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Balzac's Lives by Peter Brooks
Category: Biography
Peter Brook's Balzac's Lives is a biography like no other, a vivid and searching portrait of the great novelist that is based on a close examination of the extraordinary characters that throng his work. More than anyone, Balzac invented the nineteenth-century novel, with its interwoven plots and diverse ...Show more
Flaubert in the Ruins of Paris : The Story of a Friendship, a Novel, and a Terrible Year by Peter Brooks
Category: Biography
From a distinguished literary historian, a look at Gustave Flaubert and his correspondence with George Sand during France's "terrible year"--summer 1870 through spring 1871 From the summer of 1870 through the spring of 1871, France suffered a humiliating defeat in its war against Prussia and witnessed ...Show more
On Nonprofits and the Social Sectors by Harvard Business Review; Arthur C. Brooks; Peter F. Drucker; Sheryl K. Sandberg; Muhammad Yunus
Category: Business | Series: HBR's 10 Must Reads Ser.
Nonprofits and the social sectors are taking on an increasing share of the world's most vital work. Make sure your organization is ready for the challenge. If you read nothing else on nonprofits and the social sectors, read these 10 articles. We've combed through hundreds of Harvard Business Review art ...Show more
Wright by Pfeiffer Bruce Brooks ; Gossel Peter
Category: Craft | Series: Basic Art Ser.
That's Wright One of the greatest pioneers in the history of architecture Acclaimed as the "father of skyscrapers," the quintessentially American icon Frank Lloyd Wright (1867-1959) was an architect of aspiration. He believed in giving cultivated American life its fitting architectural equivalent and a ...Show more
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