Vintage Postcards for the Holidays


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Interpersonal Skills and Health Professional Issues, third edition, prepares students for effective communication in a health professional role. The text provides the skills and strategies needed for health professionals to engage and better motivate patients. The text offers an ideal model for nonverbal communication and emphasizes how to read the “unspoken message”. Interpersonal Skills and Health Professional Issues is unique in its comprehensiveness, covering the communications and emotional experiences of the patient world and a framework for multicultural understanding. Case studies and exercises enhance the textbook experience, providing readers with a deeper understanding of how to reach patients and their families.




Real Photo Postcard Guide


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The Real Photo Postcard Guide is an informative, comprehensive, and practical treatment of this wildly popular American phenomenon that dominated the United States photographic market during the first third of the twentieth century. Robert Bogdan and Todd Weseloh draw on extensive research and observation to address all aspects of the photo postcard from its history, origin, and cultural significance to practical matters like dating, purchasing, condition, and preservation. Illustrated with over 350 exceptional photo postcards taken from archives and private collections across the country, the scope of the Real Photo Postcard Guide spans technical considerations of production, characteristics of superior images, collecting categories, and methods of research for dating photo postcards and investigating their photographers. In a broader sense, the authors show how "real photo postcards" document the social history of America. From family outings and workplace awards to lynchings and natural disasters, every image captures a moment of American cultural history from the society that generated them. Bogdan and Weseloh’s book provides an admirable integration of informative text and compelling photographic illustrations. Collectors, archivists, photographers, photo historians, social scientists, and anyone interested in the visual documentation of America will find the Real Photo Postcard Guide indispensable.




The Encyclopedia of Antique Postcards


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A fully illustrated history and price guide to more than 100 collecting categories, from attwell to zodiac.




The Collector's Guide to Post Cards


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Over 2,000 post cards are featured in this interesting and informative look at this popular paper collectible. It contains a special full-color section and displays cards on subjects of holidays, trains, children, military, and many more. 2006 values.




A History of Postcards


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Large Letter Postcards


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This book will serve generations to come as the definitive book on buying and collecting the beautiful, 1930s to 1950s era large letter linen postcards. Over 2,300 large letter postcards are documented, with a carefully researched value for each card. This will assist dealers to fairly price their postcards and protect the collector from overpaying. There is a detailed history of the postcards and information about the designers and manufacturers. Graphic artists will find inspiration for new approaches to art and advertising. A wide assortment of colorful cards was selected to be shown big, making this a wonderful coffee table book, with crossover appeal in collecting, advertising, graphic design, historical research, and arts and crafts.




The Postcard Price Guide


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The Golden Age of Postcards


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These postcard images from the early twentieth century will astound you. Over 780 postcards are reproduced in full color, and the artists, publishers, and printers are provided when information is known. The coverage includes comic, holiday, fantasy, view, and photo postcards. The great publishers and artists of this bygone era will amaze you with the breadth of their coverage and fabulous graphics. Be prepared to view the works of these incredible artisans: Julius Bien, Ellen Hattie Clapsaddle, Frances Brundage, Walter Wellman, Gene Carr, Frederick Burr Opper, Richard Felton Outcault, and countless others. This book provides an eclectic array of postcards to introduce the viewer to the fantastic variety available and to elicit additional adherents to the joy of collecting and the satisfaction of organizing postcards for display in albums or framing a set. 2008 values.




Postcards


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Examines postcards as images that are carriers of text, and textual correspondence that circulate images across boundaries of class, gender, nationality and race. Discusses issues concerning the concrete practices of production, consumption, collection and appropriation.




Victorian Trade Cards


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This gorgeous book presents more than 700 cards in full color and includes fascinating insights, pricing tips, card identification, and values for over 2,000 cards. It augments an enormous collection numbering over 15,000 cards.