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Rediscovered a few years ago in woeful disrepair by a dedicated high school teacher, the murals of Chicago s public schools had long been painted over, torn down, forgotten. Dating back almost a century, these extraordinary murals, painted by celebrated artists such as Edgar Britton, Mitchell Siporin, Lucille Ward, and Edward Millman, were created during the Progressive (1904-1933) and New Deal (1933-1943) eras. Art for the People tells the inspiring story of their preservation: a project that brought conservators, historians, politicians, educators, and students together in a united cause, and that brought nearly 450 murals to light across nearly 70 schools-making this the largest mural preservation project in the U.S. as well as the largest concentration of historical murals in the country. Hundreds of color photos capture the dazzling array of murals and the restoration process. A complete reference and a finely produced record of a neglected treasure, Art for the People is a dramatic demonstration of the power of human hands working together not just to create art, but also to save it.
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Uncovering art in the schools.......2005-12-08
This is a wonderful book, and the story behind it is even more wonderful. The period of time covered in this book were the glory days for the muralist movement. And huge numbers were painted in the Chicago Public Schools. Over the years, they were neglected; they were covered over; they decayed.
In 1984, Flora Doody went to Lane Tech High School to start a Resource Program for students with disabilities. She saw and loved the murals there, but knew that, with all the other problems in the school, restoration was not a priority. Ten years later, however, she began the Mural Preservation Project at the school. She knew the director of the Chicago Conservation Center and they became involved.
And then they decided to investigate early 20th century murals in other Chicago public schools. They found treasures.
A fascinating book, you will learn the history of murals, American social history, and the story of some very dedicated preservationists and educators.
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Fashion: Color, Line, and Design (Fashion Merchandising Series)
Susan Geringer
Manufacturer: McGraw-Hill/Glencoe
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For anyone interested in fashion, design, or costuming........1999-03-05
This book is a very concise, but thorough account of all of the basic fashion design principles. It covers principles of design (color, line, texture, etc), fashion history, and fashion illustration. Although it was published in 1986, it is not at all out-dated. I just recently completed writing a new curriculum for a costume design class which will be used in our secondary school performing arts academy. This book was a major resource for writing that curriculum. Although it could be used as a text book, this book reads more like good non-fiction. I found the section about fashion illustration easier to follow than books which specialize in the topic of illustration. I recommend it to anyone interested in design, fashion, fashion illustration, or costuming.
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Color, line, and design
Leslie Ruth Peltz
Manufacturer: ITT Educational Services
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Fashion Rendering: Mix, Match, and Color Your Own Fashion Line
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DC HeroClix Hypertime Premier Edition
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The Wicked Wit of Jane Austen is an absorbing collection of Jane Austen's sharpest, most profound and amusing observations -- on human nature, money, marriage, life and society -- taken from her novels and also from her extremely entertaining letters. Easy to dip in to and highly quotable, this beautifully decorated volume will delight all Austen devotees, as well as readers less familiar with her life and work.
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Once a girl gets past the age of eight, she knows her deadliest weapon is her tongue.
Women’s Wicked Wit is a sumptuous selection of 2,000 of women’s most acerbic comments on life, chock-full of quotations from Maria Callas, Cher, Hillary Clinton, Marlene Dietrich, Zsa Zsa Gabor, Fran Lebowitz, Sophia Loren, Madonna, Dolly Parton, Miss Piggy, Joan Rivers, Rita Rudner, Mae West, Oprah Winfrey, Virginia Woolf, and many more. Nothing and no one escapes these women’s glare: women on women, women on men and other animals, and a huge range of other subjects. The whole proves that when it comes to cutting remarks, the female of the species is indeed deadlier than the male.
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Hillarious.......2005-03-09
I bought this book as a gift and have since purchased a copy for myself. The wit is superb. Fabulous!
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Wicked Willies Guide to Women
Peter Mayle
Manufacturer: Three Rivers Press
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ASIN: 0517566524
Release Date: 1987-02-13 |
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The Wicked Wit of Women
Dominique Enright
Manufacturer: Michael O'Mara Books
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Wicked Wit of Jane Austen
ASIN: 1843170116 |
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- For anyone who ever believed women were the 'weaker sex' - one read of this will change your mind: this book exposes you to some of the greatest witticisms ever uttered- Features quotes from many of the most celebrated women in history over thousands of years
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The Films Of Lauren Bacall: Her Films and Career
Lawrence J. Quirk
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ASIN: 0806511931 |
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Fresh arrangements with a touch of jazz for 10 holiday favorites: Adoramus Te * Angels We Have Heard on High * Coventry Carol * Deck the Hall * God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen * Hark! The Herald Angels Sing * He Is Born * Infant Holy, Infant Lowly * O Come, O Come, Emmanuel * We Wish You a Merry Christmas.
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8 arrangements of favorite carols
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For use with all Bb, Eb, and C instruments, the JAZZ PLAY ALONG SERIES is the ultimate learning tool for all jazz musicians. With musician-friendly lead sheets, melody cues, and other split-track choices on the included CD, this first-of-its-kind package makes learning to play jazz easier than ever before. FOR STUDY, each tune includes a split track with: * Melody cue with proper style and inflection * Professional rhythm tracks * Choruses for soloing * Removable bass part * Removable piano part. FOR PERFORMANCE, each tune also has: * An additional full stereo accompaniment track (no melody) * Additional choruses for soloing. INCLUDES: The Christmas Song (Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire) * The Christmas Waltz * Frosty the Snow Man * (There's No Place Like) Home for the Holidays * I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day * I'll Be Home for Christmas * Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow! * Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer * Silver Bells * Snowfall.
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A collection of 10 of the most familiar melodies of Christmas arranged in a fresh new jazz style by gifted pianist Jim Hammerly. These titles are arranged for advanced solo piano: Angels We Have Heard on High * The First Noel * Hark! The Herald Angels Sing * How Great Our Joy! * It Came upon the Midnight Clear * Joy to the World! * O Come, All Ye Faithful * O Holy Night! * O Little Town of Bethlehem * What Child Is This?. Includes lyric pages for each carol.
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Pianists who are tired of the same, anemic Christmas arrangements will love to see these renditions by Steve Calderone. Written as club date arrangements with a jazz flair, Claderone uses hip chord changes to bring new life to ten traditional carols. Perfect for holiday parties!
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For use with all Bb, Eb, and C instruments, the JAZZ PLAY ALONG SERIES is the ultimate learning tool for all jazz musicians. With musician-friendly lead sheets, melody cues, and other split-track choices on the included CD, this first-of-its-kind package makes learning to play jazz easier than ever before. FOR STUDY, each tune includes a split track with: * Melody cue with proper style and inflection * Professional rhythm tracks * Choruses for soloing * Removable bass part * Removable piano part. FOR PERFORMANCE, each tune also has: * An additional full stereo accompaniment track (no melody) * Additional choruses for soloing. Includes: Christmas Is Coming * The Christmas Song (Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire) * Christmas Time Is Here * Linus and Lucy * My Little Drum * O Tannenbaum * Skating * What Child Is This.
Customer Reviews:
Play along with Vince!.......2007-01-12
For the most part, these are great arrangements and I recommend it fully. Some are not quite "like I would have done it" (e.g. 'Christmas Time is Here' is a little slow for my taste) but that's a minor quibble. There is a mixture of keys so no matter what instrument you play, you'll find several tunes easily accessible and some that will "stretch" you.
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Elegant jazz arrangements of 14 traditional carols, including: Angels We Have Heard On High Away In A Manger Deck The Hall God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen Good King Wenceslas Hark! The Herald Angels Sing Here We Come A-Wassailing It Came Upon The Midnight Clear O Little Town Of Bethlehem The First Noel The Friendly Beasts The Holly And The Ivy We Three Kings Of Orient Are What Child Is This?
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Surprisingly pleasant.......2007-09-04
When we first received Jazz at Christmas we were disappointed because it was not a fake book with modernized chords, which is the usual for the rest of Frank Mantooth's books. In other words, the songs are all written out arrangements. It didn't even have chord symbols. My wife, who is the real piano player, wanted to create her own arrangments with Sudnow-type chords, so she intended to ignore it. However, just for kicks, she read through a few arrangements (she's not a real strong reader) and was very enchanted with a lot of the fills and structure. She wound up creating a couple of new arrangments using her own interpretation of the chord structure and a lot of the Mantooth fills. They are exciting and colorful as a result, and definitely gave her some insights that she wouldn't have come up with on her own.
Frank Mantooth scores again!.......2007-01-19
I really enjoy Frank Mantooth's arrangements and choices of chords. This Christmas Music will allow me to add many new tunes to my performances!
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1-2-3 Christmas: Flute (One-Two-Three! Christmas)
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Christmas Carols: Jazz Play-Along Volume 20 (Jazz Play-Along)
Manufacturer: Hal Leonard Corporation
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ASIN: 1423431650 |
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For use with all Bb, Eb, C and BC instruments, the JAZZ PLAY ALONG SERIES is the ultimate learning tool for all jazz musicians. With musician-friendly lead sheets, melody cues, and other split-track choices on the included CD, this first-of-its-kind package makes learning to play jazz easier than ever before. FOR STUDY, each tune includes a split track with: * Melody cue with proper style and inflection * Professional rhythm tracks * Choruses for soloing * Removable bass part * Removable piano part. FOR PERFORMANCE, each tune also has: * An additional full stereo accompaniment track (no melody) * Additional choruses for soloing. Includes: Away in a Manger * Go, Tell It on the Mountain * God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen * Greensleeves * Hark! The Herald Angels Sing * It Came Upon the Midnight Clear * Joy to the World * O Come, All Ye Faithful * O Little Town of Bethlehem * Silent Night.
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Doom of Daggerdale (AD&D/Forgotten Realms Module FRQ3) (Forgotten Realms Campaign Setting)
Manufacturer: Wizards of the Coast
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Follow the "Proven Path" to successful implementation of enterprise resource planning
Effective forecasting, planning, and scheduling is fundamental to productivity-and ERP is a fundamental way to achieve it. Properly implementing ERP will give you a competitive advantage and help you run your business more effectively, efficiently, and responsively. This guide is structured to support all the people involved in ERP implementation-from the CEO and others in the executive suite to the people doing the detailed implementation work in sales, marketing, manufacturing, purchasing, logistics, finance, and elsewhere.
This book is not primarily about computers and software. Rather, its focus is on people-and how to provide them with superior decision-making processes for customer order fulfillment, supply chain management, financial planning, e-commerce, asset management, and more. This comprehensive guide can be used as a selective reference for those, like top management, who need only specific pieces of information, or as a virtual checklist for those who can use detailed guidance every step of the way.
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Marred by confusion in thinking and presentation.......2007-06-09
This book has a good mission and scope, and the prose is clear and straightforward. The thinking underneath the prose is, unfortunately, often confused. It's as if the paragraphs were competently edited, but not the chapters or major arguments. "There are three kinds of companies," says page 20; on page 59 there are again three kinds of companies, and the categorization is sorta-almost the same. Five minutes of scrutiny finally reveals the two comparison-sets are not congruent. This is strange and unsatisfactory, because making them so would have been easy and certainly would serve the reader better.
The book sometimes balks at simple realities. "One kind of company" already has ERP software installed and hasn't gotten the hoped-for return, and people are frustrated. The solution is to re-implement, and "the good news is that having the software already installed certainly makes life easier in some important respects ... The bulk of the software has already been selected." But what if the software was poorly chosen and won't do the job? That's the situation I face, and none of the three categories deals with this not uncommon scenario.
That's from the chapter titled "Software," which has other problems. There are some good ideas; don't get the module organization of a software package confused with your real organizational units, for example. But there's no clear general orientation to the software issues, not much for creating meaningful comparisons between products, no acknowledgment that fraudulent marketing is a real danger or that seemingly universal terms can carry very different meanings simply by their contextual scope.
My disappointment with the book increased sharply during the instructions for ROI assessment. The presentation of concepts was muddled, but I persevered and hammered out a complete ROI document. I'm a database builder, not a money analyst or manager, and I was proud of the result when I sent it off to the owners. It's now a few weeks later and I am halfway through 'The Goal' by E. Goldratt. And my ROI is false, I realize, because this ERP book fails to help the reader convert "better efficiency" into dollars returned. An improvement belongs on the ROI if dollars are returned. That means for a reduction in costs for non-production labor (for example), you have to say which salaried workers will no longer work at the company. I rewrote my ROI. I said what positions could go (including my own), but the grounding-to-earth also forced me into a lower percentage for benefits. It was the same for improvements in gross revenue. On that point the ERP book even fails to point out that a gain in gross sales is not to be interpreted as a gain in profit. Now if I were any kind of analyst, I wouldn't have been fooled; but I don't think the book should go out of its way to cloud up the core issues, and that's what this one does. I'm just glad I sent a corrected ROI (and still with an exciting return) before the owners themselves had to point out my incompetence.
I won't get fooled again. A second ERP primer text is coming my way.
Complete focus on what's important: processes and management.......2002-07-03
If you're exploring an enterprise-wide solution, even if it isn't an ERP package, or are planning an implementation after the software has already been selected this book will prove invaluable. Unlike other books about ERP (and e-business and enterprise application integration for that matter), this one is focused on the business processes and what it takes to prepare for and manage the implementation.
Of course, while much of this book applies at a high level to any enterprise application, it is all about ERP. The authors take great pains to avoid talking about software, which in itself is refreshing. They also skillfully guide you through a panorama of key issues, including what ERP is and how it fits into the overall scheme of business value and competitiveness. However, the best part of this book is their implementation strategy, which explores how an ERP package is going to require changes at the business process level, how to break down the implementation into manageable stages. In this respect the book is a combination of a management overview of ERP, organizational change strategies, and project management approach to implementation.
The key areas addressed by this book reflect reality. For example, all of the major challenges that you're likely to face are addressed. The critical success factors, such as training, preparing the organization for the system (from a people perspective), and the way the implementation phases are sequenced can either be learned from this book, or learned the hard way (which is sure to include schedule and cost overruns at best and a disaster at worst). In particular, the process-oriented approach that is reiterated throughout the book needs to be heeded. This is the essence of any ERP package, and it will change your organization. This book gives good advice on how to effect the shift from discrete jobs and procedures to a workflow.
In addition to this excellent book I highly recommend two other resources: (1) "Scorecard System For World Class Enterprise Resource Management" by Travis Anderegg, which is a unique book/online survey combination you can use to evaluate the alignment of your ERP system to business processes, and (2) "Enterprise Resource Planning Systems: Systems, Life Cycle, Electronic Commerce, and Risk" by Daniel Edmund O'Leary. O'Leary's book completely complements this one and fills in a few gaps.
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- Art of Twentieth-Century Zen: Paintings and Calligraphy by Japanese Masters
- Aspects of Symmetry: Selected Erice Lectures
- Beauty in Arabic Culture (Princeton Series on the Middle East)
- Beijing 798: Reflections On Art, Architecture And Society In China
- Ben Nicholson
- Boccherini's Body: An Essay in Carnal Musicology
- California Impressionists
- Childhood Revealed: Art Expressing Pain, Discovery & Hope
- Children's Art: Development of Intention
- Color Secrets for Glowing Oil Paintings
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