Author: Kali Tzortzi File Type: pdf Museums are among the iconic buildings of the twenty-first century, as remarkable for their architectural diversity as for the variety of collections they display. But how does the architecture of museums affect our experience as visitors? This book proposes that by seeing space as common ground between architecture and museology, and so between the museum building and its display, we can illuminate the individuality of each museum and the distinctive experience it offers - for example, how some museums create a sense of personal exploration, while others are more intensely didactic, and how the visit in some cases is transformed into a spatial experience and in other cases into a more social event. The book starts with an overview of the history of museum buildings and display strategies, and a discussion of theoretical and critical approaches. It then focuses on specific museums as in-depth case studies, and uses methods of spatial analysis to look at the key design choices available to architects and curators, and their effects on visitors behaviour. Theoretically grounded, methodologically original, and richly illustrated, this book will equip students, researchers and professionals in the fields of architecture, museum studies, curating, exhibition design, and cultural studies, with a guide for studying museums and a theoretical framework for their interpretation. **
Author: Rebecca B. Rubin
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Expanding and building on the measures included in the original 1994 volume, Communication Research Measures II A Sourcebook provides new measures in mass, interpersonal, instructional, and grouporganizational communication areas, and highlights work in newer subdisciplines in communication, including intercultural, family, and health. It also includes measures from outside the communication discipline that have been employed in communication research. The measures profiled here are the best of the best from the early 1990s through today. They are models for future scale development as well as tools for the trade, and they constitute the main tools that researchers can use for self-administered measurement of peoples attitudes, conceptions of themselves, and perceptions of others. The focus is on up-to-date measures and the most recent scales and indexes used to assess communication variables. Providing suggestions for measurement of concepts of interest to researchers inspiring students to consider research directions not considered previously and supplying models for scale developers to follow in terms of the work necessary to produce a valid and reliable measurement instrument in the discipline, the authors of this key resource have developed a significant contribution toward improving measurement and providing measures for better science. **
Author: Erdal Balci
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Een stad verscheurd tussen twee werelddelen In Istanbul pendelen de hele dag ponten heen en weer tussen de twee continenten Europa en Azie. De inwoners van deze wereldstad steken de Bosporus over om naar het andere deel van de stad te gaan, leggen daar een familiebezoek af, gaan er zaken doen, of eten en drinken. Erdal Balci reist met deze bewoners mee, spreekt met hen, filosofeert over zijn stad en legt de geschiedenis ervan bloot, mijmert over zijn kindertijd, en denkt na over de mensen die hij hier op de pont en elders heeft leren kennen. Zo ontmoet hij de theeverkoper, de man die verlangt naar zijn vroegere leven in Amsterdam, de onheilsprofeet met de haviksneus en anderen die vol verhalen zitten. Op het water van de Bosporus zijn alle levens net zo verscheurd als Turkije zelf. Vandaag geen pont is een ontroerend boek waarin Erdal Balci op poetische wijze aan de hand van de verhalen die hij op de pont hoort, zijn eigen ziel en die van zijn land blootlegt.
Author: Gregory S. Smith
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Essential reading for IT professionals with aspirations toward the top IT spot, and forsitting CIOs looking to refine their mobile, social and cloud strategies and knowledgeThe definitive work on how to achieve leadership success in IT, Straight to the Top,SecondEdition reveals how the role of the CIO is changing due to major trends associated withconsumer and enterprise products and technologies driving new mobile solutions in todaysorganizations cloud computing and the move away from controlled internally managed datacenters to pay as you use and elastic cloud infrastructure and application services and theimpact social media is having on todays complex organizations. Author Gregory S. Smith expertly coaches existing and aspiring CIOs on building therequisite skills through his observations and experience as a veteran CIO with more thantwenty-five years of experience leading IT teams and delivering complex technical solutions inthe information technology field.An invaluable guide to help information technology and business professionals recognize thequalities, skills, and expertise necessary to attain the role of a CIO or enhance the skillsforsitting CIOsEquips IT managers, CIOs, and CTOs to strategically plan their career movesPacked with encouragement, advice, and essential skills for aspiring and sitting CIOsFeatures interviews with leading IT professionals, CIOs, and executive recruitingprofessionalsProviding an organized and comprehensive view of the CIO job and its important role inmodern organizations, Straight to the Top, Second Edition equips sitting CIOs and CIOcandidates with the strategies and knowledge necessary to be successful in the new businessnormal - a mobile, social and cloud-based world, and how to provide technology leadership as aworld-class CIO.
Author: Kerem Nisancioglu
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Mainstream historical accounts of the development of capitalism describe a process which is fundamentally European - a system that was born in the mills and factories of England or under the guillotines of the French Revolution. In this groundbreaking book, a very different story is told. How the West Came to Rule offers a unique interdisciplinary and international historical account of the origins of capitalism. It argues that contrary to the dominant wisdom, capitalisms origins should not be understood as a development confined to the geographically and culturally sealed borders of Europe, but the outcome of a wider array of global processes in which non-European societies played a decisive role. Through an outline of the uneven histories of Mongolian expansion, New World discoveries, Ottoman-Habsburg rivalry, the development of the Asian colonies and bourgeois revolutions, Alexander Anievas and Kerem Nisancioglu provide an account of how these diverse events and processes came together to produce capitalism.**
Author: Thich Nhat Hanh
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Koreas premier poet, the former Buddhist monk Ko Un, presents 108 Zen poems. Ko Un, who is affectionately called the great mountain peak by his friends, is a traveler on the Way. Throughout his eventful life as monk, poet, novelist, political dissident, husband and father, Ko Un has dashed like a galloping horse, always moving and searching. When this volume first appeared in 1997 with the title Beyond Self, Ko Un and the translators were not very happy with it. In addition to now receiving a title which more accurately reflects the the original Korean, the translations have been slightly revised to bring them closer to the originals. Also added were eleven original brush painting by the author. It is a joy to re-introduce Ko Un, a compassionate poet, who said that A poet should cry many days before becoming a poet. A poet must have cried for others when he was three or four years old. The poems in this volume offer 108 glimpses of Ko Un. His poems are also 108 ways to look at ourselves. Forewords by Thich Nhat Hanh and Allen Ginsberg. 11 new brush-painting illustrations by the author.**ReviewReviews for the previous edition Thich Nhat Hanh skillfully penetrates, like a diamond needle, to the very marrow of his subject. In its suitably quiet way, this book is a masterpiece. New Asia review Thich Nhat Hanhs narrative and meditation on love and compassion is so skillfully presented that before one knows it, the gap between master and student, between Asian and American, and between East and West has seamlessly melted away. Parabola Thich Nhat Hanhs most personally revealing work. Turning Wheel I am continually amazed at how Thich Nhat Hanh is able to translate the Buddhist tradition into everyday life and make it relevant and helpful for so many people. Cultivating the Mind of Love just might be my favorite book of his . From the Foreword by Natalie Goldberg, author of Writing Down the Bones About the AuthorKo Un, Alan Ginsburg,Thich Nhat Hanh. Ko Uns work is known across the world, with many translations being published in every major language. He himself has made countless journeys, visiting every continent and reading to large audiences with many of the most significant poets of todays world. He has published many volumes of poetry the series Maninbo alone now counts some twenty-five volumes. He has been nominated for the Nobel Literature Prize three times, most recently in 2005. Lives in Ansong, South Korea. Thich Nhat Hanh is one of the most revered Zen teachers in the world today. His best-selling books include Happiness and Peace Is Every Step. He lives in Plum Village in southwest France, his meditation and retreat center in France, where he teaches the art of mindful living. Allen Ginsberg (June 3, 1926 - April 5, 1997) was an American Beat poet born in Newark, New Jersey. Ginsberg is best known for Howl (1956), a long poem about consumer societys negative human values.
Author: Ali Smith
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Ali Smith, twice shortlisted for both the Man Booker and the Orange Prizes, is back with the sparkling There but for the... There once was a man who, one night between the main course and the sweet at a dinner party, went upstairs and locked himself in one of the bedrooms of the house of the people who were giving the dinner party . . . As time passes by and the consequences of this strangers actions ripple outwards, touching the owners, the guests, the neighbours and the whole country, so Ali Smith draws us into a beautiful, strange place where everyone is so much more than they at first appear. There but for the has been hailed as one of the best books of 2011 by Jeanette Winterson, A.S. Byatt, Patrick Ness, Sebastian Barry, Boyd Tonkin, Erica Wagner and Nick Barley. Dazzlingly inventive A.S. Byatt Whimsically devastating. Playful, humorous, serious, profoundly clever and profoundly affecting Guardian A real gem Erica Wagner, The Times Eccentric, adventurous, intoxicating, dazzling. This is a novel with serious ambitions that remains huge fun to read Literary Review If you liked Smiths earlier fiction, you will know that she enjoys setting up a situation before chucking in a literary Molotov cocktail then describing what happens Sunday Express Wonderful, word-playful, compelling Jeanette Winterson Smith can make anything happen, which is why she is one of our most exciting writers today Daily Telegraph I take my hat off to Ali Smith. Her writing lifts the soul Evening Standard Ali Smith is the author of novels Girl Meets Boy, Like and the bestsellers The Accidental and Hotel World. She has published the short story collections The First Person and Other Stories, Free Love and Other Stories, Other Stories and Other Stories and The Whole Story and Other Stories. She has been twice-shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, twice nominated for the Orange Prize and won the Whitbread Novel of the Year in 2005.
Author: Peter Damian
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This volume, the fifth in the series of volumes containing the one hundred and eighty letters written by the eleventh-century monk Peter Damian, contains careful and annotated translations of Damians Letters 121-150. Written during the years 1062-66, the letters deal with a wide variety of subjects and provide a contemporary account of many of the controversies of the gripping period in the history of church and state.While previous volumes have included Damians correspondence to a range of people from simple hermits in his community to abbots, bishops, cardinals, Pope Alexander II, and young King Henry IV, this collection of letters includes several addressed to kinsmen. Letter 123 is Damians rather lengthy exhortation to his nephew Damianus encouraging him to seek a pure and virtuous monastic life. Letter 132, written to his nephew Marinus, contains a comprehensive discussion of the virtues proper to the monastic life. And Letter 126 to Alberic of Monte Cassino, presents a good example of Damians principles of biblical exegesis.The remaining letters (151-180) are currently being translated and will be published in the sixth and final volume in Spring 2005. ABOUT THE TRANSLATORSOwen J. Blum, O.F.M., (1912-98) published frequently on Peter Damian and assisted in the critical edition of the Letters published in the series Monumenta Germaniae Historica. He was Professor Emeritus of History at Quincy University. Irven M. Resnick is Professor of Philosophy and Religion, and Chair of Excellence in Judaic Studies, at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga.PRAISE FOR THE BOOKThis well-written and well-presented collection...highlights the gravity and the importance of [Peter Damians] counsel to addresses far and wide, and it brings to the fore contemporaneous issues for both Church and State. Dianne M. Cole, Laval Theologique et Philosophique **
Author: Christopher J. Galdieri
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Examines why some politicians take the drastic step of becoming a carpetbagger and how that shapes their campaigns and chances for victory. Candidates normally run for office in the places where they live. Occasionally, however, a politician will run as a carpetbaggersomeone who moves to a new state for the express purpose of running, or who runs in one state after holding office in another. Stranger in a Strange State examines what makes some politicians take this drastic step and how that shapes their campaigns and chances for victory. Focusing on races for the US Senate from 1964 forward, Christopher J. Galdieri analyzes the campaigns of nine carpetbaggers, including nationally known figures such as Robert F. Kennedy and Hillary Rodham Clinton and less well-known candidates like Elizabeth Cheney and Scott Brown. These case studies draw on archival research, contemporaneous accounts of each campaign, and scholarship on campaigns and representation. While the record reveals that it generally takes national political stature for a carpetbagger to win an election, some recent campaigns suggest that in todays polarized political era, both politicians and state political parties might want to be more open to the prospect of carpetbagging. bChristopher J. Galdierib is Associate Professor of Politics at Saint Anselm College. He is the coeditor (with Jennifer C. Lucas and Tauna S. Sisco) of several books, including Conventional Wisdom, Parties, and Broken Barriers in the 2016 Election The Role of Twitter in the 2016 US Election Political Communication & Strategy Consequences of the 2014 Midterm Elections and Races, Reforms, & Policy Implications of the 2014 Midterm Elections.
Author: John C. Henshall
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This book is about Clarksdale, a small town in Mississippi, USA, and how the local community has revitalised the long-dilapidated downtown, with the renewal based on the towns intimate association with Blues music and the culture that flows through the Mississippi Delta. John Henshall highlights underlying trends in downtown decline and revitalisation in cities and towns in America, together with commentary of his own experience at home in Australia. In Clarksdale, downtown economic revitalisation gained momentum in the mid-2000s as local residents and newcomers focused their entrepreneurial and creative efforts on promoting Clarksdales heritage, which is steeped in Blues music and Delta culture. While much attention to date has been given to large cities from Sydney to San Francisco and from London to New York as creative cities, little has been written about creativity in small cities and towns. This book delves into the positive role played by creative individuals in the economic revitalisation of downtown Clarksdale. The role of urban planning and community interaction is examined, and key lessons are provided for other small cities and towns, as they seek out opportunities to revitalise their downtowns and town centres. **From the Back Cover This book is about Clarksdale, a small town in Mississippi, USA, and how the local community has revitalised the long-dilapidated downtown, with the renewal based on the towns intimate association with Blues music and the culture that flows through the Mississippi Delta. John Henshall highlights underlying trends in downtown decline and revitalisation in cities and towns in America, together with commentary of his own experience at home in Australia. In Clarksdale, downtown economic revitalisation gained momentum in the mid-2000s as local residents and newcomers focused their entrepreneurial and creative efforts on promoting Clarksdales heritage, which is steeped in Blues music and Delta culture. While much attention to date has been given to large cities from Sydney to San Francisco and from London to New York as creative cities, little has been written about creativity in small cities and towns. This book delves into the positive role played by creative individuals in the economic revitalisation of downtown Clarksdale. The role of urban planning and community interaction is examined, and key lessons are provided for other small cities and towns, as they seek out opportunities to revitalise their downtowns and town centres. About the Author John C. Henshall is an urban economist and city planner who has worked with organisations in industry, government and consulting, both in Australia and abroad. Project experience includes urban and regional economic development and land use planning retail, commercial and industrial location and development town centre development and tourism strategies and projects. He has a keen interest in small town development and the factors that drive their economic revitalisation.