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The award-winning illustrations of 57 Caldecott Books (1938-1994) have inspired a multitude of lessons that guide students in creating art with similar qualities. Various art media are explored, including pencil, crayon, marker, colored pencil, chalk, stencils, collage, watercolor, tempera, color mixing, and printmaking.

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Using interviews with over 40 Kurdish women artists, this book focuses on the cultural and intellectual activities of Kurdish migrant women through artistic and aesthetic forms of production in Belgium, France, Germany, Sweden and the UK

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Examines the role of art in an age of 'real time' information systems and instantaneous communication. Examining key moments in the history of both technology and art from the beginning of industrialization, this work explores both the making and purpose of art, and how much further it can travel from the human body.

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Examines the role of art in an age of 'real time' information systems and instantaneous communication. This book explores how the practice of art keeps our relation to time, history and even our own humanity open. It also explores both the making and purpose of art, and how much further it can travel from the human body.

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Pornography is condemned for being 'too close' whilst erotica is defended as 'leaving room for the imagination'. And the art of the nude is treated as something much more special, located even further away from the potential of arousal. This book argues that these distinctions are based on an age-old antithesis between sight and touch.

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Pornography is condemned for being 'too close' whilst erotica is defended as 'leaving room for the imagination'. And the art of the nude is treated as something much more special, located even further away from the potential of arousal. This book argues that these distinctions are based on an age-old antithesis between sight and touch.

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Assesses the work of those thinkers (including artists) who have had a major impact on making, criticizing and interpreting art since the 1960s. This book presents a concise, critical appraisal of thinkers and their ideas about art and its place in the wider cultural context. It is a guide to the key thinkers who shape the world of art.

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Assesses the work of leading thinkers (including artists) who are having a major impact on making, criticizing and interpreting art. This is a guide to the key thinkers who shape world of art. It is a useful reference for those interested in modern and contemporary art, its history, theory, philosophy and practice.

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In the late 1980s, Japan's strong economic performance put it on a the verge of becoming a major player in regional and global affairs. But nearly a decade of economic stagnation, a mounting of bad debts, and a continuing stream of scandals have tarnished the country's distinctive economic model.

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Part of the "Men-At-Arms" series, this book looks at Anglo-Celtic warfare between 410-1066, illustrating equipment, weapons and military encounters.

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This book provides the most extensive survey of the literature by and about Balfour.

The first section of the book, a historiographical narrative, surveys the important literature, integrating historical and biographical events, criticisms, evaluations, and observations of reviewers along with those of the writer.

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Examines the contemporary challenges to religious liberty and explores ways in which the public philosophy can be reinvigorated. Steering between the extremes of a sacred public square, in which any one faith is established or preferred, and a naked public square, from which all faiths have been removed, the authors argue for, and exemplify, a civil public square.

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The history and language of abortion in early America is the focus of this book.It moves beyond the rhetoric about abortion and general histories of medicine, science and women to analyze how the articulation of cultural memory presented abortion as threatening to cultural order.

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Morton Wagman examines the emulation of human cognition by artificial intelligence systems. The range, depth, and sensitivity of mathematical and legal reasoning systems are compared with human mathematicians and human jurisprudence.

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This book examines the cultural heritage of Inner Eurasia (Central Asia) through the arts, from prehistoric times to the ancient and medieval golden ages. The manuscript features extensive analysis of multiple Inner Eurasian cultural groups, their artistic traditions, and the development thereof throughout the regions history.

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Roosevelt and Wilson were remarkable statesmen, early 20th century artists of power, whose diplomacy had an enduring impact on US foreign policy. This book covers Roosevelt's strategic thinking and examines Wilson's interaction with his policy advisors. It shows how they made the US a world power and the architect of 20th century world order.

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A critical exploration of the pedagogical and practical issues that are raised when Arts academics engage in primary and secondary schools outreach. It addresses the numerous issues raised when Arts academics become involved with schools, bringing together practitioners from a range of fields within the Arts to share experiences and insights.

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A critical exploration of the pedagogical and practical issues that are raised when Arts academics engage in primary and secondary schools outreach.

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This book combines two research-based concepts, arts integration and the use of young adult literature, to provide activities and instructional strategies to boost students communication, reading, and thinking skills

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This innovative book examines the complexities of de-bordering and re-bordering through a systematic comparison of seven transborder subregions along the western Pacific Rim and an extended analysis of the U.S.-Mexico border and several European border regions. Xiangming Chen ...

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With 18 million members and with power and influence that penetrate industry, the financial centers, community life, and even foreign trade, trade unionism in America has come of age. Gone is much of the old militancy and aggressiveness that so characterized unions before World War II. In this short book a wise and experienced observer attempts to