Search results for [Reflections on accumulation.] at NC Cardinal

Results 11 to 19 of 19 | « previous

Building wealth one house at a time / by Schaub, John,author.(CARDINAL)738647;

Make your first million and earn a steady income with this updated, essential guide to real estate investing. The collapse in real estate prices from 2007 through 2012 was the most significant event in the real estate industry since the Great Depression. But today, with the real estate market rebounding, a new generation of investors is entering the field, eager to make their fortune. Building Wealth One House at a Time, 2nd Edition provides you with a practical way to create wealth through an ethical approach of buying, financing, and managing property. Renowned real estate expert John W. Schaub takes you through his 9-step program and explains how to accumulate one million dollars worth of houses debt free in any market, while earning a steady cash flow. This invaluable guide presents fresh strategies for buying and financing property, reflected in six new chapters on topics such as real estate cycles, financing real estate purchases, negotiation techniques, and retirement investing.

Subjects: Real estate investment.;

Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1

unAPI

The Doors unhinged : Jim Morrison's legacy goes to trial / by Densmore, John,author.(CARDINAL)781256;

"In The Doors Unhinged: Jim Morrison's Legacy Goes on Trial, New York Times best-selling author and legendary Doors drummer John Densmore offers a powerful exploration of the "greed gene"--that part of the human psyche that propels us toward the accumulation of more and more wealth, even at the expense of our principles, friendships, and the well-being of society. This is the gripping account of the legal battle to control The Doors's artistic destiny. In it, Densmore looks at the conflict between his bandmates and him as they fought over the right to use The Doors's name, revealing the ways in which this struggle mirrored and reflected a much larger societal issue: that no amount of money seems to be enough for even the wealthiest people" --

Subjects: Autobiographies.; Densmore, John; Morrison, Jim, 1943-1971.; Doors (Musical group); Rock groups; Trademark infringement.;

Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2

unAPI

Sandor Katz's fermentation journeys : recipes, techniques, and traditions from around the world / by Katz, Sandor Ellix,1962-author.(CARDINAL)673760;

Includes bibliographical references (pages 317-318) and index.List of recipes -- Introduction -- Simple sugars -- Vegetables -- Grains and starchy tubers -- Mold cultures -- Beans and seeds -- Milk -- Meat and fish."For the past two decades, fermentation expert and bestselling author Sandor Katz has traveled the world, both teaching and learning about the many fascinating and delicious techniques for fermenting foods. Wherever he's gone, he has gleaned valuable insights into the cultures and traditions of local and indigenous peoples, whether they make familiar ferments like sauerkraut or less common preparations like natto and koji. In his latest book, Sandor Katz's Fermentation Journeys, Katz takes readers along with him to revisit these special places, people, and foods. This cookbook goes far beyond mere general instructions and explores the transformative process of fermentation through: detailed descriptions of traditional fermentation techniques; celebrating local customs and ceremonies that surround particular ferments; profiles of the farmers, business owners, and experimenters Katz has met on his journeys. Sandor Katz's Fermentation Journeys reminds us that the magical power of fermentation belongs to everyone, everywhere. Perfect for adventurous foodies, armchair travelers, and fermentation fanatics who have followed Katz's work through the years--from Wild Fermentation to The Art of Fermentation to Fermentation as Metaphor--this book reflects the enduring passion and accumulated wisdom of this unique man, who is arguably the world's most experienced and respected advocate of all things fermented."--

Subjects: Cookbooks.; Recipes.; Katz, Sandor Ellix, 1962-; Fermentation.; Fermented foods.;

Available copies: 9 / Total copies: 10

unAPI

A century of Israeli art / by Zalmona, Yigal,author.(CARDINAL)188871;

Includes bibliographical references and index.Zionist aesthetics: Jewish artists in late-nineteenth-century Europe -- The Bezalel school: early arts and crafts in the land of Israel -- Modernism and the fascination with the east -- A decade of conflict: localism and universalism -- Nimrod: a case study in art, history, and identity -- Art in the service of nation-building -- New horizons -- The birth of now -- The seventies: exploring the boundaries of art -- The eighties: back to painting -- The return of the real? -- The beauty of weakness."A Century of Israeli Art presents the story of modern Israel's visual culture, beginning with the pre-state years of Zionist art in the early 20th century and extending to the present day, as a new generation of Israeli artists rises to international prominence in the 21st century. Framing artistic developments in the context of successive periods, author Yigal Zalmona describes the many ways in which Israel's art has been influenced by its social and political history. This look at the wider picture goes hand-in-hand with detailed, enlightening analyses of seminal artworks from every period. Zalmona surveys the early days of the Bezalel School, founded in 1906 in the spirit of the Arts and Crafts movement; Land-of-Israel art during an era of nation-building; the pre-eminence of international modernism and Lyrical Abstraction after 1948; social-activist and conceptual art in the 1970s; and the recent embrace of photography and video. Throughout its evolution, Israeli art has reflected a complex cultural discourse revolving around questions of identity - Western versus Eastern, local versus universal, national and ethnic, collective and personal. Drawing on the author's decades of accumulated knowledge and activity in the field of Israeli art - as historian, critic, teacher, and curator - and aimed at a broad audience, this book will be fascinating reading for art-lovers and for all those with an interest in Israel's cultural history, offering a compelling example of the interaction between visual art and a dynamic, multifaceted society"--Provided by publisher.

Subjects: Art, Israeli; Art and society;

Available copies: 0 / Total copies: 1

unAPI

Acquiring cultures : histories of world art on Western markets / by Savoy, Bénédicte,editor,contributor.(CARDINAL)835923; Guichard, Charlotte,editor,contributor.; Howald, Christine,1975-editor,contributor.(CARDINAL)855433; Thebele, Winani,contributor.; Étienne, Noémie,contributor.(CARDINAL)855443; Eaton, Natasha,1974-contributor.(CARDINAL)855442; Peng, Ying-chen,contirbutor.; Charpy, Manuel,contributor.(CARDINAL)855441; Saint-Raymond, Léa,contributor.(CARDINAL)855440; Vaudry, Élodie,contributor.(CARDINAL)855439; Jones, Philip,1955-contributor.(CARDINAL)758807; Fine, Jonathan,1969-contributor.(CARDINAL)855438; Ogbechie, Sylvester Okwunodu,contributor.(CARDINAL)855437; Dias, Nélia,contributor.(CARDINAL)855436; Chang, Ting(Art history teacher),contributor.(CARDINAL)855435; Yamamoto, Masako,1979-contributor.(CARDINAL)855434; Howald, Christine,1975-contributor.(CARDINAL)855433; Bodenstein, Felicity,contributor.(CARDINAL)855432; Walter de Gruyter & Co.,publisher.(CARDINAL)855431;

Includes bibliographical references and index.As more parts of the world outside Europe became accessible? and in the wake of social and technological developments in the 18th century? a growing number of exotic artefacts entered European markets. The markets for such objects thrived, while a collecting culture and museums emerged. This book provides insights into the methods and places of exchange, networks, prices, expertise, and valuation concepts, as well as the transfer and transport of these artefacts over 300 years and across four continents. The contributions are from international experts, including Ting Chang, Ňlia Dias, No͡mie Etienne, Jonathan Fine, Philip Jones, Sylvester Okwunodu Ogbechie, Ľa Saint-Raymond, and Masako Yamamoto.

Subjects: Art; Art; Art and globalization.;

Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1

unAPI

Edible perennial gardening : growing successful polycultures in small spaces / by Kelsey, Anni.(CARDINAL)616814;

Includes bibliographical references and index."Do you dream of a low-maintenance perennial garden that is full to the brim of perennial vegetables that you don't have to keep replanting, but have only a small space? Do you want a garden that doesn't take much of your time and that needs little attention to control the pests and diseases that eat your crops? Do you want to grow unusual vegetable varieties? You can have all of this with Edible Perennial Gardening. Anni Kelsey has meticulously researched the little-known subject of edible perennials and selected her favorite, tasty varieties. She explains how to source and propagate different vegetables, which plants work well together in polycultures, and what you can plant in small, shady, or semi shady beds, as well as in sunny areas."--from publisher's description.

Subjects: Perennial vegetables.; Vegetable gardening.;

Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1

unAPI

Geof Oppenheimer : People in Reverse = 杰夫·奥本海默 : 逆 向 度 的 人. by Oppenheimer, Geof,artist.(CARDINAL)879019; Tinari, Philip,contributor.(CARDINAL)214584; 700-03/$1田霏宇,contributor.; 700-04/$1Zhao, Chuan,1967-contributor.(CARDINAL)879248; Youlunsi dang dai yi shu zhong xin (Beijing, China),publisher,host institution.(CARDINAL)878001;

"From December 23, 2022 to April 9, 2023, UCCA presents "Geof Oppenheimer: People in Reverse." The show marks Geof Oppenheimer's (b. 1973, Washington, D.C.) first solo exhibition in China. For more than two decades, Oppenheimer has worked in mediums including sculpture, video, drawing, and photography to explore how social and political relations are embedded within images and objects. Featuring new work commissioned by UCCA, this exhibition is centered on cast statues of three archetypal figures--the businessman, the flagbearer, and the observer--placed within an immersive environment formed out of custom-made walls, floor coverings, mass-produced products, and raw materials. These artworks were presented last year as part of the Diriyah Biennale, "Feeling the Stones," which was curated by a team from UCCA, in a space specially constructed to recreate the proportions of UCCA's Central Gallery. The sculptures and their bespoke surroundings speak to our collective anxieties over figuration, symbolism, and archetype in contemporary art and the modern social economy. In "People in Reverse" the artist explores how images and characters become symbols, and how such acts of representation shape our understanding of reality. Acknowledging the loss of clarity and connection produced by this process of simplification, Oppenheimer encourages audiences to reconsider their place in contemporary society and relationship with one another. "People in Reverse" is curated by UCCA Curator Luan Shixuan. The three sculptures in "People in Reverse" each present an archetype from late capitalist society: the Businessman (2019-2021); the Flagbearer (2019-2021); and the Observer (2019-2021). These characters exist in the real world, yet they are also complicated by their parallel existence as widely understood yet oddly detached signifiers. Oppenheimer made each of these cast sculptures by crafting a mold around found objects and then pouring molten metal into the mold. The original found materials were often destroyed along the way, underscoring the sense of instability and hollowness that is also communicated by the sculptures' chosen themes. In the Businessman two cropped aluminum legs are posed with the slightest hint of contrapposto, one clad in a formal leather shoe, the other in a clown shoe. The juxtaposition of footwear undercuts the hagiographic nature of the Western sculptural traditions being referenced, along with the midcentury American masculinity of "the businessman" as a stereotypical figure. Moreover, considering how economic models, gender roles, and class-coded fashion cues have shifted over the past half-century, do today's "businessmen" even resemble their symbolic form? The human figure is absent from the bronze-cast the Flagbearer, yet the tone is as subversive as in the previous piece: the would-be nationalist grandeur of a rippling flag is transformed into a stunted, blank miniature less than half a meter tall. In the Observer, also cast in bronze, a life-sized gloved hand holds a magnifying glass in front of a tablet. Like the flag, the tablet is blank, and the lens of the magnifying glass is actually opaque metal. While the laboratory cart that forms the bottom half of the piece implies the context of a scientific investigation, the piece remains defiantly obscure, suggesting that some forms of knowledge may remain ultimately unknowable. In a carefully considered approach towards presentation that recalls theatrical set design, these figures are surrounded by a labyrinthine array of walls, around which a number of additional images and objects have also been arranged. In the exhibition catalogue, David J. Getsy, Eleanor Shea Professor of Art History at University of Virginia, comments that these disparate elements are united by the "central allegory" of "exposed structure"--the rough textures of the sculptures gesture towards a "behind-the-scenes" sense of incompleteness, and rebar sticks out of one of the Businessman's legs, replacing bone with architectural material. The walls themselves sometimes are blank and white, and sometimes readily display the metal and drywall from which they are made. Other details gesture towards the origins and underlying structures behind large-scale power dynamics or systems. A photograph of one of the oldest mines in the world (Social_Flat_Backstory, 2020); a doubled view of the sun reflecting off a sleek, late-twentieth century glass office tower (Social_Flat_Mirror, 2020); a projector supported by a robotic-looking arm, playing an animation in which lines morph between male- and female-coded hairstyles (queens image, kings form, 2020); and an assortment of textiles dyed various shades of purple spread across the floor: these vignettes seem to offer glimpses beneath the surface of capital accumulation, white-collar labor, gender norms, and material production. By zeroing in on fragments of contemporary life, from the segmented archetypes in his sculptures, to the found photographs that dot the walls, Oppenheimer encourages the viewer to reexamine reality with a new appreciation for its absurdity. How has a historical moment of unmatched prosperity led to such alienated working lives, public space, and personal relationships? The artist's practice is deeply rooted in the specific experience of neoliberalism yet the reach of this socioeconomic model has long made this context globally relevant. "People in Reverse" offers no easy answers, but by demonstrating the brittle fragility of the male subject, heroic narratives, and hierarchies of knowledge--to name just a few of its conceptual targets--the exhibition provides a potent space for the viewer to question and begin to think beyond the quandaries of the contemporary condition." -- Exhibition summary from:"Geof Oppenheimer's practice engages the viewer in a conversation about the negotiation of value in contemporary life and how communal meaning is formed (and fails) in our modern times. Starting from the from the proposition that formal values are social values, his projects interrogate the forms and rules of civic discourse as material, positing art as a space of liberated social dialogue. It is, in short, about the aesthetics of social life. Trained as a sculptor, Oppenheimer works across multiple mediums including staged video productions and photography. His work has been commissioned and exhibited nationally and internationally at a variety of venues such as UCCA Center for Contemporary Art, the CRP, France, The Columbus Museum of Art, The Ad-Diriyah Biennale, The Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art, PS1/MOMA, The ICA, Richmond, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, SITE Santa Fe, The Indianapolis Museum of Art, The Aspen Art Museum, The 4th Athens Biennale and CAB Art Center, Brussels. His work has been the subject of published writings in Art in America, The Wall Street Journal, The Chicago Tribune and The New Yorker. He studied at the Maryland Institute, College of Art where he received his BFA and received an MFA from the University of California, Berkeley. He also studied at the Academia voor Beeldende Vorming in the Netherlands. Geof Oppenheimer is an Associate Professor of Practice in the Department of Visual Arts at the University of Chicago and lives and works in Chicago, Illinois." -- Biography from:

Subjects: Exhibition catalogs.; Oppenheimer, Geof; Art, Modern; Installations (Art); Sculpture, Modern; Artists;

Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2

unAPI

The story of evolution in 25 discoveries : the evidence and the people who found it / by Prothero, Donald R.,author.(CARDINAL)323088;

Includes bibliographical references and index.Part I. In the beginning : everything evolves, and earth is very old ; Everything evolves and changes : discovery of the evolving universe ; The abyss of time : The immense age of the Earth -- Part II. Darwin's evidence for evolution ; Evolution in action : transformation in real time ; Our common body plan : homology ; Ontology recapitulates phylogeny : evidence in embryos ; The sinking of Noah's ark: biogeography ; The branching tree of life : phylogeny ; The case of the cruel wasps : nature is not moral ; Jury-rigged contrivances : nature is not optimally designed -- Part III. Great transitions in the history of life ; A whale of a tale : vestigial organs and walking whales ; Invasion of the land: amphibians crawl out of the water ; Missing links found: macroevolution and transitional fossils ; Birds with teeth : the dinosaurs among us ; A horse! A horse! My kingdom for a horse! : the evolution of equines ; How the giraffe got its neck : Lamarck, Darwin, and the left recurrent laryngeal nerve ; How the elephant got its trunk : the evolution of proboscideans -- Part IV. Eyes and genes ; A warm little pond : how did life originate? ; Genetics junkyard : most of our DNA is useless ; Legs on their heads : homeotic mutants and evo-devo ; The eyes have it : the evolution of photoreception -- Part V. Humans and evolution ; A tinkerer, not an engineer : are humans well designed? ; The third chimpanzee : are we really 99 percent the same? ; The ape's reflection : are humans really that different from other animals? ; Bones of our ancestors : the human fossil record ; The once and future human : are humans still evolving?"The theory of evolution unites the past, present, and future of living things. It puts humanity's place in the universe into necessary perspective. Despite a history of controversy, the evidence for evolution continues to accumulate as a result of many separate strands of incredible scientific sleuthing. In The Story of Evolution in 25 Discoveries, Donald R. Prothero explores the most fascinating breakthroughs in piecing together the evidence for evolution. In twenty-five vignettes, he recounts the dramatic stories of the people who made crucial discoveries, placing each moment in the context of what it represented for the progress of science. He tackles topics like what it means to see evolution in action and the distance between species in space and time, following figures from Darwin to lesser-known researchers as they unlock the mysteries of the fossil record, the earth, and the universe. The book also features the stories of animal species strange and familiar, including humans-and our ties to some of our closest relatives and more distant cousins. Prothero's wide-ranging tales showcase awe-inspiring and bizarre aspects of nature and the powerful insights they give us into the way that life works"--

Subjects: Evolution; Evolution;

Available copies: 4 / Total copies: 6

unAPI

The purpose principles : how to draw more meaning into your life / by Ducey, Jake,author.(CARDINAL)409325;

The Purpose Principles draws on the stories of success, failure, and the common threads among some of today’s most successful and influential people, inspiring you to see yourself in the same light as the world’s biggest difference-makers. Jake Ducey offers a humorous, action-oriented approach for getting more meaning out of life, teaching you how to live with more excitement, productivity, clarity, and confidence. This can help you tackle daily challenges, inspire others, live with passion and purpose, and realize all your goals more efficiently, and reach them even faster! With "WOW-ing" and unfamiliar stories of how familiar celebrities like Brad Pitt, Will Smith, Taylor Swift, Stephen King, Dave Matthews, Jim Carrey, and many others came to be, TEDx speaker and inspirational role model Ducey reveals a step-by-step pathway for living your best life in a changing world. His principles and exercises give the know-how to take advantage of the opportunities all around you. The Purpose Principles spells out the timeless wisdom used by the greatest contributors to human history, and shows how you can integrate them into your life immediately to live your wildest dreams and become a world-changer!

Subjects: Self-actualization (Psychology); Conduct of life.; Self-help techniques.; Visualization.;

Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2

unAPI

Results 11 to 19 of 19 | « previous