Time is life’s most precious gift. Life is made up of moments, and they should not be wasted with the wrong people or doing the wrong things. In Master of Ceremonies, you will learn about ways to take ownership over your life. The author takes you down the different avenues of your life while sharing some of his own experiences and leaves you with tips to master that area. This self-help guide consists of two sections, Master of the Kingdom and Master of the Jungle. Master of the Kingdom focuses on how to make the best choices in areas dealing with you and your inner circle including self-esteem, spirituality, friends, family, and love just to name a few. On the other side of things, Master of the Jungle teaches you how to handle the outside world and its challenges including independent living, job searching, finances, personal branding, handling emergencies, and more. The journey to success is not overnight, it requires maximizing your potential. Most importantly, success requires taking ownership over your own life and this book will help guide in you the right direction. Your life is a celebration and you must be the Master of Ceremonies for your own life.

Product Description: A distant noise sounded far behind Jason; with every breath, the sound seemed to get louder as if it was only the sound of his heart. But Jason was sure it wasn''t, he could feel it, that same feeling of being a caged animal in the dark, knowing there is somebody watching through the bars, and darkness remains your companion...read more

Offers a new perspective on the Byzantine interaction with western Europe, the crusades, and the crusader states.

Product Description: This book focuses on the lesser known (and admired) 'political Picasso' of the period after 1944. In the decades after joining the French Communist Party in late 1944 at the end of World War Two, Picasso produced a body of work connected directly, if in complex and varied ways, to his left-wing political beliefs and continued affiliation to a Republican Spain destroyed by General Franco's fascist victory in the Spanish Civil War...read more

Product Description: By 1400, the once-mighty Byzantine Empire stood on the verge of destruction. Most of its territories had been lost to the Ottoman Turks, and Constantinople was under close blockade. Against all odds, Byzantium lingered on for another fifty years until 1453, when the Ottomans dramatically toppled the capital’s walls...read more

Product Description: Nonfiction. Literary Criticism. For many years now theater directors have argued about how to present Shakespeare's The Tempest. Originally, the play was seen as Prospero's use of magic to reclaim his European heritage against corrupt usurpers...read more

Product Description: In a series of newly commissioned essays by both established and emerging scholars, Globalization and Contemporary Art probes the effects of internationalist culture and politics on art across a variety of media. Globalization and Contemporary Art is the first anthology to consider the role and impact of art and artist in an increasingly borderless world...read more

Product Description: Jonathan Harris' poems are lovely and musical. This dialogue between son-poet and deceased mother-poet has the poignancy of a medieval ballad or an American song, maybe one of those Sixties songs with a refrain like 'Meet You in the Falling Rain, Mama...read more

Product Description: The application of private international law to electronic consumer contracts raises new, complex, and controversial questions. It is new because consumer protection was not a private international law concern until very recently and e-commerce only became an important commercial activity within the last ten years...read more

Product Description: Identity Theft examines the complex socio-political forces that powerfully influence the production of visual art in our postcolonial and globalised world. Offering multiple and detailed case-studies drawn from around the world - the work of exiled Iranian and Palestinian artists, contemporary art in Turkey, the architectural reconstruction of Berlin since World War Two, hybrid urban development in Latin American countries, recent film in India, modern art in Nigeria, and wood sculpture in New Guinea commissioned by multinational mining companies - this collection of essays asks questions about the transformed meanings of 'art' and 'identity' in an era dominated by a hyperinternationalisation of cultural production...read more

Product Description: Value, Art, Politics draws together questions of value and evaluation in relation to studies of historical and contemporary art and artists, within a broad 'social history of art' conceptual framework. Topics covered include the status of aesthetic and other judgements and their relation to analytic methods in the discipline; the reformulation of feminist aesthetics and cultural politics; the impact of postcolonial theory; the status of 'traditional' media now such as paintings and sculptures; new technologies of visual representation; Marxism and culture after Postmodernism; revisionist histories of formalist criticism...read more

Product Description: Value, Art, Politics draws together questions of value and evaluation in relation to studies of historical and contemporary art and artists, within a broad 'social history of art' conceptual framework. Topics covered include the status of aesthetic and other judgements and their relation to analytic methods in the discipline; the reformulation of feminist aesthetics and cultural politics; the impact of postcolonial theory; the status of 'traditional' media now such as paintings and sculptures; new technologies of visual representation; Marxism and culture after Postmodernism; revisionist histories of formalist criticism...read more

Product Description: While scholars and critics generally agree that the 1960s signaled the end of high modernism, what is less clear is how to characterize contemporary art since the 1960s. Acclaimed art scholar Jonathan Harris here tackles this question by assembling a rich body of essays, along with an extended interview with renowned feminist art scholar Amelia Jones, that tracks the movements in and issues central to contemporary art practice since this pivotal decade...read more

Product Description: Art History: The Key Concepts is a systematic, reliable and accessible reference guide to the disciplines of art history and visual culture. Containing entries on over 200 terms integral to the historical and theoretical study of art, design and culture in general, it is an indispensable source of knowledge for all students, scholars and teachers...read more

Though more than a generation has passed since the revolutionary fervor of the Summer of Love of 1967, the 1960s in many ways seem with us still. From recurring debates over the war in Vietnam to the perpetually appealing music of the Beatles and the Rolling Stone to the concern about youth drug use, the legacy of the 1960s is ubiquitous in contemporary life. The Summer of Love brings together an impressive group of historians, artists, and cultural critics to present a rich and varied interpretation of this seminal decade and its continuing influence on politics, sAociety, and culture. The Summer of Love, which accompanies an exhibition at Tate Liverpool, pays particular attention to the wildly creative psychedelic art of the era. Perceptive essays on psychedelic comics, graphic design and typography, light shows, and film successfully rescue psychedelic art from the fog of nostalgia and unjust critical neglect. Distinguished contributors also explore the role of 1960s fashion and architecture, and they consider anew the central influence of hallucinogenic drugs on the art of the era. Running throughout the essays are the elements of epochal change--from sexual liberation to student revolutions--that still form the backdrop of our collective consciousness of the 1960s. An incisive collection of writings on all aspects of 1960s art and culture, tempered by time and critical distance, The Summer of Love will be indispensable for those who wish they had been there--or for those who were, but can't remember it.

Product Description: Here for the first time is a full-length study of the 'critical modernisms' of the three leading art writers of the second half of the twentieth century, which helps us build a better understanding of the development of modern art writing and its relation to the 'post-modern' in art and society since the 1970s...read more