Richard Hunter: 26 books

If you're a general manager or CFO, do you feel you're spending too much on IT or wishing you could get better returns from your IT investments? If so, it's time to examine what's behind this IT-as-cost mind-set. In The Real Business of IT, Richard Hunter and George Westerman reveal that the...

Through a series of innovative critical readings Richard Hunter builds a picture of how the ancients discussed the meaning of literary works and their importance in society. He pays particular attention to the interplay of criticism and creativity by not treating criticism in isolation from the works...

Homer was the greatest and most influential Greek poet. In this book, Richard Hunter explores central themes in the poems' reception in antiquity, paying particular attention to Homer's importance in shaping ancient culture. Subjects include the geographical and educational breadth of Homeric reception,...

Oxford Approaches to Classical Literature (Series Editors: Kathleen Coleman and Richard Rutherford) introduces individual works of Greek and Latin literature to readers who are approaching them for the first time. Each volume sets the work in its literary and historical context, and aims to offer...

The Argonautica is the dramatic story of Jason's quest for the Golden Fleece and his relations with the dangerous Colchian princess, Medea. The only extant Greek epic poem to bridge the gap between Homer and late antiquity, it is a major product of the brilliant world of the Ptolemaic court at Alexandria,...

Exploring both how Plato engaged with existing literary forms and how later literature then created 'classics' out of some of Plato's richest works, this book includes chapters on such subjects as rewritings of the Apology and re-imaginings of Socrates' defence, Plato's high style and the criticisms...

Stephen, terminally ill with a failing liver, thought he was prepared to face his own death, but when he gets a shot at the transplant he has been waiting for, he finds himself facing his own inner demon and a chance at life he never expected to get.

Sometimes, when you carry around too much hate, you might come face to face with it on a lonely evening. For Logan Edward Beaumont, that night comes on a deserted moonlit road where he comes to realize that his hate may be all that he has left.

Guilt is always a heavy burden to bear, but for Eugine's final confession, he bears the weight of his role in mankind's greatest accomplishment and it's greatest technological mistake.

This book selects central texts illustrating the literary reception of Hesiod's Works and Days in antiquity and considers how these moments were crucial in fashioning the idea of 'didactic literature'. A central chapter considers the development of ancient ideas about didactic poetry, relying not...

Worlds of If' was a three-time winner of the Hugo Award for best science fiction magazine. 'Worlds of If' discovered many talented writers who would go on to dominate genre fiction. This is the second in our 'Worlds of If' series, with even more memorable stories from its tremendous run. '2BR02B'...

James F. Farriday III got tired of being picked on and fought back, trouble is he did not know how he did it but the bully died engulfed in flames.Sara Jean Tomlinsen tried to attract the attention of a nice young man, a mean girl interfered humiliating Sara Jean. So the girl ended up on the school...

Jimmy (Tripp) Farriday refines his Talent for finding Lost Items. Sara Jean Tomlinsen learns there are worse ways to punish a wizard than killing them and has to step up her efforts when Miles Ritter gets shot by a ‘normal’. Patrick (Butch) Hart once again finds himself in over his head as a group...

Two of the three most powerful wizards in the world, the headmasters of SnowField, were attacked and rendered helpless while checking out a report of a rogue wizard operating on the West Coast. For some reason the now terrified, ex-bully Butch Hart seems to have an in with this force, or at least...