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The Art of Teaching Art: A Guide for Teaching and Learning the Foundations of Drawing-Based Art
ISBN: 9780195130799 / Angielski / Twarda / 340 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Often the finest artists do not make the best teachers. Many frustrated college students of art know this all too well as they suffer through unstructured classes with inexperienced teachers or graduate student instructors. In these situations, it is easy to blame the teachers. But the problem is largely institutional: most students graduating with MFAs from art schools receive little if any instruction in teaching art. If you find yourself in this predicament as teacher or student, this book is for you.
The first book to provide a comprehensive guide for teaching college-level art, The... Often the finest artists do not make the best teachers. Many frustrated college students of art know this all too well as they suffer through unstruct...
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190,51 zł |
Teaching Holocaust Literature and Film
ISBN: 9780230019362 / Angielski / Twarda / 170 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Gathering together work by leading teachers and researchers in the field, this book explores a rapidly growing area of the curriculum: Holocaust literature and film. It addresses demanding seminar-room and institutional practicalities, as well as exploring a range of conceptual and theoretical issues and problems.
Gathering together work by leading teachers and researchers in the field, this book explores a rapidly growing area of the curriculum: Holocaust liter...
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195,87 zł |
The Arts and the Creation of Mind
ISBN: 9780300105117 / Angielski / Miękka / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Although the arts are often thought to be closer to the rim of education than to its core, they are, surprisingly, critically important means for developing complex and subtle aspects of the mind, argues Elliot Eisner in this engrossing book. In it he describes how various forms of thinking are evoked, developed, and refined through the arts. These forms of thinking, Eisner argues, are more helpful in dealing with the ambiguities and uncertainties of daily life than are the formally structured curricula that are employed today in schools. Offering a rich array of examples, Eisner...
Although the arts are often thought to be closer to the rim of education than to its core, they are, surprisingly, critically important means for deve...
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82,95 zł |
Experiments on Embryos
ISBN: 9780415007481 / Angielski / Miękka / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This work reflects the continuing debate as to whether we should experiment on human embryos or not. Should we use human embryos or tissue from them, for therapeutic or research programmes? The debate around questions such as this ranges from visions of new Frankenstein's monsters and grotesque hybrids on the one hand, to the possibility of cures for diseases like AIDS and cancer on the other. While the debate continues, decisions have to be made on the basis of the best available data, and this book aims to provide evidence for each side of the debate, drawing upon contributors who cover the...
This work reflects the continuing debate as to whether we should experiment on human embryos or not. Should we use human embryos or tissue from them, ...
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199,71 zł |
The Media in France
ISBN: 9780415014588 / Angielski / Miękka / 300 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This up-to-date, accessible textbook presents a comprehensive overview of the history, present and future prospects of French media, and considers the successes and failures of the French media policy from 1945 to the present day.
Raymond Kuhn investigates the politics and economics of the press, radio and television, from the days of state intervention and monopoly provision to current trends towards deregulation and pluralism, and discusses the importance of the new media' of cable and satellite broadcasting. Kuhn explores in particular the changing inter-relationship between media and... This up-to-date, accessible textbook presents a comprehensive overview of the history, present and future prospects of French media, and considers the...
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78,80 zł |
The Image of Aristocracy: In Britain, 1000-1300
ISBN: 9780415019118 / Angielski / Twarda / 408 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This study of aristocracy in England, Wales and Scotland relates developments in the aristocracies in all three countries from 1000-1300. The author examines the material manifestations of aristocracy rather than looking at institutions and charter-attestations. The first part of the book is about hereditary titles including those of earl and prince, expanding on the social styles of baron, knight and squire. The second part of the book focuses on aristocratic insignia and behaviour, including chapters on heraldry, material attributes such as coronets and sceptres, the aristocratic household,...
This study of aristocracy in England, Wales and Scotland relates developments in the aristocracies in all three countries from 1000-1300. The author e...
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709,67 zł |
A History of the Medieval Church: 590-1500
ISBN: 9780415039598 / Angielski / Miękka / 292 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. First published in 1969. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
First published in 1969. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
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199,71 zł |
Protecting the Vulnerable: Autonomy and Consent in Health Care
ISBN: 9780415046978 / Angielski / Twarda / 196 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book explores the reality of patient control and choice in health care, and analyses how decisions should be made on behalf of those deemed incapable of making them for themselves. The contributors are distinguished experts from the disciplines of medicine, ethics, theology and law. They look at the complex problem of autonomy and consent in health care and clinical research today and its impact on the vulnerable members of society. The essays move from the exploration of lingering paternalism in health care to the acute dilemmas of treatment of and research on new born babies. In...
This book explores the reality of patient control and choice in health care, and analyses how decisions should be made on behalf of those deemed incap...
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709,67 zł |
Six Existentialist Thinkers
ISBN: 9780415050982 / Angielski / Miękka / 188 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Includes summary but substantial accounts of the thought of Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Jaspers, Marcel, Heidegger and Sartre, and a concluding essay that attempts to interpret the whole Existentialist movement.
This title available in eBook format. Click here for more information. Visit our eBookstore at: www.ebookstore.tandf.co.uk. Includes summary but substantial accounts of the thought of Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Jaspers, Marcel, Heidegger and Sartre, and a concluding essay that...
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199,71 zł |
Judging Lyotard
ISBN: 9780415052566 / Angielski / Twarda / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The work of Jean-Francois Lyotard signals the return of judgement to the centre of philosophical concerns. This collection of papers is the first devoted to his work and provides an estimation and critique of his writings, and included Lyotard's important essay on Sensus Communis.
The work of Jean-Francois Lyotard signals the return of judgement to the centre of philosophical concerns. This collection of papers is the first devo...
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709,67 zł |
Imagination: A Study in the History of Ideas
ISBN: 9780415058070 / Angielski / Twarda / 316 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The origins, nature, function and effects of imagination have engrossed writers, theologians, philosophers and practitioners of the arts across the ages; its influence on painting and music continues to be debated. It has been simultaneously feared as a dangerous, uncontrollable force and revered as the supreme visionary power. Cocking's Imagination is an exploration of the history of imagination from antiquity to the Renaissance. The book opens with a treatment of imagination in the writings of Aristotle and Plato. Developments in the Middle Ages are traced, with particular attention to the...
The origins, nature, function and effects of imagination have engrossed writers, theologians, philosophers and practitioners of the arts across the ag...
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709,67 zł |
Art, Mimesis and the Avant-Garde: Aspects of a Philosophy of Difference
ISBN: 9780415066273 / Angielski / Miękka / 228 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book explores the relationship between art and philosophy. Andrew Benjamin argues for a reworking of the task of philosophy in terms of the centrality of ontology. It is in relation to this centrality, understood through the differences between modes of being, that art, mimesis and the avant-garde come to be presented. A fundamental part of this book is the original interpretations of important contemporary painters and their paintings: Lucian Freud's self-portraits, Francis Bacon's use of mirrors, R.B. Kitaj and Jewish identity, and Anselm Kiefer and iconoclasm. Apart from painting,...
This book explores the relationship between art and philosophy. Andrew Benjamin argues for a reworking of the task of philosophy in terms of the centr...
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231,25 zł |
Puritan Gentry Besieged 1650-1700
ISBN: 9780415067270 / Angielski / Twarda / 308 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The latter half of the 17th century saw the Puritan families of England struggle to preserve the old values in an era of tremendous political and religious upheaval. Even non-conformist ministers were inclined to be pessimistic about the endurance of godliness - Puritan attitudes and practices - among the upper classes.
The latter half of the 17th century saw the Puritan families of England struggle to preserve the old values in an era of tremendous political and reli...
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473,06 zł |
Proof and Knowledge in Mathematics
ISBN: 9780415068055 / Angielski / Twarda / 268 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. These questions arise from any attempt to discover an epistemology for mathematics. This collection of essays considers various questions concerning the nature of justification in mathematics and possible sources of that justification. Among these are the question of whether mathematical justification is a priori or a posteriori in character, whether logical and mathematical differ, and if formalization plays a significant role in mathematical justification,
These questions arise from any attempt to discover an epistemology for mathematics. This collection of essays considers various questions concerning t...
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709,67 zł |
Consuming Technologies: Media and Information in Domestic Spaces
ISBN: 9780415069908 / Angielski / Twarda / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Consuming Technologies opens for analysis some crucial but rarely examined areas of social, cultural and economic life. At its core is a concern with the complex set of relationships that mark and define the place of the domestic in the modern world, and an explanation of the relationship between the domestic and public spheres as they are mediated by consumption and technology.
Consuming Technologies opens for analysis some crucial but rarely examined areas of social, cultural and economic life. At its core is a conc...
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709,67 zł |
Design and Aesthetics: A Reader
ISBN: 9780415072335 / Angielski / Miękka / 262 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Design and Aesthetics: A Reader is a comprehensive student reader on design history and aesthetic theory. It includes contributions from many of the writers whose work has been foundational to these two fields, including classic articles by Raymond Williams and Roger Scruton, and newer articles which provide an overview of current concerns and debates.
The role of design in the world today has aroused much controversy. The first half of this book deals with the main arguments which have emerged from contemporary analysis of its role in the communication process. Essays focus on... Design and Aesthetics: A Reader is a comprehensive student reader on design history and aesthetic theory. It includes contributions from many...
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189,19 zł |
Rene Descartes' Meditations on First Philosophy in Focus: Meditations on First Philosophy in Focus
ISBN: 9780415077064 / Angielski / Twarda / 236 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume presents the excellent and popular translation by Haldane and Ross of Descartes' Meditations on First Philosophy, an introduction by Stanley Tweyman which explores the relevance of Descartes' Regulae and his method of analysis in the Meditations, and six articles which indicate the diversity of scholarly opinion on the topic of method in Descartes' philosopy.
This volume presents the excellent and popular translation by Haldane and Ross of Descartes' Meditations on First Philosophy, an introduction...
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709,67 zł |
Atlantic American Societies
ISBN: 9780415080729 / Angielski / Twarda / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Within the chronological framework of implantation, maturity and transition, this volume traces the history of European expansion in the Americas. Treating the Atlantic world as a unit, it emphasizes the links between Africa, Europe and the Americas, outlining the process of transatlantic intercultural integration that began after Columbus' voyages. Atlantic American Societies collects some of the best recent scholarship and combines a variety of approaches from epidemiological to labour history and ethnohistory to explore the interdependence and interaction of West European, West African and...
Within the chronological framework of implantation, maturity and transition, this volume traces the history of European expansion in the Americas. Tre...
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709,67 zł |
City and Country in the Ancient World
ISBN: 9780415082235 / Angielski / Miękka / 328 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The ancient Greco-Roman world was a world of citie, in a distinctive sense of communities in which countryside was dominated by urban centre.
This volume of papers written by influential archaeologists and historians seeks to bring together the two disciplines in exploring the city-country relationship. The ancient Greco-Roman world was a world of citie, in a distinctive sense of communities in which countryside was dominated by urban centre.
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199,71 zł |
Enlightened Women: Modernist Feminism in a Postmodern Age
ISBN: 9780415083393 / Angielski / Miękka / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is a bold and controversial feminist, philosophical critique of postmodernism. Whilst providing a brief and accessible introduction to postmodernist feminist thought, Enlightened Women is also a unique defence of realism and enlightenment philosophy.
The first half of the book covers an analysis of some of the most influential postmodernist theorists, such as Luce Irigaray and Judith Butler. In the second half Alison Assiter advocates a return to modernism in feminism. She argues, against the current orthodoxy, that there can be a... This is a bold and controversial feminist, philosophical critique of postmodernism. Whilst providing a brief and accessible introduction to postmodern...
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199,71 zł |