[PDF] Driving Visions eBook

Author : David Laderman
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 12,79 MB
Release : 2010-01-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0292777906

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From the visionary rebellion of Easy Rider to the reinvention of home in The Straight Story, the road movie has emerged as a significant film genre since the late 1960s, able to cut across a wide variety of film styles and contexts. Yet, within the variety, a certain generic core remains constant: the journey as cultural critique, as exploration beyond society and within oneself. This book traces the generic evolution of the road movie with respect to its diverse presentations, emphasizing it as an "independent genre" that attempts to incorporate marginality and subversion on many levels. David Laderman begins by identifying the road movie's defining features and by establishing the literary, classical Hollywood, and 1950s highway culture antecedents that formatively influenced it. He then traces the historical and aesthetic evolution of the road movie decade by decade through detailed and lively discussions of key films. Laderman concludes with a look at the European road movie, from the late 1950s auteurs through Godard and Wenders, and at compelling feminist road movies of the 1980s and 1990s.

Author : Eli Peli
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 14,55 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 9810247044

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Presents a clear, no-nonsense discussion on the realities of low vision conditions together with a practical program designed to help low vision individuals maximize their chances for retaining and/or extending their driving privileges. Also provides a detailed description of driving vision regulations in every state in the US.

Author : Lou Schachter
Publisher : McGraw Hill Professional
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 18,19 MB
Release : 2016-03-11
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1259642186

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A groundbreaking approach to selling in a world demanding change Leaders, sales managers and professionals have found themselves stuck at a crossroads between the past and the future of selling, and they need a roadmap to help them embrace the challenges they face at such a critical juncture. Selling Vision is a step-by-step guide to creating and selling change. By implementing new change management strategies into their unique X→XY→Y selling methodology, the authors: · Propose a new logic for thinking about and executing major sales transformations · Examine these transformations from the customer’s perspective and how their changing buying patterns suggest a particular way of focusing selling activities · Consider the perspective of salespeople and what they can do to sell change to their customers · Look at how sales leaders and managers can change the way their organizations sell products or services · Highlight the pivotal moments that determine the success of major change initiatives Based on their unique X→XY→Y selling methodology, Schachter and Cheatham provide a proven sales strategy to help any sales leader, manager, or professional. For sales leaders, their approach provides a path for transforming the sales organization. For sales managers, it describes how to inspire change in the behavior of salespeople. And for salespeople, it offers a new way of selling that will have a dramatic impact on their performance. For any business executive, Selling Vision provides a faster path to driving change. This book provides immediate actions you can take and experiments you can conduct to find the right direction for future sales efforts at any level of an organization. How you respond to changing sales dynamics will determine your company’s success, that of your customers, and, to a great extent, your own personal career goals and future.

Author : Daniel H. Pink
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 31,27 MB
Release : 2011-04-05
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1101524383

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The New York Times bestseller that gives readers a paradigm-shattering new way to think about motivation from the author of When: The Scientific Secrets of Perfect Timing Most people believe that the best way to motivate is with rewards like money—the carrot-and-stick approach. That's a mistake, says Daniel H. Pink (author of To Sell Is Human: The Surprising Truth About Motivating Others). In this provocative and persuasive new book, he asserts that the secret to high performance and satisfaction-at work, at school, and at home—is the deeply human need to direct our own lives, to learn and create new things, and to do better by ourselves and our world. Drawing on four decades of scientific research on human motivation, Pink exposes the mismatch between what science knows and what business does—and how that affects every aspect of life. He examines the three elements of true motivation—autonomy, mastery, and purpose-and offers smart and surprising techniques for putting these into action in a unique book that will change how we think and transform how we live.

Author : Gretchen Sorin
Publisher : Liveright Publishing
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 35,41 MB
Release : 2020-02-11
Category : History
ISBN : 1631495704

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Bloomberg • Best Nonfiction Books of 2020: "[A] tour de force." The basis of a major PBS documentary by Ric Burns, this “excellent history” (The New Yorker) reveals how the automobile fundamentally changed African American life. Driving While Black demonstrates that the car—the ultimate symbol of independence and possibility—has always held particular importance for African Americans, allowing black families to evade the dangers presented by an entrenched racist society and to enjoy, in some measure, the freedom of the open road. Melding new archival research with her family’s story, Gretchen Sorin recovers a lost history, demonstrating how, when combined with black travel guides—including the famous Green Book—the automobile encouraged a new way of resisting oppression.