Marcia Iwatate, "Eat. Work. Shop.: New Japanese Design"
English | ISBN: 0794602517 | 2004 | 208 pages | AZW3 | 12 MB
Vibrant color photography and compelling text make this the ultimate guide to modern Japanese life. Readers the world over will marvel at this collection of 21st-century commercial sites in Japan. Seven of the country's foremost architects showcase their ideas in 34 shops, restaurants, salons, bars and spas. In collaboration with a new generation of entrepreneurs, these designers are reshaping basic concepts of how contemporary Japanese eat, work and shop. Beautifully photographed, the locations in this book reflect everything from postmodern industrialism to suggestive eroticism. A whole new language of design, propelled by the Japanese penchants for innovation, has given this generation a carte blanche to redefine Japan as the world's next cultural superpower, unhindered by the barriers of tradition.
Jean Lau Chin, "Diversity and Leadership"
English | ISBN: 1452257892 | 2014 | 344 pages | AZW3 | 2 MB
Although leadership theories have evolved to reflect changing social contexts, many remain silent on issues of equity, diversity, and social justice. Diversity and Leadership, by Jean Lau Chin and Joseph E. Trimble, offers a new paradigm for examining leadership by bringing together two domains―research on leadership and research on diversity―to challenge existing notions of leadership and move toward a diverse and global view of society and its institutions. This compelling book delivers an approach to leadership that is inclusive, promotes access for diverse leaders, and addresses barriers that narrowly confine our perceptions and expectations of leaders. Redefining leadership as global and diverse, the authors impart new understanding of who our leaders are, the process of communication, exchange between leaders and their members, criteria for selecting, training, and evaluating leaders in the 21st century, and the organizational and societal contexts in which leadership is exercised.
Difficult Riddles For Smart Kids: 300 Difficult Riddles And Brain Teasers Families Will Love by M Prefontaine
English | May 17, 2017 | ISBN: 1546595902 | 79 pages | Rar (PDF, AZW3) | 0.79 Mb
Brain Teasers for Kids - Riddles for the Whole Family
Depression, Anxiety, and Other Things We Don't Want to Talk About
By Ryan Casey Waller
English | 2020 | ISBN : 1400221323 | 256 pages | EPUB | 1 MB
Decorating Small Spaces: Live Large in Any Space by Vicki L. Ingham
English | 2004 | ISBN: 0696218615 | 194 pages | PDF | 127 MB
How to apply basic principles for enhancing small spaces.
Creative Approaches to Photographing People by Vincent Colabella
English | 1986 | ISBN: 0817437142 | 138 pages | PDF | 103 MB
Colabella's work has appeared in Harper's Bazaar , Forbes , and Folio. He specializes in portraits. This is a collection of commercial and private portraits with diagrams describing placement of lights, reflectors, and camera for each. Colabella preplans pose and setting via research and sketches; ideally, both subject and photographer bring preconceived ideas to the sitting. The portrait then is a synthesis, although featuring the photographer's interpretation of his subject. This tell-all-you-know approach combined with trite characterizations tends to lead to distracting backgrounds and well-lit but superficial pictures. Beautifully produced with big colored pictures on almost every page, but not a necessary purchase.
Counseling Gifted and Talented Children: A Guide for Teachers, Counselors, and Parents (Creativity Research) by Roberta M. Milgram
English | ISBN: 0893917737 | 1991 | PDF | 280 pages | 14,5 mb
There is a gap between the enormous need for counseling services and research about the counseling needs of gifted individuals, on the one hand, and the limited availability of such services and knowledge on the other.
Continuity and Change in China's Rural Development: Collective and Reform Eras in Perspective by Louis Putterman
English | ISBN: 0195078721 | 1993 | PDF | 392 pages | 24,9 mb
With the ascendancy of Deng Xiaoping in 1978, China began a program of agricultural reform intended to increase productivity.
Allen Jackson, "Contemporary Perspective on GWR Signalling: Semaphore Swansong"
English | 2015 | ISBN: 1847979491 | 192 pages | EPUB | 75.4 MB
For over 150 years Britain's railways have relied on a system of semaphore signalling, but by 2020, all semaphore signals and lineside signal boxes will be gone. A Contemporary Perspective on GWR Signalling provides a unique record of the last operational mechanical signalling and infrastructure on Britain's railway network, as it applied to the former Great Western Railway (and lines owned jointly with other companies). It also includes a comprehensive explanation of what mechanical signalling is and how it works. Beautifully illustrated with over 400 contemporary images and with detailed information from a 2003-2014 survey, this is an essential resource for anyone with an interest in the traditional signalling systems of railways in Britain. The book covers:
Consumption and the Literary Cookbook by Roxanne Harde and Janet Wesselius
English | Nov 18, 2020 | ISBN: 0367635305, 0367611368 | 254 pages | PDF | 16 MB
Consumption and the Literary Cookbook offers readers the first book-length study of literary cookbooks. Imagining the genre more broadly to include narratives laden with recipes, cookbooks based on cultural productions including films, plays, and television series, and cookbooks that reflected and/or shaped cultural and historical narratives, the contributors draw on the tools of literary and cultural studies to closely read a diverse corpus of cookbooks. By focusing on themes of consumption―gastronomical and rhetorical―the sixteen chapters utilize the recipes and the narratives surrounding them as lenses to study identity, society, history, and culture. The chapters in this book reflect the current popularity of foodie culture as they offer entertaining analyses of cookbooks, the stories they tell, and the stories told about them.