Crowther: 71 books
Digital Art, Aesthetic Creation
The Birth of a Medium
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2018
Is art created with computers really art? This book answers ‘yes.’ Computers can generate visual art with unique aesthetic effects based on innovations in computer technology and a Postmodern naturalization of technology wherein technology becomes something we live in as well as use. The present...
Geneses of Postmodern Art
Technology As Iconology
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2018
Postmodernism in the visual arts is not just another 'ism.' It emerged in the 1960s as a transformation of artistic creativity inspired by Duchamp's idea that the artwork does not have to be physically made by its creator. Products of mass culture and technology can be used just as well as traditional...
How Pictures Complete Us
The Beautiful, the Sublime, and the Divine
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2016
Despite the wonders of the digital world, people still go in record numbers to view drawings and paintings in galleries. Why? What is the magic that pictures work on us? This book provides a provocative explanation, arguing that some pictures have special kinds of beauty and sublimity that offer aesthetic...
The Aesthetics of Self-Becoming
How Art Forms Empower
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2019
This book shows that art involves an aesthetics of self-becoming, wherein we do not simply consume artistic meaning, but become empowered—by adapting ourselves to what creation in the different art forms makes possible. Paul Crowther argues that the great political task in aesthetics is no longer...
From School Improvement to Sustained Capacity
The Parallel Leadership Pathway
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2011
The definitive approach to achieving long-term school improvement
Bestselling author Frank Crowther makes a compelling case for capacity building and parallel leadership as the keys to ensuring sustainable improvement. Based on a study of how school leaders collaborated to enhance quality in...
Energising Teaching
The Power of Your Unique Pedagogical Gift
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
As a prospective, beginning or established teacher, you have a unique blend of skills, passions, personality traits and pedagogical styles that informs your approach to the profession. But the job is not an easy one. How can you utilise your strengths so that you don’t burn out? Career energy, direction...
by Colin Crowther, Mary Crowther
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2013
They may be mother and daughter yet they are strangers to each other, still refusing to face what really happened that day. No wonder they cannot move on with their lives. It takes another stranger, Cassiel, a passing fisherman to help them disentangle the weeds that are drowning them. But Cassiel...
Through a Glass Darkly
Contested Notions of Baptist Identity
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2012
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Through a Glass Darkly is a collection of essays by scholars who argue that Baptists are frequently misrepresented, by outsiders as well as insiders, as members of an unchanging monolithic sect.
In contemporary discussions of...
A Social Critique of Corporate Reporting
Semiotics and Web-based Integrated Reporting
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2016
In the critically acclaimed first edition of A Social Critique of Corporate Reporting, David Crowther examined the perceived dialectic around traditional and environmental reporting to show it to be a false dialectic. Corporate reporting continues to change rapidly to incorporate more detail and especially...
'Yours Ever, Charlie'
A Worcestershire Soldier's Journey to Gallipoli
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2010
‘Yours Ever, Charlie’ is the fascinating account of Charles Crowther, one of many British men who volunteered to fight for king and country in the First World War. When Charles volunteered he was almost forty-three and devoted to his family; this book demonstrates how his and an entire generation’s...
Knitted Animal Friends
Over 40 Knitting Patterns for Adorable Animal Dolls, Their Clothes and Accessories
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2019
Learn to make an adorable collection of knitted animal toys with these new patterns by the author of My Knitted Doll, Louise Crowther. Louise, brings her unique style of coordinated knitwear with cute colourwork details to this new collection of toy animal knitting patterns.
There are a total...
Little grandmother
samen kunnen we de wereld creëren waarvan we dromen
Language: Dutch
Release Date: June 19, 2012
Het is tijd voor verandering en wij zijn die verandering. Het is tijd te beseffen dat we allemaal behoren tot dezelfde stam die vele kleuren en rassen kent en dat Moeder Aarde ons verbindt. Het is tijd dat we kiezen voor liefde, bewustzijn, saamhorigheid, vertrouwen, eenheid en voor genezing van de...
Hollywood Rajah
The Life and Times of Louis B. Mayer
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2017
HE DISCOVERED GARBO AND GABLE.
FOR NINE YEARS HE WAS THE HIGHEST SALARIED MAN IN THE U.S.
HIS LIFE SURPASSED ALL HIS GREATEST FILMS IN LUXURY, NOTORIETY AND TRAGEDY.
HE WAS A MAN TO BE FEARED.
First published in 1960, Hollywood Rajah: The Life and Times of Louis B. Mayer...
A Well-Crafted Home
Inspiration and 60 Projects for Personalizing Your Space
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2017
From "the DIY maven" (Architectural Digest), comes a beautiful, practical craft book for both aspiring and seasoned makers. Here are 60 projects for high-quality furniture, textiles, and accessories to enjoy all through the house--plus all the techniques you need for dyeing or sewing fabric,...