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Super Social Studies! (Grades 4-8)»rank: 333970by: Elizabeth Van Tine, Lee Shirley, Cooper Camille, Barbara White
: :Looking for ways to make your social studies lessons come alive? This great resource is jam-packed with classroom-tested, creative, hands-on activities such as wondercircles, the export game, fold-up maps, paper-chain time lines, and lots more. You'll f |
David Hockney Portraits»rank: 583599by: Sarah Howgate, Barbara Stern Shapiro
: :David Hockney (b. 1937) is one of the most significant artists exploring and pushing the boundaries of figurative art today. Hockney has been engaged with portraiture since his teenage years, when he painted Portrait of My Father (1955), and his self-portraits and depictions of family, lovers, and friends represent an intimate visual diary of the artist’s life. This beautifully illustrated book examines Hockney’s portraits in all media—painting, drawing, photography, and prints—and has been produced in close collaboration with the artist. Featured subjects include members of Hockney’s family and private circle, as well as portraits of such artists and cultural figures as Lucian Freud, Francesco Clemente, R. B. Kitaj, Helmet Newton, Lawrence Weschler, and ... |
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Impressionists Side by Side: Their Friendships, Rivalries, and Artistic Exchanges»rank: 687332by: Barbara Ehrlich White
: :In this extraordinary volume, art historian Barbara Ehrlich White considers the achievements of the Impressionists from an entirely fresh perspective. She focuses on the personal and professional relationships between seven pairs of artists: Degas and Manet, Monet and Renoir, Cézanne and Pissaro, Manet and Morisot, Cassatt and Degas, Morisot and Renoir, and Cassatt and Renoir. Looking at the work of each pair, she finds, in their treatment of identical subjects and in their portraits of each other, a new illumination of their art and lives...how they relied on each other for comradeship, support, inspiration, ideas, and techniques...how they were bound by the ties of friendship...and how, at times, these same associations could include envy, ... |
Prisoner of Love»rank: 2228511by: Jean Genet
: :his last book, tr Barbara Bray, intro Edmund White |
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The Nurse Practitioner in Long Term Care: Guidelines for Clinical Practice»rank: 626301by: Barbara White, Deborah Truax
: :This comprehensive text addresses the growing trend to utilize the nurse practitioner in the skilled nursing facility (SNF) to manage patients in long-term care. This book will serve as a practical resource for managing those conditions commonly encountered in the geriatric patient. It includes an introduction to nursing homes, medication management, practical health promotion/disease prevention, and management of common clinical conditions specific to the skilled and long term care nursing home settings. It will alsoaddress important topics such as elder abuse, legal issues, reimbursement, and regulatory issues. Subjects covered are pertinent to everyday practice and this text is useful in graduate programs for nurse practitioners and clinical nurse specialists as well as ... |
Social Work in Juvenile And Criminal Justice Settings»rank: 893605from: Charles C. Thomas Publisher
: :This comprehensive text addresses the growing trend to utilize the nurse practitioner in the skilled nursing facility (SNF) to manage patients in long-term care. This book will serve as a practical resource for managing those conditions commonly encountered in the geriatric patient. It includes an introduction to nursing homes, medication management, practical health promotion/disease prevention, and management of common clinical conditions specific to the skilled and long term care nursing home settings. It will alsoaddress important topics such as elder abuse, legal issues, reimbursement, and regulatory issues. Subjects covered are pertinent to everyday practice and this text is useful in graduate programs for nurse practitioners and clinical nurse specialists as well as ... |
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Like a Maccabee»rank: 696513by: Barbara Bietz
: :Days before Hanukkah, ten-year-old Ben's soccer team makes the league championships. Only one thing stands between Ben and victory: the rival team's best defender, a school bully whose favorite sport, other than soccer, is tormenting Ben. No one at home seems to understand. And now he has to share his bedroom with his grandfather, a man he barely knows! Facing humiliation at school and misunderstood by those who love him most, Ben finds an unexpected friend in his grandfather, learning ancient wisdom and steadfast strength, enough for the big game and beyond. Includes latke recipe and dreidel game instructions. Ages 8-12. |
Renoir: His Life, Art, and Letters (Abradale)»rank: 824504by: Barbara Ehrlich White
: :For twenty years, White has devoted much of her life to searching out unpublished letters, drawings and documents that reveal Renoir's life as an artist and as a man. 400 illustrations, with 125 in color, include seldom reproduced works as well as intimate photos of Renoir's family and homes. Review:This stunning book is a lavish celebration of Renoir's life, exploring his early formative years and his rapid progression into one of the world's most highly respected Impressionist painters. More than 250 of the artist's better known works are reproduced with amazing clarity, and are a testament to Renoir's diverse talent and imagination. From his subtle, tender images of children in paintings ... |
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SISTERS IN CRIME (1) One: Role Model; Mystery; Case of the Pietro Andromache; All the Lonely People; The Runaway; Cousel for the Defense; Blue Curacao; Bonding; Falling Off the Roof; Come to Grandma; Lucky Penny; Stormy Weather; No Safety; Natural Causes»rank: 913297by: Marilyn (editor) (Teri White; Elizabeth Peters; Sara Paretsky; Marcia Muller; Barbara Michaels; Lia Matera; Susan Kelly; Faye Kellerman; Sue Grafton; Dorothy Cannell; Linda Barnes; Mickey Friedman; Susan Dunlap; Dorothy Salisbury Davis) Wallace
: :For twenty years, White has devoted much of her life to searching out unpublished letters, drawings and documents that reveal Renoir's life as an artist and as a man. 400 illustrations, with 125 in color, include seldom reproduced works as well as intimate photos of Renoir's family and homes. Review:This stunning book is a lavish celebration of Renoir's life, exploring his early formative years and his rapid progression into one of the world's most highly respected Impressionist painters. More than 250 of the artist's better known works are reproduced with amazing clarity, and are a testament to Renoir's diverse talent and imagination. From his subtle, tender images of children in paintings ... |
Harriet Wilson's New England: Race, Writing, and Region (Revisting New England: the New Regionalism)»rank: 1069502from: New Hampshire
: :In the mid-nineteenth century, Harriet E. Wilson, an enterprising woman of mixed racial heritage, wrote an autobiographical novel describing the abuse and servitude endured by a young black girl in the supposedly free North. Originally published in Boston in 1859 and 'lost' until its 1983 republication by noted scholar Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Our Nig; or Sketches from the Life of a Free Black, is generally considered the first work of fiction written by an African American woman published in the United States.With this collection, the first devoted entirely to Wilson and her novel, the editors have compiled essays that seek to understand Wilson within New England and New England as it ... |