Art Theorists of the Italian Renaissance

Art Theorists of the Italian Renaissance

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Publisher:

Published: 1998

Total Pages:

ISBN-13: 9780859643443

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The database is a collection of treatises on art and architecture from the period 1470 to 1775. It is structured around the two Italian editions of Giorgio Vasari's Lives of the artists.


Magic Search

Magic Search

Author: Rebecca S. Kornegay

Publisher: American Library Association

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 168

ISBN-13: 0838909906

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Presents the 467 best-performing LCSH subdivisions that speak to the kinds of research questions librarians handle every day. The quick-reference format, along with a handy index, makes this a useful tool to keep close at hand.


Primary Source Collections in the Pacific Northwest

Primary Source Collections in the Pacific Northwest

Author: Nancy A. Bunker

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Published: 2005-10-30

Total Pages: 548

ISBN-13: 0897899393

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Primary source collections from Idaho, Oregon, and Washington are described and evaluated. Covering a broad cross-section of libraries, museums, historical societies, and government archives this book provides a detailed look at 175 institutions and their collections. Descriptive entries cover contact information, facilities, material types, and multiple subject indexes to the holdings. Discusses the nature of archival research and lists digital resources and Web sites of interest to historians. The perfect tour guide for scholars engaged in writing about the history of the Pacific Northwest and related national topics.


America's History, Combined Volume

America's History, Combined Volume

Author: James A. Henretta

Publisher: Macmillan

Published: 2011-01-05

Total Pages: 1170

ISBN-13: 031238789X

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"America's History helps AP students: Grasp vital themes: The seventh edition emphasizes political culture and political economy to help students understand the ways in which society, culture, politics, and the economy inform one another. Understand periodization: America's History's unique seven-part structure, which organizes history into distinct eras, introduces students to periodization and helps them understand cause and effect, identify historical continuities, and track change over time. Develop the skills they need to succeed: America's History's hallmark analytical narrative and pedagogy help students synthesize what they've learned and interpret history for themselves."--Back cover.


Story Power!

Story Power!

Author: Elizabeth C. Manvell

Publisher: R&L Education

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 209

ISBN-13: 1607099187

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When students hear something interesting, something they connect to personally, they pay attention and want to know more. The stories in primary materials - a diary, letter, census record, photograph, official report - breathe life into history and invite critical thinking and conceptual understanding. Story Power! teaches us where to find stories, to assess the quality of sources, and to go past shallow summaries to the complicated story below the surface.


Gender and Higher Education

Gender and Higher Education

Author: Barbara J. Bank

Publisher: JHU Press

Published: 2011-03

Total Pages: 451

ISBN-13: 0801897823

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Encyclopedic review about gender and its impact on American higher education across historical and cultural contexts. The contributors describe the ways in which gender is embedded in the educational practices, curriculum, institutional structures and governance of colleges and universities. Topics included are: institutional diversity; academic majors and programs; extracurricular organizations such as sororities, fraternities and women's centers; affirmative action and other higher educational policies; and theories that have been used to analyze and explain the ways in which gender in academe is constructed.