Author: Frank Northen Magill
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Category : Literature
Languages : en
Pages : 454

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Author: Frank Northen Magill
Publisher:
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Category : Literature
Languages : en
Pages : 458

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A digest of plots and critiques of 318 twentieth century nonfiction works "in the areas of autobiography, memoirs, philosophy, anthropology, psychology, and other subjects for the non-specialist reader"--Publisher's catalog.

Author: Frank Northen Magill
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Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Examines the theme, characters, plot, style and technique of more than 700 nineteenth- and twentieth-century works by prominent authors from around the world.

Author: Charles Edward May
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Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 688

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Examines the theme, characters, plot, style and technique of more than 1,200 nineteenth- and twentieth-century works by prominent authors from around the world.

Author: Frank Northen Magill
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Category : Characters and characteristics in literature
Languages : en
Pages : 744

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Author: Frank Northen Magill
Publisher:
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Category : Literature
Languages : en
Pages : 620

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Critical biographies of classical to contemporary writers.

Author: Frank Northen Magill
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Category : Commonwealth fiction (English)
Languages : en
Pages : 616

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Author: Frank Northen Magill
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Category : Characters and characteristics in literature
Languages : en
Pages : 634

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Author: Maria H. Loh
Publisher: Getty Publications
ISBN: 9780892368730
Category : Imitation in art
Languages : en
Pages : 220

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This insightful volumes the use of imitation and the modern cult of originality through a consideration of the disparate fates of two Venetian painters - the canonised master Titian and his artistic heir, the little-known Padovanino.

Author: George A. Akerlof
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 1400834724
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 261

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From acclaimed economists George Akerlof and Robert Shiller, the case for why government is needed to restore confidence in the economy The global financial crisis has made it painfully clear that powerful psychological forces are imperiling the wealth of nations today. From blind faith in ever-rising housing prices to plummeting confidence in capital markets, "animal spirits" are driving financial events worldwide. In this book, acclaimed economists George Akerlof and Robert Shiller challenge the economic wisdom that got us into this mess, and put forward a bold new vision that will transform economics and restore prosperity. Akerlof and Shiller reassert the necessity of an active government role in economic policymaking by recovering the idea of animal spirits, a term John Maynard Keynes used to describe the gloom and despondence that led to the Great Depression and the changing psychology that accompanied recovery. Like Keynes, Akerlof and Shiller know that managing these animal spirits requires the steady hand of government—simply allowing markets to work won't do it. In rebuilding the case for a more robust, behaviorally informed Keynesianism, they detail the most pervasive effects of animal spirits in contemporary economic life—such as confidence, fear, bad faith, corruption, a concern for fairness, and the stories we tell ourselves about our economic fortunes—and show how Reaganomics, Thatcherism, and the rational expectations revolution failed to account for them. Animal Spirits offers a road map for reversing the financial misfortunes besetting us today. Read it and learn how leaders can channel animal spirits—the powerful forces of human psychology that are afoot in the world economy today. In a new preface, they describe why our economic troubles may linger for some time—unless we are prepared to take further, decisive action.