For centuries artists have been expressing their ideas, faith, passion, and rage in three-dimensional works that reflect historical eras, tell stories,... reveal mysteries, and even create scandals. Starting from ancient times and continuing through the Classical, Gothic, Renaissance, Baroque, Romantic, and Modern periods, this collection introduces readers to the artists and works that make sculpture such an exciting medium to explore. Among the artists included in the book are Michelangelo, Bernini, Rodin, Duchamp, Giacometti, Calder, Moore, Beuys, de Saint Phalle, and Bourgeois. From the Madonna of Essen, the oldest known sculpture of the Virgin Mary, to the sinuous metal sheets that make up Richard Serra's Matter of Time, each work is presented in spreads that offer beautiful photographs, biographical profiles of the artists, historical context, and anecdotal information. Broader texts describe various eras and styles as the book moves chronologically toward the present day, providing an art history lesson for everyone.

Rare, important volume in which famed Surrealist expounds (in his inimitably eccentric fashion) on what painting should be, the history of painting,... what is good and bad painting, the merits of specific artists, and more. Includes his 50 "secrets" for mastering the craft, including "the secret of the painter's pointed mustaches."

(Vocal Collection). Contents: Schubert: Rastlose Liebe * Die Allmacht * Im Abendroth * Nacht und Traume * Wohin? * Nachtviolen * Der Schmetterling *... Heidenroslein * Ungeduld * Liebhaber in allen Gestalten Schumann: Die Lotosblume * Mein schoner Stern! * Widmung * Fruhlingsnacht * Der Nussbaum * Auftrage * Schneeglockchen * Du bist wie eine Blume * Mit Myrthen und Rosen * Mondnacht Brahms: Von ewiger Liebe * Standchen * O komme, holde Sommernacht * Auf dem Kirchhofe * Botschaft * Vergebliches Standchen * Der Tod, das ist die kuhle Nacht * In Waldeseinsamkeit * Wie Melodien zieht es mir * Meine Liebe ist grun Wolf: In der Fruhe * Lebe wohl! * Nun wandre, Maria * Und willst du deinen Liebsten sterben * Verborgenheit * Mignon * Auf demgrunen Balcon * Nummersatte Liebe * In dem Schatten meiner Locken * Bescheidene Liebe Strauss: Morgan * Cacilie * Standchen * Heimkehr * Traum durch die Dammerung * Allerseelen * Zueignung * Ich trage meine Minne Heimliche Aufforderung * Ruhe, meine Seele!

Contents: Schubert: Rastlose Liebe * Die Allmacht * Im Abendroth * Nacht und Traume * Wohin? * Nachtviolen * Der Schmetterling * Heidenroslein *... Ungeduld * Liebhaber in allen Gestalten - Schumann: Die Lotosblume * Mein schoner Stern! * Widmung * Fruhlingsnacht * Der Nussbaum * Auftrage * Schneeglockchen * Du bist wie eine Blume * Mit Myrthen und Rosen * Mondnacht - Brahms: Von ewiger Liebe * Standchen * O komme, holde Sommernacht * Auf dem Kirchhofe * Botschaft * Vergebliches Standchen * Der Tod, das ist die kuhle Nacht * In Waldeseinsamkeit * Wie Melodien zieht es mir * Meine Liebe ist grun - Wolf: In der Fruhe * Lebe wohl! * Nun wandre, Maria * Und willst du deinen Liebsten sterben * Verborgenheit * Mignon * Auf demgrunen Balcon * Nummersatte Liebe * In dem Schatten meiner Locken * Bescheidene Liebe - Strauss: Morgan * Cacilie * Standchen * Heimkehr * Traum durch die Dammerung * Allerseelen * Zueignung * Ich trage meine Minne Heimliche Aufforderung * Ruhe, meine Seele!

For dedicated environmentalists as well as those who want to preserve Hawaii s resources but don t know where to start, this handbook provides... specific information on meeting Hawaii s 10 major environmental challenges - the loss of pristine places, coral reef degradation, overharvesting of marine resources, solid waste management, hazardous waste management, water consumption, energy, pollution, global warming, and the loss of culture. Hundreds of photos showcase Hawaii s natural beauty, inspiring readers to do a little - or a lot - to preserve it.

Here are 50 strategies for creating meaningful social studies experiences for K-8 students -- four overarching and forty-six specific strategies... --organized alphabetically, accompanied by assessment tools, and introduced by grade level and National Council for Social Studies (NCSS) standards indicators.   Features: Linking of strategies to NCSS standards—Including an explanation of the standards at the front of the book. Prepares students to work in an increasingly standards-based, test-based educational environment. Thorough description of each strategy—Including rationale for its appropriateness and references to respected research. Ensures students the benefits of current scholarship in the field. Applications and Ideas section with each strategy—Provide either a classroom application or an assessment tool. Teaches students to recognize the difference between what a teacher taught and what his/her students learned. Illustrates strategies “in action” in real classrooms with real learners. Procedural Recommendations section with each strategy—Outlines how to prepare for, facilitate, and direct the strategy. Gives students a guide for using the strategy in their own first classroom. References and Resources section with each strategy—Lists scholarly support, additional readings, websites, and/or helpful organizations. Provides reliable information for further study and research. Technology icons throughout the text—Tag strategies that call for the use of classroom technology. Illustrates ways to take advantage of the Internet, digital photography, software, and the like in real classrooms with real learners.  

This popular book of 50 strategies for enhancing social studies learning in K-8 classrooms offers valuable ideas and applications for pre-service and... practicing teachers alike.   Always appreciated for its connections between theory, research, and practice, and the extensions provided through web sites and references, this new edition enhances those strengths by providing assessment ideas and website resources for every strategy. Eight conceptually-organized overarching strategies to facilitate organizing a social studies classroom precede forty-two social-studies specific strategies —organized alphabetically and introduced by grade level and National Council for Social Studies (NCSS) standards indicators.   This handy resource provides models, examples, and assessments from real teachers and students, so that pre-service teachers may be successful in their student teaching and field experiences and first years in the classroom and practicing teachers may freshen their social studies teaching with some new ideas.   

From three experts in teaching comes a 50 strategies book that is useful for preservice and inservice teachers up and down the grade levels and across... the curriculum.  The book embeds strategies within a theoretical framework of active learning.  The step-by-step format helps teachers prepare easily and troubleshoot to maximize success.  Strategies are referenced by their usefulness for English learners and readers at different stages of development.  The book includes examples from many subject areas and grade levels.  The accompanying CD contains templates to assist teachers in using the strategies.   FEATURES: This practical book gives 50 strategies designed to help the classroom teacher engage K-12 students in their own learning. 50 strategies are embedded into a conceptual framework for active teaching and learning. Provides clear, step-by-step instructions and examples for employing the strategies. Troubleshooting feature presents tips to avoid pitfalls and build success as teachers prepare to use the strategy. Correlation matrix on the front and back cover.

50 Early Childhood Strategies for Working and Communicating with Diverse Families is a practical and easy to use book.  It presents key concepts,... discusses them in research-based, accessible prose, and provides useful strategies to facilitate communication and collaboration.  The book focuses on family-centered care and education for young children and emphasizes partnering with families.  Many of the strategies in this book address ideas about how to create a climate of trust by communicating in a collaborative way.  The goal is to create inclusive programs that respect and honor differences in families and individuals.  Teachers will love the fifty short chapters with information they can apply immediately.  At the heart of all these strategies lies the welfare of the child.   FEATURES: Emphasizes the importance of partnerships between teachers and family members. Stresses the integral components of communication between diverse families and teachers or administrators. Raises the important issue of respecting the various diversities and cultures that exist in today's classrooms. Reader-friendly writing style and the alphabetic arrangement of the strategies-interesting, understandable, and easy to find what the student or teacher is looking for. Interwoven, cross-referenced strategies-integrity throughout the book as the relationships between the strategies are highlighted; one strategy often mentions several other strategies that pertain to the same subject. Broad coverage: spans ages 0-8 in a variety of different care and education settings-applies to early childhood educators at all levels-not exclusive to Pre-K; also includes child care, but not exclusively. Goes beyond mere parent involvement and education-closely examines how a partnership may include both, but is different from the more common approaches early childhood educators often take to working with parents; promotes a family-centered approach instead of a child-centered one that is common practice. Photos and artifacts illustrate the messages-these visual images are designed to help readers grasp information and enliven the book.   New to this Edition!   Strategies organized by categories, rather than alphabetically. Emphasis on kindergarten and primary grade teachers. Diversity theme at forefront of strategies. New subjects covered include: working with families to maintain home language, holidays in the classroom, media issues, improving child nutrition, children playing outdoors, and dealing with death in the family.

50 Strategies for Improving Vocabulary, Comprehension, and Fluency offers a practical approach of step-by-step instructional procedures for developing... key literacy skills.  Each strategy is supported by an authentic classroom example.  An additional example of each strategy is provided on the free CD-ROM that accompanies the book.  These teaching examples clearly identify how to implement the strategy and adapt its use to fit the needs of learners in a primary/elementary and a middle school/secondary classroom.  Margin features titled Focus on English Language Learners explain how to create learning tools to make the strategy fit the needs of English language learners.  This '50 Strategies' book also offers: Classroom-based examples and strategies—Explains each strategy through step-by-step instructions. Teachers acquire the knowledge to teach necessary strategies. Strategies are grouped according to approach. Realistic application—Offers a variety of strategic approaches that can be incorporated into existing vocabulary development and reading comprehension programs.

In pursuit of a better career, more money, a new direction, or a higher purpose? Millions of readers relentlessly search for the one great book that... will inspire them to chart a course to personal and professional fulfillment. Tom Butler-Bowdon, best-selling author of the 50 Classics series, is back with 50 Success Classics: Winning Wisdom for Work and Life from 50 Landmark Books, a wide-ranging collection of enduring works by pioneering thinkers, philosophers, and corporate America's most powerful leaders who have shown us how to Think and Grow Rich, develop The Habits of Highly Effective People, become The One-Minute Manager, discover The Art of Worldly Wisdom, and solve the challenging puzzle of Who Moved My Cheese? From amusing and enlightening parables to the inspirational rags-to-riches stories of industrialists, philanthropists, and entrepreneurs, 50 Success Classics summarizes each industry's key ideas and clarifies how these insights and techniques promote self-growth. Learn the secrets on how to be successful by reviewing works from authors including: Horatio Alger; Warren Buffett; Andrew Carnegie; Stephen R. Covey; Spencer Johnson; Michael Dell; Henry Ford; Benjamin Franklin; John Paul Getty; Napoleon Hill & W. Clement Stone; Abraham Lincoln; Nelson Mandela; Eleanor Roosevelt; Ernest Shackleton; Sun Tzu; Sam Walton; Wallace D. Wattles; Zig Ziglar.

Where to Begin?With an ever-growing pool of talented and diverse college applicants coming from the top high schools in the country and... beyond, students everywhere are feeling the pressure to craft application essays that are clear, passionate, and, above all else, persuasive. No easy task.Examples that InspireTo help, this completely new edition of 50 Successful Harvard Application Essays showcases the exact approaches, both conventional and creative, that won over admissions officers at Harvard University, the nation’s top-ranked college. From chronicling personal achievements to detailing unique talents, the variety of topics covered within these essays opens applicants up to new possibilities and showcases the best techniques to help them tell their stories most effectively. Each essay in this collection was used by a Harvard student and is followed by analysis by the staff of The Harvard Crimson, where the essay is taken apart and its strengths and weakness are detailed to show readers how they can write their own winning essay.Strategies that Succeed50 Successful Harvard Application Essays’ tested approaches and straightforward advice make it the best resource for applicants who are looking for the insider’s knowledge to get accepted to the school of their dreams.

50 Things Every Young Gentleman Should Know is a young man’s guide to becoming the type of guy that people respect and enjoy. He knows how to shake... hands. He knows how to be a good sport. He knows how to give a genuine compliment and how to speak his mind without being offensive. His friends listen to what he has to say, and he returns the favor. He knows how to achieve the perfect knot in a necktie, and more important, he knows when he should be wearing a tie in the first place. Oh, and his favorite ball cap? He knows when to wear it and when to leave it at home on his dresser. Becoming a gentleman doesn’t happen in an instant; it’s a lifelong exercise in refining etiquette, social interaction, and personal discipline. It all begins here.

School, clubs, soccer practice, piano lessons, study groups, latte with friends, dinner with grandparents, sleepovers, birthday parties,... shopping—young ladies today are always on the go, their busy lives filled with activities and socializing. Girls interact with more people and in more places than ever before. But all of those opportunities to build friendships, make a good impression, and enjoy exciting experiences can go awry if she hasn’t learned the basics of good conduct, respectful interaction, and thoughtful behavior. While the formal rules of etiquette are not taught the way they once were, good manners are as critical today as they ever were. 50 Things Every Young Lady Should Know provides a modern update on the ageless idea that girls should know appropriate and courteous responses to any given situation. Good manners aren’t just some quaint idea and old-fashioned concept from the past. They’re an essential aspect of every young lady’s path to adulthood and the skills she will need to thrive in whatever she chooses to do. In an ever-changing world, good manners never go out of style.