Best Selling Books by Michael Meyer

One of Germany''s leading environmental thinkers explains his holistic alternative to the “incomplete Enlightenment” of the dominant western world view—to join together as global citizens and consumers, treating all purchasing choices as ethical, and withdrawing our spending from an economic system which threatens the very foundations of life on earth. Revolution for Nature combines a provocative historical and philosophical analysis with practical recommendations both for the lifestyle changes of reformed consumers, and for the political constitution of the Nature State of the future.

Here is the story of the most influential men in the world--Ross Perot, Steven Jobs, Ted Turner, James Rouse, Daniel Ludwig, and Robert Swanson, men who set out to possess the world on their own terms. Readers can see what makes th ese extraordinary men tick, including the downfalls of being so driven to success.

Drawn from our best-selling anthology The Compact Bedford Introduction to Literature, Literature to Go is a brief and inexpensive collection of stories, poems, and plays accompanied by thorough critical reading and writing support. With literature from many periods, cultures, and diverse voices, the book is also a complete guide to close reading, critical thinking, and thoughtful writing about literature. The fourth edition features 132 new, carefully chosen stories, poems, and plays--continuing the anthology''s mission to present literature as a living, changing art form.

The plays in this volume range from the once shockingly realistic Ghosts (1881), ''the play that launched a thousand ships of critical fury''; through The Wild Duck (1884) with its innovatory symbolism and its touching portrait of a fourteen-year-old girl held in thrall by her feckless father (''Where,'' asked George Bernard Shaw, ''shall I find an epithet magnificent enough for The Wild Duck?''); to The Master Builder (1892), showing the semi-autobiographical relationship between an ageing genius and a dynamic young woman. Michael Meyer''s translations are ''crisp and cobweb-free, purged of verbal Victoriana'' (Kenneth Tynan)