Essays Tagged: "Random House"

Charles Dickens

ar, His Tragedy and Triumph. Rev. ed.Viking, 1977, pg. 204. Ibid, pg. 275. World Book Encyclopedia, Random House, NY., 1990 pg. 1936. G. K. Chesterton, Charles Dickens The Last of the GreatMen, Americ ... he Last of the GreatMen, American Book-Stratford Press, NY., 1942 pg. 507. World Book Encyclopedia, Random House, NY., 1990 pg. 1938. Johnson, Edgar, His Tragedy and Triumph. Rev. ed.Viking, 1977, pg. ...

(4 pages) 78 0 4.0 May/1997

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Authors > Charles Dickens

"In Cold Blood" by Capote, Truman. A book review for Law class.

wIn Cold BloodTruman CapoteBook Information:Author : Capote, TrumanTitle : In Cold BloodPublisher : Random HouseOriginal Publication Date : 1965Book Outline:In a small town in Kansas a family of four ... Clutter never kept cash in thehouse. The whole region and eventually the country was shocked by the randomness andbrutality of the act, in much the same way it was by the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing.Th ...

(3 pages) 143 0 3.6 Dec/1997

Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Law

Barefoot in the Park Production History

002PRODUCTION HISTORYBarefoot in the Park by Marvin Neil Simon was written in 1963 and published by Random House in June 1964 (Tan www.happening.com.sg/livehtml/features/0111barefoot.html). Because of ...

(4 pages) 61 1 3.3 Apr/2002

Subjects: Art Essays > Drama

what is a hero?

Random House 255 West 45th Street New York, NY 10022 To Random House Editorial Review Board: What is ...

(2 pages) 89 1 3.7 Feb/2003

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > Creative Writing

"The Bluest Eye" by Toni Morrison,

r she began her career as an editor. During this time she worked her way up to senior editorship at Random House's New York Headquarters. She taught at several colleges in the time between 1967 and 19 ...

(7 pages) 193 0 2.5 Aug/2003

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American

Amazon.com.

low.Trade booksThese type of books make up 25% of the industry in 1997 and the major publishers are Random House , Bantam , Double Day, and Simon and SchusterProfessional:Annual book sales in 1997 are ... ers and newstands and drugstores. They made up 7% of the market in 1997 and the main publishers wereRandom House, Bantam, Simon & Schuster and Harpers.College TextbooksThis is the most profitable ...

(11 pages) 679 0 4.4 Oct/2003

Subjects: Science Essays > Computer Science > Internet and networking

A Troubled Future for America: Health Care and Social Security Reform

he book.(The Radical Center by Ted Halstead and Michael Lind. Published by Doubleday, a division of Random House, New York, NY. 2001.)A Troubled Future for AmericaModern America is an ever changing so ...

(4 pages) 296 0 5.0 Apr/2004

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Political Science > Specific Policies

Women in Greek Myth

J. Woolger. The Goddess Within: A Guide to theEternal Myths That Shape Women's Lives. New York, NY: Random House, 1989.Women in Greek MythThe myths of ancient Greece, although old in terms of time, co ...

(4 pages) 125 0 4.5 Apr/2004

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Classical Studies > Mythology

Amnesia - by Douglas Cooper. Needs to be edited a bit more.

ubject is the surface of things. Reading Amnesia, a book written by Douglas Cooper and published by Random House, is like moving through a dream. Cooper's style suggests waking and dreaming states by ...

(6 pages) 23 0 5.0 Apr/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

When Genius Failed: The Rise and Fall of Long-Term Capital Management by Roger Lowenstein

Random House, September 2000, 264 pagesThe classic image of a Wall Street market trader is someone, ... that the fluctuations (volatility) of a given stock and, in fact, the entire stock market follows a random course. The most articulate expression of this arguments can be found in Professor Burton Mal ... The most articulate expression of this arguments can be found in Professor Burton Malkiel's book A Random Walk Down Wall Street. According to this view, volatility is distributed in a bell curve (a s ...

(11 pages) 125 0 5.0 Nov/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American

Why Random House was worth more with Bertelsmann

IntroductionRandom house was started up in 1925 by Bennett Cerf and David Klopfer with only $50,000 in working c ... shing business grew into a company worth over $800 million through mergers and acquisitions . After Random House was purchased by Bertelsmann, it became the largest book publishing company in the worl ... by Bertelsmann, it became the largest book publishing company in the world. This paper examines why Random House is worth more as a subsidiary of Bertelsmann than as an independent company. In our vie ...

(3 pages) 64 0 5.0 Jan/2005

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Case Studies

AP American History - Compare and discuss Upton Sinclair's THE JUNGLE, Orwell's 1984 and progressive American politics - Bibliography Included!

ow one simple action can lead to extraordinary changes in history.From the publisher of The Jungle, Random House," When it was first published in 1906, The Jungle exposed the inhumane conditions of Ch ... ler and led to new regulations that forever changed workers' rights and the meatpacking industry," (Random). The Jungle shockingly revealed intolerable labor practices and unsanitary working condition ...

(4 pages) 39 0 5.0 May/2005

Subjects: History Term Papers

Margaret Sanger Biography

ntraceptives. (Asbell, Bernard. The Pill: A Biography of the Drug that Changed the World. New York: Random House, 1995).Margaret, the sixth of eleven children pointed to her mother's frequent pregnanc ... -41)Works CitedAsbell, Bernard. The Pill: A Biography of the Drug that Changed the World. New York: Random House, 1995, p124-26.Chesler, Ellen. Woman of Valor: Margaret Sanger and the Birth Control Mo ...

(9 pages) 48 0 0.0 Mar/2007

Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History

Toni Morrison And “Jazz”

ntury, and her works have become essential reading in the body of contemporary American fiction" (Random House 1). Morrison writes about the African-American experience in different times in Americ ... r divorce Morrison moved to New York City with her two sons. She began working as a book editor for Random House in 1965. In 1967, Morrison became a senior editor at Random House. While she was editin ...

(11 pages) 22 0 0.0 Oct/2001

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

A Civil Action

A Civil Action By Jonathon Harr Published by Random House Copyright 1996 There were many sub themes throughout this novel. Although it didn't alw ...

(2 pages) 13 0 0.0 Oct/2001

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers

Collusion

edibility and would seek legal action. Such was the case of James Frey, A Million Different Pieces, Random House’s Doubleday (2003). His book was listed as a selection on the Oprah Winfrey Book C ... (http://www.coastline.edu/page.asp?LinkID=312).Oprah Winfrey Book Club, A Million Different Pieces, Random House Doubleday (2003). (http://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/27/books/27oprah.html?ex=1296018000&a ...

(3 pages) 42 0 3.0 Jun/2007

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Education

Annie John's Farewell Breakfast: A New Criticism Paper on a Passage from Jamaica Kincaid's novel "Annie John"

mother despite the loving nature of her mother.Cook 5Works CitedDictionary.com Unabridged (v 1.1). Random House, Inc. 17 Sep. 2007.<Dictionary.com http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/absurd> ...

(4 pages) 3402 0 0.0 Oct/2007

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > World Literature

Copyright Infrindgement

ok that can be downloaded from a company such as Rosetta books. In the case Rosetta books V. Random house, Rosetta books had the digital format to eight of random houses books, which they then ... copyright to those stories. Therefore causing once again another court decision to be made. Random house argued that they owned the copyright although they own the copyright to the book; not t ...

(3 pages) 38 0 0.0 Feb/2008

Subjects: Art Essays > Music History & Studies

Analysis of the Character Development of Aunt Flavia: Short Stort Analysis

Cross, Amanda. “The Disappearance of Great Aunt Flavia.” The Collected Stories. New York: Random House, 1997. 70-88.

(3 pages) 1798 0 0.0 Dec/2008

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American

Character analysis: Isherwood Williams from EARTH ABIDES by George R. Stewart

ve in relative happiness in an otherwise tragic world.BIBLIOGRAPHY:Stewart, George R. Earth Abides. Random House, 1949.

(4 pages) 3443 0 5.0 Feb/2009

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American