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Well-researched and stocked with art images, the eighth edition of Artworks for Elementary Teachers serves elementary education majors for whom this may be a first course in art. It provides introductory experiences both in knowing how to create art and how to respond to it. The four areas of study in discipline-based art education--aesthetics, art production, art criticism and art history--are covered thoroughly.Customer Reviews:
Good ideas for your students.......2000-12-17
The book also contains suggested projects for your elementary school art students, as well as jumping-off points for discussion and activity. I only wish the book had even more ideas, but perhaps that is another book!
If you are a teacher who wants to teach art, but doesn't know much about it, and doesn't know where to begin, I suggest beginning with this book. It's a crash course not only in art, but in teaching art to elementary students and instilling a love of art within your students.
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Artworks For Elementary Teachers - Developing Artistic And Perceptual Awareness
Donald And Barbara Herberholz Manufacturer: Mcgraw-hill Book Company ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: B000RIXV2Y |
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A Short History of Costume & Armour: Two Volumes Bound as One (Dover Pictorial Archives)
Francis M. Kelly , and Randolph Schwabe Manufacturer: Dover Publications ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 048642264X |
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Amy Unbounded: Belondweg Blossoming
Rachel Hartman Manufacturer: Pug House Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 0971790000 |
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Amy Unbounded: Belondweg Blossoming collects issues 7-12 of Rachel Hartman's award-winning comic book, and includes an introduction by Linda Medley, a dramatis personae for new readers, and a few extra pages of silliness at the back.Belondweg Blossoming follows the lives of Amy and her neighbor Bran Ducanahan the summer they turn ten. Amy has begun reading the national epic, Belondweg, about a semi-mythical queen of the same name who united Goredd and saved her people from invaders. Amy only wishes her own life were half as exciting. But how is life supposed to live up to literature when your mother is a semi-domesticated barbarian, all the knights you know are banished, and the only dragon you have ever met is a geeky grad student?
Join Amy as she dances the Two-foot, wears a really ugly bridesmaid's dress, becomes friends (in spite of everything!) with Bran, imitates the patron saint of ducks, flees from rampaging sheep, learns that love doesn't always conquer all, chugs buttermilk, and begins to understand that even Belondweg didn't have to save the world all by herself.
Winner of the 2001 Xeric Grant.
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I cannot believe that this wonderful graphic novel has not .......2005-03-26
The graphic novel as legitimate literature! Brava!.......2002-06-07
Wow!! This is great!!.......2002-05-08
I love the characters -- real people, good people, with complex lives that have profundity and humor. I love the drawings. I love the writing -- poetic, real, able to spin that web of good literature, where the words feel magical.
This is great! I'm in love! (With Foughfaugh, gosh what a hunk!)
A book worth reading and re-reading.......2002-05-06
I highly recommend this book. It may take a chapter or two to keep the characters straight (the guide at the beginning helps) but once the story gets going it's very enjoyable!
I immediately sought out the prequel mini-comics so I could find out how it all started. Hopefully they'll also be released as a matching book some day...
Not just for comic readers.......2002-04-27
First of all, this is not a cheap flimsy comic. This is a *thick*, 200+ page paperback, professionally bound and printed. It's the sort of thing meant to keep for years, or give as a gift.
"Amy Unbounded" tells the story of a somewhat precocious 10-year old girl living in the fictional medieval land of Goredd. Amy's friends include Bran the Icky Boy Next Door, a scholarly dragon travelling incognito, her uncle the exiled knight, and a plethora of fascinating Goreddis.
Through the eyes of young Amy we see the hopes, disappointments, limitations, and human character of women and men living in a medieval society.
In spite of its fictional setting, the book seems packed with extremely well-researched tidbits on medieval life, farming, clothing, and society.
I approached this work as a novel, and not as a comic book. The story is outstandingly strong on its own. But for those who are more visually oriented will enjoy the carefully rendered artwork.
I would give this book an even higher rating if the web site would let me!
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Twisted Tales from Shakespeare
Richard Armour Manufacturer: Mcgraw-Hill ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 0070022518 |
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Twisted Tales from Shakespeare.......2007-02-07
Love Twisted Tales.......2005-01-30
laughs from the past.......2001-11-20
I'm almost getting teary..........2001-03-14
An abolute classic of literary humor.......2001-01-29
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Twisted Tales from Shakespeare
Manufacturer: McGraw-Hill ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 0070022526 |
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As You Like It.......2002-11-19
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TWISTED TALES FROM SHAKESPEARE
Manufacturer: McGraw-Hill ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: B000H2AY98 |
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Twisted Tales from Shakespeare
Richard Armour Manufacturer: McGraw-Hill ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: B000OF9NNG |
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Twisted Tales from Shakespeare
Manufacturer: McGraw-Hill ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: B000B35STY |
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Twisted tales from Shakespeare
Richard Willard Armour Manufacturer: McGraw-Hill Book Comapny Inc. ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: B000NXJ2CG |
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Twisted Tales From Shakespeare, in Which Shakespeare's Best-Known Plays Are Presented in a New Light, the Old Light Having Blown a Fuse; Together With
Richard Armour Manufacturer: McGraw-Hill ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: B000V1O4LO |
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Twisted Tales From Shakespeare, in Which Shakespeare's Best-Known Plays Are Presented in a New Light, the Old Light Having Blown a Fuse; Together With
Manufacturer: McGraw-Hill ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: B000FNUAOI |
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Twisted Tales From Shakespeare, in Which Shakespeare's Best-Known Plays Are Presented in a New Light, the Old Light Having Blown a Fuse; Together With Introductions, Questions, Appendices, and Other Critical Apparatus Intended to Contribute to a...
Manufacturer: McGraw-Hill ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: B000GT7FPS |
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Twisted tales from Shakespeare, in which Shakespeare's best-known plays are presented in a new light,: The old light having blown a fuse; together with ... to a clearer misunderstanding of the subject
Richard Willard Armour Manufacturer: McGraw-Hill ProductGroup: Book Binding: Unknown Binding ASIN: B0006AV43G |
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Brevity is the soul of wit.......2007-06-24
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Stars in Khaki: Movie Actors in the Army and the Air Services
James E. Wise , and Paul, III Wilderson Manufacturer: US Naval Institute Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Similar Items:
ASIN: 1557509581 |
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A companion to the successful volumes on the U.S. Navy and Marine Corps, Stars in Blue and Stars in the Corps, this book is filled with celebrity profiles of motion picture stars who served in the U.S. Army and air services from World War I through the Vietnam War. Many readers will discover for the first time details of the contributions made by Audie Murphy, Charlton Heston, Jimmy Stewart and many others. Most remarkable is the large number of celebrities who chose to serve their country in a military capacity--especially during World War II--instead of continuing their lives of luxury in Hollywood. With the previous two books, this work completes the picture of the military experience of movie stars in the United States.Find out about Ronald Reagan as an officer in the Army Air Corps Reserve producing training films for pilots, and Elvis Presley's time as a sergeant, and how Clark Gable, a B-17 gunner, almost became a casualty during a bombing mission over Germany. Rarely have the lives of movie stars been so honestly portrayed and with such interesting anecdotes and photographs of their military experiences. Encyclopedic in scope, many of these portraits are based on interviews with the stars and their families, and, to assure authenticity, on official reports and documents. Even the most avid movie buff will be surprised and delighted by the little-known facts presented here, and military buffs and historians will be impressed by the often difficult and sometimes dangerous work of these celebrities.
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Tim Page on Music: Views and Reviews
Tim Page Manufacturer: Amadeus Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Similar Items:
ASIN: 157467076X |
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In 65 perceptive pieces, including some of the work that earned him the Pulitzer Prize for Criticism in 1997, Page offers what he calls "a collection of illumined moments," now gathered in a single volume for the wider audience who will treasure their insights.Customer Reviews:
Essential views and reviews by one of the great art music critics of our time.......2005-08-25
One of the most important books I've read in a while..........2002-11-28
This book is what I discovered, and boy am I glad I did. I covers a variety of writings by Page, mostly about classical music, some of them essays, some concert reviews. I loved his chapter on Sibelius -- it made me drag out my hardly-ever-played copy of Symphony #4 and gain a huge appreciation for it. His chapter on Messiaen made me a Messiaen fan. His article on Kevin Oldham, the composer who contracted AIDS, was deeply moving. He may not have won any conservative classical fans with his candid observations about Vladimir Horowitz, but I for one appreciated the dissenting view. I loved the chapter "Radical Music That Will Remain That Way." With all the corny how-to guides to "accessible" classical music, it was nice to see somebody write about the hard stuff.
Page doesn't stop with just classical music. He also expresses a love for rock music, albeit the more daring and exciting of the genre. He writes about Captain Beefheart, Magnetic Fields, Frank Sinatra and the High Llamas, among others. In his mind (as it should be), non-classical music shouldn't be looked down on by classical fans -- unless it's the paint-by-numbers stuff that you hear so much on the radio. Page acknowledges true originals, regardless of their musical leanings.
I could go on and on. There's so much about this book to love. Anyone with a budding interest in classical music who would like to expand their horizons would gain much from reading this book.
Thank you, Tim Page.
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Music from the Road: Views and Reviews 1978-1992
Tim Page Manufacturer: Replica Books ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Similar Items: ASIN: 0735103658 |
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Music from the Road: Views and Reviews, 1978-1992.: An article from: Notes
Bill F. Faucett Manufacturer: Music Library Association, Inc. ProductGroup: Book Binding: Digital ASIN: B00092X4QQ Release Date: 2005-07-28 |
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This digital document is an article from Notes, published by Music Library Association, Inc. on September 1, 1994. The length of the article is 969 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.
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Golden Rules of Competitive Auctions (Master Bridge Series)
Julian Pottage , and Marc Smith Manufacturer: Cassell P L C ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 0304365858 |
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Golden Rules of Competitive Auctions
Julian Pottage Manufacturer: Cassell P L C ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: B000OSOH8Y |
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The Inventor's Bible: How to Market and License Your Brilliant Ideas
Ronald Louis Docie Manufacturer: Ten Speed Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 1580085660 |
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You've just invented a new technology, a must-have product. So what now? Patent it? Manufacture it? Sell it? If you're like most would-be Edisons, chances are your stroke of genius will collect dust waiting for you to plot your next move. Fear not, intrepid creatorinventor and author Ronald Louis Docie Sr. shares more than 20 years of valuable insight in this revised and expanded edition of THE INVENTOR'S BIBLE, which now includes a workbook to help you take your ideas from concept to profit. With everything you need to know about marketing, licensing, and selling your invention, this comprehensive handbook will also help you figure out what your invention is worth, which companies might want your ideas, and what steps to take first. You dreamt it, you created it, and it actually workslet THE INVENTOR'S BIBLE pave the way to your first million.Customer Reviews:
Scary.......2007-06-27
An Essential Guide for Inventors.......2007-01-07
Very helpful with step by step procedures.......2006-09-22
This Updated Version has Patent and Marketing Workbook.......2006-03-05
Great Resource for Inventors - highly recommend.......2004-03-11
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