Product Description: Have you encountered difficulties describing what you do to other people? Have you ever labelled yourself in order to be understood? Is there a difference in the way that a generalist and a specialist can stay relevant? If you had to design an approach to education fit for the twenty-first century, what would it look like? How do you live a life of meaning if you live in more than one world?During an era still dominated by hyperspecialism and experts with 'the one right answer', the neo-generalist defies easy classification...read more

Product Description: This is an engaging introduction which explores the latest thinking about Classical mythology, the history of interpreting myths and the role of myths in cultural tradition, from painting to opera, philosophy, politics, drama, and religion in the modern day...read more

Product Description: Michael Stone thinks he's an experienced consultant. But when he's sent to investigate a case of corruption in South Africa involving a government minister whose department manages national roads projects, he's thrown into a world of conspiracy and intrigue...read more

Product Description: A searching examination of the worldwide effort to shut down big coal even as the industry struggles to remain the dominant source of energy

Product Description: The contain of this book is enough for cooking a tasty French toast. Read and bake bread of your choice.

Product Description: From the Red Room in Twin Peaks to Club Silencio in Mulholland Drive, the work of David Lynch contains some of the most remarkable spaces in contemporary culture. Richard Martin's compelling study is the first sustained critical assessment of the role architecture and design play in Lynch's films...read more

Product Description: Wordrobe is a reconciliation of textile and text. Textile and text are intrinsically and semantically related; both words derive from texere and text. Even today we use the locution weaving or spinning a tale to describe a powerful narrative...read more

Product Description: Orientalism, the historical term used to describe the West's fascination with and assimilation of the ideas and styles of the East, is richly represented in the collections of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, specifically in the areas of European and American paintings, sculptures, and decorative arts...read more

Product Description: The shapes and silhouettes, the corseted waists and deep décolletage, the incredibly wide and flat skirts―in a word, the majesty―of eighteenth-century style have provided lasting inspiration for fashion even to the present. Consider, for example, the images on the cover of this book...read more

Product Description: Beginning in the early 1930s, American designer sportswear came into its own, later becoming a major force in fashion that continued into the 1990s to influence the way women dress. Designers such as Bonnie Cashin, Tina Leser, Vera Maxwell, Claire McCardell, Clare Potter, and Emily Wilkens initiated a new standard of dressing, one that is right for the lifestyle of the modern woman and that is purely American in its practicality, simplicity, and democratic elements...read more

Product Description: A riveting look at how an alternative source of energy is revoluntionising nuclear power, promising a safe and clean future for millions, and why thorium was sidelined at the height of the Cold War In this groundbreaking account of an energy revolution in the making, award-winning science writer Richard Martin introduces us to thorium, a radioactive element and alternative nuclear fuel that is far safer, cleaner, and more abundant than uranium...read more

Product Description: This exhibition heralded a series of thematic shows conceived to examine various elements in the history of costume, with selections culled primarily from the Museum's own collections. Thus reaffirming the Museum's commitment to collecting and to the care and display of costume, these installations offered substantial displays year round as well as an extraordinary opportunity to evaluate and appreciate the evolution of costume over the last three centuries...read more

Product Description: This exhibition heralded a series of thematic shows conceived to examine various elements in the history of costume, with selections culled primarily from the Museum's own collections. Thus reaffirming the Museum's commitment to collecting and to the care and display of costume, these installations offered substantial displays year round as well as an extraordinary opportunity to evaluate and appreciate the evolution of costume over the last three centuries...read more

Product Description: Oak Harbor has a colorful history originating with a man named Adolphus Kraemer, a Toledo merchant who dreamed of developing a town that would rival the likes of Detroit and Cleveland. Adolphus established his dream town near the headwaters of the Portage River, 11 miles inland from Lake Erie...read more

Product Description: • Essential reading for those in senior positions in business • All military concepts are fully explained with diagrams, historical examples, or personal anecdotes, and then translated into terms and tools that can be used in business• Includes business and military examples, personal anecdotes, and real-life experiences of the author, in both business and military settingsBrilliant Manoeuvres – How to Use Military Wisdom to Win Business Battles is for executives and entrepreneurs who are looking to create and sustain competitive advantage and to lead their teams in the face of determined competition and rivalry...read more

Product Description: TGIF AND OTHER SHORT STORIES is a series of 27 totally unrelated stories. Most have been written to challenge the reader to fi gure out the ending before reaching the fi nal page. In most cases the reader will probably be wrong. Not complicated reading, rather it is an easy style for enjoyment...read more

Product Description: The boundaries between skin and clothing are as fluid as they are between art and fashion. This volume explores this surrealistic interzone in which shoes sprout hair and people become sculptures, in works by artists and designers such as Louise Bourgeois, Nick Cave, Helen Chadwick, Hussein Chalayan, Comme des Garçons/Rei Kawakubo, Salvador Dalí and Robert Gober...read more

Product Description: The Mirror of Laughter presents a theory of humor and laughter by examining their relationship to human behaviors. Kozintsev is especially interested in the relationship between biological and cultural factors that influence behaviors...read more

Product Description: "Sing, goddess, the anger of Peleus’ son Achilleus / and its devastation." For sixty years, that's how Homer has begun the Iliad in English, in Richmond Lattimore's faithful translation—the gold standard for generations of students and general readers...read more

Product Description: Book by Martin, Richard

Top down . . . bottom up . . . what works? This book explores development from theperspective of the poor. Who are they? What lives do they live? What matters tothem? And most importantly, what can they do about it? Martin and Mathema debate how people can be given legitimate control of theirown environment, and how governments can work with them. How do communitiesand conditions drive behavior? What interventions are appropriate and how can weapproach development imaginatively? This is not about usurping governance – but revisiting structures that the developedworld has come to accept, and placing the power of decision in the hands of thepeople it affects. Nor it is about money . . . it’s about people, and about how we can make our worldwork for everyone.