Sterling is both a highly entertaining account of the place of currency in our lives (& the different forms it has taken -- silver, gold, paper, plastic, electronic) & a painless guide to many aspects of economic theory. Perhaps more than any other European currency, the pound sterling has had an almost religious role in the nation s life. Its continued health, or indeed survival, is something about which many people care deeply. One of this book s purposes is to show that indeed sterling has had a central part to play in Britain s view of itself, but that, equally, sterling has always displayed a ruthless opportunism entirely compatible with its transmutation into the euro. Illustrations.

Sterling: The Rise and Fall of a Currency

Business & Money

Nicholas Mayhew

Economics

Penguin Group (U.K.)

The great English tragedies were written in the first decade of the 17th cent.; the best, by far, were by Shakespeare. These great plays are inescapably associated with kinds of language which are difficult for us, & must have been hard for Shakespeare s contemporaries. Something happened to Shakespeare s language in mid-career, somewhere around 1600. We feel the pace of this language, its sudden turns & backtrackings, its metaphors flashing before us & disappearing even before we can grasp them. Discusses the language of the earlier plays, looking for signs as to what was afoot, & then studies what came after that, in the great works between Hamlet & The Tempest.

Shakespeare s Language

Frank Kermode

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Sterling: The Rise and Fall of a Currency

Shakespeare s Language