused on the works themselves, but also providing useful information about their critical reception, this introduction is an accessible guide to Faulkner's challenging and complex works.
Despite the fact that our lives are powered by electricity to an astonishing degree, most of us have little or no understanding of how or why it works. Instead, we rely on a blurry notion that it flows--like water--through wires to turn on our appliances. In Electric Universe, David Bodanis fools readers, by keeping them entertained and intrigued, into learning the science behind electricity. He does this by telling a series of stories, starting with how a backwoods American really invented the telegraph and how Samuel Morse stole the credit for it.
Home to the 1920 American expatriate group of Hemingway, Stein, Eliot, Dos Pasos, and others, Paris has long been associated with intellectualism and sidewalk cafe culture. Taking you on a literary tour of the city, examining it as a setting in various works of literature, and as it has served as an influence for various authors.
