monet the history and techniques of the great masters

Monet: The History and Techniques of the Great Masters

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Jennings, Guy / Copplestone, Trewin, PUBLISHER: Booksales, See these masterworks close up. Each book in this lively series shows, with increasingly close-range photos, the actual brushstroke and color techniques for ten or more paintings. The text analyzes the masterpieces and captions provide information on types of brushes, canvas and priming, and how the colons were mixed. Like having your own art gallery and your own personal curator to show you around.

Great Opera Stories

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Harwood, Jeremy, PUBLISHER: Booksales, The stories of the great operas along with the history of the opera and the great performers who sung them.

The Great Depression

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Nardo, Don, PUBLISHER: Greenhaven Press, The economic collapse of the American economy in the s is one of the most analyzed events in history. This enlightening volume covers such issues as what role the government should have played in the Great Depression, an analysis of the New Deal and other factors of the time.

Knitting: History, Fashion, and Great Knitting Yarns

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Wacker, Jill, PUBLISHER: Running Press Book Publishers, This celebration of the art, craft, history, and various joys of knitting enforces the newly chic nature of creating one's own handknit garments. The book is divided into four sections: Knit Wit (quotes from real and fictional knitters); A Stitch in Time (history of the craft); The Knitty Gritty (factoids and trivia from around the world); and Casting On (a guide to needles, yarns, and stitches). Now that knitting has cast off its grandmotherly image, it's a great gift for just about anyone.

The Flowers of Venice: The Art of Creating Flowers and

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Marchesi, PUBLISHER: Gem Guides Book Company, The most comprehensive guide to Venetian glass beads their beaded techniques. Details the craft of flower making, introduces the history of Venetian glass, and includes all the tools and supplies necessary for each project--with over 400 stunning color photos. Make bouquets, boxes, tassels, and more.

The History of the Earth: An Illustrated Chronicle of Our

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Hartmann, William K. / Miller, Ron, PUBLISHER: Workman Publishing, "The History of Earth" combines geology, astronomy, evolution, history, cosmology, and painting to tell the complete and vivid history of that elegant marble known as earth. Main Selection of the Astronomy Book Club. Ages 14-up.

The Cold War-Volume 2: Magill's Choice

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Gorman, Robert F., PUBLISHER: Salem Press, The three volumes in The Cold War offer a unique event-by-event history of the full sweep of the Cold War, with up-to-date essays on key events between and , a new introduction that surveys the origins and history of the Cold War, and a new epilogue which reviews post- developments and assesses the legacy of the Cold War in the early twenty-first century. All essays were selected from Salem's popular "Great Events from History" series.

The Great Chasidic Masters

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Finkel, Avraham Y., PUBLISHER: Jason Aronson, Biographies and English translations of writings from fifty of the great chasidic rebbes.

Cambridge Illustrated History of Archaeology

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Bahn, Paul, PUBLISHER: Cambridge University Press, This is the fullest and most authoritative single-volume account of archaeology from the earliest discoveries to the great excavations of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Lavishly illustrated throughout and global in scope, it tells the story of those explorations which have helped shape our knowledge of the past. From early digging in Greece and the Near East, through the part played by archaeology in the 'discovery' of the Americas, to the unearthing of sites in Africa, Scandinavia, the former Soviet Union, and Australasia, the book describes individual events as part of a connected narrative amounting to a thorough history of the subject for general readers. It is the first general history of archaeology written by a team of specialists and the first history to cover every part of the world. The book is complete with time-period charts, lists of archaeological events, and a full index.

The Battle of Loos

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Warner, Philip, PUBLISHER: Wordsworth Editions, The Wordsworth Military Library covers the breadth of military history, including studies of individual leaders and accounts of major campaigns and great conflicts.

History and Heartburn: The Saga of Australian Film,

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Reade, Eric, PUBLISHER: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, Australian films earned international recognition in the s, but the story of the Australian film industry extends back to the turn of the century; during the silent and sound eras Australia produced a succession of innovative producers, directors, photographers, and scriptwriters. History and Heartburn is the first major survey of Australian filmmaking.

Horizontal Yellow: Nature and History in the Near Southwest

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Flores, Dan L., PUBLISHER: University of New Mexico Press, Personal and historical meditations explore the human and natural history of the large expanse of land the Navajos once named the Horizontal Yellow.

The Atlantic in Global History:

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Canizares-Esguerra, Jorge / Seeman, Erik R., PUBLISHER: Prentice Hall, This reader, composed of original essays by leading authors, expands the category of the Atlantic chronologically, spatially, and methodologically. It firmly places the Atlantic within global history and the coverage expands into the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The essays present events that formed the nations and cultures of the Atlantic region and show their global roots and how they intertwine with non-Atlantic communities of the world.

From Ellis Island to JFK: New Yorks Two Great Waves of

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Foner, Nancy, PUBLISHER: Yale University Press, Two great waves of immigration -- one at the start of the twentieth century and another in its final decades -- transformed the history and personality of New York City. This book, the first in-depth comparison of New York's two most recent immigration eras, reassesses the myths that surround both sets of immigrants.

History of the Proceedings and Debates of the House of

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Great Britain Parliament, PUBLISHER: General Books LLC, NA

A Concise Dictionary of Modern Place-Names in Great Britain

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Room, Adrian, PUBLISHER: Oxford University Press, USA, This dictionary fills a major gap in the study of British and Irish place names, being the first to give full coverage to the origins of names that have arisen since . Room traces the origins of over names, providing an informative and entertaining excursion through the social history of Great Britain and Ireland over the last 500 years.

Lion Let Loose

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Tranter, Nigel, PUBLISHER: Hodder & Stoughton, This book tells the story of James the First of Scotland, who was an extraordinary poet, thinker, warrior, athlete, and statesman. His romance with Joanna Beaufort is one of the great love stories in history, and the love for him of Catherine Douglas one of the most poignant. Acquista Ora

The Thomas Family of St. Albans, West Virginia: A Family

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Thomas, Bob, PUBLISHER: iUniverse, The history of the Thomas family mirrors the history, struggles, and successes of America. Starting in the s, my ancestors came from Europe and helped settle and build the country, fought in the battles that defined the nation, lost their jobs in the Great Depression, and then enjoyed the prosperity of 20th century America. Along the way was a soldier who fought with George Washington in Braddock's Expedition, a veteran of Bunker Hill who may have heard the famed command "don't fire until you see the whites of their eyes," a father and son who served on opposing sides during the Civil War, and the engineer who kept the Washington Monument running in it's early days. This book, a family history of my parents and their ancestors, tells their stories and presents the lineage of my family.

The French Revolution:

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Jones, Peter, PUBLISHER: Longman, "This book, the latest in the best-selling Seminar Studies in History series, provides readers with an accessible and succinct introduction to the French Revolution, one of the most exciting and important periods in modern history. The author examines the events leading up to the revolution, the revolution itself, and the aftermath. The Assessment and Documents sections of the book will be particulalry helpful for the reader to understanding the French Revolution For those interested in French History or the French Revolution

The Gulf of Mexico: A Treasury of Resources in the American

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Gore, Robert H., PUBLISHER: Pineapple Press (FL), - Only book available on this great body of water - Synopsis of the history, geology, geography, oceanography, biology, ecology, and economics of the Gulf - Traces the economic use of the Gulf from the Mayans to present-day offshore oil companies - Explores every discrete ecological community in the Gulf - For those who live or vacation on the Gulf and wants to know the full story of their watery backyard

DK Readers: Star Wars: The Clone Wars: Masters of the Force

ISBN: , SKU: , PUBLISHER: DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley), Who are the Masters of the Force? The Jedi, of course In this exciting Level 1 reader, harness the power of the Force as you learn all about the Jedi and their amazing abilities. With eye-catching images and simple sentences, this reader is sure to capture the imagination of young Padawans everywhere

The Science Times Book of Birds

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Wade, Karil / Wade, Nicholas, PUBLISHER: Lyons Press, The fifty best feature articles on birds are gathered in this beautifully illustrated anthology from Science Times, the weekly section of The New York Times. The collection covers a wide range: the evolution of a seventy-five-million-year-old flightless bird, the meddling in-laws of the white-breasted bee-eaters of Kenya, the extramarital flings of the Eurasian great reed warbler, the practice of siblicide among cattle egrets, crows' astonishing tool-making ability, and many more fascinating and illuminating topics. "The Science Times Book of Birds" will be a great gift for bird lovers, students, and anyone interested in evolution and natural history.

Basel in the Age of Burckhardt: A Study in Unseasonable

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Gossman, Lionel / University of Chicago Press, PUBLISHER: University of Chicago Press, This remarkable history tells the story of the independent city-republic of Basel in the nineteenth century, and of four major thinkers who shaped its intellectual history: the historian Jacob Burckhardt, the philologist and anthropologist Johann Jacob Bachofen, the theologian Franz Overbeck, and the philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche.

Prints: Art and Techniques

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Lambert, Susan, PUBLISHER: Victoria & Albert Museum, Noteworthy for its exceptionally clear, concise explanations of a complex subject, this guide to the full range of printmaking techniques describes how art prints are made and offers a brief history of the various processes, which fall into four categories: relief, intaglio, planographic, and stencil. The text also looks at papermaking, for its effect on the character of an impression, and explains how manual methods have evolved into more modern photomechanical techniques. Illustrated with examples from the superb collection of the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, and including a glossary of printmaking technology and abbreviations commonly found in inscriptions, this up-to-date guide will be of special interest to students and collectors.

Tibet: A History

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Van Schaik, Sam, PUBLISHER: Yale University Press, Situated north of the Himalayas, Tibet is famous for its unique culture and its controversial assimilation into modern China. Yet Tibet in the twenty-first century can only be properly understood in the context of its extraordinary history. Sam van Schaik brings the history of Tibet to life by telling the stories of the people involved, from the glory days of the Tibetan empire in the seventh century through to the present day. He explores the emergence of Tibetan Buddhism and the rise of the Dalai Lamas, Tibet's entanglement in the "Great Game" in the early twentieth century, its submission to Chinese Communist rule in the s, and the troubled times of recent decades. "Tibet" sheds light on the country's complex relationship with China and explains often-misunderstood aspects of its culture, such as reborn lamas, monasteries and hermits, "The Tibetan Book of the Dead," and the role of the Dalai Lama. Van Schaik works through the layers of history and myth to create a compelling narrative, one that offers readers a greater understanding of this important and controversial corner of the world.

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