The Annotated Mona Lisa

The Annotated Mona Lisa

Author: Carol Strickland

Publisher: Andrews McMeel Publishing

Published: 2007-10

Total Pages: 220

ISBN-13: 9780740768729

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Like music, art is a universal language. Although looking at works of art is a pleasurable enough experience, to appreciate them fully requires certain skills and knowledge." --Carol Strickland, from the introduction to The Annotated Mona Lisa: A Crash Course in Art History from Prehistoric to Post-Modern * This heavily illustrated crash course in art history is revised and updated. This second edition of Carol Strickland's The Annotated Mona Lisa: A Crash Course in Art History from Prehistoric to Post-Modern offers an illustrated tutorial of prehistoric to post-modern art from cave paintings to video art installations to digital and Internet media. * Featuring succinct page-length essays, instructive sidebars, and more than 300 photographs, The Annotated Mona Lisa: A Crash Course in Art History from Prehistoric to Post-Modern takes art history out of the realm of dreary textbooks, demystifies jargon and theory, and makes art accessible-even at a cursory reading. * From Stonehenge to the Guggenheim and from Holbein to Warhol, more than 25,000 years of art is distilled into five sections covering a little more than 200 pages.


The Annotated Mona Lisa, Third Edition

The Annotated Mona Lisa, Third Edition

Author: Carol Strickland

Publisher: Annotated

Published: 2018-01-09

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781449482138

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Presents the history of art from prehistoric times to the present day, describes major artists and movements, and details the influence of art on society through the ages.


Native Americans on Film

Native Americans on Film

Author: M. Elise Marubbio

Publisher: University Press of Kentucky

Published: 2013-01-01

Total Pages: 400

ISBN-13: 0813136652

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Looks at the movies of Native American filmmakers and explores how they have used their works to leave behind the stereotypical Native American characters of old.


Wonder, Education, and Human Flourishing. Theoretical, Empirical, and Practical Perspectives

Wonder, Education, and Human Flourishing. Theoretical, Empirical, and Practical Perspectives

Author:

Publisher:

Published: 2020

Total Pages: 344

ISBN-13: 9789086598212

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The premƯise that underlies this volume is that there are strong interconnections between wonder, education and human flourishing. And more specifically, that wonƯder can make a significant difference to how well one?s education progresses and how well one?s life goes. The contributors to this volume ? both senior, well-known and beginning researchers and students of wonder ? variously explore aspects of these connections from philosophical, empirical, theoretical and practical perspectives. The three chapters that comprise Part I of the book are devoted to the importance of wonder for education and for human flourishing. Part II contains four chapters offering conceptual analyses of wonder and perspectives from developmental psychology and philosophy (Spinoza, Wittgenstein, philosophy of religion). The seven chapters that form Part III contain a wealth of ideas and educational strategies to promote wonder in education and teacher education. This volume not only underlines and articulates the importance of wonder in education and in life but also offers fresh perspectives, allowing us to look with renewed wonder at wonder itself.


The Films of Carol Reed

The Films of Carol Reed

Author: Robert F. Moss

Publisher: Columbia University Press

Published: 1987

Total Pages: 336

ISBN-13: 9780231059848

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Once enthroned as a major international filmmaker, Carol Reed has long since been banished to a musty corner of movie history. To dust off his work, however, is to discover a dazzling body of films, a canon as remarkable for its diversity as its quality. Building his case, film by film, Robert Moss argues persuasively for a reassessment of this gifted artist, claiming a place for him in the ranks of the world's greatest directors.


God

God

Author: Dan Barker

Publisher:

Published: 2018-03-06

Total Pages: 320

ISBN-13: 9781454930105

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What words come to mind when we think of God? Merciful? Just? Compassionate? Delving deep into the Bible, former evangelical preacher Dan Barker uncovers God's negative qualities: jealous, petty, unforgiving, bloodthirsty, vindictive--and worse! Witty and well researched, this unique atheist book explains exactly why the Scripture shouldn't govern our everyday lives. It makes a powerful argument for the separation of church and state.


The Art of Watching Films

The Art of Watching Films

Author: Joseph M. Boggs

Publisher: McGraw-Hill College

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 553

ISBN-13: 9780073535074

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Accompanying CD-ROM provides short film clips that reinforce the key concepts and topics in each chapter.


The Secret in the Bible

The Secret in the Bible

Author: Tony Bushby

Publisher:

Published: 2003-01-01

Total Pages: 344

ISBN-13: 9780958189149

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Provides insight into the lost history of the Giza Plateau and how Temple priests of the Great Pyramid preserved the evidence of life beyond death.


The Onion Book of Known Knowledge

The Onion Book of Known Knowledge

Author: The Onion

Publisher: Little, Brown

Published: 2012-10-23

Total Pages: 259

ISBN-13: 031613323X

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Are you a witless cretin with no reason to live? Would you like to know more about every piece of knowledge ever? Do you have cash? Then congratulations, because just in time for the death of the print industry as we know it comes the final book ever published, and the only one you will ever need: The Onion's compendium of all things known. Replete with an astonishing assemblage of facts, illustrations, maps, charts, threats, blood, and additional fees to edify even the most simple-minded book-buyer, The Onion Book of Known Knowledge is packed with valuable information -- such as the life stages of an Aunt; places to kill one's self in Utica, New York; and the dimensions of a female bucket, or "pail." With hundreds of entries for all 27 letters of the alphabet, The Onion Book of Known Knowledge must be purchased immediately to avoid the sting of eternal ignorance.