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 The Sympathy of Things: Ruskin and the Ecology of Design, 2nd Edition by Lars Spuybroek English | April 21, 2016 | ISBN: 147424386X, 1474243851, 1350142778 | EPUB | 352 pages | 9.4 MB 'If there is one thing we can learn from John Ruskin, it is that each age must find its own way to beauty' writes Lars Spuybroek in The Sympathy of Things, his ground-breaking work which proposes a radical new aesthetics for the digital era.  John Simmons, "The Starbucks Story: How the brand changed the world" English | 2012 | pages: 145 | ASIN: B008XVXAMI | EPUB | 2,1 mb Coffee is a commodity. You can get a cup at any café, sandwich bar or restaurant anywhere. So how did Starbucks manage to reinvent coffee as a whole new experience, and create a hugely successful brand in the process? The Starbucks Story tells the brand's story from its origins in a Seattle fish market to its growing global presence today. This is a story that has unfolded quickly - at least in terms of conventional business development. Starbucks is a phenomenon. Unknown 15 years ago, it now ranks among the 100 most valuable brands in the world. It has become the quintessential brand of the modern age, built around the creation of an experience that can be consistently reproduced across the world. Originally published in 2004 as 'My Sister's A Barista: How they made Starbucks a home away from home', this new 2012 edition has been updated to bring the brand up to date. About the AuthorJohn Simmons is a writer and consultant on brands. His books We, Me, Them and It (2000), The Invisible Grail (2003) and Dark Angels (2004) argue that the importance of language, storytelling and verbal identity in branding has long been neglected. He also co-edited The Economist Guide to Brands and Branding (2003), and 26 Letters: Illuminating the Alphabet (2004). In his previous role as a director of Interbrand, an international brand consultancy, John worked with organizations as diverse as Orange, Air Products and the National Theatre. Always keen to promote better writing in business, he co-founded the writers' group 26, and is a regular speaker at conferences and events. He is also director of training at The Writer, where he helps to develop people and organizations through writing.  The Spanish Flu: A History from Beginning to End (Pandemic History) by Hourly History English | May 4, 2020 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B087SGBWBF | 43 pages | Rar (PDF, AZW3) | 0.64 Mb Discover the remarkable history of the Spanish Flu...The 1918 outbreak of the H1N1 strain of influenza, popularly known as the Spanish flu, killed more people worldwide than World War I, which ended the same year. It infected nearly one-third of the world's population and killed ten percent of those it struck. In its wake, schools and businesses closed, hospitals became overwhelmed, and the sick spilled out into makeshift care centers in public spaces. Policemen, public transportation workers, and everyday citizens in face masks were a common-and eerie-sight. Yet, discussion of this global pandemic often takes a backseat to World War I and other contemporary events.  The Solace: Finding Value in Death through Gratitude for Life by Joshua Glasgow 2020 | ISBN: 0190074302 | English | 128 pages | EPUB | 2 MB How can we find solace when we face the death of loved ones? How can we find solace in our own death? When philosopher Joshua Glasgow's mother was diagnosed with cancer, he struggled to answer these questions for her and for himself. Though death and immortality introduce some of the most basic and existentially compelling questions in philosophy, Glasgow found that the dominant theories came up short.  The Routledge Handbook of Trust and Philosophy by Judith Simon 2020 | ISBN: 1138687464 | English | 454 pages | PDF | 10 MB Trust is pervasive in our lives. Both our simplest actions - like buying a coffee, or crossing the street - as well as the functions of large collective institutions - like those of corporations and nation states - would not be possible without it. Yet only in the last several decades has trust started to receive focused attention from philosophers as a specific topic of investigation. The Routledge Handbook of Trust and Philosophy brings together 31 never-before published chapters, accessible for both students and researchers, created to cover the most salient topics in the various theories of trust. The Handbook is broken up into three sections:  The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Colour by Derek H. Brown, Fiona Macpherson September 28, 2020 | ISBN: 0415743036 | English | 516 pages | PDF | 16 MB From David Hume's famous puzzle about "the missing shade of blue," to current research into the science of colour, the topic of colour is an incredibly fertile region of study and debate, cutting across philosophy of mind, epistemology, metaphysics, and aesthetics, as well as psychology. Debates about the nature of our experience of colour and the nature of colour itself are central to contemporary discussion and argument in philosophy of mind and psychology, and philosophy of perception.  John R. Lampe, "The Routledge Handbook of Balkan and Southeast European History " English | ISBN: 1138613088 | 2020 | 556 pages | PDF | 104 MB Disentangling a controversial history of turmoil and progress, this Handbook provides essential guidance through the complex past of a region that was previously known as the Balkans but is now better known as Southeastern Europe. It gathers 47 international scholars and researchers from the region. They stand back from the premodern claims and recent controversies stirred by the wars of Yugoslavia's dissolution.  The Rhetoric of Cicero in Its Medieval And Early Renaissance Commentary Tradition By Virginia Cox, John O. Ward 2006 | 566 Pages | ISBN: 9004131779 | PDF | 5 MB In this volume an expert team seeks to establish whether medieval and early Renaissance rhetorical theory and practice were innovative or derivative (from Graeco-Roman rhetoric), by looking at a unique range of key topics that underlie the postmodern culture of our own day: the medieval and early Renaissance study of Cicero's ''De inventione'' and the ''Rhetorica ad Herennium''; the textual history and manuscript transmission of Cicero's rhetorical works; the Latin and vernacular traditions of Ciceronian rhetoric in late medieval Italy, Ciceronian rhetoric and ethics, dialectic, law, memory theory and practice, literary theory, Latin composition textbooks, poetics, narration, and imitation, thematic preaching, the art of letterwriting, and the art of assembly oratory in late medieval Italy. There is a valuable appendix of illustrative material from the Cicero commentaries not available elsewhere.  The Retreat of the Elephants: An Environmental History of China by Mark Elvin English | March 10, 2004 | ISBN: 0300101112, 0300119933 | EPUB | 592 pages | 18.5 MB A landmark account of China's environmental history-by an internationally pre-eminent China specialist  The Real Witches' Garden: Spells, Herbs, Plants and Magical Spaces Outdoors by Kate West English | March 10th, 2016 | ISBN: 0007163223 | 224 pages | True EPUB | 1.52 MB A guide to the outdoor world and nature-based spirituality for real witches everywhere. Kate West explains how to set up your own sacred space in the garden and how to grow herbs for use in spells and remedies. The Real Witches' Garden is a practical guide to witchcraft in the garden - whether you have 20 acres or a window box! |
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