Category: Encyclopedias Subject Guides

By Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development

ISBN-10: 9264010599

ISBN-13: 9789264010598

ISBN-10: 9264010602

ISBN-13: 9789264010604

Electorate call for facts of governments' efforts and achievements in battling corruption and selling integrity. yet assessing the effectiveness of governments' measures poses particular demanding situations, specifically the definition of a radical and aim technique. The political sensitivity and hidden nature of corruption make this activity fairly tricky. This evaluate Framework presents coverage makers and executives with a pioneering roadmap to layout and organise sound exams in particular public agencies and sectors. It comprises functional checklists, decision-making instruments and techniques for methodologies in accordance with stable practices. At a time while governments are more and more required to evaluate pro-integrity and corruption prevention measures, this document offers a special stock of equipment and options used all over the world for crafting well-designed checks. chosen case reports supply extra information on fresh exams within the particular nation contexts of Australia, Finland, France and Korea. additional studying : comparing Public Participation in coverage Making

By Mary Beth Osnes

ISBN-10: 0874367956

ISBN-13: 9780874367959

Acting: a global Encyclopedia explores the superb range of dramatic expression present in rituals, gala's, and stay and filmed performances. Its thousands of alphabetically prepared, totally referenced entries supply insights into recognized avid gamers, writers, and administrators, in addition to outstanding level and picture productions from all over the world and in the course of the heritage of theater, cinema, and television.

The ebook additionally features a fabulous array of extra themes, together with vital venues (from Greek amphitheaters to Broadway and Hollywood), performing faculties (the Actor's Studio) and corporations (the Royal Shakespeare), functionality genres (from spiritual pageants to puppetry), technical phrases of the actor's artwork, and lots more and plenty extra. it's a specified source for exploring the concepts performers use to captivate their audiences, and the way these suggestions have advanced to fulfill the calls for of acting via Greek mask and layers of Kabuki make-up, in monstrous halls or tiny theaters, or for the unforgiving eye of the camera.

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By Anne Cooper Ready

ISBN-10: 1564147134

ISBN-13: 9781564147134

Worry of public talking nonetheless outpaces an individual's worry of loss of life, yet conversing in public is an important requirement of any specialist at someday of their profession specifically for the reason that ninety nine percentage of what humans say at any given time is unprepared. author and communications trainer Anne Cooper prepared presents precious advice and techniques in her booklet titled "Off the Cuff." Soundview recommends this learn simply because it is an exceptional guidebook that is designed to aid the reader assemble and bring their techniques in an instantaneous, but motivating and enjoyable topic whilst wear the spot. the writer offers either the fundamental and complex talents to assist convey a right away, compelling assertion with little increase realize. "Off the Cuff" is a type of infrequent books that it truly is larger to have learn and never want - in place of desire and never read.

By Nathalia Brodskaïa

ISBN-10: 1780427913

ISBN-13: 9781780427911

Naive artwork first turned well known on the finish of the 19th century. until eventually that point this kind of expression, created through untrained artists and characterized through spontaneity and straightforwardness, loved little popularity from specialist artists and paintings critics. motivated via primitive arts, naive portray is extraordinary by way of the fluidity of its traces, vivacity, and pleased shades, in addition to via its fairly clean-cut, basic shapes. Naive paintings is represented by means of such artists as Henri Rousseau, Séraphine de Senlis, André Bauchant, and Camille Bombois. This stream has additionally came across adherents overseas, inclu.  Read more...

By Ulrich Pfisterer

ISBN-10: 3476003310

ISBN-13: 9783476003317

ISBN-10: 347602251X

ISBN-13: 9783476022516

Zentrale Leitideen, Methoden und Hilfsmittel der Kunstgeschichte. Die Autoren erläutern Begriffe und Theorien und bieten historische Abrisse, die wesentliche Entwicklungsstränge aufzeigen. Auf diese Weise kann der Leser die historischen Voraussetzungen heutiger Diskussionen über Kunst nachvollziehen. Die Neuauflage des Standardwerks wurde aktualisiert und um rund 25 Beiträge erweitert. Auf ca. eighty zusätzlichen Seiten werden Begriffe wie Abbildungen und Reproduktionen , Hybridität , Kunst im öffentlichen Raum , Rahmen , visible tradition , global artwork reviews u. a behandelt.

By Whitaker's

ISBN-10: 1408128489

ISBN-13: 9781408128480

Whitaker's Concise Almanack 2011 is the definitive reference consultant to the united kingdom. A softback, shorter model of its significant sister, Whitaker's Almanack, the Concise version is a UK-centric goldmine of data with huge, immense breadth of assurance. the most distinction among this and the traditional variation is that it does not comprise the overseas assurance of the traditional version, so the reader with an curiosity in united kingdom proof and figures is absolutely getting price for cash at under part the fee.

Areas of assurance contain: govt and politics, communications, inner most and nation schooling, faith, surroundings, cultural history, the united kingdom criminal process, royalty and peerage, social welfare (including pensions!), IT, cell phone undefined, atmosphere, history, astronomy in fact, and lots more and plenty extra - without problems, the united kingdom in a single volume!

By Burton S. Kaliski

ISBN-10: 0028650670

ISBN-13: 9780028650678

By Trevor J. Powell

ISBN-10: 0585373361

ISBN-13: 9780585373362

ISBN-10: 0863882560

ISBN-13: 9780863882562

By John Gross

ISBN-10: 0192804685

ISBN-13: 9780192804686

ISBN-10: 142949851X

ISBN-13: 9781429498517

The dictionary defines an anecdote as "a brief account of an exciting or attention-grabbing incident," and the anecdotes during this assortment greater than reside as much as that description. lots of them provide revealing insights into writers' personalities, their frailties and insecurities. the various anecdotes are humorous, usually explosively so, whereas others are touching, sinister, or downright bizarre. They convey writers within the English-speaking international from Chaucer to the current appearing either unpredictably, and deeply in personality. the diversity is vast -- this can be a e-book that reveals room for anecdotes approximately Milton and Margaret Atwood, George Eliot and Salman Rushdie, Chinua Achebe and Bob Dylan, Harriet Beecher Stowe and Wittgenstein. The authors of the anecdotes are both varied, from the diarists John Aubrey, John Evelyn and James Boswell to fellow writers corresponding to W. H. Auden, Harriet Martineau, Walter Scott, Evelyn Waugh, and Vanessa Bell. it's also a e-book during which you will discover out which nice historian's face used to be wrong for a baby's backside, which movie superstar left a haunting account of Virginia Woolf no longer lengthy prior to her dying, and what Agatha Christie fairly considered Hercule Poirot. the recent Oxford e-book of Literary Anecdotes is a ebook not only for enthusiasts of literature, yet for an individual with a flavor for the curiosities of human nature.

By Arri Eisen;Gary Laderman

ISBN-10: 0765680645

ISBN-13: 9780765680648