Every Day Icon

Every Day Icon
Author: Kate Betts
Publisher: Clarkson Potter Publishers
Total Pages: 258
Release: 2011
Genre: Photography
ISBN: 0307591433

Evaluates the First Lady's emergence as a style icon and her growing influence on a changing American understanding of etiquette and femininity, in an illustrated account that also tours the cultural contributions of previous First Ladies. 60,000 first printing.


A Practical Guide to Philosophy for Everyday Life

A Practical Guide to Philosophy for Everyday Life
Author: Trevor Curnow
Publisher: Icon Books Ltd
Total Pages: 176
Release: 2012-04-05
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1848313578

How can we apply philosophy to our everyday lives? Can philosophy affect the way we live? This book will show how philosophy can help to improve your thinking about everyday life. And how, by improving the quality of your thinking, you can improve the quality of your life. It will make you more aware of what you think and why, and how knowing this can help you can change the way you think about your life. Full of practical examples and straightforward advice, and written by an expert in the field, this guide can help you become calmer and happier, and make better decisions.


Introducing Ethics

Introducing Ethics
Author: Dave Robinson
Publisher: Totem Books
Total Pages: 175
Release: 2004
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9781840465808

What are the acceptable limits of scientific investigation and genetic engineering, the rights and wrongs of animal rights, euthanasia and civil disobedience? This book confronts these dilemmas, tracing arguments of moral thinkers, including Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, and brings us up to date with postmodern critics.


The Russian Icon

The Russian Icon
Author: Nikodim Pavlovich Kondakov
Publisher:
Total Pages: 374
Release: 1927
Genre: Art
ISBN:


Icon and Devotion

Icon and Devotion
Author: Oleg Tarasov
Publisher: Reaktion Books
Total Pages: 428
Release: 2002
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9781861891181

By tracing the artistic vocabulary, techniques and working methods of icon painters in the last 400 years, Tarasov shows how icons have been integral to the history of Russian art, influenced by folk traditions and Western European currents alike.


Global Icons

Global Icons
Author: Bishnupriya Ghosh
Publisher: Duke University Press
Total Pages: 400
Release: 2011-08-24
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0822350165

Global Icons considers how highly visible public figures such as Mother Theresa become global icons capable of galvanizing intense affect and sometimes even catalyzing social change.