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The Annotated Mona Lisa

Author : Carol Strickland

Publisher : Andrews McMeel Publishing

Page : 220 pages

File Size : 31,49 MB

Release : 2007-10

Category : Art

ISBN : 9780740768729

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Like music, art is a universal language. Although looking at works of art is a pleasurable enough experience, to appreciate them fully requires certain skills and knowledge." --Carol Strickland, from the introduction to The Annotated Mona Lisa: A Crash Course in Art History from Prehistoric to Post-Modern * This heavily illustrated crash course in art history is revised and updated. This second edition of Carol Strickland's The Annotated Mona Lisa: A Crash Course in Art History from Prehistoric to Post-Modern offers an illustrated tutorial of prehistoric to post-modern art from cave paintings to video art installations to digital and Internet media. * Featuring succinct page-length essays, instructive sidebars, and more than 300 photographs, The Annotated Mona Lisa: A Crash Course in Art History from Prehistoric to Post-Modern takes art history out of the realm of dreary textbooks, demystifies jargon and theory, and makes art accessible-even at a cursory reading. * From Stonehenge to the Guggenheim and from Holbein to Warhol, more than 25,000 years of art is distilled into five sections covering a little more than 200 pages.



Seams Unlikely

Author : Nancy Zieman

Publisher :

Page : 301 pages

File Size : 40,74 MB

Release : 2014-02-04

Category : Businesswomen

ISBN : 9780988478961

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The autobiography of seamstress Nancy Zieman.



The Complete Poetry of James Hearst

Author : James Hearst

Publisher :

Page : 576 pages

File Size : 29,15 MB

Release : 2001

Category : Poetry

ISBN :

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Part of the regionalist movement that included Grant Wood, Paul Engle, Hamlin Garland, and Jay G. Sigmund, James Hearst helped create what Iowa novelist Ruth Suckow called a poetry of place. A lifelong Iowa farner, Hearst began writing poetry at age nineteen and eventually wrote thirteen books of poems, a novel, short stories, cantatas, and essays, which gained him a devoted following Many of his poems were published in the regionalist periodicals of the time, including the Midland, and by the great regional presses, including Carroll Coleman's Prairie Press. Drawing on his experiences as a farmer, Hearst wrote with a distinct voice of rural life and its joys and conflicts, of his own battles with physical and emotional pain (he was partially paralyzed in a farm accident), and of his own place in the world. His clear eye offered a vision of the midwestern agrarian life that was sympathetic but not sentimental - a people and an art rooted in place.



Complexity

Author : Mitchell M. Waldrop

Publisher : Simon and Schuster

Page : 388 pages

File Size : 21,52 MB

Release : 1993-09

Category : Mathematics

ISBN : 0671872346

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Science magazine reporter Waldrop introduces researchers--rebellious graduate students, Nobel laureates, and pragmatic businessmen--who are formulating surprising answers to complex questions about the universe. Line drawings.



Kandinsky Compositions

Author : Magdalena Dabrowski

Publisher :

Page : 134 pages

File Size : 17,6 MB

Release : 1995

Category : Art

ISBN :

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Essay by Magdalena Dabrowski. Foreword by Richard E. Oldenburg.



A Century of Innovation

Author : 3M Company

Publisher : 3m Company

Page : 246 pages

File Size : 14,96 MB

Release : 2002

Category : 3M Company

ISBN :

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A compilation of 3M voices, memories, facts and experiences from the company's first 100 years.



Crimes Committed by Terrorist Groups

Author : Mark S. Hamm

Publisher : DIANE Publishing

Page : 258 pages

File Size : 13,59 MB

Release : 2011

Category : Political Science

ISBN : 1437929591

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This is a print on demand edition of a hard to find publication. Examines terrorists¿ involvement in a variety of crimes ranging from motor vehicle violations, immigration fraud, and mfg. illegal firearms to counterfeiting, armed bank robbery, and smuggling weapons of mass destruction. There are 3 parts: (1) Compares the criminality of internat. jihad groups with domestic right-wing groups. (2) Six case studies of crimes includes trial transcripts, official reports, previous scholarship, and interviews with law enforce. officials and former terrorists are used to explore skills that made crimes possible; or events and lack of skill that the prevented crimes. Includes brief bio. of the terrorists along with descriptions of their org., strategies, and plots. (3) Analysis of the themes in closing arguments of the transcripts in Part 2. Illus.



Arthrogryposis

Author : Lynn T. Staheli

Publisher : Cambridge University Press

Page : 298 pages

File Size : 34,79 MB

Release : 1998-04-28

Category : Medical

ISBN : 9780521571067

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The term arthrogryposis describes a range of congenital contractures that lead to childhood deformities. It encompasses a number of syndromes and sporadic deformities that are rare individually but collectively are not uncommon. Yet, the existing medical literature on arthrogryposis is sparse and often confusing. The aim of this book is to provide individuals affected with arthrogryposis, their families, and health care professionals with a helpful guide to better understand the condition and its therapy. With this goal in mind, the editors have taken great care to ensure that the presentation of complex clinical information is at once scientifically accurate, patient oriented, and accessible to readers without a medical background. The book is authored primarily by members of the medical staff of the Arthrogryposis Clinic at Children's Hospital and Medical Center in Seattle, Washington, one of the leading teams in the management of the condition, and will be an invaluable resource for both health care professionals and families of affected individuals.



Every Root an Anchor

Author : R. Bruce Allison

Publisher : Wisconsin Historical Society

Page : 128 pages

File Size : 39,95 MB

Release : 2014-05-20

Category : Nature

ISBN : 0870205285

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In Every Root an Anchor, writer and arborist R. Bruce Allison celebrates Wisconsin's most significant, unusual, and historic trees. More than one hundred tales introduce us to trees across the state, some remarkable for their size or age, others for their intriguing histories. From magnificent elms to beloved pines to Frank Lloyd Wright's oaks, these trees are woven into our history, contributing to our sense of place. They are anchors for time-honored customs, manifestations of our ideals, and reminders of our lives' most significant events. For this updated edition, Allison revisits the trees' histories and tells us which of these unique landmarks are still standing. He sets forth an environmental message as well, reminding us to recognize our connectedness to trees and to manage our tree resources wisely. As early Wisconsin conservationist Increase Lapham said, "Tree histories increase our love of home and improve our hearts. They deserve to be told and remembered."



Born to Run

Author : Christopher McDougall

Publisher : Profile Books

Page : 296 pages

File Size : 48,9 MB

Release : 2010-12-09

Category : Sports & Recreation

ISBN : 184765228X

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A New York Times bestseller 'A sensation ... a rollicking tale well told' - The Times At the heart of Born to Run lies a mysterious tribe of Mexican Indians, the Tarahumara, who live quietly in canyons and are reputed to be the best distance runners in the world; in 1993, one of them, aged 57, came first in a prestigious 100-mile race wearing a toga and sandals. A small group of the world's top ultra-runners (and the awe-inspiring author) make the treacherous journey into the canyons to try to learn the tribe's secrets and then take them on over a course 50 miles long. With incredible energy and smart observation, McDougall tells this story while asking what the secrets are to being an incredible runner. Travelling to labs at Harvard, Nike, and elsewhere, he comes across an incredible cast of characters, including the woman who recently broke the world record for 100 miles and for her encore ran a 2:50 marathon in a bikini, pausing to down a beer at the 20 mile mark.