Decoding how people think, lead and get things done across cultures. ... Whether you work in a home office or abroad, business success in our ever more globalized and virtual world requires the skills to navigate through cultural differences and decode cultures foreign to your own. Renowned expert Erin Meyer is your guide through this subtle, sometimes treacherous terrain where people from starkly different backgrounds are expected to work harmoniously together. Even with English as a global language, it's easy to fall into cultural traps that endanger careers and sink deals. "In The Culture Map", Erin Meyer ... |
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Over 200 paintings, sculptures, photographs, and conceptual pieces trace the story of modern art's innovation and adventure. With explanatory texts for each work, and essays introducing each of the major modern movements, this is an authoritative overview of the ideas and the artworks that shook up standards, assaulted the establishment, and trailblazed new ideas. A blow-by-blow account of groundbreaking modernism. Most art historians agree that the modern art adventure first developed in the 1860s in Paris. A circle of painters, whom we now know as Impressionists, began painting pictures with rapid, loose brushwork. ... |
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The book is a multilingual edition. ... A lifelong devotee of ancient Egyptian and Oriental culture, the French author, artist, and scholar Achille-Constant-Théodore-Émile Prisse d'Avennes (1807 - 1879) is famed as one of the most influential Egyptologists, long before the discipline was even properly established. Prisse first embarked on his explorations in 1836, documenting sites throughout the Nile Valley, often under his Egyptian pseudonym, Edris Effendi. Prisse's first publication of notes, drawings, and squeezes (a kind of frottage) came in the form of Les Monuments égyptiens, a modest ... |
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Peaking in the 1960s, Pop Art began as a revolt against mainstream approaches to art and culture and evolved into a wholesale interrogation of modern society, consumer culture, the role of the artist, and of what constituted an artwork. Focusing on issues of materialism, celebrity, and media, Pop Art drew on mass-market sources, from advertising imagery to comic books, from Hollywood's most famous faces to the packaging of consumer products, the latter epitomized by Andy Warhol's Campbell's soup cans. As well as challenging the establishment with the elevation of such popular, banal, and kitschy images, Pop ... |
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"Once upon a time, a very long time ago now, about last Friday, Winnie the Pooh lived in a forest all by himself under the name of Sanders... " The adventures of Christopher Robin and his friends from the Hundred-Acre Wood include Pooh Bear using a balloon to get honey, Piglet meeting a Heffalump, and Eeyore having a birthday. For nearly 70 years, Milne's classic story about young Christopher Robin and his adventures with his friends from the Hundred-Acre Wood has captivated readers of all ages. ... |
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Decorations by E. H. Shepard. ... "Once upon a time, a very long time ago now, about last Friday, Winnie-the-Pooh lived in a forest all by himself under the name of Sanders." Meet the world's favourite bear in this delightful collection in which Pooh gets into a tight place, nearly catches a Woozle, and discovers the wrong sort off honey - amongst other things. ... |
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The art of ancient Egypt that has been handed down to us bears no names of its creators, and yet we value the creations of these unknown masters no less than the works of later centuries, such as statues by Michelangelo or the paintings by Leonardo da Vinci. This book introduces some of the most important masterpieces, ranging from the Old Kingdom during the Third millennium BC to the Roman Period. The works encompass sculptures, reliefs, sarcophagi, murals, masks, and decorative items, most of them now in the Egyptian Museum in Cairo, but some occupying places of honor as part of the World Cultural Heritage in museums ... |
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They say that the eyes feed first, then the body follows."The idea behind this book started in the land of smiles - Thailand. The specific aroma of Asian cuisine embraces everyone who sets foot in this land. This fragrance lingers in the mind, enriching the memories associated with the exotic. One of the festivals celebrated there, which is deeply connected to the story of this book, is the festival of the floating lanterns. Its preparation begins with the crafting of small boats made out of banana leaves in the shape of lotus flowers, lavishly adorned with petals and candles, before being set afloat in flowing water ... |
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Българските народни приказки са събирани в продължение на век и половина от територията на цяла България. До този момент фолклористите са записали и обнародвали повече от пет хиляди и петстотин варианта. От това безценно богатство в настоящото издание са подбрани най-добрите образци на приказния ни фолклор."В далечната гора живеели едно време дървари - мъж и жена с три деца: момче и две момичета. Те прекарвали нощта в проста колиба със сламен покрив, а през деня ходели по гората. Децата още от малки помагали на баща си в тежката работа. Той сечал дърва, а те ги товарели на магаренцето и ги прекарвали до колибата, ... |
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Не търси Академията за вещици на картата. Тя е като двореца на Спящата красавица: за да го откриеш, трябва да желаеш това от сърце!"Носят се слухове, че... освен елфите и осемте елена, които теглят шейната му, Дядо Коледа получава и малко помощ от вещиците. Как мислиш, дали е лесно да си вещица? Никак даже! Да си вещица е много повече от това да носиш забрадка, да нарамиш вещите си на гръб и да летиш наоколо, яхнала метлата. За да бъдеш вещица. трябва първо да преминеш през много дълга и сериозна подготовка. А къде се случва това? В Академията за вещици, разбира се!" Из книгата Илюстратор: Анна Лаура Кантоне. ... |
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Тази красива и увлекателна книжка с ръчно рисувани илюстрации ще ви отведе в страната на приказките, за да станете свидетели на увлекателна история с мъдра поука. Научете как животните решават да избягат от стопаните си и да намерят нов дом в гората. Там обаче те срещат поредната трудност - задава се люта зима, а те си нямат подслон. Дали ще успеят да се обединят и да намерят решение заедно, преди лютият студ да скове земята? ... |
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Complete and unabridged. A pocket sized book - 10 x 15.5 cm. ... This is a fresh, contemporary translation of Sun Tzu 's "The Art of War" for the 21st century. As well as its historical importance, it is one of the most influential political and business books of our era. This edition rediscovers the essential clarity of the ancient masterpiece, cited by generals from a dozen Chinese dynasties, international business leaders, and modern military field manuals. It also contains a full commentary on Sun Tzu, the man and his ideas, contemporary of Confucius and Buddha; and a critical guide to further reading. ... |
