Product Description: How do we really think about the world? We may use words to tell stories about it or draw pictures to represent it, but one thing we do far more than either of those is make calculations of the things that are in it—and to do that we use numbers...read more

Product Description: Steven Connor, one of the most influential critics of twentieth-century literature and culture working today, has spent much of his career writing and thinking about Samuel Beckett. This book presents Connor's finest published work on Beckett alongside fresh essays that explore how Beckett has shaped major themes in modernism and twentieth-century literature...read more

Product Description: In Beyond Words, Steven Connor seeks to understand spoken human language outside words, a realm that encompasses the sounds we make that bring depth, meaning, and confusion to communication. Plunging into the connotations and uses associated with particular groups of vocal utterances—the guttural, the dental, the fricative, and the sibilant—he reveals the beliefs, the myths, and the responses that surround the growls, stutters, ums, ers, and ahs of everyday language...read more

Product Description: "Ingenious, whimsical, imaginative and entertaining, this is a magical little book."—The TimesIn this highly imaginative exploration of our relationship with everyday things, Steven Connor looks at those items which, though mundane, have a magical quality—the things which have an often surprising power to absorb, disturb, seduce, and soothe...read more

If you are considering ISO 9000 certification, and all of the quality improvements and business expansion it can mean, this book will explain exactly what you need to know. It will help you understand ISO 9000 fundamentals, learn about the steps you will need to take, and evaluate whether or not ISO 9000 certification is the best move for your organization. Written by the experts at Information Mapping, Inc. who specialize in helping organizations attain ISO 9000 certification, and other compliance requirements, the book provides a succinct description of each element of the 1994 standard, including design control, purchasing, inspection, handling and storage, servicing, etc. In addition, you will find advice on implementing and documenting quality measures along with an overview of the certification process itself. Special sections on strategic planning and preparing your site for the certification audit will help you avoid potential pitfalls and put your best foot forward.The book's visual, easy-access format allows you to find and absorb the information you need quickly, making Demystifying ISO 9000 a perfect overview for managers in organizations undergoing the certification process or for those beginning to contemplate this major step. 0201634902B04062001

In this illustrated study Steven Connor explores the functions, roles and meanings of skin within Western cultures.

Product Description: Few creatures are as universally despised as flies. Blamed for pestilence and plagues, they were publicly excommunicated from the medieval church. Beelzebub, “the lord of the flies,” was said to be the embodiment of evil, and, for centuries, flies were considered the result of spontaneous generation—the unnatural consequence of rotting meat...read more

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The works of James Joyce have long been regarded as central to European modernism. This book is an introduction to the range of Joyce's work, from Dubliners through to Finnegan's Wake. It contains a bibliography and critical evaluation, taking account of the corpus of literary criticism of Joyce and his work.

Product Description: Ventriloquism, the art of "seeming to speak where one is not", speaks so resonantly to our contemporary technological condition. We now think nothing of hearing voices--our own and others'--propelled over intercoms, cellphones, and answering machines...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Expounds on analyzing and understanding the postmodernity, that time after the modern, in relationships of experience and knowledge, past and present, in the description of architecture, art, literature, drama, and popular culture (view table of contents)

Product Description: Dickens is second only to Shakespeare in the range and intensity of critical discussion which his work has provoked. His writing is central to literature and culture across the English-speaking world. In this important new anthology, Steven Connor gathers together representative examples of the range of new critical approaches to Dickens over the last two decades...read more

Product Description: Steven Connor provides in-depth analyses of the novel and its relationship with its own form, with contemporary culture and with history. He incorporates an extensive and varied range of writers in his discussions such as * George Orwell * William Golding * Angela Carter * Doris Lessing * Timothy Mo * Hanif Kureishi * Marina Warner * Maggie Gee Written by a foremost scholar of contemporary culture and theory, The English Novel in History, 1950 to the Present offers not only a survey but also a historical and cultural context to British literature produced in the second half of this century...read more

Product Description: This book aims to provide a clear and perceptive analysis of the theories of cultural value offered by pschoanalysis, neopragmatism, Marxism, feminism, deconstruction, postmodernism, discourse theory and contemporary ethnography. The book is also an exploration of the strange and surprizing relationships between value, negativity, waste and pleasure...read more