Seeing comes before words. The child looks and recognizes before it can speak. But, there is also another sense in which seeing comes before words. It is seeing which establishes our place in the surrounding world. The relation between what we see and what we know is never settled. This is a book on art in various languages.

Cultural Globalization: A User's Guide is a personal and engaging journey through theories of culture and globalization. Drawing on extensive examples and interdisciplinary research, Wise explores concepts of culture, territory and identity in order to give students a new perspective on issues of globalization. Includes numerous examples from Asian, European, and North American youth culture and popular music. Draws on interdisciplinary research from the fields of anthropology, cultural studi...

Presents developments in airline industry and business models. This book examines important elements in demand and traffic, price and yield, output and unit cost. It also probes into three critical aspects of capacity management: network management; fleet management; and revenue management.

Drawing on a wealth of material from film, television, art and popular culture, Angela McRobbie tackles the so-called 'end' of feminism.

In the High Atlas Mountains of Morocco, far from the hustle and noise of urban centers, lies a village made of mud and rock, barely discernible from the surrounding landscape. Yet a closer look reveals a carefully planned community of homes nestled above the trees, where rock slides are least frequent, and steep terraces of barley fields situated just above spring flood level. The Berber-speaking Muslims who live and farm on these precipitous mountainsides work together at the arduous task of...

A quarter of a century on from its original publication, Literary Theory: An Introduction still conjures the subversion, excitement and exoticism that characterized theory through the 1960s and 70s, when it posed an unprecedented challenge to the literary establishment. Eagleton has added a new preface to this anniversary edition to address more recent developments in literary studies, including what he describes as "the growth of a kind of anti-theory", and the idea that literary theory has ...

What is Geography? Geography is a fundamental fascination with, and a crucial method for, understanding the way the world works. This title offers readers a short and highly accessible account of the ideas and concepts constituting geography.

Uitgangspunten van de auteur zijn het plezier en de beleving van mensen met een verstandelijke handicap die sport beoefenen. Sportbeoefening kan de deelnemers zeer concrete en betekenisvolle mogelijkheden bieden met anderen te (leren) omgaan. Ook heeft het een gunstige invloed op de fysieke mogelijkheden, waardoor de mobiliteit kan toenemen.

De auteur besteedt vooral aandacht aan mensen met een matige verstandelijke handicap. Aan de hand van zes belevingsfasen behandelt hij de mogelijkheden en...

Dit boek bevat twaalf bijbelstudies over mensen die Jezus hebben ontmoet. In sommige hoofdstukken wordt duidelijk hoe die ontmoeting met Jezus het keerpunt van hun leven werd. Andere hoofdstukken gaan over de kosten van het discipelschap en de praktijk van het christelijke leven. Het boek gaat in op wezenlijke vragen die nog altijd actueel zijn, zoals: Hoe kunnen we van Christus getuigen? Welke invloed heeft ons karakter op onze geloofsbeleving? Welk verband bestaat er tussen zonde en ziekte,...