Oxford University Press

Based on the proven maxim that "e;money makes the world go round"e;, this study, drawing from Shakespeare's texts, presents a lexicon of common words as well as a variety of familiar familial and cultural sitations in an economic context. Making constant recourse to well-known material from Shakespeare's plays, Turner demonstrates that...

Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832) was once a household name, but is now largely        forgotten. This book explores how Scott's work became an all-pervasive point of        reference for cultural memory and collective identity in the nineteenth century, and        why it no longer has this role. Ann Rigney breaks new ground in memory studies...

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The Frontier of Leisure examines the centrality of leisure to the history of Southern California, and how the region's tourist resorts and residential recreation influenced the nation, from ranch houses and the landscape of postwar suburbia to relations of labor and race, and the place of nature in everyday life....

A World HistoryThis book addresses the question of what world history looks like when the family        is at the center of the story. People have always lived in families, but what that        means has varied dramatically over time and across cultures. The family is not a        "e;natural"e; phenomenon - it has a history. Maynes and...

Americans have always loved risktakers. Like the Icarus of ancient Greek lore, however, even the most talented entrepreneurs can overstep their bounds. All too often, the very qualities that make Icaran executives special-- self-confidence, visionary insight, and extreme competitiveness--spur them to take misguided and even illegal chances. The...