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An entertaining picture book designed to help young children satisfy their growing curiosity and prepare them for wider learning in the first years of formal school. Arranged in themes that move from the familiar to the challenging, each spread features detailed, realistic artwork and imaginative, full-color photos that virtually leap off the page. Full-color illustrations.
The son of the Man in the Moon has no one to play with, so he goes down to Earth to make some friends in this story about overcoming differences and forging friendships. Full color.
The son of the great comic novelist Kingsley Amis, the author explores his relationship with his father and writes about the various crises of Kingsley's life. "Experience" deconstructs the changing literary scene, too, including Amis's portraits of Saul Bellow, Salman Rushdie, Allan Bloom, Philip Larkin, and Robert Graves.
The classic big bang theory is great at describing what happened after the bang. Yet until recently, particle physicists and cosmologists were stuck on many questions that the big bang theory couldn't answer, including: What made the big bang BANG in the first place? If matter can be neither created nor destroyed, how could so much matter arise from nothing at all? Why can we only see a minute part of the mega-universe? Guth's startling theory states that in the billion-trillion-trillionth of a second before the big bang, there was a period of hyper-rapid "inflation" that got the big bang started. Inflation modifies our picture of only the first small fraction of a second in the history of the universe, and then it joins onto the standard big bang theory, preserving all of the successes of the older theory.
"Captain Ahab was neither my first husband nor my last". An epic-scale, brilliant and compelling saga, inspired by a brief passage in "Moby Dick", chronicles the life of Captain Ahab's wife. Selected by "Time" as one of the five best novels of 1999. Illustrations throughout.
In this compelling book, well-known social psychologist David G. Myers asks why in an era of great material wealth America suffers from such a disturbing array of social problems that reflect a deep spiritual poverty. Examining the research on social ills from the 1960s through the 1990s, Myers concludes that materialism and radical individualism have cost us dearly. He offers positive, well-reasoned advice on how to spark social renewal and dream a new American dream. "The American Paradox will deepen family therapists' commitment to help families think through their relationship to the broader culture and make sound decisions about time and money, shopping and media." Mary Pipher, Newsweek |
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Nancy Newhall was one of those rare people, a gifted writer willing to devote her great talents to photography and to its most inspired practitioners. Aristotle may have been the first to link light, vision, and soul. Nancy was one of the historic few who successfully articulated how this can be done through photography, through genius. The work she was engaged in was both a challenge and an adventure just after the end of World War II. Most of this century's greatest American photographers were alive and working; Paul Strand, Edward Weston, Dorothea Lange, Imogen Cunningham, Brett Weston, Minor White, and Ansel Adams. Nancy and her brilliant husband, Beaumont Newhall, were all too aware that these artists had few avenues to the public, either through exhibitions or publication. They knew that a foundation of excellent criticism was essential for the appreciation of the artists' work, and indeed for an understanding of the potential of the medium itself. Beaumont, of course, went on to become photography's foremost historian while Nancy devoted her energies and skills to critical and biographical studies. To read this volume of her selected writings is to encounter a sensitive witness to the unfolding of a great art form. Through her lucid prose she extends the possibilities of seeing and of inner illumination. At all times, she is a superb prose stylist and a delight to read.
In 1947 Edwin Land introduced the first instant photographic process. As the founder of Polaroid Corporation, he hired numerous artists, including Ansel Adams, Minor White, and William Clift, to test and analyze the cameras and films that engineers created in the laboratory. Thus began a historic a historic collaboration between the worlds of science and art, encouraging both technological inquiry and creative innovation. Emerging and established photographers received Polaroid products, and in exchange the corporation acquired exhibition-quality photographs. In the late 1960s, the Polaroid Collection was officially founded. The works in Innovation/Imagination are all selected from the Polaroid Collection. Included here are more than 80 colorplates of Polaroids by such diverse artists as Ansel Adams, Robert Frank, Nancy Burson, Robert Mapplethorpe, Chuck Close, Lucas Samaras, and William Wegman. Their photographs display the artistic inventiveness and technical achievement made possible by Polaroid film and present an overview of the past 50 years in photography.
"Borges, the great Argentinian writer, was born 100 years ago this year, and to mark the occasion, Viking is publishing a three-volume English-language edition of his works. Collected Fictions (1998) and Selected Poems appeared previously and is now followed by a compilation of nonfiction. The introduction notes that Borges was 'sworn to the virtue of concision,' and the essays, prologues, book and film reviews, lectures, and other occasional pieces gathered here demonstrate that characteristic perfectly. The entire span of Borges' writing career is represented. That he was at home in erudition is well known, but that he also was well versed in popular culture will amaze many readers. (His history of the tango brings up interesting points.) Some of the best writing in the book are the 'Capsule Biographies,' each a page in length and beautifully highlighting such writers as Isaac Babel and T. S. Eliot. A trenchant assessor even of politics, Borges in one essay refers to Hitler as 'this atrocious offspring of Versailles.' Unforgettable eloquence."--Booklist
"Laurence Leamer has the virtue of a lucid, compelling narrative style, a feeling for history, and a wonderful eye for the telling detail. In this companion to his vivid portrait of the lives of the Kennedy women, he sees the whole tapestry of the Kennedy men with their magnificent obsessions, and at the start of a new century he reproduces the Kennedy family saga with a mix of compassion, accuracy, intelligence, and great human insight; unputdownable!" Nigel Hamilton, author of JFK: Reckless Youth "Laurence Leamer is a great writer and storyteller, but he is also a careful, balanced, and evenhanded historian. He spent a significant amount of time at the Kennedy Library researching primary sources. For example, in his account of the Cuban Missile Crisis, he actually listened to the ExComm tapes rather than depend on published transcripts. This is an honest account of a remarkable, perhaps unique, American political family whose influence will undoubtedly continue well into the twenty-first century." Dr. Sheldon M. Stern, historian
Capturing the essence of a ferociously gifted woman, "Frida" is a daring and brilliantly inventive novel about one of the most celebrated female artists of the 20th century. The story will soon be immortalized in the upcoming film starring Salma Hayek.
Ignatius of Loyola; knight and saint, mystic and ascetic, founder of the Society of Jesus (the Jesuits); was one of the most influential and most complex figures in Western Christianity. This book, written by a psychoanalyst who is also a Jesuit, is the first work to investigate the inner life of Ignatius and the psychological motivations for the particular forms his spirituality and mysticism took. |
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My First Encyclopedia
Moonboy
Experience
The Inflationary Universe: The Quest for a New Theory of Cosmic Origins
Ahab's Wife: Or, the Star Gazer
The American Paradox: Spiritual Hunger in an Age of Plenty
From Adams to Stieglitz: Pioneers of Modern Photography
Innovation Imagination: 50 Years of Polaroid Photography
Selected Non-Fictions
The Kennedy Men
Frida
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