Download or read book Esencia Latina written by and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Without Criteria written by Steven Shaviro and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2012-08-17 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Deleuzian reading of Whitehead and a Whiteheadian reading of Deleuze open the possibility of a critical aesthetics of contemporary culture. In Without Criteria, Steven Shaviro proposes and explores a philosophical fantasy: imagine a world in which Alfred North Whitehead takes the place of Martin Heidegger. What if Whitehead, instead of Heidegger, had set the agenda for postmodern thought? Heidegger asks, “Why is there something, rather than nothing?” Whitehead asks, “How is it that there is always something new?” In a world where everything from popular music to DNA is being sampled and recombined, argues Shaviro, Whitehead's question is the truly urgent one. Without Criteria is Shaviro's experiment in rethinking postmodern theory, especially the theory of aesthetics, from a point of view that hearkens back to Whitehead rather than Heidegger. In working through the ideas of Whitehead and Deleuze, Shaviro also appeals to Kant, arguing that certain aspects of Kant's thought pave the way for the philosophical “constructivism” embraced by both Whitehead and Deleuze. Kant, Whitehead, and Deleuze are not commonly grouped together, but the juxtaposition of them in Without Criteria helps to shed light on a variety of issues that are of concern to contemporary art and media practices.
Download or read book Strategic Thinking written by Cornelis A. De Kluyver and published by Pearson Educación. This book was released on 2000 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Strategic Thinking: An Executive Perspective provides an overview of the major issues in strategy development for corporate executive programs and for practice-oriented executive MBA programs. Any book on such a vast subject as strategy must make compromises and trade-offs. This book is no exception. The choices of what to include, where, and at what level of depth were guided by the book's primary objective as a companion volume to case analysis in an executive setting with a global outlook."--Jacket.
Download or read book The World Through Picture Books written by IFLA Libraries for Children and Young Adults Section and published by . This book was released on with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The World Through Picture Books (WTPB) is a programme of the IFLA Libraries for Children and Young Adults Section in collaboration with IBBY (International Board on Books for Young People) Children's Librarians all over the world understand how important picture books in both traditional and digital formats are for children, for their development, cultural identity and as a springboard into learning to read for themselves. The idea behind the World Through Picture Books was to create a selection of picture books from around the world that have been recommended by librarians, as a way of celebrating and promoting the languages, cultures and quality of children's book publishing globally. The 3rd edition highlights 530 picture books, from 57 countries and featuring 37 languages. It is fully digital and the catalogue as well as a poster and bookmark can be downloaded free of charge." --
Download or read book The Circus Rose written by Betsy Cornwell and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this queer retelling of "Snow White and Rose Red" twins battle religious extremists to save their loves and circus family.
Download or read book Qualitative Choice Analysis written by Kenneth Train and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 1986 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book addresses two significant research areas in an interdependent fashion. It is first of all a comprehensive but concise text that covers the recently developed and widely applicable methods of qualitative choice analysis, illustrating the general theory through simulation models of automobile demand and use. It is also a detailed study of automobile demand and use, presenting forecasts based on these powerful new techniques. The book develops the general principles that underlie qualitative choice models that are now being applied in numerous fields in addition to transportation, such as housing, labor, energy, communications, and criminology. The general form, derivation, and estimation of qualitative choice models are explained, and the major models - logit, probit, and GEV - are discussed in detail. And continuous/discrete models are introduced. In these, qualitative choice methods and standard regression techniques are combined to analyze situations that neither alone can accurately forecast. Summarizing previous research on auto demand, the book shows how qualitative choice methods can be used by applying them to specific auto-related decisions as the aggregate of individuals' choices. The simulation model that is constructed is a significant improvement over older models, and should prove more useful to agencies and organizations requiring accurate forecasting of auto demand and use for planning and policy development. The book concludes with an actual case study based on a model designed for the investigations of the California Energy Commission. Kenneth Train is Visiting Associate Professor in Economics at the University of California, Berkeley, and Director of Economic Research at Cambridge Systematics, Inc., also in Berkeley. Qualitative Choice Analysisis included in The MIT Press Transportation Studies Series, edited by Marvin L. Manheim.
Download or read book Acts Of Faith written by Iyanla Vanzant and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-12-11 with total page 413 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'The healing has begun. It began when you picked up this book. The goal of these offerings is to assist the children of the earth in the redevelopment of their minds, bodies and spirits . . . Buried deep in the earth are precious diamonds. In order to get to them, however, we must dig and dig deep.' In ACTS OF FAITH, life coach Iyanla Vanzant offers a inspirational passage for each day of the year, particularly aimed at people of colour. Vanzant considers that there are four basic areas that create stress and imbalance for people: our relationship with ourselves, our relationship with the world, our relationship with each other and our relationship with money. This book addresses all four issues in turn thus providing a meditative and uplifting guide to living successfully.
Download or read book El alma de la com tica written by Ángeles Sánchez-Cueca and published by Editorial Almuzara. This book was released on 2013-02 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: En los últimos años el mercado mundial de la cosmética y la perfumería de lujo han reinventado su manera de dirigirse a un público cada vez más exigente. A través de la propia experiencia personal de la autora, de su conocimiento del sector y de entrevistas a personalidades seleccionadas a nivel nacional e internacional (LVMH, La Prairie, Sisley, Shiseido, By Terry, Carla Bulgaria Roses Beauty; entre otros) la experta Ángeles Sánchez-Cueca hace un riguroso análisis de los factores de éxito de esta industria, que sólo en la Unión Europea mueve 7.100 millones de euros al año y una exportación en torno a los 2.300 millones de euros, y de las claves que determinan que una marca tenga éxito. Destacadas figuras del ámbito de la cosmética y la perfumería consideran que este libro es una iniciativa magnífica en el sector, coincidiendo en afirmar que “les parece algo increíble y alentador, que alguien se haya dado cuenta de lo importante que son los equipos humanos para transmitir la magia del lujo” porque por muy fuerte que sea la imagen de una marca, si detrás no hay un alma que sepa captar, sentir, vivir y trasmitir ese mundo; no habría forma de darlo a conocer.
Download or read book Optimal Regulation written by Kenneth Train and published by Mit Press. This book was released on 1991 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Optimal Regulation addresses the central issue of regulatory economics - how toregulate firms in a way that induces them to produce and price "optimally." It synthesizes the majorfindings of an extensive theoretical literature on what constitutes optimality in various situationsand which regulatory mechanisms can be used to achieve it. It is the first text to provide aunified, modern, and nontechnical treatment of the field.The book includes models for regulatingoptimal output, tariffs, and surplus subsidy schemes, and presents all of the material graphically,with clear explanations of often highly technical topics.Kenneth E. Train is Associate AdjunctProfessor in the Department of Economics and Graduate School of Public Policy at the University ofCalifornia, Berkeley. He is also Principal of the firm Cambridge Systematics.Topics include: Thecost structure of natural monopoly (economies of scale and scope). Characterization of firstandsecond-best optimality. Surplus subsidy schemes for attaining first-best optimality. Ramsey pricesand the Vogelsang-Finsinger mechanism for attaining them. Time-ofuse (TOU) prices and Riordan'smechanisms for attaining the optimal TOU prices' Multipart and self-selecting tariffs, and Sibley'smethod for using self-selecting tariffs to achieve optimality. The Averch-Johnson model of howrate-of-return regulation induces inefficiencies. Analysis of regulation based on the firm's returnon Output, costs, or sales. Price-cap regulation. Regulatory treatment of uncertainty and its impacton the firm's behavior. Methods of attaining optimality without direct regulation (contestability,auctioning the monopoly franchise.)
Download or read book Evolving Entrepreneurial Strategies for Self Sustainability in Vulnerable American Communities written by Sanchez-Barrios, Luis Javier and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2017-08-11 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Entrepreneurship has significant impacts on a nation’s economic infrastructure. Discovering new ways to promote entrepreneurial growth within undervalued communities can help ensure financial growth, as well as provide a boost to the current economy. Evolving Entrepreneurial Strategies for Self-Sustainability in Vulnerable American Communities is an essential scholarly resource that identifies initiatives for entrepreneurs in underdeveloped areas to utilize. Featuring pertinent topics that include poverty reduction, informal investment, and social entrepreneurship, this reference publication is ideal for academicians, students, entrepreneurs, business owners, and researchers that are seeking innovative strategies to boost the economy and provide more jobs across the nation.
Download or read book Tango Lessons written by Marilyn G. Miller and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2014-02-07 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From its earliest manifestations on the street corners of nineteenth-century Buenos Aires to its ascendancy as a global cultural form, tango has continually exceeded the confines of the dance floor or the music hall. In Tango Lessons, scholars from Latin America and the United States explore tango's enduring vitality. The interdisciplinary group of contributors—including specialists in dance, music, anthropology, linguistics, literature, film, and fine art—take up a broad range of topics. Among these are the productive tensions between tradition and experimentation in tango nuevo, representations of tango in film and contemporary art, and the role of tango in the imagination of Jorge Luis Borges. Taken together, the essays show that tango provides a kaleidoscopic perspective on Argentina's social, cultural, and intellectual history from the late nineteenth to the early twenty-first centuries. Contributors. Esteban Buch, Oscar Conde, Antonio Gómez, Morgan James Luker, Carolyn Merritt, Marilyn G. Miller, Fernando Rosenberg, Alejandro Susti
Download or read book Branded entertainment Cuando el Branded Content se convierte en entretenimiento written by de Aguilera Moyano, Joaquín and published by ESIC. This book was released on 2016-01-11 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: «El marketing tradicional no está funcionando». Con esta contundencia y precisión describe el gran maestro del marketing moderno, Philip Kottler, la situación a la que nos enfrentamos quienes, profesional o académicamente, nos ocupamos de esta disciplina. El marketing tradicional, desarrollado sobre todo a partir de los años sesenta, hoy aparece como un anciano irreconocible. Estamos en un nuevo contexto que exige nuevas comunicaciones de marketing centradas en la creación y distribución de unos contenidos tan relevantes para el consumidor que sea él mismo quien decida acceder libremente a ellos. Algunas marcas han elegido la producción de entretenimiento como vehículo de transmisión de sus mensajes de marca, aplicando los conocimientos de la industria del entretenimiento a la creación de unos contenidos propios, al servicio de los valores de la marca, capaces de despertar deseos y emociones por sí mismos. Estas marcas, han optado por el branded entertainment: contenido de entretenimiento, creado y producido por una marca, lo suficientemente interesante y atractivo como para que su público lo elija frente a otros productos de entretenimiento. En este libro, se profundiza en el conocimiento del branded entertainment; una herramienta de comunicación comercial que debe alcanzar un adecuado equilibrio entre la identificación de la marca y la capacidad del contenido creado para proporcionar una experiencia positiva para el consumidor. A través de sus páginas se van desgranando las características del branded entertainment y, mediante los ejemplos, se ponen de relieve las posibilidades de esta técnica capaz de llegar al consumidor como nunca antes se había logrado. Ha llegado el momento de decir adiós a la interrupción de contenidos elegidos para el consumidor, forzándole a ver publicidad que no desea, y de dar la bienvenida al branded entertainment, contenidos relevantes para el consumidor, que él mismo elige, distribuidos por una marca. ÍNDICE (Casi) todo está cambiando.- El marketing postmoderno.- La comunicación en el marketing postmoderno: los mensajes híbridos.- Branded content.- Content marketing.- Branded entertainment.- Situación actual del branded content en España.- Publicidad nativa.- El selfie de Ellen DeGenere.
Download or read book Harshini written by Jennifer Fallon and published by HarperCollins Australia. This book was released on 2010-02-01 with total page 10 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the third book of this bestselling trilogy, Medalon has surrendered to Karien and tarja is once more an outlaw. the Defenders are scattered and their only hope for aid s Damin Wolfblade and the vast army of Hythria. But Damin has his own problems. the High Prince is dead and he must fight off a usurper to secure his throne and life the siege on his capital, before he can think of aiding Medalon.For R'shiel time is running out. She must defeat Xaphista soon or the Harshini will be destroyed; she must find a way to weaken the Overlord's growing power; to bring peace to the divided southern nations; to free Medalon from Karien occupation and to find the strength to finally put an end to Loclon. R'Shiel has no idea how to defeat a God and with all the demands on her she is no longer sure that she has enough time to save anyone. A dazzling conclusion to this bestselling series.
Download or read book Euphemism Dysphemism written by Keith Allan and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1991 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Euphemism and Dysphemism In this fascinating study, Keith Allan and Kate Burrige examine the linguistic, social, and psychological aspects of this intriguing universal practice.
Download or read book 50 Literature Ideas You Really Need to Know written by John Sutherland and published by Greenfinch. This book was released on 2023-09-28 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a series of 50 accessible essays, John Sutherland introduces and explains the important forms, concepts, themes and movements in literature, drawing on insights and examples from both classic and popular works. From postmodernism to postcolonialism, William Shakespeare to Jane Austen , 50 Literature Ideas You Really Need to Know is a complete introduction to the most important literary concepts in history.
Download or read book Death Makes a Holiday written by David J. Skal and published by Bloomsbury USA. This book was released on 2003-10-01 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using a mix of personal anecdotes and perceptive social analysis, acclaimed cultural critic David J. Skal examines the amazing phenomenon of Halloween, exploring its dark Celtic history and illuminating why it has evolved-in the course of a few short generations-from a quaint, small-scale celebration into the largest seasonal marketing event outside of Christmas.
