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The Guermantes Way
Av Marcel Proust, Adam Watt m. fl.
Häftad, 2025
147 kr
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'the social kaleidoscope was shifting'The Guermantes Way, the third volume of Marcel Proust's In Search of Lost Time, provides a transition from the realm of adolescence into the adult social world of Belle Epoque Paris. Its pages buzz with worldly conversations, with bravado and posturing, …
The Wings of the Dove
Häftad, 2009
4,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
135 kr
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ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert …
Human Comedy
Selected Stories
Av Honoré De Balzac, Peter Brooks
Häftad, 2014
190 kr
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An NYRB Classics Original Characters from every corner of society and all walks of life—lords and ladies, businessmen and military men, poor clerks, unforgiving moneylenders, aspiring politicians, artists, actresses, swindlers, misers, parasites, sexual adventurers, crackpots, and more—move through …
Collaborative Consulting
Service Management Scenarios
Av Peter Brooks
E-bok, 2013
514 kr
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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 …
Adopting Service Governance
Governing Portfolio Value for Sound Corporate Citzenship
Av Peter Brooks
E-bok, 2015
514 kr
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Adopting Service Governance provides a useful umbrella for a number of frameworks including ITIL®, TOGAF®, COBIT®, ITSM, BSM, Business Analysis, Programme Management, Management of Value, Management of Portfolios and Management of Risk by establishing the top-down governance of an organisation …
Adopting Service Governance
Governing Portfolio Value for Sound Corporate Citzenship
Av Peter Brooks
E-bok, 2015
514 kr
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Adopting Service Governance provides a useful umbrella for a number of frameworks including ITIL®, TOGAF®, COBIT®, ITSM, BSM, Business Analysis, Programme Management, Management of Value, Management of Portfolios and Management of Risk by establishing the top-down governance of an organisation …
Collaborative Consulting
Service Management Scenarios
Av Peter Brooks
E-bok, 2013
514 kr
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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 …
Wings of the Dove
E-bok, 2009
117 kr
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ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World''s Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford''s commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert …
Wings of the Dove
E-bok, 1984
117 kr
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ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World''s Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford''s commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert …
Honore de Balzac
Av Peter Brooks
E-bok, 2022
225 kr
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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 …
Honore de Balzac
Av Peter Brooks
E-bok, 2022
225 kr
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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 …
Guermantes Way
Av Peter Brooks, Adam Watt m. fl.
E-bok, 2025
113 kr
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''the social kaleidoscope was shifting'' The Guermantes Way , the third volume of Marcel Proust''s In Search of Lost Time , provides a transition from the realm of adolescence into the adult social world of Belle Epoque Paris. Its pages buzz with worldly conversations, with bravado and posturing, …
Guermantes Way
Av Peter Brooks, Adam Watt m. fl.
E-bok, 2025
113 kr
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''the social kaleidoscope was shifting'' The Guermantes Way , the third volume of Marcel Proust''s In Search of Lost Time , provides a transition from the realm of adolescence into the adult social world of Belle Epoque Paris. Its pages buzz with worldly conversations, with bravado and posturing, …
Honoré de Balzac
Av Peter Brooks
Inbunden, 2022
324 kr
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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 …
Honoré de Balzac
Av Peter Brooks
Häftad, 2026
236 kr
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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.This volume is a personal account of coming to terms with Balzac: moving from more classical and restrained authors to the highly-coloured melodramatic …
Troubling Confessions
Speaking Guilt in Law and Literature
Av Peter Brooks
Häftad, 2001
292 kr
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The constant call to admit guilt amounts almost to a tyranny of confession today. We demand tell-all tales in the public dramas of the courtroom, the talk shows and in print, as well as in the more private spaces of the confessional and the psychoanalyst's office. Yet we are also deeply uneasy with …
Thinking in Cases
Fiction, Law, and the Case History
Av Peter Brooks
Inbunden, 2027
1011 kr
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How the form of the case history became an important way of studying the individual as an exemplary case in medicine, psychoanalysis, law, and the novel.What does it mean when we address ourselves to a specific problem and treat it as a “case” that needs resolution, a resolution that may in turn …
Thinking in Cases
Fiction, Law, and the Case History
Av Peter Brooks
Häftad, 2027
204 kr
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How the form of the case history became an important way of studying the individual as an exemplary case in medicine, psychoanalysis, law, and the novel.What does it mean when we address ourselves to a specific problem and treat it as a “case” that needs resolution, a resolution that may in turn …
"Pretty Windows" Murder: The murder of George Wilson 8th September 1963
Av Peter Brooks
Häftad, 2019
133 kr
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Melodramatic Imagination
Balzac, Henry James, Melodrama, and the Mode of Excess
Av Peter Brooks
Häftad, 1995
365 kr
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In this lucid and fascinating book, Peter Brooks argues that melodrama is a crucial mode of expression in modern literature.After studying stage melodrama as a dominant popular form in the nineteenth century, he moves on to Balzac and Henry James to show how these "realist" novelists created …
Law's Stories
Narrative and Rhetoric in the Law
Häftad, 1998
469 kr
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The law is full of stories, ranging from the competing narratives presented at trials to the Olympian historical narratives set forth in Supreme Court opinions. How those stories are told and listened to makes a crucial difference to those whose lives are reworked in legal storytelling. The public …
Whose Freud?
The Place of Psychoanalysis in Contemporary Culture
Häftad, 2000
549 kr
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One hundred years after the publication of The Interpretation of Dreams, Freud remains the most frequently cited author of our culture—and one of the most controversial. To some he is the presiding genius of modernity, to others the author of its symptomatic illnesses. The current position of …
Realist Vision
Av Peter Brooks
Häftad, 2008
565 kr
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A lively and distinctive look at realism in great modern books and artRealist Vision exploresthe claim to represent the world “as it is.” Peter Brooks takes a new look at the realist tradition and its intense interest in the visual. Discussing major English and French novels and paintings from the …
Reading for the Plot
Design and Intention in Narrative
Av Peter Brooks
E-bok, 2012
236 kr
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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.
Emperor's Body
A Novel
Av Peter Brooks
Inbunden, 2011
616 kr
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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 the body …
Pere Goriot
A Norton Critical Edition
Av Honore de Balzac, Peter Brooks
Häftad, 1997
201 kr
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The text is accompanied by an introduction, textual annotations by the editor, and a map of Paris."Responses: Contemporaries and Other Novelists" illustrates Balzac’s immense influence on other writers, among them Charles Baudelaire, Hippolyte Taine, Émile Zola, and Marcel Proust."Twentieth-Century …
Psychoanalysis and Storytelling
Av Peter Brooks
Häftad, 1993
750 kr
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Psychoanalysis and Narrative is a clear and exemplary demonstration of the ways in which the vital connections between psychoanalysis and literature can be articulated without reductive simplification. Following Freud's assumption that sexuality and narrative form are analogous, Brooks proposes …
Reading for the Plot
Design and Intention in Narrative
Av Peter Brooks
Häftad, 1992
351 kr
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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.
Henry James Goes to Paris
Av Peter Brooks
Häftad, 2008
712 kr
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Henry James's reputation as The Master is so familiar that it's hard to imagine he was ever someone on whom some things really were lost. This is the story of the year--1875 to 1876--when the young novelist moved to Paris, drawn by his literary idols living at the center of the early modern …
Enigmas of Identity
Av Peter Brooks
Häftad, 2013
320 kr
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"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 …
