Wild Planet pehme mänguasi punane panda. Mõõdud 21 x 9 x 16 cm. Kõik Wild Planet plüüsist mänguasjad on käsitsi valmistatud tippkvaliteetsetest materjalidest ja on puudutamisel ülipehmed.Toorainena kasutatakse polüestrit, PET-pudelitest taaskasutatud polüestrit, puuvilla ja orgaanilist puuvilla.
In a landmark epic of fantasy and storytelling, Philip Pullman invites readers into a world as convincing and thoroughly realized as Narnia, Earthsea, or Redwall. Here lives an orphaned ward named Lyra Belacqua, whose carefree life among the scholars at Oxford's Jordan College is shattered by the arrival of two powerful visitors. First, her fearsome uncle, Lord Asriel, appears with evidence of mystery and danger in the far North, including photographs of a mysterious celestial phenomenon called Dust and the dim outline of a city suspended in the Aurora Borealis that he suspects is part of an alternate universe. He leaves Lyra in the care of Mrs. Coulter, an enigmatic scholar and explorer who offers to give Lyra the attention her uncle has long refused her. In this multilayered narrative, however, "nothing is as it seems. Lyra sets out for the top of the world in search of her kidnapped playmate, Roger, bearing a rare truth-telling instrument, the compass of the title. All around her children are disappearing--victims of so-called "Gobblers"--and being used as subjects in terrible experiments that separate humans from their daemons, creatures that reflect each person's inner being. And somehow, both Lord Asriel and Mrs. Coulter are involved.
ePart 1 Best Practice BIM: Seeking to get BIM right? This ePart provides a touchstone for good practice by introducing a number of Key Performance Indicators (KPIs), which represent benchmarks for successful BIM implementation. It explains what good BIM looks like and the pitfalls to avoid with bad BIM and pseudo BIM . It highlights the part that the BIM Manager can play in achieving excellence by outlining the various responsibilities the BIM Manager s role encompasses, while also emphasising how these responsibilities have changed over time and how they are set to evolve. By drawing on interviews with the top BIM Managers worldwide, it delivers up-to-date expert insights from the field. Obook ISBN: 9781118987780; ePub ISBN: 9781118987858; ePDF ISBN: 9781118985618; publishing April 2015 ePart 2 Change Management: A BIM Manager might be hired for their technical skills, but their success relies heavily on their ability to be an agent of change within their organisation, facilitating transition to BIM processes and mentoring staff through the cultural and procedural shifts.This ePart outlines strategies to manage an organisation s transition to BIM successfully and to master supporting its continuous evolution. Based on accounts from top practitioners, it highlights how the BIM manager might approach interfacing with their organisation s leadership by successfully lobbying and leading on BIM from the inside, while overcoming change-resistance and managing teams expectations. It concludes with a Tips and Tricks section that provides in-depth advice for running BIM audits and for setting up in-house BIM workshops, which are instrumental for any BIM Manager seeking a better understanding of their organisational context and to raise the level of awareness of the BIM knowledge of key decision-makers. Obook ISBN: 9781119092308; ePub ISBN: 9781118987797; ePDF ISBN: 9781119092292; publishing April 2015 ePart 3: Focus on Technology: How do you ensure your organisation gets the most out of the BIM technology available? Dedicated to the main technology-related aspects of a BIM Manager s role, this ePart explains how to establish and manage an organisation s BIM-related tool-ecology and how to use BIM in order to link from design to fabrication.What do BIM Managers need to do in order ensure their teams use the right tools for the various tasks in design, construction and beyond? How do they connect them and how do they keep up with updates in this rapidly changing environment. This ePart highlights the challenges BIM Managers need to overcome in software, hardware and network selection. It also brings into focus the opportunities BIM Managers face in the changing context of BIM in the Cloud. Extending beyond technical know-how, it also offers advice on how to create a successful interface between the BIM Manager and the IT specialist(s). Obook ISBN: 9781118987803; ePub ISBN: 9781118987773; ePDF ISBN:9781118987766; publishing August 2015 ePart 4: Building up a BIM Support Infrastructure: Addressing the back of house aspect of BIM Management, this ePart outlines how to go about developing a range of in-house BIM standards and guidelines. It highlights how BIM Managers go about establishing a training programme for staff and the setting up and management of an organisation s BIM content library. It covers the support needed to move BIM information into the field and further into facilities and asset management.It emphasises the importance of internal messaging, and articulating how to nurture a culture of peer-to peer support and advancement of skills by individual staff members. Looking beyond a single firm s or organisation s requirements, the ePart positions BIM support infrastructure in the wider context of key global BIM policies and guidelines. Obook ISBN: 9781118987896; ePub ISBN: 9781118987919; ePDF ISBN:9781118987834; publishing August 2015 ePart 5: Day-to-Day BIM Management: How do you go about mastering hands-on support BIM for your team? ePart 5 introduces the operational tasks a BIM Manager is expected to accomplish. Depending on an organisation s size BIM Managers either supervise the rollout of BIM on various projects, or they actively get involved in mentoring those authoring or coordinating information in BIM. By providing a strong project focus, this ePart, firstly, addresses requirements for in-house BIM project support; secondly, it explains how to support the integration and coordination of BIM data across a multi-disciplinary project team. Leading BIM experts from the US, UK and Australia divulge their recipes for successful operational management.Obook ISBN: 9781118987902; ePub ISBN:9781118987919; ePDF ISBN: 9781118987926; publishing November 2015 ePart 6: Excelling your BIM Efforts: In this final ePart, BIM is taken to the next level by outlining what is required to truly excel as a BIM Manager. It highlights how BIM Managers acquire the necessary communication skills to maximise an efficient information flow between the BIM Manager and others. It illustrates how BIM Managers tie their activities to cutting-edge BIM research and development globally. Lastly, the ePart will lay out how to promote BIM excellence both within an organisation and beyond. Obook ISBN: 9781118987971; ePub ISBN: 9781118987988; ePDF ISBN: 9781118987964; publishing November 2015
A collection of short stories devoted to uncovering he moving, complex, and often mystifying workings of the human heart. Autorid: Marília Arnaud, Ilze Duarte
Geophysics is the physics of the Earth. Central to the Earth Sciences today, it encompasses areas such as seismology, volcanism, plate tectonics, gravitational anomalies, and the Earth's magnetic field (present and past, as captured in rocks), all of which give clues to both the structure and the working of the Earth. In this Very Short Introduction, William Lowrie describes the internal and external processes that affect the planet, as well as the principles and methods of geophysics used to investigate them. He explains how analysis of the seismic waves produced in earthquakes reveals the internal structure of the Earth. Geophysicists have established that the greatest source of energy powering geological processes is the Earth's internal heat. Deep inside the Earth, the temperature is high enough to produce a fluid outer core of molten iron. It is the motion in this molten iron layer that produces the Earth's magnetic field, which shields the planet against harmful radiation from the Sun and outer space, and thus makes the planet habitable. Lowrie describes how the magnetic field also magnetizes rocks during their formation, leaving a permanent record of the ancient field and its direction that geophysicists have learned to use to interpret past motions of the continents and tectonic plates. From analyzes of Earth's deepest interior to measurements made from Earth-orbiting satellites, Lowrie shows how geophysical exploration is vitally important in the search for mineral resources, and emphasizes our need to understand the history of our planet and the processes that govern its continuing evolution. ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable.
you got your heart broken. not only broken but shattered. you were cheated on and feel every emotion possible. here is your safe place. just know someone relates to you and those feelings you are having. its okay to cry. its okay to be mad. here is a collection of poetry for those who are grieving the loss of their relationship. this book is for you
This book considers the presence of the supernatural and Gothic elements of the Western on screen. These dark and sinister undertones often exist in Western narratives to draw attention to the ever-present issue of death and its haunting resonance which characters encounter. This book examines this through key historic moments in Western film and its contemporary incarnations. The book detects imposing correlations in themes and currents between the Gothic and the Western relating to existential crisis and a loss of faith in ideologies and institutions. These themes represent the tensions between the old and the new, the deranged insistence on civility and order in a chaotic landscape, disillusionment and the shattering of faith in the natural order, and even nature and order themselves. The Western, just like the Gothic tale, reminds us that new frontiers are mired in the past, and optimism and survival are hunted down and haunted by guilt-ridden past and passed anxieties and traumas This book considers the presence of the supernatural and Gothic elements of the Western on screen. These dark and sinister undertones often exist in Western narratives to draw attention to the ever-present issue of death and its haunting resonance which characters encounter. This book examines this through key historic moments in Western film and its contemporary incarnations. The book detects imposing correlations in themes and currents between the Gothic and the Western relating to existential crisis and a loss of faith in ideologies and institutions. These themes represent the tensions between the old and the new, the deranged insistence on civility and order in a chaotic landscape, disillusionment and the shattering of faith in the natural order, and even nature and order themselves. The Western, just like the Gothic tale, reminds us that new frontiers are mired in the past, and optimism and survival are hunted down and haunted by guilt-ridden past and passed anxieties and traumas.This book demonstrates and illuminates the uncanny coalition that can be seen between these two traditions epitomised in the tales of the spectral West. Take, for instance, the seminal psychological Western of the 1950s, The Searchers (1956), where the unspoken horrors of the past haunts the behaviour of the anti-hero, Ethan Edwards (played by John Wayne) and is an omnipresent as well as a daunting presence which looms throughout the narrative of the film; or Sicario (2016) where a naive FBI agent (played by Emily Blunt) is horrified by the malevolence of inhumanity which haunts borders in conflict and makes a mockery of morality. But most important to both films, as well as to countless others, is the brooding presence of the landscape itself, which intrudes like a spectral entity.This tension has often presented a dilemma in such a recognisable genre. As Steve Neale has suggested, there is a problem with the central role of iconography in the Western. It is as if, according to Neil Campbell, by the very nature of its mythic representations there exists a type of hyper-reality, a simulation reproducing images conforming to some already defined, but possibly non-existent, sense of West-ness. And yet, as the book demonstrates, rather than being hyper-real, and by definition not real, these mythic representations are ghostly or spectral revenants. Through that process, we may then be able to distinguish, not indeed a problem or a dilemma, but a more deeply felt connection between the past and the present, between nature, space and time and any hope of a worthwhile future. This book considers the presence of the supernatural and Gothic elements of the Western on screen. It identifies traditions usually associated with the Gothic or horror film in the Western and examines ways in which they have often played either sub-textual or explicit rolesin the Western narrative throughout its history and in contemporary forms. Autorid: Keith McDonald, Wayne Johnson
Noor prantsuse aristokraat ja jurist Alexis de Tocqueville (1805"1859) ületas 1831. aastal Atlandi ookeani, et uurida pea sama noorte Ameerika Ühendriikide vanglasüsteemi. Kohale jõudes rabas teda aga tolle aja kohta seninägematult võrdne ühiskond, kiriku ja riigi lahusus ning juba mujal maailmas kuulsust koguda jõudnud ameerikalik demokraatia. Kõrvutades Prantsuse, Inglise ja Ameerika demokraatiat, tõi Tocqueville välja kaks põhivoorust: vabaduse ja võrdsuse. Prantsuse revolutsiooni kandev sõnum oli võrdsus, mis ometi ei viinud nn korraliku demokraatia väljakujunemiseni. Inglismaal oli vabadust, ent nappis klasside vahelist võrdsust. Ameerikas oli aga nii ühte kui ka teist ja kõigele lisaks uhiuusi, läbinisti demokraatlikke probleeme: pressivabaduse kahe teraga mõõk, rasside vahelised pinged, kapitalismist rikastunute korrumpeerumine ja individualistlikku avantürismi soosivas kultuuris väetite mahajäämine. Kodumaale naastes kirjutas Tocqueville märgilise tähtsusega "Tähelepanekuid Ameerika demokraatias" (1835"1840) " tsiteerituima Ühendriikide poliitikast kirjutatud raamatu ", milles tehtud tähelepanekud ei ole kaotanud oma teravust ja aktuaalsust tänini. Autorid: Alexis De Tocqueville
Spiritual Help for Your Husband, Your Marriage, and Yourself In these 100 topical devotionals, bestselling author Stormie Omartian shares how she has witnessed God do even more amazing things in her marriage since first writing The Power of a Praying Wife (more than 10 million copies sold). For women in all seasons of faith and life, these helpful insights, perfect Scriptures, and powerful prayers will help you welcome Gods guidance into your marriage. These devotions will strengthen you as you pray for your husband, as you ask God to provide him with wisdom, direction, and encouragement yourself, as your strong prayer life gives you a richer experience of Gods love and restoration your marriage, as you welcome Gods leading in your heart so you can live out His will, patience, love, and peace in every circumstance The Power of a Praying Wife Devotional nourishes your soul with biblical truth and Stormies gentle mentorship on becoming a wife who is always pleasing to God. As these devotions help you commit to consistent prayer, youll experience incredible transformations in your marriage that only God can accomplish. In these 100 topical devotionals, bestselling author Stormie Omartian shares how she has continued to witness God do amazing things in her marriage since first writing The Power of a Praying Wife. Autorid: Stormie Omartian
"With the artworks brought together in Barbara Earl Thomas: The Illuminated Body, the artist focuses on the body in order to convey how light and shadow trigger a visual experience and to explore how we communicate who we are as well as our intentions toone another. In one sense, this exploration is highly personal: "As a Black person, I can't help but see myself in the landscape and imagine how others might experience me based on how I appear to them. I search myself to see how I react to and employ mythoughts and opinions because, aside from being Black, I'm also human and subject to the world's influences." In another sense, Thomas's latest works seek to express not just the physical but also the metaphysical and metaphorical, the profound and intangible: what is within, what is beyond the sight of our eyes"-- A talented visual storyteller, Barbara Earl Thomas has drawn from history, literature, folklore, mythology, and biblical stories over her forty-year career to reflect the social fabric of our times. Thomass figural and narrative imagery has a deeply philosophical and emotional force, and light and dark have been especially potent concepts in her work. This book of new works meditates on the visual experience of the body within a physical and metaphorical world of light and shadow. Based on real people, the portraits "elevate to the magnificent" her family, friends, and neighbors, as well as cultural icons of the African American literary landscape. Thomas's illumination of the human figure through her light-filled artworks and portraiture encourages the viewer to reflect on how we communicate ourselves to the world and how we perceive those among us.Exhibition dates: Chrysler Museum of Art: February 24August 20, 2023; Wichita Art Museum: October 7, 2023January 14, 2024; Arthur Ross Gallery, the University of Pennsylvania: February 17May 21, 2024 Autorid: Carolyn Swan Needell
"Gathering: The Carl and Betty Pforzheimer Studio Glass Collection contextualizes the Pforzheimers's collection of twentieth- and twenty-first-century studio glass within the 225 year trajectory of Peabody Essex Museum's glass collection and the international and American glass movements. It includes essays by Sarah Chasse and Lan Morgan, as well as archival photographs and highlight objects with object entries"-- A lavishly illustrated book highlighting some of the best works of contemporary studio glassThe Peabody Essex Museum (PEM) in Salem, Massachusetts, is the oldest continually operating museum in the United States and has been collecting glass art and objects since its founding in 1799. Celebrating Carl and Betty Pforzheimer's landmark gift of 220 works of studio glass, this publication positions PEM as a significant American destination for contemporary glass.Two essays contextualize the Pforzheimers' gift within the 225-year trajectory of PEM's glass collecting and the larger history of international and American glass movements. Accompanying the essays is a lavishly illustrated catalog of seventy highlighted artworks punctuated with object entries and quotes that center artists and their practice. By showcasing the works and contributions of the influential artists represented in the collection, the publication reinforces the Pforzheimers' close relationships with artists as the foundation of their collecting practice. Autorid: Sarah N. Chasse, Lan Morgan
"An Illustrated Mirror of Hawking is a translated, facsimile reprint of Kawanabe Tōiku's woodcut print picture book on falconry, Ehon Takakagami (Mirror of Hawking). The first proper translation ever accomplished, the meaning of the script accompanying each woodcut illustration plate can now be known to non-Japanese readers. In addition to fully reprinting the original images and texts, this edition includes contextual essays by Karl-Heinz Gersmann, Keiya Nakajima, and Alain Briot, and reference images that provide important background information about Kyosai, the history of Japanese falconry, and the origins of this unique publication"-- Autorid: Kawanabe Kysai, Karl-Heinz Gersmann, John Goodell, Keiya Nakajima, Alain Briot, Sadamura Koto
FALL SALE: 20% off for a limited time! 2023 INTERNATIONAL EDITION: TOTALLY REVISED AND ENHANCED A NEW UNDERSTANDING The Buddha faced the challenge of discovering how the human mind works without the knowledge we possess today in physiology or neuroscience. Therefore, the language he used was symbolic, ambiguous, and sometimes cryptic. Integral Vipassana illuminates the Satipatthana Sutta in the context of contemporary neuroscience, psychology, and Ken Wilber's Integral Theory, providing a powerful new path to mindfulness and happiness for Buddhist meditators at all levels. "For anyone invested in the exploration of consciousness, meditation, and psychology, this book stands as a pivotal read. It offers a rich, interdisciplinary approach, connecting profound, ancient wisdom with modern psychological insights." - Robb Smith, CEO and co-founder, Integral Life "An insightful commentary...providing the reader with a fresh perspective on a fundamental concept for meditation." -- David R. Vago, Ph.D., Director of the Contemplative Neurosciences and Mind-Body Research Laboratory, Vanderbilt University "Integral Vipassana deals with Satipatth¿na in all its details so that the reader can gain clearer knowledge of the subject, which can then be translated into more eff effective practice." - Dhiravamsa Vipassan¿carya, author of The Way of Non-Attachment
Innovations often catalyse subsequent breakthroughs, creating a chain of progress that can be traced across history. The Science of the New explores the dynamics of novelty and innovation, offering a tool-kit to help us make predictions. Much like our everyday moments of novelty, innovations often catalyse subsequent breakthroughs, creating a chain of progress that can be traced across history.The Science of the New explores the dynamics of novelty and innovation. It originates from the observation that these two interrelated phenomena that shape human experience, from the ordinary encounters we have in daily life to the groundbreaking advancements in science, technology, and society, are two faces of the same medal. In other words, novelties and innovation can be described by the same underlying processes and their emergence obeys the same general statistical laws.The construction of a solid mathematical framework to treat the phenomenologies related to the experience of the new represents a formidable challenge and a necessary one if we want to understand the world around us and be able to make predictions in an ever-changing environment and society. This book provides a minimal toolkit to face this problem. Organised into three distinct parts, it begins by outlining the fundamental theoretical tools necessary for analysing how novelties and innovations emerge. It then delves into classical and contemporary models that explain the processes behind innovation, illustrating the deep relationship between several ideas that took birth in different fields and influenced one another. The final section provides empirical case studies, applying the discussed frameworks to real-world systems and showing how mathematical and computational methods can help us understand innovation in various contexts. Autorid: Vittorio Loreto, Vito D. P. Servedio, Francesca Tria
