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Book Hold Please

    Book Details:
  • Author : Annie Weisman
  • Publisher : Dramatists Play Service, Inc.
  • Release : 2004
  • ISBN : 9780822219705
  • Pages : 68 pages

Download or read book Hold Please written by Annie Weisman and published by Dramatists Play Service, Inc.. This book was released on 2004 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE STORY: No men are onstage, but their presence is felt everywhere in this office comedy for the new millennium. Two generations of women, career secretaries in their forties and entry-level assistants in their twenties, gather in the break room

Book Meet Me at the Fair  A World s Fair Reader

Download or read book Meet Me at the Fair A World s Fair Reader written by Celia Pearce and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2014 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Together with the Olympics, world's fairs are one of the few regular international events of sufficient scale to showcase a spectrum of sights, wonders, learning opportunities, technological advances, and new (or renewed) urban districts, and to present them all to a mass audience. Meet Me at the Fair: A World's Fair Reader breaks new ground in scholarship on world's fairs by incorporating a number of short new texts that investigate world's fairs in their multiple aspects: political, urban/architectural, anthropological/ sociological, technological, commercial, popular, and representational. Contributors come from eight different countries and represent affiliations in academia, museums and libraries, professional and architectural firms, non-profit organizations, and government regulatory agencies. In taking the measure of both the material artifacts and the larger cultural production of world's fairs, the volume presents its own phantasmagoria of disciplinary perspectives, historical periods, geographical locales, media, and messages, mirroring the microcosmic form of the world's fair itself.

Book A Buddhist Bible

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  • Author : Dwight Goddard
  • Publisher : e-artnow
  • Release : 2021-12-09
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 193 pages

Download or read book A Buddhist Bible written by Dwight Goddard and published by e-artnow. This book was released on 2021-12-09 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For a Westerner at the beginning of the 20th century, Buddhism was a hard science to learn since it consisted of uncountable rituals and teachings, passed over in oral or written form for thousands of years, and therefore differ according to the region and time period it was created a recorded. This book is one of the first attempts to organize the present the core of the Buddhist teachings to a Western reader. Created at the beginning of the 20th century, it started the branch in religious literature and inspired millions of spiritual seekers to find the truth in the religions of the East. The Buddhist Bible tells about the origins of Buddhism, its main variations and divisions, the core philosophy, and the main ritual and beliefs.

Book A White Tea Bowl

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  • Author : Mitsu Suzuki
  • Publisher : Shambhala Publications
  • Release : 2016-08-09
  • ISBN : 1930485824
  • Pages : 141 pages

Download or read book A White Tea Bowl written by Mitsu Suzuki and published by Shambhala Publications. This book was released on 2016-08-09 with total page 141 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A White Tea Bowl is a selection of 100 haiku written by Mitsu Suzuki, the widow of Shunryu Suzuki Roshi, and published in celebration of her 100th birthday. The compelling introduction by Zen priest Norman Fischer describes the profound impact on her life and work of war in Japan and social upheaval in America. Part I: 100 Haiku presents a kaleidoscope of poems by Mitsu Suzuki that touch all aspects of her being: her dedication to the Buddha way, the loneliness of a widow's life, her generational role as "Candy Auntie," her sensitive attunement to nature, and her moments of insight into the dharma. The more you read these haiku, the more their wisdom will emerge. Part II: Pickles and Tea contains reminiscences and anecdotes about Mitsu Suzuki by those who lived and studied with her at the San Francisco Zen Center; often these meetings took place in Mitsu's kitchen where she provided countless cups of tea, cookies, and homemade pickles as well as sage advice.

Book The Dark Side of Organizational Behavior

Download or read book The Dark Side of Organizational Behavior written by H. Cenk Sözen and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-07-15 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Dark Side of Organizational Behavior aims to gather all the micro- and meso-level topics about the dark side of organizations that may guide management practitioners, researchers, and students. The history before the modern human civilization is full of multiple types of conflicts, wars, struggles and violence. Modernization project has constructed a desired reality of human being and has somehow concealed the dark side of human interactions. Through this outlook, this book explores the realities of the dark side of organizations and how these realities may have the potential to change previous assumptions about business life. The field of organizational behavior is dominated by the positive aspects of the business life, but conflict, war, struggle, and violence have always been a part of history. It is not possible to isolate organizational participants from negative emotions like hostility, dislike, hate, jealousy, rage and revenge. A manager may devote most of their time to cope with conflicts, deviant behaviors, ambitious individuals, gossips and dysfunctional rivalry among employees. It is evident that negative events and interactions among employees cost more time and energy for a manager than the positive side of organizational life. Therefore, exploring the realities of the dark side of organizations may have the potential to change previous assumptions about business life. This book will be of interest to researchers, academics, practitioners, and advanced students in the fields of organizational studies and behavior, human resource management, employment relations, and organizational psychology.

Book City Lights Stories

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  • Author : A. Collection of Stories by Regenerate
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2013-05
  • ISBN : 9781475977998
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book City Lights Stories written by A. Collection of Stories by Regenerate and published by . This book was released on 2013-05 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: You are holding a collection of stories, the aim of this collection is to equip and inspire you to make a positive impact in your own community, through relationships and creative initiatives. In this material, you will read about Dave and Will who developed gardens on wasteland in inner city London council estates, encouraging residents to be part of the process of renewal and creativity by growing plants and vegetables. Will hosts community harvest feasts, bringing together local residents to eat their own locally-grown produce. Andy in his 20s, started a lunch club for isolated elderly people, rallying his student friends to help serve homemade meals in a borrowed church hall. Pauline responded to a news bulletin about the lack of housing for refugees and asylum seekers, by setting up homes across North London to provide safe housing. Annie set up regular meals in her church building for homeless people and rough sleepers. Mark started a football club for local lads from an estate in London, most of whom were from extremely difficult backgrounds and not in education or employment. Countless others have weeded gardens for families referred by social services, mentored children in foster care and painted a wall in a refuge. Abroad, Mick and Ruby moved into an inner city slum community in the heart of Manilla for 9 years with their young children. At the heart of City Lights are stories and friendships. Find out more about City Lights. regenerateuk.co.uk

Book Ecomedia

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  • Author : Stephen Rust
  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Release : 2015-09-07
  • ISBN : 1317670574
  • Pages : 274 pages

Download or read book Ecomedia written by Stephen Rust and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-09-07 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ecomedia: Key Issues is a comprehensive textbook introducing the burgeoning field of ecomedia studies to provide an overview of the interface between environmental issues and the media globally. Linking the world of media production, distribution, and consumption to environmental understandings, the book addresses ecological meanings encoded in media texts, the environmental impacts of media production, and the relationships between media and cultural perceptions of the environment. Each chapter introduces a distinct type of media, addressing it in a theoretical overview before engaging with specific case studies. In this way, the book provides an accessible introduction to each form of media as well as a sophisticated analysis of relevant cases. The book includes contributions from a combination of new voices and well-established media scholars from across the globe who examine the basic concepts and key issues of ecomedia studies. The concepts of "frames," "flow", and "convergence" structure a dynamic collection divided into three parts. The first part addresses traditional visual texts, such as comics, photography, and film. The second part of the book addresses traditional broadcast media, such as radio, and television, and the third part looks at new media, such as advertising, video games, the internet, and digital renderings of scientific data. In its breadth and scope, Ecomedia: Key Issues presents a unique survey of rich scholarship at the confluence of Media Studies and Environmental Studies. The book is written in an engaging and accessible style, with each chapter including case studies, discussion questions and suggestions for further reading.

Book Digital Diaspora

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  • Author : Anna Everett
  • Publisher : SUNY Press
  • Release : 2009-02-05
  • ISBN : 9780791476741
  • Pages : 264 pages

Download or read book Digital Diaspora written by Anna Everett and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 2009-02-05 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traces the rise of black participation in cyberspace.

Book Cracking the Coconut

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  • Author : Su-mei Yu
  • Publisher : Harper Collins
  • Release : 2000-08
  • ISBN : 0688165427
  • Pages : 346 pages

Download or read book Cracking the Coconut written by Su-mei Yu and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2000-08 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chef and cooking teacher Su-Mei Yu presents 175 recipes for Thai fare prepared in the authentic and traditional manner, accompanied by a history of Thai cooking and tips on the cuisine's cooking techniques. He explains how to make these preparations from scratch, including chile pastes, coconut milk and cream, and spice mixtures. 8 pages of color photos.

Book London in Cinema

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  • Author : Charlotte Brunsdon
  • Publisher : British Film Institute
  • Release : 2007-11-26
  • ISBN : 9781844571833
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book London in Cinema written by Charlotte Brunsdon and published by British Film Institute. This book was released on 2007-11-26 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Charlotte Brunsdon's illuminating study explores the variety of cinematic 'Londons' that appear in films made since 1945. Brunsdon traces the familiar ways that film-makers establish that a film is set in London, by use of recognisable landmarks and the city's shorthand iconography of red buses and black taxis, as well as the ways in which these icons are avoided. She looks at London weather – fog and rain – and everyday locations like the pub and the housing estate, while also examining the recurring patterns of representation associated with films set in the East and West Ends of London, from Spring in Park Lane (1948) to Mona Lisa (1986), and from Night and the City (1950) to From Hell (2001). Brunsdon provides a detailed analysis of a selection of films, exploring their contribution to the cinematic geography of London, and showing the ways in which feature films have responded to, and created, changing views of the city. She traces London's transformation from imperial capital to global city through the different ways in which the local is imagined in films ranging from Ealing comedies to Pressure (1974), as well as through the shifting imagery of the River Thames and the Docks. She addresses the role of cinematic genres such as horror and film noir in the constitution of the cinematic city, as well as the recurrence of figures such as the cockney, the gangster and the housewife. Challenging the view that London is not a particularly cinematic city, Brunsdon demonstrates that many London-set films offer their own meditation on the complex relationships between the cinema and the city.

Book Teaching Film

Download or read book Teaching Film written by Lucy Fischer and published by Modern Language Association. This book was released on 2012-07-27 with total page 437 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Film studies has been a part of higher education curricula in the United States almost since the development of the medium. Although the study of film is dispersed across a range of academic departments, programs, and scholarly organizations, film studies has come to be recognized as a field in its own right. In an era when teaching and scholarship are increasingly interdisciplinary, film studies continues to expand and thrive, attracting new scholars and fresh ideas, direction, and research. Given the dynamism of the field, experienced and beginning instructors alike need resources for bringing the study of film into the classroom. This volume will help instructors conceptualize contemporary film studies in pedagogical terms. The first part of the volume features essays on theory and on representation, including gender, race, and sexuality. Contributors then examine the geographies of cinema and offer practical suggestions for structuring courses on national, regional, and transnational film. Several essays focus on interdisciplinary approaches, while others describe courses designed around genre (film noir, the musical), mode (animation, documentary, avant-garde film), or the formal elements of film, such as sound, music, and mise-en-scène. The volume closes with a section on film and media in the digital age, in which contributors discuss the opportunities and challenges presented by access to resources, media convergence, and technological developments in the field.

Book Vexos Invasion

Download or read book Vexos Invasion written by Tracey West and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 2010 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bakugan Battle Brawlers . . . ready to save this world . . . and the next! Welcome to New Vestroia! The Bakugan Battle Brawlers have faced some tough opponents before, but now they face the toughest yet: the Vexos Organization, who are determined to wreak havoc in the very heart of Bakugan: Vestroia. Dan isn't about to let them succeed. With Marucho, Shun, Ace, Mira, and Baron to defend New Vestroia and Bakugan everywhere, Vexos doesn't stand a chance!

Book Future Varda

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  • Author : Rebecca J Deroo
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2021-04-26
  • ISBN : 9781478021193
  • Pages : 224 pages

Download or read book Future Varda written by Rebecca J Deroo and published by . This book was released on 2021-04-26 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This special issue recognizes the work and legacy of Agnès Varda (1928-2019), a Belgian-born film director, screenwriter, photographer, and artist whose work was part of the French New Wave film movement of the 1950s and 1960s. In the wake of Varda's passing in March 2019, contributors offer reflections on the continued relevance of her work. Until the end of her life, Varda was engaged with feminism, ethics, politics, and the representation of women in the film industry. Rather than focusing on Varda's most famous films, the contributors to this issue consider aspects of her oeuvre that have contemporary relevance and those that point to the future: films, art installations, and photographs that have received less scholarly attention; her political activism; her role as manager of her own production company; and her Instagram presence. By emphasizing these often-overlooked elements of Varda's creative output, the contributors reveal the depth of her artistic legacy and demonstrate how vastly important and interconnected her entire body of work is. Contributors Dominique Bluher, Nadine Boljkovac, Kelley Conway, Rebecca J. DeRoo, Sandy Flitterman-Lewis, Colleen Kennedy-Karpat, Homay King, Matt St. John, Emma Wilson

Book The Tories

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  • Author : Alan Clark
  • Publisher : Orion
  • Release : 1999
  • ISBN : 9780753807651
  • Pages : 612 pages

Download or read book The Tories written by Alan Clark and published by Orion. This book was released on 1999 with total page 612 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the better part of this century the Conservatives have been the governing political party of Britain. During that period the country has fallen in stature by virtually every criterion of measurement which can be applied. Yet the primary objective of the Conservative Party, or so it claims and its supporters believe, is to advance and protect the interests of the British Nation-State. How are we to understand its catastrophic and repetitious failure, over practically the whole of this period, to achieve that objective?

Book Premises

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  • Author : Bernard Blistène
  • Publisher : Abrams
  • Release : 1998
  • ISBN : 9780810969155
  • Pages : 543 pages

Download or read book Premises written by Bernard Blistène and published by Abrams. This book was released on 1998 with total page 543 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing on 40 years of French innovation, this book explores conceptions of space in a wide range of artistic disciplines including painting, film, architecture, and design. It offers an understanding of the issues and theories that weave together nearly a half-century of artistic production.

Book Redefining Geek

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  • Author : Cassidy Puckett
  • Publisher : University of Chicago Press
  • Release : 2022-04-20
  • ISBN : 022673269X
  • Pages : 325 pages

Download or read book Redefining Geek written by Cassidy Puckett and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2022-04-20 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Take a moment to imagine a geek. A computer geek. Do you see thick glasses and pocket protectors? A face illuminated by a glowing screen, surrounded by empty cans of energy drinks? Bill Gates? Whatever trope comes to mind, it's likely a white or Asian man. As Cassidy Puckett shows in Define Geek, these are not just innocent assumptions. They are tied to underlying ideas about who is "naturally" good at tech, and they keep many would be techies, particularly girls and people of color, from achieving or even pursuing opportunities in tech. But Puckett is not just here to show us that anybody can be good at tech; she tells us how we can get there. Puckett spent six years teaching technology classes to first generation, low-income middle school students in Oakland, California, and during that time, she uncovered five technology learning habits that will set up all young people for success. She shows how to measure and build these habits, and she demonstrates that many teens currently unrepresented in STEM already use these habits; they are more ready for advanced technological skill development than assumptions about instinct might suggest. Redefining "instinct" reframes the goals of STEM education and challenges our stereotypes about "natural" technological ability. Our so-called leaky STEM pipeline is readily addressed by Puckett's five techie habits of mind"--

Book One Man Caravan

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  • Author : Robert Edison Fulton
  • Publisher : Motorbooks
  • Release : 2016-10-01
  • ISBN : 0760353301
  • Pages : 355 pages

Download or read book One Man Caravan written by Robert Edison Fulton and published by Motorbooks. This book was released on 2016-10-01 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This adventurous work records Robert Edison Fulton's solo round-the-world tour on a two-cylinder Douglas motorcycle between July, 1932 and December, 1933. First published in 1937.