Danish author Erik Knudsen (1922-2007) wrote seventeen poetry collections along with dozens of pieces for Danish radio, TV, and theater. While working as a teacher for most of his life, he was also a literary editor and a translator of plays and poetry....

This intensely personal book develops a new approach to the study of action in drama. Michael Goldman eloquently applies a method based on a crucial fact: our experience of a play in the theater is almost exclusively our experience of acting.Originally published in 1985....

Shakespeare's texts are seen by the poet and critic Michael Goldman as designs for theatrical experience-the complex emotional, physical, and intellectual transaction between actor and audience that brings alive Shakespeare's imagination and makes it immediate to our own. Mr....

Matthew \"Constant Waterman\" Goldman and MoonWind constantly roam the waters of southeast New England, where these stories are centered. Each tale is short and sweet and possessed of an ineffable bemusement.MoonWind is a twenty-six foot sloop with an eight foot beam....

A story of oil and gas, corruption and naked power, \"Oilopoly\" traces the rise of the Russian oil economy from its origins in the nineteenth century right through to Vladimir Putin\'s determined efforts to rein in the oil oligarchs, re-nationalize Russia\'s industries, and pay off its international debt....

Book DescriptionLaunched in 2004, the Art/Shop/Eat pocket guides combine a great contemporary look with the thoroughness of research expected from a Blue Guide publication, making them the perfect choice for the weekend or short-break tourist or business visitor. ? Selective high-quality coverage of the leading museums and galleries ?...

Why is the World Bank so successful? How has it gained power even at moments in history when it seemed likely to fall?...

China\'s bold program of reforms launched in the late 1970s-the move to a market economy and the opening to the outside world-ended the political chaos and economic stagnation of the Cultural Revolution and sparked China\'s unprecedented economic boom....

In these original essays, distinguished scholars of modern East Asia distill from long years of research interpretive accounts of late nineteenth- and twentieth-century China, Japan, and Korea. Warren I. Cohen, Mary Backus Rankin, David L. Howell, CarterEckert, Sheldon Garon, Ernest P. Young, William C. Kirby, R....

The smells, the tactile involvement, the delicious results-there\'s nothing quite like fresh-baked bread, and no other cookbook elevates the art of baking bread and sweets to such grand style as Marcy Goldman\'s A Passion for Baking....