A practical guide to presentation skills based on four decades of experience of public speaking around the world and of training and coaching people. It deals with all aspects of public speaking, but with a particular emphasis on the skills people need to be successful in their …
"Scenarios III is the third volume collecting Herzog's earliest film scripts. It collects 4 scenarios (none of them have ever been in English until now): Stroszek; Nosferatu, Phantom of the Night; Where the Green Ants Dream; Cobra Verde"--
Intended for experienced PHP application developers interested in web development, this guide introduces the object-oriented techniques available in PHP5, simple utility classes and interfaces, the model- view-controller abstraction, unit testing, and the finite state machine. T…
You don't have to be an expert programmer to build great Web pages. This book will not only show you the design and technical elements you need to create good-looking, readable Web pages-- it will give you the confidence to get started!
Chinese characters are very unique. As one of the most widely used scripts in the world, its complex forms and large volume of characters make it always daunting for beginners, which is related to the long history of Chinese characters. This paper is divided into five parts, bas…
The division between social classes has been a problem in Chile since its founding. Chilean society is dominated by an elite that wields enormous economic and political influence; its power became wholly evident during the War of the Pacific in 1879. This conflict was profoundly…
For over four hundred years, Shakespeare’s plays have been adapted from text to the visual realizations on the stage and later the screen. Scholarship has attended to the playscript and the performance, but it has largely neglected the position of the costume as a bridge between…
This PhD project is comprised of two parts, each of which is intended to stand alone. Though each piece was conceived and written separately, they do stem from a similar desire: to speak to the practice of khatna (a form of female genital cutting) among the Dawoodi Bohra communi…
Pornography has increasingly become a hot topic of discussion in the United States, likely due to its increasing rate of consumption. Recent scholarship has indicated the need to account for factors such as masturbation and sexual desire discrepancy when conducting pornography r…
