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  • Reading for the Plot

    Design and Intention in Narrative

    by Peter Brooks ...
    A book which should appeal to both literary theorists and to readers of the novel, this study invites the reader to consider how the plot reflects the patterns of human destiny and seeks to impose a new meaning on life. ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Understanding the Global Climate Crises:

    Through Liberal Arts

    by Peter Brooks ...
    Dive into a cinematic and gaming exploration of the climate crisis with eco-feminist insights from Paola Merrill, Jonna Jinton, Leena Henningsen, and others. Uncover connections between biking, the industrial revolution, and Tesla's green innovations. This artistically expressed guide, rooted in liberal arts, provides a step-by-step understanding of climate change for a broad audience and offers ... Read more

    $4.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Seduced by Story

    The Use and Abuse of Narrative

    by Peter Brooks ...
    In this spiritual sequel to his influential Reading for the Plot, Peter Brooks examines the dangerously alluring power of storytelling.“There’s nothing in the world more powerful than a good story. Nothing can stop it. Nothing can defeat it.” So begins the scholar and literary critic Peter Brooks’s reckoning with today’s flourishing cult of story.Forty years after publishing his seminal work ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • The Emperor's Body

    A Novel

    by Peter Brooks ...
    Napoleon, twenty years dead, rises like a phoenix over the politics of France and the destinies of three lovers.Against the historical backdrop of the French expedition in 1840 to retrieve Napoleon's body from Saint Helena, two men and a woman find themselves engulfed in long-dormant and dangerous political passions.Philippe de Rohan-Chabot, an aristocratic young diplomat, is charged with bringing ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Henry James Comes Home

    Rediscovering America in the Gilded Age

    by Peter Brooks ...
    In this enthralling re-creation of American novelist Henry James' famous ten-month trip around the United States, lauded critic Peter Brooks brings to life both the literary giant and America in its Gilded Age.In 1904, after two decades of living and travelling abroad, Henry James returned to the United States to discover a world drastically different from the one he had left behind. Suddenly, the ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Collaborative Consulting: Service Management Scenarios

    by Peter Brooks ...
    The publication embeds ITIL best-practice advice with scenarios derived from practical experience, to illustrate approaches and negotiate possible pitfalls to help deliver successful service management projects. It is a management guide to practical adoption of ITIL principles, complementary to the core publications. Containing practical guidance for internal and external consultants, this book ... Read more

    $40.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Flaubert in the Ruins of Paris

    The Story of a Friendship, a Novel, and a Terrible Year

    by Peter Brooks ...
    From a distinguished literary historian, a look at Gustave Flaubert and his correspondence with George Sand during France's "terrible year" -- summer 1870 through spring 1871From the summer of 1870 through the spring of 1871, France suffered a humiliating defeat in its war against Prussia and witnessed bloody class warfare that culminated in the crushing of the Paris Commune. In Flaubert in the ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • Honoré de Balzac

    by Peter Brooks ...
    Series series My Reading
    A book on the experience of reading Honoré de Balzac's La Comédie humaine which recounts the process of Peter Brooks's own discovery of Balzac. A personal account of coming to terms with Balzac: moving from more classical and restrained authors to the highly-coloured melodramatic novels of the Human Comedy, which give us the dynamics of a new and challenging world on the threshold of modernity. ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • Balzac's Lives

    by Peter Brooks ...
    Enter the mind of French literary giant Honoré de Balzac through a study of nine of his greatest characters and the novels they inhabit. Balzac's Lives illuminates the writer's life, era, and work in a completely original way.Balzac, more than anyone, invented the nineteenth-century novel, and Oscar Wilde went so far as to say that Balzac had invented the nineteenth century. But it was above all ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • The Humanities and Public Life

    by Peter Brooks ...
    This book tests the proposition that the humanities can, and at their best do, represent a commitment to ethical reading. And that this commitment, and the training and discipline of close reading that underlie it, represent something that the humanities need to bring to other fields: to professional training and to public life.What leverage does reading, of the attentive sort practiced in the ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • Metrics for service management

    designing for ITIL

    by Peter Brooks ...
    Series series Best practice
    This title is the sister book to the global best-seller Metrics for IT Service Management. Taking the basics steps described there, this new title describes the context within the ITIL 2011 Lifecycle approach. More than that it looks at the overall goal of metrics which is to achieve Value. The overall delivery of Business Value is driven by Corporate Strategy and Governance, from which ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Enigmas of Identity

    by Peter Brooks ...
    From eminent critic Peter Brooks, an exploration of the modern preoccupation with identity"We know that it matters crucially to be able to say who we are, why we are here, and where we are going," Peter Brooks writes in Enigmas of Identity. Many of us are also uncomfortably aware that we cannot provide a convincing account of our identity to others or even ourselves. Despite or because of that ... Read more

    $23.09 USD