This book brings together recent scholarly work concerned with efforts around the world to transform cities so that they are more age-friendly. Common to all of the initiatives is recognition of the importance of the community environment for the well-being of the rapidly growing numbers of older people. The collection includes chapters that examine the circumstances in which communities currently undertake significant age-friendly initiatives, public-private collaboration in age-friendly initiatives, collaboration across institutional sectors in age-friendly initiatives, policies that facilitate age-friendly developments, and the bases upon which age-friendly initiatives should be evaluated. It will be of interest to scholars in various fields including urban planning, gerontology, transportation planning, environmental design, and adult education.

While extradimensional demons in disguise prowl the high-rise corridors of power, a twisted, ingenious, and all-too-human murderer stalks the back alleys. Only Ghost, the spectral protector of Chicago, can defend the world from their evil advances! But when a painful encounter with a familiar face sends Elisa Cameron on a hunt to uncover the mysteries of her past life, will she ignore her desperate city . . . and the friends she's pulled into her chaos? This volume collects the adventures of Dark Horse's intangible heroine from Ghost: The White City Butcher #1 - #4.

Flannery O'Connor was among the greatest American writers of the second half of the 20th century; she was a writer in the Southern tradition of Eudora Welty, William Faulkner, and Carson McCullers, who wrote such classic novels and short stories as Wise Blood, The Violent Bear It Away, and “A Good Man is Hard to Find.” She is perhaps as well known for her tantalizing brand of Southern Gothic humor as she is for her Catholicism. That these tendencies should be so happily married in her fiction is no longer a surprise. The real surprise is learning that this much beloved icon of American literature did not set out to be a fiction writer, but a cartoonist. This seems to be the last well-kept secret of her creative life.

Flannery O'Connor: The Cartoons, the first book devoted to the author's work in the visual arts, emphasizes O'Connor's most prolific period as a cartoonist, drawing for her high school and college publications in the early 1940s. While many of these images lampoon student life and the impact of World War II on the home front, something much more is happening. Her cartoons are a creative threshing floor for experimenting and trying out techniques that are deployed later with such great success in her fiction.

O'Connor learns how to set up and carry a joke visually, how to write a good one-liner and set it off against a background of complex visual narration. She develops and asserts her taste for a stock set of character types, attitudes, situations, exaggerations, and grotesques, and she learns how to present them not to distort the truth, but to expose her vision of it.

She worked in both pen & ink and linoleum cuts, and her rough-hewn technique combined with her acidic observations to form a visual precursor to her prose. Fantagraphics is honored to bring the early cartoons of this American literary treasure to a 21st century readership.

For an audience resistant to your views, O'Connor once wrote, “draw large and startling figures.” In her fiction, as in her cartoons, these shocks to the system never come without a laugh.

It would be difficult for any artist or designer not to be inspired by page after page of ingenious, surprising, beautifully designed objects. The extraordinary Farago Collection, which emphasizes work by American artists, was donated to the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston in 2006. Presented here are approximately 150 unique pieces of jewelry from the Collection, including works by such artist-jewelers as Alexander Calder, Art Smith, Ramona Solberg, to name just a few. The items are shown in full-page photos in an elegantly designed volume (9.5x11") along with essays by Kelly H. L'Ecuyer (curator of decorative arts & sculpture, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston) and by two contributors, also from MFA, Yvonne J. Markowitz and Gerald W.R. Ward, and by independent researcher Michelle Tolini Finamore. The essays discuss the Collection itself, the individual artists, the beginnings of studio jewelry, abstraction and assemblage, evolving directions, messages, meanings, materials, and techniques. Annotation ©2011 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Part of series individually highlighting the major collections of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, this volume presents some 100 photographic reproductions of the museum's prized collection of American decorative arts, including furniture, silver, glass, ceramics, base metals, coins and medals, basketry, and sculpture. Each piece is accompanied by textual description and seven included essays explore such topics as the history of the arts of New England, folk traditions and vernacular expressions, and individual crafts movements from the 17th century to the 20th century. Annotation ©2007 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

A straightforward primer on the theory and teaching of pronunciation, this text offers detailed analysis and teaching techniques for vowels, consonants, stress and intonation, and the features of fluent speech. An enclosed Audio CD provides spoken examples of the material in the text.