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Rediscover this deep, practical anatomy of the novel from 'the strongest ... literary critic we have' (New York Review of Books) in this new revised 1...
The Diary of James Wood R.A. 1746-1765
James Wood was one of the first trained at Woolwich and served successively as a Volunteer, Mattross, Cadet, Cadet Gunner and Fireworker in France, th...
And Other Essays
Following The Broken Estate, The Irresponsible Self, and How Fiction Works—books that established James Wood as the leading critic of his generation...
Thomas Bunting, charming, chaotic, and deeply untruthful, is in despair. His marriage is disintegrating, and his academic career is in ruins: instead ...
Upstate is a funny, moving family drama from one of the world’s most influential literary critics. ‘Thoughtful and though-provoking’ Financial T...
On Laughter and the Novel
When James Wood's first collection of essays, The Broken Estate, was published in 1999, the reviewers hailed a master critic. The common thread in Woo...
In this remarkable blend of memoir and criticism, James Wood has written a master class on the connections between fiction and life. He argues that, o...
Selected Essays, 1997–2019
The definitive collection of literary essays by The New Yorker’s award-winning longtime book critic Ever since the publication of his first essay co...
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Was Defeat Inevitable?
In this provocative history, James B. Wood challenges the received wisdom that Japan's defeat in the Pacific was historically inevitable. He argues in...
Biology, Biometry, Demography
Awarded the W. W. Howells Award for the Outstanding Book in Biological Anthropology, this volume presents a comprehensive, integrated, and up-to-date ...
A FranklinCovey Title
No project management training? No problem! In today's workplace, employees are routinely expected to coordinate and manage projects. Yet, chances are...
Continuity Through Change
Reconstructing the collective experience of an entire provincial nobility over a period of more than two centuries, James Wood finds current theories ...
Far from recommending cruel acts, utilitarianism, understood this way, actually runs congruent to our basic moral intuitions....
This dictionary results from the titanic work by Rev. James Wood who collected quotations from ancient and modern English and foreign sources and put ...
Discover the power of words with the "Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources" by James Wood. This remarkable co...
The Benefits of Experience
With Descriptions of New Genera and Species, and an Enumeration of the Specimens, in the Collection of the Indian Museum, Calcutta
Reprint of the original, first published in 1882....
Warfare, Soldiers and Society During the Wars of Religion in France, 1562-76
Historians have long ignored the military aspect of the wars of religion which raged in France during the late sixteenth century, dismissing the confl...
Essays on Literature and Belief
In a series of essays, Wood relates the work of a number of prominent authors to questions of religious and philosophical belief....
Ideas of the Canadian Citizen Soldier, 1896-1921
The image of farmers and workers called to the colours endures in Canada’s social memory of the First World War. But is the ideal of being a citizen...
Recommended in a Sermon Preached in Gravel-Lane, Southwark, for the Benefit of a Charity-school There, January 1st 1731-2. By James Wood. ...
Since its first publication in 1970, A Survey of Israel's History has established itself as a popular and useful text in Bible colleges and seminaries...
The Australian Military Contribution to the Occupation of Japan 1945-1952
Gives an historical account of the Australian contribution to the British Commonwealth Occupation Force in Japan after World War 2....
Designed for the Use of Students in the University
Vol. 1 : The following topics are dealt with: radio instrument; foreign policy; information broadcasting; radio telephony; and wartime broadcasting....
This book addresses geohazards by establishing their unique hydrogeological conceptual site models. Geohazards occur in many forms and scales either n...