books by Henry James     books:     Henry James      Henry Ford Today and Tomorrow - Special Edition of Ford's 1926 Classic Henry Ford Productivity Press, 1988 The book that inspired Taiichi Ohno This is an outstanding book for those folks in manufacturing who are starting out on their "Lean" journey. The book teaches the uninitiated an original thinker's way of recognizing "waste" in manufacturing, and often, how to deal with that waste. Taiichi Ohno took a ...             The Portrait of a Lady (Penguin Classics) Henry James Penguin Classics, 2003 Classic Isabel Archer is a young, spirited American who travels to England stay for a bit with her aunt's family. Hungry for adventure and fiercely independent, she figures she'll marry at some point but only when it suits her and only to satisfy herself rather than any ...             The Turn of the Screw - Literary Touchstone Classic Henry James Prestwick House, Inc., 2006 Turn of the Screw Keeps Turning This edition provides provacative notes to assist the reader who is not accustomed to the gothic romance genre. Various critical theories are proposed which stimulate attentive reading. My own reading would lean towards the notion that James is satirizing popular ...             The Blood Bankers: Tales from the Global Underground Economy James S. Henry Basic Books, 2005 Development Economics To The Next Level "The Blood Bankers" is an important contribution to our understanding of global financial instability. Most often, liberalized (legitimate) capital markets, international trade, state power, and international regulatory institutions are cited as the causes of ...             Three Books of Occult Philosophy (Llewellyn's Sourcebook) Henry Cornelius Agrippa, James Freake, ... Llewellyn Publications, 1992 Grand This is an amazing work of scholarship, and a mighty and substantial read. Prior to this undertaking, the only available copies of the three books were hard to read, difficult and expensive to obtain facsimiles which cost almost 5x the amount of this more easily ...             The Turn of The Screw and Other Short Novels (Signet Classics) Henry James Signet Classics, 2007 An OK novella The Turn of the Screw is an alright novel if you like that sort of reading, it requires in depth dissection of everything said, and you get no real answers in the end, which is what I really didn't like, though I have theories of my own. After the initial read I was ...             Washington Square (Penguin Classics) Henry James Penguin Classics, 2007 The Heiress, the Father and the Fortune-hunter. Very accessible short novel of manners set in Manhattan, New York. Quiet Catherine Sloper is an Heiress. She is not beautiful, intelligent or charming. She is steadfast. Her widowed father is a respected Physician, who had married a rich woman. He is disappointed ...             Great American Short Stories (Dover Thrift Editions) Edgar Allan Poe, Herman Melville, ... Dover Publications, 2002 Title This is actually a very good book to have. It was bought for a class in English Literature, but it has some good stories in it. I would be willing to read some of the non-assigned stories from this book. Best part- its a small book.             The Bostonians (Modern Library Classics) Henry James Modern Library, 2003 Boston Was Full Of Feminists: But James Was Not One Of Them By the time Henry James had written THE BOSTONIANS in 1886, he was well in his mid section of novel writing. Most of his "American" novels were done but in this one for the first time he chose to use the burgeoning feminist movement as a backdrop for the plot. There is ...             Spraycan Art (Street Graphics / Street Art) Henry Chalfant, James Prigoff Thames & Hudson, 1987 A work of major significance As a public art historian, I recently revisited Spraycan Art. I am told that the sales on this book are approaching 200,000 copies. In 1987 it was the first look at the art form as it traveled out of the NYC subways and around the world and although writers today are ...             Daisy Miller (Penguin Classics) Henry James Penguin Classics, 2007 "They are very common...They are the sort of Americans that one does one's duty by not - not accepting." One of Henry James's earliest novellas, Daisy Miller (1878) follows the activities of a wealthy, and brashly confident, young American woman as she audaciously challenges European society in Vevey, Switzerland, and in Rome, having fun, doing what pleases her, leaving ...             The Turn of the Screw (Case Studies in Contemporary Criticism) Henry James Bedford/St. Martin's, 2003 Still haunting after all these years. One of the most seductive of all ghost stories, Turn of the Screw is a sophisticated and subtle literary exercise in which the author creates a dense, suggestive, and highly ambiguous story, its suspense and horror generated primarily by what the author does NOT say ...             Tales of Henry James (Norton Critical Editions) Henry James W. W. Norton & Company, 2002 Nine of James's most important tales, including (new to the second edition) "In the Cage," a tale that engages James's complicated attitudes toward gender, class, and the rise of information technology. "The Author on His Craft" again reprints James's critical essay "The Art of Fiction" and related passages from his notebooks, including a new ...             The Portrait of a Lady (Norton Critical Editions) Henry James W. W. Norton & Company, 1995 A fabulous novel that is a must read for book lovers An incredibly well-written, engrossing and provocative story about a woman's choices in love, friendship, marriage and duty. Isabel transitions from one who prized freedom above all else, and this is precisely what she ultimately gives up to instead fulfill the ...             Henry James : Collected Travel Writings : The Continent : A Little Tour in France / Italian Hours / Other ... Henry James Library of America, 1993 A Masterpiece of perception, understanding, and interpretation Henry James' travel writings on France and Italy are a case study in fine arts perception, understanding and interpretation. He treats each new locale as a new horizon to be engaged, absorbed, and internalized through a hermeneutic of analogical interiority. Roaming ...          products you might be interested in search for books bostonians, contemporary, philosophy, sourcebook, touchstone, underground      toavi.com    web we recommend An OK novella randomly chosen book: There's a Hippo in My Cistern: From Loaded Lad to Green Dad. One Man's ...