wyszukanych pozycji: 16
The Invisible Drama: Women and the Anxiety of Change
ISBN: 9781491097205 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) |
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50,34 zł |
Losing Helen
ISBN: 9781597099905 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 120 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) Losing Helen is a moving and inspiring essay that tracks an adult daughter through the many complex phases of grief as she anticipates the inevitable loss of her elderly mother. Finding strength and guidance in the spiritual insights of writers, artists, Western religion, and Eastern philosophies, the narrator undergoes a profound transformation while striving to design an end-of-life experience that is meaningful and sacred not only for her mother but also for herself.
Losing Helen is a moving and inspiring essay that tracks an adult daughter through the many complex phases of grief as she anticipates the inev...
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65,46 zł |
Thinking in Place: Art, Action, and Cultural Production
ISBN: 9781594515972 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 184 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Carol Becker, preeminent arts educator and contributor to leading art magazines, offers a beautifully poignant meditation on the role of place in artistic creativity. She focuses on place as a historical, physical entity and a conceptual site where ideas come into meaning. The book explores places from the coal-mining towns of western Pennsylvania, to the Birla House where Gandhi was shot, to the sinking city of Venice. A cross between theory, memoir, and history, her writing creates the experiential effect of being in specific places as well as imagining the evolution of ideas as they are...
Carol Becker, preeminent arts educator and contributor to leading art magazines, offers a beautifully poignant meditation on the role of place in arti...
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262,78 zł |
Leading Women: How Church Women Can Avoid Leadership Traps and Negotiate the Gender Maze
ISBN: 9780687459643 / Angielski / Miękka / 1995 / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) This helpful volume shows women how to communicate and influence decisions in the male-dominated world of church leadership. Becker names gender traps, examines the unique perspective that women bring to leadership in the church, and explores communication strategies for both women and men. This book is part of a new series by Norman Shawchuck, developer of the Marketing/Leading/Managing trilogy. New paradigms for communication and leadership will be presented in order to further the advancement of vocation for women in ministry. Key Features: * examines the unique perspective that... This helpful volume shows women how to communicate and influence decisions in the male-dominated world of church leadership. Becker names gender tr... |
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131,31 zł |
Zones of Contention: Essays on Art, Institutions, Gender, and Anxiety
ISBN: 9780791429389 / Angielski / Miękka / 1996 / 268 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. This collection of essays by cultural critic Carol Becker plumbs particular areas of controversy to understand what information these "zones of contention" might yield about the multifarious culture wars taking place within American society today. In the process she addresses the place of art and artists in society, the difficulties facing women in the workplace, why male bonding exists, why women experience anxiety in relationship to creative endeavors, and why artists are misunderstood within American society. She positions art and artists, as well as institutional dynamics within a...
This collection of essays by cultural critic Carol Becker plumbs particular areas of controversy to understand what information these "zones of conten...
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141,16 zł |
Thinking in Place: Art, Action, and Cultural Production
ISBN: 9781594515965 / Angielski / Twarda / 2008 / 184 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Carol Becker, preeminent arts educator and contributor to leading art magazines, offers a beautifully poignant meditation on the role of place in artistic creativity. She focuses on place as a historical, physical entity and a conceptual site where ideas come into meaning. The book explores places from the coal-mining towns of western Pennsylvania, to the Birla House where Gandhi was shot, to the sinking city of Venice. A cross between theory, memoir, and history, her writing creates the experiential effect of being in specific places as well as imagining the evolution of ideas as they are...
Carol Becker, preeminent arts educator and contributor to leading art magazines, offers a beautifully poignant meditation on the role of place in arti...
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972,51 zł |
Letter to the World
ISBN: 9780595222001 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 124 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) |
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56,70 zł |
Groundwater Quality and the Relation Between pH Values and Occurrence of Trace Elements and Radionuclides in Water Samples Collected from Private Well
ISBN: 9781500375997 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 56 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) |
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87,31 zł |
Surpassing the Spectacle : Global Transformations and the Changing Politics of Art
ISBN: 9780742509207 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. In her newest book, leading social critic Carol Becker offers a timely analysis of the nature of art and its role in politics and society. Completed just before the September 11, 2001 World Trade Center catastrophe, Surpassing the Spectacle is now especially relevant in its analysis of the spectacle society that was omnipresent before that fatal day. This book is remarkably prescient of the new concerns that have now become foremost in our thoughts since the attack. This collection of essays explores such topics as public memorials, America's attempt to hold onto a sense of security while...
In her newest book, leading social critic Carol Becker offers a timely analysis of the nature of art and its role in politics and society. Completed j...
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193,67 zł |
The Subversive Imagination: The Artist, Society and Social Responsiblity
ISBN: 9780415905923 / Angielski / Miękka / 1994 / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Cultural critics from around the world offer their views on the issue of the artist's responsibility to society. The contributors to this collection look beyond censorship and free speech issues to emphasize the subject of freedom. More specifically, they question the ethical, mutual responsibilities between artists and the societies in which they live. Their essays address an eclectic range of subjects: censorship, multiculturalism, the transition from communism to capitalism in Eastern Europe, postmodernism, Salman Rushdie, and the responsibility of young black film-makers to the black...
Cultural critics from around the world offer their views on the issue of the artist's responsibility to society. The contributors to this collection l...
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204,96 zł |
Dust, Bones and the Forever
ISBN: 9781463756604 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 374 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) The night when six strange lights appear in the sky and the moon disappears, the world as they know it ceases to exsist. Most people are gone--reduced to dust and bones. Only small groups of children and a few adults remain, but their lives soon become a living hell as they are forced to run and hide, pursued by a monster and its army of creatures whose very exsistance depends on finds those that are left. Daniel Bryant, a medical doctor is touring America's heartland when all hell breaks loose. An unknown enity and its monsters have invaded the earth leaving distruction in its wake. "They...
The night when six strange lights appear in the sky and the moon disappears, the world as they know it ceases to exsist. Most people are gone--reduced...
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65,28 zł |
Living and Relating: An Introduction to Phenomenology
ISBN: 9780803939035 / Angielski / Miękka / 1992 / 290 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Everyday life events are employed in this volume to illustrate a phenomenological view of human nature, development and interpersonal relationships. Becker draws on the work of key thinkers in existential philosophy, phenomenological philosophy and psychology, blended with humanistic, descriptive accounts of living and relating, to show how their insights can provide a rich and useful orientation to the everyday world of human existence.
Everyday life events are employed in this volume to illustrate a phenomenological view of human nature, development and interpersonal relationships. B...
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425,81 zł |
The Subversive Imagination: The Artist, Society and Social Responsiblity
ISBN: 9781138140943 / Angielski / Twarda / 2016 / 279 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. First Published in 1994. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
First Published in 1994. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
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709,67 zł |
I'm Your Buddy: A True Story
ISBN: 9780998714219 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 34 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) Buddy, a Goffin Cockatoo Parrot, greets all with his special words, -Wings Up-. Follow Buddy's adventures as he experiences a loving home for the first time, dances to the beat of a drum, takes his first shower, and faces the bossy stares of another parrot. See how his message of -Wings Up - - to soar through life with acceptance and joy - helps him through the ups and downs of his new life. Buddy, a Goffin Cockatoo Parrot, greets all with his special words, -Wings Up-. Follow Buddy's adventures as he experiences a loving home for the f... |
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78,59 zł |
Journey Toward the Forever
ISBN: 9781475054095 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 268 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) Ethan stands before the Beast, receiving his orders to once again infiltrate Daniel Bryant's family of orphans. All of the remaining "outside humans" have to be located and captured because time is short and food supplies are low. The adult males are needed to impregnate the females of child-bearing age already in captivity. The rest of the "inside humans" can be used as feeders to nourish the Beast, but he must be careful not to drain them of their life source too soon or they could die before he is able to replenish the blood supply. The Beast has only nine searchers and 537 earth days to...
Ethan stands before the Beast, receiving his orders to once again infiltrate Daniel Bryant's family of orphans. All of the remaining "outside humans" ...
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60,69 zł |
N. O. K.: Next of Kin
ISBN: 9781942084358 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 222 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) N. O. K. -Next Of Kin, examines the ways in which American families memorialize their relatives killed in military conflict. The photographs, spanning 2014-2017, focus on the personal altars and private displays of mementos and objects dedicated to lost soldiers. This response from families must be part of the public discourse on war and its aftermath. N. O. K. Includes two volumes, one featuring photographs and one containing testimonials and essays from Gold Star Families. Inbal Abergil is an internationally exhibited visual artist and an Assistant professor of Photography at Pace...
N. O. K. -Next Of Kin, examines the ways in which American families memorialize their relatives killed in military conflict. The photographs, spanning...
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197,03 zł |