Richard Nelson

Jack loves having an older brother, but sometimes he wishes his little big brother was just a bit BIGGER... for life isn't always easy when you live with someone who's butter knife is taller than they are. Ages 3-5

My Little Big Brother

Giovanni Dosi

Sidney Winter

In this book, the editors and a team of distinguished international contributors analyse the nature of organizational capabilities–how organizations do things, use their knowledge base, and diffuse that knowledge in a competitive environment. Dosi is the author and editor of numerous books including Technology, Organization, and Competitiveness (OUP, 1998). He is also one of the editors of the journal Industrial and Corporate Change published by Oxford University Press. Nelson and Winter are recognized as leading proponents of evolutionary perspectives in economics and management. The book includes chapters from David Teece, Keith Pavitt, Benjamin Coriat, and Richard Florida amongst others.

The Nature and Dynamics of Organizational Capabilities

Critics Pick "Extraordinary... [Nelson's] stripped-down dramaturgy asks us to care about character more than story, and to see the largest matters in the smallest details." Jesse Green, The New York Times "In this beautiful capstone work, the sense is not so much a resolution as a dissolving; the characters of WHAT HAPPENED? have become unmoored, as if the isolation of the pandemic has caused some permanent psychic dislocation." Peter Marks, The Washington Post Five Stars "WHAT HAPPENED? shines a fierce light on COVID's devastating impact..." Elysa Gardner, New York Stage Review Five Stars "Playwright Richard Nelson completes what he calls his Rhinebeck Panorama with WHAT HAPPENED?: THE MICHAELS ABROAD [which] might be the most powerful of them all... As with the other installments in the series, WHAT HAPPENED? will likely be widely produced..." Steven Suskin, New York Stage Review "This is a play about loss, the inevitable changes wrought by time and circumstance, and finding a way to go on, however haltingly. We may never know fully what happened, but we do go on, and sharing this reality with this family-transforming life into art-lets us know that whatever we went through all those months, we were not alone." Christopher Byrne, Gay City News "WHAT HAPPENED?: THE MICHAELS ABROAD [is] something of a socio-document that can and should be studied for years to come by those who want to know what life was life 'during the pandemic.'" J K Clarke, Theater Pizzazz "Each new piece [of Nelson's series, The Rhinebeck Panorama] has felt like a cool blast of civilization in a world gone mad." David Barbour, Lighting Dimensions

What Happened?: The Michaels Abroad

“A full emotional geography of a family . . . Seemingly light conversation scrapes the skins of the characters in this sharply etched study of dislocation, loneliness and sexual betrayal.”—Ben Brantley, The New York Times “Nelson is a master of the quiet detail, of the oblique rhythm that transforms emotional diffidence into fascinating character.”—Linda Winer, Newsday “The early scenes proceed with the closely observed simplicity of Chekhov, whereas the later more wrenching moments evoke the eloquent bitterness of Albee.”—David Cote, TimeOut New York A new work by leading American playwright Richard Nelson, who for more than 25 years has written prolifically, and with fine detail, on the perplexities of everyday living. In Rodney’s Wife, a fading American actor in Rome for the filming of a 1960s spaghetti Western gathers with family and friends at a rented villa. Over the course of one booze-soaked summer night, jealousies and secrets are revealed that crumble the foundations of their relationships. Inspired by Euripides, the play is a tragedy of exiles who continue to need each other, even as they push away. Richard Nelson won Britain’s Olivier Award for Best Play for Goodnight Children Everywhere, and the Tony Award for Best Book for his musical James Joyce’s The Dead. His plays have been widely produced in the U.S. and Great Britain. He is an Honorary Associate Artist of the Royal Shakespeare Company, and Chair of the Playwriting Department at the Yale School of Drama.

Rodney's Wife

Here is Nelson's luminously wise account of his exploration of an unnamed island in the Pacific Northwest. This book revises our own relationship with nature, allowing us to observe it and also to participate in it with reverence and a sense of wonder.

The Island Within

Tim Rice

Book by Richard Nelson. Lyrics by Tim Rice. Music by Bjorn Ulvaeus and Benny Andersson Musical / 9m, 2f, 1f child, plus ensemble / Scenery: Var. sets. The collaborators on Chess are giants of rock music and rock musicals and they have created a complex rock opera that played to full Broadway houses and standing ovations. Here the ancient game becomes a metaphor for romantic rivalries, competitive gamesmanship, super power politics and international intrigues. The pawns in this drama form a

Chess

A Count's valet prepares to marry the Countess' chambermaid--until it becomes clear the Count wishes to revive an old law that will allow him to take advantage of the bride before the wedding. The valet's schemes to thwart the Count show the growing French endorsement of an aristocracy of merit and wits rather than birth, in Pierre Beaumarchais' 1784 play. ..".the very talented American playwright Richard Nelson [has undertaken] a new and emphatically idiomatic adaptation...Nelson's dialogue proves resolutely contemporary." Clive Barnes, New York Post "The Beaumarchais/Nelson/Serban FIGARO is a pleasure to see, to talk about, to remember." Julius Novick, The Village Voice

The Marriage of Figaro

This book covers the period from 500 BC to 350 BC and describes the wars between the Persian empire and the Greek city states. It is organised into three separate sections. The first describes Greek and Persian troop types, and the typical army compositions, and then deals with the Great Persian Wars in some detail. The second describes the Peloponnesian War within Greece. The third section details the developments in the Persian Army following the time of Xerxes, and the various campaigns of the 4th Century B.C. as the Greeks took the offensive against Persia. In all three sections typical campaigns have been described in some detail. This book was published in 1975 and has been out of print for many years. It is reprinted here with an updated bibliography.

Armies of the Greek and Persian Wars 500 to 350 BC

Aesthetic Frontiers: The Machiavellian Tradition and the Southern Imagination by Richard Nelson A re-evaluation of the literary and historical origins and implications of the Southern Literary Renaissance and its pivotal role in the transformation of Anglo-American political culture in the twentieth century. Opening a new vista for the study of southern literature and southern history, this provocative assessment of political and literary currents in the New South sees them as flowing from the mainstream of Machiavellian tradition. Richard Nelson offers a new interpretation of the transformation of Anglo-American intellectual and aesthetic culture since 1890. He shows that southern intellectuals-aesthetic theorists, literary critics, historians, and political thinkers-confronted head on the tensions Machiavelli observed between power and value, creativity and tradition, and romanticism and realism while seeking a cultural ideal that balances politics and aesthetics. The American South, the most militant hotbed of republicanism in the antebellum period, remained at the center of the effort to undergo revision after 1890. In the work of the New Agrarians and the New Critics Nelson sees intellectuals of the South attempting to gain aesthetic distance from a rejected heroic tradition of republicanism while at the same time reinforcing many of its ideals. He shows that literary devices such as irony form a powerful aesthetic formula in the work of such figures as Frederick Jackson Turner, Tom Watson, Thomas Dixon, Jr., W. J. Cash, C. Vann Woodward, Langston Hughes, Allen Tate, and Robert Penn Warren. Each of these, he shows, explored the inner contradictions of a Machiavellian tradition, with its desire to preserve both authority and innovation. Confronting a series of crises beginning with the perceived loss of the frontier in the 1890s and culminating in the complete separation of politics and aesthetics during World War II, these agrarian critics, as Nelson perceives them, sought to transform political decay into aesthetic vitality. By drawing upon and transforming formulas like the southern romance, the jeremiad, and the metaphor of the frontier, these thinkers intuitively drew upon the Machiavellian aesthetic of reinventing the heroic ideal in order to preserve political authority that has lost its legitimacy. Richard Nelson is a professor of history at the University of Maine at Machias.

The Machiavellian Tradition and the Southern Imagination

Aesthetic Frontiers

This Old Testament Library volume offers a commentary on the book of Joshua. The Old Testament Library provides fresh and authoritative treatments of important aspects of Old Testament study through commentaries and general surveys. The contributors are scholars of international standing.

A Commentary

Joshua

Tiny Houses Small house, tiny house, minuscule house; whatever size adjective you want to use there is a growing fascination in the world with fun size housing. Gone are the days where economic living space was the source of shame and embarrassment, instead it is the height of conscientious living, style, and character. The fascination with monster living space, space far surpassing the needs of shrinking families, is waning, paying to heat and maintain several spare rooms that are used for nothing but storage is losing favor. Spending money on too-much space is as close as you can come to spending your money on nothing and the environment isn't thanking us, and neither are those facing the brunt of a housing crisis in big Western cities. So what is a tiny house? A tiny house is simply a building between 100 - 400 square feet that was purpose-built to be lived in like a home. There is not a steadfast rule for the size and they can come in any form: shipping container homes, shed-like wooden structures, demountable buildings, or small tin shacks. Some people call it a movement, and there is certainly a move and a trend towards these smaller living spaces, however this movement is primarily a disconnected cultural one. Nevertheless, there is a growing online community that is interested in tiny house living and they are more than happy to provide support and advice to newcomers. People are drawn to the ability to live minimally, to save lots of money, and to have complete control over their living space and how it is run. Starting out on the tiny home adventure can be really exciting. Those who get into it feel like they are taking on the world and doing something that is great for themselves, society, and even for the environment. But once they get started, there are some snags that tend to creep up. Many people who decide to live in a tiny home become worried about how they are going to design and organize their tiny home so that everything is able to fit. If you are one of those who are worried about not being able to make this all work while keeping some of your modern conveniences, this is the guidebook for you. It is full of all the tips and tricks that you need to get started on the perfect design for your new tiny home. Plus, it has actual tiny house plans for those who are serious about such a project.

Tiny House Living with Example Plans

Tiny Houses

Eww, rolled pickles filled with jam. After a long day of watching her son play outside and cleaning him up before meals, Sam's mother had no idea what her little toddler had in store for her the next day. Sam's mom loves her son, but she doesn't love the breakfast in bed he brought her for her birthday. Of course, she would never tell him how awful those pickles were. A mothers' love knows no bounds and that's certainly the case with Sam's.__________________________________________________________________________ --- Sam's mom smiled as she took one of the rolled pickles filled with jam, and took a big bite. Sticky red jam dripped down her chin, and she did her best to keep a smile on her face. "This is delicious," she said smiling, secretly trying not to gag. "You're such a good chef. Thank you for thinking of me," she added. "I wanted to do something nice for you on your birthday. You're the best Mommy ever, and I love you," Sam said as he gave his mom a huge hug. --- Best Mommy Ever Makes a great gift for mother's day and birthdaysA kids story book that all parents can relate toA family-friendly children's bedtime storyA pretty long and funny story to read to preschool children and kids of a young ageEncourages children to play outside and clean up before eating

Best Mommy Ever

Jean-Claude Carrière

THE STORY: Imagine a time when the Catholic Church had the right to determine whether or not you were human. In a sixteenth-century Spanish monastery, the fate of millions of American natives from an ocean away hangs precariously in the balance. TH

The Controversy of Valladolid

David Jones

Colin Chambers

In the process by which a new play migrates from the desk of the person who wrote it to the stage where it comes to life in front of an audience, the relationship between playwright and director is crucial. And yet, through a combination of circumstance and theatre etiquette, there is little public knowledge of what actually goes on in the rehearsal room except when something goes badly wrong and the code of privacy is broken.

The Writer-director Relationship in the Theatre Today

Making Plays

Women of a certain age takes place in the course of a single night, eight months after we first meet the Gabriels. Patricia, the family matriarch, joins her children and daughters-in-law as they prepare a meal from the past and consider the future of their country, town and home. Paying tribute to the difficult year behind them, the Gabriels compare notes on the search for empathy and authenticity at a time when the game seems rigged and the rules are forever changing.

Women of a Certain Age

Burke, a middle-aged college English professor, and his lover, Mia, an unmarried mother in her mid-20s, seem in no way made for each another and yet, it seems, can't live without each other. "In his remarkable new two-character play, LIFE SENTENCES, Richard Nelson explores an intimate relationship between two people no dating service would ever put together and makes their connection tender, believable and as complex as most relationships usually are." -Gloria Cole, U P I "Richard Nelson has a penchant for writing about characters who can talk with considerable brilliance about almost anything except what's really on their minds." -Barbara Siegel & Scott Siegel, Drama-Logue "Full of Nelson's sad, wry wisdom, and his odd way of looking at life through a two-way mirror." -Clive Barnes, New York Post

Life Sentences

Harley Granville Barker, the most influential theatre-maker of his time, finds himself adrift in America during the Great War. Estranged from the theatre, and with his spirit almost broken by an acrimonious divorce, he seeks refuge in the relative obscurity of a quiet, backwater, Williamstown, Massachusetts. He finds comfort in the congeniality of his fellow refugees and in the courtesy of strangers - and gradually begins to regain his faith in humanity and his belief in the central role of Theatre in the civilised community.

Farewell to the Theatre

It is 1958, and New York City is in the midst of a major building boom; a four-lane highway is planned for the heart of Washington Square; Carnegie Hall is designated for demolition; entire neighborhoods on the West Side are leveled to make room for a new "palace of art." Meanwhile, a young Joe Papp and his colleagues face betrayals, self-inflicted wounds, and anger from the city’s powerful elite as they continue their free Shakespeare productions in Central Park. From the creator of the most celebrated family plays of the last decade comes a drama about a different kind of family – one held together by the simple and incredibly complicated belief that the theater, and the city, belong to all of us.

Illyria (TCG Edition)

First new U.S. collection of Richard Nelson's work in 20 years.

Goodnight Children Everywhere and Other Plays

Olivier Award, Best Play "Nelson's great virtue is that he asks hard questions about the emotional priorities of people who've missed out on their childhoods, poignantly charting the outer boundaries of affection and the disparity between the human craving for love and the human ability to give it." Kate Straiton, Time Out "Upsettingly engrossing." Louise Kingsley, What's On "I have long believed Nelson to be among the greatest dramatists of his generation...there is a remarkable kind of poetry here..." Sheridan Morley, The Spectator

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