Author: Prentice Hall PTR
Publisher: Macmillan College
ISBN: 9780139210327
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 302
Book Description
Successful communications strategies for business situations"--Cover./ Originally published as: Success with the gentle art of verbal self-defense./ Includes bibliographical references (p. 268-281) and index
The Gentle Art of Self-Defense for Business Borders
Author: Prentice Hall PTR
Publisher: Macmillan College
ISBN: 9780139210327
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 302
Book Description
Successful communications strategies for business situations"--Cover./ Originally published as: Success with the gentle art of verbal self-defense./ Includes bibliographical references (p. 268-281) and index
Publisher: Macmillan College
ISBN: 9780139210327
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 302
Book Description
Successful communications strategies for business situations"--Cover./ Originally published as: Success with the gentle art of verbal self-defense./ Includes bibliographical references (p. 268-281) and index
Art Without Borders
Author: Ben-Ami Scharfstein
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226736113
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 558
Book Description
People all over the world make art and take pleasure in it, and they have done so for millennia. But acknowledging that art is a universal part of human experience leads us to some big questions: Why does it exist? Why do we enjoy it? And how do the world’s different art traditions relate to art and to each other? Art Without Borders is an extraordinary exploration of those questions, a profound and personal meditation on the human hunger for art and a dazzling synthesis of the whole range of inquiry into its significance. Esteemed thinker Ben-Ami Scharfstein’s encyclopedic erudition is here brought to bear on the full breadth of the world of art. He draws on neuroscience and psychology to understand the way we both perceive and conceive of art, including its resistance to verbal exposition. Through examples of work by Indian, Chinese, European, African, and Australianartists, Art Without Borders probes the distinction between accepting a tradition and defying it through innovation, which leads to a consideration of the notion of artistic genius. Continuing in this comparative vein, Scharfstein examines the mutual influence of European and non-European artists. Then, through a comprehensive evaluation of the world’s major art cultures, he shows how all of these individual traditions are gradually, but haltingly, conjoining into a single current of universal art. Finally, he concludes by looking at the ways empathy and intuition can allow members of one culture to appreciate the art of another. Lucid, learned, and incomparably rich in thought and detail, Art Without Borders is a monumental accomplishment, on par with the artistic achievements Scharfstein writes about so lovingly in its pages.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226736113
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 558
Book Description
People all over the world make art and take pleasure in it, and they have done so for millennia. But acknowledging that art is a universal part of human experience leads us to some big questions: Why does it exist? Why do we enjoy it? And how do the world’s different art traditions relate to art and to each other? Art Without Borders is an extraordinary exploration of those questions, a profound and personal meditation on the human hunger for art and a dazzling synthesis of the whole range of inquiry into its significance. Esteemed thinker Ben-Ami Scharfstein’s encyclopedic erudition is here brought to bear on the full breadth of the world of art. He draws on neuroscience and psychology to understand the way we both perceive and conceive of art, including its resistance to verbal exposition. Through examples of work by Indian, Chinese, European, African, and Australianartists, Art Without Borders probes the distinction between accepting a tradition and defying it through innovation, which leads to a consideration of the notion of artistic genius. Continuing in this comparative vein, Scharfstein examines the mutual influence of European and non-European artists. Then, through a comprehensive evaluation of the world’s major art cultures, he shows how all of these individual traditions are gradually, but haltingly, conjoining into a single current of universal art. Finally, he concludes by looking at the ways empathy and intuition can allow members of one culture to appreciate the art of another. Lucid, learned, and incomparably rich in thought and detail, Art Without Borders is a monumental accomplishment, on par with the artistic achievements Scharfstein writes about so lovingly in its pages.
The Gentle Art of Verbal Self-defense
Author: Suzette Haden Elgin
Publisher: Barnes & Noble Publishing
ISBN: 9780880292573
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
Most of us are under verbal attack everyday and often don't realize it. In "The Gentle Art of Verbal Self-Defense" you'll learn the skills you need to respond to all types of verbal attack
Publisher: Barnes & Noble Publishing
ISBN: 9780880292573
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
Most of us are under verbal attack everyday and often don't realize it. In "The Gentle Art of Verbal Self-Defense" you'll learn the skills you need to respond to all types of verbal attack
The Border Magazine
Author: Nicholas Dickson
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Scotland
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Scotland
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
AB Bookman's Weekly
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Antiquarian booksellers
Languages : en
Pages : 888
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Antiquarian booksellers
Languages : en
Pages : 888
Book Description
Physical Culture and Self-defense
Author: Robert James Fitzsimmons
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Boxers (Sports)
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Boxers (Sports)
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
The Gentle Art of Making Enemies
Author: James McNeill Whistler
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Aesthetics
Languages : en
Pages : 370
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Aesthetics
Languages : en
Pages : 370
Book Description
The Atlantic
Native Tongue
Author: Suzette Haden Elgin
Publisher: The Feminist Press at CUNY
ISBN: 1558617760
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
First published in 1984, Native Tongue earned wide critical praise, and cult status as well. Set in the twenty-second century after the repeal of the Nineteenth Amendment, the novel reveals a world where women are once again property, denied civil rights, and banned from public life. In this world, Earth’s wealth relies on interplanetary commerce, for which the population depends on linguists, a small, clannish group of families whose women breed and become perfect translators of all the galaxies’ languages. The linguists wield power, but live in isolated compounds, hated by the population, and in fear of class warfare. But a group of women is destined to challenge the power of men and linguists. Nazareth, the most talented linguist of her family, is exhausted by her constant work translating for the government, supervising the children’s language education in the Alien-in-Residence interface chambers, running the compound, and caring for the elderly men. She longs to retire to the Barren House, where women past childbearing age knit, chat, and wait to die. What Nazareth does not yet know is that a clandestine revolution is going on in the Barren Houses: there, word by word, women are creating a language of their own to free them of men’s domination. Their secret must, above all, be kept until the language is ready for use. The women’s language, Láadan, is only one of the brilliant creations found in this stunningly original novel, which combines a page-turning plot with challenging meditations on the tensions between freedom and control, individuals and communities, thought and action. A complete work in itself, it is also the first volume in Elgin’s acclaimed Native Tongue trilogy.
Publisher: The Feminist Press at CUNY
ISBN: 1558617760
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
First published in 1984, Native Tongue earned wide critical praise, and cult status as well. Set in the twenty-second century after the repeal of the Nineteenth Amendment, the novel reveals a world where women are once again property, denied civil rights, and banned from public life. In this world, Earth’s wealth relies on interplanetary commerce, for which the population depends on linguists, a small, clannish group of families whose women breed and become perfect translators of all the galaxies’ languages. The linguists wield power, but live in isolated compounds, hated by the population, and in fear of class warfare. But a group of women is destined to challenge the power of men and linguists. Nazareth, the most talented linguist of her family, is exhausted by her constant work translating for the government, supervising the children’s language education in the Alien-in-Residence interface chambers, running the compound, and caring for the elderly men. She longs to retire to the Barren House, where women past childbearing age knit, chat, and wait to die. What Nazareth does not yet know is that a clandestine revolution is going on in the Barren Houses: there, word by word, women are creating a language of their own to free them of men’s domination. Their secret must, above all, be kept until the language is ready for use. The women’s language, Láadan, is only one of the brilliant creations found in this stunningly original novel, which combines a page-turning plot with challenging meditations on the tensions between freedom and control, individuals and communities, thought and action. A complete work in itself, it is also the first volume in Elgin’s acclaimed Native Tongue trilogy.