Product Description: George Orwell argued that one of the four great motives for a prose writer was the desire 'to push the world in a certain direction, to alter other people's idea of the kind of society that they should strive after'. This book contains exciting new work by established and emerging scholars that explores political literature over the last century and a half...read more

Product Description: George Orwell is acclaimed as one of English literature's great essayists. Yet, while many are considered classics, as a body of work his essays have been neglected. Peter Marks provides the first sustained study of Orwell the essayist, giving these compelling pieces the critical attention they merit...read more

Product Description: Aims to provide evidence of the way in which the literature of the 1990s is constantly engaging in questions of memory and history and the representation of time in the present day. Included are essays on key texts of the 1990s, from Graham Swift's "Last Orders" to Jane Smiley's "A Thousand Acres"...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: "Aligning Technology for Best Business Results" has fast become a popular guide for companies trying to make the best use of new design, manufacturing, and information technology. According to the book's authors, "If companies are going to spend millions of dollars and countless hours to investigate, select, install, learn, customize, use, and manage technology tools, they ought to have better business results for the effort...read more

After a London scientist discovers that the 'Piltdown Man' skull--which established for almost fifty years that the first 'man' was an Englishman--is a fake, questions are raised as to who may have participated in the fraud, and why