Alexandra: 2078 books
ONLINE DATING
Everything you need to know to find your m@te on the web
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2015
Why not use technology to improve your love life? In the era of social networks, the love of your life could be waiting for you behind a computer screen. Discover how to meet your soul mate and overcome distance barriers.
Civic Media
Technology, Design, Practice
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2016
Examinations of civic engagement in digital culture—the technologies, designs, and practices that support connection through common purpose in civic, political, and social life.
Countless people around the world harness the affordances of digital media to enable democratic participation,...
Asperger Syndrome and Social Relationships
Adults Speak Out about Asperger Syndrome
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2008
This book is essential reading to understand the social abilities of adults with Asperger's syndrome. The contributors each have different personalities and experiences, but together they provide a range of strategies to encourage people with Asperger's syndrome to achieve the social relationships...
Compassionate Careers
Making a Living by Making a Difference
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2015
Many young people today are seeking something more—purpose, meaning, a cause.
Compassionate Careers is filled with examples of people who have meaningful jobs in cause-focused organizations. These stories capture their spirit, intelligence, imagination, and heart. The book is an inspirational...
The Logic of Connective Action
Digital Media and the Personalization of Contentious Politics
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2013
The Logic of Connective Action explains the rise of a personalized digitally networked politics in which diverse individuals address the common problems of our times such as economic fairness and climate change. Rich case studies from the United States, the United Kingdom and Germany illustrate a...
by Wade Pickren, Alexandra Rutherford
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2010
A fresh look at the history of psychology placed in its social, political, and cultural contexts
A History of Modern Psychology in Context presents the history of modern psychology in the richness of its many contexts. The authors resist the traditional storylines of great achievements by eminent...
by Alexandra Kitty
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2016
Non-fiction: The Writing on the Lawns: We constantly update our status and profile pictures on our social media feeds as well as our apps and our smartphones, so why do we still keep our democracy archaic as we vent about its shortcomings with lawn signs? Bonus, Nonfiction: Don’t Believe It!: How...
Bullish on Uncertainty
How Organizational Cultures Transform Participants
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2008
Bullish on Uncertainty provides rare insight into the secretive world of Wall Street high finance, which has shaped influential business, governmental, and cultural leaders and keeps supplying new business practices to other organizations in dynamic and complex environments. The book studies how two...
Organize Yourself!
A Mother/Daughter Guide to Getting and Staying Organized in All Aspects of Your Life...So You Can Have Fun!
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2007
Organizational expert, Robin Venturelli, along with her teenage daughter, London, have put together an easy-to-follow guide for Mothers and Daughters to becoming more organized, so that YOU can have fun! Begin by taking the initial "Organizational Assessment," and then skip ahead to the...
Conflicted Identities
Housing and the Politics of Cultural Representation
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2015
Nation-states have long used representational architecture to create symbolic identities for public consumption both at home and abroad. Government buildings, major ensembles and urban plans have a visibility that lends them authority, while their repeated portrayals in the media cement their image...
by Margaret McCann, Kiley Wallace, Alexandra Wallace
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2017
The mid-city San Diego neighborhood of Kensington was conceived as a streetcar suburb. Composed of several subdivisions, the first was Kensington Park, mapped on April 8, 1910. The principals involved in developing Kensington were also involved in creating the 1915 Panama-California Exposition in...
by Alexandra Riepe
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2012
Essay from the year 2011 in the subject Tourism, grade: 70% (First), University of Lincoln, language: English, abstract: 'The real world of postmodern culture ... has entertainment as its ideology, the spectacle as the emblematic sign of the commodity form [and] lifestyle advertising as its popular...
New York a la Cart
Recipes and Stories from the Big Apple's Best Food Trucks
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2013
Divided into neighborhood sections (Uptown, Midtown, Downtown, the Boroughs, etc.) New York a la Cart will spotlight the best of the Big Apple's cart cuisine, profiling 50 vendors and including their most popular recipes. There are terrific "only in New York" stories here: the IBM exec...
The Weight of the Nation
Surprising Lessons About Diets, Food, and Fat from the Extraordinary Series from HBO Documentary Films
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2012
People today work harder and take better care of their health than any previous generation. So how could two-thirds of us fail to measure up when it comes to eating right and exercising? HBO and the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences have joined together to bring you the nation's...