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1	The Melodramatic Imagination: Balzac, Henry James, Melodrama, and the Mode of Excess more books like this by Peter Brooks add to wishlist This text argues that melodrama is a crucial mode of expression in modern literature. After studying stage melodrama as a dominant popular form in the 1800s, the author looks at Balzac and Henry James, to show how these "realist" novelists created fiction using rhetoric and excess of melodrama. see all copies from $11.28! new only from $17.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
2	Frank Lloyd Wright more books like this by Bruce Brooks Pfeiffer (Text by), Peter Gossel (Editor), Gabriele Leuthauser (Editor) add to wishlist The American Architect Frank Lloyd Wright (1867-1959) exerted unique influence on the architecture of the first half of this century. This volume presents the whole range of Frank Lloyd Wright's extraordinarily prolific output and shows clearly how his view of the world was a common factor throughout the rich diversity of his oeuvre. From his ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.59! \| first editions
3	Louise Brooks: Lulu Forever more books like this by Peter Cowie, Daniel Brooks (Preface by), Jack Garner (Foreword by) add to wishlist Louise Brooks has become one of the most spectacular icons of early cinema. Her distinctive "bob" haircut looks as modern as they did when she first appeared in films in 1925. Louise Brooks was born on November 14, 1906 in Cherryvale, Kansas, and by eighteen had established herself as a dancer with the Ziegfeld Follies, and was receiving film ... see all copies from $25.00! new only from $33.77! \| SVS
4	Body Work: Objects of Desire in Modern Narrative more books like this by Peter Brooks add to wishlist Uncovering the body in order to know it has been the quest of narrative since the 18th century. In this tour through art and literature - from Rousseau, Flaubert, and Manet at the origins of modernism to Duras and Mapplethorpe in our own time - Peter Brooks sees the dynamic of narrative as propelled by desire to expose truth that can be found ... see all copies from $25.00! new only from $197.70! \| first editions
5	Realist Vision more books like this by Professor Peter Brooks add to wishlist "Realist Vision" explores the claim to represent the world 'as it is'. Peter Brooks takes a new look at the realist tradition and its intense interest in the visual. Discussing major English and French novels and paintings from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, Brooks provides a lively and perceptive view of the realist project.Centering ... see all copies from $9.95! new only from $12.94! \| first editions \| SVS
6	Reading for the Plot: Design and Intention in Narrative more books like this by Peter Brooks add to wishlist A book which should appeal to both literary theorists and to readers of the novel, this study invites the reader to consider how the plot reflects the patterns of human destiny and seeks to impose a new meaning on life. see all copies from $17.06! new only from $26.44! \| first editions
7	Freddy and the Dragon more books like this by Walter R Brooks, Peter Mayer (Editor), Kurt Wiese (Illustrator) add to wishlist When Freddy the Pig--with the help of Uncle Ben, the farm animals and their very own Dragon--faces a crime wave head on, the culprits are sure to get their just rewards. see all copies from $3.49! new only from $197.07! \| first editions
8	Henry James Goes to Paris more books like this by Peter Brooks add to wishlist Henry James' 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, ... see all copies from $12.50! new only from $18.67! \| SVS
9	Schaum's Outline of Theory and Problems of Electronics Technology: Including Two Hundred Solved Problems more books like this by J A Wilson, Milton Kaufman, Peter Brooks add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! SVS
10	Solferino 1859: The Battle That Won Italy Its Independence more books like this by Richard Brooks, Peter Dennis (Illustrator) add to wishlist The battle of Solferino, fought during the Franco-Austrian War of 1859, was the largest European battle since Leipzig in 1813. In the presence of three crowned heads of state - Napoleon III of France, Emperor Franz-Joseph of Austria and Victor Emmanuel II of Piedmont-Sardinia (later the King of all Italy) - the armies clashed together in a ... see all copies from $11.93! new only from $11.93! \| SVS
11	Reading for the Plot more books like this by Peter Brooks add to wishlist see all copies from $15.00! first editions
12	Whose Freud?: The Place of Psychoanalysis in Contemporary Culture more books like this by Peter Brooks (Editor), Alex Woloch (Editor) add to wishlist An assessment of the status of psychoanalysis as a discipline and a discourse in contemporary culture. It brings together a group of theorists and practitioners, such partisans and critics of Freud as Frederic Crews, Judith Butler, Leo Bersani, Juliet Mitchell and Robert Jay Lifton. see all copies from $2.00! new only from $7.16!
13 view cover	Troubling Confessions: Speaking Guilt in Law and Literature more books like this by Peter Brooks add to wishlist Supplemented with vivid literary examples, this scholarly work explores the nature of courtroom confessions and their relationship to personal identity and external forces. see all copies from $10.00! new only from $14.82! \| first editions \| SVS
14 view cover	The White Man's Burdens: An Anthology of British Poetry more books like this by Chris Brooks (Editor), Peter Faulkner (Editor) add to wishlist It is recognized, this text puts forward, that Western imperialism, of which the British Empire was a major part, played a crucial role in forming the modern world. The best-known literary works on the subject are the novels such as Defoe's "Robinson Crusoe", Rider Haggard's "She" and "King Solomon's Mines", Kipling's "Kim", Forster's "A Passage ... see all copies from $9.95! new only from $9.95!
15 view cover	Laws Stories: Narrative and Rhetoric in the Law more books like this by Peter Brooks (Editor), Paul Gewirtz (Editor) add to wishlist The law is full of stories, ranging from the competing narratives presented at trials to the Olympian historical narratives set forth in Supreme Court opinions. How those stories are told and listened to makes a crucial difference to those whose lives are reworked in legal storytelling. The public at large has increasingly been drawn to law as an ... see all copies from $8.34! new only from $30.58! \| SVS
16 view cover	World Elsewhere more books like this by Peter Brooks add to wishlist A handsome young nobleman sets sail from 18th-century Paris to explore the South Seas, where he falls in love with a beautiful Tahitian girl. At a critical moment, Charles must decide if he will return to France with his ship or live forever in the tropical paradise his very presence corrupts. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.95! \| first editions \| SVS
17 view cover	Frank Lloyd Wright more books like this by Peter Gossel, Bruce Brooks Pfeiffer (Editor), G Leuthauser (Editor) add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.50! \| first editions
18 view cover	Applied Biomechanics: Concepts and Connections more books like this by John McLester, Peter St Pierre, Thomson Brooks/Cole Publishing (Creator) add to wishlist "Applied Biomechanics: Concepts and Connections" is comprehensive in coverage and focuses on making connections between biomechanics and other subdisciplines of Exercise Science. The text begins with a qualitative, conceptual explanation and then moves to a mathematical one, including both qualitative and some mathematical examples. The text also ... see all copies from $53.17! new only from $65.25! \| SVS
19 view cover	Hydrology & Mngmt Watersheds-03-3 more books like this by Kenneth N Brooks, Peter F Ffolliot, Professor Hans M Gregersen add to wishlist This new third edition is a major revision of the earlier two editions and is based largely on the feedback the authors received from past users of the book in the classroom. Changes in this expanded and completely updated new edition include: Expanded discussion of stream channel processes, morphology, and classification; A new Part Three ... see all copies from $55.00! new only from $69.80! \| SVS
20 view cover	Ballistic Trauma: A Practial Guide more books like this by Peter F Mahoney (Editor), Adam J Brooks (Editor), C William Schwab (Editor) add to wishlist Ballistic Trauma: A Practical Guide provides a concise guide to the clinical and operational issues surrounding the management of the ballistic casualty. The book crystallizes the knowledge and experience accrued by those dealing with ballistic trauma on a regular basis and extends this to those who have to manage these patients on an occasional ... see all copies from $62.52! new only from $62.52! \| SVS
21 view cover	Integrated Watershed Management: Connecting People to Their Land and Water more books like this by Professor Hans M Gregersen, Peter F Ffolliott, Kenneth N Brooks add to wishlist As human populations expand and demands upon natural resources increase, the need to manage the environments in which people live becomes more important but also more difficult. Land and water management is especially critical as the use of upstream watersheds can drastically affect large numbers of people living in downstream watersheds. An ... see all copies from $57.87! new only from $57.87!
22 view cover	Psychoanalysis and Storytelling more books like this by Peter Brooks add to wishlist What is the relationship between psychoanalysis and literature? How does psychoanalytic criticism work? Peter Brooks examines the fascinating relationships between literary narratives and psychoanalysis. Following Freud's assumption that sexuality and narrative form are analogous, Brooks proposes that literature constitutes a fundamental part of ... see all copies from $19.90! new only from $38.83! \| SVS
23 view cover	Ballistic Trauma more books like this by Peter F Mahoney (Editor), James Ryan, Fra (Editor), Adam J Brooks (Editor) add to wishlist Ballistic Trauma: A Practical Guide provides a concise guide to the clinical and operational issues surrounding the management of the ballistic casualty. The book crystallizes the knowledge and experience accrued by those dealing with ballistic trauma on a regular basis and extends this to those who have to manage these patients on an occasional ... see all copies from $85.98! new only from $85.98! \| SVS
24 view cover	Taddeo and Federico Zuccaro: Artist-Brothers in Renaissance Rome more books like this by Julian Brooks, Peter M Lukehart, Christina Strunck add to wishlist During the late sixteenth-century, successful Italian artist Federico Zuccaro (c.1541-1609) created one of the period's most important series of drawings - twenty large sheets that depict the early life of his older brother Taddeo (1529-1566).Published in full for the first time, the series shows the trials, tribulations, and eventual triumph of ... see all copies from $23.44! new only from $32.94! \| SVS
25 view cover	Ayurvedic Secrets to Longevity and Total Health: 4 more books like this by Peter Anselmo, James S Brooks add to wishlist Ayurvedic is a simple, natural system of medicine that employs the healing power of common oils, aromas, herbs, natural foods, breathing exercises and massage to promote health and long life. This book examines this 5000-year-old system of healing. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $40.98! \| SVS

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