Richard Elwood

In An Experiment in Criticism, C. S. Lewis offers a thought-provoking and unconventional approach to literary criticism. Instead of evaluating literature by traditional standards of quality, Lewis suggests that the true value of a book lies in how readers engage with it. He proposes that literature should be judged not by its inherent qualities but by the kind of reading experience it provides. Lewis distinguishes between two types of readers: those...

The world's foremost expert on pricing strategy shows how this mysterious process works and how to maximize value through pricing to company and customer. In all walks of life, we constantly make decisions about whether something is worth our money or our time or try to convince others to part with their money or their time. Price is the place where value and money meet. From the global release of the latest electronic gadget to the bewildering gyrations...

First published in 1981, Lawrence Freedman's The Evolution of Nuclear Strategy was immediately acclaimed as the standard work on the history of attempts to cope militarily and politically with the terrible destructive power of nuclear weapons. It has now been completely rewritten, drawing on a wide range of new research, and updated to take account of the period following the end of the cold war, and covering all nuclear powers.