An Exquisite Challenge

Author : Jennifer Hayward
Publisher : Harlequin
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780373132225

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An Exquisite Challenge by Jennifer Hayward Pdf

"First move's yours, Lex," he murmured. "After that, all bets are off." Wine magnate Gabe De Campo has fired his PR company three weeks before the wwmost anticipated launch event the industry's ever seen. Enter Alexandra Anderson--the last woman he should ever work with, but the only woman who can help. Gabe and Alex have always been a lethal combination, and with so much at stake for them both, failure is not an option. Can they ignore the powerful attraction between them in order to maintain their professionalism...or is it only a matter of time before the cork is popped on their passion?

Author : Kanta Kochhar-Lindgren,Davis Schneiderman,Tom Denlinger
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2009-12-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780803227811

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The Exquisite Corpse by Kanta Kochhar-Lindgren,Davis Schneiderman,Tom Denlinger Pdf

This work addresses historical and contemporary manifestations of poems, drawings, collages, and performance works that employ the ritual of the 'cadaver exquis'.

Author : Weldon Owen
Publisher : Weldon Owen
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2022-01-25
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN : 1681888238

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The Ultimate Reading Challenge by Weldon Owen Pdf

Invigorate your reading life with 25 unique challenges and reward yourself with 25 bookish surprises! This delightful collection of 25 challenges and rewards inspires bookworms to engage with their reading life in a fresh new way. Each pocket inside this portfolio challenges readers to a bookish challenge. Once the reader completes a challenge, they can open the pocket to claim their prize. This one-size-fits-all gift is appropriate for readers of all ages, genres, and abilities. Bibliophiles are encouraged to: Read personally Re-read a book you loved as a child. Ask a family member what book has made a lasting impression on them. Find and read that book. Read compassionately Read a book that features an indigenous person. Read a book about a person with a disability. Read broadly Visit your local bookstore and ask a bookseller to recommend a book based on your recent favorites. Read in a place you’ve never read before. Engage creatively Make (or order) a snack or meal described in a book you’ve read. Write a letter to someone who has influenced your reading life. Prizes are all thoughtfully curated to supplement the reading life and include: A laser-engraved wooden bookmark Bookish greeting cards Coffee cup sleeve Book darts A mini notebook And much more!

Author : Mark Nepo
Publisher : Harmony
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2007-12-18
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9780307422002

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The Exquisite Risk by Mark Nepo Pdf

A fresh perspective on the art of being alive and essential insight into how we can minimize what stands between us and an authentic experience of life, in the spirit of works by Deepak Chopra and Ram Dass “Once again, Mark Nepo draws us to the heart of what matters. He illuminates love with the light of his own understanding.”—Marianne Williamson In these fast-paced times, the exquisite risk facing each of us every day is to slow down so that we may experience life rather than simply manage it. In The Exquisite Risk, poet and teacher Mark Nepo encourages readers to become quiet enough and open enough to listen to what truly matters—our own hearts, our loved ones, the wonders of nature—in order to live a life with nothing held back. In rich, lyrical prose, Nepo shares his own spiritual path, including a battle with illness that helped him understand how daring to embrace all that life has to offer can bring us to a deeper appreciation of its meaning and beauty.

Author : Griselda Pollock
Publisher : Thames & Hudson
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2022-04-07
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780500776834

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Mary Cassatt by Griselda Pollock Pdf

A close ally of Camille Pissarro, Berthe Morisot and Edgar Degas, Mary Cassatt was the only American painter at the heart of the Impressionist group in Paris. Highly respected on both sides of the Atlantic, Cassatt was a forthright advocate for womens intellectual, creative and political emancipation. She brought her discerning gaze and compositional inventiveness across many media to the subtle social interactions of women in public and private spaces, such as at the theatre, and in moments of intimacy with children, where she was one of the most attentive and unsentimental analysts of the infant body and the childs emerging personality. Tracing key moments in Cassatts long career, art historian Griselda Pollock highlights Cassatts extensive artistic training across Europe, analysing her profound study of Old Masters while revealing her intelligent understanding of both Manet and Courbet. Pollock also provides close readings of Cassatts paintings and her singular vision of women in modernity. Now revised with a new preface, updates to the bibliography and colour illustrations throughout, this book offers a rich perspective on the core concerns of a major Impressionist artist through the frames of class, gender, space and difference.

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Armed Services. Subcommittee on Readiness
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 122 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : History
ISBN : MINN:31951D034055369

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Global Challenges to Readiness and the Fiscal Year 2012 Budget Request by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Armed Services. Subcommittee on Readiness Pdf

Author : Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Publisher : Springer
Page : 494 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2014-08-08
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9789401790949

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Applications of Flow in Human Development and Education by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Pdf

The third volume of the collected works of Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi covers his work on the application of flow in areas that go beyond the field of leisure where the concept was first applied. Based on his personal experience with schooling and learning, as well as that of many others and contrary to what Cicero claimed, Csikszentmihalyi arrived at the conclusion that instead of taking pride in making the roots of knowledge as bitter as possible, we should try to make them sweeter. Just as flow became a popular and useful concept in voluntary activities, it could likewise be applied in education with the end result of young people being more likely to continue learning not just because they have to but because they want to. This volume brings together a number of articles in which Csikszentmihalyi develops ideas about how to make education and more generally the process of learning to live a good life, more enjoyable. Since theory is the mother of good practice, the first eleven chapters are devoted to theoretical reflections. Some are general and explore what it means to be a human being, what it means to be a person, when we look at life from the perspective of flow. Others are more narrowly focused on such topics as consumption, education, teaching and learning. They help laypeople reflect how they can arrange their lives in such a way as to leave a small ecological footprint while getting the most enjoyment. The second section of the volume contains a dozen empirical articles on similar topics. They deal with the development of identity and self-worth; with the formation of goals and motivation; with loneliness and family life.

Author : Prem Lata Sharma
Publisher : Sarup & Sons
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Continuing education
ISBN : 8176256757

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The future of the learning world by Prem Lata Sharma Pdf

Author : Imelda Akmal
Publisher : IMAJIbooks
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2012-01-01
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9786029260083

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Archinesia 02 by Imelda Akmal Pdf

Hotels and resorts are not an easy building to design. The relationships of hotels and the city are also an important notion of landmark within cities. The hotels are also to be seen as a reflection of the complex social geographies of city life. Review the built projects from Indonesian and southeast Asian architects, such as; Studio TonTon, Yori Antar, Ling Hao Architects, Nicholas Burns, and several other architects; also several upcoming projects from Indonesian and South-East Asian architects. We proudly published Daniel Libeskind’s Reffeltion on Keppel Bay, his first apartment towers in Singapore. Other projects by southeast Asian Architects : Pantara House, Jakarta (Studio Tonton) Villa S, Singapore (Ling Hao Architects) Sentosa House, Singapore (Nicholas Burns) Segara Ayu House , Bali(Yori Antar) Reflection at Kepple Bay, Singapore (Daniel Libeskind) Punggol Promenade, Singapore (LOOK Architects) Puri Ahimsa, Bali (Arte Architect) Casa De La Flora, Thailand (Vaslab) The L Hotel, Bali (Popo Danes Architects) Centra Taum, Bali (andramatin architect) Ananta Legian (Airmas Asri) Banyan Tree Ringha, China (Architrave) Sudamala Suites, Bali (ESA International) Intercontinental Danang Sun Peninsula Resort, Vietnam (Bensley Design Studios)

Author : Gary B. Nash
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2006-04-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9780812219425

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First City by Gary B. Nash Pdf

Covering more than two centuries of social, economic, and political change, and offering a challenging, innovative approach to urban as well national history, First City tells the Philadelphia story through the wealth of material culture its citizens have chosen to preserve.

Author : Alessandra Petrina
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2016-05-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317102915

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Machiavelli in the British Isles by Alessandra Petrina Pdf

Machiavelli in the British Isles reassesses the impact of Machiavelli's The Prince in sixteenth-century England and Scotland through the analysis of early English translations produced before 1640, surviving in manuscript form. This study concentrates on two of the four extant sixteenth-century versions: William Fowler's Scottish translation and the Queen's College (Oxford) English translation, which has been hitherto overlooked by scholars. Alessandra Petrina begins with an overview of the circulation and readership of Machiavelli in early modern Britain before focusing on the eight surviving manuscripts. She reconstructs each manuscript's history and the afterlife of the translations before moving to a detailed examination of two of the translations. Petrina's investigation of William Fowler's translation takes into account his biography, in order to understand the Machiavellian influence on early modern political thought. Her study of the Queen's College translation analyses the manuscript's provenance as well as technical details including writing and paper quality. Importantly, this book includes annotated editions of both translations, which compare the texts with the original Italian versions as well as French and Latin versions. With this volume Petrina has compiled an important reference source, offering easy access to little-known translations and shedding light on a community of readers and scholars who were fascinated by Machiavelli, despite political or religious opinion.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Librairie Droz
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 2600042067

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Revue européenne des Sciences sociales et Cahiers Vilfredo Pareto by Anonim Pdf

Author : Peggy O'Brien
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2006-08
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780743288507

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Teaching A Midsummer Night's Dream, Romeo and Juliet, and Macbeth by Peggy O'Brien Pdf

An innovative, performance-based approach to teaching Shakespeare

Author : David N. Cole,Laurie Yung
Publisher : Island Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2012-06-22
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781597269117

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Beyond Naturalness by David N. Cole,Laurie Yung Pdf

The central concept guiding the management of parks and wilderness over the past century has been “naturalness”—to a large extent the explicit purpose in establishing these special areas was to keep them in their “natural” state. But what does that mean, particularly as the effects of stressors such as habitat fragmentation, altered disturbance regimes, pollution, invasive species, and climate change become both more pronounced and more pervasive? Beyond Naturalness brings together leading scientists and policymakers to explore the concept of naturalness, its varied meanings, and the extent to which it provides adequate guidance regarding where, when, and how managers should intervene in ecosystem processes to protect park and wilderness values. The main conclusion is the idea that naturalness will continue to provide an important touchstone for protected area conservation, but that more specific goals and objectives are needed to guide stewardship. The issues considered in Beyond Naturalness are central not just to conservation of parks, but to many areas of ecological thinking—including the fields of conservation biology and ecological restoration—and represent the cutting edge of discussions of both values and practice in the twenty-first century. This bookoffers excellent writing and focus, along with remarkable clarity of thought on some of the difficult questions being raised in light of new and changing stressors such as global environmental climate change.

Author : David James
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2020-04-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780198749967

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Modernism and Close Reading by David James Pdf

The kinship between modernism and close reading has long between taken for granted. But for that reason, it has also gone unexamined. As the archives, timeframes, and cultural contexts of global modernist studies proliferate, the field's rapport with close reading no longer appears self-evident or guaranteed--even though for countless students studying literary modernism still invariably means studying close reading. This authoritative collection of essays illuminates close reading's conceptual, institutional, and pedagogical genealogies as a means of examining its enduring potential. David James brings together a cast of world-renowned scholars to offer an account of some of the things we might otherwise know, and need to know, about the history of modernist theories of reading, before then providing a sense of how the futures for critical reading look different in light of the multiple ways in which modernism has been close read. Modernism and Close Reading responds to a contemporary climate of unprecedented reconstitution for the field: it takes stock of close reading's methodological possibilities in the wake of modernist studies' geographical, literary-historical, and interdisciplinary expansions; and it shows how the political, ethical, and aesthetic consequences of attending to matters of form complicate ideological preconceptions about the practice of formalism itself. By reassessing the intellectual commitments and institutional conditions that have shaped modernism in criticism as well as in the classroom, we are able to ask new questions about close reading that resonate across literary and cultural studies. Invigorating that critical venture, this volume enriches our vocabulary for addressing close reading's perpetual development and diversification.