This book discusses fundamental campaign principles, but is not a how-to guide. Rather, its emphasis lies on the strategic decisions that a campaign requires and on campaign leadership.
Speaking Pictures explores the complex negotiations between seeing and hearing essential to the audiences' experience in any dramatic performance. Ranging chronologically from the Middle Ages to the present, the essays consider a variety of methods that help us recuperate the visual impact of theatrical spectacle before the age of video archives. ......
Essays in the History of Indian Religions in Honor of Wendy Doniger
Notes from a Mandala gathers together current work in the history, ethnography and textual study of religions in honor of the career of Wendy Doniger. Its authors are a new generation of leading scholars whose work falls in the interstices between the traditional disciplines: gender studies; the history of sexuality; the role of textual study and ......
We are so used to calling the plays written by Shakespeare and his contemporaries 'poetic drama' that we hardly ever stop to think about the generic meaning of the term. This book is an attempt to explore Shakespeare's artistic achievement as an intricate blend of the dramatic and lyrical modes. In a series of minute textual analyses, it traces ......
An exploration of the nature of motivation - and how we can maximise our motivational potential. It shows that the main barrier is the deep-seated, conventional assumption that we are born with unformed, unorganized minds in need of structure supplied by good parents and teachers.
The Rise of Neuroscience and the Threat to Moral Responsibility
As scientists continue to explore how the brain works, using ever more sophisticated technology, it seems likely that the findings will radically alter the traditional understanding of human nature. This book explores the mystery of free will and moral responsibility - and the questions posed by the scientific advances.
Rethinking the Rules of the Game That Keep Women from Succeeding in Bu
An analysis of the paradoxical 'rules of business' that continue to hold women back in the workplace. It presents five of the most common 'paradoxes' and what women - and men - can do to overcome them and achieve true gender parity in the workplace.
A fictional memoir that skillfully brings to life Roman society in the Near East of the first century, with all its luxurious refinements, brutal realities, competing religious cults, and social unrest.