The Student Guide to Historical Thinking
The Student Guide to Historical Thinking

Author: Linda Elder

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2019-06-01

Total Pages: 101

ISBN-13: 1538133946

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Learning history as only a collection of dates and names prevents us from seeing the true value of the past. The Student Guide to Historical Thinkingreveals the study of history as a mode of thinking with real current-day implications. It begins with a focus on important historical understandings and then presents strategies for fostering fair-minded historical thinking. Students learn to engage with the past in a way that promotes critical thinking about the present and future. As part of the Thinker’s Guide Library, this book advances the mission of the Foundation for Critical Thinking to promote fair-minded critical societies through cultivating essential intellectual abilities and virtues across every field of study across world.

U.S. History Matters
U.S. History Matters

Author: Kelly Schrum

Publisher: Bedford/St. Martin's

Published: 2008-12-24

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780312478384

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Based on the popular "History Matters" Web site developed by the Center for History and New Media, this unique resource combines reviews of 250 of the most useful and reliable U.S. history Web sites with an introduction that guides students in locating, evaluating, and correctly citing online sources. Chosen and annotated by a group of Internet-savvy scholars, the Web sites offer opportunities for researching broad themes as well as special topics and regions. They feature a range of sources, including primary documents, maps, art, photographs, statistics, and audio and video recordings. The informative introduction and intelligent apparatus help students make the most of these resources.

Bookmaking
Bookmaking

Author: Marshall Lee

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 512

ISBN-13: 9780393730180

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To reflect today's computerized integration of bookmaking functions, this new edition of the unchallenged bible of the publishing industry first published in 1965 and revised in 1979 drops the separation of design/production and editing into parts and instead, inserts each in its natural place in sequence, presenting bookmaking as a seamless process from concept to bound book. Illus.

Textiles for Residential and Commercial Interiors
Textiles for Residential and Commercial Interiors

Author: Amy Willbanks

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Published: 2014-09-25

Total Pages: 561

ISBN-13: 1609019377

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Devoted entirely to textiles for interiors, Textiles for Residential and Commercial Interiors, 4th Edition, focuses on the most current fiber and fabric information including new fiber technology and nanofibers, the role of the interior designer in selecting textiles, and the environmental impact of textiles. The book includes in-depth coverage of household and institutional textiles, in addition to commercial and residential textiles for upholstered furniture, windows, walls, and floor coverings. Full-color line drawings and photographs illustrate fibers, yarns, fabrics, manufacturing equipment, coloring, finishings, and end products. Textiles for Residential and Commercial Interiors provides students with all of the technical information, aesthetic fundamentals, and practical knowledge they need to select textiles for every type of residential and commercial interior.