Peter Barnes: 18 books
by Peter Barnes
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2014
An RSC commission to commemorate the first celebration of Shakespeare's life and works
A mischievous satire on the foundation of the Shakespeare industry: In 1769, when David Garrick staged the first theatre festival to celebrate the life of Stratford's most famous son, little did he realise...
by Peter Barnes
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2014
Set in medieval Italy during a crisis in the Church, Sunsets and Glories is "a work of the highest and most thrilling theatrical energy" (Independent on Sunday)
Sunsets and Glories is set in the late thirteenth-century Italy where power struggles between Church and State inspire such...
Capitalism 3.0
A Guide to Reclaiming the Commons
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2006
The commons — those creations of nature and society we inherit together and must preserve for our children — is under siege. Our current version of capitalism — the corporate, globalized version 2.0 — is rapidly squandering this heritage. Now, Peter Barnes offers a solution: protect the commons...
Barnes Plays: 2
Red Noses, The Spirit of Man, Nobody Here But Us Chickens, Sunsets and Glories, Bye Bye Columbus
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2013
A selection of plays by "one of the most original and biting comic writers working in Britain" (The Times)
The Spirit of Man is "an ingenious triple-bill exploring Man's need for faith through three short satires based in medieval France, Protectorate England and nineteenth-century...
Barnes Plays: 3
Clap Hands; Heaven's Blessings; Revolutionary Witness
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2013
A selection of plays by "one of the most original and biting comic writers working in Britain" (The Times)
Clap Hands Here Comes Charlie is a riotous, scabrous comedy concerning a demonic figure, a destroyer and giver of life, who is always trying to jump, with both feet into his...
by Peter Barnes, Hildegarde Hannum
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2003
The collection of lectures and publications from the Schumacher Center for a New Economics represents some of the foremost voices on a new economics.
Peter Barnes defines the commons as "the sum of all we inherit together and must pass on, undiminished and more or less equally, to our...
With Liberty and Dividends for All
How to Save Our Middle Class When Jobs Don't Pay Enough
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2014
Peter Barnes argues that because of globalization, automation, and winner-take-all capitalism, there won’t be enough high-paying jobs to sustain America’s middle class in the future. Therefore, to survive economically, our middle class needs—and deserves—a supplementary source of nonlabor...
by Peter Barnes, Hildegarde Hannum
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2015
The collection of lectures and publications from the Schumacher Center for a New Economics represents some of the foremost voices on a new economics.
Peter Barnes avers that we are no longer in the Holocene epoch, but in the Anthropocene epoch, an era in which humans are "a, if not...
by Peter Barnes
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2015
Etonians aren't exactly noted for their grey matter, but I've always found them perfectly adjusted to society.
Jack, a possible paranoid schizophrenic with a Messiah complex, inherits the title of the 14th Earl of Gurney after his father passes away in a bizarre accident. Singularly unsuited...
by Peter Barnes
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2014
A haunting and brutally funny story of heroism and human values
In the bloody aftermath of the Wars of the Roses, Captain John Mallory leads a band of renegades across a war-torn landscape on a breathtaking quest in search of a dream - a dream of home. Dreaming premiered at the Royal Exchange...
Our Common Wealth
The Hidden Economy That Makes Everything Else Work
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013
A huge part of our economy is invisible, invaluable, and under siege. "The commons" is a term that denotes everything we share as opposed to own privately. Some parts of the commons are gifts of nature: the air and oceans, the web of species, wilderness, and watersheds. Others are the product...
Climate Solutions
A Citizen's Guide
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2008
Millions of Americans are demanding that all levels of government—local, state, and federal—take immediate and effective action to fight climate change. But there’s a big problem. Hundreds of policy ideas are floating about, and many of them aren’t very good. It’s quite possible that bad...
Conversations on Fethullah Gülen and the Hizmet Movement
Dreaming for a Better World
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2015
Conversations on Fethullah Gülen and the Hizment Movement: Dreaming for a Better World, is intended to represent an open perspective on the influence of the Hizmet Movement, including Fethullah Gülen in particular, on the theme of “dreaming for a better world,” based on a variety of Christian...
by Peter Barnes, Matthew Davies
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2015
The majority of construction work is carried out by subcontractors. As building projects become more complex, subcontractors need to understand the implications of the agreements they sign. The JCT 2011 Building Subcontracts has been written to help the busy subcontractor deal effectively with the...
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