Blogging: How Our Private Thoughts Went Public (Wolfe Kristin Roeschenthaler)(Pevná vazba)

Blogging: How Our Private Thoughts Went Public (Wolfe Kristin Roeschenthaler)(Pevná vazba)

Blogging: How Our Private Thoughts Went Public examines self-representational writing from its historical roots in personal diaries to its current form in personal blogs. Widely available on the Internet, personal blogs are the latest form of an ever more public writing style of self-reflection

Blogging: How Our Private Thoughts Went Public (Wolfe Kristin Roeschenthaler)(Paperback)

Public versus private is an ongoing concern in communication. This book examines this phenomenon through self-representational writing and the philosophical lens of Hannah Arendt's public versus private theory, the Boundary Management theory, and the Parasocial Framework theory to examine the first

On Task: How Our Brain Gets Things Done (Badre David)(Pevná vazba)

A look at the extraordinary ways the brain turns thoughts into actions--and how this shapes our everyday livesWhy is it hard to text and drive at the same time? How do you resist eating that extra piece of cake? Why does staring at a tax form feel mentally exhausting? Why can your child expertly

Thirty Years on! A Private View of Public Schools (Draisey Mark)(Pevná vazba)

Recognizing Public Value (Moore Mark H.)(Pevná vazba)

Mark H. Moore's now classic Creating Public Value offered advice to public managers about how to create public value. But that book left a key question unresolved: how could one recognize (in an accounting sense) when public value had been created? Here, Moore closes the gap by setting forth a

Endangered Private Practice: Surviving Health Care Reform (Hixson Ronald R.)(Pevná vazba)

Endangered Private Practice explains how private practices are being absorbed by the current health care reform movement as a way to control costs, limit access, decrease disparities, and increase quality of care. This is the story of a fading art being squashed by the interests of business and

Issues in Indian Public Policies (Annigeri Vinod B.)(Pevná vazba)

Contains development dialogues with a focus on philosophical issues, Gandhian thoughts and emerging empirics to analyze of development issues in India Includes contributions from the foremost economists of

War and Peace (Tolstoy Leo)(Pevná vazba)

Tolstoy's epic masterpiece intertwines the lives of private and public individuals during the time of the Napoleonic wars and the French invasion of Russia. The fortunes of the Rostovs and the Bolkonskys, of Pierre, Natasha, and Andrei, are intimately connected with the national history that is

Russian Poets (Washington Peter)(Pevná vazba)

Ever since Pushkin, Russian poets have been famous for their ability to combine private and public experience in lyric poetry of a comprehensiveness and intensity unmatched

Second Thoughts and the Epistemological Enterprise (Kornblith Hilary)(Pevná vazba)

What happens when we have second thoughts about the epistemic standing of our beliefs, when we stop to check on beliefs which we have already formed or hypotheses which we have under consideration? In the essays collected in this volume, Hilary Kornblith considers this and other questions about

System Error: Where Big Tech Went Wrong and How We Can Reboot (Reich Rob)(Pevná vazba)

Super Science - How Science Shapes Our World (DK)(Pevná vazba)

Francis Picabia: Our Heads Are Round So Our Thoughts Can Change Direction (Picabia Francis)(Pevná vazba)

By rejecting consistency, Picabia powerfully asserted the artist's freedom to changeIrreverent and audacious, restless and brilliant, Francis Picabia achieved fame as a leader of the Dada group only to break publicly with the movement in 1921. Moving between Paris, the French Riviera, Switzerland,

How to Study Public Life (Gehl Jan)(Pevná vazba)

How do we accommodate a growing urban population in a way that is sustainable, equitable, and inviting? This question is becoming increasingly urgent to answer as we face diminishing fossil-fuel resources and the effects of a changing climate while global cities continue to compete to be the most

Business Ethics and Organizational Values: A Systems-Theoretical Analysis (Thyssen O.)(Pevná vazba)

Organizational values are a hot topic as private and public organizations are not only evaluated according to their products and profits, but also according to the circumstances of the product - labour conditions, materials, risks, human rights and social responsibility. Values are becoming the

No Go World: How Fear Is Redrawing Our Maps and Infecting Our Politics (Andersson Ruben)(Pevná vazba)

Our Voices, Our Streets: American Protests 2001-2011 (Bubriski Kevin)(Pevná vazba)

The American street has always been the ultimate public venue for political and cultural expression. This collection of images by Kevin Bubriski covers a decade of American street protest that began on January 20, 2001 with the inauguration of George W. Bush and ended with Occupy Wall Street in

Poland's New Ways of Public Diplomacy (Dobek-Ostrowska Boguslawa)(Pevná vazba)

The book explains when and how Poland implemented public diplomacy. The author explains it as a form of external political communication of governments conducted in cooperation with non-state actors to position the country internationally. The Polish case shows how a country in Europe attempts to

How to Develop Self Confidence and Improve Public Speaking (Carnegie Dale)(Pevná vazba)

From ways to develop self-confidence and become a good public speaker to the secrets of memory power and good delivery, natural laws of remembering and the essential elements in successful speaking, this book discusses the ways of opening and closing a talk and keeping the audience interested

Applied Economic Forecasting Using Time Series Methods (Ghysels Eric)(Pevná vazba)

Economic forecasting is a key ingredient of decision making both in the public and in the private sector. Because economic outcomes are the result of a vast, complex, dynamic and stochastic system, forecasting is very difficult and forecast errors are unavoidable. Because forecast precision and

Mindful Thoughts for Runners: Freedom on the Trail (Wardley Tessa)(Pevná vazba)

'Designed to coach us to see running as a spiritually enriching activity that connects us to our breath, body and the natural world.' - Healthy - Holland & Barrett magazine 'In this beautifully illustrated book, author Tessa Wardley meditates on the holistic nature of running through 25 focused

You and Me and Everybody Else (Little Gestalten)(Pevná vazba)

Everybody feels the same, sometimes. Our wishes, dreams, thoughts, and feelings are personal to us but all experienced by others. Guided by a friendly page-hopping cat, Everyone tackles the topics of emotions and experiences in a sympathetic manner, encouraging empathy with others. Depicting

Beyond Bratwurst: A History of Food in Germany (Heinzelmann Ursula)(Pevná vazba)

Thanks to Oktoberfest and the popularity of beer gardens, our thoughts on German food are usually relegated to beer, sausage, pretzels, and limburger cheese. But the inhabitants of modern-day Germany do not live exclusively on bratwurst. Defying popular perception of the meat and potatoes diet,

The Politics of Male Friendship in Contemporary American Fiction (Kalisch Michael)(Pevná vazba)

How might our friendships shape our politics? This new book examines how contemporary American fiction - from Philip Roth to Dinaw Mengestu - has rediscovered the concept of civic friendship and revived a long tradition of imagining male friendship as interlinked with the promises and paradoxes of