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Catalysts for Change: Lessons from Leaders on Peace and Sustainable Development In a world where challenges to peace and sustainability seem more pressing than ever, Catalysts for Change serves as a beacon of hope and a guide for action. This powerful compilation features inspiring stories and insights from visionary leaders and change-makers across various fields, each dedicated to fostering peace and promoting sustainable development in their communities and beyond. Drawing from real-life experiences, the contributors share their unique perspectives on the interconnectedness of social ...

Este libro pretende ser un homenaje a todos ellos, los millones de hombres y mujeres que han hecho perdurar la sabiduría popular a través de los años mediante los refranes. También es un modo de difundir el español a través de las paremias. No pretende ser un libro de refranes más, ya que no están —ni de lejos— todos los que son, pero sí son todos los que están. La idea es presentar algunos de los proverbios más populares y comentarlos desde la humilde opinión de quien escribe. La otra pretensión de la obra es que los dichos de estos hombres y mujeres perduren con los años...

¿Sabes quiénes han sido o son las personas más ricas de la historia? ¿Qué hitos lograron? ¿Cómo fueron sus vidas? ¿Cuáles fueron sus dificultades? En este libro encontrarás biografías —breves, pero contundentes y llenas de curiosidades— de algunas de las personas que han marcado época con sus inventos o logros. Cada una de ellas ha vivido de forma distinta, pero todas han conseguido un objetivo común: la riqueza. Descubre la vida y secretos de estos millonarios: JOHN DAVISON ROCKEFELLER KARL FRIEDRICH BENZ BILL GATES STEVE JOBS WARREN BUFFETT GEORGE SOROS DONALD TRUMP JEFF ...

La polémica evacuación de sus obras maestras durante la guerra civil por el Gobierno de la República. El estallido de la guerra civil no solo trastornó radicalmente la vida y destino de todos los españoles, sino que provocó un auténtico terremoto en el patrimonio...

The Maryhill Museum of Art is located on 5,300 acres in the Columbia River Gorge. Miles from any sizeable town and surrounded by the gorge's spectacular scenery, Maryhill is an internationally recognized - and undeniably eclectic - repository of art that ranges from one of the nation's best Rodin collections to one of the world's largest assemblage of chess sets. Dancer, Dreamers, and the Queen of Romania is the story of the four widely disparate people whose lives intertwined in such a way as to lay the foundation for the museum.

Today, nearly one million books are published each year. But is the era of the book as we know it - a codex of bound pages - coming to an end? And if it is, should we celebrate its demise and the creation of a democratic digital future, or mourn an irreplaceable loss?

In The Politics of Collecting, Eunsong Kim traces how racial capitalism and colonialism situated the rise of United States museum collections and conceptual art forms. Investigating historical legal and property claims, she argues that regimes of expropriation—rather than merit or good...

Flora Miller Biddle was born a blue-blood. The granddaughter of the Whitney museum founder, Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, her childhood played out in a sort of Wharton landscape as she was shielded from the woes of the world. But money itself is not the source of happiness. In this wonderfully evocative memoir, Flora Miller Biddle examines, critiques, and pays homage to the people and places of her childhood that shaped her life.

The past, present, and future of human culture can be found inside glass, on walls, or tucked away in a climate-controlled environment. But what attracts society to collect fine art, pottery, and other ancient artifacts? In Beyond the Halls: An Insider’s Guide to Loving Museums, you’ll find a brief history of museums while exploring the present nature of these institutions and the thought-provoking ways to interact with them. Beyond the Halls is a book that speaks to museum lovers (and haters) who are looking to discover, for the first time, the history of museums.

Navigating Knowledge: Understanding Information Seeking Behavior in the Digital Age explores one of the most essential yet often overlooked aspects of human life: how we search for, evaluate, and use information. From ancient oral traditions and the first great libraries to modern search engines, social media, and artificial intelligence, this book traces the evolution of information seeking and examines the psychological, cultural, and technological forces that shape it. Inside, readers will discover: The history of how humans have pursued knowledge across different eras and societies. The...

The story of the making, loss, and recovery of some of the greatest treasures of antiquity, raising questions about ancient mosaic art and its creation, the work of archaeology, and museum practice. In 1932, after years of fundraising and flurries of letters back and forth, an archaeological...

Este libro es el segundo de la colección Frases Motivadoras y Célebres. En el primer libro —Frases Motivadoras y Célebres: Consejos para Emprendedores— tenías los consejos para emprendedores de 18 multimillonarios. Ahora con esta segunda parte —Frases Motivadoras y Célebres: Citas y Consejos de Ricos— podrás aprender 267 citas y consejos de otros 18 magnates. Los negocios cambian con el paso del tiempo. Es irremediable, pero la esencia del emprendedor no varía. Los sectores se reinventan, aparecen nuevas fórmulas para solucionar necesidades mediante servicios o productos, ...

In 1975, the school board members of a small Long Island town did what they thought was a no-brainer: they ordered the removal of nine books from a high school library. The books included some classics – Richard Wright's Black Boy; Desmond Morris's The Naked Ape; Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-Five – but that didn't matter to board chair Richard Ahrens, who called the collection "anti-American, anti-Christian, anti-Semitic, and just plain filthy." Maybe he thought the town was with him.

Every city usually has at least one library, so some people take libraries for granted. Instead of taking libraries for granted, we ought to praise them to high heaven for all their noble contributions to humanity.

Well over 100 years ago the data industry put in place a business model that trades our attention for news and entertainment. That model has evolved into a complex art and science of message targeting and content ownership that has splintered communities while simultaneously concentrating media ownership to a few massive corporations. Forged in War takes a critical look at the systems we use and how we ended up in a society that values data over personal liberty and commerce over the public good. 

This book considers the work of the celebrated 17th century court painter Diego Velázquez (1599-1660) presented in a comprehensive exhibition at The National Gallery London from October to January 2006-2007. It follows the phases of development charted from rooms one to four in the Getty Wing, ranging from the initial scenes of workers in bars and domestic scenes to the paintings made at the Court of King Philip IV in Madrid.

Esta obra aporta una breve biografía de cada personaje famoso seleccionado —escritores, artistas, políticos, filósofos, científicos, etcétera— y una cantidad respetable de sus frases más famosas. Muchas de estas frases son motivadoras, positivas y célebres; mientras que otras no lo son. Las personas que aparecen en este primer tomo son: Abraham Lincoln Albert Einstein Alexandre Dumas Davy de la Pailleterie (Alexandre Dumas) Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle Benjamin Franklin Robert Nesta Marley (Bob Marley) Lee Jun-fan (Bruce Lee) Charles Spencer Chaplin (Charles Chaplin) Charles ...

Famed across the known world, jealously guarded by private collectors, built up over centuries, destroyed in a single day, ornamented with gold leaf and frescoes or filled with bean bags and children's drawings - the history of the library is rich, varied and stuffed full of incident. In this, the first major history of its kind, Andrew Pettegree and Arthur der Weduwen explore the contested and dramatic history of the library

The Western museum is a battleground—a terrain of ideological, political, and economic contestation. Almost everyone today wants to rethink the museum, but how many have the audacity to question the idea of the universal museum itself? In A Programme of Absolute Disorder, Françoise Vergès puts the museum in its place. Exploring the Louvre's history, she uncovers the context in which the universal museum emerged: as a product of colonialism, and of Europe's self-appointed claim to be the guardian of global heritage.

In South Sudan, the life of a community can rise or collapse depending on one thing: the kind of individuals it produces. In The Individual, I follow Panyim’s journey from the pressure to prove manhood, to the hard work of learning wisdom, to the battle of holding unity when whispers and conflict threaten to split a people. Through cattle camps, elders’ councils, sacred trees, and the living witness of the White Nile, this book blends story and teaching to show how courage becomes responsibility, how love becomes leadership, and how tradition can adapt without losing its soul. This is ...