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UNINA9910463977603321 |
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Autore |
Tekcan Rana |
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Titolo |
The biographer and the subject : a study on biographical distance / / Rana Tekcan |
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Stuttgart : , : Ibidem Verlag, , 2012 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (178 p.) |
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Studies in English literatures |
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Biography as a literary form |
Electronic books. |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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""Table of Contents""; ""Acknowledgements""; ""Introduction""; ""1 Eating and Drinking with the Subject: Johnson�s Life of Savage and Boswell�s Life of Johnson""; ""2 Judas and The Frog Prince: Strachey�s Eminent Victorians and Holroyd�s Lytton Strachey""; ""3 Too Far For Comfort: Honan�s Jane Austen, Her Life and Motion�s Keats""; ""Conclusion""; ""Bibliography""; ""Index"" |
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A good biography is a well-staged illusion. It creates -- on paper -- a vivid, rounded, and immediate sense of lived life. In contrast to purely fictional forms, biography writing does not allow total freedom to the biographer in the creative act. Ideally, a biography's backbone is formed by accurate historical facts. But its soul lies elsewhere. Since the concern is life, something more is needed: Nothing dry, cold or dead, but a vibrant impression of life that is left in the air after one turns over the last page. But how does a biographer do it? The way a biographer creates a subject is lar |
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UNINA9910153110203321 |
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Autore |
Simons Robert |
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Performance measurement and control systems for implementing strategy / / Robert Simons |
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Harlow, England : , : Pearson, , [2014] |
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©2014 |
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[Pearson new international edition.] |
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1 online resource (696 pages) : illustrations, maps |
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"Pearson New International Edition." |
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Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index. |
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Cover -- Table of Contents -- Glossaryestchester Distributing, Inc. (A) -- Case: Automatic Data Processing: The EFS Decision -- Case: Automation Consulting Services. |
Case: Becton Dickinson-Designing the New SOF Planning Process -- Case: Guidant Corporation: Shaping Culture Through Systems -- Index. |
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For undergraduate Management Control Systems courses and other MBA Management Accounting and Control electives. This book represents an innovative new approach to management control systems, based on the latest research and practice. Using a carefully integrated structure, it shows how today's managers use both financial and non-financial controls to drive strategies of profitable growth in rapidly changing markets. |
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