| John Dillon

33,990원  | 20250123  | 9781838345457

In this second tome of travel diaries, Jean and John Dillon write about travelling in the latter decade of the twentieth century and into the mid-noughties.Covering peregrinations from chilly Moscow to the sunnier historic sites of Corsica, or taking us from Latvia to Japan and on to Australia, the diaries chart everything from academic jaunts to Mediterranean weddings.

 | Blurb

63,090원  | 20200122  | 9781714312023

The elements of Being There have become fragments of biographies that collectively follow the progress of picture journalism from the advent of the miniature camera through to the arrival and impact of the digital age. It covers a ninety year period from from ca1923 to 2012 and provides a critical compilation of encounters with individual photographers and their icons.

 | Springer Nature B.V.

73,480원  | 20170603  | 9781349577507

Visibility matters in contemporary societies; online, in the media and in the public eye. But who is seen and how? Are women still seen through a male gaze? This book explores the politics of looking and being looked at, and the relationship between actual and virtual worlds, for example in sport, art and cinema.

Kosinski, Jerzy  | PGW

0원  | 19990915  | 9780802136343

Tells the tale of Chauncey "Chance" Gardiner, who appears out of nowhere to become the heir to the empire of a Wall Street tycoon, a presidential policy adviser, and a media mogul

 | Springer Nature B.V.

73,480원  | 20220508  | 9783030916060

Just Like Being There is the first collection of science fiction stories by award-winning author and aerospace engineer Eric Choi spanning his 25 year writing career. The stories are "hard" science fiction in which some element of engineering or science is so central there would be no story if that element were removed.

 | Jonathan Ball Publishers

36,750원  | 20250509  | 9781776193813

'On Sunday 2 June 2024, I received a phone call that propelled me again into the swirl ofa political drama, with plenty of subplots and prima donnas and lesser villains. In just fourweeks, it changed the course of the country.'In Being There, Tony Leon goes behind the scenes, reflecting on how history is made, both here and around the world, through his unique mixture of anecdote and informed opinion.

 | Lexington Books

214,980원  | 20200820  | 9781793607188

Jerzy Kosinski's Being There (published in 1970 and adapted to film in 1979) was prescient in its vision of a simple man without discernible talent or political experience whose knowledge of the world comes almost exclusively from television. Yet his very shallowness establishes him as a TV celebrity and propels him to the pinnacle of American government.

 | Universal-Publishers.com

36,650원  | 20080515  | 9781599426563

Despite the advent of second wave feminism in the late 1960s, it took more than twenty years before feminist literary criticism started to pay attention to the complex role of women Beat writers. Merely Being There Is Not Enough theorizes the memoirs of Diane di Prima, Joyce Johnson, Hettie Jones, and Brenda Frazer, and analyzes their contributions to the Beat movement. Among the writings of female Beat authors, the memoir has become the most commonly used literary genre.

Davis, Sarah H. (EDT)/ Konner, Melvin (EDT)  | Harvard Univ Pr

48,210원  | 20110919  | 9780674049277

As they immerse themselves in foreign cultures, trained anthropologists find that accepting difference is one thing, experiencing it is quite another. In tales that entertain and illuminate, these writers show how the moral and intellectual challenges of living cross-culturally revealed to them the limits of their perception and understanding.

 | Imray, Laurie, Norie & Wilson Ltd

100,450원  | 20240331  | 9781786794857

Italian Waters Pilot is the only guide for yachtsmen in English that covers the coasts of the Ligurian and Tyrrhenian Seas, Sardinia, Sicily, the Ionian ''heel'' and Malta in one volume.

Borneman, John  | University Press Group Ltd

57,790원  | 20120822  | 9780520257764

Challenges to ethnographic authority and to the ethics of representation have led many contemporary anthropologists to abandon fieldwork in favor of strategies of theoretical puppeteering, textual analysis, and surrogate ethnography. This title argues that ethnographies based on these strategies elide important insights.

 | Boydell & Brewer Inc

45,120원  | 20060501  | 9780976879206

A collection of photographic portraits of, and interviews with, NYU medical students who volunteered in the New York City Medical Examiner's morgue following 9/11. The author photographed and interviewed the volunteers, asking them to describe what they did, what they would remember, how they coped, and how they were changed by the experience.

Clark, Andy  | MIT

73,500원  | 20080805  | 9780262531566

The old opposition of matter versus mind stubbornly persists in the way we study mind and brain. In treating cognition as problem solving, Andy Clark suggests, we may often abstract too far from the very body and world in which our brains evolved ...

Hooijberg, Robert (EDT)/ Hunt, James G. (EDT)/ Ant  | Emerald

389,530원  | 20071130  | 9780762313327

Focuses on how leaders use strategy, structures, and systems to create the conditions that stimulate others to meaningfully contribute to the overarching goals of the organization. This book explores how leaders exercise leadership indirectly through structures, processes and systems that stimulate others to contribute to organizational goals.

Davide, F.  | IOS Press

213,150원  | 20030101  | 9781586033019

"Presence", the sense of "being there" in a mediated environment, has been applied to describe the user experience when interacting with advanced media interfaces such as virtual environments. Why examine the concept of presence? There are compelling practical and theoretical reasons.