Culture as Weapon: The Art of Influence in Everyday Life (Thompson Nato)(Paperback)

Culture as Weapon: The Art of Influence in Everyday Life (Thompson Nato)(Paperback)

One of the country's leading activist curators explores how corporations and governments have used art and culture to mystify and manipulate us. The production of culture was once the domain of artists, but beginning in the early 1900s, the emerging fields of public relations, advertising and

Remembering Utopia: The Culture of Everyday Life in Socialist Yugoslavia (Luthar Breda)(Paperback)

This collection of essays helps uncover various aspects of everyday life during the time of socialism in Yugoslavia, such as leisure, popular culture, consumption, sociability and power. This volume attempts to uncover various aspects of everyday life during the time of socialism in Yugoslavia from

Living as Form: Socially Engaged Art from 1991-2011 (Thompson Nato)(Paperback)

A monumental, lavishly illustrated book that offers the first global portrait of a complex and definition-defying genre of cultural production.Over the past twenty years, an abundance of art forms have emerged that use aesthetics to affect social dynamics. These works are often produced by

Acoustic Territories, Second Edition: Sound Culture and Everyday Life (LaBelle Brandon)(Paperback)

The revised edition of Acoustic Territories: Sound Culture and Everyday Life offers an expansive reading of auditory life. It provides a careful consideration of the performative dynamics inherent to sounding and listening, and discusses how sound studies may illuminate understandings of

Wild Things: The Material Culture of Everyday Life (Attfield Judy)(Paperback)

What do things mean? What does the life of everyday objects reveal about people and their material worlds? Has the quest for 'the real thing' become so important because the high-tech world of total virtuality threatens to engulf us? This pioneering book bridges design theory and anthropology to

Merchants of Culture - The Publishing Business in the Twenty-First Century (Thompson John B.)(Paperback / softback)

Growing in Prayer (Bickle Mike)(Paperback)

A practical, effective strategy for incorporating prayer into everyday life As the founder of the International House of Prayer, Mike Bickle has devoted his life to understanding and practicing the principles and power of prayer. In Growing in Prayer he combines his biblical study with his

Therapy Culture: Cultivating Vu (Furedi Frank)(Paperback)

Therapy Culture explores the powerful influence of therapeutic imperative in Anglo-American societies. In recent decades virtually every sphere of life has become subject to a new emotional culture. Professor Furedi suggests that the recent cultural turn toward the realm of the emotions coincides

Remains of the Everyday: A Century of Recycling in Beijing (Goldstein Joshua)(Paperback)

Remains of the Everyday traces the changing material culture and industrial ecology of China through the lens of recycling. Over the last century, waste recovery and secondhand goods markets have been integral to Beijing's economic functioning and cultural identity, and acts of recycling have

Goethe: Life as a Work of Art (Safranski Rdiger)(Paperback)

A masterful intellectual portrait, Goethe: Life as a Work of Art is celebrated as the seminal twenty-first-century biography of the writer considered to be the Shakespeare of German literature. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832), a remarkably prolific poet, playwright, novelist, and--as Rdiger

Artistry of the Everyday: Beauty and Craftsmanship in Berber Art (Bernasek Lisa)(Paperback)

Imazighen Beauty and Artisanship in Berber Life presents the Peabody Museum's collection of arts from the Berber-speaking regions of North Africa. The book gives an overview of Berber history and culture, focusing on the rich aesthetic traditions of Amazigh (Berber) craftsmen and women. From

Psychopathology of Everyday Life (Freud Sigmund)(Paperback / softback)

A brand new transaction of the 'Psychopathology of Everyday Life' - one of 15 volumes in the new Freud series commissioned for the Penguin classics. This edition aims to reach beyond the institiutional/clinical

Corporate Leadership and Its Role in Shaping Organizational Culture and Performance (Bejaoui Azza)(Paperback)

Investigates the influence of corporate leadership on the organisational culture and performance of a company and ways in which this understanding can improve firm effectiveness, nurture entrepreneurial behaviour and practices, and establish innovative

Writing Culture and the Life of Anthropology (Starn Orin)(Paperback)

Using the influential and field-changing Writing Culture as a point of departure, the thirteen essays in Writing Culture and the Life of Anthropology address anthropology's past, present, and future. The contributors, all leading figures in anthropology today, reflect back on the 'writing culture'

The Pocket Oxford Greek Dictionary (Pring J. T.)(Paperback)

Covering the most commonly used vocabulary of everyday Greek life, as well as that found in general literature, this revised edition of the highly acclaimed Oxford Dictionary of Modern Greek is specially designed for tourists, travelers, students, and business people alike. This authoritative guide

Finna: Poems (Marshall Nate)(Paperback)

Sharp, lyrical poems celebrating the Black vernacular--its influence on pop culture, its necessity for familial survival, its rite in storytelling and in creating the safety found only within its intimacy Definition of finna, created by the author: fin-na /ˈfinə/ contraction: (1) going to;

The Dark Triad of Personality: Narcissism, Machiavellianism, and Psychopathy in Everyday Life (Lyons Minna)(Paperback)

The Dark Triad of Personality: Narcissism, Machiavellianism, and Psychopathy in Everyday Life summarizes the latest research on how these personality traits (psychopathology, narcissism, Machiavellianism) are defined and displayed, while also exploring the impact they have on individuals and

Tango: The Art History of Love (Thompson Robert Farris)(Paperback)

In this generously illustrated book, world-renowned Yale art historian Robert Farris Thompson gives us the definitive account of tango, 'the fabulous dance of the past hundred years-and the most beautiful, in the opinion of Martha Graham.' Thompson traces tango's evolution in the nineteenth century

Praise - A Weapon of Warfare and Deliverance (Hammond Frank)(Paperback)

PRAISE is a powerful weapon in deliverance and spiritual warfare. As you praise the Lord, things begin to happen in the unseen realm. In the Old Testament, the people of God didn't have the name of Jesus as a weapon, but they did have praise. When Saul was troubled by an evil spirit, the only thing

The Culture of Military Organizations (Mansoor Peter R.)(Paperback)

Culture has an enormous influence on military organizations and their success or failure in war. Cultural biases often result in unstated assumptions that have a deep impact on the making of strategy, operational planning, doctrinal creation, and the organization and training of armed forces

When You Are Engulfed in Flames (Sedaris David)(Paperback)

'David Sedaris's ability to transform the mortification of everyday life into wildly entertaining art,' (The Christian Science Monitor) is elevated to wilder and more entertaining heights than ever in this remarkable new book. Trying to make coffee when the water is shut off, David considers using

The Life of Animals in Japanese Art (Singer Robert T.)(Pevná vazba)

A sweeping exploration of animals in Japanese art and culture across sixteen centuriesFew countries have devoted as much artistic energy to the depiction of animal life as Japan. Drawing upon the country's unique spiritual heritage, rich literary traditions, and currents in popular culture,

Happiness by Design - Finding Pleasure and Purpose in Everyday Life (Dolan Paul)(Paperback / softback)

As a Professor of Behavioural Science at the London School of Economics, the author conducts original research into the measurement of happiness and its causes and consequences, including the effects of our behaviour. In this book, he creates a new outlook on the pursuit of happiness - it's not

The Culture of Narcissism: American Life in an Age of Diminishing Expectations (Lasch Christopher)(Paperback)

The classic New York Times bestseller, with a new introduction by E.J. Dionne Jr. When The Culture of Narcissism was first published in 1979, Christopher Lasch was hailed as a 'biblical prophet” (Time). Lasch's identification of narcissism as not only an individual ailment but also a burgeoning