Staging Loss: Performance as Commemoration (Pinchbeck Michael)(Pevná vazba)

Staging Loss: Performance as Commemoration (Pinchbeck Michael)(Pevná vazba)

It considers the (re)performance of history, commemoration as a form of, or performance of, ritual, performance as memorial, performance as eulogy and eulogy as

Whose Game Is It Anyway? - Football, Life, Love & Loss (Calvin Michael)(Pevná vazba)

Drawn from Calvin's experience as an award-winning sportswriter covering every major sports event over 40 years in more than 80 countries, this deeply personal book takes you on a tour of the world's greatest sporting occasions. Part memoir, part manifesto, this is sport as you've never seen it

Staging Trauma: Bodies in Shadow (Haughton Miriam)(Pevná vazba)

Explores a range of performances in Ireland and the UK that engage with trauma and sufferingFocuses on figures who have previously been marginalised by dominant patriarchal theatrical and historical canonsConsiders the staging of a range of traumatic episodes, including sexual violence, terminal

Poppy Field (Morpurgo Michael)(Pevná vazba)

As the world commemorates the 100th anniversary of Armistice Day, Michael Morpurgo and Michael Foreman have teamed up with the British Legion to tell a new story inspired by the history of the

The Elimination Threat (Laurence Michael)(Pevná vazba)

Michael Laurence delivers The Elimination Threat, the next installment in a series described as 'Jack Reacher falling into a plot written by Dan Brown.' --James Rollins, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Crucible For centuries, a mysterious syndicate known as the Thirteen has staged a silent

HEAD ON (SCALZI JOHN)(Pevná vazba)

As much as Scalzi has the scientific creativity of a Michael Crichton, he also has the procedural chops of a Stephen J. Canell to craft a whodunit with buddy-cop charm and suspects aplenty--most of them in someone else's body. --USA TodayJohn Scalzi returns with Head On, the standalone follow-up to

Michael de Feo: Flowers (De Feo Michael)(Pevná vazba)

As an art student in 1993, Michael De Feo drew a simple bloom that became a familiar and welcome presence in New York after he spent countless nights pasting hundreds of versions of it all over the city's building walls. Twenty-five years later, these flowers have been sighted in more than 60

Competitive Advantage: Creating and Sustaining Superior Performance (Porter Michael E.)(Pevná vazba)

The essential complement to the pathbreaking book Competitive Strategy, Michael E. Porter's Competitive Advantage explores the underpinnings of competitive advantage in the individual firm. Competitive Advantage introduces a whole new way of understanding what a firm does. Porter's groundbreaking

Human Dignity: A Way of Living (Siclovan Diana)(Pevná vazba)

Dignity is humanity�s most prized possession. We experience the loss of dignity as a terrible humiliation: when we lose our dignity we feel deprived of something without which life no longer seems worth living. But what exactly is this trait that we value so highly? In this important new book,

Beastie Boys Book (Diamond Michael)(Pevná vazba)

A panoramic experience that tells the story of Beastie Boys, a book as unique as the band itself--by band members ADROCK and Mike D, with contributions from Amy Poehler, Colson Whitehead, Spike Jonze, Wes Anderson, Luc Sante, and more. Formed as a New York City hardcore band in 1981, Beastie Boys

Geometry of Grief: Reflections on Mathematics, Loss, and Life (Frame Michael)(Pevná vazba)

In this profound and hopeful book, a mathematician and celebrated teacher shows how mathematics may help all of us--even the math-averse--to understand and cope with grief. We all know the euphoria of intellectual epiphany--the thrill of sudden understanding. But coupled with that excitement is a

Most People (Leannah Michael)(Pevná vazba)

Michael Leannah wrote Most People as an antidote to the scary words and images kids hear and see every day. Jennifer Morris's emotive, diverting characters provide the perfect complement to Leannah's words, leading us through the crowded streets of an urban day in the company of two pairs of

The Ride of My Life: Memoirs of a Sporting Editor (Clayton Michael)(Pevná vazba)

Michael Clayton has enjoyed a fascinating career as a professional journalist on Fleet Street - but the highlight of his career was his work as a editor and journalist in the field of horses, and with hunting horses in particular. This is his autobiography in horses: his boyhood work in local

Bombs and Blackberries (Donaldson Julia)(Pevná vazba)

A short illustrated play set in World War Two, perfect for class reading as well as performance, written by Julia Donaldson, author of the modern classic The Gruffalo. Perfect for the 75th Anniversary of D-Day in 2019. World War Two has been declared and the Chivers children are sent to the safety

Spinoza and the Philosophy of Love (Strawser Michael)(Pevná vazba)

In Spinoza and the Philosophy of Love, Michael Strawser provides a new reading of Spinoza as a philosopher of love, and one who centered in his thought an ethically qualified conception of noble love. Strawser examines the threefold conception of love found in Spinoza's Ethics and argues that what

Why We Cooperate (Tomasello Michael)(Pevná vazba)

Understanding cooperation as a distinctly human combination of innate and learned behavior.Drop something in front of a two-year-old, and she's likely to pick it up for you. This is not a learned behavior, psychologist Michael Tomasello argues. Through observations of young children in experiments

Early Snow: Michael Snow 1947-1962 (King)(Pevná vazba)

Michael Snow is one of Canada's greatest living artists, widely acknowledged as one of the most significant figures in twentieth-century Canadian art. Early Snow focuses on the nascent stages of the artist's career--which is comparatively underexamined in art commentary and critical literature--and

Michael Clark: Cosmic Dancer (Ostende Florence)(Pevná vazba)

Explore the groundbreaking performances and creative collaborations of iconic Scottish dancer and choreographer Michael Clark. Hailed as 'British dance's true iconoclast,' Michael Clark is a defining cultural figure in the contemporary dance world. Since emerging in the early 1980s as a prodigy at

Cyclepedia: 90 Years of Modern Bicycle Design (Embacher Michael)(Pevná vazba)

Cyclepedia is a photographic homage to the beauty of two wheels as well as a celebration of the fastest, lightest, and most innovative bicycles designed over the past century. This book features highlights from the unique collection of architect and designer Michael Embacher's more than 250

Scenography - Szenografie 2 - Staging the Space - Der inszenierte Raum(Pevná vazba)

Wie entwickle ich narrative Architekturen, erlebnisorientierte Ausstellungen und syn sthetische Szenografien? Das Buch gibt facettenreiche Einblicke in die Arbeitsweise des international t tigen Gestaltungsb ros: mit grundlegenden Texten und durch die Dokumentation von ber 60 Projekten, die

Book of the British Library (Leapman Michael)(Pevná vazba)

As well as holding some of the world's most prized cultural treasures, the British Library is the repository of the nation's collective memory. In this highly illustrated book Michael Leapman tells the Library's story, highlighting the most significant and beautiful items in its care, as well as

Modernist Disguise: Masquerade in Modern Performance and Visual Culture (Popenhagen Ron J.)(Pevná vazba)

This book highlights that masquerade can be regarded as a distinct genre of performance activity that employs elements of the carnivalesque, circus, dance, gestural theatre and theatre of objects. Popenhagen traces artistic disguising from fin de si�cle Pierrots in Paris, Marseille and Viennato

Openhearted - Eighty Years of Love, Loss, Laughter and Letting Go (Ingle Ann)(Pevná vazba)

Red: A Crayon's Story (Hall Michael)(Pevná vazba)

A blue crayon mistakenly labeled as 'red' suffers an identity crisis in this picture book by the New York Times-bestselling creator of My Heart Is Like a Zoo. This funny, heartwarming, colorful picture book about finding the courage to be true to your inner self can be read on multiple levels, and