The Public Image

First published in 1968 and shortlisted for the Booker Prize, The Public Image couldn't be more relevant for today's celebrity-obsessed culture. Th...

For over ten years Jane Quinn has been sharing a cup of tea with some of the biggest names in the music and entertainment world as she has engaged ...

Reducere. PRAVIN GORDHAN has been at the centre of many of the political storms that have torn through South Africa's political landscape. He has been invest...

Reducere. DescriptionLords of Things offers a fascinating interpretation of modernity in late nineteenth and early twentieth century Siam by focusing on the ...

In this timely analysis of the economics of access that surround contemporary female celebrity, Hannah Yelin reveals a culture that requires women ...

Description"That rarest of beasts: the perfect thriller. This extraordinary novel set my blood fizzing--I quite literally couldn't put it down." --...

DescriptionHaving spent ten years as Jayne Mansfield's press secretary, Raymond Strait knows intimately both the public image and the private perso...

Who speaks in Leonard Cohen's oeuvre? By identifying the many guises in which Cohen presents himself to his audience, Francis Mus seeks to formulat...

Reducere. The death of Ernest Hemingway in 1961 ended one of the most original and influential careers in American literature. His works have been translated...

Reducere. When a machine-gun bullet ended the life of war correspondent Ernie Pyle in the final days of World War II, Americans mourned him in the same breat...

The public perception of the Guards is of soldiers used for just ceremonial duties. The Drum Horse in the Fountain demonstrates how far from the ma...

Challenges conventional wisdom about how the public thinks about and evaluates democracy. Mining both political theory and over 75 years of public ...

Reducere. The Roman empress Faustina the Younger, wife of the emperor Marcus Aurelius and mother to at least eleven imperial children, including the future e...

DescriptionGeorge IV was arguably the most magnificent of British monarchs. By the time George ascended to the throne in 1820 after nine years as P...

Frida Kahlo's legacy continues to grow in the public imagination in the nearly fifty years since her discovery in the 1970s. This collection of con...

Reducere. THE IMAGE AND CULTURE OF ROLEX looks into the watches influence on modern culture and its high profile among the most influential and elite people ...

Some of the most important people in fashion Chanel, Alaia, Blahnik, Yves Saint Laurent, Pucci, Kenzo and Missoni are known for their public image ...

A portrayal of the final years of Sir Arthur Bryants - historian, newspaper columnist, defender of the Victorian values and veteran womaniser. Draw...

Along with interviews, we get 'overviews': further reflections by Simon Reynolds on key icons and crucial scenes, including John Lydon and Public I...

Examining Germany's image of political drift, the authors focus on current debates regarding the country's welfare state, European monetary policy,...

Reducere. Mexican leaders eagerly anticipated the attention that hosting the world s most visible sporting event would bring, yet they could not have predict...

Reducere. French "photograffeur" JR's tribute to cultural institutions during COVID-19Throughout the pandemic, cultural institutions have been forced to shut...

Ray Bishop was on the run, skulking in a dealer's house in north London, when an image of his face flashed up on the TV, accompanied by a public wa...

Reducere. The internet keeps us alive in the age of abuse. The poems of NAKED IN PUBLIC dare to undress the reality and remorse of reclaiming your body after...

Reducere. Can a dash of scandal and a dollop of seduction be the recipe for his greatest image makeover?Image consultant Blake Matthews is facing his toughes...

Reducere. DescriptionThis study reveals how Carter G. Woodson (1875-1950) used the black press and modern public-relations techniques to popularize black his...

A leading figure in the New British Sculpture movement of the early 1980s, Richard Wentworth (born 1947) uses photography to register chance encoun...

When Kate Bush shot to fame in 1978, her public image was of a sweet young woman who sang about Cathy out on the windy moors. Charming, inoffensive...

Science Between Myth and History explores scientific storytelling and its implications on the teaching, practice, and public perception of science....

Reducere. A look at Dan Perjovschi’s long-lasting artistic intervention in the public space in his hometown of Sibiu. Over 12 years of uninterrupted activity...

Reducere. Stookey seeks to relieve the anxiety of inexperienced leaders of public prayer and the discomfort of those with and for whom they pray in this prac...

Reducere. DescriptionThe early years of the twentieth century were a difficult period for Big Business. Corporate monopolies, the brutal exploitation of labo...

Reducere. A premier leadership scholar and an eighteenth-century expert define the special contributions and qualifications of our first president Revolution...

Reducere. The animal agriculture industry, like other profit-driven industries, aggressively seeks to shield itself from public scrutiny. To that end, it use...

Reducere. The Chicago Public Library's Best of the Best Books 2018 Sibylla always wanted adventure, but she didn't know it would come in the form of a giant,...

DescriptionThe images released by the Islamic State of militants smashing statues at ancient sites were a horrifying aspect of their advance across...

Explores Democrat collusion in the invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq and support for Israeli assaults on Gaza and Lebanon, while revealing their ov...

"Colorful and relevant..." -Slate From the creator of the New York Times bestselling series SAGA, comes the three-time, Eisner nominated, PanelSynd...

Reducere. Shostakovich: A Life Remembered is a unique study of the great composer Dmitri Shostakovich, based on reminiscences from his contemporaries. Elizab...

An extraordinary collection of pugnacious, charming, and revealing interviews with the Nobel Prize-winning author who defined and transformed Ameri...

Reducere. "This book provides a thoughtful and balanced look at some of the hot topics generating headlines, such as media violence, body image, social repre...

Reducere. Become a Confident Guru of Public Speaking, Advance Your Career, and Improve Your Personal Life Using Your Body LanguageDo you have a colleague in ...

DescriptionBuick Riviera tells the story of the Buick Riviera; how it artfully blended styling, luxury, comfort and performance from its earliest y...

Look At This If You Love Great Photography is a must read for anyone who appreciates the power of the image. Featuring 100 of the best photographs ...

Churchill is today remembered as a great leader, a war hero, a literary heavyweight and a renowned wit. This incarnation of Churchill is the latest...

Reducere. Do you use your voice for work? Do you want to become a better voiceover actor, singer, or public speaker? This book, written by well-known and res...

More than any other male movie star, the refined Clifton Webb (1889-1966) caused the movie-going public to change its image of a leading man. In a ...

Reducere. Iconoclasm, Identity Politics and the Erasure of History surveys the origins, uses and manifestations of iconoclasm in history, art and public cult...

The British royal family has experienced a resurgence in public interest at the same time as global inequalities have expanded between 'the elites'...

The British royal family has experienced a resurgence in public interest at the same time as global inequalities have expanded between 'the elites'...

Reducere. The democracy of the image in the social landscapeThe saturation of our social landscape by photographs and photographers is apparent from any publ...

Reducere. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is ...

Reducere. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is ...

DescriptionBetween the radical, creative capacity of our imagination and the social imaginary we are immersed in is an intermediate space philosoph...

Reducere. DescriptionWhat's your impression of the CIA? A bumbling agency that can't protect its own spies? A rogue organization prone to covert operations a...

Reducere. When the landmark Supreme Court case of Brown vs. Board of Education was handed down in 1954, many civil rights advocates believed that the decisio...

Reducere. DescriptionIn 1948, Moss Kendrix, a former New Deal public relations officer, founded a highly successful, Washington, D.C.-based public relations ...

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Reducere. Managerial Communication for Professional Development offers a unique functions approach to managerial skills. It explores what the communication m...

Reducere. From the bestselling author of Eighteen Acres comes a novel that reveals the intrigue and drama that go on behind the closed doors of the White Hou...

JAMAICA'S MICHAEL MANLEY: THE GREAT TRANSFORMATION (1972-92) About the Author David Panton is a 21-year-old Jamaican. He received his B.A. in Publi...

Reducere. Detached and ironic; a master of the pointed put-down, of the cutting quip; enigmatic, impossible to truly know: this is the calcified public image...

DescriptionKurt Wagner is the star of the Age of X-ManFrom the Munich circus to Hollywood Boulevard, everyone loves Nightcrawler - the biggest cele...

Reducere. I set to work to read the Act of Parliament by which the Bank of England was created in 1694. The inventors knew well what they were about. Their d...

From companies, public administrations, universities, and schools to hospitals, prisons, political parties, and the military, organizations influen...

In May 1963 news photographer Charles Moore was on hand to document the Children's Crusade, a civil rights protest. But the photographs he took tha...

This accessible introductory textbook looks at the modern relationship between politicians, the press and the public through the language they empl...

This is the first systematic exploration of the nature and extent of sympathy for Nazi Germany at American universities during the 1930s. Universit...

Reducere. A Barthes Reader gives one the image of Barthes as one of the great public teachers of our time, someone who thought out, argued for, and made avai...

Reducere. While the 'venereal peril' of nineteenth-century France was responsible for thousands of deaths, much attention has focused on the range of social ...