Crowther: 71 books
by Bruce Crowther
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2012
The life and times of Gene Krupa Traces the life and career of the late drummer and assesses his influence on modern jazz. In depth account of Gene's life and the times surrounding that period. Includes selected discography and plenty of photographs.
Gilbert of Gilbert & Sullivan
His Life and Character
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2011
The life of Sir William Schwenck Gilbert, one half of Gilbert & Sullivan The author of The Pirates of Penzance, The Mikado, HMS Pinafore, W. S. Gilbert—a witty, caustic, and disrespectful man—was one of the celebrities of the late Victorian age, and in this book his glorious, contradictory...
These Ghostly Archives
The Unearthing of Sylvia Plath
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2017
These Ghostly Archives: The Unearthing of Sylvia Plath offers a ground-breaking look at Plath studies. Focusing on previously unpublished material found in archives from around the world, These Ghostly Archives aims to reconstruct the ghostly figure of Plath within our culture via unseen letters,...
Eating Culture
An Anthropological Guide to Food
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2013
Humans have an appetite for food, and anthropology—as the study of human beings, their culture, and society—has an interest in the role of food. From ingredients and recipes to meals and menus across time and space, Eating Culture is a highly engaging overview that illustrates the important role...
Eating Culture
An Anthropological Guide to Food, Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2018
From ingredients and recipes to meals and menus across time and space, this highly engaging overview illustrates the important roles that anthropology and anthropologists play in understanding food and its key place in the study of culture.
The new edition, now in full colour, introduces discussions...
Panama - Culture Smart!
The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2006
Culture Smart! provides essential information on attitudes, beliefs and behavior in different countries, ensuring that you arrive at your destination aware of basic manners, common courtesies, and sensitive issues. These concise guides tell you what to expect, how to behave, and how to establish a...
by D. Crowther
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2007
Managing Finance is developed from tried and tested materials that are easy to read and work is written from a managerial perspective for general managers on executive or MBA courses. The text focuses on accounting from the viewpoint of the needs of managers for financial information and understanding....
A Social Critique of Corporate Reporting: A Semiotic Analysis of Corporate Financial and Environmental Reporting
A Semiotic Analysis of Corporate Financial and Environmental Reporting
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2018
This title was first published in 2002: This text is concerned with the role of corporate reporting in UK public limited companies. It is a common assumption that the most significant part of any corporate report is the accounting information contained within. This book, however, takes a different...
The Durable Corporation
Strategies for Sustainable Development
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2016
Sustainability is normally considered to be about choices for the future being limited by decisions made in the present, and is frequently portrayed as concerning environmental issues alone. The Durable Corporation rejects both of these notions to argue that sustainability is a more complex concept...
by Professor David Crowther, M. Azizul Islam
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2015
It is now 20 years since the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development, better known as the Earth Summit was held in Rio de Janeiro. An important achievement of the conference was an agreement on the Climate Change Convention which in turn led to the Kyoto Protocol. Another was agreement...
What Drawing and Painting Really Mean
The Phenomenology of Image and Gesture
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2017
There are as many meanings to drawing and painting as there are cultural contexts for them to exist in. But this is not the end of the story. Drawings and paintings are made, and in their making embody unique meanings that transform our perception of space-time and sense of finitude. These meanings...
Lewis Nordan
Humor, Heartbreak, and Hope
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2012
Lewis Nordan: Humor, Heartbreak, and Hope examines and celebrates the work of southern writer Lewis “Buddy” Nordan, whose stories reveal his own pain and humanity and in their honesty force us to recognize ourselves within them.
Written by scholars and fiction writers who represent a fascinating...
Darkness Falling
The Forever Twilight Series
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2011
First, the flash. A glare of light, just before dawn, followed by utter darkness. A vast blanketing nothingness that covered the whole Earth.
Then, the disappearances. Friends and strangers alike, swallowed by the darkness… and then returned, altered, changed.
For the people of Jesman's...
by Peter Crowther
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2012
Gerald John Makinson, Inspector of the North Yorkshire police admits defeat and calls Holmes to Harrogate immediately. Holmes is asked to investigate a series of only loosely connected to one another. The four victims live and work in the local area, and each has been brutally murdered. Three of the...