How to Own the Room - Women and the Art of Brilliant Speaking (Groskop Viv)(Pevná vazba)

How to Own the Room - Women and the Art of Brilliant Speaking (Groskop Viv)(Pevná vazba)

A powerful little book about what happens when women find their voice. INCLUDES A NEW BONUS CHAPTER ON 'HOW TO OWN THE ZOOM''Full of helpful

Room of One's Own (Woolf Virginia)(Pevná vazba)

A Room of One's Own is Virginia Woolf's most powerful feminist essay, justifying the need for women to possess intellectual freedom and financial independence.Based on a lecture given at Girton College, Cambridge, the essay is one of the great feminist polemics, ranging in its themes from Jane

Racism and Ethnic Relations in the Portuguese-Speaking World (Bethencourt Francisco)(Pevná vazba)

How did racism evolve in different parts of the Portuguese-speaking world? How should the impact on ethnic perceptions of colonial societies based on slavery or the slave trade be evaluated? What was the reality of inter-ethnic mixture in different continents? How has the prejudice of white

A Room of One's Own: The Feminist Classic (Woolf Virginia)(Pevná vazba)

Happy High Status: How to Be Effortlessly Confident - Viv Groskop

Redefine what confidence looks like at home and at work.Everyone wants to be able to face challenging situations without feeling daunted, intimidated or stressed. But no-one wants to be labelled over-confident, arrogant or smarmy, or to get caught up in their own hype. So how can you feel

Women Art Workers and the Arts and Crafts Movement (Thomas Zo)(Pevná vazba)

Women Art Workers provides a new social and cultural history of the Arts and Crafts movement which offers unprecedented insight into how women constructed alternative, creative lifestyles and disseminated the ethos of the social importance of the Arts and Crafts across new local, national, and

How to Know the Birds: The Art and Adventure of Birding (Floyd Ted)(Pevná vazba)

Women of the Bible: Stories of Strength, Faith & Courage (Bishop Morin)(Pevná vazba)

Women of the Bible, richly illustrated with classic art and vivid photography, looks at the women who defined life and civilization as we know it. This book includes all their stories presented in clear accessible prose that shows great respect for this remarkable collection of influential women

John Singer Sargent and the Art of Allusion (Redford Bruce)(Pevná vazba)

A revealing, interdisciplinary exploration of the brilliant visual quotations in the work of the celebrated grand-manner portraitist The work of portraitist John Singer Sargent (1856-1925) has come to epitomize the glamour and anxiety of his age. In this innovative study, Bruce Redford reveals the

The Minimalist Home: A Room-By-Room Guide to a Decluttered, Refocused Life (Becker Joshua)(Pevná vazba)

USA TODAY BESTSELLER - A popular minimalist blogger and author of The More of Less shows you how to methodically turn your home into a place of peace, contentment, and purposeful living. One of today's most influential minimalist advocates takes us on a decluttering tour of our own houses and

Art of Jazz: A Visual History - Alyn Shipton, John Edward Hasse

The Art of Jazz explores how the expressionism and spontaneity of jazz spilled onto its album art, posters, and promotional photography, and even inspired standalone works of fine art. Everyone knows jazz is on the cutting edge of music, but how much do you know about its influence in the visual

The Brilliant History of Color in Art (Finlay Victoria)(Pevná vazba)

The Art of Looking: How to Read Modern and Contemporary Art (Esplund Lance)(Pevná vazba)

A veteran art critic helps us make sense of modern and contemporary art The landscape of contemporary art has changed dramatically during the last hundred years: from Malevich's 1915 painting of a single black square and Duchamp's 1917 signed porcelain urinal to Jackson Pollock's midcentury 'drip'

Room of One's Own and Three Guineas (Vintage Classics Woolf Series) (Woolf Virginia)(Paperback / softback)

Woolf exposes the prejudices and constraints against which women writers struggled for centuries, and argues for a more equal literary establishment.This volume combines two books which were among the greatest contributions to feminist literature this century. Together they form a brilliant attack

The Joy of Playing, the Joy of Thinking: Conversations about Art and Performance (Rosen Charles)(Pevná vazba)

Brilliant, practical, and humorous conversations with one of the twentieth-century's greatest musicologists on art, culture, and the physical pain of playing a difficult passage until one attains its rewards.Throughout his life, Charles Rosen combined formidable intelligence with immense skill as a

Radical Eroticism: Women, Art, and Sex in the 1960s (Middleman Rachel)(Pevná vazba)

In the 1960s, the fascination with erotic art generated a wave of exhibitions and critical discussion on sexual freedom, visual pleasure, and the nude in contemporary art. Radical Eroticism examines the importance of women's contributions in fundamentally reconfiguring representations of sexuality

Women Artists in Paris, 1850-1900 (Madeline Laurence)(Pevná vazba)

A celebration of the work and lives of women artists who shaped the art world of 19th-century Paris In the second half of the 19th century, Paris attracted an international gathering of women artists, drawn to the French capital by its academies and museums, studios and salons. Featuring

Break Your Own Rules: How to Change the Patterns of Thinking That Block Women's Paths to Power (Flynn Jill)(Pevná vazba)

New York Times Bestseller How women can make it to the top by adopting the new rules of leadership Women hold just 11 percent of the most senior-level leadership positions in U.S. Corporations--a number that hasn't changed in over 30 years. How can women break through? Break Your Own Rules distills

Jacob's Room (Woolf Virginia)(Pevná vazba)

The story is told mainly through the perspectives of the women in Jacob's life, including the repressed upper-middle-class Clara Durrant and the uninhibited young art student Florinda, with whom he has an affair. His time in London forms a large part of the story, though towards the end of the

The Disabled Church: Human Difference and the Art of Communal Worship (Spurrier Rebecca F.)(Pevná vazba)

How do communities consent to difference? How do they recognize and create the space and time necessary for the differences and disabilities of those who constitute them? Christian congregations often make assumptions about the shared abilities, practices, and experiences that are necessary for

Galaxy of Her Own - Amazing Stories of Women in Space (Jackson Libby)(Pevná vazba)

From Ada Lovelace in the nineteenth century, to the women behind the Apollo missions, from the astronauts breaking records on the International Space Station to those blazing the way in the race to get to Mars, this book reveals extraordinary stories, champions unsung heroes and celebrates

Belonging and Betrayal: How Jews Made the Art World Modern (Dellheim Charles)(Pevná vazba)

The story of dealers of Old Masters, champions of modern art, and victims of Nazi plunder. Since the late-1990s, the fate of Nazi stolen art has become a cause c l bre. In Belonging and Betrayal, Charles Dellheim turns this story on its head by revealing how certain Jewish outsiders came to

101 Art Destinations in the U.S: Where Art Lives Coast to Coast (Phillips Owen)(Pevná vazba)

An art lover's bucket list of must-see artworks and art--distilling the country's best artworks and art destinations into interesting, digestible entries featuring the best mix of museums, artists' studios, murals, sculpture parks, and more, throughout the US The compact guide to the top art

The Dale Carnegie Course on Effective Speaking, Personality Development, and the Art of How to Win Friends & Influence People (Carnegie Dale)(Paperback)