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2004 |
![]() ![]() Author: Herbert Robert L., Harris Neil, Druick Douglas W. (CON), Groom Gloria (CON), Zuccari Frank (CON), Langley Allison (CON) Publisher: Univ of California Pr 'The miracle of La Grande Jatte is its coincidence of critical distinction and popular celebration. High, low, mass, and popular cultures meet in mutual delight, continuing to revel in the mysteries of that Parisian Sunday.'--from 'The Park in the Museum' by Neil Harris 'Bedlam,' 'scandal,' and 'hilarity' were among the epithets used to describe the effect of what is now considered Georges Seurat's greatest work, and one of the most remarkable paintings of the nineteenth century, when it was first exhibited in Paris in 1886. A Sunday on La Grande Jatte--1884, an extensive landscape peopled with over forty figures, took the artist almost two years to complete. This sumptuous book, created to accompany a major exhibition at the Art Institute of Chicago, provides a fascinating, in-depth examination of the gestation, execution, and influence of Seurat's masterpiece. La Grande Jatte has been part of the Art Institute of Chicago's collection since 1926. Bringing together all known studies and drawings directly related to the painting, this volume provides a visual and contextual survey of Seurat's working methods and aesthetic priorities, as well as the evolutionary process that culminated in his singular achievement. Included are more than fifty-five preparatory works, ranging from rich conté crayon drawings to oil sketches on small wood panels to larger studies painted on canvas. In their quantity, intricacy, and variety, these works reveal a compositional process that harks back to Old Master traditions and methods, which had been largely abandoned by Seurat's immediate predecessors, the Impressionists. The many studies attest to the artist's ambitions for his masterpiece and open up a broader context for understanding the work. Seurat scholar Robert L. Herbert makes new revelations about the painting's relationship to its preparatory studies, stressing Seurat's empirical craftmanship. He compares La Grande Jatte to paintings by Monet, Renoir, Pissarro, and Signac and analyzes the ways that twentieth-century critics, including Meyer Schapiro, T.J. Clark, and Linda Nochlin, have viewed the picture. He proposes that the enduring fascination of the famous canvas comes from Seurat's mixture of fashion and irony. Also giving new perspectives in this book, the noted cultural historian Neil Harris charts how and why La Grande Jatte attained its revered status at the Art Institute of Chicago and throughout the United States. Additionally, the exhibition's cocurators examine the painting's place in the museum's collection. Essays by Art Institute conservators show how Seurat transferred and altered figures from studies to final canvas and elucidate the exact nature of his pigments and brushwork. Color scientist Roy Berns traces the efforts to digitally recapture the original hues of Seurat's time-altered masterpiece. A landmark publication, this book provides dazzling proof of why La Grande Jatte is among the most frequently reproduced paintings in the world and why it continues to fascinate scholars and art lovers today. € 33,50
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![]() ![]() Author: Mowat Farley, Frankenberg Robert (ILT) Publisher: Yearling Books Relates the adventures of two owls who are family pets € 5,40
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![]() ![]() Author: Novelline Robert A., Squire Lucy Frank Publisher: Harvard Univ Pr In the past five years, the development of new imaging technologies that make possible faster and more accurate diagnoses has significantly improved the imaging of disease and injury. This new edition of Squire's Fundamentals of Radiology describes and illustrates these new techniques to prepare medical students and other radiology learners to provide the most optimal and up-to-date imaging management for their patients. Not only are new diagnostic techniques outlined, such as the multidetector computed tomography diagnosis of pulmonary embolism and the diffusion-weighted magnetic-resonance imaging of stroke, but hundreds of new diagnostic images have been included to illustrate the radiological characteristics of common diseases with state-of-the-art computed radiography, ultrasound, multidetector computed tomography, and magnetic-resonance images. The text has been completely reviewed and updated to present the latest and best strategies in diagnostic imaging. New interventional radiology procedures have been added, including vertebroplasty, a percutaneous injection treatment of painful spinal compression fractures; uterine artery embolization, a surgical alternative to hysterectomy in women with painful or bleeding uterine fibroids; and radiofrequency ablation, a percutaneous technique for treating unresectable tumors in the liver and other organs with probes that superheat and thus destroy cancer cells. A new chapter on advances in diagnostic imaging describes many cutting-edge imaging technologies, such as three-dimensional and digital imaging, functional magnetic-resonance imaging, PET-CT (positron emission tomography combined with computed tomography), cardiac calcium CT scoring, multidetector gated cardiac CT, and molecular imaging. € 117,20
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![]() ![]() Author: Marcus Maeva (EDT), Frankel Robert P. (EDT), Joseph Anthony M. (EDT), Karachuk Robert F. (EDT), Tull Stephen L. (EDT), Pachter Marc (EDT), Ashkenazi Elliott (EDT), Daines William B. R. (EDT) Publisher: Columbia Univ Pr The seventh in an eight-volume series, this text presents a body of documents from the National Archives and repositories of other official sources which chronicle a period in which the Supreme Court decided a variety of cases dealing with such matters as debt, taxation, fraud, bills of exchange, treaty interpretation, and prize--some of constitutional importance, many affecting the position of the U.S. on the world stage, and all resolving significant questions of procedure. Arranged in chronological order by their date of decision, the collection includes landmark cases, such as Ware v. Hylton, Hylton v. United States, and Olney v. Arnold/Olney v. Dexter. Marcus is director of the Documentary History of the Supreme Court of the United States. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com) € 163,10
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![]() ![]() Author: Marlowe Christopher, Romany Frank, Lindsey Robert Publisher: Penguin Classics This book gathers all seven of the dramas of Christopher Marlowe, in which the lure of dark forces drives the shifting balances between weak and strong, sacred and profane. Supported by textual notes and featuring modern punctuation and spelling, they include:
With a critical introduction, a chronology of Marlowe's life, extensive commentary, and a glossary, this will remain the authoritative anthology of Marlowe's plays for years to come.
€ 18,80
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2003 |
![]() ![]() Author: Hauerwas Stanley (EDT), Lentricchia Frank (EDT), Berrigan Daniel (CON), Bellah Robert N. (CON) Publisher: Duke Univ Pr Dissent from the Homeland is a book about patriotism, justice, revenge, American history and symbology, art and terror, and pacifism. In this deliberately and urgently provocative collection, noted writers, philosophers, literary critics, and theologians speak out against the war on terrorism and the government of George W. Bush as a response to the events of September 11, 2001. Critiquing government policy, citizen apathy, and societal justifications following the attacks, these writers present a wide range of opinions on such issues as contemporary American foreign policy and displays of patriotism in the wake of the disaster. Whether illuminating the narratives that have been used to legitimate the war on terror, reflecting on the power of American consumer culture to transform the attack sites into patriotic tourist attractions, or insisting that to be a Christian is to be a pacifist, these essays refuse easy answers. They consider why the Middle East harbors a deep-seated hatred for the United States. They argue that the U.S. drive to win the cold war made the nation more like its enemies, leading the government to support ruthless anti-Communist tyrants such as Mobutu, Suharto, and Pinochet. They urge Americans away from the pitfall of national self-righteousness toward an active peaceableness—an alert, informed, practiced state of being—deeply contrary to both passivity and war. Above all, the essays assembled in Dissent from the Homeland are a powerful entreaty for thought, analysis, and understanding. Originally published as a special issue of the journal South Atlantic Quarterly, Dissent from the Homeland has been expanded to include new essays as well as a new introduction and postscript. from Dissent from the Homeland: 'An economy based on waste is inherently and hopelessly violent, and war is its inevitable by-product. We need a peaceable economy.'—Wendell Berry, conservationist, farmer, essayist, novelist, and poet ''God Bless America' is not a hymn any Christian can or should sing. At least it is not a hymn any Christian can or should sing unless it is understood that God's blessing incurs God's judgement.'—Stanley Hauerwas 'The hardest thing in the world is to know how to act so as to make the difference that can be made; to know how and why that differs from the act that only releases or expresses the basic impotence of resentment.'—Rowan Williams, Archbishop of Canterbury “[I]t is instructive to step away for a moment and to deny that it is natural and self-explanatory for masses of people to be devastated by catastrophe in which they have lost no one they know, in a place with which they have no particular connections. Is nationality really such a natural function of human or even social being? . . . [I]s pity or sympathy really so innate a feature of the human constitution?”—Fredric Jameson 'America is threatened by the most powerful enemy in its history, the administration of George W. Bush.'—Frank Lentricchia Contributors. Srinivas Aravamudan, Michael J. Baxter, Jean Baudrillard, Robert N. Bellah, Daniel Berrigan, Wendell Berry, Vincent J. Cornell, David James Duncan, Stanley Hauerwas, Fredric Jameson, Frank Lentricchia, Catherine Lutz, Jody McAuliffe, John Milbank, Peter Ochs, Donald E. Pease, Anne R. Slifkin, Rowan Williams, Susan Willis, Slavoj Zizek € 23,10
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![]() ![]() Author: Hemfelt Robert, Minirth Frank, Meier Paul Publisher: Thomas Nelson Inc These bestselling doctors walk you through their ten proven stages to recovery from codependency that results from external circustances. Humans are susceptible to codependency because of our sinful tendency to use defense mechanisms to fool ourselves. In codependent relationships, deceitful games are played, and important Christian principles are often taken out of context and abused. God wants us to have healthy relationships with a balance between being dependent and independent. The doctors describe how the most effective means of overcoming codependent relationships is to establish or deepen a relationship with Christ Himself. They describe the causes of codependency, pointing out the factors that perpetuate it, and lead readers through their ten stages of recovery. € 14,30
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![]() ![]() Author: Frankel Fred H., Myatt Robert Publisher: Routledge First published in 2003. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company. € 43,70
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![]() ![]() Author: Winter Frank H., Van Der Linden F. Robert Publisher: Amer Inst of Aeronautics & The content for this reference was drawn from the extensive collection the National Air and Space Museum in Washington, DC (with which both authors are affiliated), as well as news articles and personal collections. The year 2003 marks the centennial of the experiments in flight of the Wright Brothers, the history of whose invention begins the book. The survey is organized as a timeline, with entries for each month or date of significant events or inventions. Each chapter covers a decade and begins with an introductory essay. Numerous boxes feature the stories of notable individuals, events, or machines. Annotation (c) Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com) € 57,80
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2002 |
![]() ![]() Author: Washington George, Grizzard Frank E. Jr. (EDT), Runge Beverly H. (EDT), Haggard Robert F. (EDT), Mastromarino Mark A. (EDT) Publisher: Univ of Virginia Pr € 105,70
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![]() ![]() Author: Ayres Frank, Moyer Robert E. Publisher: McGraw-Hill Boiled-down essentials of the top-selling Schaum's Outline series for the student with limited time What could be better than the bestselling Schaum's Outline series? For students looking for a quick nuts-and-bolts overview, it would have to be Schaum's Easy Outline series. Every book in this series is a pared-down, simplified, and tightly focused version of its predecessor. With an emphasis on clarity and brevity, each new title features a streamlined and updated format and the absolute essence of the subject, presented in a concise and readily understandable form. Graphic elements such as sidebars, reader-alert icons, and boxed highlights stress selected points from the text, illuminate keys to learning, and give students quick pointers to the essentials.
€ 12,90
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![]() ![]() Author: Hirschman Albert O., Frank Robert H. (FRW) Publisher: Princeton Univ Pr Why does society oscillate between intense interest in public issues and almost total concentration on private goals? In this classic work, Albert O. Hirschman offers a stimulating social, political, and economic analysis dealing with how and why frustrations of private concerns lead to public involvement and public participation that eventually lead back to those private concerns. Emerging from this study is a wide range of insights, from a critique of conventional consumption theory to a new understanding of collective action and of universal suffrage. € 32,30
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![]() ![]() Author: Rowland Robert C., Frank David A. Publisher: Michigan State Univ Pr Shared Land/Conflicting Identity: Trajectories of Israeli and Palestinian Symbol Use argues that rhetoric, ideology, and myth have played key roles in influencing the development of the 100-year conflict between first the Zionist settlers and the current Israeli people and the Palestinian residents in what is now Israel. The Israeli-Palestinian conflict is usually treated as an issue of land and water. While these elements are the core of the conflict, they are heavily influenced by the symbols used by both peoples to describe, understand, and persuade each other. The authors argue that symbolic practices deeply influenced the Oslo Accords, and that the breakthrough in the peace process that led to Oslo could not have occurred without a breakthrough in communication styles. € 66,90
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2001 |
![]() ![]() Author: Newman Cory Frank (EDT), Leahy Robert L., Beck Aaron T., Harrington Noreen Reilly Ph.D., Gyulai Laszlo M.D., American Psychological Association (COR) Publisher: Amer Psychological Assn This manual for clinicians describes an approach to the treatment of bipolar disorder which adapts and uses techniques from cognitive therapy. The authors contend that while the disorder has a strong biological component which is properly treated through drug therapy, patients may also benefit from stress reduction strategies learned in cognitive therapy. Particular attention is paid to the effects of this illness on the entire family. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com) € 30,70
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![]() ![]() Author: Ridgely Robert S., Greenfield Paul J., Gill Frank B. (FRW) Publisher: Cornell Univ Pr The Birds of Ecuador comprehensively treats the nearly 1600 species of birds that can be found in mainland Ecuador. The authors describe Ecuador this way: 'One of the wonders of the natural world. Nowhere else is such incredible avian diversity crammed into such a small country. . . . Birds are, happily, numerous in many parts of Ecuador: even the downtown parks of the big cities such as Quito and Guayaquil host their complement.' Volume II, the field guide volume of this two-volume set, contains 96 full-color plates and facing pages of descriptive text, a color map of Ecuador, along with two line drawings of bird anatomy, 115 silhouette outlines, and nearly 1600 distribution maps. All species are illustrated in full color, including migrants and vagrants and visually distinctive subspecies. The text focuses on the field identification aspects of each species, including their behavior, vocalizations, and nest appearance. The two volumes of The Birds of Ecuador are available separately or may be purchased as a slipcased set. € 50,80
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![]() ![]() Author: Ridgely Robert S., Greenfield Paul J., Gill Frank B. (FRW) Publisher: Cornell Univ Pr The Birds of Ecuador comprehensively treats the nearly 1600 species of birds that can be found in mainland Ecuador in two volumes. The authors describe Ecuador this way: 'One of the wonders of the natural world. Nowhere else is such incredible avian diversity crammed into such a small country. . . . Birds are, happily, numerous in many parts of Ecuador: even the downtown parks of the big cities such as Quito and Guayaquil host their complement.' Volume I, Status, Distribution, and Taxonomy, contains detailed information on the ecology, status, and distribution of all species. Introductory chapters deal with geography, climate, and vegetation; bird migration in Ecuador; Ecuadorian ornithology; endemic bird areas in Ecuador; and conservation. Individual species accounts treat habitat, distribution, and taxonomy. The two volumes of The Birds of Ecuador are available separately or may be purchased as a slipcased set. € 92,30
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2000 |
![]() ![]() Author: Baum L. Frank, Sabuda Robert (ILT) Publisher: Little Simon Robert Sabuda has created a resplendent pop-up version of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the original publication. This glorious edition is told in a shorter version of L. Frank Baum's original text, with artwork in the style of W. W. Denslow. With sparkling touches of colored foil and Emerald City eyeglasses, this classic tale is certain to find an honored place on the family bookshelf. € 37,40
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![]() ![]() Author: Choksy Lois (EDT), Abramson Robert M., Gillespie Avon E., Woods David, York Frank, Choksy Lois Publisher: Pearson College Div Unique in both content and approach, this book offers a single-volume authoritative comparison of the four most popular music education methods used in North America—Jacques-Dalcroze, Kodály, Orff, and Comprehensive Musicianship. Its in-depth examination of the methods and underlying philosophies of each method--and its suggested lessons for each method at each grade level--will help readers make knowledgeable curricular choices among methods. Both the New National Standards (MENC) and the use of technology in the study of music are described and discussed in relation to all four methods. Method in North American Music Teaching—The Beginning. Influences on Methods, Approaches, and Philosophies of Teaching Music. Technology and Music Education. The Approach of Jacques-Dalcroze. The Kodály Method. The Orff Approach. Comprehensive Musicianship: An American Technique and Philosophy for Teaching Music. Achieving Goals and Objectives in School Music Programs Via the Principles of Jacques-Dalcroze, Kodály, Orff, and Comprehensive Musicianship. Grades K-1-2. Grades 3-4-5. Grades 6-7-8. Method in Music for Older Students. Which Methods? For music educators. € 188,70
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![]() ![]() Author: Keil Frank C. (EDT), Wilson Robert A. (EDT) Publisher: Bradford Books € 12,10
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1998 |
![]() ![]() Author: Williams Robert Franklin Publisher: Wayne State Univ Pr First published in 1962, Negroes with Guns is the story of a southern black community's struggle to arm itself in self-defense against the Ku Klux Klan and other racist groups. Frustrated and angered by violence condoned or abetted by the local authorities against blacks, the small community of Monroe, North Carolina, brought the issue of armed self-defense to the forefront of the civil rights movement. The single most important intellectual influence on Huey P. Newton, the founder of the Black Panther Party, Negroes with Guns is a classic story of a man who risked his life for democracy and freedom. € 24,40
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![]() ![]() Author: Hahn Frank H.; Solow Robert M. Publisher: Laterza € 18,59
Scontato: € 17,66
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1997 |
![]() ![]() Author: Webb Frank J., Stowe Harriet Beecher (INT), Reid-Pharr Robert (INT) Publisher: Johns Hopkins Univ Pr In this novel set in antebellum America, the Garies—a white southerner, his mulatto slave-turned-wife, and their two children—have moved to Philadelphia from Georgia. Originally published in London in 1857, The Garies and Their Friends was the second novel published by an African American and the first to chronicle the experience of free blacks in the pre-Civil War northeast. The novel anticipates themes that were to become important in later African American fiction, including miscegenation and 'passing,' and tells the story of the Garies and their friends, the Ellises, a 'highly respectable and industrious coloured family.' 'It is remarkable that, even as the study of African American literature and culture has become central to any number of projects within American intellectual life, so little attention has been given a work as significant as Frank J. Webb's The Garies and Their Friends.'—from the 1997 introduction by Robert Reid-Pharr € 29,90
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![]() ![]() Author: Hahn Frank, Solow Robert Publisher: Mit Pr € 10,60
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1996 |
![]() ![]() Author: Frank Robert H., Cook Philip J. Publisher: Penguin Group USA Argues that disproportionate rewards are distorting society € 14,30
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1995 |
![]() ![]() Author: Jobe Frank W., Yocum Lewis A., Mottram Robert E., Pink Marilyn M. Publisher: Human Kinetics Exercise Guide to Better Golf shows you how to perform the same muscle-strengthening and flexibility exercises top golfers on the PGA and Senior PGA tours use to get in shape and stay on top of their game. All of the exercises are easy to learn and have been designed specifically for golfers by Centinela Hospital Medical Center - official hospital of the PGA TOUR and Senior PGA TOUR. Whether you're a scratch golfer or a determined duffer, the exercises in this book can provide you with these benefits: greater flexibility and mobility in your swing; improved muscle endurance for better performance on the back nine, enhanced body tone and weight maintenance to help you feel better about yourself and your game; and a better conditioned body that is less prone to aches, pains, and injuries. Take a lesson from some of golf's most successful pros and get Exercise Guide to Better Golf. Get in shape so you can give golf your best shot every time you're on the course. € 9,40
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1994 |
![]() ![]() Author: Gish Robert Franklin Publisher: Perfection Learning € 14,80
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![]() ![]() Author: Silverman Lloyd H.; Lachmann Frank M.; Milich Robert H.; Orsucci F. (cur.) Publisher: Astrolabio Ubaldini € 16,53
Scontato: € 15,70
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1993 |
![]() ![]() Author: Fischer Frank (EDT), Forester John (EDT), Fischer Frank, Hoppe Robert (CON) Publisher: Duke Univ Pr Public policy is made of language. Whether in written or oral form, argument is central to all parts of the policy process. As simple as this insight appears, its implications for policy analysis and planning are profound. Drawing from recent work on language and argumentation and referring to such theorists as Wittgenstein, Habermas, Toulmin, and Foucault, these essays explore the interplay of language, action, and power in both the practice and the theory of policy-making. The contributors, scholars of international renown who range across the theoretical spectrum, emphasize the political nature of the policy planner's work and stress the role of persuasive arguments in practical decision making. Recognizing the rhetorical, communicative character of policy and planning deliberations, they show that policy arguments are necessarily selective, both shaping and being shaped by relations of power. These essays reveal the practices of policy analysts and planners in powerful new ways--as matters of practical argumentation in complex, highly political environments. They also make an important contribution to contemporary debates over postempiricism in the social and policy sciences. Contributors. John S. Dryzek, William N. Dunn, Frank Fischer, John Forester, Maarten Hajer, Patsy Healey, Robert Hoppe, Bruce Jennings, Thomas J. Kaplan, Duncan MacRae, Jr., Martin Rein, Donald Schon, J. A. Throgmorton € 22,90
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1991 |
![]() ![]() Author: Oppel Frank (EDT), Lanier Robert S. (EDT) Publisher: Book Sales Offers portraits of Union and Confederate officers and discusses the accomplishments of the major leaders; includes poems and songs written about the Civil War € 16,00
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1990 |
![]() ![]() Author: Alter Robert, Kermode Frank (EDT) Publisher: Belknap Pr Rediscover the incomparable literary richness and strength of a book that all of us live with an many of us live by. An international team of renowned scholars, assembled by two leading literary critics, offers a book-by-book guide through the Old and New Testaments as well as general essays on the Bible as a whole, providing an enticing reintroduction to a work that has shaped our language and thought for thousands of years. € 35,50
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