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Next Year Country
by Lorney Faber"Next Year Country" is a heartwarming story -a true account-of Lomey Fa- ber's experiences on a Montana ranch. Writing with tenderness and an obvious love of nature, she describes the pleasures and hardships of a rancher's life; his pioneering spirit, often surviving on little more than faith; and his innate desire, as self-appointed guardian of the land, to preserve the environment. As the title suggests, her story is one of hope -and the promise of tomorrow. As you read it you'll share her love of the land, her appreciation of God's creation, and the joy she finds in living in harmony with nature. Perhaps you'll also be reminded that perseverance and determination can make all things possible.
Next Year in Cuba: A Cubano's Coming-of-Age in America
by Gustavo Pérez FirmatThis is a personal account of a young Cuban's departure from his native country and his assimilation of American culture and values, including marriage to an American, raising an American family, teaching at an American university....
Next-Generation Memory and Ukrainian Canadian Children’s Historical Fiction: The Seeds of Memory (Children's Literature and Culture)
by Mateusz ŚwietlickiThis is the first book monograph devoted to Anglophone Ukrainian Canadian children’s historical fiction published between 1991 and 2021. It consists of five chapters offering cross-sectional and interdisciplinary readings of 41 books – novels, novellas, picturebooks, short stories, and a graphic novel. The first three chapters focus on texts about the complex process of becoming Ukrainian Canadian, showcasing the experiences of the first two waves of Ukrainian immigration to Canada, including encounters with Indigenous Peoples and the First World War Internment. The last two chapters are devoted to the significance of the cultural memory of the Holodomor, the Great Famine of 1932-1933, and the Second World War for Ukrainian Canadians. All the chapters demonstrate the entanglements of Ukrainian and Canadian history and point to the role Anglophone children’s literature can play in preventing the symbolical seeds of memory from withering. This volume argues that reading, imagining, and reimagining history can lead to the formation of beyond-textual next-generation memory. Such memory created through reading is multidimensional as it involves the interpretation of both the present and the past by an individual whose reality has been directly or indirectly shaped by the past over which they have no influence. Next-generation memory is of anticipatory character, which means that authors of historical fiction anticipate the readers – both present-day and future – not to have direct links to any witnesses of the events they discuss and to have little knowledge of the transcultural character of the Ukrainian Canadian diaspora.
Next: The Future Just Happened
by Michael LewisThe New York Times bestseller. "His book is a wake-up call at a time when many believe the net was a flash in the pan."--BusinessWeek With his knowing eye and wicked pen, Michael Lewis reveals how the Internet boom has encouraged changes in the way we live, work, and think. In the midst of one of the greatest status revolutions in the history of the world, the Internet has become a weapon in the hands of revolutionaries. Old priesthoods are crumbling. In the new order, the amateur is king: fourteen-year-olds manipulate the stock market and nineteen-year-olds take down the music industry. Unseen forces undermine all forms of collectivism, from the family to the mass market: one black box has the power to end television as we know it, and another one may dictate significant changes in our practice of democracy. With a new afterword by the author.
Nexus Analysis: Discourse and the Emerging Internet
by Suzie Wong ScollonNexus Analysis presents an exciting theory by two of the leading names in discourse analysis and provides a practical guide to its application. The authors argue that discourse analysis can itself be a form of social action. If the discourse analyst is part of the nexus of practice under study, then the analysis can itself transform that nexus of practice. Focussing on their own involvement with and analysis of pioneering communication technologies in Alaska they identify moments of social importance in order to examine the links between social practice, culture and technology. Media are identified not only as means of expressing change but also as catalysts for change itself, with the power to transform the socio-cultural landscape. In this intellectually exciting yet accessible book, Ron Scollon and Suzie Wong Scollon present a working example of their theory in action and provide a personal snapshot of a key moment in the history of communication technology, as the Internet transformed Alaskan life.
Nezami Ganjavi and Classical Persian Literature: Demystifying the Mystic (Literatures and Cultures of the Islamic World)
by Kamran TalattofThis book offers new insights into the twelfth-century Persian poet Nezami Ganjavi. Challenging the dominant interpretation of Nezami’s poetry as the product of mysticism or Islam, this book explores Nezami’s literary techniques such as his pictorial allegory and his profound conceptualization of poetry, rhetoric, and eloquence. It employs several theoretical and methodological approaches to clarify the nature of his artistic approach to poetry. Chapters explore Nezami’s understanding of rhetoric and literature as Sakhon, his interest in literary genres, the diversity of themes explored in his Five Treasures, the sources of Nezami’s creativity, and his literary devices. Exploring themes such as love, religion, science, wine, gender, and philosophy, this study compares Nezami’s works to other giants of Persian poetry such as Ferdowsi, Jami, Rudaki, and others. The book argues that Nezami’s main concern was to weave poetry rather than to promote any specific ideology.
Ngugi wa Thiong’o, Gender, and the Ethics of Postcolonial Reading
by Brendon NichollsThis is the first comprehensive book-length study of gender politics in Ngugi wa Thiong'o's fiction. Brendon Nicholls argues that mechanisms of gender subordination are strategically crucial to Ngugi's ideological project from his first novel to his most recent one. Nicholls describes the historical pressures that lead Ngugi to represent women as he does, and shows that the novels themselves are symptomatic of the cultural conditions that they address. Reading Ngugi's fiction in terms of its Gikuyu allusions and references, a gendered narrative of history emerges that creates transgressive spaces for women. Nicholls bases his discussion on moments during the Mau Mau rebellion when women's contributions to the anticolonial struggle could not be reduced to a patriarchal narrative of Kenyan history, and this interpretive maneuver permits a reading of Ngugi's fiction that accommodates female political and sexual agency. Nicholls contributes to postcolonial theory by proposing a methodology for reading cultural difference. This methodology critiques cultural practices like clitoridectomy in an ethical manner that seeks to avoid both cultural imperialism and cultural relativisim. His strategy of 'performative reading,' that is, making the conditions of one text (such as folklore, history, or translation) active in another (for example, fiction, literary narrative, or nationalism), makes possible an ethical reading of gender and of the conditions of reading in translation.
Ngugi wa Thiong’o: Nationalism, Ethnicity, and Resistance (Routledge Research in Postcolonial Literatures)
by Amitayu ChakrabortyAs a part of Routledge Research in Postcolonial Literature, the book explores the complex of ways in which Ngugi wa Thiong’o wrestles with issues of nationalism and ethnicity through his politically subversive and creatively intense literary texts. His novels and plays are fraught with his anxiety, resistance, and defiance concerning Gikuyu ethnicity, Kenyan nationalism, and a curious, globalectic imaginary. In this way, the book re- appreciates Ngugi offering scholarly insights into the present debates over identity politics as well as aesthetics that animate contemporary research in postcolonial studies, world literature, and African studies across the globe.
Ni orden ni patria: La trama secreta del <<Pacogate>> el mayor fraude fiscal en la historia de Chile
by Mauricio Weibel<P>La trama de los errores y excesos que han puesto a Carabineros de Chile en su peor momento Ni orden ni patria es la investigación al fondo del caso de corrupción pública más grande de la historia reciente de nuestro país. Cuando Chile aún no se recupera del llamado "Milicogate", el caso que dejó al descubierto el enorme desfalco en el Ejército, se descubrió un fraude todavía mayor. <P> El trabajo de Mauricio Weibel, autor de Traición a la patria, revela en detalle el modus operandi que involucró a un centenar de complotados, entre ellos altos oficiales, que permitió robarle al país más de 28 mil millones de pesos. Una historia que arranca en las oficinas y hogares de los oficiales que integraron la "Mafia de la Intendencia", para luego atravesar por los diferentes robos cometidos durante una década. <P>De cómo el descaro del alto mando y la Dirección General arrastró imprudentemente a la institución al descrédito con situaciones como la increíble "Operación Huracán" y la posterior remoción de generales investigados por el uso fraudulento de gastos reservados.
Ni se les ocurra disparar
by Javier MaríasJavier Marías, además de un inmenso escritor, es para muchos un punto de referencia en el análisis de la actualidad, y su columna dominical es una de las más leídas y comentadas de la prensa española. Ni se les ocurra disparar recoge cerca de un centenar de artículos publicados por Javier Marías entre 2009 y 2011 en El País Semanal. Con una prosa elegante, franca y sin ambages, que no necesita adornos para alcanzar la conciencia del lector con un disparo certero, para remover sus entrañas o, al contrario, reconfortarlo, el autor nos presenta su particular percepción del mundo y de su entorno. En esta recopilación encontramos al Javier Marías más cercano y reflexivo, preocupado por la realidad que lo rodea. La sumisión y deliberada idiotización de las sociedades contemporáneas, la irresponsabilidad e ineptitud de los políticos, las vicisitudes de la creación artística o la evocación de mundos perdidos y fugazmente recuperados son algunos de los temas sobre los que el gran novelista nos ofrece su mirada más sincera y personal.
Nibelungenlied: A Literary Analysis
by Hugo BekkerIn the last fifty or so years there has been a gradual shift of attention in scholarship on the Nibelungenlied from reconstruction of the texts, and tracings of the poem's multiple and complex antecedents, to interpretation. In spite of this trend, there is still a pressing need for a critical analysis of the Nibelungenlied as a whole that draws together its various literary qualities and examines in detail the epic's unity, depth, and meaning. Professor Bekker's study provides this kind of analysis. It takes a fresh approach, viewing the poem as a work of literary merit worthy to be read for its own sake. It traces the new designs which the poet brings to the Nibelungen tradition and provides detailed examinations of the main aspects of technique and structure in the epic. The approach is based on close consultation of the text, with little digression, in an attempt to guide the reader to an understanding and appreciation of the poem as the author intended it to be read.Professor Bekker points out that the poet of the Nibelungenlied does not aim at psychological character delineation and deliberately refrains from seeking to establish the various prominent figures in the epic as individuals in the modern sense of the term. Instead, they emerge as representative figures whose interrelationships, though interesting, are less important for the unity and meaning of the epic than are their common relationships to the world in which they exist. The question of personal guilt or innocence becomes irrelevant, and Professor Bekker sees the work ultimately as poetic pageant of a noble way of life and its destruction. Symbolism, imagery, parallelism, symmetry, and other structural devices all contribute to the design which expresses the nature of this noble life, and Professor Bekker's book is a valuable guide to the complex architecture of this thirteenth-century masterpiece.
Nicaea and the Future of Christianity (Orthodox Christianity and Contemporary Thought)
by George E. Demacopoulos and Aristotle PapanikolaouCommemorating the 1700th anniversary of the Council of Nicaea, this volume offers an original examination of the enduring impact of the single most famous gathering of Christians since the apostolic ageDespite the longstanding historical and theological study of the Council of Nicaea, several central questions remain. Was Nicaea a theological event or a political one? What does it mean if it was both? Was Constantine’s intervention without precedent, or was he simply continuing a long-standing role of a Roman emperor who was responsible for leading a religious cult (albeit now for a different faith tradition)? And what about the actual theological debates of Nicaea and our ability to understand them? Scholars might never exhaust this avenue of inquiry, despite the numerous studies in recent decades.For many scholars and Christian activists today, the significance of Nicaea centers around the idea of conciliarity and what this has meant, both historically and theologically, for the Christian community. Why and how did Nicaea become foundational for thinking that the church operates in a conciliar manner? How did that work historically in different parts of the Christian world? And how should it work today?Nicaea and the Future of Christianity offers a fresh, globally-diverse, ecumenically-minded approach to these questions with an impressive collection of both senior and junior scholars, reflecting a diversity of views within the Orthodox, Catholic, and Protestant traditions. The great benefit of this wide-ranging approach lies precisely in its ability to see the many ways in which Nicaea continues to speak to the future of Christianity.
Niccolò di Lorenzo della Magna and the Social World of Florentine Printing, ca. 1470–1493 (I Tatti studies in Italian renaissance history)
by Lorenz BöningerA new history of one of the foremost printers of the Renaissance explores how the Age of Print came to Italy. Lorenz Böninger offers a fresh history of the birth of print in Italy through the story of one of its most important figures, Niccolò di Lorenzo della Magna. After having worked for several years for a judicial court in Florence, Niccolò established his business there and published a number of influential books. Among these were Marsilio Ficino’s De christiana religione, Leon Battista Alberti’s De re aedificatoria, Cristoforo Landino’s commentaries on Dante’s Commedia, and Francesco Berlinghieri’s Septe giornate della geographia. Many of these books were printed in vernacular Italian. Despite his prominence, Niccolò has remained an enigma. A meticulous historical detective, Böninger pieces together the thorough portrait that scholars have been missing. In doing so, he illuminates not only Niccolò’s life but also the Italian printing revolution generally. Combining Renaissance studies’ traditional attention to bibliographic and textual concerns with a broader social and economic history of printing in Renaissance Italy, Böninger provides an unparalleled view of the business of printing in its earliest years. The story of Niccolò di Lorenzo furnishes a host of new insights into the legal issues that printers confronted, the working conditions in printshops, and the political forces that both encouraged and constrained the publication and dissemination of texts.
Nicholas Karamzin and Russian Society in the Nineteenth Century
by J. Laurence BlackNicholas Karamzin (1766-1826) was a remarkably active thinker and writer during a time that was trying to all Europeans. A first-hand witness to the French Revolution, Napoleonic suzerainty over Europe, the burning of Moscow, and the Decembrist revolt in St. Petersburg, he presented in his voluminous correspondence and published writings a world view that recognized the weaknesses of the Russian Empire and at the same time foresaw the dangers of both radical change and rigid autocracy. Russian conservatism owes much to this man, even though he would have agreed with very few of those who came after him and were called conservative: he supported autocracy, but was committed to enlightenment; he abhorred constitutions. The fact that his writing had lasting significance has rarely been challenged, but the social and political nature of that contribution has never before been demonstrated. Previous studies of Karamzin have dealt with his literary career. This monograph focuses on the final third of his life, on his career at court (1816-26) and on the cultural heritage he left to the Russian Empire. As the historian of Russia most widely read by his and later generations, his historical interpretations mirrored and helped shape the image Russians had of themselves. Professor Black's study of Karamzin is crucial to any examination of Russia's enlightenment, conservatism, historical writing, and national self-consciousness.
Nicholas Love's Mirror and Late Medieval Devotio-Literary Culture: Theological politics and devotional practice in fifteenth-century England
by David J. FallsSurviving in 59 complete manuscript versions, few English texts of the late medieval period seem to have achieved the popularity of Nicholas Love's fifteenth-century translation and adaptation of the Latin Meditationes Vitae Christi - The Mirror of the Blessed Life of Jesus Christ. The Mirror has received surprisingly little scholarly attention and is often contextualized in terms of its role in the theological conflict between English ecclesiastical orthodoxy and the teachings of heresiarch John Wycliff. David Falls presents a new account of the text's history which de-centralises, but does not disregard, the influence of the Wycliffite controversy. Falls interrogates preconceptions and investigates new possibilities for understanding the composition, circulation, function and use of Love's Mirror by examining both the textual modifications and additions made by Love in his adaptation of the Latin, and places these alterations in context by examining individual copies of the Mirror. The manuscript copies are read as both sites of literary consumption and nexuses of textual transition, demonstrating that it was Love's ability to inscribe his work with "functional diversity" which explains the Mirror's popularity. This book presents a nuanced picture not only of the Mirror's production, circulation and function, but also the dynamic and flourishing devotio-literary culture of late medieval England in which Love's text operated.
Nicholas of Cusa: A Medieval Thinker for the Modern Age
by Kazuhiko YamakiNicholas of Cusa (1401 64), doctor of canon law, church politician and philosopher, was one of the most important thinkers of 15th century Europe. This year marks the sixth centenary of his birth. Scholars from round the globe gathered in Tokyo for the 19th Cusanus Congress last year; this volume makes their contributions more widely available. Major themes examined include tradition and innovation, religion, the relevance of Nicholas of Cusa's thought for today, the relationship between East and West in his thought, and the development of his thought and scholarship as we enter a new millennium. Multilingual text: English, German, French.
Nicomachean Ethics (SparkNotes Philosophy Guide)
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Nido de piratas: La fascinante historia del diario Pueblo (1965-1984)
by Jesús Fernández ÚbedaLas extraordinarias andanzas del diario Pueblo que, entre 1965 y 1984, congregó a las mayores leyendas del periodismo. «Aprendí el oficio en aquel asombroso nido de piratas que este magnífico libro de Jesús Fernández Úbeda, que sin duda habría sido uno de los nuestros, rescata del olvido».Arturo Pérez-Reverte, en el prólogo«En el pan, como hermanos; en la información, como gitanos». Nido de piratas es una historia del diario Pueblo, que comienza en 1964, cuando el periódico de los sindicatos verticales se traslada al número 73 de la madrileña calle de las Huertas. Bajo la batuta de Emilio Romero, y con una tirada de más de doscientos mil ejemplares, se encuentra en la cima del éxito. Entre whiskys, partidas de póker y una nube de humo de tabaco negro, se oye el inconfundible repiqueteo de las teclas de las Olivettis. Los reporteros y fotógrafos que se pelean por las exclusivas se cuentan por decenas. Y están dispuestos a todo. Así lo recuerdan en este libro muchos de los que por allí pasaron. Desde Arturo Pérez-Reverte hasta Rosa Villacastín, Carmen Rigalt, Raúl del Pozo, Julia Navarro (y su padre, Felipe Navarro, Yale) o Andrés Aberasturi. Pero también otros -abogados, curas, fotógrafos, peluqueros, etc.-, testigos directos de esa manera salvaje y apasionante de hacer periodismo.Pueblo, herido de muerte tras la salida de Romero, reacciona de forma tardía al golpe de Estado de Tejero, y sufre un fuerte recorte de plantilla y pérdidas millonarias. Aquel transatlántico en proceso de desguace se hunde irremediablemente. Esa parte de la historia, por desgracia, no parece tan ajena. Sus puertas cierran de forma definitiva en 1984, cuando el Gobierno de Felipe González termina de ejecutar el plan de Suárez de acabar con la prensa pública. Y, con él, desaparece una manera única, voraz y trepidante de entender el oficio. Críticas:«No es sólo el retrato de una forma de hacer periodismo que ya no existe, sino también de una forma de vivir que está desapareciendo a marchas forzadas».Enrique Bunbury «Un libro apasionante que refleja la vida de unos bucaneros, lo peor de cada casa, que se mataban por aparecer en primera página».Raúl del Pozo «Para casi todos los que conocían Pueblo, trabajar allí era como vivir una segunda infancia feliz».José María García«Llegué a colaborar unas cuantas veces en el inefable diario Pueblo que mi admirado Jesús Úbeda ha estudiado a la perfección en este libro ejemplar, a la vez una crónica de aquel filibusterismo periodístico que hoy añoramos tanto y un trabajo bien concebido y mejor rematado».Luis Alberto de Cuenca
Nidrstigningar Saga: Sources, Transmission, and Theology of the Old Norse “Descent into Hell”
by Dario BullittaThe Evangelium Nicodemi, or Gospel of Nicodemus, was the most widely circulated apocryphal writing in medieval Europe. It depicted the trial, Passion, and crucifixion of Christ as well as his Harrowing of Hell. During the twelfth-century renaissance, some exemplars of the Evangelium Nicodemi found their way to Iceland where its text was later translated into the vernacular and known as Niðrstigningar saga. Dario Bullitta has embarked on a highly fascinating voyage that traces the routes of transmission of the Latin text to Iceland and continental Scandinavia. He argues that the saga is derived from a less popular twelfth-century French redaction of the Evangelium Nicodemi, and that it bears the exegetical and scriptural influences of twelfth-century Parisian scholars active at Saint Victor, Peter Comestor and Peter Lombard in particular. By placing Niðrstigningar saga within the greater theological and homiletical context of early thirteenth-century Iceland, Bullitta successfully adds to our knowledge of the early reception of Latin biblical and apocryphal literature in medieval Iceland and provides a new critical edition and translation of the vernacular text.
Niebla al mediodía
by Tomás GonzálezJulia desapareció hace siete meses, después deabandonar a Raúl. Sólo quedan su recuerdopersistente, su presencia fantasmal y su voz#Raúl observa el paisaje y siente a Julia en los silencios.Su amor por ella fue grande y opresivo, y casi loenloquece su abandono.Raquel vive en Nueva York y enseña Literatura.Detesta a Julia, pero su fantasma la ronda en lasnoches como un presentimiento lúgubre#Aleja es amiga de Julia y cuenta la otra partede la historia.Niebla al mediodía está construida alrededor de unenigma que prácticamente se devela desde el principio:la desaparición de Julia. Sin embargo, comosucede en toda buena obra literaria, el misterio estáen otra parte: amarrado a la fuerza de las voces, a labelleza inquietante de los escenarios, a la conversaciónsolitaria de sus cuatro personajes.
Niebla: (nivola) (El\libro De Bolsillo/alianza Editorial Ser. #Vol. 0085)
by Miguel de UnamunoLos hombres no sucumbimos a las grandes penas ni a las grandes alegrías vienen embozadas en una inmensa niebla de pequeños incidentes, y la vida es esto, de pequeños incidentes, y la vida es esto, la niebla. La vida es una nebulosa. Ahora surge de ella Eugenia. Con Niebla, Unamuno inaugura un nuevo género, la nivola, donde se desarrolla una trama a través de diálogos, monólogos, olvidándose de la narración omnisciente e introduciendo la voz del autor interviniendo en la trama. En esta ocasión, Unamuno nos plantea temas como el existencialismo y presenta la muerte de la idea del romanticismo frente a una mujer que defiende su independencia económica y de decisión. En esta historia, Augusto que vive en un estado como de somnolencia se enamora perdidamente de Eugenia a la que intenta conquistar por todos los medios aunque sin ningún éxito. Este rechazo continuado y tortuosos le lleva, como ya lo hizo el jovenWerther, a rondar la idea del suicidio.
Niels Bohr (SparkNotes Biography Guide)
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Nietzsche and Modernism: Nihilism In Lawrence, Kafka And Beckett (Palgrave Studies in Modern European Literature)
by Stewart SmithReconfiguring Nietzsche’s seminal impact on modernist literature and culture, this book presents a distinctive new reading of modernism by exploring his sustained philosophical engagement with nihilism and its inextricable tie to pain and sickness. Arguing that modernist texts dramatize the frailty of the ill, the impotent, and the traumatised modern subject denuded of the traditional means to justify or redeem one’s suffering, it uses the Nietzschean diagnoses of nihilism and what he calls 'ressentiment', the entwined feelings of powerlessness and vindictiveness, as heuristic tools to remap the fictional landscapes of Lawrence, Kafka, and Beckett. Lucid, authoritative and accessible, this book will appeal internationally to literature and philosophy scholars and undergraduates as well as to readers in medical and sociological fields.
Nietzsche in the Nineteenth Century: Social Questions and Philosophical Interventions (Intellectual History of the Modern Age)
by Robert C. HolubFriedrich Nietzsche is often depicted in popular and scholarly discourse as a lonely philosopher dealing with abstract concerns unconnected to the intellectual debates of his time and place. Robert C. Holub counters this narrative, arguing that Nietzsche was very well attuned to the events and issues of his era and responded to them frequently in his writings. Organized around nine important questions circulating in Europe at the time in the realms of politics, society, and science, Nietzsche in the Nineteenth Century presents a thorough investigation of Nietzsche's familiarity with contemporary life, his contact with and comments on these various questions, and the sources from which he gathered his knowledge.Holub begins his analysis with Nietzsche's views on education, nationhood, and the working-class movement, turns to questions of women and women's emancipation, colonialism, and Jews and Judaism, and looks at Nietzsche's dealings with evolutionary biology, cosmological theories, and the new "science" of eugenics. He shows how Nietzsche, although infrequently read during his lifetime, formulated his thought in an ongoing dialogue with the concerns of his contemporaries, and how his philosophy can be conceived as a contribution to the debates taking place in the nineteenth century. Throughout his examination, Holub finds that, against conventional wisdom, Nietzsche was only indirectly in conversation with the modern philosophical tradition from Descartes through German idealism, and that the books and individuals central to his development were more obscure writers, most of whom have long since been forgotten.This book thus sheds light on Nietzsche's thought as enmeshed in a web of nineteenth-century discourses and offers new insights into his interactive method of engaging with the philosophical universe of his time.
Nietzsche on Tragedy
by Stern J. P. SilkThis is the first comprehensive study of Nietzsche's earliest (and extraordinary) book, The Birth of Tragedy (1872). When he wrote it, Nietzsche was a Greek scholar, a friend and champion of Wagner, and a philosopher in the making. His book has been very influential and widely read, but has always posed great difficulties for readers because of the particular way Nietzsche brings his ancient and modern interests together. The proper appreciation of such a work requires access to ideas that cross the boundaries of conventional specialisms. This is now provided by M. S. Silk and J. P. Stern in their joint study of Nietzsche's book. They examine in detail its content, style and form; its strange genesis and hybrid status; its biographical background and the controversy engendered by its publication; its value as an account of ancient Greek culture and as a theory of tragedy and music; its relation to other theories of tragedy; and its place in the history of German ideas and in Nietzsche's own philosophical career.