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Geometric wallpaper patterns for use in a wide variety of applications. Basic geometric shapes are modified and repeated to create intricate designs for use in web, graphic design and crafts. Ninety-six different patterns are presented in attractive color schemes. Perfect for surface pattern design. Use to create fabrics, quilts, ornament and more.

?A provocative if cheerless description of the plight of the American adolescent. ... The book suggests a series of essays neatly meshed to create a compact volume that packs a wallop. ... It is obviously the work of a man who thinks clearly, cares deeply, and writes with verve.?-Social Studies

Inside, you will 1. Laugh. 2. Build your vocabulary. 3. Exercise your short attention span. 4. Learn how to make fun of the French. This book has lots and lots of rhyming poems, perhaps more than any other single source. Many of the rhyming words in the English language are used. They are organized phonetically by how they sound and within that by number of syllables. Designed to be funny, each poem sketches a small humorous scenario...

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Friedenberg brings to this study of Theodore Roosevelt a thorough grounding in the criticism of American public address. Basing his findings on his own detailed reading of Roosevelt's speeches and supplementing it with his own research in the primary collections of Roosevelt's manuscripts, Robert V. Friedenberg reveals the depth of Roosevelt's fascinating rhetorical career. Friedenberg's astute analysis of Roosevelt's use of classic rhetorical...

Tattoo patterns from multiple cultures around the world. Includes human, animal, and abstract geometric designs.

This revised and updated edition remains the only book-length rhetorical analysis of national political debates from 1960 to the present. The contributors, all rhetorical critics, answer important questions about political debating in the United States, including: Why is the press involved in political debates? Why are debates likely to be an enduring part of our presidential campaigns? Why are some candidates successful as debaters while othe...

This book contains pastel landscape paintings of many different areas from around the world. Accompanying each image is a matching haiku, also by the author.

Humanity's Future examines the psychological and social impact of likely future events related to advanced technology. Will humanity feel useless in a future where most tasks are automated and robots do all the work? Will society experience alienation and angst, collapsing into a state of decadence and corruption? How might we improve ourselves, as technology advances in unprecedented ways? Who gets to decide? Can we advance civilization and e...

Provides a detailed examination of notable contemporary

Excerpt from Zionist StudiesThe following papers, as a totality, are studies in Zionist theory. They are reprinted in substantially their original form, with the correction of verbal errors of course, simply because a living movement cannot be reduced to a set of hard and fast rules which revision would entail. These papers, moreover, were produced at various seasons, are united in their purpose and invariably represent the result of care ful ...

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This book examines the social attitudes that distinguish today's youth from their predecessors, identifies the sources of these attitudes in the social experiences of today's youth, and analyzes the stereotype implied in the term "Anti-American Generation." These essays show clearly that the issue between the dissenting, primarily middle-class youth and their elders and most of the working class (regardless of age) is a difference of opinion n...

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An impressive collection of Jewish signet rings and seals from the Sasanian Empire

Ext(A, B) carries a natural group structure and one of the striking problems in abelian group theory is to determine completely the structure of Ext(A, B) for various groups A and B. In this book we will concentrate on the case of abelian groups and in some cases on modules over subrings of the rational numbers. In particular we ask, when Ext(A, B) is torsion-free. This book contains answers for finite rank groups A and B and also sheds some l...

This book offers a vivid account of the bloody, corruption-laden, yet engrossing history of land speculation in America, from pre-colonial times to the election of President Thomas Jefferson.Whether they were competing to discover the "New World, " escaping religious persecution, or whether they were "patriots" fighting for liberty, many men became fantastically wealthy and powerful, grabbing land while merely giving lip service to popular ide...

This is a glorious America for the alert and resourceful, " notes Daniel Friedenberg in this critical review of the American presidency during the last half of the 20th century. But he cautions, "This is an unhappy America for the disadvantaged, the weak in body or mind, and those born without close family ties."The disparity between rich and poor in our immensely wealthy nation and the corrupting influence of money on politics to the advantag...

The army's 95th Evac, one of 107 evacuation hospitals that fought to save soldiers maimed from battle or ravaged by disease, arrived in Casablanca in April 1943. Zachary Priedenberg, a young surgeon fresh out of his internship at the time, provides an insider's account of the 95th.