Challenging conventional wisdom about specialization and professional identity, Alan Thornton shows that many individuals have complex, varied, and evolving relationships with visual art - relationships that do not fit into any single category. Against the backdrop of an expanding research culture a[...]
Tacit knowledge is the form of implicit knowledge that we rely on for learning. It is invoked in a wide range of intellectual inquiries, from traditional academic subjects to more pragmatically orientated investigations into the nature and transmission of skills and expertise. Notwithstanding its ap[...]
Features wide-ranging narratives based on recent developments in the theoretical model of patient-centred clinical care.[...]
A riveting tour through the international art market, conducted by a smart, funny industry insider.
A generational touchstone by the leading authority on the art world, a captivating book in three parts which seeks to answer the contentious question 'What is an Artist?'[...]
Explains the science behind young children's knowledge and understanding of the world. Linking theory to practice and the Early Years Foundation Stage, this work emphasizes on recognizing young children as competent, creative thinkers and building on their ideas.[...]
Book Two in the V&A's groundbreaking new series presents 17 patterns for garments and accessories from a seventeenth-century woman's wardrobe. It includes patterns for a loose gown, a jacket, a pair of stays and a boned bodice, ivory and wooden busks, shoes, a hat, a stomacher, linen bands and suppo[...]
These letters of Adaline Glasheen and Thornton Wilder, written between 1950 and 1975, reveal the probing energy and encyclopedic knowledge they each brought to their study of James Joyce's final novel, 'Finnegans Wake'.[...]
First came the Teds, the the Mods, Rockers, Hippies, Skinheads, Suedeheads and Punks. But by the late Seventies, a new youth fashion had appeared in Britain. Its adherents were often linked to violent football gangs, wore designer sportswear and made the bootboys of previous years look like the dino[...]
How do we know whether a particular treatment really works? How reliable is the evidence? And how do we ensure that research into medical treatments best meets the needs of patients? These are just a few of the questions addressed in a lively and informative way in Testing Treatments. Brimming with [...]
Sir Robert Borden was Plenipotentiary of Canada at the Peace Conference. With the Versailles Treaty ratified by the Canadian Parliament, Borden largely believed his work was done. He retired as Prime Minister in 1920. Although Borden died in 1937, the great legacy for Canada that derived from Borden[...]
Bruce Thornton's crisp and informative Student's Guide to Classics provides readers with an overview of each of the major poets, dramatists, philosophers, and historians of ancient Greece and Rome. Including short bios of major figures and a list of suggested readings, Thornton's guide is unparallel[...]
More than two centuries have passed since the publication of Robert John Thornton's "The Temple of Flora" in 1799, but its charm remains unsullied. In addition to the botanical and cultural historical explanations of the individual plate illustrations, this reprint narrates the history of the origin[...]
De stora ekonomerna ger oss en övergripande beskrivning av hur den moderna ekonomin växt fram genom att låta oss möta tio av historiens mest framträdande ekonomer.
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Dessa ekonomer är:
Adam Smith, Karl Marx, David Ricardo, Alfred Marshall. John Maynard Keynes, Friedrich[...]
Han vill ha sin Marchesibrud
Vissa menar att Christina Thornton är bortskämd, andra ser bara hennes skönhet. Men en sak är säker, hon är en ung kvinna som bestämmer över sin egen framtid ... åtminstone är det vad hon tror!
När den stilige greve Marchesi kommer till England Ã[...]
Den bortskämda lady Thornton
Han vill ha sin Marchesibrud
Vissa menar att Christina Thornton är bortskämd, andra ser bara hennes skönhet. Men en sak är säker, hon är en ung kvinna som bestämmer över sin egen framtid ... åtminstone är det vad hon tror!
När[...]