Vincent Van Gogh: Portrait of an Artist was named a Robert F. Sibert Honor book by the ALA. This is the enthralling biography of the nineteenth-century Dutch painter known for pioneering new techniques and styles in masterpieces such as Starry Night and Vase with Sunflowers. The book cites detailed primary sources and includes a glossary of artists and terms, a biographical time line, notes, a bibliography, and locations of museums that display Van Gogh’...

“IN THE FUTURE EVERYBODY will be world famous for 15 minutes.”The Campbell’s Soup Cans. The Marilyns. The Electric Chairs. The Flowers. The work created by Andy Warhol elevated everyday images to art, ensuring Warhol a fame that has far outlasted the 15 minutes he predicted for everyone else. His very name is synonymous with the 1960s American art movement known as Pop.But Warhol’s oeuvre was the sum of many parts. He not only produced iconic art that blended high ...

A picture book about the making of Martha Graham's Appalachian Spring, her most famous dance performanceMartha Graham : trailblazing choreographerAaron Copland : distinguished American composerIsamu Noguchi : artist, sculptor, craftsmanAward-winning authors Jan Greenberg and Sandra Jordan tell the story behind the scenes of the collaboration that created APPALACHIAN SPRING, from its inception through the score's composition to Martha's inten...

In the children’s book World of Glass, “Greenberg and Jordan, award-winning biographers of artists and architects . . . have another hit on their hands in this gorgeous work on American glass artist Dale Chihuly” (Booklist).His crew calls him Maestro. Thousands of fans call him a magician. Over the past five decades, Dale Chihuly (b. 1941) has created some of the most innovative and popular works of art in museums and gardens around the world. Aut...

In 1944 the modern American ballet Appalachian Spring premiered at the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C. The collaborators behind the performance anxiously awaited the critical response to their artistic achievement: would the world understand what they had done?In Ballet for Martha, the journey to this stage and the success shared among choreographer Martha Graham, composer Aaron Copland and artist Isamu Noguchi is expressively captured by acclaimed childre...

The official prequel novel of the epic film After Earth directed by M. Night Shyamalan and starring Jaden Smith and Will SmithAfter their exodus from Earth, the last humans settled a remote planet: Nova Prime.Conner Raige’s ancestors were on the front lines of victory against the Skrel, a long defeated enemy. Now he is one of the United Ranger Corps’ most promising young cadets, despite his brash confidence and tendency to act on instinct.B...

Kann die Enterprise den Bau einer Superwaffe verhindern?Die Föderationskolonien in den Xaridia-Systemen werden angegriffen und gnadenlos verwüstet. Als die Enterprise eintrifft, kommt es zum Kampf, doch Captain Kirk muss die bittere Erfahrung machen, dass sein Raumschiff den kleinen Flitzern und ihren Kamikaze-Piloten nicht gewachsen ist. Spock entdeckt, dass eine der angegriffenen Kolonien vor der Zerstörung geplündert wurde. Dabei wurde Technologie entwe...

This anthology introduces some of the most influential literature shaping our understanding of the social and cultural foundations of education today. Together the selections provide students a range of approaches for interpreting and designing educational experiences worthy of the multicultural societies of our present and future. The reprinted selections are contextualized in new interpretive essays written specifically for this volume.

Ein künstlicher Planet und eine uralte Maschine bergen große GefahrenKirlos ist ein künstlicher Planet, geschaffen von einer ausgestorbenen Zivilisation, auf dem sich Angehörige verschiedenster Völker angesiedelt haben. Der Handel floriert, und die Ruinen bergen archäologische Schätze. Während Data, LaForge und Worf diese Ruinen erforschen, erreicht ein Notruf die Enterprise: Ein benachbarter Planet wurde von Unbekannten überfallen, eine scheinbar willkürl...

This book is a real mother.To celebrate bad-ass moms everywhere, Crazy 8 Press has assembled a fantastic line-up of authors to create stories spanning numerous genres, including sci-fi, contemporary, historical, and fantasy. Since moms and badassery come in infinite forms, the authors were given only one criteria: that their story be about a bad-ass mother or mother figure, whatever that meant to them.From grandmas to new moms, biological moms to adoptive moms to mom figure...

Das Handbuch stellt in mehrfacher Hinsicht ein Novum in der gestalttherapeutischen Literatur dar. Er vereinigt zum ersten Mal Spezialisten unterschiedlicher Generationen aus mehr als 20 Ländern, die den aktuellen Stand der internationalen Forschung repräsentieren und zahlreiche bisher bestehende Desiderate aus der Gestalttherapie füllen. Grundlegende theoretische Prinzipien für die klinische Praxis, besondere Sichtweisen, Therapie in bestimmten Lebenssituationen und klinische Anwendungen b...