The Art of Relevance

Reducere. Global Marketing Management, 8th Edition combines academic rigor, contemporary relevance, and student-friendly readability to review how marketing ...

This book explores the cultural, aesthetic, and political relevance of music in radio art from its beginnings to present day. Contributors include ...

The third edition of Approaches to Art Therapy brings together varied theoretical approaches and provides a variety of solutions to the challenge o...

Shows students the relevance of critical-thinking skills by highlighting the advantages of basing one's decisions on a thoughtful understanding of ...

This proven, uniquely practical text provides your students with a thorough guide to reading, understanding, and working with construction drawings...

A collection of essays that evaluate the continued relevance of iconographic studies within current art-historical scholarship by exploring the flu...

Reducere. In art making, materials and media are the intermediaries between private ideas, thoughts and feelings, and their external manifestation in a tangi...

An innovative retrospective look at the work of one of America's most iconic artists, utilizing the concepts of mirroring and doubling, which have ...

DescriptionIn the first volume to collect the paintings and drawings of Clarence Major, readers are offered six decades of unique, colorful, and co...

This eagerly awaited first monograph focuses on Alexander Ponomarev, one of Russia's most eminent and singular contemporary artists. Alexander Pono...

The evolution of business history offers some radical ways forward for a discipline which is rich in potential. This shortform book offers an exper...

This first comprehensive account of a mid-century master covers the multi-faceted career of a fine artist, graphic designer, teacher, and publisher...

In art making, materials and media are the intermediaries between private ideas, thoughts and feelings, and their external manifestation in a tangi...

Reducere. Jean-Michel Basquiat was barely out of his teens when he rocketed to the center of New York's art scene. He was 27 when he died of a heroin overdos...

DescriptionNotable advances of the last quarter-century have deepened our appreciation of the three-dimensional nature of the ocean's large-scale c...

DescriptionClimate models have evolved into Earth system models with representation of the physics, chemistry, and biology of terrestrial ecosystem...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Barbara IllowskyAuthor: Susan DeanIntroductory Statistics follows the scope and sequence of a one-semester, introduction to...

This is the first book to present a comprehensive overview of the entire career of British artist Richard Eurich (1903-1992), a figurative painter ...

This book explores the history and continuing relevance of melancholia as an amorphous but richly suggestive theme in literature, music, and visual...

The first focused study of Nietzsche's Dawn, offering a close reading of the text by two of the leading scholars on the philosophy of Nietzsche Pub...

Reducere. The ideas in this book are all about helping your library building become a more exciting, interesting, experiential space where people are engaged...

Reducere. An authoritative look at William Blake's life and enduring relevance as a prophetic artist, poet, and printmakerWilliam Blake (1757-1827) created s...

CompTIA(R) Security+ SY0-601 Exam Cram, is the perfect study guide to help you pass the newly updated version of the CompTIA Security+ exam. It pro...

Reducere. Although the seasons have been a perennial theme in literature and art, their significance for philosophy and environmental theory has remained lar...

Examines both the art-historical framework of Tomma Abts's painting as well as its deep philosophical and psychological dimensions With a rigorous ...

Reducere. Decolonising the Digital: Technology as Cultural Practice is a collection of critical essays, showcases, and interviews by Australian experimental ...

DescriptionMexico's love of celebration is well known, and cartoner a, a kind of papier-m ch art, produces the objects that are essential to Mexica...

DescriptionAfrican artists have, over the years, had to overcome incredible hardships - including war and poverty - to survive, create and sell the...

Reducere. Colouring the Rainbow uncovers the often hidden world of Queer and Trans Blak Australia and tells it like it is. Twenty-two First Nations people re...

Unlike earlier generations, Jewish American artists born between the 1930s and the early 1960s were among the first to overtly embrace and challeng...

How relevant is classical music today? The genre seems in danger of becoming nothing more than a hobby for the social elite. Yet Kent Nagano has an...

DescriptionPhilosophy of logic is a fundamental part of philosophical study, and one which is increasingly recognized as being immensely important ...

Bernard continually returns to the classical idea that the quality of desire shapes theological imagination. By attending to the multiple ways he d...

Published in English for the first time, Refugee Conversations is a delightful work that reveals Brecht as a master of comic satire. Written swiftl...

DescriptionIn a series of episodic chapters, he reconsiders from an innovative double perspective a number of key issues in the history of art, fro...

This wide-ranging collection examines the historical roles of Indigenous women, their intellectual and activist work, and the relevance of contempo...

More than 50 years after their breakup, the Beatles are still attracting fans from various generations, all while retaining their original fan base...

Reducere. Rituals mark life's momentous and symbolic events: from special birthdays and holidays to personal affairs such as a child's first day of school or...

Reducere. This Companion offers fresh insight into the art and politics of James Baldwin, one of the most important writers and provocative cultural critics ...

A presentation on the Tibetan Buddhist path to enlightenment, through the lens of an artist's eye and experience. The sacred arts play an essential...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Nina SimonPreface by: Jon MosconeWhat do the London Science Museum, California Shakespeare Theater, and ShaNaNa have in com...

DescriptionAndr Bazin's writings on cinema are among the most influential reflections on the medium ever written. Even so, his critical interests r...

Many today do not recognize the word, but "philology" was for centuries nearly synonymous with humanistic intellectual life, encompassing not only ...

Reducere. This volume explores some of the more important of Hans-Georg Gadamer's extensive writings on art and literature. The principal text included is 'T...

Reducere. Discover the True Meaning of VictoryThe Art of War is one of the most widely read classics of history--and one of the most practical works of philo...

Imaging Culture is a sociohistorical study of the meaning, function, and aesthetic significance of photography in Mali, West Africa, from the 1930s...

DescriptionThe essence of ninjutsu, explored by the world's most famous living ninja grandmaster. In his classic work Masaaki Hatsumi reveals the h...

Reducere. When God died, art was born. With Christ's crucifixion, resurrection, and ascension, the human imagination began to be remade. In Bezalel's Body: T...

Reducere. Published posthumously in 1965, this book contains various essays by R. G. Collingwood concerning history, philosophy, and their relationship. The ...

Legendary maestro Leonard Slatkin provides personal insights and offers his ideas to solve the current dilemmas of classical music. As the new mill...

DescriptionHow our beliefs about the soul have developed through the ages, and why an understanding of it still matters today The concept of the so...

Reducere. DescriptionMaking the rich narrative world of Talmud tales fully accessible to modern readers, renowned Talmud scholar Jeffrey L. Rubenstein turns ...

DescriptionChosen to represent the United States at the 46th Venice Biennale, Bill Viola, a New York artist living on the West Coast, is recognized...

Reducere. Rituals mark life's momentous and symbolic events: from special birthdays and holidays to personal affairs such as a child's first day of school or...

DescriptionFull of entertaining stories and real-life illustrations, this classic book will give you the strategies you need to become proficient i...

Reducere. "Superb...a series of masterly drawn glimpses into the storymaking art of one of Africa's great modern literary geniuses." -Alan Cheuse, NPR A sele...

Tom Morris is the former Notre Dame philosophy professor whose classes became a campus legend and whose nationwide speaking engagements have electr...

Treasures of Botanical Art reveals the history of botanical painting, its beauty and science, with works from two renowned collections and over one...

Reducere. The shaman occupies a key role as a healer mediating between the world of the living and the world of spirits and is a potent figure in alternative...

An anthology of the most influential writings on swordsmanship from the samurai era.There is perhaps no more potent symbol of the samurai era than ...

Reducere. "A fresh lens for viewing Jacob Lawrence's art: through the perspective of teens of color. . . . An invaluable resource amplifying marginalized tee...

The Autobiography of Giambattista Vico is significant both as a source of insight into the influences on the eighteenth-century philosopher's intel...

Reducere. From one of our most widely admired art critics comes a bold and timely manifesto reaffirming the independence of all the arts--musical, literary, ...

DescriptionThe fifty buildings presented here in chronological order represent the most compelling, intriguing, and awe-inspiring structures from a...

Reducere. Discover the True Meaning of VictoryThe Art of War is one of the most widely read classics of history--and one of the most practical works of philo...

Reducere. Keith Haring's brilliantly instant paintings and images are some of the most recognizable of any artist, ever. Out of all the artists that emerged ...

Weary of what he called the “tyranny” of western art, Brian Sewell first visited Turkey—a country that had captivated him since he was a boy—in 197...

Reducere. Martial arts include striking, kicking and weapons techniques. But what happens when we are called on to subdue an attacker without injuring them? ...

Reducere. A Map to the Door of No Return is a timely book that explores the relevance and nature of identity and belonging in a culturally diverse and rapidl...

Back in print for the first time in 30 years, this volume provides a brilliant and accessible summation of the ideas of left Marxist giant C. L. R....