Art and Architecture This book follows the historical development of the Islamic regions and their ruling dynasties, and illustrates their greatly varied forms of artistic expression from the birth of the religion to the present day. Forlag: Könemann Udgivelsesår: 2000 Sider: 639 Sprog: Engelsk
A Field Guide to Modern Marketing SELLING THE INVISIBLE is a succinct and often entertaining look at the unique characteristics of services and their prospects, and how any service, from a home-based consultancy to a multinational brokerage, can turn more prospects into clients and keep them. SELLING THE INVISIBLE covers service marketing from start to finish. Filled with wonderful insights and written in a roll-up-your-sleeves, jargon-free, accessible style, such as: Greatness May Get You Nowhere; Focus Groups Don'ts; The More You Say, the Less People Hear; Seeing the Forest Around the Falling Trees You can't touch, hear, or see your company's most important products... So how do you sell, develop, make them grow? That's the problem with services. This "phenomenal" book, as one reviewer called it, answers that question with insights on how markets work and how prospects think. A treasur
Forfattere: Sandra Slater, Fay A. Yarbrough Sprog: Engelsk Antal sider: 0 Udgivelsesår: 2011 Several contributors consider sexual practice as a mode of cultural articulation, as well as a vehicle for the expression of gender roles. Groundbreaking historical scholarship on the complex attitudes toward gender and sexual roles in Native American culture, with a new preface and supplemental bibliography Prior to the arrival of Europeans in the New World, Native Americans across the continent had developed richly complex attitudes and forms of expression concerning gender and sexual roles. The role of the "berdache," a man living as a woman or a woman living as a man in native societies, has received recent scholarly attention but represents just one of many such occurrences of alternative gender identification in these cultures. Editors Sandra Slater and Fay A. Yarbrough have brought togethe
Art history recognizes the fact that the discovery of the first Western European prehistoric ornate caves of Altamira (Spain), one hundred years ago, the Lascaux caves in 1940 (France) and the Chauvet one in 1994 (France), gave birth to a period of wonder and questionning about the function of these images, some of which are more than 30 000 years old. Recent research across the 5 continents shows that these figurative and symbolic expressions reminiscent of ritualistic practices, play an important part in the life of certain human groups, because they partake in the mythical birth of these groups apparently fascinated by animals which they fight until death comes, and fascinated by the life created by women. Prehistoric Art showcases more than 150 absolutely stunning photographs of rocks and caves covered with prehistoric paintings, along with a very informative text. -- from back cover
Dr Jacob Bronowksi''s The Ascent of Man traces the development of human society through our understanding of science. First published in 1973 to accompany the groundbreaking BBC television series, it is considered one of the first works of ''popular science'', illuminating the historical and social context of scientific development for a generation of readers. In his highly accessible style, Dr Bronowski discusses human invention from the flint tool to geometry, agriculture to genetics, and from alchemy to the theory of relativity, showing how they all are expressions of our ability to understand and control nature. In this new paperback edition, The Ascent of Man inspires, influences and informs as profoundly as ever. Titel: The Ascent of Man af J. Bronowski (Bog) Forfatter: J. Bronowski Genre: Historisk Forlag: BBC Type: Paperback
Deborah Tannen YOU JUST DON'T UNDERSTAND Women and Men in Conversation ON THE NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER LIST FOR NEARLY FOUR YEARS, EIGHT MONTHS AT #1, TRANSLATED INTO 31 LANGUAGES A true cultural and intellectual phenomenon, this is the book that brought gender differences in ways of talking to the forefront of public awareness and catapulted Tannen onto the public stage. As witty and entertaining as it is enlightening, this book shows why a woman and man can walk away from the same conversation with completely different ideas of what was said. Because boys and girls grow up in different worlds of words, talk between men and women can be like cross-cultural communication. The original source of the truism that men don't like to stop and ask for directions, this book is studded with lively examples of real conversations that will leave you wondering whether Tannen was hiding in your liv
DECORATIVE ARTS & CRAFTS. Whether your preferred medium is canvas or paper, wood or stone, this reasonably priced series of books for beginners demonstrates fascinating drawing, painting and design techniques for a variety of surfaces, materials and spaces. The titles in this practical series are superbly suited to help readers become familiar with the most essential techniques of drawing, painting and design. They are tailor-made for a quick and practically oriented introduction. In each book, numerous examples will inspire readers to explore their own potential for creative expression. Tools, materials and other aids are thoroughly explained. The step-by-step approach clarifies the phases of each technique and gives helpful suggestions for further development of the learned methods. In addition, insightful analysis of great works of art divulges the tricks and secrets of the masters. T
And Other Things I've Learned "Yet Never Have Your Dog Stuffed is not a memoir of show-business ups and downs. It is a story of a boy growing into a man who then realizes he has only just begun to grow. It is the story of turning points in Alda's life, events that would make him what he is - if only he could survive them." "From the moment as a boy when his dead dog is returned from the taxidermist's shop with a hideous expression on its face, and Alda learns that death can't be undone, to his decades-long effort to find compassion for the mother he lived with but never knew, to his acceptance of his father, both personally and professionally, Alda learns the hard way that change, uncertainty, and transformation are what life is made of, and that true happiness is found in embracing them."--BOOK JACKET. Forfatter: Alan Alda Forlag: Hutchinson Udgivelsesår: 2006 Sprog: Engelsk
