Making Policy Work

PETER, JOHN

Routledge

What is modern in modern drama? What defines it, unmistakably, as being of our time? This quality if the subject of John Peter's inquiry. For Peter, Beckett's Waiting for Godot makes such a radical break with dramatic tradition that it prompts the question: Is this play the single most important event in the theater since Aeschylus? Or is it the fulfillment of forces at work long before Beckett wrote it? Peter shows how Beckett's work represents a change in the very subject matter of drama, a fundamental revision of concepts of character, plot, and meaning, which in turn requires a new way of responding to drama. Where plays have traditionally engaged audiences in critical and moral dialogue, theater like Beckett's, according to Peter, is closed to questioning; it presents a vision of the world which can only be accepted or rejected. As such, it not only signals a new form of drama, but also posits a fundamentally changed audience. Peter views this change—essentially, a change of mind—in its wider context. The times and the thought that contribute to the modern imagination are represented here by novels, paintings, and music—works by Wagner, Kafka, Proust, Picasso, and Braque—as well as plays. Peter shows how the depiction of the world by these artists echoes—and is echoed by—the work of modern thinkers such as Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, and Freud. Vladimir's Carrot will provoke and stimulate readers who find themselves either lost or perfectly at home in "modern" culture.

Vladimir's Carrot: Modern Drama and the Modern Imagination

Literature & Fiction

Dramas & Plays

University of Chicago Press

Learn to Paint: With Watercolours, Oils, Pastels and Acrylics

Blockley Alwyn

Garrard

William Collins Sons

What is modern in modern drama? What defines it, unmistakably, as being of our time? This quality if the subject of John Peter's inquiry.For Peter, Beckett's Waiting for Godot makes such a radical break with dramatic tradition that it prompts the question: Is this play the single most important event in the theater since Aeschylus? Or is it the fulfillment of forces at work long before Beckett wrote it? Peter shows how Beckett's work represents a change in the very subject matter of drama, a fundamental revision of concepts of character, plot, and meaning, which in turn requires a new way of responding to drama. Where plays have traditionally engaged audiences in critical and moral dialogue, theater like Beckett's, according to Peter, is closed to questioning; it presents a vision of the world which can only be accepted or rejected. As such, it not only signals a new form of drama, but also posits a fundamentally changed audience.Peter views this change—essentially, a change of mind—in its wider context. The times and the thought that contribute to the modern imagination are represented here by novels, paintings, and music—works by Wagner, Kafka, Proust, Picasso, and Braque—as well as plays. Peter shows how the depiction of the world by these artists echoes—and is echoed by—the work of modern thinkers such as Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, and Freud.Vladimir's Carrot will provoke and stimulate readers who find themselves either lost or perfectly at home in "modern" culture.

Vladimir's Carrot (A Methuen Paperback)

Methuen Publishing, Ltd.

Teaches children about time by illustrating a series of clock faces and describing the activities of Billy and his family during significant hours of the day

My Clock Book

Children's Books

Grosset&Dunlap

NOW IN PAPERBACK "Quite the most accessible and striking book on architecture I've ever encountered," raved Keith Archer in the North London News after John Peter's oral history appeared in hardcover in 1994. Now this unprecedented work is available in paperback-and it remains the only book of its kind. 
No other book offers extensive interviews with more than 60 of the master builders of modern times, and no other book comes packaged with a full-length compact disc, which lets us hear, in their own voices, renowned architects from Frank Lloyd Wright to I. M. Pei talking about the ideas and ideals behind their works. Complete with 200 photographs, plans, drawings, and models of the landmarks of modern architecture, this fascinating volume, says The Art Book, is "a splendid addition . . . it should be in any good architectural library." 
Includes 72-minute audio CD. 200 black-and-white photographs, plans, and drawings, 9 x 111_4" 
JOHN PETER (1917-1998) was the modern living editor at Look and LIFE magazines and a radio and television reporter for CBS and NBC. For many years he was head of his own publications consulting firm in New York City, with clients in the United States and Europe.

Oral History of Modern Architecture: Interviews with the Greatest Architects of the Twentieth Century

Arts & Photography

Architecture

Harry N. Abrams

This unprecedented book and accompanying compact disc tell the story of modern architecture in the words of the people who created it. Based on interviews conducted over the course of 40 years with more than 60 of the world's most prominent architects and engineers, the volume is both an invaluable oral history and a broadly appealing look at the development of the modern style, animated by the architects' own observations, opinions, anecdotes, and humor. The architects' words and the author's brief comments are accompanied by 200 black-and-white photographs of the landmarks of modern architecture, including plans, sketches, and models. Each has a brief explanatory caption that augments information in the text. Large, original candid portraits of the architects - taken at the time of the interview - add to the personal and conversational nature of the book.

The Oral History of Modern Architecture: Interviews With the Greatest Architects of the Twentieth Century/Book and Cd

Biographies & Memoirs

Harry N.Abrams, Inc.

Analyzing Public Policy (Routledge Textbooks in Policy Studies)

The Digital Classroom

Steve Wheeler

Taylor&Francis

Finally—the entire SAP BI world in one volume! This comprehensive guide covers the full spectrum of SAP solutions for business intelligence: both SAP NetWeaver and SAP BusinessObjects. In this all-encompassing reference, you’ll learn everything you need to know regarding data modeling and retrieval, optimal use of reporting tools from SAP (BEx tools and BusinessObjects), and the essential differences and recent changes between SAP BW 3.x and SAP NetWeaver BW 7.3. This is the ultimate resource that you will consult over and over again, with essential information for SAP consultants, IT staff, DB managers, and end-users. Tools covered include BEx Query Designer, BEx Analyzer, BEx Web Analyzer, BEx Web Application Designer (WAD), BusinessObjects Analysis, Web Intelligence, Crystal Reports, Dashboards (Xcelsius), and more. Highlights: <ul>
<li>BI in the enterprise</li> <li>Data modeling</li> <li>ETL</li> <li>Administration</li> <li>Permissions</li> <li>SAP Business Explorer</li> <li>SAP BusinessObjects Analysis</li> <li>SAP Crystal Reports</li> <li>SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards (formerly Xcelsius)</li> <li>SAP BusinessObjects Web Intelligence</li> <li>SAP BusinessObjects Explorer</li> <li>SAP BusinessObjects BI platform</li> <li>BW integrated planning</li> <li>SAP SEM-BCS</li> </ul>

SAP BusinessObjects (BOBJ) and SAP BW: A Guide to SAP BI (SAP PRESS) (Comprehensive)

Business & Money

Loren Heilig

Torsten Kessler

Thilo Knötzele

Karin Thaler-Mieslinger

Management & Leadership

SAP Press

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