What We Made: Conversations on Art and Social Cooperation (Finkelpearl Tom)(Paperback)

What We Made: Conversations on Art and Social Cooperation (Finkelpearl Tom)(Paperback)

In What We Made, Tom Finkelpearl examines the activist, participatory, coauthored aesthetic experiences being created in contemporary art. He suggests social cooperation as a meaningful way to think about this work and provides a framework for understanding its emergence and acceptance. In a series

Ethics and Law for Social Workers (Johns Robert)(Paperback)

How do social workers in the UK legal context act ethically? What do we understand by ethics and how does social work law relate to it? Social work practice in all countries incorporates a clear, unstinting commitment to social justice, but what is social justice? Using an applied, practice-based

Justice and Love: A Philosophical Dialogue (Zournazi Mary)(Paperback)

How do we see and act justly in the world? In what ways can we ethically respond to social and economic crisis? How do we address the desperation that exists in the new forms of violence and atrocity? These are all questions at the heart of Justice and Love, a philosophical dialogue on how to

Aesthetics: A Beginner's Guide (Taliaferro Charles)(Paperback)

Explaining what art is and what's not art. What is art? Why do we find some things beautiful but not others? Is it wrong to share MP3s? These are just some of the questions explored by aesthetics, the philosophy of art. In this sweeping introduction, Charles Taliaferro skilfully guides us through

Content Analysis: An Introduction to Its Methodology (Krippendorff Klaus)(Paperback)

What matters in people's social lives? What motivates and inspires our society? How do we enact what we know? Since the first edition published in 1980, Content Analysis has helped shape and define the field. In the highly anticipated Fourth Edition, award-winning scholar and author Klaus

Beauty and Art: 1750-2000 (Prettejohn Elizabeth)(Paperback)

What do we mean when we call a work of art beautiful? How have artists responded to changing notions of the beautiful? Which works of art have been called beautiful, and why? Fundamental and intriguing questions to artists and art lovers, but ones that are all too often ignored in discussions of

The Invented Reality: How Do We Know What We Believe We Know? (Watzlawick Paul)(Paperback)

This book examines how individual, social, scientific, and ideological 'realities' are constructed, after which we naively assume they are the 'real' realities. Contributors include Ernst von Glaserfeld (known for his cognitive studies with chimpanzees); cybeneticist Heinz von Foerster; David L

Social Skills: Developing Effective Interpersonal Communication (Kelly Alex)(Paperback)

What can we do to help those who struggle to develop effective social skills?Social Skills: Developing Effective Interpersonal Communication is a definitive guide to understanding and meeting the needs of those who have difficulty with social skills. Written in a clear and accessible manner, this

The Culture of Design (Julier Guy)(Paperback)

What is the social impact of design? How do culture and economics shape the objects and spaces we take for granted? How do design objects, designers, producers and consumers interrelate to create experience? How do new networks of communication and technology change the design process? Thoroughly

What Do We Know and What Should We Do about Immigration? (Portes Jonathan)(Paperback)

Why We Make Art: And Why It Is Taught (Hickman Richard)(Paperback)

In this thorough and accessible text, Richard Hickman rejects the current vogue for social and cultural accounts of the nature of art-making in favour of a largely psychological approach aimed at addressing contemporary developmental issues in art education. This second edition will be an important

Zen and the Art of Happiness (Prentiss Chris)(Paperback)

Cutting-edge science and spirituality tell us that what we believe, think, and feel actually determine the makeup of our body at the cellular level. In Zen and the Art of Happiness, you will learn how to think and feel so that what you think and feel creates happiness and vibrancy in your life

Making Software: What Really Works, and Why We Believe It (Oram Andy)(Paperback)

Many claims are made about how certain tools, technologies, and practices improve software development. But which claims are verifiable, and which are merely wishful thinking? In this book, leading thinkers such as Steve McConnell, Barry Boehm, and Barbara Kitchenham offer essays that uncover the

Post-Truth: Peak Bullshit - And What We Can Do about It (Davis Evan)(Paperback)

'A Malcolm Gladwell-style social psychology/behavioural economics primer' Evening Standard Low-level dishonesty is rife everywhere, in the form of exaggeration, selective use of facts, economy with the truth, careful drafting - from Trump and the Brexit debate to companies that tell us 'your call

Intersections of Financial Literacy, Citizenship, and Spirituality: Examining a Forbidden Frontier of Social Education (Lucey Thomas A.)(Paperback)

Conversations about social education curricula largely neglect elements of spirituality and consciousness. This omission undermines the quality of the learning that occurs. This book presents spirituality as a legitimate basis for reframing these social decision-making by examining how revisiting

Art as a Social System (Luhmann Niklas)(Paperback)

This is the definitive analysis of art as a social and perceptual system by Germany's leading social theorist of the late twentieth century. It not only represents an important intellectual step in discussions of art--in its rigor and in its having refreshingly set itself the task of creating a set

Emotional Judo: Communication Skills to Handle Difficult Conversations and Boost Emotional Intelligence (Higgs Tim)(Paperback)

Difficult Conversations made Easy If getting good results in high-stakes conversations is important to you. If you want the: *self confidence, to speak up in the face of intimidation *self control, to keep your cool and not injure your relationships and reputation *influence, to get people on side

The Everyday Practice of Public Art: Art, Space, and Social Inclusion (Cartiere Cameron)(Paperback)

The Everyday Practice of Public Art: Art, Space, and Social Inclusion is a multidisciplinary anthology of analyses exploring the expansion of contemporary public art issues beyond the built environment. It follows the highly successful publication The Practice of Public Art (eds. Cartiere and

Hard Conversations Unpacked: The Whos, the Whens, and the What-Ifs (Abrams Jennifer B.)(Paperback)

Learn to speak up for what really matters In Having Hard Conversations, Jennifer Abrams showed educators how to confront colleagues about work-related issues through a planned, interactive, and personal approach. In this sequel, readers move deeper into preparing for those conversations while

Tacit and Explicit Knowledge (Collins Harry)(Paperback)

Much of what humans know we cannot say. And much of what we do we cannot describe. For example, how do we know how to ride a bike when we can't explain how we do it? Abilities like this were called 'tacit knowledge' by physical chemist and philosopher Michael Polanyi, but here Harry Collins

This Way To Departures (Mannheim Linda)(Paperback / softback)

What happens when we leave the places we're from? What do we lose, who do we become, and what parts of our pasts are unshakeable? Mannheim's second story collection focuses on twelve people who have relocated - both voluntarily and involuntarily. Opening with the Miami-set thriller 'Noir', these

We Need to Talk: How to Have Conversations That Matter (Headlee Celeste)(Paperback)

'WE NEED TO TALK.'Now in paperback, public radio journalist Celeste Headlee's insightful and urgent book on how to bridge what divides us--by having real conversationsBASED ON THE TED TALK WITH OVER 10 MILLION VIEWSNPR's Best Books of 2017'We Need to Talk is an important read for a

What Patients Say, What Doctors Hear (Ofri Danielle)(Paperback)

Can refocusing conversations between doctors and their patients lead to better health? Despite modern medicine's infatuation with high-tech gadgetry, the single most powerful diagnostic tool is the doctor-patient conversation, which can uncover the lion's share of illnesses. However, what patients

One Who Wrote Destiny (Shukla Nikesh)(Paperback / softback)

'A funny and moving novel about what we inherit and what we create for ourselves' Sunday