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Peter Brook and the Mahabharata Critical Perspectives

Peter Brook and the Mahabharata Critical Perspectives

First published in 1991 Peter Brook and the Mahabharata is a collection of essays which contextualizes the production of Peter Brook’s The Mahabharata. Written by both scholars and collaborators on Brook’s production these essays seek not only to discuss such issues as the politics of theatre interculturalism but to describe the nature of the working process and detail the technical problems engendered by touring a production of this size and complexity. Furnished with a new preface by the editor the book continues to be crucial research work devoted to unravelling the mesmerising as well as the polarising enigma known as Peter Brook’s The Mahabharata. Thoroughly heterogenous and controversially irreverent this book will be of interest to students of theatre performance art literature South Asian studies and media studies. | Peter Brook and the Mahabharata Critical Perspectives

GBP 105.00
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Benjamin Britten and Montagu Slater's Peter Grimes

Benjamin Britten and Montagu Slater's Peter Grimes

‘Who can turn skies back and begin again?’ -Peter This book contends that Peter Grimes widely regarded as one of the greatest and most influential operas of the 20th century is also one of the British theatre’s finest ‘lost’ plays. Seeking to liberate Britten and Slater’s work from the blinkered traditions of theatre and opera criticism Sam Kinchin-Smith poses two questions: If an opera was created like a play and can be staged as a play is it a play? If a portion of its success and influence is the product of this newly identified theatrical engine is it then a great play? The answers involve Wagner and W. G. Sebald George Crabbe and Complicité Akenfield and Twin Peaks. Challenging long-established narratives of post-war theatre history this book makes a compelling case for why practitioners and scholars of performance ought to pay more attention to Britten and Slater’s achievement – a milestone of unconventional English modernism – and perhaps to other operatic masterpieces too. | Benjamin Britten and Montagu Slater's Peter Grimes

GBP 9.99
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Perspectives On Thinking And Reasoning Essays In Honour Of Peter Wason

Perspectives On Thinking And Reasoning Essays In Honour Of Peter Wason

This collection of essays focuses on three reasoning problems devised by Peter Wason - the selection task the 2-4-6 task and the THOG problem - which have had a considerable influence since their invention. ; The reasons why people make so many errors in these seemingly simple tasks are still not fully understood. A variety of different theoretical perspectives have been used in trying to explain performance. These include the mental models approach the pragmatic reasoning approach and the mental logic approach. This book contains chapters which discuss all these theories. Other chapters review the literature or offer alternative theoretical perspectives. A final chapter by Peter Wason describes how he came to create the tasks discussed. | Perspectives On Thinking And Reasoning Essays In Honour Of Peter Wason

GBP 44.99
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The Drawings of Peter Lanyon

The Drawings of Peter Lanyon

This title was first published in 2003. Peter Lanyon stood at the forefront of landscape painting in Europe during the late 1950s and early 60s. A prominent St Ives artist he was associated with Barbara Hepworth Ben Nicholson and Naum Gabo; his work also has affinities with abstract expressionism. Lanyon's career started just as the study of drawing was being liberated from 19th-century academic constrictions. His many drawings range from records of trips to the Netherlands and Italy to portrait sketches and abstract studies. Lanyon also used drawings extensively in the development of some of his most important paintings. In this study Margaret Garlake explores Lanyon's theory and practice of drawing; the contribution of drawings to the evocation of place in paintings; his use of models and the metamorphosis of the human body into landscape images as well as his use of three-dimensional constructions as equivalents to drawing. | The Drawings of Peter Lanyon

GBP 99.99
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Peter Orlovsky a Life in Words Intimate Chronicles of a Beat Writer

Peter Orlovsky a Life in Words Intimate Chronicles of a Beat Writer

Until now the poet Peter Orlovsky who was Allen Ginsberg's lover for more than forty years has been the neglected member of the Beat Generation. Because he lived in Ginsberg's shadow his achievements were seldom noted and his contributions to literature have not been fully recognised. Now this first collection of Orlovsky's writings traces his fascinating life in his own words. It also tells for the first time the intimate story of his relationship with Ginsberg. Drawn from previously unpublished journals correspondence photographs and poems Peter Orlovsky a Life in Words begins as Orlovsky is discharged from the Army; follows the young man through years of self-doubt and details his first meeting with Ginsberg in San Francisco from his own perspective. In never-before-heard detail Orlovsky describes his travels around the world with Ginsberg Kerouac Burroughs and Corso. The book also delves into the contradictions that ultimately defined him: best known as Ginsberg's lover Orlovsky was heterosexual and always longed to be with women; his spirit was prescient of the flower children of the sixties - especially his inclinations toward devotion and love - but in the end his use of drugs took its toll on his body and mind silencing one of the most original and inspiring voices of his generation. | Peter Orlovsky a Life in Words Intimate Chronicles of a Beat Writer

GBP 34.99
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The New Sociology of Knowledge The Life and Work of Peter L. Berger

The New Sociology of Knowledge The Life and Work of Peter L. Berger

A classical sociologist can be defined as someone whose works occupied a central position among the sociological ideas and notions of an era. Following this criterion Michaela Pfadenhauer demonstrates the relevance of Peter L. Berger's work to the sociology of knowledge. Pfadenhauer shows that Berger is not only a sociologist of religion but one whose works are characterized by a sociology-of-knowledge perspective. Berger stands out among his fellow social scientists both quantitatively and qualitatively. He has written numerous books which have been translated into many languages and a multitude of essays in scholarly journals and popular magazines. For decades he has played a role in shaping both public debate and social scientific discourse in America and far beyond. As a sociologist of knowledge Berger has played three roles: he has been a theoretician of modern life an analyst of modern religiosity and an empiricist of global economic culture. In all areas the focus on processes rather than status quo is characteristic of Berger's thinking. This book provides an in-depth view on the critical thinking of one of the most important sociologists that present times has to offer. It includes four written essays by Berger. | The New Sociology of Knowledge The Life and Work of Peter L. Berger

GBP 42.99
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From Formalism to Weak Form: The Architecture and Philosophy of Peter Eisenman

From Formalism to Weak Form: The Architecture and Philosophy of Peter Eisenman

Peter Eisenman is one of the most controversial protagonists of the architectural scene who is known as much for his theoretical essays as he is for his architecture. While much has been written about his built works and his philosophies most books focus on one or the other aspect. By structuring this volume around the concept of form Stefano Corbo links together Eisenman’s architecture with his theory. From Formalism to Weak Form: The Architecture and Philosophy of Peter Eisenman argues that form is the sphere of mediation between our body our inner world and the exterior world and as such it enables connections to be made between philosophy and architecture. From the start of his career on Eisenman has been deeply interested in the problem of form in architecture and has constantly challenged the classical concept of it. For him form is not simply a cognitive tool that determines a physical structure which discriminates all that is active from what is passive what is inside from what is outside. He has always tried to connect his own work with the cultural manifestations of the time: firstly under the influence of Colin Rowe and his formalist studies; secondly by re-interpreting Chomsky’s linguistic theories; in the 80’s by collaborating with Derrida and his de-constructivist approach; more recently by discovering Henri Bergson's idea of Time. These different moments underline different phases different projects different programmatic manifestos; and above all an evolving notion of form. Taking a multi-disciplinary approach based on the intersections between architecture and philosophy this book investigates all these definitions and in doing so provides new insights into and a deeper understanding of the complexity of Eisenman’s work.

GBP 38.99
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Clifford K. Madsen's Contributions to Music Education and Music Therapy Love of Learning

Clifford K. Madsen's Contributions to Music Education and Music Therapy Love of Learning

Clifford K. Madsen’s Contributions to Music Education and Music Therapy: Love of Learning summarizes the life and work of Dr. Clifford Madsen a luminary in music education and author of a dozen books the first recipient of the Senior Researcher Award from the Music Educators National Conference and mentor and teacher to generations of music educators and music therapists. This text presents Madsen’s philosophy career and legacy through an exploration of primary sources and extensive interviews with former students outlining the philosophical tenets Madsen espouses while contextualizing those tenets within his teachings research and service. What began as an exercise to record Madsen’s work for archival purposes resulted in a study of how his philosophy manifested in a significant offering to music educators. Throughout a prolific academic career Dr. Madsen has led Florida State University to a position of preeminence in the fields of music education and music therapy. Yet as detailed here his greatest impact goes beyond lesson plans and syllabi epitomized by a love of learning. As Bob Duke stated What is monumental about Cliff is not what he has written. It is what he has done as a human being for other human beings. | Clifford K. Madsen's Contributions to Music Education and Music Therapy Love of Learning

GBP 19.99
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Forensic Psychotherapy and Psychopathology Winnicottian Perspectives

Forensic Psychotherapy and Psychopathology Winnicottian Perspectives

This exceptional book adds to the fast growing area of forensic psychotherapy and shows the relevance of Winnicott's work to therapy with some of the most deprived in our society. Contributors:Brett Kahr; Jennifer Johns; Estela Welldon; Joan Raphael-Leff; Valerie Sinason; Jeannie Milligan; Donald Campbell; Em Farrell; Peter Giovacchini; Charles Socarides; Murray Cox. | Forensic Psychotherapy and Psychopathology Winnicottian Perspectives

GBP 130.00
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Freud's On Narcissism An Introduction

Freud's On Narcissism An Introduction

On Narcissism: An Introduction is a densely packed essay dealing with ideas that are still being debated today - from the role of narcissism in normal and pathological development and the relationship of narcissism to homosexuality libido romantic love and self-esteem to issues of therapeutic intervention. The contributors place the work in the context of Freud's evolving thinking point out its innovations review its problematic aspects and examine how its theoretical concepts have been elaborated more recently by analysts of diverse theoretic persuasions. In addition they use Freud's text to chart new developments in psychoanalysis and point toward still unresolved problems. An introduction by Joseph Sandler Ethel Spector Person and Peter Fonagy provides a succinct overview of the material. Contributors: Willy Baranger David Bell R. Horacio Etchegoyen Peter Fonagy Leon Grinberg Bela Grunberger Heinz Henseler Otto F. Kernberg Paul H. Ornstein Ethel Spector Person Joseph Sandler Hanna Segal Nikolaus Treurniet Clifford Yorke | Freud's On Narcissism An Introduction

GBP 130.00
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Throwing The Emperor From His Horse Portrait Of A Village Leader In China 1923-1995

Throwing The Emperor From His Horse Portrait Of A Village Leader In China 1923-1995

This engaging book sketches an intimate portrait of the life of Wang Fucheng an illiterate peasant who served for thirty years as Communist party secretary of an impoverished village on the north China plain. Based on conversations over a seven-year period (1987?1994) between Wang Fucheng and Peter Seybolt the book unfolds as a continuous first-p | Throwing The Emperor From His Horse Portrait Of A Village Leader In China 1923-1995

GBP 130.00
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Small Business in Indonesia

Small Business in Indonesia

First published in 1997 this volume examines why small-scale enterprises have performed so well in Indonesia given that the country’s labour force is expected to expand and urbanise rapidly between 1995 and 2025. It also considers what future contribution small-scale enterprises could make. Peter van Diermen explores the industrial organisation of family businesses local development in a global context and family businesses in Jakarta in considering the unexpected success of small-scale enterprises and the future contributions they could make. | Small Business in Indonesia

GBP 21.99
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A History of the Society of Graphical and Allied Trades

A History of the Society of Graphical and Allied Trades

With full access to the union's records John Gennard and Peter Bain have produced a wide-ranging history of SOGAT up to its merger with the National Graphical Association in 1991. In addition to presenting a thorough study of the union this book provides a valuable insight into the paper and printing industries during a period of great change as well as examining some of the most momentous events in recent British industrial relations history. | A History of the Society of Graphical and Allied Trades

GBP 32.99
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Agency And Responsiblity Essays On The Metaphysics Of Freedom

Agency And Responsiblity Essays On The Metaphysics Of Freedom

A companion volume to Free Will: A Philosophical Study this new anthology collects influential essays on free will including both well-known contemporary classics and exciting recent work. Agency and Responsibility: Essays on the Metaphysics of Freedom is divided into three parts. The essays in the first section address metaphysical issues concerning free will and causal determinism. The second section groups papers presenting a positive account of the nature of free action including competing compatibilist and incompatibilist analyses. The third section concerns free will and moral responsibility including theories of moral responsibility and the challenge to an alternative possibilities condition posed by Frankurt-type scenarios. Distinguished by its balance and consistently high quality the volume presents papers selected for their significance innovation and clarity of expression. Contributors include Harry Frankfurt Peter van Inwagen David Lewis Elizabeth Anscombe John Martin Fischer Michael Bratman Roderick Chisholm Robert Kane Peter Strawson and Susan Wolf. The anthology serves as an up-to-date resource for scholars as well as a useful text for courses in ethics philosophy of religion or metaphysics. In addition paired with Free Will: A Philosophical Study it would form an excellent upper-level undergraduate or graduate-level course in free will responsibility motivation or action theory. | Agency And Responsiblity Essays On The Metaphysics Of Freedom

GBP 130.00
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Checklists for Due Diligence

Checklists for Due Diligence

If you are buying a company how can you be sure you are buying the business you think you are? Are you sure it is as good as the seller says? How can you be certain unexpected costs and obligations will not suddenly appear once you are the owner and responsible for them? How best can you arm yourself for the negotiations? Designed to help you make your due diligence process as smooth and effective as possible this collection of checklists by acknowledged expert Peter Howson will ensure you manage the risk aspects of any acquisition. The author takes you through the due diligence process itself from legal financial and commercial to employment and IT and guides you through the collection. Each checklist includes a short introduction that enables you to make the best use of the material. Due Diligence is by its nature a process for which checklists are a wonderful source of ideas and reassurance. Peter Howson's checklists (all of which are repeated in PDF form on the downloadable resources) is a must-have reference for anyone contemplating a merger or acquisition a management buyout joint venture or other risky business transactions involving third parties. | Checklists for Due Diligence

GBP 175.00
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The Practicalities of Early English Performance: Manuscripts Records and Staging Shifting Paradigms in Early English Drama Studies

The Practicalities of Early English Performance: Manuscripts Records and Staging Shifting Paradigms in Early English Drama Studies

Collected Studies CS1069The essays selected for this volume reflect Peter Meredith’s major contribution to the revival and revision of academic and public interest in medieval English drama and theatre. A number of coinciding factors in the last quarter of the twentieth century brought together a group of scholars represented here in the Shifting Paradigms series determined to place the study of medieval drama in a broader context than that of solely reading texts. The publication of Records of Early English Drama the University of Leeds facsimiles of medieval drama manuscripts the establishment of the journal and annual meetings of Medieval English Theatre brought a wider perspective to the discipline. And by no means least the bringing to bear of all these ground-breaking developments to the mammoth tasks of recreating in the public domain the original-staging of medieval plays. Peter Meredith had a hand in the formation and lasting influence of all these crucial innovations. The variety and depth of his comprehensive approach to the study of medieval drama and theatre is clearly evinced in each of the essays chosen for this volume. | The Practicalities of Early English Performance: Manuscripts Records and Staging Shifting Paradigms in Early English Drama Studies

GBP 38.99
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Russia in Resurrection A Summary of the Views and of the Aims of a New Party in Russia

Russia in Resurrection A Summary of the Views and of the Aims of a New Party in Russia

Originally published in 1928 this volume examines the idea of being Europasian - that is Russia's uniqueness as a country belonging to and influenced by both Europe and Asia. The book is divided into 3 parts: the first outlines unwesternized Russia and argues that the land her races history and culture up to Peter the Great are Europasian. The middle part discusses the weaknesses of the Imperial Regime and the chaos of Bolshevik rule. The final section gives an outline of the Europasian movement and its economic and political programme. | Russia in Resurrection A Summary of the Views and of the Aims of a New Party in Russia

GBP 31.99
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A Question Of Interest The Paralysis Of Saudi Banking

A Question Of Interest The Paralysis Of Saudi Banking

In Saudi Arabia today a classic confrontation between Islamic fundamentalism and modernism has brought the Saudi banking system virtually to a state of paralysis. The debate is between those upholding the traditional Islamic prohibition against charging interest on loans and those who wish to see a modern banking system capable of generating credit to support economic development. Drawing on personal experience interviews and unpublished primary sources Peter Wilson tells a dramatic story of powerful personalities clashing cultures and often mysterious institutions with a journalists’ eye for the telling anecdote as well as for the statistical evidence. | A Question Of Interest The Paralysis Of Saudi Banking

GBP 36.99
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Politics Innocence and the Limits of Goodness

Politics Innocence and the Limits of Goodness

First published in 1988. Moral innocence is of enduring interest because it seems to embody our ideals in their purest form. The place of moral innocence in politics is the central theme of Peter Johnson’s subtle and original book. Are there moral dispositions which are not only incompatible with politics but actually endanger it? If it is sometimes necessary to act badly in order to achieve desirable objectives what moral standpoints would exclude such a course at action? Peter Johnson demonstrates convincingly why philosophical accounts of morality past and present are unable to explain moral innocence: its full impact on politics can only be grasped by putting aside traditional theories. Literature provides the key to a deeper understanding of the relationship between politics and morality. Melville’s Billy Budd Shakespeare’s Henry VI and Graham Greene’s The Quiet American reveal moral innocence at work in political circumstances of great intensity. Through these and other literary figures we see at last the specific character of moral innocence and why it is connected with political disaster. This closely reasoned yet deeply passionate book illuminates a problem of great contemporary interest and nowhere more so than in American public life. Original in theme and content it confronts central issues of concern to the modern mind not simply to academics both teachers and taught but to all those interested in how they might be governed. | Politics Innocence and the Limits of Goodness

GBP 29.99
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A History of Russian Exposition and Festival Architecture 1700-2014

A History of Russian Exposition and Festival Architecture 1700-2014

This collection of thirteen vignettes addresses several important episodes in the history of Russian temporary architecture and public art from the royal festivals during the times of Peter the Great up to the recent venues including the Sochi Winter Olympics. The forms and the circumstances of their design were drastically different; however the projects discussed in the book share a common feature: they have been instrumental in the construction of Russia’s national identity with its perception of the West - simultaneously a foe and a paragon - looming high over this process. The book offers a history of multidirectional relationships between diplomacy propaganda and architecture. | A History of Russian Exposition and Festival Architecture 1700-2014

GBP 38.99
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The Place of Hooker in the History of Thought

The Place of Hooker in the History of Thought

First Published in 1952 The Place of Hooker in the History of Thought unravels the historical background to some of Richard Hooker’s leading ideas. The volume throws light on his ideas by a clear appreciation of the philosophical issues he raised and the difficulties he had to face when he embraced the cause of Thomism in Elizabethan England. Peter Munz discusses themes like Hooker’s debt to St. Thomas Hooker and Marsilius of Padua Hooker’s historical sense Hooker and Aristotle and Plato Hooker and Locke to determine his place in the history of thought. This book will be of interest to scholars and researchers of Philosophy Religion Theology Political Thought and Political Philosophy.

GBP 27.99
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A Darkening Green Notes on Harvard the 1950s and the End of Innocence

A Darkening Green Notes on Harvard the 1950s and the End of Innocence

This is a book about the end of childhood. Much of it is drawn directly from a diary the author kept while he was a bright but insecure freshman at Harvard in the 1950s. From these pages emerges a precise description of the raw half-understood experience of late adolescence-the anguish and arguments the rivalry and anxiety about sex the facile cynicism and desperate fumblings for purpose the bull sessions held late at night-just as Peter Prescott recorded them only hours after the event. These diary excerpts are contained in a narrative that examines that freshman experience from a vantage point of twenty years. Thus we are able to look at the past with a double perspective: The exact record unclouded by memory or nostalgia of what was said and done is set in a structure that reveals the form of the experience. The result is an ironic witty and often moving book. Writing with some compassion and even more asperity Peter S. Prescott not only captures the conflicts and emotions of a single year but probes beneath the surface of memory to explore certain tribal customs and rites of passage as they are played out in the classrooms and living quarters of the college. A few famous people-T. S. Eliot and Edith Sitwell among them-play brief parts in this chronicle but young Prescott's attention was primarily engaged in his struggle with his extravagant roommates and an assortment of eccentric undergraduates. | A Darkening Green Notes on Harvard the 1950s and the End of Innocence

GBP 130.00
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