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In an age of intense economic competition and continual change,
the ability to learn is a key factor in survival and prosperity.
This book examines the changing interaction of the world economy,
Britain 's prospects for prosperity, the connections between
different kinds of work and the learning that support them.
Focusing on specific areas where changed attitudes and ways of
working are long overdue, the authors show the need for a better
balance between formal provision in schools, colleges and within
employment, and less tangible informal learning at home and in the
workplace. These, in turn, open up issues of the curriculum
(especially in the formative later years in schools and colleges),
guidance for education and work and the qualifications
structure.
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The Waves (Paperback)
Virginia Woolf; Edited by David Bradshaw
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'I, who would wish to feel close over me the protective waves of
the ordinary, catch with the tail of my eye some far horizon.'
Intensely visionary yet absorbed with the everyday; experimental,
daring and challenging, The Waves is regarded by many as Virginia
Woolf's greatest achievement. It follows a set of six friends from
childhood to middle age as they experience the world around them
and explore who they are and what it means to be alive. As the
contours of their lives are revealed, a unique novel is slowly
unveiled. Enfolded within Woolf's lyrical and mysterious language,
the mundane takes on a startling new significance while distant
pasts are no less in play than the clamorous sounds and
kaleidoscopic sights of the modern city. Yet precisely where the
alluringly enigmatic pages of The Waves are leading, and what
deeper meanings are held within its undulant chapters and
shimmering interludes, are questions that have never ceased to
enthral readers and critics alike. In this new edition David
Bradshaw considers the spellbinding oddness and originality of The
Waves, helping the reader to negotiate a way though this most
poetic and haunting of novels. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years
Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of
literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects
Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate
text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert
introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the
text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.
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Mrs Dalloway (Paperback)
Virginia Woolf; Edited by David Bradshaw
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'Fear no more the heat of the sun.' Mrs Dalloway, Virginia Woolf's
fourth novel, offers the reader an impression of a single June day
in London in 1923. Clarissa Dalloway, the wife of a Conservative
member of parliament, is preparing to give an evening party, while
the shell-shocked Septimus Warren Smith hears the birds in Regent's
Park chattering in Greek. There seems to be nothing, except perhaps
London, to link Clarissa and Septimus. She is middle-aged and
prosperous, with a sheltered happy life behind her; Smith is young,
poor, and driven to hatred of himself and the whole human race. Yet
both share a terror of existence, and sense the pull of death. The
world of Mrs Dalloway is evoked in Woolf's famous stream of
consciousness style, in a lyrical and haunting language which has
made this, from its publication in 1925, one of her most popular
novels. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's
Classics has made available the widest range of literature from
around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's
commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a
wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions
by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text,
up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.
In an age of intense economic competition and continual change,
the ability to learn is a key factor in survival and prosperity.
This book examines the changing interaction of the world economy,
Britain s prospects for prosperity, the connections between
different kinds of work and the learning that support them.
Focusing on specific areas where changed attitudes and ways of
working are long overdue, the authors show the need for a better
balance between formal provision in schools, colleges and within
employment, and less tangible informal learning at home and in the
workplace. These, in turn, open up issues of the curriculum
(especially in the formative later years in schools and colleges),
guidance for education and work and the qualifications
structure.
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To the Lighthouse (Paperback)
Virginia Woolf; Edited by David Bradshaw
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'I am making up "To the Lighthouse" - the sea is to be heard all
through it' Inspired by the lost bliss of her childhood summers in
Cornwall, Virginia Woolf produced one of the masterworks of English
literature in To the Lighthouse. It concerns the Ramsay family and
their summer guests on the Isle of Skye before and after the First
World War. As children play and adults paint, talk, muse and
explore, relationships shift and mutate. A captivating fusion of
elegy, autobiography, socio-political critique and visionary
thrust, it is the most accomplished of all Woolf's novels. On
completing it, she thought she had exorcised the ghosts of her
imposing parents, but she had also brought form to a book every bit
as vivid and intense as the work of Lily Briscoe, the indomitable
artist at the centre of the novel. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100
years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range
of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume
reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most
accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including
expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to
clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and
much more.
This volume describes recent research in the field of
metalloproteinases (a family of enzymes that can catalyze tissue
degradation), in particular their participation in autoimmune
diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis, reviewing the latest
developments in metalloproteinase inhibitor design and the current
status of clinical candidates. This volume is intended not only for
those active in research into metalloproteinases but also for those
with an interest in inflammatory diseases. Thus it addresses both
academic and industrial researchers.
This volume describes recent research in the field of
metalloproteinas es, in particular their participation in
autoimmune diseases such as r heumatoid arthritis. The work updates
current progress in matrix metal loproteinase research, reviewing
the latest developments in metallopro teinase inhibitor design and
the current status of clinical candidates . It elucidates the
structural relationships between different members of the MMP
family and provides insight into the contributions of diff erent
metalloproteinases to normal and pathological processes. Special
emphasis is given to the potential of adamlysins as therapeutic
targe ts. This volume is intended not only for those active in
research into metalloproteinases but also for those with an
interest in inflammator y diseases. Thus it addresses both academic
and industrial researchers .
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Selected Essays (Paperback)
Virginia Woolf; Edited by David Bradshaw
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'A good essay must draw its curtain round us, but it must be a
curtain that shuts us in, not out.' According to Virginia Woolf,
the goal of the essay 'is simply that it should give pleasure...It
should lay us under a spell with its first word, and we should only
wake, refreshed, with its last.' One of the best practitioners of
the art she analysed so rewardingly, Woolf displayed her
essay-writing skills across a wide range of subjects, with all the
craftsmanship, substance, and rich allure of her novels. This
selection brings together thirty of her best essays, including the
famous 'Mr Bennett and Mrs Brown', a clarion call for modern
fiction. She discusses the arts of writing and of reading, and the
particular role and reputation of women writers. She writes
movingly about her father and the art of biography, and of the
London scene in the early decades of the twentieth century.
Overall, these pieces are as indispensable to an understanding of
this great writer as they are enchanting in their own right. ABOUT
THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made
available the widest range of literature from around the globe.
Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship,
providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable
features, including expert introductions by leading authorities,
helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for
further study, and much more.
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A Room of One's Own (Hardcover)
Virginia Woolf; Edited by David Bradshaw, Stuart N. Clarke
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A Room of One s Own, is one of Virginia Woolf s most influential
works and is widely recognized for its extraordinary contribution
to the women s movement. This timely and important new edition
adopts the complete text of the first British edition published in
1929. * Features a comprehensive introduction detailing the process
and composition of Woolf s original essay and the evolution of its
subsequent publication history * The first comprehensive and
authoritative edition of this foundational text of the feminist
movement, and one of the most significant works in Woolf s own
canon * The only volume based on comparisons of each of the British
editions of A Room of One s Own that appeared in Woolf s lifetime *
Incorporates extensive explanatory notes which reveal the essay s
broader political, historical, social, and literary contexts *
Includes a comprehensive appendix highlighting variations between
each of the British editions that appeared in Woolf s lifetime and
the first American edition; alterations from Woolf s uncorrected
proofs; and current editorial emendations incorporated in this new
edition
This collection of Aldous Huxley's letters, essays from magazines,
and broadcasts reveals the full range of his involvement in the
social and political crises of the period between the wars. They
show how his contempt for mass society and his belief in the
existence of a cultural elite gave way to a liberal humanism and a
concern for the well-being of ordinary people.
'The ponderous woman looked through the pattern of falling words at
the flowers standing cool, firm, and upright in the earth, with a
curious expression. . .So heavy the woman came to a standstill
opposite the oval shaped flowerbed, and ceased even to pretend to
listen to what the other woman was saying.' Virginia Woolf's short
fiction has long been acknowledged as the place where she tried out
some of her more experimental techniques before adopting and
adapting them for use in her novel-length works. While this is
certainly true, it is also the case that these short pieces are now
increasingly being recognized as important works of art in their
own right, rather than simply flights of experimental fancy
awaiting their full actualization in the novel form. This new
edition edited by Bryony Randall emphasises the startling variety
in Woolf's experimentation during the most productive period of
short fiction writing in Woolf's life, the late 1910s through to
the end of the 1920s. It draws readers' attention to the deep
political engagements evident across the range of her work and on
the recent burgeoning of work in modernist print culture to set out
the importance of the material context of these works' initial
publication and reception.
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Island (Paperback, New ed)
Aldous Huxley; Introduction by David Bradshaw
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For over a hundred years the Pacific island of Pala has been the
scene of a unique experiment in civilisation. Its inhabitants live
in a society where western science has been brought together with
Eastern philosophy to create a paradise on earth. When cynical
journalist, Will Farnaby, arrives to research potential oil
reserves on Pala, he quickly falls in love with the way of life on
the island. Soon the need to complete his mission becomes an
intolerable burden and he must make a difficult choice. In
counterpoint to Brave New World and Ape and Essence, in Island
Huxley gives us his vision of utopia. WITH A BIOGRAPHICAL
INTRODUCTION BY DAVID BRADSHAW
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY DAVID BRADSHAW Anthony Beavis is a man
inclined to recoil from life. His past is haunted by the death of
his best friend Brian and by his entanglement with the cynical and
manipulative Mary Amberley. Realising that his determined
detachment from the world has been motivated not by intellectual
honesty but by moral cowardice, Anthony attempts to find a new way
to live. Eyeless in Gaza is considered by many to be Huxley's
definitive work of fiction.
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The Good Soldier (Paperback)
Ford Madox Ford; Introduction by David Bradshaw; Notes by David Bradshaw
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Ford Madox Ford's extraordinary novel of passion and betrayal, The
Good Soldier, is edited with an introduction by David Bradshaw in
Penguin Classics. The Dowells, a wealthy American couple, have been
close friends with the Ashburnhams for years. Edward Ashburnham, a
first-rate soldier, seems to be the perfect English gentleman, and
Leonora his perfect wife, but beneath the surface their marriage
seethes with unhappiness and deception. Our only window on the
strange tangle of events surrounding Edward is provided by John
Dowell, the husband he deceives. Gradually Dowell unfolds a
devastating story, in which everyone's honesty is in doubt. The
Good Soldier is a masterpiece of narrative skill and emotional
depth. David Bradshaw's introduction discusses John Dowell as the
classic unreliable narrator and as English literature's most
fascinating enigma, and shows how Ford Madox Ford's unconventional
narrative structure makes The Good Soldier a modernist masterwork.
Ford Madox Ford (1873-1939), born in Surrey and educated in
England, Germany and France, changed his original surname, Hueffer,
in 1919, after having served with the British army in World War I.
As well as founding both the English Review and the Transatlantic
Review, home to such writers as James Joyce, Ezra Pound and
Gertrude Stein, Ford was the author of more than sixty works
including novels, poems, criticism, travel writing and
reminiscences. The Good Soldier (1915) is considered his
masterpiece. If you enjoyed The Good Soldier, you might like Ford's
Parade's End, also available in Penguin Classics, and now the
subject of a major new BBC/HBO television miniseries. 'A
masterpiece' Julian Barnes, Booker Prize-winning author of The
Sense of an Ending 'I don't know how many times in nearly forty
years I have come back to this novel' Graham Greene
In his 1932 classic dystopian novel, Brave New World, Aldous Huxley
depicted a future society in thrall to science and regulated by
sophisticated methods of social control. Nearly thirty years later
in Brave New World Revisited, Huxley checked the progress of his
prophecies against reality and argued that many of his fictional
fantasies had grown uncomfortably close to the truth. Brave New
World Revisited includes Huxley's views on overpopulation,
propaganda, advertising and government control, and is an urgent
and powerful appeal for the defence of individualism still
alarmingly relevant today.
Newly published essays and letters, edited and introduced by David
Bradshaw, showing Huxley's transformation from a scourge of the
masses in the 1920s to their compassionate spokesman by the 1930s,
and including writings on art and literature, and letters to H. L.
Mencken and H. G. Wells.
A gripping biography by the author of Brave New World The life of
Father Joseph, Cardinal Richelieu's aide, was a shocking paradox.
After spending his days directing operations on the battlefield,
Father Joseph would pass the night in prayer, or in composing
spiritual guidance for the nuns in his care. He was an aspirant to
sainthood and a practising mystic, yet his ruthless exercise of
power succeeded in prolonging the unspeakable horrors of the Thirty
Years' War. In his masterful biography, Huxley explores how an
intensely religious man could lead such a life and how he
reconciled the seemingly opposing moral systems of religion and
politics.
This new collection of essays, each one by a recognized expert,
both brings Forster studies up to date and provides lively and
innovative readings of every aspect of his wide-ranging career. It
includes substantial chapters dedicated to his two major novels,
Howards End and A Passage to India, and further chapters focus on A
Room With a View and Maurice. Forster's connections with the values
of Bloomsbury and the lure of Greece and Italy in his work are
assessed, as is his vexed relationship with Modernism. Other essays
investigate his role as a literary critic, the status of his work
within the genres of the novel and the short story, his treatment
of sexuality and his attitude to and representation of women. This
is the most comprehensive study of Forster's work to be published
for many years, providing an invaluable source of comment on and
insight into his writings.
Winner of the Journal of the History of Ideas's Morris D. Forkosch
prize This book traces the development thought about God and the
relationship between God's being and activity from Aristotle,
through the pagan Neoplatonists, to thinkers such as Augustine,
Boethius, and Aquinas (in the West) and Dionysius the Areopagite,
Maximus the Confessor, and Gregory Palamas (in the East). The
resulst is a comparative history of philosophical thought in the
two halves of Christendom, providing a philosophical backdrop to
the schism between the Eastern and Western churches.
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