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Author |
: Christopher Leigh Connery |
Publisher |
: North Atlantic Books |
Total Pages |
: 258 |
Release |
: 2007-10-30 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1556436807 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781556436802 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (07 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Worlding Project by : Christopher Leigh Connery
Globalization discourse now presumes that the “world space” is entirely at the mercy of market norms and forms promulgated by reactionary U.S. policies. An academic but accessible set of studies, this wide range of essays by noted scholars challenges this paradigm with diverse and strong arguments. Taking on topics that range from the medieval Mediterranean to contemporary Jamaican music, from Hong Kong martial arts cinema to Taiwanese politics, writers such as David Palumbo-Liu, Meaghan Morris, James Clifford, and others use innovative cultural studies to challenge the globalization narrative with a new and trenchant tactic called “worlding.” The book posits that world literature, cultural studies, and disciplinary practices must be “worlded” into expressions from disparate critical angles of vision, multiple frameworks, and field practices as yet emerging or unidentified. This opens up a major rethinking of historical “givens” from Rob Wilson’s reinvention of “The White Surfer Dude” to Sharon Kinoshita’s “Deprovincializing the Middle Ages.” Building on the work of cultural critics like Edward Said, Gayatri Spivak, and Kenneth Burke, The Worlding Project is an important manifesto that aims to redefine the aesthetics and politics of postcolonial globalization withalternative forms and frames of global becoming.
Author |
: Brogan Graham |
Publisher |
: Rodale Books |
Total Pages |
: 260 |
Release |
: 2016-04-12 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781623366308 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1623366305 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (08 Downloads) |
Synopsis November Project: The Book by : Brogan Graham
November Project: The Book is the story of how two irreverent, way-outside-the-box fitness fanatics are flipping the fitness industry on its head and literally making the world a better place, one city at a time. No facility. No machines. Just two dudes and a tribe of thousands. Welcome to November Project’s world takeover. What started 4 years ago as a simple monthlong workout pact between two former Northeastern University oarsmen in Boston has grown into an international fitness phenomenon. November Project espouses free, public, all-weather, outdoor group sweats that turn strangers into friends and connect everyone to the city in which they live. It’s been described as everything from flashmob fitness to “the fight club of running clubs” and a cult. But November Project prides itself on defying categories. In November Project: The Book, Brogan Graham (a.k.a. BG) and Bojan Mandaric, in their own spicy, big-hearted words, chronicle, along with tribe member and writer Caleb Daniloff, their fitness movement’s genesis, evolution, operations, membership, “secret sauce,” and future—and along the way, show you how you can get fit and societally engaged. The book also includes illustrated workouts; the keys to meaningful civic engagement; information on using your city as a gym; advice on starting an NP tribe; tips on growing, sustaining, and invigorating membership through social media; and thoughts on the collective power of community.
Author |
: Hashim Sarkis |
Publisher |
: National Geographic Books |
Total Pages |
: 0 |
Release |
: 2020-03-17 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780262043960 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0262043963 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (60 Downloads) |
Synopsis The World as an Architectural Project by : Hashim Sarkis
Architects imagine the planet: fifty speculative world-scale projects from Patrick Geddes, Alison and Peter Smithson, Kiyonori Kikutake, Juan Navarro Baldeweg, Luc Deleu, and others. The world's growing vulnerability to planet-sized risks invites action on a global scale. The World as an Architectural Project shows how for more than a century architects have imagined the future of the planet through world-scale projects. With fifty speculative projects by Patrick Geddes, Alison and Peter Smithson, Kiyonori Kikutake, Saverio Muratori, Takis Zenetos, Sergio Bernardes, Juan Navarro Baldeweg, Luc Deleu, and many others, documented in text and images, this ambitious and wide-ranging book is the first compilation of its kind. Interestingly, architects begin to address the world as a project long before the advent of contemporary globalism and its assorted anxieties. The Spanish urban theorist and entrepreneur Arturo Soria y Mata, for example, in 1882 envisions a system that connects the entire planet in a linear urban network. In 1927, Buckminster Fuller's “World Town Plan—4D Tower” proposes to solve global housing problems with mobile structures delivered and installed by a Zeppelin. And Joyce Hsiang and Bimal Mendis visualize the conditions of a worldwide “City of Seven Billion” in a 2015–2019 project. Rather than indulging the cliché of the megalomaniac architect, this volume presents a discipline reflecting on its own responsibilities.
Author |
: Richard Perrin |
Publisher |
: John Wiley & Sons |
Total Pages |
: 482 |
Release |
: 2008-03-31 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780470260838 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0470260831 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (38 Downloads) |
Synopsis Real World Project Management by : Richard Perrin
If you're a project manager, you need this guide to fill in the gaps in the PM canon. The Project Management Institute's Body of Knowledge, fails to fully explain certain PM tools and how they work, among other failures. Real-World Project Management fills in those major gaps with irreverence, wit, and wisdom. For any kind of project you’re managing, this book presents the high-quality tools and tactics you need to succeed.
Author |
: Elizabeth Harrin |
Publisher |
: BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT |
Total Pages |
: 242 |
Release |
: 2013-05-06 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1780171714 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781780171715 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (14 Downloads) |
Synopsis Shortcuts to Success by : Elizabeth Harrin
This highly accessible book gives advice to project managers who need to get up to speed quickly. It includes hints and tips on managing budget, time, scope and people. This updated edition reflects changes to working practices such as the use of social media and collaboration tools. SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2014 CMI MANAGEMENT BOOK OF THE YEAR.
Author |
: Mary Koller |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 88 |
Release |
: 1995 |
ISBN-10 |
: MINN:31951D00274559Y |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (9Y Downloads) |
Synopsis The World Map Project by : Mary Koller
This handbook can be used by anyone with an interest in mapmaking. The step-by-step guide shows how to draw, plan, and color a one-of-a-kind world map. There is a list of materials, supplies, worksheets, and a trouble-shooting appendix for special situations. The guide also provides a variety of enrichment activities to promote continued involvement with the world map. The activities stress cooperative problem-solving for participants of all ages. There are three parts in the guide: (1) "How to Make Your World Map"; (2) "How to Use Your World Map"; and (3) "Resources for Making Your World Map." An appendix containing directional material and a bibliography is also included. (EH)
Author |
: Robert K. Wysocki |
Publisher |
: Basic Books |
Total Pages |
: 278 |
Release |
: 2001-02-08 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780465011490 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0465011497 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (90 Downloads) |
Synopsis The World Class Project Manager by : Robert K. Wysocki
Effective project management is becoming a critical mission skill for individuals and organizations in every industry. Faster product life cycles, the widespread adoption of cross-functional teams, and the increasing demands of customers are all contributing to the growing need for professional managers who know how to marshal resources, make decisions, and ensure the smooth flow of projects from idea to launch. In The World Class Project Manager, Robert Wysocki and James Lewis offer a highly practical handbook for anyone who aspires to achieve superior project-manager skills. Featuring self-assessment tools, showcasing best practices from the field, and drawing on their own extensive experience in training project managers around the world, the authors provide a comprehensive program for crafting a career development plan and putting it into action.
Author |
: Shantayanan Devarajan |
Publisher |
: World Bank Publications |
Total Pages |
: 36 |
Release |
: 1995 |
ISBN-10 |
: |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 ( Downloads) |
Synopsis Reviving Project Appraisal at the World Bank by : Shantayanan Devarajan
Author |
: Rachel Sussman |
Publisher |
: University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages |
: 305 |
Release |
: 2014-06-03 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780226057644 |
ISBN-13 |
: 022605764X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (44 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Oldest Living Things in the World by : Rachel Sussman
The Oldest Living Things in the World is an epic journey through time and space. Over the past decade, artist Rachel Sussman has researched, worked with biologists, and traveled the world to photograph continuously living organisms that are 2,000 years old and older. Spanning from Antarctica to Greenland, the Mojave Desert to the Australian Outback, the result is a stunning and unique visual collection of ancient organisms unlike anything that has been created in the arts or sciences before, insightfully and accessibly narrated by Sussman along the way. Her work is both timeless and timely, and spans disciplines, continents, and millennia. It is underscored by an innate environmentalism and driven by Sussman’s relentless curiosity. She begins at “year zero,” and looks back from there, photographing the past in the present. These ancient individuals live on every continent and range from Greenlandic lichens that grow only one centimeter a century, to unique desert shrubs in Africa and South America, a predatory fungus in Oregon, Caribbean brain coral, to an 80,000-year-old colony of aspen in Utah. Sussman journeyed to Antarctica to photograph 5,500-year-old moss; Australia for stromatolites, primeval organisms tied to the oxygenation of the planet and the beginnings of life on Earth; and to Tasmania to capture a 43,600-year-old self-propagating shrub that’s the last individual of its kind. Her portraits reveal the living history of our planet—and what we stand to lose in the future. These ancient survivors have weathered millennia in some of the world’s most extreme environments, yet climate change and human encroachment have put many of them in danger. Two of her subjects have already met with untimely deaths by human hands. Alongside the photographs, Sussman relays fascinating – and sometimes harrowing – tales of her global adventures tracking down her subjects and shares insights from the scientists who research them. The oldest living things in the world are a record and celebration of the past, a call to action in the present, and a barometer of our future.
Author |
: Thunder Bay Press |
Publisher |
: Thunder Bay Press (CA) |
Total Pages |
: 175 |
Release |
: 1995 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1571450645 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781571450647 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (45 Downloads) |
Synopsis Decorative Painting of the World by : Thunder Bay Press