The Slow Professor: Challenging the Culture of Speed in the Academy (Berg Maggie)(Paperback)

The Slow Professor: Challenging the Culture of Speed in the Academy (Berg Maggie)(Paperback)

If there is one sector of society that should be cultivating deep thought in itself and others, it is academia. Yet the corporatisation of the contemporary university has sped up the clock, demanding increased speed and efficiency from faculty regardless of the consequences for education and

The Slow Professor: Challenging the Culture of Speed in the Academy (Berg Maggie)(Pevná vazba)

If there is one sector of society that should be cultivating deep thought in itself and others, it is academia. Yet the corporatisation of the contemporary university has sped up the clock, demanding increased speed and efficiency from faculty regardless of the consequences for education and

In Praise of Slow - How a Worldwide Movement is Challenging the Cult of Speed (Honore Carl)(Paperback / softback)

Across the western world more and more people are slowing down. Slower is better: better work, better productivity, better exercise, better sex, better

In Praise of Slowness: Challenging the Cult of Speed (Honore Carl)(Paperback)

We live in the age of speed. We strain to be more efficient, to cram more into each minute, each hour, each day. Since the Industrial Revolution shifted the world into high gear, the cult of speed has pushed us to a breaking point. Consider these facts: Americans on average spend seventy-two

The Culture of Nature in the History of Design (Fallan Kjetil)(Paperback)

The Culture of Nature in the History of Design confronts the dilemma caused by design's pertinent yet precarious position in environmental discourse through interdisciplinary conversations about the design of nature and the nature of design. Demonstrating that the deep entanglements of design and

Groomed to Be a Bride (Hartley Maggie)(Paperback)

Maggie faces one of the most challenging cases of her career when Halima, a young, orphaned Iraqi girl comes to live with her. Barely able to communicate without a shared language, Maggie must battle to reach the vulnerable refugee and help her to start to overcome the traumas she has endured. But

The Halfpenny Girls (Mason Maggie)(Paperback)

THE BRAND NEW SAGA SERIES BY MAGGIE MASON - MEET THE HALFPENNY GIRLS. . . 'In the grand tradition of sagas set down by the late and great Catherine Cookson' Jean Fullerton on Blackpool Lass Down on their luck, all the have left is friendship . . . It is 1937 and Alice, Edith and Marg continue to

The Professor (Bailey Robert)(Paperback)

Law professor Thomas Jackson McMurtrie literally wrote the book on evidence in the state of Alabama. But when a power-hungry colleague uses a recent run-in between McMurtrie and headstrong student Rick Drake to end his career, he is left unsure what to do next.Meanwhile, a devastating trucking

Bull!: A History of the Boom and Bust, 1982-2004 (Mahar Maggie)(Paperback)

In 1982, the Dow hovered below 1000. Then, the market rose and rapidly gained speed until it peaked above 11,000. Noted journalist and financial reporter Maggie Mahar has written the first book on the remarkable bull market that began in 1982 and ended just in the early 2000s. For almost two

The Culture Industry: Selected Essays on Mass Culture (Adorno Theodor W.)(Paperback)

The creation of the Frankfurt School of critical theory in the 1920s saw the birth of some of the most exciting and challenging writings of the twentieth century. It is out of this background that the great critic Theodor Adorno emerged. His finest essays are collected here, offering the reader

The Congregation in a Secular Age: Keeping Sacred Time Against the Speed of Modern Life (Root Andrew)(Paperback)

Academy of Parish Clergy 2022 Top Ten Book for Parish MinistryChurches often realize they need to change. But if they're not careful, the way they change can hurt more than help.Leading practical theologian Andrew Root offers a new paradigm for understanding the congregation in contemporary

The Diary of Mary Berg: Growing Up in the Warsaw Ghetto (Berg Mary)(Paperback)

The first eye-witness account ever published of life in the Warsaw Ghetto Mary Berg was fifteen when the German army poured into Poland in 1939. She survived four years of Nazi terror, and managed to keep a diary throughout. This astonishing, vivid portrayal of life inside the Warsaw Ghetto ranks

The Culture of Contentment (Galbraith John Kenneth)(Paperback)

The world has become increasingly separated into the haves and have-nots. In The Culture of Contentment, renowned economist John Kenneth Galbraith shows how a contented class--not the privileged few but the socially and economically advantaged majority--defend their comfortable status at a cost

The Latest Winter (Nelson Maggie)(Paperback)

'Maggie Nelson is one of the most electrifying writers at work in America today, among the sharpest and most supple thinkers of her generation'Olivia LaingIn this, her second anthology of poetry, Maggie Nelson experiments with poetic forms long and short as she charts intimate landscapes, including

The Culture-Breast in Psychoanalysis: Cultural Experiences and the Clinic (Giffney Noreen)(Paperback)

We are fed at the breast of culture, not wholly but to differing degrees. The Culture-Breast in Psychoanalysis: Cultural Experiences and the Clinic focuses on the formative influence of cultural objects in our lives, and the contribution such experiences make to our mental health and overall

History of Roman Britain (Salway Peter (Emeritus Professor Emeritus Professor The Open University))(Paperback / softback)

From the invasions of Julius Caesar to the unexpected end of Roman rule in the early fifth century AD and the subsequent collapse of society in Britain, this is an account of Roman

The Question of Canon: Challenging the Status Quo in the New Testament Debate (Kruger Michael J.)(Paperback)

Beer Culture in Theory and Practice: Understanding Craft Beer Culture in the United States (Tyma Adam W.)(Paperback)

Beer culture has grown exponentially in the United States, from the days of Prohibition to the signing of HR 1337 by then-President Jimmy Carter, which legalized homebrewing for personal and household use, to the potential hop shortage that all brewers are facing today. This expansion of the

The Lost World: Being an Account of the Recent Amazing Adventures of Professor George E. Challenger, Lord John Roxton, Professor Summe (Doyle Arthur Conan)(Paperback)

The first in Arthur Conan Doyle's series of books featuring the popular character of Professor Challenger, The Lost World is a classic tale of adventure and discovery. A scientific team embarks on an expedition to a South American plateau, where they find a seemingly impenetrable and dangerous

The Encyclopedia of Japanese Pop Culture (Schilling Mark)(Paperback)

In the West, Japanese culture comes in the form of Power Rangers, Godzilla movies, and Sanrio products, but of course the indigenous pop culture is much richer. Rather than focus on what the rest of the world has already encountered, Mark Schilling provides an encyclopedic compendium of books,

The Lost World (Doyle Arthur Conan)(Paperback)

In The Lost World, the first in a series of books to feature the bold Professor Challenger--a character many critics consider one of the most finely drawn in science fiction--Challenger and his party embark on an expedition to a remote Amazonian plateau where, as the good professor puts it, 'the

Slow Looking: The Art and Practice of Learning Through Observation (Tishman Shari)(Paperback)

Slow Looking provides a robust argument for the importance of slow looking in learning environments both general and specialized, formal and informal, and its connection to major concepts in teaching, learning, and knowledge. A museum-originated practice increasingly seen as holding wide

Nepal - Culture Smart!, 116: The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture (Culture Smart!)(Paperback)

Don't just see the sights? get to know the people. Nestling in the foothills of the Himalayas, Nepal is a land of contrasts and incongruities not least in the variety of its cultural, ethnic, and religious weave. The Nepalese attitude to life is essentially religious. Hindu and Buddhist values

Slavery and the Culture of Taste (Gikandi Simon)(Paperback)

It would be easy to assume that, in the eighteenth century, slavery and the culture of taste--the world of politeness, manners, and aesthetics--existed as separate and unequal domains, unrelated in the spheres of social life. But to the contrary, Slavery and the Culture of Taste demonstrates that