Authors:David Orton, Anthony Orton, L. J. Frobisher,
Publisher: Continuum
Keywords: collection, continuum, mathematics, teaching, insights
Number of Pages: 208
Published: 2004-12-01
List price: $65.00
ISBN-10: 0826477488
ISBN-13: 9780826477484

Continuum has repackaged some of its key academic backlist titles to make them available at a more affordable price. These reissues will have new ISBNs, distinctive jackets and strong branding. They cover a range of subject areas that have a continuing student sale and make great supplementary reading more accessible. Provides essential guidance and background information for teaching mathematics.

Authors:Heinrich Lausberg, David E. Orton, R. Dean Anderson,
Publisher: Brill Academic Publishers
Keywords: literary, study, foundation, rhetoric, handbook
Number of Pages: 954
Published: 1997-08-01
List price: $192.00
ISBN-10: 9004107053
ISBN-13: 9789004107052

Lausberg’s Handbook of Literary Rhetoric, here made available for the first time in English, received high critical acclaim on its first publication in 1963. It is a monumental work of extraordinary erudition, organisation and comprehensiveness, and enjoys unrivalled authority in its formal description of rhetorical techniques. The present edition is a translation of the second edition of 1973, which was reprinted in 1990. The Handbook has for many years been a standard reference work for all engaged in the study of literature and rhetoric. This translation will ensure its accessibility

Author: C.G. Orton
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: dosimetry, radiation
Number of Pages: 344
Published: 1986-03-31
List price: $196.00
ISBN-10: 0306420562
ISBN-13: 9780306420566

Author: Joe Orton
Publisher: Nick Hern Books
Keywords: madge, fred
Number of Pages: 192
Published: 1998-10-01
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 1854593595
ISBN-13: 9781854593597

Author: Joe Orton
Publisher: Da Capo Press
Keywords: diaries, orton
Number of Pages: 310
Published: 1996-08-22
List price: $18.00
ISBN-10: 0306807335
ISBN-13: 9780306807336

”To be young, good-looking, healthy, famous, comparatively rich and happy is surely going against nature.” When Joe Orton (1933–1967) wrote those words in his diary in May 1967, he was being hailed as the greatest comic playwright since Oscar Wilde for his darkly hilarious Entertaining Mr. Sloane and the farce hit Loot, and was completing What the Butler Saw; but less than three months later, his longtime companion, Kenneth Halliwell, smashed in Orton’s skull with a hammer before killing himself. The Orton Diaries, written during his last eight months, chronicle in a remarkably candid

Author: Joe Orton
Publisher: Grove Press
Keywords: madge, fred, visitors
Number of Pages: 208
Published: 1999-07-01
List price: $13.00
ISBN-10: 0802136281
ISBN-13: 9780802136282

As one of Britain’s legendary group of Angry Young Men dramatists, Joe Orton shot to fame on the strength of vicious farces like Loot and What the Butler Saw. Today, with Orton’s work garnering increasing attention and recognition in the wake of the 1987 feature film about his life, Prick Up Your Ears, his early writing has still remained obscure. Now the publication of these two recently discovered plays, written immediately before his breakthrough successes, reveals a key moment in his development as a dramatist. Fred & Madge, Orton’s first play, is an absurdist drama,

Author: Joe Orton
Publisher: Samuel French, Inc.
Keywords: butler
Published:
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 0573617775
ISBN-13: 9780573617775