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Art Nouveau masters Charles Rennie Mackintosh and Henry van de Velde shared a commonality rare among the creative figures who played central roles in that turn-of-the-century design movement. Both began their careers with a lifetime of easel art-making as their goal, but ultimately redirected their energies to the primarily functional realms of architecture and the applied arts. This professional shift is especially noteworthy given the contra...

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During the last one hundred years, programmatic social reform legislation has increasingly been accepted as an essential economic, social and political component of advanced capitalist nations. The Search for Social Peace investigates the reform movement in France--from its origins in the 1890s until the First World War--and details the struggle to end class conflict and achieve social peace. Who the reformers were, what they argued and how su...

This innovative collection challenges the traditional focus on solitary genius by examining the rich diversity of literary couplings and collaborations from the early modern to the postmodern period. Literary Couplings explores some of the best-known literary partnerships from the Sidneys to Boswell and Johnson to Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes and also includes lesser-known collaborators such as Daphne Marlatt and Betsy Warland. The essays place...

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This useful guide offers a clear, understandable, and accurate tour through the complexities of the human body. The Coloring Review Guide is ideal for one- or two-semester students of anatomy and physiology and for those preparing for professional examinations. By labeling and coloring each drawing, students actively participate in the formation of each page. This visualization and practice constitute important steps in the learning process an...

The 7th edition includes changes reflecting modern understanding, terminology and teaching of the musculoskeletal system. There are changes on 42 different pages including many new or enhanced notes on function and 20 new descriptions or explanations of anatomical relationships. All muscle illustrations are new.

The 7th edition includes changes reflecting modern understanding, terminology and teaching of the musculoskeletal system. There are changes on 42 different pages including many new or enhanced notes on function and 20 new descriptions or explanations of anatomical relationships. All muscle illustrations are new.

This innovative collection challenges the traditional focus on solitary genius by examining the rich diversity of literary couplings and collaborations from the early modern to the postmodern period. Literary Couplings explores some of the best-known literary partnerships--from the Sidneys to Boswell and Johnson to Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes--and also includes lesser-known collaborators such as Daphne Marlatt and Betsy Warland. The essays pla...

The second book in the series, Val takes Billie to Great Sand Dunes National Park. Billie and the children she meets play in Medano creek, climb the tallest dune in the park, watch kids climb a vertical dune, and much more. Val and Billie continue their adventure to Zapata Ranch where Billie meets her cousin Lilly. Lilly then takes Billie to the Zapata Falls, sees the Great Sand Dunes from a distance, and introduces Billie to her bison relativ...

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An award-winning columnist for Discover magazine takes a light look at hard science. If science had been this funny in school, maybe you would have listened. Part stand-up comic, part gonzo journalist, Discover magazine's Judith Stone can sniff out strange science at five paces. This offbeat collection of her trenchant, witty essays explodes the boundaries of science, with outrageous insights and surprising factual information that will keep y...