Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 446
Book Description
Essential Art
Author: Publisher: A & C Black
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 526
Book Description
This is a quick, handy reference guide to art from prehistoric times up-to-the present. The book is arranged in chronological order, covering all the main time periods, movements and well-known artists. There are time lines for each section as well as brief introductions to what was happening politically, socially etc. at the time, and also an in-depth look at famous artists. The text is accessible and authoritative. The layout is easy to follow and well laid out. In short, this is the ideal student's or layman's guide to the history of art.
History Begins at Sumer
Author: Samuel Noah KramerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Civilization, Ancient
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
Breath of Flowers, Volume 1
Author: CalyPublisher: TOKYOPOP
ISBN: 1427862427
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 207
Book Description
Azami has always been attracted only to boys, especially the handsome Gwyn. Intelligent, sporty, attractive and just a little older than Azami, she's sure he would be an ideal boyfriend. Then, on the day Azami finally gets the courage to confess her feelings, everything she believes is suddenly called into question when she finds out that Gwyn is actually a girl! Despite her initial shock at learning Gwyn’s secret, Azami quickly realizes that love transcends gender, putting her feelings for Gwyn before her previous prejudices. But it turns out Azami isn’t the only girl who’s got her eye on Gwyn!
Duty and Desire Book Club Edition
Author: Anju GattaniPublisher:
ISBN: 9781953100092
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
To uphold family honor and tradition, Sheetal Prasad is forced to forsake the man she loves and marry playboy millionaire Rakesh Dhanraj while the citizens of Raigun, India, watch in envy. On her wedding night, however, Sheetal quickly learns that the stranger she married is as cold as the marble floors of the Dhanraj mansion. Forced to smile at family members and cameras and pretend there's nothing wrong with her marriage, Sheetal begins to discover that the family she married into harbors secrets, lies and deceptions powerful enough to tear apart her world. With no one to rely on and no escape, Sheetal must ally with her husband in an attempt to protect her infant son from the tyranny of his family.sion.
Power to Bloom
Author: Nassrine RezaPublisher:
ISBN: 9781731141088
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 198
Book Description
"Power To Bloom is unlike any book you've read before. It is a gem reminiscent of Krishnamurti and Hafiz, but with its own punch of emerging wisdom and clarity. Nassrine has what I can only call the overt audacity to challenge dozens of our cherished notions about how to manage our minds and emotions. She offers short 'insight units' pointing toward a direct inner path to the foundational life-knowledge within each of us. While reading these insight units from start to finish, you'll find that a spontaneous process of awakening is stimulated, helping you to unveil what you really are" - John Selby The book has been structured in seven parts. Each part explores a special perspective regarding the natural consciousness through which life fully blossoms. While reading these pages, your ingrained identification with who you think you are will begin to dissolve naturally, allowing you to experience your original state. Biography : Nassrine was brought up in Switzerland with her Iranian father and Russian mother. Recognized at an early age with the ability to instantly perceive a person's medical condition, Nassrine regularly works with patients and groups, sharing her insights into human nature and fulfillment. For the last decade she's traveled the world leading seminars, conferences and retreats.In 2002 she came forth with a new method for enhanced healing and wellbeing called Nutri-Emotion, focusing on the natural correlations and interactions of water, emotions and physical health. Collaborating with psychologists and doctors, in 2014 she published her first book (in her native tongue of French) called Nutri-Emotion, A New Way of Healing and Self-Realization. In 2016 she published her bestselling book The Power of Acceptance - being reborn in a single instant, which has been very successful in French-speaking countries.
Innovation and Entrepreneurship
Author: Peter DruckerPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317601351
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 365
Book Description
How can management be developed to create the greatest wealth for society as a whole? This is the question Peter Drucker sets out to answer in Innovation and Entrepreneurship. A brilliant, mould-breaking attack on management orthodoxy it is one of Drucker’s most important books, offering an excellent overview of some of his main ideas. He argues that what defines an entrepreneur is their attitude to change: ‘the entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it and exploits it as an opportunity’. To exploit change, according to Drucker, is to innovate. Stressing the importance of low-tech entrepreneurship, the challenge of balancing technological possibilities with limited resources, and the organisation as a learning organism, he concludes with a vision of an entrepreneurial society where individuals increasingly take responsibility for their own learning and careers. With a new foreword by Joseph Maciariello
Country Dark
Author: Chris OffuttPublisher: Grove Press
ISBN: 0802146163
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 198
Book Description
“A smart, rich country noir” from the acclaimed author Kentucky Straight and The Good Brother (Stewart O’Nan, bestselling author of Henry, Himself). Chris Offutt is an outstanding literary talent, whose work has been called “lean and brilliant” (The New York Times Book Review) and compared by reviewers to Tobias Wolff, Ernest Hemingway, and Raymond Carver. He’s been awarded the Whiting Writers Award for Fiction/Nonfiction and the American Academy of Arts and Letters Fiction Award, among numerous other honors. His first work of fiction in nearly two decades, Country Dark is a taut, compelling novel set in rural Kentucky from the Korean War to 1970. Tucker, a young veteran, returns from war to work for a bootlegger. He falls in love and starts a family, and while the Tuckers don’t have much, they have the love of their home and each other. But when his family is threatened, Tucker is pushed into violence, which changes everything. The story of people living off the land and by their wits in a backwoods Kentucky world of shine-runners and laborers whose social codes are every bit as nuanced as the British aristocracy, Country Dark is a novel that blends the best of Larry Brown and James M. Cain, with a noose tightening evermore around a man who just wants to protect those he loves. It reintroduces the vital and absolutely distinct voice of Chris Offutt, a voice we’ve been missing for years. “[A] fine homage to a pocket of the country that’s as beautiful as it is prone to tragedy.”—The Wall Street Journal “A pleasure all around.”—Daniel Woodrell, author of Winter’s Bone
The Blockade of Phalsburg
Author: Erckmann-ChatrianPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Phalsbourg (France)
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
Encyclopedia of Creativity
Author: Publisher: Academic Press
ISBN: 0123750385
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 5379
Book Description
The first edition of the successful Encyclopedia of Creativity served to establish the study of creativity is a field in itself. Now completely updated and revised in its second edition, coverage encompasses the definition of creativity, the development and expression of creativity across the lifespan, the environmental conditions that encourage or discourage creativity, creativity within specific disciplines like music, dance, film, art, literature, etc., the relationship of creativity and mental health, intelligence, and learning styles, and the process of being creative. This reference also appeals to a lay audience with articles specifically on the application of creativity to business settings. Available online via ScienceDirect and in limited print release. Named a 2012 Outstanding Academic Title by the American Library Association's Choice publication Serves as a compendium of reviews of a number of domain-specific areas, such as acting, dance, expressive arts, film, food, music, religion, science, sports, theater, and writing. Creativity and education are examined in articles about thought processes, such as developmental trends in creative abilities and potentials, the enhancement of creativity, intelligence, knowledge, play, prodigies, programs and courses, talent and teaching creativity. Cognitive aspects of creativity can be investigated in articles about altered and transitional states, analogies, attention, cognitive style, divergent thinking, flow and optimal experience, metacognition, metaphors, problem-finding, problem-solving, and remote associates. Covers business and organizational creativity in articles about advertising with art, creative visuals, business/management, creativity coaching, creativity exercises, entrepreneurship, group dynamics, innovation, leadership, organizational culture, organizational development, teams, and training, among others. Explicitly examines the complex interrelationship between society and creativity in articles about awards, conformity and conventionality, the creative sector and class of society, cultural diversity, the dark side of creativity, East vs. West, networking, social psychology, war, zeitgeist, and others. Personal and interpersonal creativity is discussed in articles relating to collaboration, family, life stages, mentors, networking, personal creativity and self-actualization. Focuses on scientific information about creativity, there are also articles that discuss brain and neuropsychology, concepts of creativity, definitions of creativity, expertise, longitudinal studies, researching art, artists and art audiences, research methods, phenomenology research and qualitative research. Online version contains an additional 26 biographies of famously creative people
The Entrepreneur
Author: Sophie BoutillierPublisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 111937877X
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 144
Book Description
This book presents the economic theories with regards to the entrepreneur of yesterday and those of more recent years, on which issue research has been developing exponentially since the last third of the 20th Century. Much of this book will be devoted to contemporary theories. This presentation of economic theories of the entrepreneur leads us to wonder about the structural development of the free enterprise system in the short and the long term. The proliferation of entrepreneurial initiatives leads in effect to a profound transformation of modes of production and work, for example under the current phenomenon of uberization economy.
