The second edition of the acclaimed Companion to Aesthetics contains fifty-four chapters written by leading international scholars covering all aspects of aesthetics. This companion opens with an historical overview of aesthetics including entries on Plato, Aristotle, Kant, Nietzsche, Heidegger, Sibley and Derrida. The second part covers the central concepts and theories needed for a comprehensive understanding of aesthetics including the definitions of art, taste, value of art, beauty, imagination, fiction, narrative, metaphor and pictorial representation. ..
New Headway Academic Skills is designed to be used either alongside the world-renowned New Headway main course editions, or as a complement to any other general English course.
The New Headway Academic Skills series includes:
■ a wide range of topics relevant to students in higher education
■ development of the specific skills required for academic reading, including skimming, scanning, intensive reading, topic sentences, and prediction
■ guided as well as freer practice in writing skills, including such features as planning, coherence, cohesive devices, and checking written work
■ final writing tasks that reflect different academic text types
Intercultural Communication: A Reader (13th edition)
This eye-opening reader explores how communication values and styles can be similar or different for members of various cultures and communities. INTERCULTURAL COMMUNICATION: A READER focuses on practical strategies you can use to communicate more effectively in a variety of contexts, including interpersonal, rhetoric, group, business, education, health care, and organizational.
This guide for intermediate to advanced paperfolders uses traditional origami bases as the springboard to incredible results.Written by a science teacher who is also a lifelong origami enthusiast,it features detailed diagrams for creating realistic images of 30 unusual animals,including jellyfish, grasshoppers, manatees, polar bears, and scorpions.
