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| 1. | [no image] | The Conference of the Birds from Dramatic Pub. Customer Review:  . . . . it is instructive and corrective to have a glimpse of what was: a lyrical, medeivalist tradition that saw the denial of the self as a path to union with the infinite. Just as it's important to be aware of the gently lascivious Omar Khayyam as an antidote to today's... |
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| 2. |  | The Empty Space: A Book About the Theatre: Deadly, Holy, Rough, Immediate from Touchstone Price: $10.16 Customer Review: I am not very knowledgeable about Theatre and certainly not about Theory of Theatre. I found this book quite abstract and difficult to understand. Its opening sentences sets the tone for the whole work. "I can take any empty space and call it a bare stage. An actor moves across this space... |
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| 3. | [no image] | Towards a Poor Theatre from Touchstone Customer Review:  For any theatre professional, student or enthusiast. Highly recommend watching "My Dinner With Andre" as well. It's a film by Wallace Shawn. |
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| 4. |  | Metrics for IT Service Management from Van Haren Publishing Price: $54.00 Customer Review:  This book is over-written, by that I mean a list of ITSM metrics is over-discussed and can be found for free on the web. Looking at the volume of metrics, Mr. Brooks clearly isn't in the camp of "measure what matters", he's more along the lines of "measure whatever doesn't move, and if it does move,... |
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| 5. |  | Walden and Other Writings (Modern Library Classics) from Modern Library Price: $9.56 Customer Review: Walden, of course, is a timeless classic. I've read it in its entirety several times, and I keep this book at my bedside so I can flip to my favorite chapters, Solitude, The Ponds, Winter Animals, Spring, etc., any time I wish. Only Thoreau can end a book with the sentence "The Sun is but a morning... |
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| 6. |  | Voice and the Actor from Wiley Price: $10.36 Customer Review: The book came in new condition at less than half the retail price. Good people! |
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| 7. |  | The Wings of the Dove (Oxford World's Classics) from Oxford University Press, USA Price: $9.95 Customer Review:  I'm a seasoned reader of the classics and have enjoyed other novels by James. This book took me four months to read and nearly killed me. After having read great literature almost non-stop for 10 years, I took a year's break from reading after this book. Enough said. I spent time reflecting on it -... |
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| 8. |  | Pere Goriot (Norton Critical Editions) from W. W. Norton Price: $10.69 Customer Review: Norton has done a really fine job on its critical edition of PERE GORIOT. The translation is especially good, vivid and direct. The commentaries are well chosen and organized. Of particular interest are appreciations of Balzac by writers who were influenced by him, including Zola, Proust, Baudelaire... |
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| 9. |  | Reading for the Plot: Design and Intention in Narrative from Harvard University Press Price: $21.60 Customer Review: Of the 35-40 books I've read on story and plot construction, Peter Brooks, "Reading for the Plot", has helped me reach the furthest understanding in the dialectic nature of story/plot and the deep affect some have the ability to transmit. After reading this book, my perception has changed on how to... |
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| 10. |  | The Melodramatic Imagination: Balzac, Henry James, Melodrama, and the Mode of Excess from Yale University Press Price: $21.60 Customer Review: Peter Brooks' book, "The Melodramatic Imagination," would be helpful even due only to its serious examination of the structural and philosophical underpinnings of traditional French melodramatic theatre. However, what makes this study necessary reading is its convincing argument that melodrama... |
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| 11. |  | The Open Door from Anchor Price: $11.01 Customer Review: This is really an extension of Brook's ideas in "The Empty Space." It is my favorite work of his, as the writing is much simpler and digestable than I am used to, yet it is no less insightful and inspiring. I feel that anyone who loves theater should read Brook: I always come away from his ideas... |
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| 12. |  | Solferino 1859 (Campaign) from Osprey Publishing Price: $13.57 | |
| 13. |  | Frank Lloyd Wright (Midsize) from Taschen Price: $15.59 | |
| 14. |  | Troubling Confessions: Speaking Guilt in Law and Literature from University Of Chicago Press Price: $15.00 Customer Review: For those with a general background in literature and in law, this book is straightforward and easy to follow. The book explores the complicated act of confessing in a myriad of contexts, greatly enriching the reader's understanding of this most troubling speech act. When so much "scholarship" in... |
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| 15. |  | Threads of Time: Recollections from Counterpoint Price: $14.00 Customer Review:  Candid Camera James Moore Perhaps when Peter Brook celebrates his hundredth birthday we may anticipate a retrospect with some revelatory twist, stylistic shimmer, or special insight into this bafflingly complex character. Meantime we have Michael Kustow's Peter Brook: A Biography,... |
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| 16. |  | Reclaiming San Francisco: History, Politics, Culture from City Lights Publishers Price: $14.36 Customer Review: If you're live in or are academically interested in the Greatest Town On Earth, this is a good book. It's a collection of studies and essays that well illustrate how we became the City we are today. Thoughtful, somewhat balanced, but unafraid of being controversial, it's a solid read. |
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| 17. |  | Law's Stories: Narrative and Rhetoric in the Law from Yale University Press Price: $20.25 | |
| 18. |  | Hotspots Revisited: Earth's Biologically Richest and Most Endangered Terrestrial Ecoregions (Care & Welfare (Amsterdam University Press)) from Conservation International Price: $48.75 Customer Review: This is a massive book. It is really much too large to easily read unless you sit down with it and prop it on a table. The weight and size make it a bit uncomfortable to read and that is a shame as it has such good content and is a very important and timely book about the earth's biodiversity... |
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| 19. |  | The Shifting Point: Theatre, Film, Opera 1946-1987 from Theatre Communications Group Price: $17.05 | |
| 20. |  | Pere Goriot (Signet Classics) from Signet Classics Price: $6.95 Customer Review: The story is marvelous, but what I'm most impressed with is the quality of the translation. This is an elegant, witty, and very readable translation which adds much to the appreciation of Balzac. The translator, Henry Reed, was a well regarded poet in the UK. His only other Balzac translation is of... |
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| 21. |  | The Open Circle: The Theater Environment of Peter Brook from Palgrave Macmillan Customer Review: This is a great little book on the work of Peter Brook. There isn't much out there about the set design or environments of Peter Brook's work. My only quibble is that I wish the book were in a larger format--it's small. But, it is great never the less, with background on just how things came... |
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| 22. |  | On Directing: Interviews with Directors from Palgrave Macmillan Price: $16.95 Customer Review: As a young director, I found this to be a fairly dissapointing book, but nonetheless worthwhile due to its inclusion of many powerful British directors. The interviews are spotty at best -- it is clear that a questionnaire was circulated and then followed up. There also is very little insight given... |
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| 23. |  | Henry James Goes to Paris from Princeton University Press Price: $19.95 | |
| 24. |  | Realist Vision from Yale University Press Price: $16.20 Customer Review: This is an excellent analysis of realism in the 19th century European painting and novel. The author shows a wide knowledge in several fields, allowing him to give a cult and wide overview of the topics covered. His several analysis of specific paintings and novels adds to the depth and leaves aside... |
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| 25. |  | Ballistic Trauma from Springer Price: $71.95 | |
| 26. |  | Hydrology and the Management of Watersheds from Wiley-Blackwell Price: $67.99 | |
| 27. |  | There Are No Secrets - Thoughts on Acting and Theatre from Methuen Drama Price: $13.74 | |
| 28. |  | Pocket Battleships of the Deutschland Class from Naval Institute Press Customer Review: The previous review is quite correct about the ship drawings. Yes, that cost a star right off the bat. However, the rest of the book is quite good and it gives really good insight into the Kreigsmarine. The book is broken down into a general overview of the Panzerschiffe, then a break down of... |
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| 29. |  | Whose Freud?: The Place of Psychoanalysis in Contemporary Culture from Yale University Press Price: $55.00 | |
| 30. |  | Evoking and Forgetting Shakespeare (Dramatic Contexts) from Theatre Communications Group Price: $8.95 Customer Review: Peter Brook has staged many successful (and unsuccessful)productions of Shakespeare. Find out what he thinks aboutcontemporizing Shakespeare. Brook writes very simply, as most of his works are transcribed speeches. This book is easy to follow and wonderfully illuminating. Has large print, so that's... |
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