The American Dream: From Pop to present presents an overview of the development of American printmaking since 1960, paying particular attention to key figures such as Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg and Andy Warhol. The 1960s was a period of change in the production, marketing and consumption of prints and the medium attracted a new generation of artists whose attitude towards making art had...

With the aim of providing insight into Poland’s prospects of becoming a country of net immigration, this book explores essential aspects in development of immigration processes, focusing on the country’s migration policy, and issues of employment and integration of foreigners. The book fills a niche in migration literature, uncovering the key drivers of inflow of immigrants to Poland. Its...

The Academic Encounters series uses a sustained content approach to teach skills necessary for taking academic courses in English. There are two books for each content area. The Teacher's Manual for this title contains general teaching guidelines for the course, task-by-task teaching suggestions, answers to all tasks, content quizzes, and content quiz answers.

Ursula K. Le Guin’s Earthsea novels are some of the most acclaimed and awarded works in literature—they have received prestigious accolades such as the National Book Award, a Newbery Honor, the Nebula Award, and many more honors, commemorating their enduring place in the hearts and minds of readers and the literary world alike. Now for the first time ever, they’re all together in one...

Discover how your everyday tech works while developing your coding skills! The Internet is everywhere, and on it are millions of websites! But how do they work, what’s inside them and how are the apps we rely on so much created and designed? These are the topics explored in Create the Code: The Internet. Using Scratch and HTML, you’ll create a different types of web pages, a simple game and...

Picturing the women's tradition of manufacturing a quilt through which they materialy express they lived experiences, the film How to Make an American Quilt from the director Jocelyn Moorhouse (1995) reveals the importance of trans-generational communication and affective togetherness in the process of construction of a sustainable and inspiring community. Quilting becomes a oriductive tool...

Artificial intelligence, or AI, is a cross-disciplinary approach to understanding, modeling, and creating intelligence of various forms. It is a critical branch of cognitive science, and its influence is increasingly being felt in other areas, including the humanities. AI applications are transforming the way we interact with each other and with our environment, and work in artificially...

Szósty w serii (przedostatni) tom cyklicznego wydawnictwa, przygotowywanego przez pracowników Gabinetu Starych Druków BUW, obejmuje litery P – Ska. Publikacja przydatna historykom tego okresu, badaczom historii książki, stanowi także bezcenną listę materiałów źródłowych dla miłośników starych druków oraz historyków sztuki pragnących zapoznać się z klejnotami XVI-wiecznej sztuki drukarskiej i...

Das Buch gibt eine Einführung in Selbstliebe und Selbstfürsorge und zeigt und feiert ganz diverse Körpertypen. Das hilft Mädchen dabei, ihre Einzigartigkeit wertzuschätzen. Dieses Buch wurde für alle Mädchen geschrieben, ganz egal ob sie Signale eines negativen Körperbewusstseins senden oder nicht. Denn alle Mädchen verdienen es, die Werkzeuge und Strategien zu besitzen, mit einer...

Peter Grant is facing fatherhood, and an uncertain future, with equal amounts of panic and enthusiasm. Rather than sit around, he takes a job with émigré Silicon Valley tech genius Terrence Skinner's brand new London start up - the Serious Cybernetics Company. Drawn into the orbit of Old Street's famous 'silicon roundabout', Peter must learn how to blend in with people who are both civilians...

Collected here are three books by Orson Swett Marden, a pioneer of the positive thinking movement. These books address all areas of life. Through them you will find a pathway to happiness and well being, success and prosperity. How you look at life and how you approach each situation life brings your way matters. Long before there were the Law of Attraction, The Science of Success, and The...

“The death of a beautiful woman is unquestionably the most poetical topic in the world,” wrote Edgar Allan Poe. And one is tempted to be of the same opinion when considering Ophelia, Madame Bovary, or Anna Karenina. This concept is also deeply rooted in Far Eastern culture: Buddhism even recommends daily meditation on one’s own death. The Japanese artist Izima Kaoru (*1954 in Kyoto) lets the...

Since nursery education has been highly valued these days, there is a growing demand for 'children-centred' kindergarten designs. But it is a challenging task for designers to create a kindergarten that can meet conventional needs and benefit children's physical and mental development as it requires not only excellent professional skills but a thorough understanding of educational venue....

After years of rapprochement, the relationship between Russia and the West is more strained now than it has ever been in the past 25 years. Putin's motives remain for many a mystery, though not for Mikhail Gorbachev. In this new work, Russia's elder statesman draws on his wealth of knowledge and experience to reveal the development of Putin's regime and the intentions behind it. He argues...

This is the first volume of "Chronicles of Terror" to deal exclusively with the victims of Soviet repression; it contains the testimonies of Polish soldiers who were taken into Soviet captivity in 1939–1941. These soldiers went on to join Anders’ Army and noted their experiences in questionnaires prepared by the Military Historical Bureau in the Middle East in 1943. The accounts are a...

Zürich 1932. Ein noch kontrovers diskutierter Künstler präsentiert einen selbst kuratierten Rückblick auf sein Werk im Kunsthaus Zürich und schreibt damit Geschichte. Die Rezeption seines Schaffens erreicht neue Dimensionen; ebenso wie die Bedeutung der Zusammenarbeit zwischen Künstlern, Museen, Händlern und Institutionen. Der Name des Künstlers: Pablo Picasso. Zur Feier seines hundertjährigen...

From the creator/editor of Who Shot Rock & Roll ("I loved this book" --Dwight Garner, The New York Times. "Whatever Gail Buckland writes, I want to read"), a book that brings together the work of 165 extraordinary photographers, most of their images heralded, most of their names unknown; photographs that capture the essence of athletes' mastery of mind/body/soul against the odds, doing...

"Ekklesia: Three Inquiries in Church and State" offers a New World rejoinder to the largely Europe-centered academic discourse on church and state. In contrast to what is often assumed, in the Americas the relationship between church and state has not been one of freedom or separation but one of unstable and adaptable collusion. "Ekklesia" sees in the settler states of North and South...

America. In the twilight of the Gold Rush, two siblings cross a landscape with a gun in their hands and the body of their father on their backs . . . Ba dies in the night, Ma is already gone. Lucy and Sam, twelve and eleven, are suddenly alone and on the run. With their father’s body on their backs, they roam an unforgiving landscape dotted with giant buffalo bones and tiger paw prints,...

Reaching far beyond sword and sorcery, The Scar is a story of two people torn by disaster, their descent into despair, and their reemergence through love and courage. Sergey and Marina Dyachenko mix dramatic scenes with romance, action and wit, in a style both direct and lyrical. Written with a sure artistic hand, The Scar is the story of a man driven by his own feverish...