Vol. 9 No. 10 · 21 May 1987
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Vol. 9 No. 10 · 21 May 1987
Frank Kermode
William Shakespeare. The Complete Works: Original-Spelling Edition edited by Stanley Wells and Gary Taylor. Oxford, 1456 pp., £75, February 1987, 9780198129196 William Shakespeare: The Complete Works edited by Stanley Wells and Gary Taylor. Oxford, 1432 pp., £25, October 1986, 0 19 812926 2
Letters
Bryan Cheyette, Michael Nelson, David Lan, Peter McDonald, J. Arch Getty
Peter Burke
The Count-Duke of Olivares: The Statesman in an Age of Decline by J.H. Elliott. Yale, 733 pp., £19.95, August 1986, 0 300 03390 7 Philip IV and the Decoration of the Alcazar of Madrid by Steven Orso. Princeton, 227 pp., £36.70, July 1986, 0 691 04036 2
Patrick Wright
Creating excellence: Managing corporate culture, strategy and change in the New Age by Craig Hickman and Michael Silva. Allen and Unwin, 305 pp., £12.50, April 1985, 0 04 658252 5 Intrapreneuring: Why you don’t have to leave the corporation to become an entrepreneur by Gifford Pinchot. Harper and Row, 368 pp., £15.95, August 1985, 0 06 015305 9 The IBM Way: Insights into the World’s Most Successful Marketing Organisation by Buck Rodgers. Harper and Row, 224 pp., £12.95, April 1986, 0 06 015522 1 Innovation: The Attacker’s Advantage by Richard Foster. Macmillan, 316 pp., £14.95, September 1986, 0 333 43511 7 Ford by Robert Lacey. Heinemann, 778 pp., £15, July 1986, 0 434 40192 7 Company of Adventurers: The Story of the Hudson’s Bay Company by Peter Newman. Viking, 413 pp., £14.95, March 1986, 0 670 80379 0 Augustine’s Laws by Norman Augustine. Viking, 380 pp., £12.95, July 1986, 9780670809424 Peak Performers: The New Heroes in Business by Charles Garfield. Hutchinson, 333 pp., £12.95, October 1986, 0 09 167391 7 Going for it: How to Succeed as an Entrepreneur by Victor Kiam. Collins, 223 pp., £9.95, May 1986, 0 00 217603 3 Take a chance to be first: The Secrets of Entrepreneurial Success by Warren Avis. Macmillan, 222 pp., £9.95, October 1986, 0 02 504410 9 The Winning Streak by Walter Goldsmith and David Clutterbuck. Weidenfeld/Penguin, 224 pp., £9.95, September 1984, 0 297 78469 2 The Roots of Excellence by Ronnie Lessem. Fontana, 318 pp., £3.95, December 1985, 0 00 636874 3 The New Management of Local Government by John Stewart. Allen and Unwin, 208 pp., £20, October 1986, 0 00 435232 7
Theodore Marmor
The Emergence of the Welfare States by Douglas Ashford. Blackwell, 352 pp., £25, November 1986, 0 631 15211 3
John Ziman
The Advancement of Science and its Burdens by Gerald Holton. Cambridge, 351 pp., £27.50, October 1986, 9780521252447
P.W. Atkins
Neuronal Man: The Biology of Mind by Jean-Pierre Changeux, translated by Laurence Garey. Oxford, 348 pp., £17.50, February 1987, 0 19 504226 3
John Sutherland
VN: The Life and Art of Vladimir Nabokov by Andrew Field. Macdonald, 417 pp., £14.95, April 1987, 0 356 14234 5
John Bayley
Compton Mackenzie: A Life by Andro Linklater. Chatto, 384 pp., £14.95, May 1987, 0 7011 2583 7
Patrick Parrinder
The Radiant Way by Margaret Drabble. Weidenfeld, 396 pp., £10.95, April 1987, 0 297 79095 1 Change by Maureen Duffy. Methuen, 224 pp., £10.95, April 1987, 9780413576408 Moon Tiger by Penelope Lively. Deutsch, 208 pp., £9.95, May 1987, 0 233 98107 1 The Maid of Buttermere by Melvyn Bragg. Hodder, 415 pp., £10.95, April 1987, 0 340 40173 7 Stray by A.N. Wilson. Walker, 175 pp., £8.95, April 1987, 0 7445 0801 0
Neal Ascherson
Nairn: In Darkness and Light by David Thomson. Hutchinson, 303 pp., £12.95, April 1987, 0 09 168360 2
Clive James
Poem: ‘Jet-Lag in Tokyo’
Bonnie Smith
Journal of My Life by Jacques-Louis Ménétra, edited by Daniel Roche, translated by Arthur Goldhammer. Columbia, 368 pp., $30, July 1986, 0 231 06128 5 Disease and Civilisation: The Cholera in Paris, 1832 by François Delaporte, translated by Arthur Goldhammer. MIT, 250 pp., £22.50, July 1986, 0 262 04084 0 France: Fin de Siècle by Eugen Weber. Harvard, 294 pp., £16.94, October 1986, 0 674 31812 9
David Gilmour
Diary: On Richard Cobb
J.A. Burrow
The Mirour of Mans Salvacioune: A Middle English Translation of ‘Speculum Humanae Salvationis’ edited by Avril Henry. Scolar, 347 pp., £35, March 1987, 0 85967 716 8
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