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  • The 'Pretty Windows' Murder
    Peter Brooks
    In 1963 George Wilson, the landlord of the Fox and Grapes public house in Sneinton, Nottingham was brutally stabbed to death outside his pub. The pub was known to all of the citizens of Nottingham as ?The Pretty Windows? and this name became synonymous with one of Nottingham?s most vicious and frenzied murders.George Wilson?s attacker was never brought to justice.This book char...
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    11,34 €

  • The Novel of Worldliness
    Peter Brooks
    Contending that a search for 'realism' distorts the writing of Crébillon, Marivaux, Laclos, and Stendahl, Peter Brooks considers their novels with reference to the manner in which the characters explore their worth and pursue their own systems of relationships. The novels discussed are used as examples of the fictional exploitation of the drama inherent in man’s social existenc...
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    170,16 €

  • Chungleberry Bunting Learns to Fly
    Peter Brooks
    A mysterious egg appears in the nest of Ma and Pa Robin. The chick that hatches from it is a totally strange bird. He calls himself a 'chunkwing' and refuses to eat the worms his parents try to feed him.Yet to grow feathers and learn to fly he has to eat something. He dares to jump out of the robins’ nest in a birch tree and embarks on an adventurous search for the one kind of ...
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    25,99 €

  • The Novel of Worldliness
    Peter Brooks
    Contending that a search for 'realism' distorts the writing of Crébillon, Marivaux, Laclos, and Stendahl, Peter Brooks considers their novels with reference to the manner in which the characters explore their worth and pursue their own systems of relationships. The novels discussed are used as examples of the fictional exploitation of the drama inherent in man’s social existenc...
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    60,85 €

  • Enigmas of Identity
    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...
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    36,37 €

  • Wealth and Justice
    Arthur C Brooks / Arthur C. Brooks / Arthur CBrooks / Peter Wehner
    Popular opinion would have us believe that America’s free market system is driven by greed and materialism, resulting in gross inequalities of wealth, destruction of the environment, and other social ills. Even proponents of capitalism often refer to the free market as simply a ’lesser evil’ whose faults are preferable to those of social democracy or communism. But what if the ...
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    8,42 €

  • Henry James Goes to Paris
    Peter Brooks
    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 movement in art. As Peter Brooks skillfully recounts, James largely failed to appreciate...
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    43,17 €

  • Metrics for IT Service Management
    Peter Brooks
    This book considers the design and implementation of metrics in service organizations using industry standard frameworks. It uses the ITIL process structure and many principles from the ITIL and ISO20000 (BS15000) as a basis. It is a general guide to the use of metrics as a mechanism to control and steer IT service organizations. A major reason for covering this topic is tha...
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    72,76 €