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Feasting the Heart

Fifty-two Commentaries for the Air

By: Reynolds Price

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Feasting the Heart

Fifty-two Commentaries for the Air

By: Reynolds Price

Ranging from his experiences as a writer to topics of faith and racial intolerance, Reynolds Price's stories from National Public Radio's All Things Considered showcase the author's consistent talent for lyrical prose and insightful observations—and all those stories are now compiled here in The Feasting Heart. In the fall of 1993, Alice Winkler of National Public Radio's "Morning Edition" asked Reynolds Price to write a short story for a Christmas morning broadcast. This assignment would result in NPR's inviting Price to join its varied group of commentators on "All Things Considered." The laws of radio require a concision that became a welcome new discipline for Price; these are all the personal essays which he has broadcast since July 25, 1995. Whether recounting events from his past, examining the details of his current experience as a writer, teacher, traveler, and general witness of the world, Price demonstrates in his direct prose that a writer can instantly connect with his audience. He discusses a few predictable topics—family, the poisonous mysteries of racial intolerance, and faith—but he also deals with new matters: capital punishment, Gone With the Wind, his adventures while navigating an immensely inaccessible America in a wheelchair; and he provides a memorable piece on childlessness. Throughout, Price never loses sight of the origin of either the word or the spirit of the essay—the French word connotes a try, an attempt —and each piece here is a well-formed, revealing, often amusing, and refreshing foray into a moment unlike any we've encountered in other forms from him. We're unlikely to read more thought-provoking work from a commentator for a great time to come.

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Simon and Schuster

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0743203704

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9780743203708

Tongues of Angels

A Novel

By: Reynolds Price

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Tongues of Angels

A Novel

By: Reynolds Price

I'm as peaceful a man as you're likely to meet in America now, but this is about a death I may have caused. Not slowly over time by abuse or meanness but on a certain day and by ignorance, by plain lack of notice. Though it happened thirty-four years ago, and though I can't say it's haunted my mind that many nights lately, I suspect I can draw it out for you now, clear as this noon. I may need to try." Set in a summer camp in the Blue Ridge Mountains during the deceptively tranquil 1950s, The Tongues of Angels is a story of the twenty-one-year-old painting teacher, a superbly gifted boy, and their advance toward a startling fate. As the now-older man looks back at on that summer, he reflects on the meanings he thought he had learned on the threshold of manhood from the perspective of full maturity.

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Simon and Schuster

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1439106398

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9781439106396

Collected Stories of Reynolds Price

By: Reynolds Price

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Collected Stories of Reynolds Price

By: Reynolds Price

For over three decades, Reynolds Price has been one of America's most distinguished writers, in a career that has been remarkable both for its virtuosity and for the variety of literary forms he has embraced. Now he shows himself as much a master of the story as he is of the novel, in a volume that presents fifty stories, including two early collections -- The Names and Faces of Heroes and Permanent Errors -- as well as more than two dozen new stories that have never been gathered together before. In his introduction, Mr. Price explains how, after the publication of his first two collections, he wrote no new stories for almost twenty years. "But once I needed -- for unknown reasons in a new and radically altered life -- to return to the story, it opened before me like a new chance....A collection like this then," he adds, "...will show a writer's preoccupations in ways the novel severely rations (novels are partly made for that purpose -- the release from self, long flights through the Other). John Keats's assertion that 'the excellence of every Art is its intensity' has served as a license and standard for me. From the start my stories were driven by heat -- passion and mystery, often passion for the mystery I've found in particular rooms and spaces and the people they threaten or shelter -- and my general aim is the transfer of a spell of keen witness, perceived by the reader as warranted in character and act." There is, indeed, much for the reader to "witness" here of passion and mystery, of character and act. And the variety of stories -- many of them set in Reynolds Price's native North Carolina, but a surprising number set in distant parts: Jerusalem in "An Early Christmas," the American Southwest in "Walking Lessons," and a number in Europe -- will astonish even his most devoted readers. In short, The Collected Stories of Reynolds Price is as deeply rewarding a book as any he has yet published.

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Simon and Schuster

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1439106053

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9781439106051

Source of Light

By: Reynolds Price

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Source of Light

By: Reynolds Price

Here is the second volume of A Great Circle, the highly acclaimed Mayfield family trilogy, from one of America's literary treasures. Though a novel independent from The Surface of Earth, The Source of Light continues the saga of the Mayfield family, here focusing on Hutchins Mayfield, whose desire for self-knowledge removes him from his secure existence as a prep school teacher and takes him on a journey to Oxford and Italy to study and write. Hutchins comes back home for a family crisis but ultimately returns to England, where he achieves a maturity that enables him to cope with commitments, abandonments, and the creation of an honest personal agenda. In The Source of Light, Reynolds Price combines gravity and buoyancy, a mythic sense of the past with the mysteries of place, to forge an encompassing portrait of the strange and various world one travels through in the quest for self-fulfillment.

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Simon and Schuster

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0684813386

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9780684813387

Midstream

An Unfinished Memoir

By: Reynolds Price

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Midstream

An Unfinished Memoir

By: Reynolds Price

Originally published in hardcover in 2012.

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Simon and Schuster

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1439183538

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9781439183533

Clear Pictures

First Loves First Guides

By: Reynolds Price

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Clear Pictures

First Loves First Guides

By: Reynolds Price

While recalling a childhood spent in the North Carolina countryside--the same landscape that has served as the setting for most of his many beloved novels--Reynolds Price shares powerful stories of the friends and family who helped shape his life into the man, and the writer, he is today.

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Simon and Schuster

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0684847523

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9780684847528

A Perfect Friend

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A Perfect Friend

By: Reynolds Price

A Moving Fable For Readers Of All Ages -- From National Book Critics Circle Award-Winning Author Reynolds Price Ben Barks loved elephants long before he'd seen one. He sometimes wondered how that love started.... It's been a whole year since Ben's mother died, and nothing has soothed his broken heart -- except thinking about elephants, those magnificent creatures his mother loved too. Imagining their awesome grace always calms him in a way that his sad father and closest friends never can. When a one-ring circus comes to Ben's small town, he discovers Sala, an elephant who survived a wicked trainer's abuses. And soon, their powerful bond becomes a miraculous healer -- and gives Ben renewed hope for the future.

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Simon and Schuster

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1439106274

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9781439106273

The Promise of Rest

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The Promise of Rest

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A novel about an American man dying of AIDS and his relationship with his family.

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Simon and Schuster

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0684801493

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9780684801490

A Long and Happy Life

A Novel

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A Long and Happy Life

A Novel

By: Reynolds Price

The troubled love story of Rosacoke (Rosa) Mustian and Wesley Beavers in rural North Carolina.

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Simon and Schuster

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1439109346

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9781439109342

A Whole New Life

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A Whole New Life

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Reynolds Price has long been one of America's most acclaimed and accomplished men of letters -- the author of novels, stories, poems, essays, plays, and a memoir. In "A Whole New Life," however, he steps from behind that roster of achievements to present us with a more personal story, a narrative as intimate and compelling as any work of the imagination. In 1984, a large cancer was discovered in his spinal cord ("The tumor was pencil-thick and gray-colored, ten inches long from my neck-hair downward"). Here, for the first time, Price recounts without self-pity what became a long struggle to withstand and recover from this appalling, if all too common, affliction (one American in three will experience some from of cancer). He charts the first puzzling symptoms; the urgent surgery that fails to remove the growth and the radiation that temporarily arrests it (but hurries his loss of control of his lower body); the occasionally comic trials of rehab; the steady rise of severe pain and reliance on drugs; two further radical surgeries; the sustaining force of a certain religious vision; an eventual discovery of help from biofeedback and hypnosis; and the miraculous return of his powers as a writer in a new, active life. Beyond the particulars of pain and mortal illness, larger concerns surface here -- a determination to get on with the human interaction that is so much a part of this writer's much-loved work, the gratitude he feels toward kin and friends and some (though by no means "all)" doctors, the return to his prolific work, and the "now appalling, now astonishing grace of God." "A Whole New Life" offers more than the portrait of one brave person in tribulation; it offers honestinsight, realistic encouragement and inspiration to others who suffer the bafflement of catastrophic illness or who know someone who does or will.

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Simon and Schuster

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0684872552

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9780684872551

Ardent Spirits

Leaving Home, Coming Back

By: Reynolds Price

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Ardent Spirits

Leaving Home, Coming Back

By: Reynolds Price

Award-winning novelist Reynolds Price provides a vivid portrait of his life in the mid-1950s leading up to the publication of his brilliant first novel A Long and Happy Life—detailing his time as a Rhodes scholar, writer, and a teacher.

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Scribner

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0743291891

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9780743291897

Vital Provisions

By: Reynolds Price

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Vital Provisions

By: Reynolds Price

Poems explore love, the life of Jesus, the death of the poet, Robert Lowell, and the author's own experiences

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Macmillan Publishing Company

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0689113234

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9780689113239

Three Gospels

By: Reynolds Price

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Three Gospels

By: Reynolds Price

Reynolds Price pays tribute to his literary love of translation in this adaptation of the Gospels of Mark and John, in addition to a gospel written by the esteemed novelist himself. Esteemed novelist, dramatist, scholar, essayist, and poet, Reynolds Price turns his attention back to a literary love he had discovered earlier in his career: translation. But for Reynolds that didn’t mean abandoning his passion for writing original work; powerful and imaginative, Three Gospels offers eloquent translations of the Gospels of Mark and John as well as a gospel never before seen—an original one written by Price himself. These stunning triumphs of imagination tell and retell some of the most iconic ancient stories in Price’s unparalleled literary voice.

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Simon and Schuster

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1451603142

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9781451603149

The Collected Poems

By: Reynolds Price

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The Collected Poems

By: Reynolds Price

The definitive anthology of Reynolds Price's accomplishments in poetry over four decades, The Collected Poems opens with a preface that discusses his beginnings, guides, and methods; it then includes his first three collections in their entirety -- Vital Provisions, The Laws of Ice, and The Use of Fire -- and adds a new volume, The Unaccountable Worth of the World, eighty-five more recent poems that offer striking departures as they continue to embody Price's close attention to the exterior and the interior worlds of a lengthening and unexpectedly complex life. The Collected Poems reveals, throughout, the accumulated variety of Reynolds Price's years as a poet -- the thematic breadth, formal steadiness, narrative vitality, and intense lyricism that have marked his work from the start. It is a landmark in a creative life that now includes more than thirty books -- poems, novels, plays, essays, translations -- and in the span of contemporary American verse.

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Scribner

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0684860023

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9780684860022

A Serious Way of Wondering

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A Serious Way of Wondering

By: Reynolds Price

When renowned novelist and poet Reynolds Price, one of Christianity's most eloquent outlaws, was invited to deliver the annual Peabody Lecture at Harvard University Memorial Church in 2001, he chose to explore a subject of fierce debate and timeless relevance: the ethics of Jesus. In two succeeding lectures at the National Cathedral and at Auburn Seminary, Price continued to explore the apparently contradictory ethics that Jesus articulates in the Gospels and in a controversial act of artistic license, Price reimagined the historical Jesus. In A Serious Way of Wondering, Price expands these lectures to present Jesus with three problems of burning moral concern—suicide, homosexuality, and the plight of women in male-dominated cultures and faiths. A sweeping view of the inescapable implications of Jesus' merciful life and all-embracing thought—and of the benefits of enlarging our notions of humanity, community, and equality—A Serious Way of Wondering is a significant contribution to Price's penetrating works of religious inquiry.

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Simon and Schuster

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1416585400

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9781416585404

The Good Priest's Son

A Novel

By: Reynolds Price

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The Good Priest's Son

A Novel

By: Reynolds Price

The first new fiction from Price in three years is a major novel that examines the profound and unexpected impact of major historical events on ordinary lives.

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Simon and Schuster

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0743254015

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9780743254014

Conversations with Reynolds Price

By: Reynolds Price

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Conversations with Reynolds Price

By: Reynolds Price

The collected interviews of the author of A Long and Happy Life and Kate Vaiden.

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Univ. Press of Mississippi

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0878054839

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9780878054831

Blue Calhoun

By: Reynolds Price

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Blue Calhoun

By: Reynolds Price

Since the publication of his famous first novel, A Long and Happy Life, Price has been accorded the praise and admiration reserved for America's most distinguished writers. Now he has written the most searching, most passionate novel of his rich and varied career. Blue Calhoun, the narrator, looks back over his past, from the mid-1950s to the present.

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Simon and Schuster

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0689121466

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9780689121463

A Singular Family

Rosacoke and Her Kin

By: Reynolds Price

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A Singular Family

Rosacoke and Her Kin

By: Reynolds Price

Containing three novels and a short story, "A Singular Family" is a single-volume compilation of the entire love story of Rosacoke Mustian and Wesley Beavers.

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Simon and Schuster

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0684851881

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9780684851884

Night Dance

By: Reynolds Price

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Night Dance

By: Reynolds Price

THE STORY: NIGHT DANCE, opens in 1945. Genevieve's husband, Wayne, is due home any day now from World War II which has recently ended. Porter, who has made the Navy his life, is already home, enjoying Roma's cooking and catching up on the news. Nea

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Dramatists Play Service, Inc.

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0822208199

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9780822208198

Noble Norfleet

A Novel

By: Reynolds Price

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Noble Norfleet

A Novel

By: Reynolds Price

Having given voice in previous novels to the extraordinary Kate Vaiden, Blue Calhoun, and Roxanna Slade, Reynolds Price -- one of America's most respected men of letters -- adds Noble Norfleet to his gallery of compelling portraits. A few days before Noble Norfleet's eighteenth birthday, his family suffers a violent catastrophe. The sole survivor, Noble throws himself into a reckless affair with his Spanish teacher, whose husband is fighting in Vietnam. When Noble graduates, he enlists as well and, while serving as an army medic, experiences a mysterious vision that seems tied to uncanny events in his recent past. Not until thirty years later -- after a life short on friends and troubled by a compulsion to worship women's bodies -- is Noble challenged to rethink the decades-old mystery of his family tragedy. Faced with an ominous choice, Noble finally comes to accept an enormous duty he's long tried to ignore. Soon, perhaps for the first time, his future seems hopeful.

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Simon and Schuster

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074323393X

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9780743233934

New Music

A Trilogy

By: Reynolds Price

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New Music

A Trilogy

By: Reynolds Price

A trilogy of plays that follows the Avery family, their friends and acquaintances through 37 years of life in a North Carolina town, from pre-World War II until the Vietnam era. Through their terse, elegant, often poetic speech, a certain melancholy at its base, readers gradually know these people and enter their world.

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Theatre Communications Grou

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155936016X

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9781559360166

Letter to a Godchild

Concerning Faith

By: Reynolds Price

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Letter to a Godchild

Concerning Faith

By: Reynolds Price

In the year 2000 acclaimed author Reynolds Price became honorary godfather to Harper Peck Voll. As a christening gift, Price composed a letter to the child, one intended as a brief guide for Harper's spiritual future. The letter sketched the crucial roles which faith had played in Price's own life and whittled down those lessons the author felt were most valuable. Later, Price realized that in a rapidly complicating world, his thoughts might also be useful for other children and their parents. Here, then, is an expanded version of the original letter -- an eloquent, thoughtful, and inspiring look at faith from one of the most revered American writers and most respected students of religion. In Letter to a Godchild, Price recounts how his life has been shaped by numerous and varied spiritual influences -- from the Bible-story books his parents bought him before he could read, to the childhood days spent exploring dense woods near his home (woods where he searched for arrowheads and spied on numerous wild animals), to Sundays at church with his father and mother, his travels around the world to magisterial structures as various as St. Peter's and the old Penn Station, and years of study both in and out of the classroom. With no trace of self-pity, he explains how his faith grew and deepened when in 1984 -- after a life of robust health -- he suffered a cancer that eventually led to paralysis of his lower body. Letter to a Godchild includes striking pictures of the buildings, objects, places, and events that have deepened the author's religious sensibility. He has also compiled a comprehensive section on further reading, looking, and listening that provides suggestions for books, art, and music that will entertain as well as enhance this volume. A profoundly intelligent and moving explication of religion and spirituality, Letter to a Godchild is an exhilarating experience for readers of all faiths.

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Simon and Schuster

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0743293371

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9780743293372

Marketing

By: Paul Reynolds,Geoff Lancaste

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Marketing

By: Paul Reynolds,Geoff Lancaste

Are you about to undertake a one semester or short course in marketing? If so, 'Marketing: The One Semester Introduction' is the book for you! Written by two of the most experienced and respected authors of the subject in the UK, it is specifically designed for those wanting a rapid and thorough introduction to marketing. This book: · is based on vast teaching experience and classroom testing to ensure that it precisely meets the needs of the business studies or modular marketing student · provides authoritative coverage of the subject, yet avoids becoming entangled in a mass of extra theory that may prove unhelpful for preliminary study · has an international viewpoint that guides the reader to the very heart of contemporary global marketing issues 'Marketing: The One Semester Introduction' provides exactly the right amount of theory and information to ensure rapid and high quality learning. With its succinct and clear style, the book represents an indispensable starting point for students of business studies and marketing.

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444

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Taylor & Francis

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113638071X

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9781136380716

Marketing Made Simple

By: Paul Reynolds,Geoff Lancaster

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Marketing Made Simple

By: Paul Reynolds,Geoff Lancaster

Marketing Made Simple is an introductory text offering an overview of all basic marketing concepts and techniques. The book covers the latest developments in marketing thinking and practice, including hot topics such as Customer Relationship Management (CRM) and business-to-business marketing. Packed with examples and vignettes, it offers a clear-sighted starting point of value to students, practitioners and those wishing to gain a better insight into the subject of marketing.

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1136432868

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9781136432866

Marketing Made Simple

By: Geoffrey Lancaster,Paul Reynolds

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Marketing Made Simple

By: Geoffrey Lancaster,Paul Reynolds

This introductory text on basic marketing concepts and techniques covers developments in marketing thinking such as Internet marketing, CRM, and b2b marketing. Case studies of marketing success stories and failures are also included.

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Routledge

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075064771X

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