For undergraduate courses in Introduction to Film, Introduction to Cinema, and Film Appreciation. Understanding Movies is the best selling film text on the market! Designed to help students analyze movies with precision and technical sophistication, this book focuses on formalism-how the languages of the film (e.g., camera work, editing, ...
Connections: A World History focuses on the connections within and between societies, combining a uniquely comprehensive and consistent map program with a strong pedagogical support and a narrative that students will actually read. Written by historians with years of experience teaching world history, Connections presents both a global and ...
From the creative minds behind one of the world's most innovative flower shops comes a book that will revolutionize the way we buy and use flowers. Includes trade secrets such as using unusual containers, conditioning fresh flowers and reviving wilted ones, wrapping gifts of flowers, and more. Full-color photos.
Award-winning graphic designer John Langdon was perhaps the first practitioner of the art of ambigrams. In this updated edition he adds a significant amount of new material to further enhance the reader's enjoyment of the peculiar illusion created when a word can be read right-side up and upside down.
The story of the author's imprisonment in a WWII internment camp. The camp became a living laboratory, a miniature society that illustrated the human condition and moral dilemmas in a way that would not have been possible had more conventional conditions prevailed.
"The truth of the matter is that our deficiency does not lie in the want of well-verified "facts." What we lack is our bearings. The contemporary experience of things technological has repeatedly confounded our vision, our expectations, and our capacity to make intelligent judgments. Categories, arguments, conclusions, and choices that would have ...
From setting out objectives to compiling the close-down report from finding the right sponsorship to selecting the right software "Project Management" shows you how to plan, run, and monitor a project and explains what to do if things go wrong. It contains a wealth of straightforward expert advice on scheduling and budgeting, building and ...
Connections: A World History focuses on the connections within and between societies, combining a uniquely comprehensive and consistent map program with a strong pedagogical support and a narrative that students will actually read. Written by historians with years of experience teaching world history, Connections presents both a global and ...
Philip Kopper follows the history of the magnificent restoration of Williamsburg, from the colonial days to the present. Over 300 photographs, 165 in full color.
"Goes a long way to highlight the formative influence of her privileged background and her warm relationship with her father, the philandering Jack (Black Jack) Bouvier." - The Los Angeles Times "Entertaining a guilty pleasure." - The Associated Press Born just weeks before his famous first cousin, John Davis grew up alongside Jackie. He draws on ...
Anne Willan, who runs the La Varenne cooking school, has also been the owner of a 17th-century chateau in Burgundy since 1982. This delightful memoir of her time there includes portraits of local friends and artisans, anecdotes about her family, and a selection of recipes from chefs in the area or contributed by friends and family.
Of all Italian painters, Caravaggio (C. 1565-1609) speaks most intensely to the modern world. His early works suggest a fascination with his own youth and sexuality and the trancience of love and beauty his later religious art speaks of violence, passion, solitude and death. Ugly, almost brutal-looking, Caravaggio was constantly embroiled in ...
Learn how to define, develop, and implement a dynamic business strategy with "Strategic Thinking". This concise and informative guide shows you how to plan short- and long-term objectives, how to put together the right team for the right job, how to communicate your vision, and how to maintain a flexible approach by monitoring past performance and ...
Have you finally decided to build that luxury bathroom, complete with sauna or whirlpool? Or do you face the more practical problem of too many people vying for the same shower in your household? Whether one is contemplating a simple cosmetic makeover or gutting the old room and starting from scratch, bathroom renovation has become one of the ...
Setting out from the premise that it doesn't take lots of money to achieve a warm and inviting atmosphere, the author delivers practicality and inspiration that's affordable. Each chapter addresses the most common problems encountered in a particular space-living room, dining room, kitchen, bathroom, bedroom, office, or hall-and presents solutions ...
"The questions he poses about the relationship between technical change and political power are pressing ones that can no longer be ignored, and identifying them is perhaps the most a nascent 'philosophy of technology' can expect to achieve at the present time."--David Dickson, "New York Times Book Review" ""The Whale and the Reactor" is the ...
They read upside down, back to front, in the mirror as well as left to right. In this book Langdon not only presents the reader with a number of strikingly beautiful and arresting ambigrams, but also shows how the very shape of letters can change our ideas of the word itself and its meaning. Filled with word play of all kinds.
EVERYDAY THINGS IN AMERICAN LIFE 1776-1876 By William Chauncy Langdon NEW YORK CHARLES SCRIBNERS SONS 1OOYEARS. AGO See reverse for description COPYRIGHT, 1941, BY CHARLES SCRIBNERS SONS 1-12.60 V Printed in the United States of America All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form without ihe permission of Charles ...
Learn everything you need to know to evaluate and enhance staff performance. Performance Reviews explains how to prepare and conduct an appraisal session and how to follow up with effective action plans. Practical techniques demonstrate how to motivate your staff, and power tips help you to handle real-life situations and develop the skills to ...
The follow-up to Lee Bailey's fabulous bestseller Country Weekends takes readers to such scenic spots as Mendocino, California, Round Top, Texas, Sullivan's Island, South Carolina, and Dorset, Vermont, for great ideas and fabtastic repasts that celebrate long weekends throughout the year. 191 full-color photos.
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