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Odyssey of a DP: Memoirs of a Displaced Person - Paperback
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by Vladimir Drobashevsky (Author)From displaced person to award winning designer: the memoirs of Vladimir Drobashevsky. In 1941, twelve year old Vladimir awakes one morning to the chaos of the Luftwaffe bombing his neighborhood in Belgrade. The Germans are invading his homeland. Vladimir and his family are soon suffering hunger and deprivation from the German occupation as well as daily air raids by the Allies. His parents reluctantly decide it will be best if Vladimir and his mother leave hi...
The Import Of Color Symbolism In Sir Gawain And The Green Knight - Paperback
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by Joseph F. Eagan (Author)This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.
Number of Pages: 84
Dimensions: 0.2 x 9 x 6 IN
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European and American Painting: A Reference Guide - Paperback
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by Robert D. Peterson (Author)Every person's guide to European and American painting. A reference book on European and American painting that allows users to cross reference and find information on painting styles in minutes instead of hours or days. This book describes all areas of painting in Western civilization from cave painting to the modern styles of the 21st century. All styles and movements of Western painting, thousands of painters, and the countries that supported Western painting ...
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You Gotta Meet Mr. Pierce!: The Storied Life of Folk Artist Elijah Pierce - Hardcover
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by Chiquita Mullins Lee (Author), Carmella Van Vleet (Author), Jennifer Mack-Watkins (Illustrator)A picture book biography about the barber shop of woodcarver Elijah Pierce, recipient of the highest folk art honor in the United States. "Creeeeak!" goes the screen door to self-taught artist Elijah Pierce's barbershop art studio. A young boy walks in for an ordinary haircut and walks out having discovered a lifetime of art. Mr. Pierce's wood carvings are in every corner of the small studio. The...
Drawing For All It's Worth: How to Learn and Why - Paperback
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by Charles Staats Jr. (Author)Exercises to learn essential skills for drawing in the classic sense, an analysis of how we arrived at where we are including the difference between photographic "reality" and drawn "reality", and from scientific discoveries, the important aspects of the study of drawing on the brain's organization.
Number of Pages: 192
Dimensions: 0.41 x 9.21 x 6.14 IN
Publication Date: March 27, 2012
Arts-Based Research Primer - Paperback
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by Shirley R. Steinberg (Other), James Rolling Haywood Jr. (Author)The Arts-Based Research Primer explores the arts-based research paradigm and its potential to intersect with and augment traditional social science and educational research methods. This text aims to reveal how arts-based ways of knowing and doing lend themselves to blended spaces of naturalistic inquiry, and is intended to aid artists and scientists alike in their research and professional practices.Author BiographyJames Hay...
Strategic Planning for Public Relations: Beginning the Journey - Paperback
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by Tricia Hansen-Horn (Author), Adam E. Horn (Author)Strategic Planning for Public Relations: Beginning the Journey is written for the next generation of public relations professionals. The book's unique approach to strategy and strategic planning provides the tools for students becoming strategists first and tacticians second - essential criteria for successful public relations professionals.Author BiographyTricia Hansen-Horn (PhD, Purdue University) is a professor and public relations progr...
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Sewing the Rainbow: A Story about Gilbert Baker - Hardcover
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by Gayle E. Pitman (Author), Holly Clifton-Brown (Illustrator)5th-6th grade Finalist in 2019 Children's Choice Book Awards 2019 ALA GLBT Round Table Rainbow Book List National Parenting Product Award Winner (NAPPA) Gilbert Baker always knew he wanted a life full of color and sparkle. In his small, gray, flat Kansas hometown, he helped his grandma sew and created his own art whenever he could. It wasn't easy; life tried over and over again to make Gilbert conform. But his sparkle always shone...
Queer Praxis: Questions for LGBTQ Worldmaking - Hardcover
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by Dustin Bradley Goltz (Editor), Jason Zingsheim (Editor)Queer Praxis serves as a model for queer relationality, enlisting transnational feminist, critical communication, and performance studies approaches to build dialogue across and through differing subjectivities. This book brings together 29 writers - a diverse community - to explore queer theory and embodied experiences within interpersonal relations and society at large.Author BiographyDustin Bradley Goltz (PhD, Arizona State Universi...
What Could It Be? - Paperback
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by Carmela Castaldo (Author)Hi. My name is Carmela (Millie) Castaldo, or as the children at the elementary school where I work call me, Mrs. C. The years have certainly accumulated. Between my children attending school here and my working as a teaching assistant for over thirty-five years, it has become like a second home. I love working with the children. They never cease to amaze me or to make me laugh. They also make me feel young at heart I have three grown children and four grandchildre...
A Step-By-Step Guide to Persuasive Writing - Paperback
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by Lauren Spencer (Author)Like other titles in this exciting series, this book uses clear language, text examples, and graphic organizers to help young writers explore several different types of personal writing. Suggested exercises help students find their authors' voice and gather ideas as they decide which type of personal writing is most expressive to them. Traditional writing techniques are offered along with suggestions on how to deconstruct writing and reorganize it by changing the chr...
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How Do You Doodle?: Drawing My Feelings and Emotions - Paperback
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by Elise Gravel (Author), Elise Gravel (Illustrator)Gold Medal, Mom's Choice Awards Bronze Medal, IndieFab/Book of the Year Award How Do You Doodle? is a drawing book for kids to help them get in touch with and learn to express their emotions.How Do You Doodle? has over 40 doodle games for you to doodle, scribble, and draw out your thoughts, emotions, and feelings. You can draw or write whatever you want in this book -- cute drawings, silly drawings, even ugly drawings. Be creative and expr...
The Art And Mystery Of Curing, Preserving, And Potting All Kinds Of Meats, Game, And Fish (1864) - Paperback
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by A. Wholesale Curer of Comestibles (Author)This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.
Number of Pages: 200
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Carving Watermelon Sculptures - Paperback
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by Lonnie T. Lynch (Author)Premier Professional EditionCarving Watermelon SculpturesFor elegance and drama, borrow the tradition of serving a colorful watermelon sculpture. A well designed, watermelon sculpture will contribute greatly to an air of elegance and style. A great way to personalize and set the theme for your party.Loaded with over 40 artistic culinary designs for carving watermelon sculptures. So go ahead and add a little passion and craziness to your party With Lonnie's easy-to-...
Moving on the Road to a Man-Song Sanctuary - Paperback
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by Fundi (Author)"Moving On The Road To A Man-Song Sanctuary" is one man's poetic journey through the emotionally chaotic trials linked inextricably to a "so-called" paradise--paradoxically filled with tempestuous social worlds. Embedded upon the path of a central visionary theme, while navigating beyond volatile issues and their damaging potential, is a major, daunting task: To salvage, maintain and still fully realize the joys that fuel the richness found within struggling life and a challe...
Secrets Of The Serpent: In Search Of The Sacred Past - Paperback
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by Philip Gardiner (Author)Across time and across the world, an ancient serpent cult once dominated mankind. Then a great battle ensued and Christianity stamped it's authority on the face of the planet. Now, after years of research, the real religious history of the world can be told. In Secrets of the Serpent, Philip Gardiner for the first time reveals the world's most mysterious places were once sacred to the Serpent Cult. The history and mythology of the so-called reptilian agenda and alie...
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The Case of the Stolen Sculpture - Paperback
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by Steve Brezenoff (Author), Lisa K. Weber (Illustrator)A priceless sculpture has been stolen from the Capitol City Art Museum But with insurance money to cover the theft and build a new education wing, no one is overly worried about getting the missing art back. The only ones who seem concerned with solving the case are Clemetine and her friends. Can these determined detectives get to the bottom of the art-museum mystery before it's too late?Author BiographySteve Brezenoff is the author of ...
The Sharecroppers Daughter - Paperback
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by Annie Louise Howard (Author)There is no available information at this time. Author will provide once available.
Number of Pages: 82
Dimensions: 0.2 x 9 x 6 IN
Publication Date: April 22, 2008
A Survival Guide for Bronze Sculptors - Paperback
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by Gabe Gabel (Author)
Number of Pages: 284
Dimensions: 0.64 x 9 x 6 IN
Illustrated: Yes
Publication Date: August 14, 2008
True Believer - Paperback
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by Michael Evans (Author)This is actually my second book. I feel this is my best collection of work. Although this is a book of poems, I consider my book to tell a story about love. I truly believe there is a poem for everyone. I hope after reading this book, you will want to read it again and tell a friend.
Number of Pages: 168
Dimensions: 0.39 x 8 x 5 IN
Publication Date: June 21, 2008
Herbert Beerbohm Tree: Some Memories Of Him And Of His Art (1920) - Hardcover
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by Max Beerbohm (Author)
Number of Pages: 376
Dimensions: 1 x 9 x 6 IN
Publication Date: June 02, 2008
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Beauty in the City: The Ashcan School - Hardcover
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by Robert A. Slayton (Author)Gold Medalist, 2018 Independent Publisher Book Awards in the US Northeast -Best Regional Non-Fiction CategoryFinalist for the 2017 Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Award in the Regional categorySilver Winner, 2017 Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Awards in the History categoryAt the beginning of the twentieth century the Ashcan School of Art blazed onto the art scene, introducing a revolutionary vision of New York City. In contrast to the elite artists who painted...
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Chaekgeori: The Power and Pleasure of Possessions in Korean Painted Screens - Hardcover
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by Byungmo Chung (Editor), Sunglim Kim (Editor)Chaekgeori explores the genre of Korean still-life painting known as chaekgeori (loosely translated as "books and things"). Encouraged and popularized by King Jeongjo (1752-1800, r. 1776-1800) as a political tool to promote societal conservatism against an influx of ideas from abroad, chaekgeori was one of the most enduring and prolific art forms of Korea's Joseon dynasty (1392-1910). It depicts books and other material commodities as symbolic em...
Persian Painting at Its Best: The Life and the Work of Colonel M. Sarram - Paperback
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by M. Sarram Colonel M. Sarram (Author), M. Sarram (Author)About the Book This book is a collection of magnificent watercolor paintings of a famous Persian artist, Colonel M. Sarram. The book includes architectural monuments - churches and mosques - and marketplace in Esfahan, scenic views of the untraveled path through the Great Desert in central Persia and in southwest US, fascinating imaginary paintings, flower arrangements, and portraits of Reza Shah, as well as those of the artist and hi...
Friends in the Meadow: Birds - Paperback
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by Peggy Williams (Author)
Number of Pages: 40
Dimensions: 0.1 x 11 x 8.5 IN
Publication Date: May 12, 2009
Goethe's Theory Of Colors: With Notes (1840) - Hardcover
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by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (Author), Charles Lock Eastlake (Translator)This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.
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Art - Paperback
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by Clive Bell (Author)Clive Bell was a 20th century art critic. Wikipedia summarized Bell's philosophy as follows. "In general formalism (which can be traced back at least to Kant) is the view that it is an object's formal properties which makes something art, or which defines aesthetic experiences. Bell proposed a very strong version of formalism: he claimed that nothing else about an object is in any way relevant to assessing whether it is a work of art, or aesthetically valuable. What a pa...
Birthday: Words by John Lennon & Paul McCartney - Paperback
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by Sandy Miles (Author)Experience the Beatles and the song "Birthday" like never before. A fun birthday book for kids of all ages. Relive memories of yesterday or create memories for a new generation of Beatles' fans. Enjoy singing the book to someone special.
Number of Pages: 24
Dimensions: 0.06 x 8.5 x 8.5 IN
Publication Date: April 22, 2009
The Art Of Sail-Making: As Practiced In The Royal Navy And According To The Most Approved Methods In The Merchant Service (1843) - Paperback
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by David R. Steel (Author)This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.
Number of Pages: 176
Dimensions: 0.38 x 9.25 x 7.5...
The Art Of Tanning Leather (1857) - Paperback
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by David H. Kennedy (Author)
Number of Pages: 264
Dimensions: 0.55 x 9 x 6 IN
Publication Date: October 01, 2008
The Composite Plates of Audubon's Birds of America - Paperback
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by Albert Filemyr (Author), Jeff Holt (Author)Despite all that has been written about John James Audubon and his work, one aspect had been overlooked, until now...In 1838, as John James Audubon's monumental creation, Birds of America, was nearing completion, he requested his engraver, Robert Havell, produce 13 extra, unique prints. Havell was instructed to combine images from two separate plates into a single print, commonly known as a "Composite Plate".Only two full sets, along with a handfu...
My Views As Seen Thru This Camera - Paperback
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by Joyce Ayers (Author)This book is pictures of the beauty of South Jersey from the Pine Barrens to Cape May, and in between.
Number of Pages: 64
Dimensions: 0.17 x 11 x 8.5 IN
Publication Date: August 21, 2009
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