Luxury of Space
Luxury of Space

Author: Oberto Gili

Publisher: Assouline Books & Gifts

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9782843235214

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Fleeting human moments memorialized by Oberto Gili's camera translate formally into beautifully balanced classical images. His camera, like his personality, is whimsical questioning, non-judgemental and tenderly objective. Gili's images of interiors capture fundamental moments of human existence, quiet moments and basic needs, wether it's a man on sitting on his coach surrounded by his dogs, a young couple getting into bed, a woman watching herself getting dressed in the mirror or a girl swimming alone in a pool, we experience narrative, isolation, intrusion through Gili's lens. Gili shows us different perspectives of home: color, happiness, sex, depression, arrogance, creativity, simplicity, boredom. These images in this stunning volume are a diairy of the interiors and situations that have, over the last thirty years, strung Gili's curiosity and fantasy the most. Simple, still and understated, Gili's images of interiors all have possibility as their subtext. Illustrated

Teaching Children Online
Teaching Children Online

Author: Carla Meskill

Publisher: Multilingual Matters

Published: 2018-11-20

Total Pages: 214

ISBN-13: 1788922034

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What does best practice in online education look like? How can educators make use of the affordances offered by online environments to bring out the best in the children they teach? These questions are answered in this new textbook, written with experienced teachers, novice educators and teacher educators in mind. Meskill and Anthony offer a wealth of examples of what successful online teaching looks like, and provide a rich source of practical, conversation-based strategies for optimizing online learning. This book will inspire anyone teaching or planning to teach fully online, or in a blended or hybrid format, by demonstrating how well constructed online conversations constitute powerful teaching.

Schoolishness
Schoolishness

Author: Susan D. Blum

Publisher: Cornell University Press

Published: 2024-05-15

Total Pages: 426

ISBN-13: 1501774190

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In Schoolishness, Susan D. Blum continues her journey as an anthropologist and educator. The author defines "schoolishness" as educational practices that emphasize packaged "learning," unimaginative teaching, uniformity, constant evaluation by others, arbitrary forms, predetermined time, and artificial boundaries, resulting in personal and educational alienation, dependence, and dread. Drawing on critical, progressive, and feminist pedagogy in conversation with the anthropology of learning, and building on the insights of her two previous books Blum proposes less-schoolish ways of learning in ten dimensions, to lessen the mismatch between learning in school and learning in the wild. She asks, if learning is our human "superpower," why is it so difficult to accomplish in school? In every chapter Blum compares the fake learning of schoolishness with successful examples of authentic learning, including in her own courses, which she scrutinizes critically. Schoolishness is not a pedagogical how-to book, but a theory-based phenomenology of institutional education. It has moral, psychological, and educational arguments against schoolishness that, as Blum notes, "rhymes with foolishness."

Deluxe
Deluxe

Author: Dana Thomas

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2007-08-16

Total Pages: 384

ISBN-13: 110121807X

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“With Deluxe: How Luxury Lost Its Luster, [Dana] Thomas—who has been the cultural and fashion writer for Newsweek in Paris for 12 years—has written a crisp, witty social history that’s as entertaining as it is informative.” —New York Times From the author of Fashionopolis: The Price of Fast Fashion and the Future of Clothes Once luxury was available only to the rarefied and aristocratic world of old money and royalty. It offered a history of tradition, superior quality, and a pampered buying experience. Today, however, luxury is simply a product packaged and sold by multibillion-dollar global corporations focused on growth, visibility, brand awareness, advertising, and, above all, profits. Award-winning journalist Dana Thomas digs deep into the dark side of the luxury industry to uncover all the secrets that Prada, Gucci, and Burberry don't want us to know. Deluxe is an uncompromising look behind the glossy façade that will enthrall anyone interested in fashion, finance, or culture.

Luxury in Global Perspective
Luxury in Global Perspective

Author: Karin Hofmeester

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2016-11-28

Total Pages: 343

ISBN-13: 1107108322

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Machine generated contents note: Luxury and global history Bernd-Stefan Grewe and Karin Hofmeester; 1. Precious things in motion: luxury and the circulation of jewels in Mughal India Kim Siebenhuner; 2. Diamonds as a global luxury commodity Karin Hofmeester; 3. Gold in twentieth-century India - a luxury? Bernd-Stefan Grewe; 4. Chinese porcelain local and global context: the imperial connection Anne Gerritsen; 5. Luxury or commodity? The success of Indian cotton cloth in the first global age Giorgio Riello; 6. The gendered luxury of wax prints in South Ghana: a local luxury good with global roots Silvia Ruschak; 7. From Venice to East Africa: history, uses and meanings of glass beads Karin Pallaver; 8. Imports and autarky: tortoiseshell in early modern Japan Martha Chaiklin; 9. Tickling and klicking the ivories - the metamorphosis of a global commodity in the nineteenth century Jonas Kranzer; 10. The conservation of luxury: safari hunting and the consumption of wildlife in twentieth-century East Africa Bernhard Gissibl; 11. Luxury as a global phenomenon: concluding remarks Bernd-Stefan Grewe and Karin Hofmeester

Under Their Wings
Under Their Wings

Author: Patty Lou Hawks

Publisher: Made For Success Publishing

Published: 2017-05

Total Pages: 234

ISBN-13: 1613398662

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Take an epic journey based on the true life story of a Girl Scout troop leader and her daughter. As one of the Girl Scout’s most successful troop leaders, the author guides you through inspirational life stories about an amazing group of young women. She lends meaning to real character development, shares how growing pains can create powerful learning moments and how this group of girls found true purpose while having fun. The story begins with the author who is reluctantly drafted into Troop Leadership, surrounded by the demands of a busy family life and career. But as her work begins, the author finds joy and fulfillment by leading her girls through wild adventures and real-life struggles. The nostalgic stories are interwoven with girl escapades, rites of passage, and learning about life with a purpose through their eyes, staged in a small beach town on the island of Ohau. Take a heartwarming journey and see where this adventure leads you.

Paris
Paris

Author: Charissa Bremer-David

Publisher: Getty Publications

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 169

ISBN-13: 160606052X

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Published to accompany an exhibition on view at the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, Apr. 26-Aug. 7, 2011, and at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Sept. 18-Dec. 10, 2011.

The Best of Times
The Best of Times

Author: Gyeorgos C. Hatonn

Publisher: PHOENIX SOURCE DISTRIBUTORS, INC.

Published: 1993

Total Pages: 240

ISBN-13: 9781569350027

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