"Looks at the unique characteristics of cultural organizations and shows readers how to tailor a strategic plan to help these organizations meet their objectives. Including examples, cases, questions, and suggestions for further reading, this book is designed to accompany classes on strategic planning, cultural management, or arts management"--

A new field of counter-investigation across journalism, human rights, art and law

This handy guide provides numerous insights and shortcuts to drawing and sketching effectively. Describing mandatory skills for beginning and advanced students, the text covers such subjects as diminution, foreshortening, convergence, shade and shadow, and other visual principles of perspective drawing.

Accompanying a concise and thoughtfully written text are more than 150 simply drawn illustrations that depict a sense of space and depth, demonstrate vanishing points and eye level, and explain...

A beloved introductory physics textbook, now including exercises and an answer key, explains the concepts essential for thorough scientific understanding In this concise book, R. Shankar, a well-known physicist and contagiously enthusiastic educator, explains the essential concepts of Newtonian mechanics, special relativity, waves, fluids, thermodynamics, and statistical mechanics. Now in an expanded edition—complete with problem sets and answers for course use or self-study—this work p...

Innovative Technology in Art Conservation provides one of the first ever critical assessments of innovation in conservation science and questions what role it should play in conservation and conservation ethics.

The world is a better place than it used to be. People are healthier, wealthier, and live longer. Yet the escapes from destitution by so many has left gaping inequalities between people and nations. In The Great Escape, Angus Deaton--one of the foremost experts on economic development and on poverty--tells the remarkable story of how, beginning 250

The Court for International Climate Crisis (CICC) is a more-than-human tribunal founded by writer, academic, lawyer, and activist Radha D'Souza and artist and propaganda researcher Jonas Staal in 2021. The aim of the CICC is to prosecute climate crimes committed by states and corporations, not only in the past and present, but also in the future. Central to this book is the first iteration of the project, commissioned and staged by Framer Framed in Amsterdam, during which public hearings were...

Voor Steen interviewde architectuurcriticus Ton Idsinga dertien gezichtsbepalende Nederlandse architecten. Ze zijn te beschouwen als belangrijke smaakmakers van de Nederlandse architectuur: zonder hen zou ons land een stuk minder interessant zijn.

Wat ze hebben gebouwd is redelijk bekend. Maar hoe kwamen de ontwerpen tot stand? Wat inspireert hen en wat is hun werkwijze? Wat zijn hun drijfveren en twijfels? En: wat zijn hun opvattingen over de ontwikkeling van de architectuur? Steen vertelt h...

Waar de kunstgeschiedenis zich traditioneel op de westerse wereld richtte en een lineaire ontwikkeling presenteerde, zien we nu een tendens om kunst mondiaal en als een veelvoud van vertellingen te beschouwen. Kunst als een wereldwijd fenomeen zien, betekent ook opnieuw kijken naar de grondslagen van het vakgebied. Kitty Zijlmans doet een voorstel voor een brede en geïntegreerde blik, en rijgt thema's als tijd, plaats, stijl, originaliteit, gender en diversiteit aan elkaar. Talrijke kunstwer...

This inspiring book addresses questions such as: How can we become active within our own learning and unlearning process? What happens when we open to the wisdom of the body? Or for the knowledge that comes from conversations around the dinner table? How can we make time to really listen and not to understand? This publication is an invitation to deal openly and critically with numerous artistic learning methods such as making, listening, talking, researching, voting, asking questions and col...