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Oblique drawing : a history of anti-perspective
(MIT Press, 2012)For more than half a century, Erwin Panofsky's Perspective as Symbolic Form has dominated studies of visual representation. Despite the hegemony of central projection, or perspective, other equally important methods of ... -
The Odd Man Karakozov: Imperial Russia, Modernity, and the Birth of Terrorism
(Cornell University Press, 2011)On April 4, 1866, just as Alexander II stepped out of Saint Petersburg's Summer Garden and onto the boulevard, a young man named Dmitry Karakozov pulled out a pistol and shot at the tsar. He missed, but his "unheard-of ... -
Official GRE Quantitative Reasoning Practice Questions
(McGraw-Hill Education, 2014)150 REAL GRE Quantitative Reasoning questions--direct from the test maker! The best way to prepare for the Quantitative Reasoning measure of the GRE revised General Test is with real GRE test questions--and that is what ... -
Official TOEFL iBT Tests
(McGraw-Hill Education, 2016)This book contains five actual retired TOEFL® test forms with authentic reading, listening, speaking, and writing questions. Each form includes an Answer Key, sample responses for Speaking and Writing questions, and complete ... -
Offshore : exploring the worlds of global outsourcing
(Oxford University Press, 2017)Offshore outsourcing-the movement of jobs to lower-wage countries-is one of the defining features of globalization. Routine blue-collar work has been going offshore for decades, but the digital revolution beginning in the ... -
On Course, Study Skills: Strategies for Creating Success in College and in Life, Study Skills Plus Edition
(Cengage Learning, 2010)ON COURSE: STRATEGIES FOR CREATING SUCCESS IN COLLEGE AND IN LIFE, STUDY SKILLS PLUS EDITION will engage you with the tools you need to take charge of your success in college and in life. As you learn new strategies, you ... -
On Good Management: The Corporate Lifecycle: An essay and interviews with Franz Fehrenbach, Jürgen Hambrecht, Wolfgang Reitzle and Alexander Rittweger
(Gabler Verlag, 2013)Change or die! With this stark claim begins the journey through the corporate lifecycle. Why do so many companies fail? Why do managers struggle to recognize change early or hesitate to take vigorous action? Why - and how ... -
On Heaven and Earth - Pope Francis on Faith, Family and the Church in the 21st Century
(Continuum International Publishing Group, 2013)This book is a testimony to that path. I consider Rabbi Skorka a brother and a friend and I believe that both of us, through these reflections, never stopped looking with the eyes of our heart at the façade of the Cathedral, ... -
On Purpose: How We Create the Meaning of Life
(Oxford University Press, 2016)What is your purpose in life? This simple question motivates some of our most life-altering decisions, deeply-held beliefs, and profound emotions, as well as the choices we make every single day. How we derive meaning from ... -
On Purpose: How We Create the Meaning of Life
(Oxford University Press, 2016)What is your purpose in life? This simple question motivates some of our most life-altering decisions, deeply-held beliefs, and profound emotions, as well as the choices we make every single day. How we derive meaning from ... -
On Purpose: How We Create the Meaning of Life
(Oxford University Press, 2016)What is your purpose in life? This simple question motivates some of our most life-altering decisions, deeply-held beliefs, and profound emotions, as well as the choices we make every single day. How we derive meaning from ... -
On rereading
(Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2011)After retiring from a lifetime of teaching literature, Patricia Meyer Spacks embarked on a year-long project of rereading dozens of novels: childhood favorites, fiction first encountered in young adulthood and never before ... -
On Roman Religion: Lived Religion and the Individual in Ancient Rome
(Cornell University Press, 2016)Was religious practice in ancient Rome cultic and hostile to individual expression? Or was there, rather, considerable latitude for individual initiative and creativity? Jorg Rupke, one of the world's leading authorities ... -
On the Genealogy of Morality and Other Writings: Revised Student Edition
(Cambridge University Press, 2006)Friedrich Nietzsche is one of the most influential thinkers of the past 150 years and On the Genealogy of Morality (1887) is his most important work on ethics and politics. A polemical contribution to moral and political ... -
One and Many: A Comparative Study of Plato’s Philosophy and Daoism Represented by Ge Hong
(University of Hawaii Press, 2012)Is the world one or many? Ji Zhang revisits this ancient philosophical question from the modern perspective of comparative studies. His investigation stages an intellectual exchange between Plato, founder of the Academy, ... -
One Hundred Thousand Moons: An Advanced Political History of Tibet
(Brill Academic Publishers, 2010)The late Tsepon W. D. Shakabpa needs no introduction to Western students of Tibetan history thanks to his prominent role in advancing the cause of Tibet’s independence in the years leading up to China’s annexation of Tibet ... -
One land, two states: Israel and Palestine as parallel states
(University of California Press, 2014)One Land, Two States imagines a new vision for Israel and Palestine in a situation where the peace process has failed to deliver an end of conflict. If the land cannot be shared by geographical division, and if a one-state ... -
One Man Zeitgeist: Dave Eggers, Publishing and Publicity
(Continuum International Publishing Group, 2010)On the news of the passing of J. D. Salinger early in 2010 the New Yorker magazine asked Dave Eggers to write a few words in his honour. To anyone familiar with the work and lives of these two American authors the commission ... -
One Spirit Medicine: Ancient Ways to Ultimate Wellness
(Hay House, 2015)In the West, we’re accustomed to looking to doctors and experts to guide us in our healing, growth, and learning. Our schools, businesses, religions, and government are hierarchical. In the Amazon, however, there are no ... -
Online Second Language Acquisition: Conversation Analysis of Online Chat
(Continuum International Publishing Group, 2010)This book uses Conversation Analysis (CA) methodology to understand how foreign languages are used and learned in a naturalistic online setting, specifically in text chat. Text chat is widely available both in institutional ...
