Imperfect Alchemist
Title | Imperfect Alchemist PDF eBook |
Author | Naomi Miller |
Publisher | |
Pages | 352 |
Release | 2021-06-17 |
Genre | Great Britain |
ISBN | 9780749026271 |
Miller revisits and reimagines the life of one of Shakespeare's neglected female literary contemporaries, Mary Sidney Herbert.
Reimagining Shakespeare for Children and Young Adults
Title | Reimagining Shakespeare for Children and Young Adults PDF eBook |
Author | Naomi Miller |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 348 |
Release | 2013-10-15 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1135363358 |
First published in 2003. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Alchemists of Loss
Title | Alchemists of Loss PDF eBook |
Author | Kevin Dowd |
Publisher | John Wiley & Sons |
Pages | 433 |
Release | 2010-04-27 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 047068996X |
An engaging look at how modern finance almost destroyed our global economy Over the last thirty years, capital markets have been restructured through the tenets of modern finance. This has been enormously profitable for the financial services sector. However, these innovations, coupled with unsound risk and regulatory practices have proved disastrous for the global economy. In a clear and accessible style, ex-investment banker and financial journalist Martin Hutchinson, and highly respected academic, Kevin Dowd show how modern finance combined with easy money threatened to bring down the world financial system. At the heart of the book is modern finance as a U.S. invention, the theories and practices associated with them, and the changes they made in business models and risk management on Wall Street and other major financial centers. Breaks down the events involved in the 2007-08 financial collapse Reveals how botched policy response made a bad situation worse Focuses on lessons that the practice of finance must learn from recent events The Alchemists of Loss will help you to understand how our financial system crashed and show you what it will take to make sure this won't happen again as we move forward.
Gender and Early Modern Constructions of Childhood
Title | Gender and Early Modern Constructions of Childhood PDF eBook |
Author | Naomi J. Miller |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 388 |
Release | 2016-12-05 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1351934848 |
Drawing on art history, literary studies and social history, the essays in this volume explore a range of intersections between gender and constructions of childhood in the 15th, 16th and 17th centuries in Italy, England, France and Spain. The essays are grouped around the themes of celebration and loss, education and social training, growing up and growing old. Contributors grapple with ways in which constructions of childhood were inflected by considerations of gender throughout the early modern world. In so doing, they examine representations of children and childhood in a range of sources from the period, from paintings and poetry to legal records and personal correspondence. The volume sheds light on some of the ways in which, in the relations between Renaissance children and their parents and peers, gender mattered. Gender and Early Modern Constructions of Childhood enriches our understanding of individual children and the nature of familial relations in the early modern period, as well as of the relevance of gender to constructions of self and society.
The Alchemist's Portrait
Title | The Alchemist's Portrait PDF eBook |
Author | Simon Rose |
Publisher | Tradewind Books |
Pages | 5 |
Release | 2003 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 1896580297 |
A school trip to the art gallery at the city museum leads Matthew into an eerie meeting with Pete Glimmer, imprisoned inside his own portrait by his villainous uncle in 1666. Entrusted by Peter with recovering the one object that can save the world, Matthew is sent hurtling over 300 years into the past. Encountering magic, mayhem and murder, Matthew also has to contend with Peter's uncle, the ruthless and seemingly immortal Nicholas Van der Leyden, in a desperate race through time to save the future.
The Alchemist
Title | The Alchemist PDF eBook |
Author | Tanya Pollard |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
Pages | 417 |
Release | 2023-09-21 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1472534867 |
A fast-paced whirlwind of fantasy and mockery confined to a single room, The Alchemist offers a witty culmination of Jonson's experiments with city comedy. The play has been widely recognized as one of the most impressive achievements of the period's theatre; Coleridge famously described it as one of the three most perfect plots in literature. Yet it is a notoriously difficult play: its alchemical language has aged into obscurity, and its insiderly humour can seem impenetrable to students approaching it for the first time. This comprehensively annotated edition translates and illuminates the play's many pleasures and shows how Jonson's cynical, street-wise wit resonates with our contemporary sensibilities. Pollard highlights the play's witty ingenuity, while offering the information and guidance to enable students to understand and enjoy The Alchemist fully.
The Alchemist
Title | The Alchemist PDF eBook |
Author | Ben Jonson |
Publisher | BoD - Books on Demand |
Pages | 262 |
Release | 2024-04-17 |
Genre | Poetry |
ISBN |
THE greatest of English dramatists except Shakespeare, the first literary dictator and poet-laureate, a writer of verse, prose, satire, and criticism who most potently of all the men of his time affected the subsequent course of English letters: such was Ben Jonson, and as such his strong personality assumes an interest to us almost unparalleled, at least in his age. Ben Jonson came of the stock that was centuries after to give to the world Thomas Carlyle; for Jonson's grandfather was of Annandale, over the Solway, whence he migrated to England. Jonson's father lost his estate under Queen Mary, "having been cast into prison and forfeited." He entered the church, but died a month before his illustrious son was born, leaving his widow and child in poverty. Jonson's birthplace was Westminster, and the time of his birth early in 1573. He was thus nearly ten years Shakespeare's junior, and less well off, if a trifle better born. But Jonson did not profit even by this slight advantage. His mother married beneath her, a wright or bricklayer, and Jonson was for a time apprenticed to the trade.