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The Artist in the Counterculture: Bruce Conner to Mike Kelley and Other Tales from the Edge
by Thomas CrowHow California’s counterculture of the 1960s to 1980s profoundly shaped—and was shaped by—West Coast artistsThe 1960s exert a special fascination in modern art. But most accounts miss the defining impact of the period’s youth culture, largely incubated in California, on artists who came of age in th... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2023 -
The Responsible Investor Handbook: Mobilizing Workers' Capital for a Sustainable World (The Responsible Investment Series)
For decades, workers’ capital stewards have invested wisely to provide a secure retirement for millions of people around the world. This money – our money – represents an enormous share of economic and capital market wealth. It has seeded and grown innumerable innovative industries that have had far... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2016 -
Fictions of Art History
by Joanna Scott • Alexander Nemerov • Marianna Torgovnick • Cole Swensen • Marina Warner • Caroline Vout • Michael Hatt • Paul Barolsky • Gloria Kury • Maria H. Loh • Ralph Lieberman • Mark Ledbury • Thomas CrowFictions of Art History, the most recent addition to the Clark Studies in the Visual Arts series, addresses art history's complex relationships with fiction, poetry, and creative writing. Inspired by a 2010 conference, the volume examines art historians' viewing practices and modes of writing. How, ... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 1993 -
Creating Modern Capitalism: How Entrepreneurs, Companies, and Countries Triumphed in Three Industrial Revolutions
What explains the national economic success of the United States, Britain, Germany, and Japan? What can be learned from the long-term championship performances of leading business firms in each country? How important were specific innovations by individual entrepreneurs? And in the end, what is the ... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 1997 -
American Business Since 1920: How It Worked (The American History Series #29)
Tells the story of how America’s biggest companies began, operated, and prospered post-World War I This book takes the vantage point of people working within companies as they responded to constant change created by consumers and technology. It focuses on the entrepreneur, the firm, and the industry... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2017 -
Third World Atlas
This book focuses on some of the Third World's common experiences, such as its historical linkages with the West, the challenge to provide basic needs, and the effects of competition in the global economy. It will be useful in bringing a spatial and statistical dimension to the study of development.... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 1994 -
Come Fly with Us: NASA's Payload Specialist Program (Outward Odyssey: A People's History of Spaceflight)
Come Fly with Us is the story of an elite group of space travelers who flew as members of many space shuttle crews from pre-Challenger days to Columbia in 2003. Not part of the regular NASA astronaut corps, these professionals known as “payload specialists” came from a wide variety of backgrounds an... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2019 -
The Imitation of Christ (Dover Thrift Editions Ser.)
This classic of Christian devotional literature has brought understanding and comfort to millions for centuries. Both Protestants and Catholics — as well as mystics and historians of religious thought — have studied these meditations on the life and teachings of Jesus, finding in them a path to pray... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2003 -
The Routledge Companion to African American Theatre and Performance (Routledge Companions)
The Routledge Companion to African American Theatre and Performance is an outstanding collection of specially written essays that charts the emergence, development, and diversity of African American Theatre and Performance—from the nineteenth-century African Grove Theatre to Afrofuturism. Alongside ... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2019 -
The Synergistic Classroom: Interdisciplinary Teaching in the Small College Setting
by Allan W. Austin • Paola Prado • Corey Campion • Aaron Angello • Paul D. Reich • Patricia Marchesi • Patrick L Hamilton • Christine Dehne • Jonathan Munson • April M Boulton • Erika Cornelius Smith • Maryann Conrad • Julia F. Klimek • Christine D Myers • Audra L Goach • Hilary Cooperman • Winston Ou • Lana A. Whited • Sharon E. Stein • Martha Barcenas-Mooradian • Amanda M. Caleb • Alicia H. Nordstrom • Tina L Hanlon • Peter Crow • Susan V Mead • Carolyn L Thomas • Delia R. Heck • Autumn Quezada-GrantAmong the many challenges confronting the liberal arts today is a fundamental disconnect between the curricula that many institutions offer and the training that many students need. Discipline-specific models of teaching and learning can underprepare students for the kinds of interdisciplinary colla... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2021 -
Vulnerable: The Law, Policy and Ethics of COVID-19
by Ravi Malhotra • Jeffrey Simpson • Paul Daly • David Robitaille • Jomo Kwame Sundaram • Katherine Fierlbeck • Grégoire Webber • Pat Armstrong • Hugh Armstrong • Jane Philpott • Delphine Nakache • Ivy Bourgeault • Daniel Weinstock • Aimée Craft • Anis Chowdhury • Teresa Scassa • Chidi Oguamanam • E. Richard Gold • Olivia Lee • Carissima Mathen • Steven J. Hoffman • Vanessa Gruben • Martha Jackman • Bryan Thomas • Lorian Hardcastle • Deborah McGregor • Jeffery Hewitt • Michelle Giroux • Amir Attaran • Adam R. Houston • Alexandra Flynn • Mel Cappe • Tim Caulfield • Marie-France Fortin • Jennifer A. Quaid • Kumanan Wilson • Kelly Bronson • Jason Millar • Vardit Ravitsky • Terry Skolnik • Yves Le Bouthillier • Martine Lagacé • Linda Garcia • Leilani Farha • Kaitlin Schwan • Adelina Iftene • Jamie Chai Liew • Y. Y. Chen • Anne Levesque • Kwame McKenzie • Jennifer A. Chandler • Mona Gupta • Yasmin Khaliq • Simon Hatcher • Tess Sheldon • Katherine Lippel • Louise Bélanger-Hardy • Sarah Berger Richardson • Sam Halabi • Patrick Fafard • Céline Castets-Renard • Eleonore Fournier-Tombs • Jeremy De Beer • Matthew Herder • Jason W. NickersonThe novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2, which causes the disease known as COVID-19, has infected people in 212 countries so far and on every continent except Antarctica. Vast changes to our home lives, social interactions, government functioning and relations between countries have swept the world i... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2020