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This is an absorbing look at the work of three artists who paved the way for ceramics to be considered fine art. "Clay's Tectonic Shift" focuses on artists John Mason (b. 1927), Kenneth Price (b. 1935), and Peter Voulkos (1924-2002) and their radical early work in post-war Los Angeles where they formed the vanguard of a new California ceramics movement. The three artists broke from the craft tradition that emphasized the function of a piece. Instead, they experimented with scale, surface, colour, and volume, creating work that was instrumental in elevating ceramics from a craft to a fine art.

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'The Peter Principle has cosmic implications.' - New York Times 'The classic book which warns of the dangers of over-promotion' The Times In a hierarchy, every employee rises to the level of their own incompetence. This simple maxim, defined by this classic book over 40 years ago, has become a beacon of truth in the world of work. From the civil service to multinational companies to hospital management, it explains why things constantly go wrong: promotion up a hierarchy inevitably leads to over-promotion and incompetence. Through barbed anecdotes and wry humour the authors define the problem and show how anyone, whether at the top or bottom of the career ladder, can avoid its pitfalls. Or, indeed, avoid promotion entirely!

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One of the most important and consistent voices in the reform of science education over the last thirty years has been that of Peter Fensham. His vision of a democratic and socially responsible science education for all has inspired change in schools and colleges throughout the world. Often moving against the tide, Fensham travelled the world to promote his radical ideology. He was appointed Australia's first Professor of Science Education, and was later made a Member of the Order of Australia in recognition of his work in this new and emerging field of study.In this unique book, leading science educators from around the world examine and discuss Fensham's key ideas. Each describes how his arguments, proposals and recommendations have affected their own practice, and extend and modify his message in light of current issues and trends in science education. The result is a vision for the future of science teaching internationally.Academics, researchers and practitioners in science education around the world will find this book a fascinating insight into the life and work of one of the foremost pioneers in science education. The book will also make inspiring reading for postgraduate students of science education.

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In 1735, struggling printer John Peter Zenger scandalized colonial New York by launching a small newspaper, the New-York Weekly Journal. The newspaper was assailed by the new British governor as corrupt and arrogant, and as being a direct challenge against the prevailing law that criminalized any criticism of the royal government. Zenger was thrown in jail for nine months before his landmark one-day trial on August 4, 1735, in which he was brilliantly defended by Andrew Hamilton. In Indelible Ink, Pulitzer Prize–winning social historian Richard Kluger has fashioned the first book-length narrative of the Zenger case, rendering with colorful detail its setting in old New York and the vibrant personalities of its leading participants, whose virtues and shortcomings are assessed with fresh scrutiny often at variance with earlier accounts.

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John Peter Askew’s pictures show us the poetry of the everyday. Three years in the editing, WE II is a companion volume to WE which Charlotte Cotton described as “A wonderful book... a beautiful, close, incredibly touching and vast photographic story…” While WE II is an epic portrait across generations of a single family from the easternmost point in Europe, these photographs transcend their particular circumstances. Askew pays attention to our 'best selves', asking us to imagine the possibility of a better, more playful world, and pointing towards who we might yet become. This work, stretching back over a quarter of a century, is a timely and idiosyncratic chronicle, embracing friendship, communality, and kindness.

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R.S. Peters is indisputably a major thinker in the philosophy of education and educational theory. Stefaan E. Cuypers and Christopher Martin's volume offers a coherent account of Peters' educational thought. This work is divided into three distinctive parts: 1. Intellectual Biography of R.S. Peters 2. Critical Exposition of R.S. Peters' Educational Thought 3. Reception and Relevance of R.S. Peters' Work

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Few Western thinkers have been more influential and less known than Peter Damian (1007-1072). After centuries of neglect and misinterpretation, the man who emerges from Patricia Ranft’s exhaustive investigation of his writings will surprise many. Immoderate in rhetoric yet moderate in teachings, Peter Damian is a man for the ages. Damian began his career in the schools of northern Italy, but soon joined a community of hermits at Fonte Avellana. His genius was too brilliant to hide, however, and he was called forth from solitude to fill the roles of religious reformer, theologian, adviser, cardinal, preacher, spiritual director, and papal legate. These roles brought him in contact with the pressing issues of mid-eleventh-century Italy. Fortunately, he recorded much of what he did and thought. In many areas he broke with accepted practices, abandoned old methods, and offered innovative approaches to problems. The previously unrecognized social theology at the core of his thought contributed much to the culture developed during this crucial period of Western history. In the first comprehensive work based wholly on critical editions of Damian’s writings, Ranft explores all 180 letters of Damian and his vita of Romuald. She highlights Damian’s ideas across a range of topics— stewardship, social responsibilities, community, class, gender, ethics, ecology, justice, sexuality, avarice, authority, individualism, clerical behavior, and labor—and shows how his ideas influenced the shape of Western culture.

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Thrilling from beginning to end - I couldn't turn the pages fast enough' CLAIRE DOUGLAS'Absorbing and fast-paced' KARIN SLAUGHTER'Excellent - domestic noir in all its darkest shades' CARA HUNTERThe child you never knewknows all your secrets . . .Out of the blue, Susie Jukes is contacted on social media by Anna, the girl she gave up for adoption fifteen years ago.But when they meet, Anna's home life sounds distinctly strange to Susie and her husband Gabe. And when Anna's adoptive parents seem to overreact to the fact she contacted them at all, Susie becomes convinced that Anna needs her help.But is Anna's own behaviour simply what you'd expect from someone recovering from a traumatic childhood? Or are there other secrets at play here - secrets Susie has also been hiding for the last fifteen years?'A twisty, electrifying read' WOMAN'S OWNSee what everyone is saying about JP Delaney, the hottest name in psychological thrillers:'DAZZLING' - Lee Child'ADDICTIVE' - Daily Express'DEVASTATING' - Daily Mail'INGENIOUS' - New York Times'COMPULSIVE' - Glamour Magazine'ELEGANT' - Peter James'SEXY' - Mail on Sunday'ENTHRALLING' - Woman and Home'ORIGINAL' - The Times'RIVETING' - Lisa Gardner'CREEPY' - Heat'SATISFYING' - Reader's Digest'SUPERIOR' - The Bookseller'MORE THAN A MATCH FOR PAULA HAWKINS' - Sunday Times

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Over a century after its first stage performance, Peter Pan has become deeply embedded in Western popular culture, as an enduring part of childhood memories, in every part of popular media, and in commercial enterprises.Since 2003 the characters from this story have had a highly visible presence in nearly every genre of popular culture: two major films, a literary sequel to the original adventures, a graphic novel featuring a grown-up Wendy Darling, and an Argentinean novel about a children's book writer inspired by J. M. Barrie. Simultaneously, Barrie surfaced as the subject of two major biographies and a feature film. The engaging essays in Second Star to the Right approach Pan from literary, dramatic, film, television, and sociological perspectives and, in the process, analyze his emergence and preservation in the cultural imagination.

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Peter Weibel, the long-standing CEO of the ZKM | Zentrum für Kunst und Medien (Center for Art and Media) in Karlsruhe, and the recipient of the Lovis-Corinth-Preis in 2020, has influenced the international scene of media art as an artist as well as a theorist and curator. His artistic oeuvre comprises conceptual art, performance, experimental film, video, and computer art as well as his exploration of music. This publication offers insight into Weibel’s diverse work. One main area consists of works in which the artist takes up core questions about Europe. For example, his computer-video installation Die Vertreibung der Vernunft (The Expulsion of Reason) of 1993 thematizes the forced emigration of artists and intellectuals from Austria between 1933 and 1945. In other works critical of the system, which always question the usual concept of art as well, Weibel addresses migration, expulsion, war, and terrorism as well as economic and ecological catastrophes. Languages: English and German

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Terapia vital para los hombres que se niegan a madurar y quedan instalados en el estereotipo de Peter Pan, el eterno hombre-niño.Un libro para hombres que deben leer todas las mujeresPeter Pan es un entrañable personaje que nunca existió, pero hoy en día nos encontramos cada vez más a menudo con este perfil de hombre joven e inmaduro que no quiere crecer.Cuáles son las causas que han provocado la proliferación de tantos hombres que temen al compromiso, que se niegan a evolucionar y a comportarse como adultos? Qué puede hacer el hombre-Peter Pan para dejar de serlo?Esas son las dos preguntas que contesta este libro, llamado a convertirse en una guía imprescindible para que los hombres del siglo XXI puedan construir un nuevo modelo de relaciones de género sin refugiarse en el País de Nunca Jamás. Así serán capaces de crear un proyecto de pareja con el tipo de mujer actual, independiente y autosuficiente, que hace tiempo que ya no quiere ser como Wendy.

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Peter Kubelka's program cycle What is Film is a key element in the work of the Austrian Film Museum. It was inaugurated in 1996 on the occasion of the centenary of cinema and now consists of 63 programmes of outstanding works. Kubelka's selection of essential cinema defines film as an independent art form, as a tool which cultivates new ways of thinking. The book Was ist Film makes the cycle accessible via essays and film stills for the first time.

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In many ways, Bernstein's A Primer on Money, Banking, and Gold can be seen as one long preface to his bestselling The Power of Gold. In A Primer on Money, Banking, and Gold , Bernstein discusses the link that still exists between our money and gold and why.

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English summary: This volume is a Norwegian/German collaboration lead by Trygve Wyller and Hans-Gunter Heimbrock. It introduces a new way of approaching ethics. The authors point out that it is possible to show phenomenological ethics in practice. The lived experience (praxis) is as important as the professional experience. What people research here is the dynamics between these two fields of experience where the professional experience is taken from the general life experience. Contributions by Jonas Bauer, Silke Leonhard, Peter Meyer, Kerstin Soderblom, Lisbeth Thoresen, Ingvil Lonning, Solveig Botnen Eide, Trygve Wyller and Hans-Gunter Heimbrock. German text. German description: Der Umgang mit anderen Menschen bestimmt die Praxis in Feldern sozialen Hilfehandelns, im Gesundheitswesen, in Beratungs- und Unterrichtszusammenhangen. Uber Jahrhunderte hinweg war deren Organisation an religiose Institutionen gebunden. Sakularisierte Zivilgesellschaften ubertragen sie hingegen hoch differenzierten Professionen. Dieser Band tragt dem wachsenden Bedarf an ethischer Reflexion in diesen Berufsfeldern Rechnung. Er versteht sich auch als Beitrag zu den neu etablierten professionsethischen Studiengangen im Schnittfeld von Theologie, Sozialpadagogik, Erziehungswissenschaft und Pflegewissenschaft. Im Fokus stehen Fragen, die u.a. in Philosophie, Sozialwissenschaft und Anthropologie intensiv diskutiert werden: Wie kann man Andere in ihrem Anderssein achten und ihnen respektvoll begegnen' Wie lasst sich vermeiden, dass aus wohlmeinender institutioneller Fursorge problematische Disziplinierungsprozesse resultieren' Fallstudien aus Krankenpflege, Hospizarbeit, Schule, Seelsorge und Sozialarbeit entwickeln dazu praxisgerechte, ethisch fundierte Beitrage. Phanomenologische Stimmen (von Husserl, Merleau-Ponty, Schutz, Foucault u.a.) werden als Interpretationsmoglichkeit zu Gehor gebracht und als Sehschule erprobt. Dabei erganzen sich Gegenwartsethik und berufspraktische Perspektiven produktiv. Die Rolle angemessener empirischer Forschungspraxis fur Sozialberufe wird methodologisch erarbeitet, an den Fallstudien verdeutlicht und exemplarisch fur die Dimensionen Leib, Sprache und Raum entfaltet. Theoretisch interessierte PraktikerInnen und an Praxis orientierte ForscherInnen erhalten vielfaltige Anregungen zur Wahrnehmung sozialen Handelns. Das gilt sowohl in professionsethischer Hinsicht als auch mit Blick auf empirisches Forschen.

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