Author: Charles H. Caffin
Publisher: Woods Press
Keywords: drama, appreciation
Number of Pages: 316
Published: 2008-10-27
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 1443773735
ISBN-13: 9781443773737

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

Author: Christopher Ricks
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: appreciation, essays
Number of Pages: 368
Published: 1998-09-24
List price: $55.50
ISBN-10: 0192880845
ISBN-13: 9780192880840

In Essays in Appreciation, Christopher Ricks continues the work of his highly-praised The Force of Poetry, with lively and provoking essays on poets and poetry. In addition, Ricks puts his appreciative pen in the service of other literary figures and genres, including drama, the novel, history and philosophy, and a discussion of Victorian biographies. Ricks wraps up the collection with a series of critical questions on literature and theory; plus two notes--on the canon, and on Empson and political criticism. W.H. Auden once wrote of Christopher Ricks that "he is exactly the kind of critic eve

Author: Roger Kamien
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages
Keywords: appreciation, music
Number of Pages: 704
Published: 2006-11-06
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 0073526568
ISBN-13: 9780073526560

Through eight editions, Roger Kamien’s Music: An Appreciation has become the most widely used text for Music Appreciation and Introduction to Music Literature courses. The author has approached his new ninth edition with the goal of re-examining the scholarship and refreshing the repertoire while maintaining the strengths that have made the book number one--the clear presentation of musical elements, the vivid depiction of music history, the carefully chosen musical examples, the detailed and informative Listening Outlines, and the unsurpassed supplements package.

Author: Russell Sturgis
Publisher: Sturgis Press
Keywords: architecture, appreciation
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 2007-03-15
List price: $29.45
ISBN-10: 1406752320
ISBN-13: 9781406752328

This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR’d book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your u

Author: William Walsh
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Keywords: appreciation, critical, narayan
Number of Pages: 184
Published: 1982-11-01
List price: $27.50
ISBN-10: 0226872130
ISBN-13: 9780226872131

R. K. Narayan, author of more than a dozen novels and numerous short stories, is a writer of international stature. Only recently, however, has he received the critical attention that is his due. This lucid and often eloquent study provides both new and devoted Narayan readers with an introduction to his life and work. William Walsh, who makes generous and apt use of quotations from Narayan’s work, traces Narayan’s artistic development and brings into clear relief the qualities that characterize his fiction: gentle irony, humor, and a tolerance of human foibles. Both a criticism an

Author: H. Hemmer
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: appreciation, environmental, decline, domestication
Number of Pages: 217
Published: 1990-07-27
List price: $83.99
ISBN-10: 0521341787
ISBN-13: 9780521341783

A unified approach to the study of domestic animals is an important step in achieving a proper understanding of the nature of domestication. In this book, the author has successfully brought together data from many different fields. It emphasizes the importance of domestic animals to the development of human civilization and demonstrates how human control of domestication may result in the planned production of distinct kinds of domestic animals, bred specifically to improve food production, build up alternative methods of land use or provide new laboratory animals for use in scientific resear

Author: Malcolm Budd
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: nature, appreciation, aesthetic
Number of Pages: 170
Published: 2006-01-06
List price: $54.00
ISBN-10: 019928699X
ISBN-13: 9780199286997

The aesthetics of nature has over the last few decades become an intense focus of philosophical reflection, as it has been ever more widely recognized that it is not a mere appendage to the aesthetics of art. Everyone delights in the beauty of flowers, and some are thrilled by the immensity of mountains or of the night sky. But what is involved in serious aesthetic appreciation of the natural world? Malcolm Budd presents four interlinked studies in the aesthetics of nature, approaching the subject from a variety of angles. As well as developing Budd’s own original ideas, the book provide