"Greek tragedies reflect about fundamental values and the sometimes agonizing tensions among them, using mythic stories of searing power. Paul Woodruff uses Sophocles' Ajax to create a gripping reflection about leadership both then and now. A classical scholar who has served as a leading administrator at the University of Texas, and who earlier served as an officer in the Vietnam War, Woodruff writes about leadership and its difficulties with both insider knowledge and poetic sensibility. Readers will argue with this book, ...
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"Greek tragedies reflect about fundamental values and the sometimes agonizing tensions among them, using mythic stories of searing power. Paul Woodruff uses Sophocles' Ajax to create a gripping reflection about leadership both then and now. A classical scholar who has served as a leading administrator at the University of Texas, and who earlier served as an officer in the Vietnam War, Woodruff writes about leadership and its difficulties with both insider knowledge and poetic sensibility. Readers will argue with this book, and many will strongly disagree with Woodruff's ideas about rewards, fairness, and particular justice. But that's the great merit of the book: it is totally honest, totally open to argument and refutation, written with a passionate integrity that calls for a like integrity in the reader." - Martha Nussbaum, The University of Chicago "Woodruff tells a great story about why leaders need justice, compassion, and wisdom to be effective problem solvers. Everyone
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Used-Very Good. A popular teacher takes the confusion out of color theory and demonstrates how to achieve the color and light effects that painters really want to master. Very nice clean, tight copy free of any marks. wrapped in complimentary Brodart dust jacket protector...
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Very Good in Very Good jacket. Signed by author on title page, where he also jokingly inserted the word "almost" in pen by the subtitle before the word "every"-see image. Also laid in is a signed note from the author on a postcard of his own work "Tap Dancers". Previous owner name penciled to front endpaper. Light wear overall to DJ. Cover with very small corner bumps. Otherwise clean and intact throughout. Near Fine. Please see images. 144 pages.
This is such a basic need for any painter - especially color enthusiasts but no matter the media, Christopher covers composition and light as well in such a different venue of thought
I'm so very happy to have this book and review the chapters as I need them - it's a book to use for a lifetime journey of painting