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  • Board Talk

    18 crucial conversations that count inside and outside the boardroom

    by Kathryn Bishop, Gillian Camm ...
    **Business Book Awards 2024 Finalist**An accessible guide to the business of being a board director, through the lens of 18 crucial conversations.How do you understand what is really going on in an organisation, so you can exercise the oversight that is required from you?How do you overcome the information asymmetry problem, where the executive directors know more about the operation than you do ... Read more

    $8.69 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Board Talk

    18 crucial conversations that count inside and outside the boardroom

    by Kathryn Bishop, Gillian Camm ...
    **Business Book Awards 2024 Finalist**An accessible guide to the business of being a board director, through the lens of 18 crucial conversations.How do you understand what is really going on in an organisation, so you can exercise the oversight that is required from you?How do you overcome the information asymmetry problem, where the executive directors know more about the operation than you do ... Read more

    $8.69 CAD

  • Make Your Own Map

    Career Success Strategy for Women

    by Kathryn Bishop ...
    There's no such thing as a pre-set path to career success. Following the footsteps of others can only get you so far - and for women, there are often additional obstacles. But what if you could design your own path to your career goals? What if you could Make Your Own Map?Based on material from the popular Women Transforming Leadership course from Saïd Business School, University of Oxford, Make ... Read more

    $36.29 CAD

  • Creating Carmen Miranda

    Race, Camp, and Transnational Stardom

    by Kathryn Bishop-Sanchez ...
    Series series Performing Latin American and Caribbean Identities
    Carmen Miranda got knocked down and kept going. Filming an appearance on The Jimmy Durante Show on August 4, 1955, the "ambassadress of samba" suddenly took a knee during a dance number, clearly in distress. Durante covered without missing a beat, and Miranda was back on her feet in a matter of moments to continue with what she did best: performing. By the next morning, she was dead from heart ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

  • This We Believe Leader's Guide

    The Core of Wesleyan Faith and Practice

    by Dr. M. Kathryn Armistead, Bishop William H. Willimon ...
    Leader guide for eight-week small group study to help you deepen your understanding of United Methodist core beliefs.This We Believe: The Core of Wesleyan Faith and Practice by William H. WillimonFor John Wesley, the Bible is the joyfully consistent testimony of God’s never-ending grace and ever-seeking love. Likewise, studying the Bible is more than merely knowing what Scripture says; it is also ... Read more

    $10.69 CAD

  • Portuguese Literature and the Environment

    by Inês Amorim, Vincent Barletta, Kathryn Bishop-Sanchez, Maria João Dodman, Isabel A. Ferreira Gould, Adriana Martins, Victor K. Mendes, Adriana Veríssimo Serrão, Viriato Soromenho-Marques, Estela Vieira0, Patrícia Vieira2, Dr. Michael Marder3 ...
    Portuguese Literature and the Environment explores the relationship between Portuguese literature and the environment from Medieval times to the present. From the centrality of nature in Medieval poetry, through the bucolic verse of the Renaissance, all the way to the Romantic and post-Romantic nostalgia for a pristine natural or rural landscape under threat in the wake of industrialization, ... Read more

    $126.39 CAD

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    Improvised Dance as a Practice of Freedom

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  • New Queer Cinema

    The Director's Cut

    by B. Ruby Rich ...
    B. Ruby Rich designated a brand new genre, the New Queer Cinema (NQC), in her groundbreaking article in the Village Voice in 1992. This movement in film and video was intensely political and aesthetically innovative, made possible by the debut of the camcorder, and driven initially by outrage over the unchecked spread of AIDS. The genre has grown to include an entire generation of queer artists, ... Read more

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  • Comics

    a brief history of comic books for the benefit of new generations

    by Rogério de Campos ...
    Series series Coleção Deslocamentos
    In the first book of the Movements series, journalist Rogério de Campos reconstructs the history of this centuries-old art of narrating myths, fables, exploits, social conflicts, existential chasms or even everyday scenes: comic books. Starting out from 5th-century BC storytellers of illustrated sagas, Campos retraces the course of the language he encountered in the 1827 book Les Amours de Mr. ... Read more

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  • Latino Images in Film

    Stereotypes, Subversion, and Resistance

    by Charles Ramírez Berg ...
    Series series Texas Film and Media Studies Series
    The bandido, the harlot, the male buffoon, the female clown, the Latin lover, and the dark lady—these have been the defining, and demeaning, images of Latinos in U.S. cinema for more than a century. In this book, Charles Ramírez Berg develops an innovative theory of stereotyping that accounts for the persistence of such images in U.S. popular culture. He also explores how Latino actors and ... Read more

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  • The three amigos

    The transnational filmmaking of Guillermo del Toro, Alejandro González Iñárritu, and Alfonso Cuarón

    by Deborah Shaw ...
    Series series Spanish and Latin-American Filmmakers
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    Cuba, an island 750 miles long, with a population of about 11 million, lies less than 100 miles off the U.S. coast. Yet the island’s influences on America’s cultural imagination are extensive and deeply ingrained.In the engaging and wide-ranging Havana Habit, writer and scholar Gustavo Pérez Firmat probes the importance of Havana, and of greater Cuba, in the cultural history of the United States. ... Read more

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