Born in 1873, she was the illegitimate daughter of a wealthy Mexican landowner and an Indian woman. The beautiful spiritual Teresita played a dramatic role in the Mexican revolution.
Here is a completely fresh treasure trove of the endearingly sly rabbit's adventures in tales from Central and South America never before published in English. Color and black-and-white illustrations.
Intergalactic robots, spaceships, strange inhabitants, architecture and weaponry. Exciting elements of design for our time. Includes introductions and description of all 42 black-and-white plates.
New and enlarged edition. The story of how President Theodore Roosevelt showed his compassion and respect for life by not shooting a peaceful black bear on a long anticipated hunting trip. It captured the interest of a newspaper cartoonist who drew the scene showing Teddy Roosevelt and a very small bear and, inspired a candy store owner to send the president a small stuffed bear ? the first teddy bear.
Designs culled from the Arts and Crafts movement in America and England as well as a few from France, Italy and elsewhere from the late 19th century to the 1920's.
One of the great discoveries of the Middle Ages was the beauty of the natural world. Earlier the life of warfare and danger had blunted appreciation of nature. Now the enclosed garden represented more than a safe place away from strife.
Drawings of knights and courtiers, real and mythological animals, castles and parterres, flowers and trees, pennants and crests, as well as columns and border designs.
A full-color photographic account of the courting, mating and nestling-rearing of a pair of wood ducks, one of the few species to nest in trees, and one considered the most beautiful -- and among the most secretive -- in North America.
Pen-and-ink designs authentically reproduced from the glass, metal, wood and clay objects, as well as from carpets, manuscripts and architectural elements found in Syria, Persia (Iran), Egypt, Turkey and Spain. History and traditions of Islamic design. Each plate is identified and described.
A guide to the elements that compose classic Japanese gardens, this book offers a unique understanding of Japanese landscaping. In full-colour photographs, descriptive text and poetry, it explores the traditional facets that give to Japanese gardens their sensuous, spiritual and ultimately timeless qualities. Like the gardens themselves, these pages inspire a deeply felt response in the reader. Each page dwells intensively upon an architectura...
This title is suitable for children of ages 4-8. It includes thirteen tales of nature collected from eight Indian tribes of Eastern and Western North America.
