Now you can learn the secrets of Paul Brent's wonderful watercolors, beloved around the world for their vibrant moods and perfectly balanced colors. Using easy-to-master techniques, he shows you how to paint 13 beautiful florals, from Oriental peonies and antique hydrangeas to English tea roses and more. Brent's well-illustrated, step-by-step instructions allow you to paint quickly while infusing each piece with your own creative flair. Minilessons at the beginning of each chapter help you learn specific techniques for painting motifs including fruits and "friendly" insects such as dragonflies, bumblebees, butterflies and more. You'll take pride in creating lovely, sophisticated artwork. And the finished paintings -- overflowing with lush, delicate flowers -- will look beautiful with your home decor! Book jacket.
IN A REVEALING and provocative look at how Canada's beer giants battle over bucks and brands, writer Paul Brent examines the business of big beer. For decades our two largest breweries have faced off in high-stakes advertising and marketing campaigns that have infiltrated the Canadian cultural landscape and our national identity. Beginning with a behind-the-headlines look at some of these famous campaigns, Brent reveals the history of this beer duopoly, including portraits of the key players and blow-by-blow accounts of their current operations. Travelling into the bar-room backrooms, he delivers some eye-opening facts about how the breweries maintain their stranglehold on the market. Lager Heads is a story of what makes us Canadian, and how big breweries have cannily hijacked our cultural touchstones to drive their own marketing efforts. Updated with a new afterword about the Molson family feud and investor battle to merge the centuries-old Canadian brewer with Colorado's Adolph Coors Co., Lager Heads is an entertaining book that dares to strip the labels off an iconic industry.
The debate between faith and reason has been a dominant feature of Western thought for more than two millennia. This book takes up the problem of the relation between philosophy and theology and proposes that this relation can be reconceived if both philosophy and theology are seen as different ways of organising affects. Brent Adkins and Paul R. Hinlicky break new ground in this timely debate in two ways. Firstly, they lay bare the contemporary dependence on Kant and propose that our Kantian inheritance leaves us with an insuperable dualism. Secondly, the authors argue that the philosophy of Gilles Deleuze provides a way of resolving the debate between faith and reason that does justice to philosophy and theology by reconceiving of both as assemblages. Deleuze's philosophy differentiates domains of thought in terms of what they create. This seems like a particularly fruitful way to pursue the problem of the relations among philosophy and theology because it allows their distinction without at the same time placing them in opposition to one another.
This collection of essays, offered in honor of the distinguished career of prominent political philosophy professor Clifford Orwin, provides a wide context in which to consider the rise of “humanity” as one of the chief modern virtues. A relative of—and also a replacement for—formerly more prominent other-regarding virtues like justice and generosity, humanity and later compassion become the true north of the modern moral compass. Contributors to this volume consider various aspects of this virtue, by comparison with what came before and with attention to its development from early to late modernity, and up to the present.
As the U.S. National Defense Strategy recognizes, the United States is currently locked in a great-power competition with Russia. This report seeks to define areas where the United States can compete to its own advantage. It examines Russian vulnerabilities and anxieties; analyzes potential policy options to exploit them; and assesses the associated benefits, costs, and risks, as well as the likelihood of successful implementation.
The Challenger Sale: Taking Control of the Customer Conversation by Matthew Dixon and Brent Adamson: Conversation Starters The Challenger Sale opens with this question: What's the secret to sales success? Most business leaders would answer the question with relationships. While that is fundamentally true, Matthew Dixon and Brent Adamson argues that it is not encough to build relationships with customers. To be successful, business leaders need to challenge their relationships. Dixon and Adamson needed to understand what sets apart top-performing reps from the average performing ones. Together with their colleagues at Corporate Executive Board, Dixon and Adamson investigates the attitudes, behaviors, knowledge and skills that matter to reps that have the highest sales performance. Their discovery may come as a shock to decades-old conventional sales wisdom. SPIN Selling author Professor Neil Rackham says that Dixon and Adamson's research is "game-changing." His advice is not just to read it but... A Brief Look Inside: EVERY GOOD BOOK CONTAINS A WORLD FAR DEEPER than the surface of its pages. The characters and their world come alive, and the characters and its world still live on. Conversation Starters is peppered with questions designed to bring us beneath the surface of the page and invite us into the world that lives on. These questions can be used to... Create Hours of Conversation: - Promote an atmosphere of discussion for groups - Foster a deeper understanding of the book - Assist in the study of the book, either individually or corporately - Explore unseen realms of the book as never seen before Disclaimer: This book you are about to enjoy is an independent resource meant to supplement the original book. If you have not yet read the original book, we encourage you to before purchasing this unofficial Conversation Starters.
Introductory text balances concepts and applications in its analysis of the psychological and social issues people face in the workplace. Chapters on minorities and women have been extensively updated. Additional coverage of ethics, self-actualization, and cross-cultural communications is included.
The Vengeance Trail - Brent Hollister rode it into the outlaw town of Destiny. Among the bandits who used the helpless town as a base lurked the man he sought - the killer who had cold-bloodedly gunned down Brent's father and brother! There was only one way Brent could track the man he was out to kill -- and that was to join forces with the outlaws he despised, ride and robe with them, and stake his life on the masquerade!" -- Back cover.
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