Author: Joseph Silk
Publisher: Times Books
Keywords: third, bang
Number of Pages: 512
Published: 2000-12-06
List price: $22.50
ISBN-10: 080507256X
ISBN-13: 9780805072563

Our universe was born billions of years ago in a hot, violent explosion of elementary particles and radiationæthe big bang. What do we know about this ultimate moment of creation, and how do we know it?Drawing upon the latest theories and technology, the new edition of The Big Bang, is a sweeping, lucid account of the event that set the universe in motion. Award-winning astronomer and physicist Joseph Silk begins his story with the first microseconds of the big bang, on through the evolution of stars, galaxies, clusters of galaxies, quasars, and into the distant future of our universe. He

Authors:Catherine Silk, John Silk,
Publisher: Manchester Univ Pr
Keywords: racism, americans, fiction, film, african, culture, anti, american, popular, portrayals
Number of Pages: 192
Published: 1990-05
List price: $45.00
ISBN-10: 0719030706
ISBN-13: 9780719030703

From Uncle Remus to the novels of Alice Walker, the ideological battle over the deep-seated racism of American society has been played out in the realm of popular culture. Covering the period from the American Civil War to the present day, this study traces the development of racism and the struggle against it in fiction and film. The text emphasizes the ways in which racist and anti-racist popular culture both respond to developments in racist ideas and help to shape or oppose them. Novels and films are examined in the light of major economic and political experiences, motivations and preoccu

Author: M. S. Silk
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: comedy, definition, aristophanes
Number of Pages: 462
Published: 2002-10-24
List price: $55.00
ISBN-10: 019925382X
ISBN-13: 9780199253821

In this book Professor Silk presents a radically new critical study of Aristophanes. Through an exploration of Aristophanes’ comic poetry, informed by a wide range of theory from Kierkegaard to Adorno, a particular consideration of Aristophanes’ own understanding of his medium, and challenging comparisons with modern literature, this book adds a new chapter to the long-standing debate about the nature and potentialities of comedy.

Author: M. S. Silk
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: literature, new, world, landmarks, iliad, homer
Number of Pages: 112
Published: 2004-01-12
List price: $22.99
ISBN-10: 052153996X
ISBN-13: 9780521539968

Michael Silk covers the poem’s historical context, composition and extensive influence in this distinctive critical introduction to Homer’s Iliad, the earliest epic poem, and the earliest known work of literature in ancient Greece. Silk relates its literary power to the peculiar coherence and inter-relation of such aspects of the poem as its style, character-portrayal and ideology. This revised edition considers recent scholarship and includes an updated guide to further reading. First Edition Hb (1986): 0-521-32814-4 First Edition Pb (1986): 0-521-31302-3

Author: Alvin J. Silk
Publisher: Harvard Business Pre
Keywords: marketing
Number of Pages: 207
Published: 2006-10-01
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 1422104605
ISBN-13: 9781422104606

In "The Practice of Management", Peter F. Drucker wrote, "There is only one valid definition of business purpose: to create a customer!. [Therefore], any business enterprise has two - and only these two - basic functions: marketing and innovation. They are the entrepreneurial functions. Marketing is the distinguishing, the unique function of the business."This book explores what marketing is and how an enterprise can differentiate itself from others in attracting and retaining customers. In general terms, marketing refers to what an organization must do to create and exchange value with custom

Author: Mark Silk
Publisher: Touchstone
Keywords: war, touchstone, books, world, america, politics, religion, spiritual
Number of Pages: 208
Published: 1989-04-15
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 067167563X
ISBN-13: 9780671675639

Authors:M. S. Silk, J. P. Stern,
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: tragedy, nietzsche
Number of Pages: 452
Published: 1983-07-29
List price: $84.00
ISBN-10: 0521272556
ISBN-13: 9780521272551

This is the first comprehensive study of Nietzsche’s earliest (and extraordinary) book, The Birth of Tragedy (1872). When he wrote it, Nietzsche was a Greek scholar, a friend and champion of Wagner, and a philosopher in the making. His book has been very influential and widely read, but has always posed great difficulties for readers because of the particular way Nietzsche brings his ancient and modern interests together. The proper appreciation of such a work requires access to ideas that cross the boundaries of conventional specialisms. This is now provided by M. S. Silk and J. P. Ster