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The Matter of Violence in Baroque Painting - Bogdan Cornea - Bog - Amsterdam University Press - Plusbog.dk

The Matter of Violence in Baroque Painting - Bogdan Cornea - Bog - Amsterdam University Press - Plusbog.dk

Baroque depictions of violence are often dismissed as ‘over the top’ and ‘excessive’. Their material richness and exciting visual complexity, together with the visceral engagement they demand from beholders, are usually explained in literature as reflecting the presumed violence of early modern society. This book explores the intersection between materiality, excess, and violence in seventeenth-century paintings through a close analysis of some of the most iconic works of the period. Baroque paintings expose or reference their materiality by insisting on various physical changes wrought through violence. This study approaches violence as the work of materiality, which has the potential to analogously stage pictorial surfaces as corporeal surfaces, where paint becomes flayed flesh, canvas threads ruptured skin, and red paint spilt blood.

DKK 1011.00
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The 'Girl Question' in Education (RLE Edu F) - Jane Bernard Powers - Bog - Taylor & Francis Ltd - Plusbog.dk

The 'Girl Question' in Education (RLE Edu F) - Jane Bernard Powers - Bog - Taylor & Francis Ltd - Plusbog.dk

This book is a history of the genesis and development of vocational education for young women in the United States. Home economics, trade training and commercial education – the three key areas of vocational training available to young women during the progressive era – are the focus of this work. Beginning with a study of the "woman question", or what women were supposed to be, the book traces the three curriculum areas from prescription, through lively discussions of policy to the actual programs and student responses to the programs. The author tells the story of education for work from several different perspectives and draws on a vast array of sources to paint this broad canvas of vocational education for young women at the turn of the twentieth century.

DKK 1055.00
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Learning Leadership from Dogs - Aditya Simha - Bog - Anthem Press - Plusbog.dk

Learning Leadership from Dogs - Aditya Simha - Bog - Anthem Press - Plusbog.dk

The book provides a succinct and enjoyable experience of learning about leadership to multiple groups of readers, by using the world of dogs as an aid to understanding leadership concepts. The book will be interesting for multiple sets of readers (e.g. undergraduates, casual dog lovers, etc.). They will find it to be a practical and interesting book. There is no other book on the market that approaches leadership by using the context of dogs as an explanatory canvas. This familiar canine context will help in making these leadership concepts easy to comprehend. The reader will also learn a lot about several breeds of dogs, across the world, including breeds such as the Bulldog, Dachshund, German Shepherd, Mastiff and Otterhound, among others.

DKK 892.00
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Buried Treasure - Ernest Beck - Bog - Officina Libraria - Plusbog.dk

Buried Treasure - Ernest Beck - Bog - Officina Libraria - Plusbog.dk

This stunning book documents a collection of 66 extraordinary pieces of petrified wood, mainly from Western United States (Arizona, Oregon, Washington). Specially photographed they are shown in their entirety and in magnificent details. Petrified wood is formed from fallen trees that in the absence of oxygen and microbes, and with water containing minerals, through a replacement process called permineralization, slowly transform into visually spectacular fossils. But Nature often uses a paintbrush in its preservation magic, splashing the wooden canvas with an array of colours and hues before fixing it in a matrix of hard durable quartz, thereby creating splendid works of art. Petrified wood has been found throughout the world, but actual petrified forests are truly noteworthy in the United States, the most famous being the Chinle Formation forest of Arizona.

DKK 928.00
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The Cinema of Michael Mann - Steven Rybin - Bog - Lexington Books - Plusbog.dk

The Cinema of Michael Mann - Steven Rybin - Bog - Lexington Books - Plusbog.dk

Few other contemporary Hollywood filmmakers fit the category of ''genre stylist'' as well as Michael Mann, the director of such films as Heat, The Insider, Ali, Collateral, Manhunter, Thief, and Miami Vice. Mann''s film style marks him as a director who chooses the iconographic backdrop of a genre as a canvas upon which he and his collaborators can craft a unique cinematic vision. The Cinema of Michael Mann traces the innovative and under-explored stylistic contours of Mann''s work, the director''s inflection upon and innovation within preexisting genre frameworks, and the relationship of both style and genre to issues of authorship and film criticism. Steven Rybin''s critical study of Mann''s cinema, and the importance of the filmmaker''s themes to our contemporary world, is valuable for both film scholars and cinephiles alike.

DKK 1105.00
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Rhythm in Art, Psychology and New Materialism - Gregory Minissale - Bog - Cambridge University Press - Plusbog.dk

Rhythm in Art, Psychology and New Materialism - Gregory Minissale - Bog - Cambridge University Press - Plusbog.dk

This book examines the psychology involved in handling, and responding to, materials in artistic practice, such as oils, charcoal, brushes, canvas, earth, and sand. Artists often work with intuitive, tactile sensations and rhythms that connect them to these materials. Rhythm connects the brain and body to the world, and the world of abstract art. The book features new readings of artworks by Matisse, Pollock, Dubuffet, Tápies, Benglis, Len Lye, Star Gossage, Shannon Novak, Simon Ingram, Lee Mingwei, L. N. Tallur and many others. Such art challenges centuries of philosophical and aesthetic order that has elevated the substance of mind over the substance of matter. This is a multidisciplinary study of different metastable patterns and rhythms: in art, the body, and the brain. This focus on the propagation of rhythm across domains represents a fresh art historical approach and provides important opportunities for art and science to cooperate.

DKK 948.00
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Predictive Analytics with KNIME - Frank Acito - Bog - Springer International Publishing AG - Plusbog.dk

Predictive Analytics with KNIME - Frank Acito - Bog - Springer International Publishing AG - Plusbog.dk

This book is about data analytics, including problem definition, data preparation, and data analysis. A variety of techniques (e.g., regression, logistic regression, cluster analysis, neural nets, decision trees, and others) are covered with conceptual background as well as demonstrations of KNIME using each tool. The book uses KNIME, which is a comprehensive, open-source software tool for analytics that does not require coding but instead uses an intuitive drag-and-drop workflow to create a network of connected nodes on an interactive canvas. KNIME workflows provide graphic representations of each step taken in analyses, making the analyses self-documenting. The graphical documentation makes it easy to reproduce analyses, as well as to communicate methods and results to others. Integration with R is also available in KNIME, and several examples using R nodes in a KNIME workflow are demonstrated for special functions and tools not explicitly included in KNIME.

DKK 967.00
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Small Business Management - Justin (baylor University) Longenecker - Bog - Cengage Learning, Inc - Plusbog.dk

Small Business Management - Justin (baylor University) Longenecker - Bog - Cengage Learning, Inc - Plusbog.dk

Discover the keys to small business success with Longenecker/Petty/Palich/Hoy''s SMALL BUSINESS MANAGEMENT: LAUNCHING AND GROWING ENTREPRENEURIAL VENTURES, 20E. This best-selling book provides practical concepts, entrepreneurial insights and complete resources that are valuable now and throughout your management ventures. This edition guides you through the full business cycle, from how to start and manage to growing and harvesting a business. Current coverage offers innovative tools and unforgettable examples, cases and activities to sharpen skills. You take the role of decision-maker as you apply what you''ve learned to current challenges in today''s small businesses. Revisions address the gig economy while expanded coverage of the business plan highlights the Business Model Canvas. Updated, clear explanations of financial statements focus on the needs of small business owners. MindTap digital resources and LivePlan business plan software are also available with more tools for business success.

DKK 773.00
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A Striking Likeness - David Cross - Bog - Taylor & Francis Ltd - Plusbog.dk

A Striking Likeness - David Cross - Bog - Taylor & Francis Ltd - Plusbog.dk

This title was first published in 2000: In their stunning simplicity, George Romney''s portraits of eighteenth-century gentry and their children are among the most widely recognised creations of his age. A rival to Reynolds and Gainsborough, Romney was born in 1734 on the edge of the Lake District, the landscape of which never ceased to influence his eye for composition and colour. He moved in 1762 to London where there was an insatiable market for portraits of the landed gentry to fill the elegant picture galleries of their country houses. Romney''s sitters included William Beckford and Emma Hart, later Lady Hamilton. An influential figure, one of the founding fathers of neo-classicism and a harbinger of romanticism, Romney yearned to develop his talents as a history painter. Countless drawings bear witness to ambitious projects on elemental themes which were rarely executed on canvas. Richly illustrated, this is the first biography of Romney to explore the full diversity of his oeuvre.

DKK 993.00
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Early Modern Europe - - Bog - Rowman & Littlefield - Plusbog.dk

Early Modern Europe - - Bog - Rowman & Littlefield - Plusbog.dk

Fifty years after the beginning of the debate about the ''general crisis of the seventeenth century,'' and thirty years after Theodore K. Rabb''s reformulation of it as the ''European struggle for stability,'' this volume returns to the fundamental questions raised by the long-running discussion: What continent-wide patterns of change can be discerned in European history across the centuries from the Renaissance to the French Revolution? What were the causes of the revolts that rocked so many countries between 1640 and 1660? Did fundamental changes occur in the relationship between politics and religion? Politics and military technology? Politics and the structures of intellectual authority? A central figure in the general crisis debate, J. H. Elliott, opens the volume with a remarkable retrospective assessment of it. Nine essays by prominent historians then explore important facets of these questions, some on a broad continent-wide canvas, others through studies of individual countries from Spain to Scandinavia.

DKK 874.00
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Urban Nightlife and Contested Spaces - - Bog - Amsterdam University Press - Plusbog.dk

Urban Nightlife and Contested Spaces - - Bog - Amsterdam University Press - Plusbog.dk

Urban Nightlife and Contested Spaces: Cultural Encounters after Dusk captures the multifarious nature of the urban night and how it is lived, structured, and reflected upon in diverse cultural and artistic expressions. The volume acknowledges the urban night as an often-overlooked key dimension necessary to understand the complexities of today’s urban spaces, including the often-polarizing question of migration. After dusk, urban social challenges are often magnified, as questions of who can be where and when – along ethnic, racial or gender lines, for example – gain an additional dimension. The volume underscores, indeed, the multi-dimensionality of night spaces, where bottom-up, grassroot initiatives provide opportunities for self-expression by traditionally marginalized and silenced groups. Chapters span disciplines of urbanism and urban history, literary, film and cultural studies, music, sociology of labour, anthropology of migration, alongside autoethnographic contributions and practice-based photo essays by artists for whom the night is their habitual setting and canvas.

DKK 1123.00
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Protecting the Empire's Humanity - Zoe (university Of Melbourne) Laidlaw - Bog - Cambridge University Press - Plusbog.dk

Protecting the Empire's Humanity - Zoe (university Of Melbourne) Laidlaw - Bog - Cambridge University Press - Plusbog.dk

Rooted in the extraordinary archive of Quaker physician and humanitarian activist, Dr Thomas Hodgkin, this book explores the efforts of the Aborigines'' Protection Society to expose Britain''s hypocrisy and imperial crimes in the mid-nineteenth century. Hodgkin''s correspondents stretched from Liberia to Lesotho, New Zealand to Texas, Jamaica to Ontario, and Bombay to South Australia; they included scientists, philanthropists, missionaries, systematic colonizers, politicians and indigenous peoples themselves. Debating the best way to protect and advance indigenous rights in an era of burgeoning settler colonialism, they looked back to the lessons and limitations of anti-slavery, lamented the imperial government''s disavowal of responsibility for settler colonies, and laid out elaborate (and patronizing) plans for indigenous ''civilization''. Protecting the Empire''s Humanity reminds us of the complexity, contradictions and capacious nature of British colonialism and metropolitan ''humanitarianism'', illuminating the broad canvas of empire through a distinctive set of British and Indigenous campaigners.

DKK 948.00
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Astrobiology - Alan (associate Lecturer In Astronomy And Earth Sciences Longstaff - Bog - Taylor & Francis Inc - Plusbog.dk

Astrobiology - Alan (associate Lecturer In Astronomy And Earth Sciences Longstaff - Bog - Taylor & Francis Inc - Plusbog.dk

Astrobiology is a multidisciplinary pursuit that in various guises encompasses astronomy, chemistry, planetary and Earth sciences, and biology. It relies on mathematical, statistical, and computer modeling for theory, and space science, engineering, and computing to implement observational and experimental work. Consequently, when studying astrobiology, a broad scientific canvas is needed. For example, it is now clear that the Earth operates as a system; it is no longer appropriate to think in terms of geology, oceans, atmosphere, and life as being separate. Reflecting this multiscience approach, Astrobiology: An Introduction : - Covers topics such as stellar evolution, cosmic chemistry, planet formation, habitable zones, terrestrial biochemistry, and exoplanetary systems - Discusses the origin, evolution, distribution, and future of life in the universe in an accessible manner, sparing calculus, curly arrow chemistry, and modeling details - Contains problems and worked examples, and includes a solutions manual with qualifying course adoption Astrobiology: An Introduction provides a full introduction to astrobiology suitable for university students at all levels.

DKK 995.00
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The First Great Awakening - John Howard Smith - Bog - Fairleigh Dickinson University Press - Plusbog.dk

The First Great Awakening - John Howard Smith - Bog - Fairleigh Dickinson University Press - Plusbog.dk

The First Great Awakening, an unprecedented surge in Protestant Christian revivalism in the Eighteenth Century, sparked enormous of controversy at the time and has been a source of scholarly debate ever since. Few historians have sought to write a synthetic history of the First Great Awakening, and in recent decades it has been challenged as having happened at all, being either an exaggeration or an “invention.” The First Great Awakening expands the movement’s geographical, theological, and sociopolitical scope. Rather than focus exclusively on the clerical elites, as earlier studies have done, it deals with them alongside ordinary people, and includes the experiences of women, African Americans, and Indians as the observers and participants they were. It challenges prevailing scholarly opinion concerning what the revivals were and what they meant to the formation of American religious identity and culture.Cover image: NPG 131, George Whitefield by John Wollaston, oil on canvas, circa 1742. © National Portrait Gallery, London

DKK 1016.00
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Imagery and Ideology - William J. Berg - Bog - Rowman & Littlefield - Plusbog.dk

Imagery and Ideology - William J. Berg - Bog - Rowman & Littlefield - Plusbog.dk

Literature is ostensibly a sequential and thus temporal medium, and painting a static and spatial one; yet writers like George Sand and Emile Zola have attempted repeatedly to represent visual and spatial phenomena in literary texts, just as painters like Eugene Delacroix and Claude Monet have sought consistently to capture effects of time and movement on canvas. The incorporation of elements from one artistic medium into another creates a dynamic interplay of image and ideology, both between art forms and within individual texts and paintings, which constitutes the crux of this book. Each chapter involves the detailed analysis of a text and a painting, related through topic, theme, and technique. By juxtaposing the works of ten major writers and ten painters of comparable stature, the book explores the various modalities and layers of meaning in nineteenth-century French art, both verbal and visual, and proposes ways of reading the ambivalent artifacts of 'modernity.'

DKK 866.00
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The Artist, His Model, Her Image, His Gaze - Karen L. Kleinfelder - Bog - The University of Chicago Press - Plusbog.dk

The Artist, His Model, Her Image, His Gaze - Karen L. Kleinfelder - Bog - The University of Chicago Press - Plusbog.dk

Although Pablo Picasso's name is virtually synonymous with modernity, his late graphics repeatedly turn back to the traditional theme of the artist and model. Had the aging artist turned reactionary, or is Picasso's treatment of the theme more subversive than anyone has suspected?In this innovative study, Karen L. Kleinfelder rejects the claim that Picasso's later work was a failure. The failing, she claims, lies more in the way we typically have read the images, treating them merely as reflections of an "old-age" style or of the artist's private life. Focusing on graphics dating from 1954 to 1970, Kleinfelder shows how Picasso plays with the artist-model theme to extend, subvert, and parody both the possibilities and limits of representation. For Kleinfelder, Picasso's graphic work both mystifies and demystifies the creative process, venerates and mocks the effects of aging and the artist's self-image as a living "old master," and acknowledges and denies his own fear of death. Using recent interpretive and literary theory, Kleinfelder probes the three-way relationship between artist, model, and canvas. The dynamics of this relationship provided Picasso with an open-ended textual framework for exploring the dichotomies of man/woman, self/other, and vitality/mortality. What unfolds is the artist's struggle not only with the impossibility of representing the model on canvas, but also with the inevitability of his own death. Kleinfelder explores how Picasso's means of pursuing these issues allows him to defer closure on a long, productive career. By focusing on the graphics rather than the paintings, Kleinfelder contradicts the primacy of the painted "masterpiece"; she steers the reader away from the assumption that the artist must work toward creating a final body of work that signifies the culmination of his search for a coherent identify. Picasso's search, she argues, realizes itself in the creative process. She interprets the late graphics not as a biographical statement but as a tool for investigating the possibilities of representation within the limits of Picasso's medium and his lifetime. Richly illustrated, Kleinfelder's book will open up new approaches to the late work of this complex artist.

DKK 1014.00
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Shaping India - - Bog - Taylor & Francis Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Shaping India - - Bog - Taylor & Francis Ltd - Plusbog.dk

This volume seeks to unravel and contextualize the so-called dichotomy of ‘old’ and ‘new’ India and what binds them together. To understand this complex process, it attempts to apply a long-term historical perspective, a different conception of the economy and cross-disciplinary approaches. The exceptional feature of this volume is the large historical canvas of essays and its sensitivity to the regional dimension in a country as large and diverse as India. They deal with issues ranging from land and agriculture, entrepreneurship, industry and demographic trends to a critical anatomy of modern Indian economic historiography. Together these essays contribute in providing significantly new and enriching insights into the complex process of transition from colonial to post-colonial economic development. There has been a conscious effort in most cases to capture the influence of the colonial economic structures and processes in shaping the trajectory of growth and development in the post-independence period. Drawing upon a large amount of extremely rich and varied data and information on the socio-economic trends, the book is lucid, well-crafted and reader-friendly.

DKK 884.00
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Manufacturing Government Communication on Covid-19 - - Bog - Springer International Publishing AG - Plusbog.dk

Manufacturing Government Communication on Covid-19 - - Bog - Springer International Publishing AG - Plusbog.dk

This book presents a comparative perspective on different government communication strategies to COVID-19 around the globe. Scholars from twenty parts of the world specialized in political and government communication analyze initiatives and methods of various governments' communicative responses to the pandemic. In their contributions to this volume, they examine a wide range of distinct attitudes and reactions facing the crisis. Today’s omnidirectional contact allowed by social media, with its load of contradictory rumors and fake news, often obliterates the citizens' ability to comprehend reality. The book frames a broad canvas on how government communication may deal with that and manage similar crises — bound to happen as climate changes and war menaces are generating more and more worries about the future of humanity. This makes this volume a must-read for scholars and students of political communication, health policies and communication, crisis marketing and communication. It will also be of utmost interest for practitioners and policy-makers from these fields willing to better understand government communication and its answer to global crises.

DKK 884.00
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India, China, and the World - Tansen Sen - Bog - Rowman & Littlefield - Plusbog.dk

India, China, and the World - Tansen Sen - Bog - Rowman & Littlefield - Plusbog.dk

This pathbreaking study provides the first comprehensive examination of India-China interactions in the broader contexts of Asian and world history. By focusing on material exchanges, transmissions of knowledge and technologies, networks of exchange during the colonial period, and little-known facets of interactions between the Republic of India and the People’s Republic of China, Tansen Sen argues convincingly that the analysis of India-China connections must extend beyond the traditional frameworks of nation-states or bilateralism. Instead, he demonstrates that a wide canvas of space, people, objects, and timeframe is needed to fully comprehend the interactions between India and China in the past and during the contemporary period. Considering as well the contributions of people and groups from beyond India and China, Sen also explores the interactions between Indians and Chinese outside the Asian continent. The author’s formidable array of sources, pulled from archives and libraries around the world, range from Chinese travel accounts to Indian intelligence reports. Examining the connected histories of the two regions, Sen fills a striking gap in the study of India and China in a global setting.

DKK 935.00
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Manufacturing Government Communication on Covid-19 - - Bog - Springer International Publishing AG - Plusbog.dk

Manufacturing Government Communication on Covid-19 - - Bog - Springer International Publishing AG - Plusbog.dk

This book presents a comparative perspective on different government communication strategies to COVID-19 around the globe. Scholars from twenty parts of the world specialized in political and government communication analyze initiatives and methods of various governments'' communicative responses to the pandemic. In their contributions to this volume, they examine a wide range of distinct attitudes and reactions facing the crisis. Today''s omnidirectional contact allowed by social media, with its load of contradictory rumors and fake news, often obliterates the citizens'' ability to comprehend reality. The book frames a broad canvas on how government communication may deal with that and manage similar crises - bound to happen as climate changes and war menaces are generating more and more worries about the future of humanity. This makes this volume a must-read for scholars and students of political communication, health policies and communication, crisis marketing and communication. It will also be of utmost interest for practitioners and policy-makers from these fields willing to better understand government communication and its answer to global crises.

DKK 884.00
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