Author: Bernice W. Klima
Publisher: Manchester Univ Pr
Keywords: performance, shakespeare, macbeth
Number of Pages: 162
Published: 1996-01-01
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 0719027322
ISBN-13: 9780719027321

In this analysis of "Macbeth" in performance, the author examines major productions of the play on both stage and screen, from the earliest performances by Garrick and Siddons through to Trevor Nunn’s 1976 production. She invites the reader to reconsider the possibilities of the drama.Book DescriptionJohn Dover Wilson’s New Shakespeare, published between 1921 and 1966, became the classic Cambridge edition of Shakespeare’s plays and poems until the 1980s. The series, long since out-of-print, is now reissued. Each work contains a lengthy and lively introduction, main text, and

Author: Ivan Klima
Publisher: Grove Press
Keywords: intimacy, ultimate
Number of Pages: 400
Published: 1998-12-04
List price: $14.00
ISBN-10: 080213601X
ISBN-13: 9780802136015

When a beautiful married woman walks into Pastor Daniel Vedra’s life and conjures up memories of his first wife, Jitka, he struggles with the chaos the affair creates for his wife, his children, his vocation, and his future.

Author: Ivan Klima
Publisher: Granta UK
Keywords: trades, golden
Number of Pages: 284
Published: 1998-04-01
List price: $13.95
ISBN-10: 1862071039
ISBN-13: 9781862071032

The title My Golden Trades comes from a Czech proverb: "For him with nine trades, the tenth is poverty." The narrator of these stories, however, does not have the option of perfecting his trade as a writer. Forbidden to publish by his country’s repressive government (like Klima himself), he must instead work a number of odd jobs to survive.

Author: Gyula Klima
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: thinkers, medieval, buridan, john
Number of Pages: 368
Published: 2008-12-23
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 0195176235
ISBN-13: 9780195176230

John Buridan (ca. 1300-1362) has worked out perhaps the most comprehensive account of nominalism in the history of Western thought, the philosophical doctrine according to which the only universals in reality are "names": the common terms of our language and the common concepts of our minds. But these items are universal only in their signification; they are singular entities like any other in reality. This book examines what is most intriguing to contemporary readers in Buridan’s medieval philosophical system: his nominalist account of the relationship between language, thought and real

Author: John Klima
Publisher: Wiley
Keywords: series, world, making, baseball, legend, league, negro, birmingham, boys, black, barons, last, willie
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 2009-08-31
List price: $25.95
ISBN-10: 0470400137
ISBN-13: 9780470400135

The story of Willie Mays’s rookie year with the Negro American League’s Birmingham Black Barons, the Last Negro World Series, and the making of a baseball legend Baseball Hall of Famer Willie Mays is one of baseball’s endearing greats, a tremendously talented and charismatic center fielder who hit 660 career homeruns, collected 3,283 hits, knocked in 1,903 runs, won 12 Gold Glove Awards and appeared in 24 All-Star games. But before Mays was the "Say Hey Kid", he was just a boy. Willie’s Boys is the story of his remarkable 1948 rookie season with the Negro American L

Author: Gyula Klima
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Keywords: philosophy, readings, history, blackwell, commentary, medieval, essential
Number of Pages: 408
Published: 2007-08-03
List price: $41.95
ISBN-10: 1405135654
ISBN-13: 9781405135658

This collection of readings with extensive editorial commentary brings together key texts of the most influential philosophers of the medieval era to provide a comprehensive introduction for students of philosophy. Features the writings of Augustine, Thomas Aquinas, Boethius, John Duns Scotus and other leading medieval thinkers Features several new translations of key thinkers of the medieval era, including John Buridan and Averroes Readings are accompanied by expert commentary from the editors, who are leading scholars in the field

Author: Gyula Klima
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: thinkers, medieval, buridan, john
Number of Pages: 368
Published: 2008-12-23
List price: $99.00
ISBN-10: 0195176227
ISBN-13: 9780195176223

John Buridan (ca. 1300-1362) has worked out perhaps the most comprehensive account of nominalism in the history of Western thought, the philosophical doctrine according to which the only universals in reality are "names": the common terms of our language and the common concepts of our minds. But these items are universal only in their signification; they are singular entities like any other in reality. This book examines what is most intriguing to contemporary readers in Buridan’s medieval philosophical system: his nominalist account of the relationship between language, thought and real