Richard L Maxwell

A Tale of Two Cities

A Tale of Two Cities

The Elements of Persuasion: Use Storytelling Techniques to Pitch Better, Sell Faster, and Win More Business

The Cambridge Companion to Fiction of the Romantic Period

The Cambridge Companion to Fiction of the Romantic Period

The Minus Man

Unlock Your Horses Talent in 20 Minutes a Day: A Three Step Guide to Getting the Most from Your Horse

Unlock Your Horses Talent in 20 Minutes a Day: A Three Step Guide to Getting the Most from Your Horse

A Tale of Two Cities (Penguin Classics)

'It was the best of times, it was the worst of times...' Charles Dickens'sA Tale of Two Citiesportrays a world on fire, split between Paris and London during the brutal and bloody events of the French Revolution.After eighteen years as a political prisoner in the Bastille the aging Dr Manette is fin...

Culture Works: The Political Economy of Culture (Studies in Classical Philology)

When we read best-selling books, go to movies, visit art museums, go dancing, take in a game, we customarily ignore the political economy that hammers these features ofcultureinto shape; normally, at such times, we’re not thinking about corporate board room votes, lobbyists, public funding for the a...

No Duty to Retreat: Violence and Values in American History and Society

In 1865, Wild Bill Hickok killed Dave Tutt in a Missouri public square in the West’s first notable "walkdown." One hundred and twenty-nine years later, Bernard Goetz shot four threatening young men in a New York subway car. Apart from gunfire, what do the two events have in common? Goetz, writes Ric...

Global Hollywood: No. 2

Why is Hollywood so successful? Overwhelming almost every other national cinema and virtually extinguishing foreign cinema in the multicultural United States, Hollywood seems powerful around the globe. This book draws from political economy, cultural studies, and cultural policy analysis to highligh...

The Elements of Persuasion: Use Storytelling to Pitch Better, Sell Faster & Win More Business

"Every great leader is a great storyteller," says Harvard University psychologist Howard Gardner. According to master storytellers Richard Maxwell and Robert Dickman, storytelling is a lot like running. Everyone knows how to do it, but few of us ever break the four-minute mile. What separates the gr...

The Historical Novel in Europe, 1650-1950

A much older genre than is often thought, the historical novel has played a vital role in the development of the novel overall. It began in seventeenth-century France as a distinctive way of combining historical chronologies with fictive narratives. In Romantic Scotland, historical fiction underwent...

Greening the Media

You will never look at your cell phone, TV, or computer the same way after reading this book. Greening the Media not only reveals the dirty secrets that hide inside our favorite electronic devices; it also takes apart the myths that have pushed these gadgets to the center of our lives. Marshaling an...

Plays, 1996-2000 (Maxwell) (v. 1)

This volume collects for the first time the work of one of America’s most important, vital and original young voices. Turning the American family drama firmly on its head, "Maxwell strips more layers of explanation from the Freudian family romance, shining light on the humiliation and fury usually r...

Richard Maxwell (director)

Richard Maxwell (born 1967) is an American experimental theater director and playwright in New York City. His company is the New York City Players.