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by Andrew Reilly, Professor Alison Goodrum, Kim K. P. Johnson
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2014
Key Concepts for the Fashion Industry is the first concise and accessible overview of fashion theories for students on any fashion course. Providing an easy understanding of the core concepts, from scarcity to conformity, this book offers clear, practical examples and accessible case studies, making...
The Social Atom
Why the Rich Get Richer, Cheaters Get Caught, and Your Neighbor Usually Looks Like You
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2008
The idiosyncrasies of human decision-making have confounded economists and social theorists for years. If each person makes choices for personal (and often irrational) reasons, how can people's choices be predicted by a single theory? How can any economic, social, or political theory be valid? The...
The Health Gap
The Challenge of an Unequal World
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2015
In Baltimore's inner-city neighborhood of Upton/Druid Heights, a man's life expectancy is sixty-three; not far away, in the Greater Roland Park/Poplar neighborhood, life expectancy is eighty-three. The same twenty-year avoidable disparity exists in the Calton and Lenzie neighborhoods of Glasgow, and...
by Anthony Bourdain
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2008
Anthony Bourdain, host of Parts Unknown, reveals "twenty-five years of sex, drugs, bad behavior and haute cuisine" in his breakout New York Times bestseller Kitchen Confidential.
Bourdain spares no one's appetite when he told all about what happens behind the kitchen door. Bourdain...
Writing on the Wall
Social Media - The First 2,000 Years
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2013
From the bestselling author of A History of the World in 6 Glasses, the story of social media from ancient Rome to the Arab Spring and beyond.
Social media is anything but a new phenomenon. From the papyrus letters that Cicero and other Roman statesmen used to exchange news, to the hand-printed...
Obamacare: What's in It for Me?
What Everyone Needs to Know About the Affordable Care Act
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2013
On January 1, 2014, the most important consumer protections in ObamaCare (the Affordable Care Act) go into effect. With both supporters and opponents of the law debating its merits and its controversial rollout, there is a need for “news-you-can-use” types of resources from credible third parties.
Enter...
Grindhouse
Cultural Exchange on 42nd Street, and Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2016
The pervasive image of New York's 42nd Street as a hub of sensational thrills, vice and excess, is from where "grindhouse cinema,†? the focus of this volume, stemmed. It is, arguably, an image that has remained unchanged in the mind's eye of many exploitation film fans and academics alike....
A Game Plan for Life
The Power of Mentoring
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2009
From the legendary basketball coach who inspired generations of athletes and businesspeople, an inspiring book about the power of mentoring and being mentored.
After eight books, many of them bestsellers, A Game Plan for Life was the one closest to John Wooden's heart: a moving and inspirational...
Unretirement
How Baby Boomers are Changing the Way We Think About Work, Community, and the Good Life
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2014
The budget battles of recent years have amplified the warnings of demographic doomsayers who predicted that a wave of baby boomers would bleed America dry, bankrupting Social Security and Medicare as they faded into an impoverished old age. On the contrary, argues award-winning journalist Chris Farrell,...
Logicomix
An epic search for truth
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2015
This exceptional graphic novel recounts the spiritual odyssey of philosopher Bertrand Russell. In his agonized search for absolute truth, Russell crosses paths with legendary thinkers like Gottlob Frege, David Hilbert, and Kurt Gödel, and finds a passionate student in the great Ludwig Wittgenstein....
Animal Comics
Multispecies Storyworlds in Graphic Narratives
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2017
Animal characters abound in graphic narratives ranging from Krazy Kat and Maus to WE3 and Terra Formars. Exploring these and other multispecies storyworlds presented in words and images, Animal Comics draws together work in comics studies, narrative theory, and cross-disciplinary research on animal...
by Seymour Chwast
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2014
The "left-handed designer," Seymour Chwast has been putting his unparalleled take-and influence-on the world of illustration and design for the last half century. In his version of Dante's Divine Comedy, Chwast's first graphic novel, Dante and his guide Virgil don fedoras and wander through...
by Alecos Papadatos, Abraham Kawa, Annie Di Donna
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2015
Democracy opens in 490 B.C., with Athens at war. The hero of the story, Leander, is trying to rouse his comrades for the morrow's battle against a far mightier enemy, and begins to recount his own life, having borne direct witness to the evils of the old tyrannical regimes and to the emergence of...
Going into Town
A Love Letter to New York
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2017
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