Wickerby: An Urban Pastoral Charles Siebert Crown Publishers, 1998 - 216 sider "Outside my window, the city lights are taking hold now, the breeze-brushed, gently pulsating grid. Why is a cemented aggregate of homes arranged in a tall, tight cluster any further from nature than one wood home within the woods? Because it is so thoroughly man-made? But we wouldn't call the towering carpenter ant's nest that I found one day in Wickerby's collapsing southeast corner 'ant-made.' We are no less natural than the next creature except that thinking makes it seem so. There is no such thing as nature. Wickerby would remind me of this. There is just the earth and us, the name-callers, standing upon it, calling those places without us, nature." Against the backdrop of a tumbledown Brooklyn neighborhood, Charles Siebert, a native Brooklynite and longtime city-dweller, reflects upon the five months he
David Werner - Imagination Quota album cover features artistic graphics and text listing the album title, artist name, and track names. Back cover provides detailed information about the band members, production details, and track listings from both sides of the vinyl record. Tags: musik, vinyl, LP, album
The Grand Tradition: Seventy Years of Singing on Record" by J.B. Steane is a landmark 1974 music history book surveying opera and song recordings from 1900 to 1970. It critically analyzes vocal art and legendary performers like Caruso and Patti, often considered a "bible" for collectors and opera lovers. Key Details of the Book: Author: J.B. Steane (prominent Gramophone magazine vocal critic). Scope: Covers 70 years of recorded vocal music (1900-1970), focusing on the "grand tradition" of opera and singing. Content: Features detailed analysis of singers, techniques, and specific performances, including 139 black-and-white photographs. Editions: Originally published in 1974 by Duckworth, with a corrected edition later released by Amadeus Press. Significance: Widely considered an essential, authoritative survey of 20th-century recorded singing, evaluating both individual performances and t
One American Woman's Enduring Mission to Help Millions of African Women and Girls Triumph In However Long the Night, Aimee Molloy tells the unlikely and inspiring story of Molly Melching, an American woman whose experience as an exchange student in Senegal led her to found Tostan and dedicate almost four decades of her life to the girls and women of Africa. This moving biography details Melching's beginnings at the University of Dakar and follows her journey of 40 years in Africa, where she became a social entrepreneur and one of humanity's strongest voices for the rights of girls and women. Inspirational and beautifully written, However Long the Night: Molly Melching's Journey to Help Millions of African Women and Girls Triumph is a passionate entreaty for all global citizens. This book is published in partnership with the Skoll Foundation, dedicated to accelerating innovations from org
Bogen indeholder en samling panorama billeder af byen New York, taget af fotografen Richard Berenholtz. Den er i blåt hardcover med titlen og fotografens navn på forsiden. Bogen indeholder 12 udfoldelige panorama billeder. New York New York by Richard Berenholtz, by James Tooley. New York: Rizzoli International Publications, 2014. 240 pp. $50 (hardcover). A photograph Richard Berenholtz took on Fifth Avenue serves as a microcosm of his remarkable book New York New York. The worm’s-eye image features the sculpture of Atlas at Rockefeller Center, St. Patrick’s Cathedral across the street, and the neighboring Olympic Tower (p. 51)—that is, a widely recognized work of art and a prominent church alongside a relatively inconspicuous Manhattan skyscraper. Originally published in 2002, and reformatted in 2014 as a midsized book with several new images, New York New York is chock-full of Berenhol
In However Long the Night, Aimee Molloy tells the unlikely and inspiring story of Molly Melching, an American woman whose experience as an exchange student in Senegal led her to found Tostan and dedicate almost four decades of her life to the girls and women of Africa. This moving biography details Melching's beginnings at the University of Dakar and follows her journey of 40 years in Africa, where she became a social entrepreneur and one of humanity's strongest voices for the rights of girls and women. Inspirational and beautifully written, However Long the Night: Molly Melching's Journey to Help Millions of African Women and Girls Triumph is a passionate entreaty for all global citizens. This book is published in partnership with the Skoll Foundation, dedicated to accelerating innovations from organizations like Tostan that address the world's most pressing problems. © 2013 HarperOne (
We've been conditioned to think that the best way to motivate ourselves and others is through external rewards like money or fame, or by the fear of punishment - the carrot-and-stick approach. That's a mistake, Daniel H. Pink says in his transformative new book. The key to high performance and satisfaction is intrinsic, internal motivation: the desire to follow your own interests and understand the benefits in them for you. In Drive, Pink lays out the hard science for these surprising insights; describes how people and corporations can embrace them; offers details about how we can master them; and provides concrete examples of how intrinsic motivation works on the job, at home and in ourselves Titel: Drive : the surprising truth about what motivates us Forfatter: Daniel H. Pink Forlag: Riverhead Books Udgivelsesår: 2009 Sider: 242 Sprog: Engelsk
The year is 1918 and two Frenchmen devise a plan so far-reaching that some deem it utter fantasy: an airline that will carry mail and passengers across the Atlantic Ocean to Argentina. In Sometimes Ea-gle's Wings: The Saga of Aéropostale, historian and author Joy Dunkerley brings to life the vivid story of Aéropostale, the world's first intercontinental airline. From its inception to its tragic liquidation in 1931, readers become privy to the fascinating and sometimes devious machinations that took a seemingly outrageous idea to magnificent fruition. From private dealings to public scrutiny, the history of Aéropostale is a study in change: political, finan-cial, attitudinal. Among the many colorful details of this airline's legend is Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, a pilot who later wove his love of flying into his im-mortal novels, including The Little Prince. Anyone who loves a good adventur
