Arthur Michael Saltzman's Books

Reflections on life and literature flavored with wit and wordplay from a master of the form

Saltzman reveals figuration to be both inevitable and inevitably unreliable, and he illustrates how these writers treat this condition not as an impasse but as a point of departure - indeed, as an artistic mandate and creative opportunity.".

Reflections on life and literature flavored with wit and wordplay from a master of the form

This text contains the same material as in the first part of Strategic Management tenth edition, but with the addition of a section containing 19 topical strategic management readings.

Literary Nonfiction. The twenty-five essays in OBLIGATIONS OF THE HARP are by turns wry and satirical, sensually descriptive, playfully punning--but always nuanced and illuminating. Reference points range from Kobe Bryant to John Updike, from geology to Jewish ritual. One essay is a fanciful treatment of the history of the human cannonball; another provides a deeply humane and humorous account of preparing middle-schoolers for History Day. Varied in topic and tone, Saltzman consistently revels in and re-imagines the mysterious quirks of human behavior. The award-winning essay, "Reason Not the Need," for example, links the seemingly random care behind what we choose to save from a fire to Saltzman's personal soft-spot for cafeteria jelly packets, "with the heft and suppleness of a small toad resting squat in your palm," to the plundering of the Iraqi National Museum of Antiquities. "Hard-wired for wonder and for worry," Saltzman is a truly original mind alive to the artful accidents and patterns of the social, natural, and human worlds.

Book's by Arthur Michael Saltzman

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This Mad "instead"

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Crafting and Implementing Strategy

Crafting and Implementing Strategy

The Obligations of the Harp

The Obligations of the Harp

This Mad "instead"

This Mad "instead"

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