Breaking the mold of traditional mass communication textbooks, Richard Campbell's "Media & Culture "goes beyond the basic facts and presents students with a critical and cultural perspective on the media. Campbell uses a unique five-stage critical thinking process to help students examine the forces that shape the mass media and become active ...
Go behind the scenes in Tasha Tudor's 19th-century gardens, her "paradise on earth." Martin's text and Brown's photos explore gardens filled not only with flowers and vegetables but with a menagerie of corgis, Nubian goats, fantail doves, exotic finches, cockatiels, nightingales, and parrots.
This accessible and engaging text, written by well-known and respected child development researchers and teachers, emphasizes applying research to practice. Discovering Child Development focuses on the many ways in which children are affected by their environments. The authors illustrate the ways in which children are unique and the impact that ...
This guide goes through the process of designing and creating a new kitchen, from the initial planning through the material and design choices to be faced on the way to completing the construction process.
Martin and Brown provide a look at Tudor's 19th-century lifestyle as she spins flax, dyes wool, weaves on her looms, dips candles, makes baskets, soap, and more. In addition to 100 color photographs, their are also watercolors by Tudor.
This text was written to assist aspiring educational leaders in the assessment, design, implementarion, and evaluation of a university or district intern leadership experience. It challenges school leader interns in 38 leadership and skill areas. Included in the second edition are new activities covering NCLB, IDEIA, NASSP, and NAESP standards.
Never give in! Winston Churchill is famous for admonishing: This is the lesson: never give in, never give in, never, never, never, never. What most people dont know is that when he said this he was addressing not a nation facing the threat of invasion, but a roomful of schoolboys at his old school. A powerful, persuasive speaker and notorious ...
Shots from Versace's collections with commentary by Richard Martin elucidating the thought behind Versace's designs, a short story by Barry Hannah, notes from director Bob Wilson, and comments from Gianni Versace himself.
When the Hungry Things visit a school asking for flamburgers, crackeroni and sneeze, and blownuts, the adults are stumped. But the kids can understand them perfectly! This lively rhyming story will please the liveliest imaginations. Full-color illustrations.
This thoroughly revised and updated Third Edition of the classic "Medical Toxicology" is the definitive reference on the management of poisoned patients. More than 300 well-organized chapters written by eminent authorities guide clinicians through the diagnosis and treatment of every poisoning or drug overdose. Chapter outlines, headings, and a ...
"Nutrition and Health in Developing Countries, Second Edition" was written with the underlying conviction that global health and nutrition problems can only be solved through a firm understanding of the different levels of causality and the interactions between the various determinants. This volume provides policy makers, nutritionists, students, ...
"When Perfect Isn't Good Enough" explores the nature of perfectionism and offers a step-by-step program of cognitive-behavioral strategies for overcoming it.
The introductory text to applications programming in ANSI C assumes no prior programming experience in C or any other language. Sample applications allow students to see the development of a complete C program. This edition includes a chapter on computer systems and program development to provide background for readers with no programming ...
Thirteen percent of the population suffers form social phobia at some point in their lives. This step-by-step guide to overcoming fear of social interaction provides a comprehensive overview and includes behavioral skill-building exercises that have been proven effective in most cases.
Salamis, Agincourt, Lepanto, Trafalgar, Gettysburg, Isandlwana, the Somme, Stalingrad: Battlefield tells the stories of the most dramatic, memorable, and important conflicts in world history. It begins with the battle of Megiddo fought by the ancient Egyptians and takes the reader through to the Second Gulf war of 2003. On the way it encompasses ...
In this series of conversations with a Swiss journalist, Alfred Brendel discusses his life, his career, composers, other pianists, and his attitudes toward life and art.
Thomas Bulfinch's classic retelling of famous myths and folk legends has been entertaining and informing readers for many generations. This new edition, reset and illustrated with new line drawings, featuring commentary by Richard P. Martin, an authority of mythology, will be the perfect source for students and the perfect gift for myth lovers.
This is a survey of the history of haute couture, from the formation of the House of Worth in mid-19th-century Paris to the major designers of the present day. The book focuses on the highly skilled crafts that are essential to the production of haute couture. Separate chapters examine tailoring techniques and finishes, weaving, draping, and the ...
A resource for planning, designing and building a kitchen covering both modification of an existing kitchen and new construction. The reader is asked to identify their kitchen lifestyle and is then guided through every step of the process including selecting the right materials, budgeting costs and working with suppliers and contractors.
In this sumptuously illustrated volume of innovative clothing and accessories that were created with the "look of the new millennium" in mind, 40 famed designers speculate on future fashion trends.
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