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Colorado Home & Garden Lover's Guide (Front Range Living Guides)
Manufacturer: Fulcrum Publishing ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
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Visualizing Muscles: A New Ecorché Approach to Surface Anatomy
John Cody Manufacturer: University Press of Kansas ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 070060426X |
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As the human body moves, muscles contract and relax, creating subtle changes in body contours and shifting patterns of light and shadow on the skin's surface. Visualizing exactly what happens beneath the skin to cause these changes on the surface is an essential skill for artists, physicians, physical therapists, and body builders-for anyone who needs to understand the body in motion.But how do you teach this skill?
Why not paint a live model to look as though his skin had been stripped off and then photograph him in multiple poses? From that idea comes Visualizing Muscles, an innovative aid to drawing, sculpting, and learning surface anatomy.
More than one hundred static and active poses are included in Visualizing Muscles. Paired photographs--one painted and labelled, one not--show how the simulated muscles produce the subtle lights and darks, hills and valleys, on the model's unpainted skin. Captions highlight the muscles called into play by a given pose.
Dr. Cody, who experimented with techniques for two years, pioneers the use of a model on whose skin muscles, tendons, and fascial sheaths are painted with scientific accuracy. Because of the elasticity of the skin and paint, the painted musculature expands and contracts along with the underlying muscles. Thus Cody's technique enables students of anatomy to visualize the muscles beneath the skin and the changes brought about by movement.
This 8-1/2" x 11" book contains 9 full-color and 221 black-and-white photographs.
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finaly..........2006-12-07
One of the best Anatomy books for any Artist!.......2006-02-16
Art study only ! (not technical reference).......2001-01-25
excellent artistic reference.......1998-09-23
Very good male nude reference book.......1998-02-07
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Visualizing Muscles: A New Ecorche Approach to Surface Anatomy
John Cody Manufacturer: University Press of Kansas ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 0700604251 |
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Visualizing Muscles: A New Ecorche Approach to Surface Anatomy
John Cody Manufacturer: Univ Press of Kansas ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: B000KV8GDM |
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Clayton Days: Picture Stories
Vik Muniz , Andy Grundberg , and Linda Benedict-Jones Manufacturer: Frick Art Museum/The Clayton Corporation ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items: ASIN: 0970342500 |
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This new title presents, in its entirety, a new series of photographs by Vik Muniz, completed while he was artist-in-residence at the Frick Art & Historical Center in Pittsburgh. Muniz used his inimitable photographic eye to capture Clayton--the historical home of 19th century American industrialist Henry Clay Frick--through the eyes of a child. Muniz uses a 19th century 8 x 10 inch view camera to record a fictional narrative, using a deliberately low point of view that immerses the viewer in the perspective of a child. The result is a series of ominous and intriguing images that approach history in an imaginative, non-linear fashion. The book "Clayton Days" also features an essay by renowned author and photography critic Andy Grundberg that places this new series within the context of Muniz's past production and within the tradition of contemporary photography, and an extended dialogue with Muniz conducted by Linda Benedict-Jones, executive director of the Silver Eye Center for Photography. Paperback, 96 pages, 11.25 x 9 inches, 74 b&w illustrations
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Attack of the Zit Monster & Other Teenage Terrors
Randy Glasbergen Manufacturer: Intervarsity Pr ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 0830819770 |
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Implantacion de Un Modelo Economico: La Experiencia Argentina Entre 1975 y El 2000 (Serie la Ciencia y la Gente)
Jorge Schvarzer Manufacturer: AZ Editores ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 9505345518 |
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The Federal Reserve, Money, and Interest Rates: The Volcker Years and Beyond
Michael G. Hadjimichalakis Manufacturer: Praeger Publishers ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 0275911802 |
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Analyzes the contemporary operations and goals of the Federal Reserve, with particular attention to the present continuing state of recession and the role that monetary policy may or may not have played in its development.
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The Federal Reserve, Money, and Interest Rates: The Volcker Years and Beyond
Michael G. Hadjimichalakis Manufacturer: Praeger Publishers ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: B000OR7CC8 |
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Gym Biz: Starting and Running Your Own Gym for Profit
Lou Ravelle Manufacturer: Muscle Magazine Int'l ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 1552100197 |
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Takes you through every aspect of starting and running a successful gym.Customer Reviews:
Poorly written.......2007-03-08
Really too basic.......2007-02-12
WOW THIS IS COMPLETELY AMAZING!!.......2006-09-17
Greatfull informations but there are more!.......2002-07-27
waste of time.......2002-03-20
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Managing the Service Economy:Prospects and Problems
Robert P. Inman Manufacturer: Cambridge University Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 0521306477 |
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These essays discuss the service sector, an often neglected area of economic study. The contributors agree that services are replacing manufacturing as the employment base in most advanced economies. Their essays provide valuable insight into the causes, problems, and prospects of this transition. Commissioned for the Wharton-ARA Conference on the Service Economy, this collection examines the rise of the new economic order in the United States, Japanese, and international economies and the future and potential of the service sector. The volume concludes with an agenda for future research and policy of the service company.
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Family Storytelling Handbook, The
Pellowski Manufacturer: Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Accessories: ASIN: 0027706109 |
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Create Your Own Storytelling Stories
Vivian Dubrovin Manufacturer: Storycraft Pub ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items: Accessories: ASIN: 096383391X |
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Shows young storytellers how to turn the events in their lives into performance quality telling tales. Learn to uncover ideas. Discover how to create characters. Map out a story plan. Customize tales for every audience. Find props that add sparkle. Sprinkle magic into your stories. Get tips on advertising your skills.Customer Reviews:
Well worth the purchase.......2003-02-28
If a young aspiring storyteller reads this book and does the notebook activities, he or she will have a story to tell! Of course they could then create a story about learning to tell stories! The possibilities are endless.
This IS a BASIC book, and it does fall down a bit in some areas. This can be easily remedied, though, by supplementing this book with other books, literature experiences, and a trusted adult.
Of the four children's books on storytelling that I've read for my Master's project--and two more books of which I am aware--this is the only one that guides them to creating their own stories from their own experience. It is very much worth the purchase!
You might also want to check out this author's storytelling website for children which is listed in the back of the book.
Happy Story-Making!
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Storytelling Adventures: Stories Kids Can Tell
Vivian Dubrovin Manufacturer: Storycraft Pub. ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items: Accessories:
ASIN: 0963833928 |
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This book shows young storytellers how to create their own props and use them to enhance their performances. Learn how to make glove puppets, a topsy-turvy doll, and a story pillow. Discover how a tiny cube can create magic in a story. Create stories with cookies. Develop drama with demonstrations. Project excitement with shadow puppets. Get storytelling tips on using props. Learn how to write and use a storytelling script. This book contains seven storytelling projects. Each project consists of a sample story, a craft to help tell the story, instructions for using the craft, and suggestions for expanding of adapting the story to make a new tale.Customer Reviews:
Resource for tellers who work with children.......2006-11-30
Varied storytelling techniques, but [slow] stories.......2003-03-11
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Storytelling for the Fun of It: A Handbook for Children
Vivian Dubrovin , and Bobbi Shupe Manufacturer: Storycraft Pub. ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items: Accessories:
ASIN: 0963833901 |
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This book helps young storytellers find the right story to tell at campouts, slumber parties, workshops, and family gatherings. It tells kids how to create their own tales to use while traveling in the car or babysitting. Find tips to help learn, practice and tell stories. Get ideas for using costumes, puppets, music, and crafts. Discover the fun of storytelling parties. Learn how to start a storytelling club. Organize a junior storytelling festival.Customer Reviews:
A helpful book for children and adults.......2005-05-21
Do you have kids/students who might like to tell stories?.......2003-02-28
Then there are several chapters about choosing stories for different situations. For instance, a storyteller might want to tell ghost stories or nature tales when at camp. A babysitter might want to use "creative toy stories" or "helper stories." There are simple project suggestions included in a few of these chapters.
In the next several chapters, the author presents some information on "how to tell a good story." This includes such topics as learning, practicing and telling the story. There is also information on using different types of props in one's storytelling, and a chapter on "mastering the art."
The final three chapters discuss the following topics:
1) how to hold a storytelling party
2) how to start a storytelling club
3) how to hold a young storytellers' festival.
This book, along with the book Create Your Own Storytelling Stories, would be a very good start for any young aspiring storyteller. It would also be helpful for the reader to have the help and encouragement of a trusted adult.
Check out the author's storytelling website for children. This is listed in the back of either book.
Happy Storytelling!
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The Family Storytelling Handbook: How to Use Stories, Anecdotes, Rhymes, Handkerchiefs, Paper, and Other Objects to Enrich Your Family Traditions
Anne Pellowski Manufacturer: Simon & Schuster ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: B000K3NDWY |
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US Paramilitary Assistants to South Vietnam: Insurgency, Subversion and Public Order (Cold War History)
William Rosenau Manufacturer: Routledge ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 0415369983 |
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At the height of the Cold War, the United States used foreign police and paramilitary assistance to combat the spread of communist revolution in the developing world. Support to the regime of Ngo Dinh Diem in South Vietnam became the single largest internal security programme during the 1955-1963 period. Yet despite presidential attention and a sustained campaign to transform Diem's police and paramilitary forces into modern, professional forces, the United States failed to achieve its objectives.
Using recently declassified government records, this book offers the first full-length assessment of America's struggle to remake Diem's internal security forces into "mirror images" of US police institutions. Operating at the zenith of America's national self-confidence, policymakers in Washington and police advisers on the ground in South East Asia were convinced that exporting US law enforcement techniques and values to Vietnam would help establish that country as a secure, progressive, and pro-Western nation.
Analyzing how and why the US campaign in South Vietnam failed, this volume sheds new light on the broader US programme of assistance to 'free world' internal security forces during the Eisenhower and Kennedy administrations. Today, as the United States and its allies confront insurgencies in Iraq and Afghanistan, and the global threat posed by al-Qa'ida, the challenge of building foreign internal security forces, and the demands of 'nation-building', have again become urgent priorities. The US experience in Vietnam serves as a cautionary tale and highlights the perils of imposing American notions about public order.
This book will be of much interest to students of US foreign policy, Intelligence Studies, Cold War studies, the Vietnam War and Security Studies in general.
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Parliaments and Politics during the Cromwellian Protectorate (Cambridge Studies in Early Modern British History)
Patrick Little , and David L. Smith Manufacturer: Cambridge University Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 0521838673 |
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This ground-breaking volume fills a major historiographical gap by providing the first detailed book-length study of the period of the Protectorate Parliaments from September 1654 to April 1659. The study is very broad in its scope, covering topics as diverse as the British and Irish dimensions of the Protectorate Parliaments, the political and social nature of factions, problems of management, the legal and judicial aspects of Parliament's functions, foreign policy and the nature of the parliamentary franchise and elections in this period. In its wide-ranging analysis of Parliaments and politics throughout the Protectorate the book also examines both Lord Protectors, all three Protectorate Parliaments and the reasons why Oliver and Richard Cromwell were never able to achieve a stable working relationship with any Parliament. Its chronological coverage extends to the demise of the Third Protectorate Parliament in April 1659. This comprehensive account will appeal to historians of early modern British political history.
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The Cromwellian Gazetteer: An Illustrated Guide to Britain in the Civil War and Commonwealth
Peter Gaunt Manufacturer: Sutton Pub Ltd ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 0862992915 |
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The Cromwellian Protectorate
Manufacturer: Boydell Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 1843832828 |
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The Protectorate is arguably the Cinderella of Interregnum studies: it lacks the immediate drama of the Regicide, the Republic or the Restoration, and is often dismissed as a 'retreat from revolution', a short period of conservative rule before the inevitable return of the Stuarts. The essays in this volume present new research that challenges this view. They argue instead that the Protectorate was dynamic and progressive, even if the policies put forward were not always successful, and often created further tensions within the government and between Whitehall and the localities. Particular topics include studies of Oliver Cromwell and his relationship with Parliament, and the awkward position inherited by his son, Richard; the role of art and architecture in creating a splendid protectoral court; and the important part played by the council, as a law-making body, as a political cockpit, and as part of a hierarchy of government covering not just England but also Ireland and Scotland. There are also investigations of the reactions to Cromwellian rule in Wales, in the towns and cities of the Severn/Avon basin, and in the local communities of England faced with a far-reaching programme of religious reform. PATRICK LITTLE is Senior Research Fellow at the History of Parliament Trust. Contributors: BARRY COWARD, DAVID L. SMITH, JASON PEACEY, PAUL HUNNEYBALL, BLAIR WORDEN, PETER GAUNT, LLOYD BOWEN, STEPHEN K. ROBERTS, CHRISTOPHER DURSTON.
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The Cromwellian Protectorate
Manufacturer: Manchester University Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 0719043166 |
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Financial and Commercial Policy Under the Cromwellian Protectorate
Maurice Ashley Manufacturer: Routledge ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 0714612650 |
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John Lambert, Parliamentary Soldier and Cromwellian Major-General, 1619-1684
David Farr Manufacturer: Boydell Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 1843830043 |
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John Lambert's life and career have long deserved this revealing study. The man who made Cromwell Lord Protector in 1653 also stopped him becoming king in 1657; and Lambert was the originator of the Instrument of Government, on which Cromwell's Protectorate was based. Committed to his deeply held, radical beliefs, Lambert first rose to prominence as a dashing cavalry commander in the civil wars of 1642 - 51, and he was a prominent upholder of the power of the New Model Army, particularly in his creation of the Major Generals, who ruled England in 1655. Lambert's refusal to countenance Cromwell as king saw his temporary fall from power, but he emerged after the Protector's death as a possible successor. His radical ideas seemed to threaten even 'his own side', and led to his imprisonment in the Tower in 1660, but he escaped and staged a last desperate republican stand against the return of Charles II. Although Lambert was subsequently convicted of treason, Charles did not have him executed - sure recognition that his character, private actions and beliefs were those of a man who was much more than a military revolutionary. DAVID FARR is head of history at Norwich School.
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The Cromwellian collection of mss., miniatures, medals, &c. in the possession of Sir Richard Tangye, Glendorgal, Newquay, Cornwall
William Downing ProductGroup: Book Binding: Unknown Binding ASIN: B00089DSLQ |
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Photographic Handbook of the Rare Birds of Britain and Europe (Photographic Handbooks)
Dominic Mitchell , and Steve Young Manufacturer: New Holland Publishers, ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 1859740537 |
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The "Photographic Handbook of the Rare Birds of Britain and Europe" is the most comprehensive collection ever to be published of photographs and descriptions of rare birds that have occurred in Europe in recent years. This revised and updated edition aims to give birders the most accurate and complete photographic record of Europe's rare birds. The photographs have been assembled from top photographers throughout the region and, wherever possible, are those of rarities actually photographed in Europe. The detailed and descriptive text, which covers the identification, habitat, range and European status of each species, is particularly concerned with highlighting those characteristics which birders will need to know for identification in the field. This unique book --now revised and updated with an additional 17 species -- has been assembled with the invaluable help of rarities committees and other experts throughout the continent, and is an indispensable guide for any birder interested in pursuing this fascinating and fast-growing aspect of birdwatching. Includes nearly 723 photographs, accompanied by full details of month, year, location and country; and detailed descriptions of 284 species, including true vagrants, very rare breeding birds, and some vagrant subspecies, cover identification, voice, habitat, distribution and European status.
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Photographic Handbook to the Rare Birds of Britain and Europe
Dominic Mitchell Manufacturer: New Holland Publishers Ltd ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 1853689130 |
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