Michael Payne--popular host of the hit HGTV's hit series Designing for the Sexes--brings his unique talent and expertise to this beautiful and practical reference designed to help homeowners find stylish solutions to today's most common and challenging home design dilemmas. 
YOU ASKED HIM, NOW HE'S ANSWERING Through emails, internet chats, and attendance at his seminars, Michael's fans have directly asked him to solve their most difficult design dilemmas. This beautiful reference delivers the answers they seek in a style that captures Michale's trademark wit and charm. Questions range from the common to the outrageous, providing always informative -- and often amusing -- reading. 
 * Beautifully illustrated with 175 full-color photos * Features a logical room-by-room approach * Convenient format features each problem and solution presented across a single two-page spread * Covers living rooms, family rooms, master bedrooms, kitchens, bathrooms, work spaces, child's room, and more * Packed with advice, ideas, and tips on lighting, upholstery, storage, and accessories * Includes an informative Basic Questions chapter

Let's Ask Michael : 100 Practical Solutions for Interior Design Challenges

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

PAYNE, Michael

Crafts & Hobbies

McGraw=Hill

Using his well-known gift for solving difficult design dilemmas through the art of compromise, Michael Payne describes his seven-step process for designing and achieving compromise between couples.     The steps are:   1. Define the scope of the project.   2. Identify the primary function of the room.   3. Identify the secondary functions of the room.   4. Determine priorities and compromises for functionality.  5. Decide which items in the room will be legacy items (existing items that will be used after the redesign).   6. Gather samples and examples of options for anything that will not be a legacy item (includes photos, fabric samples, floor samples, paint samples, pictures from magazines, etc.), and choose materials.   7. Assemble room layouts, using functionality requirements and materials chosen.   8. Design custom furniture, if needed. The book will follow a room-by-room format, showcasing projects. Each project will include Michael’s notes, examples of how certain aspects can be incorporated into readers’ homes, as well as each client’s comments.

Michael's Methods

Arts & Photography

Architecture

McGraw-Hill Professional

Higher, faster, stronger… The Olympic motto conjures images of heroes whose achievements transcended their athletic prowess, but also of tragedy and disgrace. By 1980, the modern Olympic movement was gasping for breath, bankrupt financially, politically, and culturally. But under the leadership of Juan Antonio Samaranch, and, subsequently, Jacques Rogge, the Olympics began a journey back from the brink. Michael Payne, who served as the International Olympic Committee's top marketer for over twenty years, offers unprecedented access to the people and negotiations behind one of the most dramatic turnarounds in business or sports history. Through a multi-pronged strategy, the IOC managed to secure lucrative broadcasting commitments, entice well-heeled corporate sponsors, and parlay the symbolism of the Olympics into a brand for which cities around the world are willing to invest billions of dollars. Packed with previously untold stories from the high-octane world where business, sports, politics, and media meet, Olympic Turnaround is a remarkable tale of organizational renewal and a fascinating glimpse behind the curtain of the world's most iconic brand.
The 2008 Games in Beijing, for example, are expected to involve over 10,000 athletes from 200 countries, draw 20,000 media representatives, and generate over $4 billion in sponsorships and broadcasting rights. Packed with previously untold stories from the high-octane world where business, sports, politics, and media meet, Olympic Turnaround is a remarkable tale of organizational renewal and a fascinating glimpse behind the curtain of the world's most iconic brand.

Olympic Turnaround: How the Olympic Games Stepped Back from the Brink of Extinction to Become the World's Best Known Brand

Business & Money

Management & Leadership

Praeger

Overall good condition. Some scuffs along edges. Name inscribed on bottom of inside cover. Very slight discoloration and water marks on edge of some inside pages due to edge getting wet before - not bad, still very legible.

Intermediate Algebra

Science & Math

Mathematics

West Group

Terry Eagleton's work has had a powerful influence in debates about the politics of literature and culture. This book reflects the breadth of his interests. It offers a view of his career to date, raising a number of central issues in literature, culture and politics.

The Significance of Theory

Literature & Fiction

EAGLETON, TERRY

History & Criticism

Wiley/Blackwell

This book is a commentary on the three most influential texts of Lacan, Derrida and Kristeva: "Ecrits", "Of Grammatology", and "Revolution in Poetic Language". These texts have reshaped current thought in psychoanalysis, philosophy, linguistics and literary and cultural theory. The purpose of this book is to illuminate the textual practices of these three theorists in the interest of making their texts more accessible to readers who will want to assess for themselves what the recent controversies over "theory" are about. In addition to the detailed discussions of the principal texts by Lacan, Derrida and Kristeva, this book includes a chapter on their own principal manifestos, a chapter on their "readings" of paintings and a systematic response to their critics. The book should be of interest to undergraduates in literary theory and continental philosophy.

Reading Theory: An Introduction to Lacan, Derrida, and Kristeva

Blackwell Pub.

'Deconstruction', 'psychoanalysis', and 'semiotics' have become part of the vocabulary of contempoorary culture. Reading Theory introduces the principal texts by Derrida, Lacan and Kristeva that are behind these terms and that provide their contexts. This book concentrates its attention on making accessible what these three theorists have written, rather than offering a synthetic construction of the fashionable terminology of theory. 
<ul>Works carefully through key texts by the leading contemporary theorists Clear, accessible and introductory Challenges recent attacks on theory and on Derrida. </ul>

Reading Theory: An Introduction to Lacan, Derrida and Kristeva

Michael Payne introduces the principal writings of Roland Barthes, Michael Foucault and Louis Althusser by means of a detailed focus on their common interest in the forms and conditions of knowledge.

Reading Knowledge: An Introduction to Foucault, Barthes and Althusser (Blackwell Anthologies)

Biographies & Memoirs

Arts & Literature

Michael Payne introduces the principal writings of Roland Barthes, Michael Foucault and Louis Althusser by means of a detailed focus on their common interest in the forms and conditions of knowledge.

Reading Knowledge: An Introduction to Barthes, Foucault, and Althusser

Blackwell*publishers

Is there life after theory? If the death of the Author has now been followed by the death of the Theorist, what's left? Indeed, who's left? To explore such riddles Life. After.Theory brings together new interviews with four theorists who are left, each a major figure in their own right: Jacques Derrida, Frank Kermode, Toril Moi, and Christopher Norris.
Framed and introduced by Michael Payne and John Schad, the interviews pursue a whole range of topics, both familiar and unfamiliar. Among other things, Derrida, Kermode, Moi and Norris discuss being an outsider, taking responsibility, valuing books, getting angry, doing science, listening to music, remembering Empson, rereading de Beauvoir, being Jewish, asking forgiveness, smoking in libraries, befriending the dead, committing bigamy, forgetting to forget, thinking, not thinking, believing, and being mad. 
These four key thinkers explore why there is life after theory...but not as we know it.
Jacques Derrida is Professor at the +cole des Hautes +tudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris. He is the author of a range of extraordinarily influential works including Of Grammatology, Writing and Difference and Dissemination.
Sir Frank Kermode is a former King Edward VII Professor of English Literature at the University of Cambridge and author of, among many other books, The Sense of An Ending: Studies in the Theory of Fiction, Shakespeare's Language, and Not Entitled, his memoirs. 
Toril Moi is James B. Duke Professor of Literature and Romance Studies at Duke University. Her books include Sexual/Textual Politics: Feminist Literary Theory, Simone de Beauvoir: The Making of an Intellectual Woman and What Is a Woman? And Other Essays.
Christopher Norris is Distinguished Research Professor in Philosophy at the University of Cardiff. He has published some twenty books to date, including, most recently, Deconstruction and the Unfinished Project of Modernity, Quantum Theory and the Flight from Realism, Truth Matters: Realism, Anti-Realism, and Response-Dependence, and Hilary Putnam: Reason, Realism, and the Uses of Uncertainty.

Life.After.Theory: Jacques Derrida, Toril Moi, Frank Kermode and Christopher Norris

Reference

Continuum

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