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Local/ Global: Women Artists in the Nineteenth Century
Manufacturer: Ashgate Publishing ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 0754631974 |
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Local Histories/Global Designs
Walter D. Mignolo Manufacturer: Princeton University Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 0691001405 |
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This book is an extended argument on the "coloniality" of power by one of the most innovative scholars of Latin American studies. In a shrinking world where sharp dichotomies, such as East/West and developing/developed, blur and shift, Walter Mignolo points to the inadequacy of current practice in the social sciences and area studies. He introduces the crucial notion of "colonial difference" into study of the modern colonial world. He also traces the emergence of new forms of knowledge, which he calls "border thinking."
Further, he expands the horizons of those debates already under way in postcolonial studies of Asia and Africa by employing the terms and concerns of New World scholarship. His concept of "border gnosis," or what is known from the perspective of an empire's borderlands, counters the tendency of occidentalist perspectives to dominate, and thus limit, understanding.
The book is divided into three parts: the first chapter deals with epistemology and postcoloniality; the next three chapters deal with the geopolitics of knowledge; the last three deal with the languages and cultures of scholarship. Here the author reintroduces the analysis of civilization from the perspective of globalization and argues that, rather than one "civilizing" process dominated by the West, the continually emerging subaltern voices break down the dichotomies characteristic of any cultural imperialism. By underscoring the fractures between globalization and mundializacion, Mignolo shows the locations of emerging border epistemologies, and of post-occidental reason.
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50 Activities for Achieving Excellent Customer Service
Darryl S. Doane , and Rose D. Sloat Manufacturer: HRD Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Ring-bound Similar Items:
ASIN: 0874257379 |
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This resource manual provides:Increase the creativity and skill level of customer service representatives
Demonstrate what excellent customer service is
Provide insights and practice to improve customer service
Develop your own organizations bank of customer service learning situations
Training Methods
Role plays
Assessments
Brainstorming
Listening exercises
Time Guidelines
Activities take between 15 minutes and one hour.
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50 Activities for Achieving Excellent Customer Service
Rose D. Sloat Manufacturer: Ane Books ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 8180520722 |
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Fabulous farmer;: The story of Walter Knott and his berry farm,
Roger Holmes Manufacturer: Westernlore Publishers ProductGroup: Book Binding: Unknown Binding ASIN: B0006AUO00 |
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Astronomy and Astrophysics Abstracts: Literature, 1983, Part 2
Manufacturer: Springer ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 0387134859 |
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Ecological Risk Assessment of Contaminated Sediments (Setac Special Publications Series)
Pellston Workshop on Sediment Ecological Risk Assessment , Christopher G. Ingersoll , Tom Dillon , Gregory R. Biddinger , and SETAC (Society) Manufacturer: SETAC ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 1880611090 |
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Although sediment toxicity/bioaccumulation testing and environmental risk assessment originated together in the early 1980s, they have evolved separately. By critically evaluating existing approaches, this group of experts identifies principles and practices for sediment ecological risk assessments that are designed to improve the scientific and regulatory communities' ability to assess environmental risks associated with contaminated sediments. The authors pinpoint critical applications and pertinent issues that address the evaluation of sediments as both a source and a sink for persistent aquatic contaminants.
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Screening ecological risk assessment for the benthic community in the Venice lagoon (Italy) [An article from: Environment International]
A. Critto , C. Carlon , and A. Marcomini Manufacturer: Elsevier ProductGroup: Book Binding: Digital ASIN: B000RR6COO |
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This digital document is a journal article from Environment International, published by Elsevier in . The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Media Library immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.
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Spatial analysis in ecological risk assessment: Pollutant bioaccumulation in clams Tapes philipinarum in the Venetian lagoon (Italy) [An article from: Computers, Environment and Urban Systems]
S. Bertazzon , C. Micheletti , A. Critto , and Marcomini Manufacturer: Elsevier ProductGroup: Book Binding: Digital ASIN: B000PC010M |
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This digital document is a journal article from Computers, Environment and Urban Systems, published by Elsevier in 2006. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Media Library immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.
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Field and Laboratory and Support results Buffalo River Mass Balance Project (Assessment and Remediation of Contaminated Sediments)
Harish C Sikka Manufacturer: Great Lakes National Program Office, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency ProductGroup: Book Binding: Unknown Binding ASIN: B0006RSUFY |
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Schooling And Riding The Sport Horse: A Modern American Hunter/Jumper System
Paul D. Cronin Manufacturer: University of Virginia Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Similar Items:
ASIN: 0813922879 |
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A protégé of the legendary Vladimir S. Littauer and for more than thirty years director of the riding program at Sweet Briar College, Paul D. Cronin is a well-known and highly respected trainer and riding instructor. Schooling and Riding the Sport Horse is Cronin's clear and practical guide to getting the most out of your horse in a humane and sensitive way.Beginning with a brief history of educated horsemanship from the earliest published riding masters of the sixteenth century, Cronin clarifies the differences between forward riding and classical dressage, and how at times the two have become inappropriately mixed. He then gives an in-depth presentation of the American forward riding system that is the basis of hunter/jumper riding and examines the ways in which a rider's position and controls are essential to the training of the horse.
In the system as Cronin explains it, the three basic pillars are position, controls, and schooling. In clear language, he walks the reader from the beginning stages of training through advanced jumping and cross-country work. He sets out proper methods of early schooling of the young, green, or reclaimed horse, based on freedom of movement under the weight of the rider at the walk, trot, canter, and jump; of gaining the horse's trust and cooperation; and of establishing agility and calmness in the horse at all gaits and over fences.
Schooling and Riding the Sport Horse is an important book on horsemanship for riding instructors, trainers, and amateur riders alike.
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Educational .......2007-01-09
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Science and Technical Writing: A Manual of Style, Second Edition (Routledge Study Guides)
Philip, Ed. Rubens Manufacturer: Routledge ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 0415925517 |
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With this new edition, Science and Technical Writing confirms its position as the definitive style resource for thousands of established and aspiring technical writers. Here are just a few comments from reviews of the first edition:
"If you are a technical or science writer or editor, you should own this book."
--AMWA Journal, American Medical Writers Association
"A must for all scientific and technical writers, editors, educators and students."
--American Library Book Review
"Authoritative, exhaustive and well-organized."
--Library Journal
Editor Philip Rubens has fully revised and updated his popular 1994 edition, with full, authoritative coverage of the techniques and technologies that have revolutionized electronic communications over the past eight years. His new Manual provides both professionals and would-be professionals with the latest style guidelines for the field - including information on the more complex issues facing the sci-tech writer:
Designing on-screen information
Working with linked and archived web sources
Selecting infographics
Writing Global English and using illustrations for non-native-speaking audiences
And much more
This is the most up-to-date guide to cover the entire range of scientific and technical writing in virtually every medium - an essential for writers, editors, publishers and anyone associated with the field!
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just view the excerpt.......2005-01-18
One of the four essential books for the technical writer.......2002-03-11
My only complaint--my standard complaint about my reference books--is that the index is far less comprehensive than it ought to be. Given modern computer indexing capabilities, one would think authors and publishers could do a better job.
However, with this is one of the four essential books: 1. Strunk and White, Elements of Style, 2. Prentice Hall, Words Into Type, 3. Garner, A Dictionary of Modern American Usage (for the British tech writer, Fowler's Modern English Usage) and 4. Ruebens, Science and Technical Writing. With these four, a technical writer can handle almost any situation that arises. There are other books covering special fields that can be added, but these four will always be the bedrock.
If you are a professional technical writer or only an occasional one, you can't go wrong having this book handy on your desktop.
Very useful.......2000-09-08
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George Balanchine: The Ballet Maker (Eminent Lives)
Robert Gottlieb Manufacturer: Harper Collins ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Similar Items:
ASIN: 0060750707 Release Date: 2004-10-26 |
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Part of the Eminent Lives Series, this biography, written by the gifted author Robert Gottlieb, will describe the life of the dynamic George Balanchine, the foremost contemporary choreographer in ballet. Timed to coincide with the 2004 centenary of the artist's birth.
The life and achievement of the great choreographer who both summed up everything that proceeded him in ballet, and extended the art form into radical yet inevitable new paths. Leaving Revolutionary Russia in 1924 (he was 20), he joined Serge Diaghilev's famous Ballets Russes, where he created his first enduring masterpiece, Apollo, cementing his lifelong collaboration with Stravinsky.
In 1933 he arrived in America to found a school and a company, but the company as we know it – The New York City Ballet – didn't emerge until 1948. Meanwhile, he made ballets wherever opportunity allowed, while choreographing Broadway shows (four for Rodgers and Hart), movies (The Goldwyn Follies), even the circus – a ballet for elephants with a score by Stravinsky. By the time of his death, in 1983, he had been recognized as a member of the triad of the greatest modern masters, alongside Picasso and Stravinsky.
Balanchine was married many times, always to outstanding ballerinas, but his truest muse always remained Terpsichore, the Muse of Dance.
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"...there is a glow -- the space, the hands, everything is fantastically beautiful".......2005-08-04
Brief, but well-written and informative biography.......2005-01-20
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George Balanchine-Ballet Maker
Robert Gottlieb Manufacturer: NY ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: B000N6MD24 |
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George Balanchine: The Ballet Maker
Robert Gottlieb Manufacturer: Harper Collins ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: B000OEX5JA |
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George Balanchine: the Ballet Maker (Eminent Lives)
Robert Gottlieb Manufacturer: HarperCollins Publishers ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: B000N71XMO |
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