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"An indispensable volume of poems, selected from almost four decades of work, that tracks the evolution of one of our most renowned contemporary poets, Pulitzer Prize-winner Jorie Graham. Much awaited and long needed, From the New World--a sequence of poems from Jorie Graham's prior eleven books--offers more than a retrospect of this major poet's work. This selection, including several revised and new poems, creates a startlingly fresh trajectory...
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It is complex and sometimes cannot be understood, yet personality significantly impacts work. In the work environment, two people with the same goal may struggle to achieve it because a difference in personalities makes them incompatible working together. In addressing common questions on the subject, Eve Ash and Peter Quarry define personality and offer practical methods for managing personality differences.
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The purpose of the book is to present a comprehensive survey and analysis of the concept of self direction in learning, to trace its ideological roots, to examine its history, to explore its manifestations in various fields of education, and to provide some specific insights into strategies that may be used to induce or develop self direction in learners. Basically, then, the book is about the development and exercise of self directedness in learning,...
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"The Paris-born, Venezuelan artist Marisol (b. 1930) burst onto the 1960s New York art scene with large figural sculptures in a wild amalgam of mixed media. Often satirical, Marisol's art is inspired by sources as diverse as Pre-Columbian art, folk art, Cubism, and Surrealism. For the past several decades, however, Marisol has shunned the spotlight and her artwork has been overlooked as a result. Accompanying the first retrospective of Marisol's work...
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"Fuseli made his name with this picture, first exhibited at the Royal Academy in London and now in the Detroit Institute of Arts. Within a matter of months engravings of it were circulating all over Europe, and political caricaturists were to use it for the next thirty years ..."--Excerpt from the jacket flap.
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Quick start overview that can be read in 15 minutes; all rules explained in simple, non-jargon English; easy 5-step retirement planning method clarifies goals; simple tables eliminate complex calculations; anaysis of 11 profiles (ages 25 to 85) using state-of-the-art software; comparison with 401(k) savings/capital gains funds; strategies for fianancing Roth Conversion taxes; new technology shows how parital Roth conversions can maximize assets; enhancing...
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A portrait of one of the most unusual and intriguing artists of the Early Renaissance, known not only for his naturalism but also for the balance of his compositions. The author is a well-known Piero scholar and covers the full range of his work, including his skill as a mathematician as well as a painter. Piero della Francesca (1412?-92) is one of the most intriguing artists of the Early Italian Renaissance, known not only for his unaffected naturalism...
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Freedman reveals how the history of our restaurants reflects nothing less than the history of America itself. Whether charting the rise of our love affair with Chinese food through San Francisco's fabled The Mandarin or evoking the richness of Italian food through Mamma Leone's, he uses each restaurant to tell a wider story of race and class, immigration and assimilation.
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Directed by Academy Award-winner Fred Wolf, The Point tells the story of Oblio, a round-headed boy living in the land of "Point", where everything and everybody has one. Oblio, along with his trusty dog, Arrow, is banished to the Pointless Forest. Once there, the adventre begins. The tale is narrated by Ringo Starr and includes songs written and sung by Grammy Award-winner Harry Nilsson.
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"This comprehensive monograph explores the conceptual complexity and diversity of Claes Oldenburg's early work to reveal this influential artist's extraordinary inventiveness. Accompanying an exhibition of Oldenburg's seminal early work, this publication examines the breadth of his artistic career from the late 1950s to 1970. It features works including the landmark installations The Street and The Store and their accompanying performances; the highly...
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"The eighteenth-century Venetian painter Giambattista Tiepolo spent his life executing commissions in churches, palaces, and villas, often covering vast ceilings like those at the Würzburg Residenz in Germany and the Royal Palace in Madrid with frescoes that are among the glories of Western art. The life of an epoch swirled around him--but though his contemporaries appreciated and admired him, they failed to understand him. Few have even attempted...
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"It is difficult to fathom the myriad changes that have occurred and that influence the content of this book in just three years since the previous edition. As this book goes to press, we have witnessed many nations in Europe as well as the United States that have made dramatic political shifts from open and liberal leanings to more populist, nationalistic and conservative ideologies. These shifts have been accompanied by an increase in xenophobia...
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Traces the story of Picasso's rise from an obscure young painter in Barcelona to one of the most influential artists of the twentieth century, documenting the events of his first visit to Paris, his emergence as a leader of a group of bohemian artists, his gradual recognition by collectors and the 1906 creation of the disturbing masterpiece, "Les Demoiselles d'Avignon."
"When Picasso became Picasso: the story of how an obscure young painter came...
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"Based on a series of lectures given in 1983 by Dr. Leonard Peikoff, 'Understanding Objectivism' offers a deeper and more profound study of Ayn Rand's philosophy, and outlines a methodology of how to approach the study of Objectivism and apply its principles to one's life. For the legions of readers who treasure 'Atlas Shrugged' and 'The Fountainhead', and who savor cogent analysis and provocative discussion of Ayn Rand's thoughts and beliefs, 'Understanding...
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