New Releases by Paul Benjamin

Discusses and compares American and British versions of Dickens'' A Christmas Carol, and shows how these interpretations reflect changing cultural values

Survey of recent and useful literature on the economic returns to education, with a basic summary of findings. As well as economic benefit to the individual, investment in education contributes to the public welfare, ie. to the economic well-being of the nation as a whole.

"The two noble kinsmen, probably acted in 1613, was first published in 1634 with a title-page ascribing it to Fletcher and Shakespeare. Despite the absence of external evidence that Shakespeare ever collaborated, and despite the uncertainty and confusion that have long attended study of the play, a majority of interested critics have come to accept that dual attribution. This book seeks to show, however, that the play must have been entirely the work of Shakespeare"--Dust jacket.