State of art at work

Art Of Happiness At Work

Following the massive success of THE ART OF HAPPINESS, the Dalai Lama a Howard Cutler now bring their bestselling message to our working lives.

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Artist at Work, Proximity of Art and Capitalism

Examining the recent changes in the labour of an artist and addressing them from the perspective of performance.

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The Gentle Art of Verbal Self-Defense at Work

A nationally recognized linguistics expert and author applies her acclaimed techniques for combating verbal violence to common on-the-job situations. Line illustrations.

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Hagia Sophia

Examines the aesthetic principles and spiritual operations at work in Hagia Sophia. Drawing on art and architectural history, liturgy, musicology, an

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Rembrandt. The Painter at Work

Winner of the prestigious College Art Association/Heritage Preservation Award, this is a fully updated, colour-illustrated new edition of the bestsell

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Work of Art in the Age of Deindustrialization

A novel account of the relationship between postindustrial capitalism and postmodern culture, this book looks at American poetry and art of the last 5

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Art Of Modern Oriental Management: Applying The Chinese, Japanese And Korean Management Styles At Work

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Deep Work

Many modern knowledge workers now spend most of their brain power battling distraction and interruption, whether because of the incessant pinging of devices, noisy open-plan offices or the difficulty of deciding what deserves your attention the most.When Cal Newport coined the term 'deep work' on his popular blog, Study Hacks, in 2012, he found the concept quickly hit a n...

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Hermeneutic Interpretation of the Origin of the Social State of Man

Antoine Fabre d'Olivet (December 8, 1767-March 25, 1825) was a French author, poet, and composer whose biblical and philosophical hermeneutics in?uenced many occultists, such as Eliphas Lévi and Gerard Encausse (Papus), and René Guénon. D'Olivet spent his life pursuing the esoteric wisdom concealed in the Hebrew scriptures, Greek philosophy, and the symbolism of many anci...

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African American Art and Artists

Looks at the works and lives of artists from the eighteenth century to the present, including work in traditional media as well as in installation art

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Art of Thinking Clearly

The international bestseller! An indispensable book that will change the way you think and transform your decision-making - at work, at home, every da

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Art of Conversation

Good conversation is at the heart of networking, meetings, interviews, negotiations and raising your profile. It can ease your way in work, enabling y

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Scent of Flowers at Night

From the internationally bestselling author of Lullaby and Ad¨le comes a stunning work of non-fiction on art, life and the craft of writing

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Art of Cello Playing

The author's stated purpose in writing The Art of Cello Playing is 'to present a progressive sequence of commentary and material as a basis for acquiring a sound technical foundation and basic playing competence to prepare the player for exploring the rich solo, orchestral, and chamber music literature of the instrument.' To that end he has produced a comprehensive textbo...

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Art of Speeches and Presentations

At some stage in our lives, we all have to face the fear of making a speech. Whether it is at a friend s wedding or at work preparing a presentation

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The Art of Cuphead (1506713203)

Kniha - 264 stran, anglicky, pevná bez přebalu lesklá Each page of this curated collection of artwork is designed to capture the vintage look and feel of the 1930's. Take a gander at the game's traditional hand-drawn frame-by-frame animation. Peek at the early concepts, production work, and early ideas that went into the making of Cuphead's characters, bosses, stages an...

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Art of David Everett Volume 25

Austin artist David Everett was born and raised in Texas, and his work reflects an organic and wholly original Lone Star State ethos. His stunning vis

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Fresh Look at Fraud

A Fresh Look at Fraud features psychologists, criminologists, and computer scientists to address the state-of-art research on the rising problem of fr

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Fresh Look at Fraud

A Fresh Look at Fraud features psychologists, criminologists, and computer scientists to address the state-of-art research on the rising problem of fr

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Social Work with Looked After Children

This is a popular guide to a complex and demanding area of practice that looks at the experiences of children in need who live in state care and th

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Protest Art - Jessica Lack

An essential guide to how the power of art has been harnessed to effect political change across the modern world, from the struggle for universal suffrage to Black Lives Matter. Here is a well-researched, concise guide to protest art, exploring what happens when artists join forces with radical political movements to foster change. The works and movements discussed emerge...

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Trump: The Art of the Deal

President Donald J. Trump lays out his professional and personal worldview in this classic work a firsthand account of the rise of America s foremost deal-maker.I like thinking big. I always have. To me it s very simple: If you re going to be thinking anyway, you might as well think big. Donald J. TrumpHere is Trump in action how he runs his organization and how he runs h...

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Michelangelo: The Graphic Work - Thomas Pöpper

<p>Graphic beauty: Breathtaking drawings Few artists can claim such tenacious fame across continents and centuries as Michelangelo Buonarroti(1475-1564). His achievements as a sculptor, painter, draftsman, and architect remain unrivalled and unique. This fresh edition celebrates the artist's graphic work, with a selection of his mostmasterful and mesmerizing drawin...

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The Operational Art of War IV

The legend is back! The Operational Art of War IV is the new generation of operational wargames. With more flexibility than before and with a new array of exciting features, it will make you relive the most iconic battles from the dawn of the 20th Century to modern day, including the ones that never occurred! More than 200 scenarios like the Battle of Marne...

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The Operational Art of War IV (PC)

The legend is back!The Operational Art of War IV&nbsp;is the new generation of operational wargames. With more flexibility than before and with a new array of exciting features, it will make you relive the most iconic battles from the dawn of the 20th Century to modern day, including the ones that never occurred!More than&nbsp;200 scenarios&nbsp;like the Battl...

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Pie At Night

Factory, mine and mill. Industry, toil and grime. Its manufacturing roots mean we still see the North of England as a hardworking place. But, more than possibly anywhere else, the North has always known how to get dressed up, take itself out on the town and have a good time. After all, working and playing hard is its specialty, and Stuart Maconie is in search of what, exa...

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Contemporary Ceramic Art

A companion volume to Unravelled and Threads, featuring the work of ninety artists at the forefront of contemporary ceramic art.

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The Signal and the Noise: The Art and Science of Prediction Penguin Books (UK)

Every time we choose a route to work, decide whether to go on a second date, or set aside money for a rainy day, we are making a prediction about the future. Yet from the financial crisis to ecological disasters, we routinely fail to foresee hugely significant events, often at great cost to society. In The Signal and the Noise, the New York Times political forecaster Nate...

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Cold War American Exhibitions of Italian Art and Design

Enriching the existing scholarship on this important exhibition, Italy at Work: Her Renaissance in Design Today (1950-53), this book shows the dynamic

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Tanning Chemistry

This book offers an up to date view of the state of the art of leather making, based on the scientific principles underpinning the technology aimed at

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A Visual Protest: The Art of Banksy - Franziska Bolz (EN)

Decades before he blew the lid off the high-stakes art world by shredding a work immediately following its purchase at an auction, Banksy was committing acts of artistic protest on the streets, walls, and bridges of cities throughout the world. We still don't know who Banksy is, but thanks to this book we have a greater sense of how he works.

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Art As Experience

§Based on John Dewey's lectures on esthetics, delivered as the first William James Lecturer at Harvard in 1932, Art as Experience has grown to be considered internationally as the most distinguished work ever written by an American on the formal structure and characteristic effects of all the arts: architecture, sculpture, painting, music, and literature.§

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The Art of War, 1. vydání - Sun Tzu

<p>The Art of War has been a source of great strategical inspiration throughout the ages. Focusing on military strategy, psychology and tactics, each section concentrates on a different facet of warfare and draws out important themes such as communication, strength and positioning. Believed to have been written by Chinese strategist Sun Tzu, The Art of War is highly...

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Cézanne: Landscape into Art

The book of the world known scholar on Cézanne's work, Pavel Machotka, throws a new light on the momentous work of Paul Cézanne. He is often viewed merely from his place in history – as a forerunner of the Cubists, or more simply as the father of modern art. Seldom is he seen as a painter who painted in his own time, in a particular place, and with his own goals and desir...

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History of Kansas City

Excerpt from The History of Kansas City: Together With a Sketch of the Commercial Resources of the Country With Which It Is SurroundedWith much diffidence on the part of the writer the following pages are submitted to the public. They are the result of much patient research, yet none can be better aware of the imperfections in details than the writer. It has been rather t...

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Shoes A-Z. The Collection of The Museum at FIT - Valerie Steele

<p>Step inside one of the world’s most enviable closets to celebrate the empowering, sensual, playful, and practical shoe. Hundreds of groundbreaking designs, ephemera, and sketches are featured in this volume, a follow-up to Fashion Designers A–Z, from the most coveted labels such as Louis Vuitton, Salvatore Ferragamo, Chanel, Gucci, Saint Laurent, Roger Vivier, Ch...

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Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World (0349411905)

Kniha - autor Cal Newport, 296 stran, anglicky, brožovaná bez přebalu matná Many modern knowledge workers now spend most of their brain power battling distraction and interruption, whether because of the incessant pinging of devices, noisy open-plan offices or the difficulty of deciding what deserves your attention the most. When Cal Newport coined the term 'deep work' ...

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Deep Work : Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World - Newport Cal

Anotace: Many modern knowledge workers now spend most of their brain power battling distraction and interruption, whether because of the incessant pinging of devices, noisy open-plan offices or the difficulty of deciding what deserves your attention the most. When Cal Newport coined the term `deep work` on his popular blog, Study Hacks, in 2012, he found the concept quic...

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Deep Work : Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World - Cal Newport

<p>Many modern knowledge workers now spend most of their brain power battling distraction and interruption, whether because of the incessant pinging of devices, noisy open-plan offices or the difficulty of deciding what deserves your attention the most. When Cal Newport coined the term 'deep work' on his popular blog, Study Hacks, in 2012, he found the concept quick...

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Story of Tecumseh (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from The Story of TecumsehLeague. Then he first began to assume importance in the eyes of his enemies and to occupy a place in the his tory of the Border Wars. After the disaster at Tippe canoe, Tecumseh tried in vain to rally his followers in support of their common cause. It was then that in despair he offered his services to the British King.Tecumseh appeared i...

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The Art and Science of Ernst Haeckel - 40th Anniversary Edition - Julia Voss

<p>Discover Ernst Haeckel, the 19th-century artist-biologist who found beauty in even the most unlikely of creatures. This collection features 300 prints from his most important publications, including the majestic Kunstformen der Natur and his extensive catalogues of marine life. As biodiversity is ever-more threatened, these exquisite images are a scientific, arti...

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The Pictures Generation at Hallwalls Taylor & Francis Ltd

In this book, Vera Dika rewrites the story of the Pictures Generation from the perspective of the Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center in Buffalo, NY. Her work is based on interviews with living artists, archival research and personal collections, including films, videotapes and sound recordings. At once aesthetic, cultural and political, this renewed perspective asks new q...

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Oxford Handbook of Linguistic Typology

This book provides a critical state-of-the-art overview of work in linguistic typology. It examines the directions and challenges of current research

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Murder by Art Level 5 Upper Intermediate

Award-winning original fiction for learners of English. At seven levels, from Starter to Advanced, this impressive selection of carefully graded readers offers exciting reading for every student's capabilities. On a hot August night in Milwaukee in the USA, a young artist and a gang leader's girlfriend are shot in the street, a woman dies mysteriously in the Mercy Hospit...

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Tecumseh and the Prophet of the West

Excerpt from Tecumseh and the Prophet of the West: An Historical Israel-Indian TragedyAbout the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the...

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Cézanne: Landscape into Art - Pavel Machotka

Anotace: The book of the world known scholar on Cézanne's work, Pavel Machotka, throws a new light on the momentous work of Paul Cézanne. He is often viewed merely from his place in history - as a forerunner of the Cubists, or more simply as the father of modern art. Seldom is he seen as a painter who painted in his own time, in a particular place, and with his own ...

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Cézanne: Landscape into Art - Pavel Machotka

<p>The book of the world known scholar on Cézanne's work, Pavel Machotka, throws a new light on the momentous work of Paul Cézanne. He is often viewed merely from his place in history – as a forerunner of the Cubists, or more simply as the father of modern art. Seldom is he seen as a painter who painted in his own time, in a particular place, and with his own goals ...

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Complete Book of Tarot Spreads

Tarot is like a puzzle or a work of art, and a great way to maximize intuition and have fun, too. In this insightful, imaginative look at interpretati

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The Game of Time

Petr Nikl (*1960) is an intermedia artist with roots in fine and applied arts. His work is as confident and compelling when expressed through the means of traditional fine art techniques as when it takes the forms of artist books, interactive projects, and performance-based improvised actions, theatre and music performances. His ability to freely combine all of the differ...

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The Architecture of Happiness

The Architecture of Happiness is Alain de Botton's exploration of the hidden links between buildings and our well being. In The Architecture of Happiness, bestselling author Alain de Botton explores one of our most intense but often hidden love affairs: with our houses and their furnishings. He asks: What makes a house truly beautiful? Why are many new houses so ugly? Why...

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The Power of Habit

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER This instant classic explores how we can change our lives by changing our habits.NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The Wall Street Journal Financial TimesIn The Power of Habit, award-winning business reporter Charles Duhigg takes us to the thrilling edge of scientific discoveries that explain why habits exist and how they can be changed....

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Handbook of Quantitative Science and Technology Research

This handbook offers a state-of-the-art overview of quantitative science and technology research. This handbook aims at four distinct groups of reader

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Modernist Bread: The Art and Science - Nathan Myhrvold

<p>Modernist Bread: The Art and Science is a revolutionary new understanding of one of the most important staples of the human diet.</p> <p>Created by the team that published the award-winning Modernist Cuisine: The Art and Science of Cooking, this massive treasury of practical knowledge and groundbreaking techniques captures over four years of independe...

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End of the Wasp Season

When wealthy Sarah Erroll dies a violent death at her home in a posh part of Glasgow, the local community is stunned by what appears to be a truly gratuitous act. Heavily pregnant with desperately wanted twins, DS Alex Morrow is called in to investigate and soon discovers that there is more to Sarah's murder than it first seems. On the other side of town, Thomas Anderson ...

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On the Waves of TSF

The famous modernist manifesto Revolutionary Anthology Devětsil, published in the winter 1922, lists two editors, Jaroslav Seifert (1901–1986) and Karel Teige (1900–1951). Similarly, we should preface the 1925 collection Na vlnách TSF (On the Waves of TSF) with the names of these two authors, leading representatives of the Czech avantgarde between the two World Wars and f...

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Eretica. The Transcendent and the Profane in Contemporary Art - Demetrio Paparoni

Eretica focuses on the concepts of sacredness and spirituality, and looks at themes such as the contrast between good and evil, sanctity, and the relationship between eroticism, sex and death through the work of forty contemporary artists,

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The Alchemist of Ars Magna

◆ Story Synopsis Once upon a time, the founder of alchemy led people from a dying world to a new land.In this fertile and harmonious land where man-made "Gods of Creation" act as guardians, humans lead a peaceful existence. However, a long time has since passed, and the "Dust" of death began to engulf Arcaus. Gods gone mad become heinous "Gods of Misfortune" and begin to ...

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Metamorphic Imagery in Ancient Chinese Art and Religion Taylor & Francis Ltd

Metamorphic Imagery in Ancient Chinese Art and Religion demonstrates that the concept of metamorphism was central to ancient Chinese religious belief and practices from at least the late Neolithic period through the Warring States Period of the Zhou dynasty. This book is a significant publication in the field of early China studies, presenting an integrated conception of ...

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In the Shadow of Photography - Magda Stanová

Anotace: A drawn and handwritten work of non-fiction about the medium of photography, the photography world, and how the invention of photography influenced people's thinking and behavior. It explores topics such as the camera's wormhole-like capabilities, why being photographed causes stage fright, how the present is becoming a stage for the future, analog vs....

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In the Shadow of Photography - Magda Stanová

<p>A drawn and handwritten work of non-fiction about the medium of photography, the photography world, and how the invention of photography influenced people's thinking and behavior. It explores topics such as the camera's wormhole-like capabilities, why being photographed causes stage fright, how the present is becoming a stage for the future, analog vs. digital ph...

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