James M Acheson

James Aches

James Acheson (born 1946) is a British costume designer. Born in Leicester, Acheson has a twin brother, Patrick. In the early 1950s, Acheson was a pupil at St.

John Fowles (New Casebooks)

John Fowles (1926-2005) has the distinction of being both a best-selling novelist and one whose work has earned the respect of academic critics. This vibrant collection of original essays sheds new critical light on all of Fowles's writings, with a special focus on The French Lieutenant's Woman as t...

Capturing the Commons: Devising Institutions to Manage the Maine Lobster Industry

One of the most pressing concerns of environmentalists and policy makers is the overexploitation of natural resources. Efforts to regulate such resources are too often undermined by the people whose livelihoods depend on their use. One of the great challenges for wildlife managers in the twenty-firs...

The Contemporary British Novel Since 1980

Written by some of the world's finest contemporary literature specialists, the specially commissioned essays in this volume examine the work of more than twenty major British novelists: Peter Ackroyd, Martin Amis, Iain (M.) Banks, Pat Barker, Julian Barnes, A. S. Byatt, Angela Carter, Janice Gallowa...

The Question of the Commons: The Culture and Ecology of Communal Resources (Arizona Studies in Human Ecology)

This collection of eighteen original essays evaluates the use and misuse of common-property resources, taking as its starting point ecologist Garret Hardin's assertion in "The Tragedy of the Commons" that common property is doomed to overexploitation in any society. This book represents the first c...

The Lobster Gangs of Maine

James Acheson's detailed account of lobstering in Maine quickly dispels notions that the lobstermen is the eastern version of the cowboy, struggling alone for survival against the elements. In reality, he writes, "the lobster fisherman is caught up in a thick and complex web of social relationships....

John Fowles (New Casebooks)

John Fowles (1926-2005) has the distinction of being both a best-selling novelist and one whose work has earned the respect of academic critics. This vibrant collection of original essays sheds new critical light on all of Fowles's writings, with a special focus on The French Lieutenant's Woman as t...

John Fowles (Modern Novelists)

John Fowles has the distinction of being both a best-selling novelist and one whose work has earned the respect of academic critics. In this clear and concise book, James Acheson traces the development of Fowles' novels from The Collector, The Magus and The French Lieutenant's Woman, each concerned ...

Anthropology and Institutional Economics

The last two decades have seen a convergence of the interests of anthropologists and economists.In the past few years, a small number of anthropologists have become interested in institutional economics--many of those anthropologists are contributors to this volume. The primary objective of this vol...

The British and Irish Novel Since 1960

Beckett's Later Fiction and Drama: Texts for Company

British and Irish Drama Since 1960

John Fowles

Regionalism and National Identity: Multi-Disciplinary Essays on Canada, Australia, and New Zealand

Fundamentals of Clinical Ophthalmology: Neuro-ophthalmology

The Contemporary British Novel

The Contemporary British Novel