12 critical essays that analyze and evaluate the style and works of the 19th century British novelist, Charles Dickens

Dickens: A Collection of Critical Essays

Literature & Fiction

Price, Martin

History & Criticism

Prentice Hall Direct

Mountains cover a quarter of the Earth's land surface and are home to about 12 percent of the global population. They are the sources of all the world's major rivers, affect regional weather patterns, provide centres of biological and cultural diversity, hold deposits of minerals, and provide both active and contemplative recreation. Yet mountains are also significantly affected by climate change; as melting and retreating glaciers show. Given the manifold goods and services which mountains provide to the world, such changes are of global importance. In this Very Short Introduction, Martin Price outlines why mountains matter at the global level, and addresses the existing and likely impacts of climate change on mountain, hydrological and ecological systems. Considering the risks associated with the increasing frequency of extreme events and 'natural hazards' caused by climate change, he discusses the implications for both mountain societies and wider populations, and concludes by emphasizing the need for greater cooperation in order to adapt to climate change in our increasingly globalized world. ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable.

Mountains: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions)

Science & Math

Earth Sciences

Oxford University Press

Forms of Life: Character and Moral Imagination in the Novel

The novel contains imagined lives that achieve a kind of meaning and intensity our own lives do not. Out of the novelist’s moral imagination—the breadth and depth of his awareness of human motivations, tensions, and complexities—emerge fictional persons through whom we learn to read ourselves. This eloquent book, exploring fictional lives in crucial moments of choice and change, stresses both their difference from and their deep connections with life.
Martin Price writes here about ways in which character has been conceived and presented in the novels of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Beginning with chapters that cogently argue the artistic value of character, Price then deals with the different forms character has taken in individual novels. His first discussions center on authors—Jane Austen, Stendhal, Charles Dickens, George Eliot, and Leo Tolstoy—who define individuals by their adherence or opposition to social norms. The next chapters deal with novelists for whom the moral world is largely internalized. The characters of Henry James, Joseph Conrad, D.H. Lawrence, and E.M. Forster live in society and act upon it, but the authors are particularly concerned with the confusions, terrors, and heroism that lie within consciousness. The last chapter uses novels about the artist by James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, and Thomas Mann in order to apprehend the process by which experience is transformed into art. 
Avoiding both formalistic and moralistic extremes, this new book by a distinguished critic helps us recover a fuller sense of literary form and the forms of life from which it emerges.

Yale University Press

The novel contains imagined lives that achieve a kind of meaning and intensity our own lives do not.  Out of the novelist’s moral imagination—the breadth and depth of his awareness of human motivations, tensions, and complexities—emerge fictional persons through whom we learn to read ourselves.  This eloquent book, exploring fictional lives in crucial moments of choice and change, stresses both their difference from and their deep connections with life. Martin Price writes here about ways in which character has been conceived and presented in the novels of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.  Beginning with chapters that cogently argue the artistic value of character, Price then deals with the different forms character has taken in individual novels.  His first discussions center on authors—Jane Austen, Stendhal, Charles Dickens, George Eliot, and Leo Tolstoy—who define individuals by their adherence or opposition to social norms.  The next chapters deal with novelists for whom the moral world is largely internalized.  The characters of Henry James, Joseph Conrad, D.H. Lawrence, and E.M. Forster live in society and act upon it, but the authors are particularly concerned with the confusions, terrors, and heroism that lie within consciousness.  The last chapter uses novels about the artist by James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, and Thomas Mann in order to apprehend the process by which experience is transformed into art.   Avoiding both formalistic and moralistic extremes, this new book by a distinguished critic helps us recover a fuller sense of literary form and the forms of life from which it emerges. 

The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World

Sets each of the seven wonders in their historical context, bringing together materials from ancient sources and the results of modern excavations to suggest why particular places and objects have been seen as the touchstone for human achievement.

History

Clayton, Peter

Clayton, Peter A.

Ancient Civilizations

Routledge

To the Palace of Wisdom: Studies in order and energy from Dryden to Blake

To the palace of Studies in order and energy from Dryden to Blake (Anchor books) Martin Price 1965

British & Irish

Southern Illinois University Press

Coins and their cities: Architecture on the ancient coins of Greece, Rome, and Palestine

VECCHI

This book discusses the importance of mountain regions, and the precariousness of mountain tourism in the context of ecosystem and cultural conservation. It includes case studies of mountain tourism existing alongside environmental sustainability and community well being. The text presents an integrated approach to mountain-based tourism, balancing the needs of local communities, tourists and environmental conservation.

Tourism and Development in Mountain Regions (Cabi)

Business & Money

Godde, Pamela

Zimmermann, F M

Economics

CABI

Written by leading international authors, this book presents a comprehensive review of forests in mountain regions, and their sustainable development. Based on a report prepared by the IUFRO Task Force in Sustainable Mountain Development, for the IUFRO Congress to be held in August 2000. The book addresses current issues and initiatives, and defines research needs. Key global issues and addressed is in general articles, while specific regional topics are described and highlighted within each chapter in shorter case studies. Case studies are drawn from all continents, examples including Mexico, Central Europe, Cameroon, Tanzania, Chile, Korea, New Zealand and many others. Contributions have been included from nearly 100 world experts, making this volume the definitive, state-of the art review of its subject.

Forests in Sustainable Mountain Development (IUFRO Research Series, 5)

Butt, Nathalie

The Single-Minded Project: Ensuring the Pace of Progress

Management & Leadership

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