The Future of the Museum: 28 Dialogues (Sznt Andrs)(Paperback)

The Future of the Museum: 28 Dialogues (Sznt Andrs)(Paperback)

A Companion to Museum Studies (MacDonald Sharon)(Paperback)

A Companion to Museum Studies captures the multidisciplinary approaches to the study of the development, roles, and significance of museums in contemporary society. It is an indispensable reference for art historians, museum curators, and art and culture

Reflections: The American Collection of the Columbus Museum of Art (Maciejunes Nannette V.)(Paperback)

Reflections: The American Collection of the Columbus Museum of Art adds a novel and provocative element to the library of art museum collection catalogs. In the traditional manner, Reflections features selected works--more than 125--from the museum's collection, accompanied by concise essays by

Islam and the Future of Tolerance: A Dialogue (Harris Sam)(Paperback)

'A civil but honest dialogue...As illuminating as it is fascinating.'--Ayaan Hirsi AliIs Islam a religion of peace or war? Is it amenable to reform? Why do so many Muslims seem to be drawn to extremism? And what do words like jihadism and fundamentalism really mean? In a world riven by

Gorgias (Plato)(Paperback)

The classic political dialogue, as relevant today as in Plato's time Taking the form of a dialogue between Socrates, Gorgias, Polus and Callicles, Gorgias debates perennial questions about the nature of government and those who aspire to public office. Are high moral standards essential or should

Museum of Innocence (Pamuk Orhan)(Paperback / softback)

The Museum of Innocence - set in Istanbul between 1975 and today - tells the story of Kemal, the son of one of Istanbul's richest families, and of his obsessive love for a poor and distant relation, the beautiful Fusun, who is a shop-girl in a small

Queering the Museum (Sullivan Nikki)(Paperback)

Queering the Museum develops a queer analysis of the ways in which museums construct themselves, their core business, and their publics through the, often unconscious, use of inherited ways of knowing and doing. Providing a critique of both the practices and conventions associated with the modern

The Routledge Companion to Museum Ethics: Redefining Ethics for the Twenty-First Century Museum (Marstine Janet)(Paperback)

Routledge Companion to Museum Ethics is a theoretically informed reconceptualization of museum ethics discourse as a dynamic social practice central to the project of creating change in the museum. Through twenty-seven chapters by an international and interdisciplinary group of academics and

Making the Mummies Dance: Inside the Metropolitan Museum of Art (Hoving Thomas)(Paperback)

From Simon & Schuster, Making the Mummies Dance: Inside the Metropolitan Museum of Art is a unforgettable autobiography for any arts and culture fans. A former Director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art reveals his bold and brash life at its pinnacle: the clandestine deals which secured blockbuster

Dialogues in Paradise (Janssen Ronald R.)(Paperback)

The thirteen stories of Dialogues in Paradise are eloquent in a way the West associates with both the modern and the ancient: the dark oracles of Aeschylus and Sophocles, the paranoid mystery of Kafka, the moving stream of Woolf. The work of Can Xue (a pseudonym of Changsa writer Deng Xiao-hua)

Insight Dialogue: The Interpersonal Path to Freedom (Kramer Gregory)(Paperback)

Insight Dialogue is a way of bringing the tranquility and insight attained in meditation directly into your interactions with other people. It's a practice that involves interacting with a partner in a retreat setting or on your own, as a way of accessing a profound kind of insight. Then, you take

The Music of the Future (Barry Robert)(Paperback)

The Music of the Future is not a book of predictions or speculations about how to save the music business or the bleeding edge of technologies. Rather, it's a history of failures, mapping 200 years of attempts by composers, performers and critics to imagine a future for music. Encompassing utopian

Judge Dredd: The Complete Case Files 28 (Wagner John)(Paperback / softback)

Mega-City One - American city of the future. Only the Judges - empowered to dispense instant justice - can stop total anarchy on the crime-ridden streets. Toughest of them all is Judge Dredd: he is the law and these are his

The Future of the Image (Ranciere Jacques)(Paperback)

The Sausage of the Future (Niebling Carolien)(Paperback)

Universal Citizenship: Latina/O Studies at the Limits of Identity (Guzmn R. Andrs)(Paperback)

Recently, many critics have questioned the idea of universal citizenship by pointing to the racial, class, and gendered exclusions on which the notion of universality rests. Rather than jettison the idea of universal citizenship, however, R. Andr s Guzm n builds on these critiques to reaffirm it

After the Future (Berardi Franco Bifo)(Paperback)

After the Future explores our century-long obsession with the concept of the future. Beginning with F. T. Marinetti's Futurist Manifesto and the worldwide race toward a new and highly mechanized society that defined the Century of Progress, highly respected media activist Franco Berardi traces the

Once and Future King (White T. H.)(Paperback / softback)

The classic novel of King Arthur.A beautiful paperback edition of The Once and Future King, White's masterful retelling of the Arthurian legend.T.H. White's masterful retelling of the Arthurian legend is an abiding classic. Here all five volumes that make up the story are published together in a

Research Methods for Educational Dialogue (Kershner Ruth)(Paperback)

Research Methods for Educational Dialogue provides an overview of the range of possibilities for researching various forms of educational dialogue, underpinned by a coherent theoretical foundation. The authors, Kershner, Hennessy, Wegerif and Ahmed offer an integrated understanding of different

The Virgin of the World (Trismegistos Hermes)(Paperback)

This important Hermetic dialogue, the 'Virgin of the World' was very nearly lost to the mankind. It appears in only one book, a 5th century AD anthology of classical texts, collated by Johannes Stobaeus of Macedonia for his son Septimius. 'The Virgin of the World' describes a dialogue between the

You Talkin' to Me?: How to Write Great Dialogue (Seger Linda)(Paperback)

Unlike the chitchat of everyday life, dialogue in stories must express character, advance the story, suggest a theme, and include a few memorable lines that audiences will be quoting for decades to come. The best stories have dialogue that sparkles, but it's easy for inexperienced writers to fall

Whitney - The Whitney Museum of Art(Paperback / softback)

The Whitney Museum is building itself a new home in downtown Manhattan's Meatpacking District. Due to open on May 1st, 2015, the project will substantially enlarge the Whitney's exhibition and programming

Scotland to the World - Treasures from the National Museum of Scotland(Pevná vazba)

Showcases over a hundred treasures from the collections of the National Museum of

Fantastic Beasts: The Wonder of Nature (Natural History Museum)(Paperback)