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Book Gili s Book

    Book Details:
  • Author : Henya Kagan
  • Publisher : New York : Teachers College Press
  • Release : 1998
  • ISBN : 9780807737460
  • Pages : 157 pages

Download or read book Gili s Book written by Henya Kagan and published by New York : Teachers College Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 157 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the personal and heartbreaking testimonial of a mother and psychologist who experienced the untimely death of her 11-year-old daughter, Gili, by a reckless driver. Unsparing in its honesty, it is written as an ongoing dialogue between the bereaved mother and her deceased daughter. Intertwined with Gili's writings and artwork, Gili's life and death unfold in tears and in laughter. Eventually, the mother steps aside and the trained counselor takes over, making observations and drawing conclusions about the process of bereavement. We witness something very important in Gili's Book as the author both describes her personal experience as a bereaved parent and presents a new theoretical model of parental bereavement.

Book Luxury of Space

Download or read book Luxury of Space written by Oberto Gili and published by Assouline Books & Gifts. This book was released on 2003 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fleeting human moments memorialized by Oberto Gili's camera translate formally into beautifully balanced classical images. His camera, like his personality, is whimsical questioning, non-judgemental and tenderly objective. Gili's images of interiors capture fundamental moments of human existence, quiet moments and basic needs, wether it's a man on sitting on his coach surrounded by his dogs, a young couple getting into bed, a woman watching herself getting dressed in the mirror or a girl swimming alone in a pool, we experience narrative, isolation, intrusion through Gili's lens. Gili shows us different perspectives of home: color, happiness, sex, depression, arrogance, creativity, simplicity, boredom. These images in this stunning volume are a diairy of the interiors and situations that have, over the last thirty years, strung Gili's curiosity and fantasy the most. Simple, still and understated, Gili's images of interiors all have possibility as their subtext. Illustrated

Book Home Sweet Home

    Book Details:
  • Author : Oberto Gili
  • Publisher : Rizzoli International Publications
  • Release : 2011
  • ISBN : 9780847836604
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Home Sweet Home written by Oberto Gili and published by Rizzoli International Publications. This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A visual feast on 'the extravagance of the bohemian', the homes in this collection are a testament to personal style that readers will find inspiring and influential. Since the 1970s, Oberto Gili has been one of the most prolific lenses in the world of editorial photography, his lush images of fashion and interiors gracing the pages of House & Garden, Town & Country, and Vogue. This collection of his signature interior photography spans this significant career. Gili's passion for the grand, bold, and quirky granted him access to the inner sanctums of both high society and the bohemian demimonde. The selection includes numerous homes of French and Italian nobility, lords of the European and American creative class, and the photographer's own remarkable Piedmont farmhouse. This volume of Gili's best work is a sumptuous and voyeuristic study of his most arresting interiors and emphasizes the adventurous nature of both the homes and their occupants. These homes exude in turns grandeur, whimsy, and tranquility, each interior imbued with the unique style of its occupants. The book features more than 40 homes throughout the world--from New York penthouses and artist lofts to seventeenth-century Italian villas and country homes in Morocco--each personally selected by Gili and shown in full. Each house is accompanied by a short descriptive text by Susanna Salk. Sprinkled throughout the book are 10 short texts by selected homeowners (Isabella Rossellini, Mary Randolph Carter, Muriel Brandolini, Marella Caracciolo, Paul Fortune, and Beatrice Monti, among others) describing a personal history of the individual spaces.

Book Science in the Modern World Polity

Download or read book Science in the Modern World Polity written by Gili S. Drori and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work uses cross-national and longitudinal empirical research to explain the rise, nature, and impact of science as an authoritative worldwide institution. The authors analyze the ever-increasing investment in science, the diffusion of scientific discourse, and the hegemony of scientific organizations.

Book Sleeping Beauty

    Book Details:
  • Author : Debbie Clark
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2011-11-01
  • ISBN : 9780857802347
  • Pages : 32 pages

Download or read book Sleeping Beauty written by Debbie Clark and published by . This book was released on 2011-11-01 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book World Society

Download or read book World Society written by Georg Krücken and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2010-06-17 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John W. Meyer's work broke new grounds in institutional thought in sociology and made him a central thinker for the emerging interdisciplinary field of neoinstitutionalism, while at the same time establishing institutional thought's comparative variant, world society theory. His scholarship plays a prominent role in contemporary social theory, and has shaped research areas such as international relations and globalization, organization theory, and management studies. One of the results of Meyer's wide-ranging and interdisciplinary influence is that his work has appeared in a diverse range of outlets. This book brings together some of John W. Meyer's widely-scattered work, reviewing four decades of scholarship, and adding several original pieces from Meyer's current work. It gathers substantive commentary on social processes, from stratification to globalization to socialization, as well as on key social institutions, from science to religion to law to education. In its expansive review, this book is both about neoinstitutional thought in general and world society theory in particular. This book is both by John W. Meyer and about John W. Meyer: to the compilation of Meyer's canonized and current work, Georg Krücken and Gili S. Drori add an essay on the theoretical and empirical contribution of Meyer's institutional theory, placing it within the broader context of contemporary social theory, globalization research, and organizational studies in both in the United States and Europe.

Book More Than I Love My Life

Download or read book More Than I Love My Life written by David Grossman and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2021 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "From the internationally best-selling author--and revered moral voice--a remarkable novel of suffering, love, and healing, the story of three generations of women and a secret that needs to be told. The story was inspired by the life of a friend and confidante of David Grossman who, in the late 1940s, was imprisoned and tortured on the notorious Goli Otok, a barren island prison off the coast of Croatia. Grossman's telling focuses on three strong women--Vera, 90; her daughter, Nina; and her granddaughter, Gili, who at 39 years old is a filmmaker and a wary consumer of affection. A bitter secret divides each mother and daughter pair, though Gili--abandoned when she was just three by Nina--has been close to her grandmother throughout her life. With Gili making the arrangements, they travel together back to Goli ("the Adriatic Alcatraz"), where Vera was imprisoned, enslaved, and tortured for three years as a young wife, when she refused to betray her husband and denounce him as an enemy of the people. This unlikely journey, documented by Gili's camera, lays bare the intertwining of fear, love, and mercy, and the complex overlapping demands of romantic and parental passion. With flashbacks to the stalwart Vera protecting what was most precious on the wretched rock where she was held, and Grossman's fearless examination of the human heart, this swift novel will thrill his many readers and bring new ones into the fold"--

Book Domus

    Book Details:
  • Author : Oberto Gili
  • Publisher : Rizzoli Publications
  • Release : 2016-10-11
  • ISBN : 0847849279
  • Pages : 306 pages

Download or read book Domus written by Oberto Gili and published by Rizzoli Publications. This book was released on 2016-10-11 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An insider’s tour of the most creative and inspiring rooms belonging to tastemakers—artists, interior designers, craftspeople, collectors, and aristocrats—in Italy today. Italy has been a source of inspiration for generations of artists and lovers of beauty. In this book, Italians Oberto Gili and Marella Caracciolo Chia take us around the country and into the homes of some of its most stylish habitués. From rural estates in Tuscany and spectacular seaside villas to an eighteenth-century palace in Puglia and city residences in Turin, Milan, Venice, Rome, and Naples, the properties reveal the unique personal visions of the owners and the inescapable appeal of Italian style. The diversity of places echoes the wide range of geographical contexts. Each interior acts as a source of surprise and an impetus for creativity, reflecting the individual tastes and talents of those who live and have lived there—designer Carlo Mollino, couturier Stephan Janson, art and literary scholar Mario Praz, and artists Sandro Chia and Alessandro Twombly. In addition to the houses of artists and craftspeople, rooms of visionary interior designers, such as Camilla Guinness, Roberto Peregalli, and Laura Sartori Rimini, are also included. This book—an intimate glimpse into some of the most beautiful and inaccessible dwellings in Italy today—is perfect for aesthetically minded readers with an interest in interior design, Italy, and the art of fine living.

Book Blindness Through the Looking Glass

Download or read book Blindness Through the Looking Glass written by Gili Hammer and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2019-10-03 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Modern Western culture is saturated with images, imprinting visual standards of concepts such as beauty and femininity onto our collective consciousness. Blindness Through the Looking Glass examines how gender and femininity are performed and experienced in everyday life by women who do not rely on sight as their dominant mode of perception, identifying the multiple senses involved in the formation of gender identity within social interactions. Challenging visuality as the dominant mode to understand gender, social performance, and visual culture, the book offers an ethnographic investigation of blindness (and sight) as a human condition, putting both blindness and vision “on display” by discussing people’s auditory, tactile, and olfactory experiences as well as vision and sight, and by exploring ways that individuals perform blindness and “sightedness” in their everyday lives. Based on in-depth interviews with 40 blind women in Israel and anthropological fieldwork, the book investigates the social construction and daily experience of blindness in a range of domains. Uniquely, the book brings together blind symbolism with the everyday experiences of blind and sighted individuals, joining in mutual conversation the fields of disability studies, visual culture, anthropology of the senses, and gender studies.

Book Globalization and Organization

Download or read book Globalization and Organization written by Gili S. Drori and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2006-05-18 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The process of globalization has meant the intensification of global interdependencies and the consolidation of the global as a social horizon, and this has provided fertile breeding grounds for new organizations and the elaboration of extinct ones, This book describes and analyzes these organizations, and the modern managerialism that has accompanied them, looking at such issues as management education, corporate governance, accounting, and human resource management.

Book The Nutcracker

Download or read book The Nutcracker written by Jenni Fleetwood and published by Orchard Books. This book was released on 2000 with total page 12 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This pop-up book tells the story of the Nutcracker ballet. With tabs and flaps you can make the Nutcracker fight the Mouse King, see Clara's sleigh glide through the snow and watch the dancers kick up their heels in the grand finale.

Book City Parks

    Book Details:
  • Author : Catie Marron
  • Publisher : Harper Collins
  • Release : 2013-10-15
  • ISBN : 0062231804
  • Pages : 278 pages

Download or read book City Parks written by Catie Marron and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2013-10-15 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Catie Marron’s City Parks captures the spirit and beauty of eighteen of the world’s most-loved city parks. Zadie Smith, Ian Frazier, Candice Bergen, Colm Tóibín, Nicole Krauss, Jan Morris, and a dozen other remarkable contributors reflect on a particular park that holds special meaning for them. Andrew Sean Greer eloquently paints a portrait of first love in the Presidio; André Aciman muses on time’s fleeting nature and the changing face of New York viewed from the High Line; Pico Iyer explores hidden places and privacy in Kyoto; Jonathan Alter takes readers from the 1968 race riots to Obama’s 2008 victory speech in Chicago’s Grant Park; Simon Winchester invites us along on his adventures in the Maidan; and Bill Clinton writes of his affection for Dumbarton Oaks. Oberto Gili’s color and black-and-white photographs unify the writers’ unique and personal voices. Taken around the world over the course of a year, in every season, his pictures capture the inherent mood of each place. Fusing images and text, City Parks is an extraordinary and unique project: through personal reflection and intimate detail it taps into collective memory and our sense of time’s passage.

Book Cinderella

    Book Details:
  • Author :
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2011-11-01
  • ISBN : 9780857802316
  • Pages : 32 pages

Download or read book Cinderella written by and published by . This book was released on 2011-11-01 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Giligadu

    Book Details:
  • Author : Chitra Mudgal
  • Publisher : Niyogi Books
  • Release : 2019
  • ISBN : 9389136059
  • Pages : 150 pages

Download or read book Giligadu written by Chitra Mudgal and published by Niyogi Books. This book was released on 2019 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Giligadu: the lost days, by the 2018 Sahitya Akademi Award winner Chitra Mudgal, is a multi-layered novelette short in length, yet deep in meaning and messages for urban India. It is unique in the subtle way it conveys, both to the aged (who chafe at the apparent loss of respect and control) and to the not-so-old (who deserve to live their life on their terms), through the pen of a creative genius, a dignified way out of this two-pronged dilemma: a bold break with traditions and setting new societal rules. It can prove a relief to the mini-wars waged within families and be a recipe for lasting peace and amicable relations. Set in a time frame of 13 days, with two old men as the main Characters, it analyses the relevance of older values in present day life and the need to change with the times. A page-turner that leaves the reader satisfied and encourages introspection.

Book The Sleeping Beauty

    Book Details:
  • Author : Phillida Gili
  • Publisher : Harper Festival
  • Release : 1995
  • ISBN : 9780694006878
  • Pages : 10 pages

Download or read book The Sleeping Beauty written by Phillida Gili and published by Harper Festival. This book was released on 1995 with total page 10 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The enchanting timeless classic of the wicked witch and the prince who parts a forest to rescue the princess comes to life with pop-ups, pull tabs, life-the-flaps, and a red ribbon closure.

Book I is for Israel

    Book Details:
  • Author : Gili Bar-Hillel
  • Publisher : Frances Lincoln Children's Books
  • Release : 2016-03-03
  • ISBN : 9781847808271
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book I is for Israel written by Gili Bar-Hillel and published by Frances Lincoln Children's Books. This book was released on 2016-03-03 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The new title in the acclaimed and longstanding Frances Lincoln World Alphabets series takes Israel as its subject. From Alahan--hello and welcome--to delicious Falafel; from Jerusalem, the holy city for Jews, Christians, and Muslims, to Water, most precious in a desert land...Written and photographed in Israel, this is the perfect introduction to a fascinating and diverse country.

Book Trino  The Definitive Guide

Download or read book Trino The Definitive Guide written by Matt Fuller and published by "O'Reilly Media, Inc.". This book was released on 2021-04-14 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Perform fast interactive analytics against different data sources using the Trino high-performance distributed SQL query engine. With this practical guide, you'll learn how to conduct analytics on data where it lives, whether it's Hive, Cassandra, a relational database, or a proprietary data store. Analysts, software engineers, and production engineers will learn how to manage, use, and even develop with Trino. Initially developed by Facebook, open source Trino is now used by Netflix, Airbnb, LinkedIn, Twitter, Uber, and many other companies. Matt Fuller, Manfred Moser, and Martin Traverso show you how a single Trino query can combine data from multiple sources to allow for analytics across your entire organization. Get started: Explore Trino's use cases and learn about tools that will help you connect to Trino and query data Go deeper: Learn Trino's internal workings, including how to connect to and query data sources with support for SQL statements, operators, functions, and more Put Trino in production: Secure Trino, monitor workloads, tune queries, and connect more applications; learn how other organizations apply Trino