What, After All, Is a Work of Art?
What, After All, Is a Work of Art? directs our attention toward historicity, the inherent historied nature of thinking, and the artifactual, culturally emergent nature of both art and human selves. While these are familiar themes in Margolis's wel...
Selves and Other Texts
Extending his well-known investigations into the nature and logic of art and history in the cultural world, Joseph Margolis here offers a sustained account of how selves and the cultural phenomena they generate (language, history, action, art) can...
Basic Yiddish
Basic Yiddish: A Grammar and Workbook comprises an accessible reference grammar with related exercises in a single volume. The workbook is structured around 25 short units, each presenting relevant grammar points which are explained using multiple...
Introduction to Philosophical Problems
This is a classic introduction to philosophy in the tradition of Bertrand Russell's "The Problems of Philosophy" and A.J. Ayer's "Central Questions of Philosophy". As in those books, here Margolis focuses on the core of Western...
Arts and the Definition of the Human
The Arts and the Definition of the Human introduces a novel theory that our selves-our thoughts, perceptions, creativity, and other qualities that make us human-are determined by our place in history, and more particularly by our culture and langu...
Pragmatism's Advantage
This book addresses the rift between major philosophical factions in the United States, which the author describes as a "philosophically becalmed" three-legged creature made up of analytic philosophy, continental philosophy, and pragmati...
Presidents' Day
For readers of David Baldacci and Brad Meltzer comes a timely political thriller from the bestselling author of Losing Isaiah. In this twisting, ferocious novel of suspense, the presidential race has a number of men all clawing to get to the top. ...
Inre visdom : lär dig lyssna till din intuition
Är det här beslutet riskfritt? Är den här mannen eller kvinnan den rätta för mig? Vilket anställningserbjudande ska jag tacka ja till? Dessa och många andra frågor kan Char Margolis ge dig svar på genom att avläsa dina energier. Men Char önskar oc...
Patterns, Thinking, and Cognition - A Theory of Judgment
What happens when we think? How do people make judgments? While different theories abound-and are heatedly debated-most are based on an algorithmic model of how the brain works. Howard Margolis builds a fascinating case for a theory that thinking ...
Complete Book of Tailoring
In this classic guide, acclaimed sewer and writer Adele P. Margolis offers expert advice for the home sewer who wants to take his or her skills to the next level and not only 'make clothes,' but to tailor one's creations to fit in that way that off-the-rack almost never can. Fashions change, but tailoring remains a timeless skill. From beginning to finished product, this essential primer covers every step you need to know to create successful and custom-fitted fashion. Featuring 340 drawings, Margolis' must-have guide includes both classic and contemporary tailoring--from pinning, cutting and marking to installing zippers, button holes and pockets. Within, you will learn to make suits, coats and ensembles that are well-constructed and expensive-looking, but affordable and approachable enough to make at home. One of the most valuable references of its kind, The Complete Book of Tailoring belongs deserves a spot on every sewing table.
How to Make Clothes That Fit and Flatter
How to Make Clothes That Fit and Flatter
The Complete Book of Tailoring
In this classic guide, acclaimed sewer and writer Adele P. Margolis offers expert advice for the home sewer who wants to take his or her skills to the next level and not only 'make clothes,' but to tailor one's creations to fit in that way that off-the-rack almost never can. Fashions change, but tailoring remains a timeless skill. From beginning to finished product, this essential primer covers every step you need to know to create successful and custom-fitted fashion. Featuring 340 drawings, Margolis' must-have guide includes both classic and contemporary tailoring-from pinning, cutting and marking to installing zippers, button holes and pockets. With this book you will learn to make suits, coats and ensembles that are well-constructed and expensive-looking, but affordable and approachable enough to make at home. One of the most valuable references of its kind, The Complete Book of Tailoring belongs deserves a spot on every sewing table. This book is also available from Echo Point
Secret Life of Uri Geller
For over 60 years, spanning from his childhood to the Cold War to the current day, former Israeli paratrooper and Six Day War veteran Uri Geller has been a major enigma. Is he merely one of the most convincing stage magicians in history, a multimi...
We Only Dated for 11 Instagrams
We Only Dated for 11 Instagrams: And Other Things You'll Overhear in LA is a collection of the hilarious, absurd, sometimes even poignant snippets overheard on the streets -- and in the juiceries -- of Los Angeles. It's a tribute to the one and on...
Interpretation Radical but Not Unruly
With this challenging work, Joseph Margolis continues the project begun in The Flux of History and the Flux of Science (California, 1993). Tackling one of philosophy's master themes, he develops the controversial thesis that the world is a flux. H...
Cultural Space of the Arts and the Infelicities of Reductionism
Joseph Margolis, known for his considerable contributions to the philosophy of art and aesthetics, pragmatism, and American philosophy, has focused primarily on the troublesome concepts of culture, history, language, agency, art, interpretation, a...
Jane Campion's The Piano
Jane Campion's The Piano is one of the most unusual love stories in the history of cinema. The film swept the world upon its release, winning awards for its performances, script, and direction, including prestigious Cannes and Academy Award prizes...
Make Your Own Dress Patterns
This profusely illustrated primer in pattern making is great for creating fashionable clothing as well as pretty necklines, pockets, and sleeves. Nationally acclaimed sewing expert Adele Margolis provides simple, step-by-step directions and more t...
Philosophy of Interpretation
This is a lively, freshly invited collection of papers by a number of well-known philosophers and other specialists who have focused very pointedly on certain central conceptual puzzles posed by the general practice of interpretation in the arts, ...
Creations of the Mind
Creations of the Mind presents sixteen original essays by theorists from a wide variety of disciplines who have a shared interest in the nature of artifacts and their implications for the human mind. All the papers are written specially for this v...
Future Ready
The recent crisis in the financial markets has exposed serious flaws in management methods. The failure to anticipate and deal with the consequences of the unfolding collapse has starkly illustrated what many leaders and managers in business have ...
Sociology
Drawing on studies of social class, crime and deviance, education, work in bureaucracies and changes in religious and political organizations, this Very Short Introduction explores the tension between the individual's place in society and society'...
New Economics
In 1517, Martin Luther nailed his 95 theses to the wall of Wittenberg church. He argued that the Church's internally consistent but absurd doctrines had pickled into a dogmatic structure of untruth. It was time for a Reformation. Half a millennium...
History, Historicity and Science
This fresh collection of essays questions how the historical process affects our conception of science, including our understanding of its validity as well as our general conception of knowledge. The essays in this book consider the philosophical ...
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Politics and Religion
Islamic fundamentalists wreck the financial heart of New York; Hindus destroy a mosque at Ayodhya; Orthodox Jews battle Palestinians for possession of holy sites; in Egypt, Israel and India political leaders are murdered by religious zealots. In m...