The American artist Maxfield Parrish was known for his covers for "Scribners", "Life" and other magazines, for murals such as "Old King Cole" and "The Pied Piper", and for his many posters, calendars and paintings. This is a critical examination of Parrish's place in the history of American art and culture. The book's illustrations include early ...
The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, America's oldest museum and school of fine arts, was founded in Philadelphia in 1805. Today the Academy boasts one of the nation's finest collections of American art and a roster of alumni embracing the greatest artists this country has produced. This volume celebrates two centuries of the Academy's ...
This new comprehensive handbook presents the most up-to-date scholarship on the causes and predictors, processes, consequences, and policy implications of divorce and relationship dissolution. Featuring contributions from leading scholars in multiple disciplines, this Handbook reviews relationship termination, including variations depending on ...
The status of the American family has been the topic of considerable debate in recent years. As demographic changes make the country more multicultural and as new types of families continue to form and become more common, it is essential for sociologists, social workers, family researchers, and psychologists to understand the full range of ...
Surgeons must meet the challenges of understanding and implementing the new technology for pseudophakia if they are to ride the coming demographic tidal wave of baby boomers desiring excellent vision without relying on spectacles. "Refractive Lens Surgery" represents a compilation of the best cutting edge practices for achieving success with ...
This book presents discourses of divorce and will report and comment on scholarly arguments about divorce in the 21st century. Book is intended for students, practitioners, and scholars interested in divorce in the disciplines of family studies; social, clinical, and developmental psychology; counseling; and family and interpersonal communications.
As every golfer knows, hazards are the heart and soul of the game. This single source reference is ideal if you re-charged with caring for or overseeing the improvement of a golf course. Authors, and golf course designers, Forrest Richardson and Mark Fine trace the history, planning, psychology, design, construction, and maintenance associated ...
This is the most comprehensive and cutting-edge guide to statistical applications in Biomedical Research. With the increasing use of biotechnology in medical research and the sophisticated advances in computing, it has become essential for practitioners in the biomedical sciences to be fully educated on the role statistics plays in ensuring the ...
"Beyond the Average Divorce" is a core text that introduces students and scholars to the research literature on divorce and changes which occurs in family structures. Rather than a simplistic, static view that emphasizes means and averages in looking at 'typical' family reactions to divorce, this text emphasizes variability, fluidity, and change ...
In this catalog of the Davidsons' collection, eminent curator Ruth Fine provides 125 full-color reproductions of drawings by Sigmund Abeles, George Atkinson, James Winn, Richard Ziemann, and several other American realists.
This text presents a different approach to understanding the family unit and how and why it functions as it does. The approach focuses on the cognitions of family members and how these, in turn, shape individuals' behaviour and the functioning of the family system.
This book grows out of a five-year research project aimed at understanding the strengths and challenges of urban families who face issues related to young single-parenthood, racial minority status, and poverty in an era of welfare reform. The authors share insights regarding individual, family, community, and program factors that facilitate and/or ...
The status of the American family has been the topic of considerable debate in recent years. As demographic changes make the country more multicultural and as new types of families continue to form and become more common, it is essential for sociologists, social workers, family researchers, and psychologists to understand the full range of ...
This issue of "Ophthalmology Clinics" focuses on methods for the treatment of presbyopia, the condition which sets in when a person is unable to focus on near objects because of insufficient accommodation ability. Article topics include corneal refractive surgery, lens refractive surgery, and intraocular lens implants. The guest editors for this ...
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