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Dr. Bill Thierfelder knows what it takes to win. As a student at the University of Maryland he dominated the high jump, winning fame as an All-American and Irish national champion. Later he earned his doctorate in sports psychology. He became a private coach and mentor to the world's top athletes...and revealed to them his hard won secrets for success. Let this world-class athlete, mentor and coach teach you what he has taught so many others, from college students to superstars: How to give your very best when the clock is ticking...everything is on the line...and you have Less Than a Minute to Go. Titel: Less Than a Minute to Go Forfatter: Bill Thierfelder Udgivelsesår: 2014 Sider: 242 Sprog: Engelsk
How Human Psychology Drives the Economy, and Why It Matters for Global Capitalism From blind faith in ever-rising housing prices to plummeting confidence in capital markets, "animal spirits" are driving financial events worldwide. Forlag: Princeton University Press Udgivelsesår: 2009 Sider: 246 Sprog: Engelsk
Liu’s study examines writers, philosophers, and political leaders in China and the West and reveals the extent to which they incorporate ideas about “culture” and “aesthetics” in their theories and practices. Titel: Aesthetics and Marxism : Chinese aesthetic Marxists and their Western contemporaries Genre: kunst_kultur Sammendrag: Bogen giver en komparativ analyse af marxistisk æstetik i Kina og i Vesten. Liu Kang viser, at æstetik og kultur ikke blot er biprodukter, men centrale i kinesisk marxistisk tænkning. Han gennemgår udviklingen fra klassisk tysk filosofi og vestlig marxisme til kinesiske marxister som Mao Zedong og senere teoretikere, og beskriver, hvordan deres idéer om kunst, litteratur og kultur har påvirket både revolutionær teori og kulturpolitik. Samtidig diskuteres vestlige tænkere som Kant, Schiller, Schopenhauer, Adorno, Benjamin og Marcuse og deres betydning for forstå
This book will transform the way you think about design by showing how integral it is to our daily lives, from the spoon we use to eat our breakfast cereal to the medical equipment used to save lives. John Heskett goes beyond style and taste to look at how different cultures and individuals personalise objects Titel: Design : A Very Short Introduction Genre: Faglitteratur Type: Paperback
Traces the conceptual lineage of modernism, examining its evolution in Western art and literature through empiricism, idealism, and romanticism. Berman demonstrates how modern social, political, and scientific developments -- including capitalism, socialism, humanism, psychoanalysis, fascism, and modernism itself -- have altered attitudes toward time, space, self, creativity, the natural world, and community. "Deserves careful study." -- Choice Titel: Preface to modernism Genre: Faglitteratur Sammendrag: Bogen tilbyder læsere en omfattende indsigt i modernismen, undersøger dens konceptuelle historie, udvikling inden for vestlig kunst og litteratur, og hvordan sociale og politiske udviklinger har formet moderne perspektiver. Type: Paperback
"Georges de La Tour (1593-1652) was one of the greatest French painters of the seventeenth century, but his art was rapidly forgotten after his death and has been rediscovered only in our own century. Since the major retrospective exhibition held in Paris in 1972, previously unknown paintings have continued to come to light, such as Saint John the Baptist in the Wilderness, a moving late work discovered in 1994. The exhibition celebrated by this beautiful book presents this and other new additions to La Tour's oeuvre and locates his art in the wider European context of his time." "This book offers a complete overview of the life and art of La Tour. Drawing on new historical research, it discusses his career, possible travels, the context in which he worked, and such issues as the contemporary replication and dissemination of his art. It examines the relationship of La Tour's art to the C
In the early morning of April 12, 1861, Captain George S. James ordered the bombardment of Fort Sumter, beginning a war that would last four years and claim many lives. This book brings together a collection of voices to help explain the commencement of Am. Titel: Why the Civil War Came af Gabor S. Boritt (Bog) Genre: Historisk Sammendrag: Why the Civil War Came brings a talented chorus of voices together to recapture the feel of a very different time and place, helping the reader to grasp more fully the commencement of our bloodiest war. From William W. Freehling’s discussion of the peculiarities of North American slavery to Charles Royster’s disturbing piece on the combatants’ savage readiness to fight, the contributors bring to life the climate of a country on the brink of disaster. Editor Gabor Boritt examines the struggle’s central figure, Lincoln himself, illuminating in the years
