Robin Brooks – författare & böcker

The Portland Vase: The Extraordinary Odyssey of a Mysterious Roman Treasure

AvRobin Brooks

Häftad, Engelska, 2005

223 kr

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Portland Vase

The Extraordinary Odyssey of a Mysterious Roman Treasure

AvRobin Brooks

E-bok

Engelska, 2009

91 kr

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For thousands of years an enigmatic and astonishingly beautiful piece of Roman art has captivated those who have come in contact with it.Made before the birth of Christ, the Portland Vase, as it is called, is renowned for both its beauty and its mystery.

In The Portland Vase, Robin Brooks takes us on a vivid journey across Europe and through the centuries, as this delicate piece of glass, less than ten inches in height, passes through the hands of a stunning cast of characters, including the first Roman emperor, Augustus; a notorious tomb raider; a reckless cardinal; a princess with a nasty gambling habit; the ceramics genius Josiah Wedgwood; the secretive Duchess of Portland; and a host of politicians, dilettantes, and scam artists.

Rich with passion, inspiration, jealousy, and endless speculation, the story of The Portland Vase spans more than two thousand years and remains one of the art world''s greatest enigmas.

Social Security Reform

Financial and Political Issues in International Perspective

AvRobin Brooks,Assaf Razin

Häftad, Engelska, 2010

542 kr

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As population aging has become increasingly acute in many countries, the debate over how to reform often creaking public pension systems has gathered momentum. In many cases, this debate has become politicized and the focus on some of the underlying economic issues has been lost. This volume hopes to redress some of this imbalance. It begins by examining the rationale behind why public pension systems were introduced originally - out of fear that individuals do not adequately save for retirement. It then systematically examines different aspects of reforming these systems. It covers the fiscal repercussions of reform, the implications of the baby boom on asset returns in the years ahead, the political economy of the reform process, and finally the risk-sharing implications that are inherent in reform. An important additional goal of this volume is to make it accessible to as wide an audience as possible: students, academics, and policy makers.

Social Security Reform

Financial and Political Issues in International Perspective

AvRobin Brooks,Assaf Razin

Inbunden, Engelska, 2005

1 558 kr

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As population aging has become increasingly acute in many countries, the debate over how to reform often creaking public pension systems has gathered momentum. In many cases, this debate has become politicized and the focus on some of the underlying economic issues has been lost. This volume hopes to redress some of this imbalance. It begins by examining the rationale behind why public pension systems were introduced originally - out of fear that individuals do not adequately save for retirement. It then systematically examines different aspects of reforming these systems. It covers the fiscal repercussions of reform, the implications of the baby boom on asset returns in the years ahead, the political economy of the reform process, and finally the risk-sharing implications that are inherent in reform. An important additional goal of this volume is to make it accessible to as wide an audience as possible: students, academics, and policy makers.

Class Interruptions

Inequality and Division in African Diasporic Women's Fiction

AvRobin Brooks

Inbunden, Engelska, 2022

1 213 kr

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As downward mobility continues to be an international issue, Robin Brooks offers a timely intervention between the humanities and social sciences by examining how Black women's cultural production engages debates about the growth in income and wealth gaps in global society during the late twentieth- and early twenty-first centuries. Using an interdisciplinary approach, this innovative book employs major contemporary texts by both African American and Caribbean writers—Toni Morrison, Gloria Naylor, Dawn Turner, Olive Senior, Oonya Kempadoo, Merle Hodge, and Diana McCaulay—to demonstrate how neoliberalism, within the broader framework of racial capitalism, reframes structural inequalities as personal failures, thus obscuring how to improve unjust conditions. Through interviews with authors, textual analyses of the fiction, and a diagramming of cross-class relationships, Brooks offers compelling new insight on literary portrayals of class inequalities and division. She expands the scope of how the Black women's literary tradition, since the 1970s, has been conceptualized by repositioning the importance of class and explores why the imagination matters as we think about novel ways to address long-standing and simultaneously evolving issues.

Class Interruptions

Inequality and Division in African Diasporic Women's Fiction

AvRobin Brooks

Häftad, Engelska, 2022

404 kr

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As downward mobility continues to be an international issue, Robin Brooks offers a timely intervention between the humanities and social sciences by examining how Black women's cultural production engages debates about the growth in income and wealth gaps in global society during the late twentieth- and early twenty-first centuries. Using an interdisciplinary approach, this innovative book employs major contemporary texts by both African American and Caribbean writers—Toni Morrison, Gloria Naylor, Dawn Turner, Olive Senior, Oonya Kempadoo, Merle Hodge, and Diana McCaulay—to demonstrate how neoliberalism, within the broader framework of racial capitalism, reframes structural inequalities as personal failures, thus obscuring how to improve unjust conditions. Through interviews with authors, textual analyses of the fiction, and a diagramming of cross-class relationships, Brooks offers compelling new insight on literary portrayals of class inequalities and division. She expands the scope of how the Black women's literary tradition, since the 1970s, has been conceptualized by repositioning the importance of class and explores why the imagination matters as we think about novel ways to address long-standing and simultaneously evolving issues.

Judith Adam, Sian Ejiwunmi-Le Berre, Ian Billings, Katie Hims, David Pownall, Frances Bingham, Stephen Wakelam, Sarah Wooley, Lucy Caldwell, Robin Brooks, Elizabeth Lewis, Alistair McGowan, Anna Linstrum, Jonathan Tafler, Mary Cooper - Behind the Author's Desk: Dramas of Famous Writers' Real Lives, Ljudbok

Behind the Author's Desk: Dramas of Famous Writers' Real Lives

A BBC Radio 4 drama collection

AvJudith Adam,Sian Ejiwunmi-Le Berrem. fl.

Ljudbok

Engelska, 2021

152 kr

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18 biographical dramas based on the lives and loves of celebrated writersThese surprising, revealing dramas take a behind-the-scenes look at some of our best-loved authors, mingling fact and fantasy to explore their extraordinary hidden lives. From love affairs, friendships and family relationships to traumas, tragedies and journeys of self-discovery, we glimpse the unwritten worlds that shaped their unforgettable fiction. Among the star casts are Andrew Scott, Toby Jones, Richard Dormer, Glenda Jackson, Bella Ramsey, Julia Davis, Ian McDiarmid, Haydn Gwynne, David Threlfall, Alistair McGowan, Tom Goodman-Hill, Hattie Morahan, Rosie Cavaliero, Julian Rhind-Tutt, Paul Ritter and Lia WilliamsJane and Tom - Writing to her sister, Jane Austen describes her love for Tom Lefroy - a love that would lead to Pride and Prejudice.When Fanny Met Germaine - A delightful romp through the passionate, scandalous friendship between two 18th Century writers: Fanny Burney and Mme de Stael.Comrade Ackland - Dorset, 1936. Newly returned from an illicit trip to Civil War Spain, Sylvia Townsend Warner and her lover Valentine Ackland have an unexpected visitor....Tongues of Fire - 1913. When a Nobel laureate visits Dublin''s Abbey Theatre, fireworks erupt between WB Yeats and Sean O''Casey.A Year at the Races - Approaching the end of his career, Groucho Marx meets a wisecracking fan determined to teach him new comedy tricks.Spike and the Elfin Oak - A comic fantasy inspired by Spike Milligan''s madcap attempts in the mid-1960s to preserve a curious sculpture in Kensington Gardens.Everybody''s Got Conditions - Casting Bette Davis in his play The Night of the Iguana proves the biggest mistake in Tennessee Williams'' career...I Believe I Have Genius- Humble and obscure, young Charlotte Brontë travels to Brussels to study at a girls'' school.Marian and George - Marian Evans (aka George Eliot) must choose between her adored brother and the love of her life...Lying Low - An intriguing drama imagining what happened to Samuel Beckett during his mysterious three weeks in Folkestone in 1961.A Terrible Beauty - WB Yeats travels to France to propose to beautiful Maud Gonne, soon after her husband''s execution in the 1916 Easter Rising.The Watcher on the Wall - Dramatised from his letters, this is the story of Louis MacNeice''s transatlantic love affair and the poetry it inspired.Edith Sitwell in Scarborough - Returning to her birthplace, Edith Sitwell sets out to wreak revenge.Mrs Tolstoy - A five-part drama charting the tempestuous marriage between Leo and Sofya Tolstoy.The ''B'' Word - The opening night of George Bernard Shaw''s Pygmalion causes a scandal and sparks a passionate love/hate triangle...The Rules of Palship - The young Noël Coward demanded fierce loyalty from his friends - but did he live up to his own high standards?The Lost Road - A playful tribute to the long friendship between CS Lewis and JRR Tolkien and how it influenced their respective masterpieces.Luxembourg Gardens - Re-imagined from Katherine Mansfield''s stories, letters and journals, this Mansfieldesque play explores her last day in Paris, where she is dying of consumption aged 34.Copyright © 2021 BBC Studios Distribution Ltd (P)2021 BBC Studios Distribution Ltd

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