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8 books match the query 'Connection'
Chicago Coffeehouses
Brewing Community and Connection in the MidwestJune Sawyers
University of Illinois Press, 2027
Since the turn of the last century, immigrants have brought Chicago an abundance of varied café traditions from Europe, the Middle East, and beyond. Sawyers delves into yesteryear’s Towertown bohemian enclave and midcentury venues that helped fuel the folk music revival. She also explores the coffeehouse’s ongoing evolution into a digitized workplace, and the creative ways today’s artists and entrepreneurs reimagine these spaces as patisseries, cafés, bake shops, tearooms, and performance settings. Throughout, Sawyers brings to light the Midwestern coffeehouse’s role in cultivating individual identity and neighborhood connection.
Entertaining and enlightening, Chicago Coffeehouses takes readers into iconic gathering places with art on the walls and the aroma of ground beans in the air, where steam rises from a chipped but bottomless cup of coffee.
Connection On The Ice
Patti Clayton
Temple University Press, 1998
Lines of Connection
Drawing and Printmaking, 1400-1850Edina Adam
J. Paul Getty Trust, The, 2025
While often viewed and studied separately, drawings and prints have always been closely intertwined. They facilitated and generated the production of one another, and in some instances, clear distinctions between the two dissolved. Many artists created drawings specifically intended for translation into print, and an even greater number used prints as a training tool, copying from them to hone drawing skills. This reciprocal relationship goes even deeper, however, as innovative artists made fascinating hybrid works that blurred the boundaries between the two media, pushing against modern definitions and hierarchies.
Lines of Connection charts these historical and geographical continuities for the first time by bringing together works on paper of superb quality, foregrounding issues of artistic process and collaboration, technical innovation, and creative ingenuity. Featuring over 170 prints and drawings by such artists as Albrecht Dürer, Parmigianino, Hendrick Goltzius, Maria Sibylla Merian, Rembrandt van Rijn, and William Blake, this catalogue is a rich narrative introduction to the compelling, yet understudied, relationship between drawing and printmaking.
This volume is published to accompany an exhibition on view at The Art Institute of Chicago from March 15 to June 1, 2025 and at the J. Paul Getty Museum at the Getty Center from July 1 to September 14, 2025.
Make the Connection
Improve Your Communication at Work and at HomeAdubato, Steve
Rutgers University Press, 2006
In this collection of compelling and practical essays, Emmy Award–winning broadcaster, newspaper columnist, and motivational speaker Steve Adubato shares concrete tips and tools that will help you connect more effectively at work, at home, under pressure, in leadership roles, and in high-tech environments. From avoiding unnecessary arguments with your spouse to coaching a valuable, yet difficult employee, Adubato’s essays delve into the key factors that motivate people to act and respond the way that they do.
You will find answers to some of the most common questions about public speaking as well as advice on overcoming its anxieties. Whether the forum is a PTA meeting or a large professional function, essays explore topics such as:
- Why even practiced speakers sometimes experience stage fright
- How to keep your audience awake and interested in what you are saying
You will learn essential skills for interacting in the workplace, including:
- How to negotiate a good deal and still be honest and straight
- How to keep team projects from falling apart
- How to conduct yourself in confrontational situations, such as receiving a public insult
Drawing on examples set by public figures, including Bill Clinton, Rudy Giuliani, Mario Cuomo, Martha Stewart, Jack Welch, Joe Torre, and many others, Adubato addresses the unique communication challenges that those in leadership positions face. Essays examine:
· What ordinary people can learn from leaders in high-profile positions
· Why so many leaders have difficulty taking responsibility and apologizing for their actions
As technology continues to provide opportunities for quicker and more visual communication, Adubato also lets you know when hi-tech bells and whistles get in the way of making a more personal and human connection. For instance,
· Why do we hide behind e-mail messages when we have something very difficult to say?
· How does communication deteriorate when cell phones and e-mail are competing for our attention?
Finally, Adubato reminds us that communicating at home is no less important or any less difficult than communicating in public or at work. From contemporary challenges to age-old questions, essays explore:
· How you can more effectively talk with your kids about war and terrorism
· What forms of persuasion are more effective than nagging
Filled with timely examples and practical suggestions, Make the Connection is a must-read for everyone looking to improve their professional and personal relationships.
The Paradox of Connection
How Digital Media Is Transforming Journalistic LaborDiana Bossio, Valérie Bélair-Gagnon, Avery Holton, and Logan Molyneux
University of Illinois Press, 2024
Using a framework of online connection and disconnection, The Paradox of Connection examines how journalists’ practices are formed, negotiated, and maintained in dynamic social media environments. The interactions of journalists with the technological, social, and cultural features of online and social media environments have shaped new values and competencies--and the combination of these factors influence online work practices. Merging case studies with analysis, the authors show how the tactics of online connection and disconnection interact with the complex realities of working in today’s media environments. The result is an insightful portrait of fast-changing journalistic practices and their implications for both audiences and professional identities and norms.
Wind Power Integration
Connection and system operational aspectsBrendan Fox
The Institution of Engineering and Technology, 2007
Wind Power Integration
Connection and system operational aspectsBrendan Fox
The Institution of Engineering and Technology, 2014
World Making with Malay-Indonesian Manuscripts
Circulation, Contestation and ConnectionEdited by Maznah Mohamad and Sher Banu Khan
National University of Singapore Press, 2026
What new framings emerge when we revisit the vibrant world of Malay-Indonesian manuscripts, looking beyond the boundaries imposed by colonial and nationalist scholarship? This volume revitalizes manuscript studies by using texts in entirely fresh ways, situating them as dynamic instruments of knowledge and cultural transformation. Through contextual readings, it uncovers multiple historical and cultural narratives within and between manuscripts, challenging established understandings of power, identity, and authorship. Chapters explore themes ranging from the origins of kingdoms and intellectual traditions to the reinvention of contemporary lives through politicized readings of older texts.
By foregrounding the diversity and versatility of Malay-Indonesian textual traditions, this book recenters manuscripts as vital agents in shaping Southeast Asian histories, decenters fixed notions of a singular “Malay” worldview, and reveals the fluidity of cultural memory across time and place.