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American Library Association. Reference and Adult Services Division. Notable Books Council. Contemporary Classics Subcommittee500 Pendants & Lockets: Contemporary Interpretations of ...
Lark BooksOffers photographs of contemporary pieces crafted using traditional and unique materials and a variety of techniques including casting, forming, forging, and stone setting.
Adaptation in Contemporary Theatre: Performing Literature
Frances BabbageThis study explores the fascination of novels, short stories, children's books and autobiographies for theatre makers and examines what 'becomes' of such texts when these are filtered into contemporary practice that includes physical ...
Contemporary's Complete Pre-GED: A Comprehensive Review of ...
Contemporary Books, Inc.The book includes diagnostic pretests for personalized instruction, skill-evaluation charts, step-by-step test review, and plenty of practice tests.
Quilt National 2003: The Best of Contemporary Quilts
Lark BooksPresented on these exquisite pages are the most beautiful, most innovative quilts being designed today, all selected from the world-class 13th Biennial Quilt National Exhibition, a showcase for contemporary quilt artists who expand the ...
Russian Postmodernist Fiction: Dialogue with Chaos: Dialogue ...
Mark LipovetskyMARK LIPOVETSKY (pen name of Mark Leiderman) specializes in literary theory and contemporary Russian culture. He is the author of two books, Poetics of the Literary FairyTale and The Hard Work of Freedom: Articles on Contemporary ...
The Early Books of Yehuda Amichai
Yehudah ʻAmiḥaiThe Early Books of Yehuda Amichai collects for the first time in a single volume the three works -- Songs of Jerusalem and Myself, Poems and Time -- that established Amichai as Israel's greatest contemporary poet and one of the major poets ...
B is for Books! (Sesame Street)
Annie Cobb"B is for books. All kinds of books! Books about counting. Books about cooks..." From the Trade Paperback edition.
Primary Genreflecting: A Guide to Picture Books and Easy Readers
Susan FichtelbergThis valuable reference work and readers' advisory tool lists, describes, and organizes, according to reading interests, contemporary picture books and easy readers that satisfy the interests of children ages three to eight. * Identifies ...
The Pitcher
William HazelgroveThis is a mainstream contemporary novel about dreams lost and found. In the great tradition of books like, The Natural.
Books, books, books: a hilarious collection of literary cartoons
Sam GrossThe reading public has long harbored a fascination with the mysterious process that produces the books they read.
New Directions in Emblem Studies
PreviewArt, Allegory and Alchemy in Peter Greenaway ''s Prospero''s Books'' BY M. E. WARLICK UNIVERSITY OF DENVER Within his books and interviews, the British filmmaker Peter Greenaway has often declared his admiration for the history of art and his intentions to create a continuum between European visual traditions and contemporary film. His tributes to famous works of art and architecture within his films are well known.1 Often, he includes specific characters, such as Velasquez''s ...
Art Incorporated: The Story of Contemporary Art
Julian StallabrassThis is a controversial and fascinating attempt to define what is 'contemporary' about contemporary art, and the dramatic changes that have taken place in the last twenty years.
Blueprints for No-man's Land: Connections in Contemporary ...
Simon WardJulie M. Johnson The Embodied Gaze: Contemporary Art and the Museum Culture of Vienna 'Our ideas are in everybody's head and one day they'll come out.' Situationist International This volume identifies a strain of contemporary Austrian ...
The Presentation of Self in Contemporary Social Life
David ShulmanHe synthesizes the work of contemporary scholars who use dramaturgical approaches from several disciplines, who recognize that many values, social norms, and laws have changed since Goffman’s time, and that contemporary society offers ...
Nick Hern Books: theatre books, plays, screenplays : 2006-2007
Nick Hern Books (London).Among his books are one on the Wooster Group, Breaking the Rules, and an earlier collection of interviews, In Their Own Words, both available from Nick Hem Books. INVITATION TO THE PARTY DONNA WALKER-KUHNE A handbook on ...
Teach Yourself Contemporary Art
Grant Pooke"Teach Yourself Contemporary Art" delves deep into the contemporary art scene and explores the different forms of contemporary art.
Used Books: Marking Readers in Renaissance England
William H. ShermanBased on a survey of early printed books, Used Books describes what readers wrote in and around their books and what we can learn from these marks by using the tools of archaeologists as well as historians and literary critics.
The Ethics and Aesthetics of Vulnerability in Contemporary ...
Jean-Michel Ganteau... and Contemporary Narrative Textual Horizons in an Age of Global Risk Edited by Paul Crosthwaite Food and Culture in Contemporary American Fiction Lorna Piatti-Farnell Intertextual and Interdisciplinary Approaches to Cormac McCarthy ...
A New New Testament: A Bible for the Twenty-first Century ...
Hal TaussigYet these scriptures are rarely read in contemporary churches; they are discussed nearly only by scholars or within a context only of gnostic gospels. Why should these books be set aside? Why should they continue to be lost to most of us?
L'Architecture
Claude-Nicolas LedouxNew introductions bring a modern voice to these classic texts, updating them to become invaluable contemporary resources. These critically acclaimed books are an essential addition toany library.
Chinese Religions in Contemporary Societies
PreviewProtestant. Christianity. in. Contemporary. China. FRANCIS CHING-WAH YIP. O. BSERVERS OF THE contemporary religious scene in China can hardly fail to notice the phenomenal growth of Protestant Chris- tianity. “Today, on any given ...
Contemporary Art about Architecture: A Strange Utility
PreviewContemporary Art About Architecture is the first to take up its topic in a sustained and explicit manner and the first to advance the idea that contemporary art increasingly functions as a form of architectural history, theory and analysis.
The Contrast: Manners, Morals, and Authority in the Early ...
Cynthia A. KiernerThe book also features a section with selections from contemporary letters, essays, novels, conduct books, and public documents, which debate issues of the era.
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Tom McCarthyOne of the most brilliant books to have hit the shelves this year' Sunday Telegraph 'McCarthy is fast revealing himself as a master craftsman who is steering the contemporary novel towards exciting territories' Observer
Choosing Books for Young People: 1976-1984
More editionsProvides a key to books by listing books that select or criticize suitable books for young people
Contemporary Sculpture in Scotland
Andrew PatrizioSome of Scotland's most significant contemporary artists are sculptors. This book is an overview of contemporary Scottish sculpture and provides profiles of 24 notable artists.
The Architecture of the Jumping Universe: A Polemic : how ...
Charles JencksHis teleology may transcend what architects are used to, but Jencks manages to make far more sense out of our contemporary architectural dilemmas than practically all the other books in the RIBA book shop.
Destiny, Rewritten
Kathryn FitzmauriceThis sweet contemporary story about poetry, family, and determining your own destiny is perfect for fans of books by Wendy Mass, Joan Bauer, Sharon Creech, and Rebecca Stead.
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