Art charms are easy to create from nearly any materialimaginable and fun to use in creative jewelry pieces. This bookpresents nine chapters organized by medium — including paper, foundobjects, polymer clay, plastic, wood, fiber, resin, metal, andglass — and gives directions to make three charms in each category.Step-by-step instruction and clear photography are helpful tobeginners, while the innovative designs make a great refresher formore advanced crafters. Making Mixed Media Art Charms andJewelry focuses on the technique and constructing the charms sothat everyone can create their own personalized art charms
Meet Justin Campbell. He's a new MBA graduate who's landed ajob with a strategy consultancy. His engagement team is on amission: help HGS Inc., a specialty chemicals firm, define andexecute a strategy for exploiting a textile technology the companydeveloped. Justin and his team deploy state-of-the-art strategy tools toanalyze the attractiveness of potential markets for the technology.But they soon realize the tools don't help them grapple with thehuman side of strategy--including political forces swirling withinHGS. Everyone involved in the engagement is biased and insecure,brilliant and hardworking, selfish and lazy, loyal anddedicated. Justin and his cohorts aren't "real"--What I Didn't Learn inBusiness School is a business novel. But they're realistic: they'rejust like us. Their story reveals the limitations of strategy toolsand demonstrates tactics for navigating the messy, human dynamicsthat can make or break a company's strategy efforts. This engaging book uses the power of stor
Existential therapy has been practiced and continues to bepracticed in many forms and situations throughout the world. Butuntil now, it has lacked a coherent structure, and analysis of itstenets, and an evaluation of its usefulness. Irvin Yalom, whoseTheory and Practice of Group Psychotherapy has rendered such aservice to that discipline since 1970, provides existentialpsychotherapy with a background, a synthesis, and a framework.Organized around what Yalom identifies as the four ultimateconcerns of lifedeath, freedom, existential isolation, andmeaninglessnessthe book takes up the meaning of each existentialconcern and the type of conflict that springs from ourconfrontation with each. He shows how these concerns are manifestedin personality and psychopathology, and how treatment can be helpedby our knowledge of them. Drawing from clinical experience,empirical research, philosophy, and great literature, Yalom haswritten a broad and comprehensive book. It will provide anintellectual home base for those p
Architecture is a window on an era, a time, a culture and,above all, on circumstances. In a book of authors and theirdifferent works, feature an unwavering constant plurality. The rawmaterial of architecture is space: the very medium human beingslive in, the inner vacuum that needs to be construed on the scaleof the human body and perceptions, and the outer void that is thehegemony of social life. The outcome is something we see every day.It?s part of our day-to-day lives; these are the meeting pointswhere architecture creates a special ambience for each space. Contemporary Settings: Modern-day commercial architecture has setitself the task of elevating the senses. These spaces are createdfor people to work, live and have fun in, but they are also placespeople spend a great amount of time in. No longer does it merelyseek to get rid of cold and featureless spaces where practicalityis the be-all and end-all.
