Author: Brook Thomas
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Keywords: topics, fashioned, old, historicism, new
Number of Pages: 278
Published: 1993-03-08
List price: $33.95
ISBN-10: 0691015074
ISBN-13: 9780691015071
Brook Thomas explores the new historicism and the challenges posed to it by a postmodern world that questions the very possibility of newness. He considers new historicism’s engagement with poststructuralism and locates the former within a tradition of pragmatic historiography in the United States.
Author: Peter Brook
Publisher: Nick Hern Books
Keywords: shakespeare, forgetting, evoking
Number of Pages: 48
Published: 2002-09-26
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 1854597124
ISBN-13: 9781854597120
Revised edition of an established favourite: Peter Brook’s take on Shakespeare - with a cheeky new chapter added on the end Evoking Shakespeare addresses a number of essential questions about performing Shakespeare today.? ’Why is Shakespeare not out of date?’? ’What do we mean by Shakespeare’s "genius" or "creativity" or "poetry"?’? ’What, in fact, is the Shakespeare phenomenon?’ The new chapter, Forgetting Shakespeare, urges us to put to one side the mountains of preconceptions about Shakespeare in order to get at the truth in the plays...
Author: Linda Rios Brook
Publisher: PublishAmerica
Keywords: over, wake
Number of Pages: 180
Published: 2001-12-01
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 1588512916
ISBN-13: 9781588512918
Author: Peter Brook
Publisher: Counterpoint
Keywords: recollections, time, threads
Number of Pages: 212
Published: 1998-06-15
List price: $25.00
ISBN-10: 188717835X
ISBN-13: 9781887178358
The chronicle of the evolution of an extraordinary artistic intelligence, a man whose interests range worldwide from film to theater to myth and the inner life, "Threads of Time" offers the memoir of Peter Brook, whom "The New York Times" has called "the English-speaking world’s most eminent director". of photos.
Author: Charles J. Brook
Publisher: Que
Keywords: guide, training, certification
Number of Pages: 1200
Published: 2001-04-01
List price: $59.99
ISBN-10: 0735710880
ISBN-13: 9780735710887
Complete study guide for the CompTIA A+ certification exams (#s 2201-201 and 220-202). Offers readers coverage of all exam objectives, including key terms and testing strategies. Offers study questions, practice and review questions, and realistic sample exam questions, in addition to other study materials.
Author: Rodney Brook
Publisher: Vintage
Keywords: change, robots, machines, flesh
Number of Pages: 272
Published: 2003-02-04
List price: $14.00
ISBN-10: 037572527X
ISBN-13: 9780375725272
The world of HAL and Data, of sentient machines, is fast approaching. Indeed, in some ways it has already arrived, as humans incorporate bionic technology and as humanlike machines increasingly take on the work of humans. Rodney Brooks, a professor of engineering at MIT, has been involved in this transformation for decades. He has helped design robots that reason, at least after a fashion. The machines are as yet primitive, but, Brooks writes, in five years the boundary between what is now fantasy and fact will be breached, and intelligent machines will come into their own. With them will come
Authors:Sam Goldstein, Robert B. Brook,
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: children, resilience, handbook
Number of Pages: 416
Published: 2006-01-26
List price: $74.95
ISBN-10: 0387303332
ISBN-13: 9780387303338
Even the most significant technological and medical advances of the 21st century have been tempered by the increasing risk posed to children in the form of such stressors as poverty, victimization, and family dysfunction. To overcome such challenging societal pressures, children must become skilled in navigating through these turbulent times. With the proper support from parents, extended families, and communities, children are much more likely to experience positive development rather than dysfunction in their adult lives. To help children overcome the everyday obstacles they face - that is
