Ulrich: 1425 books

Hans Ulrich Obrist curated his first exhibit in his kitchen when he was twenty-three years old. Since then he has staged more than 250 shows internationally, many of them among the most influential exhibits of our age. Ways of Curating is a compendium of the insights Obrist has gained from his years...

The role of sound and digital media in an information-based society: artists—from Steve Reich and Pierre Boulez to Chuck D and Moby—describe their work. If Rhythm Science was about the flow of things, Sound Unbound is about the remix—how music, art, and literature have blurred the lines...

American Negro Slavery Ulrich Bonnell Phillips, american historian (1877-1934) This ebook presents «American Negro Slavery», from Ulrich Bonnell Phillips. A dynamic table of contents enables to jump directly to the chapter selected. Table of Contents -01- About this book -02- THE DISCOVERY...

Make your leadership efforts stick BusinessWeek’s “#1 Management Educator and Guru” provides a proven, powerful model that guarantees leadership success today, tomorrow—and well into the future Leadership Sustainability helps you sustain the changes you need to make in order to become...

A unique opportunity to learn about the lives and creativity of the world's leading artists Hans Ulrich Obrist has been conducting ongoing conversations with the world's greatest living artists since he began in Switzerland, aged 19, with Fischli and Weiss. Here he chooses nineteen of the greatest...

Life itself can be approached as a creative challenge through the medium of whatever we do on a daily basis whether it be painting a picture or cooking a meal. In The Widening Stream author David Ulrich gracefully illustrates the series of stages encountered on every creative journey regardless of the...

What does your ideal coral aquarium look like? Do you want a mixed coral reef tank, buzzing with color and energy as fish and invertebrates fill every level with the colors and textures of a coral reef? It is a devastating feeling to buy a new coral and watch it shrivel away and die in your...

Volcanic eruptions are the clear and dramatic expression of dynamic processes in planet Earth. The author, one of the most profound specialists in the field of volcanology, explains in a concise and easy to understand manner the basics and most recent findings in the field. Based on over 300 color...

In 1889 the Compagnie Universelle du Canal Interocéanique declared bankruptcy. The French firm's optimistic and ill-planned attempt to construct a canal across the Isthmus of Panama had resulted in the death of 22,000 workers (most from yellow fever, typhoid fever, and malaria); the complete loss...

"This is a book about who we are today, and how we have become who we are. It is about the engineers of the modern soul, the entrepreneurial self. It is essential reading for all those who care about the incessant demands placed on us to become more than we are, to become entrepreneurs of our...

The news agency Reuters reported in 2009 that a mass grave containing 1,800 bodies was found in Malbork, Poland. Polish authorities suspected that they were German civilians that were killed by advancing Soviet forces. A Polish archeologist supervising the exhumation, said, "We are dealing with...

"Whoever needs an act of faith to elucidate an event that can be explained by reason is a fool, and unworthy of reasonable thought." This line, spoken by the notorious 18th-century libertine Giacomo Casanova, illustrates a deeply entrenched perception of religion, as prevalent today as it was hundreds...

Ein Mann hat seine Erfahrungen gemacht, jetzt misst er sein Verhalten an der Wirklichkeit. Erfolg oder Versagen werden zum Gradmesser eigener Bewährung. Aus der kritischen Erinnerung an Vergangenes formt sich die Erkenntnis für künftige Lebensart, für menschliche Haltung. Bei einer Provokation...

VOM UHRSPRUNG und anderen Merkwürdigkeiten erzählt Ulrich Karger und kommt in seinen neun modernen Märchen und Parabeln der Moral mit Witz und satirischer Zuspitzung auf die Spur. Ob nun der Eine den Anderen nicht versteht oder das Räumen einer Leiche aus dem Keller fällig wird – zwischen tröstlich...