In today’s economy, being innovative is the best way to keepahead of the game. Non-Stop Creativity and Innovation is alively, easy-to-use guide to unlocking your creative potential,thinking ‘out of the box’ and making new ideas really happen.
By using a unique, tried and tested model, the Uccello™ Process,you will be able to draw on your creative strengths to generatefresh, winning ideas. Whether you are looking to develop yourindividual, team or company’s creativity this book shows you howto experiment with your thinking, how to combine information toproduce truly original ideas, and ultimately how to implementthem successfully.
Packed full of helpful tips and techniques, it will prove invaluableat every stage of a project.

Non-Stop Creativity and Innovation: How to Generate Winning Ideas

Business & Money

THOMSON, Richard

McLeod, Fiona

Management & Leadership

McGraw=Hill

This work shows how to develop healthy social capital at work. Based on practical, tried and tested processes, it clearly outlines the benefits for performance and competitive advantage. The overall aim of the text is to show businesses how to achieve a healthy tension between them and create a climate where people feel good about themselves, others and the tasks they perform. The work does this by focusing on six key areas: creating strategic momentum; key interactions; coaching and facilitating roles within an organization; a programme for delivering the goods at first line manager level; tapping resources; and innovation. There are two aspects to the title. The first gives a detailed understanding of what social capital is and why it is important to integrate it into company strategy. Each chapter then contains the argument to support its process and the practical process itself.

Hearts, Minds and Bottom Lines

Wood, Les

McGraw-Hill Publishing Co.

Excerpt from Illustrations of the History of Great Britain, Vol. 2 of 2: An Historical View of the Manners and Customs, Dresses, Literature, Arts, Commerce, and Government of Great Britain; From the Time of the Saxons, Down to the Eighteenth CenturyCorruption of the Eu lish Langu e under James I. General view of iteratore in ugland in the Se venteenth and Eighteenth Centuries - Illustrative Authorities - Music Instruments, Introduction of Concerts and operah-painting: Miniatures, Ena mels, Portraits; Decline of the Art, Branches most encouraged, Establishment of an English School, Improvement of Art Institution of the Royal Academy - Sculpture Monuments, Colloq.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Illustrations of the History of Great Britain, Vol. 2 of 2: An Historical View of the Manners and Customs, Dresses, Literature, Arts, Commerce, and ... to the Eighteenth Century (Classic Reprint)

History

Europe

Forgotten Books

The world of Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec was inhabited by denizens of the street and night life of fin-de-siecle Paris - with its dance halls, bars, brothels and circuses. Portraying this world in his paintings, drawings , posters and prints, Lautrec created a vibrant body of art that earned him lasting renown. Lautrec was born in 1864 into one of the oldest noble families in France. At the age of 13 it was discovered that he suffered from a genetic defect that prevented the bones in his legs from continuing to grow. Small in stature and singular in appearance, Lautrec lived his life with a passionate intensity, choosing to dwell among the Bohemian and exotic characters he depicted in his canvases. He died at the age of 37 after excessive drinking had severely debilitated and finally destroyed him. During his short career, however, he not only painted, drew, and designed posters, but also worked with stained glass and bookbindings. The essays in this book discuss the full range of Lautrec's career and artistic activities - from his youthful sketchbooks and examples of applied art to the seminal pictures and posters at the end of his life. The essays also focus on the cultural milieu and social history of the period, analyzing the marketplace in which Lautec worked, the implications of his exhibitions and his association with other artists, designers and literary figures. The book is the catalogue for an exhibition at the Hayward Gallery in London from October 10, 1991 to January 19, 1992 and at the Grand Palais in Paris from February 18 to June 1992.

Toulouse-Lautrec

Arts & Photography

Frèches, Claire

Roquebert, Anne

Devynck, Danièle

Collections, Catalogs & Exhibitions

Yale University Press

Fin-de-siècle France was a period of unrest, with strikes, demonstrations, and anarchist terrorism reflecting deep social and political differences. Yet at the same time, this decade produced a vibrant visual culture―monumental sculpture, mural decoration, avant-garde painting, posters, illustrations, and photography―much of which was used to articulate France’s ideological arguments. This fascinating book shows how four key issues in social debate were treated by contemporary artists.
Richard Thomson begins by exploring disquieting attitudes toward the body and sexuality that resulted from France’s concerns about national decadence after its defeat in the Franco-Prussian War. He then considers how artists depicted crowds and represented public discomfort about mass unrest. Next he discusses religious imagery during a decade when the Catholic Church was attempting to come to terms with Republicanism. And finally he addresses the question of revenge against Germany for the annexation of Alsace-Lorraine, showing that it was kept alive in contemporary art.

The Troubled Republic: Visual Culture and Social Debate in France, 1889–1900

The French Republic—with its rallying cry for liberty, equality, and fraternity—emerged in 1870, and by 1880 had developed a coherent republican ideology. The regime pursued secular policies and emphasized its commitment to science and technology. Naturalism was an ideal aesthetic match for the republican ideology; it emphasized that art should be drawn from the everyday world, that all subjects were worthy of treatment, and that there should be flexibility in representation to allow for different voices.
Art of the Actual examines the use of naturalism in the 19th-century. It explores how pictures by artists such as Roll, Lhermitte, and Friant could be read as egalitarian and republican, assesses how well-known painters including Degas, Monet, and Toulouse-Lautrec situated their painting vis-à-vis the dominant naturalism, and opens up new arguments about caricatural and popular style. By illuminating the role of naturalism in a broad range of imagery in late 19th-century France, Richard Thomson provides a new interpretation of the art of the period.

Art of the Actual: Naturalism and Style in Early Third Republic France, 1880-1900

History & Criticism

This innovative book introduces a vivid new reading of French art and society at a crucial period of history The study of late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century French art tends to focus on a search for the modern. Richard Thomson presents an innovative approach to a popular period of art history, instead investigating how art in early Third Republic France adapted styles from the past. The classical is the predominant theme, punctuated by other stylistic currents, notably the Rubensian and the Botticellian. It asks, how did these styles--all three derived from foreign art--come to be adapted into French visual culture? How did the Republic customise classicism to its ideological ends? How was classicism manipulated by progressive painters for radical and reactionary readings?&nbsp;The Presence of the Past in French Art 1870-1905 considers artists of very different character and type--from Degas to Henner, Cézanne to Besnard, Roty to Seurat, Dalou to Maillol--as well as a variety of media, including painting, sculpture, medals and celebrity photographs, to open up new vistas of interpretation in this fascinating field.

The Presence of the Past in French Art, 1870–1905: Modernity and Continuity

Apocalypse Roulette: The Lethal World of Derivatives

Economics

Pan Macmillan Australia Pty, Limited

LC# 6829920. Second printing. 192pp, index. Beige cloth, brown letters, pages slightly toned. Illustrated jacket has much scuffing and soiling, 1 piece out of top, chipping, a 1 1/2-in tear, in plastic cover. Over 50 photographs.

Antique American Clocks and Watches

Engineering & Transportation

Engineering

Van Nostrand

Examines Degas's working methods, including planning, alterations, and final painting, and explains why he felt repetition was important to his work

The Private Degas

Individual Artists

Thames&Hudson

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