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Every artist strives to achieve the kind of painting that commands attention from across the room and delights the eye up close. In this book, artist and workshop teacher Patti Mollica walks you through surprisingly simple and efficient strategies for achieving that kind of powerful composition, whatever your subject.

The reputation of Janet Frame, modern New Zealand writer, languishes. This volume will bring more recognition to Frame. Among its well-known contributors are Patricia Moran, Suzette A. Henke and Claire Bazin. The collection truly has a global reach, with professors in the US, England, France, and Australia, and all of the essays are written by women.

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Michael Menser is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy and Urban¿Sustainability Studies at Brooklyn College in New York and co-founder¿of the Participatory Budgeting Project. He is the co-editor of Technoscience and Cyberculture.

Michael Menser is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy and Urban¿Sustainability Studies at Brooklyn College in New York and co-founder¿of the Participatory Budgeting Project. He is the co-editor of Technoscience and Cyberculture.

This book focuses on exciting new research in polymer science. The first section of the book deals with new advancements in polymer technology, which includes polymers that are responsible for progress in the field of energy, electronics, and medical sciences. It focuses on the most promising polymer nanocomposites and nanomaterials. Composites are becoming more important because they can help to improve quality of life. The second section of ...

A powerful exploration of the role of women in the Republican Party that enhances readers' understanding of gender representation in the GOP and suggests solutions to address the partisan gender gap.Why is the Republican Party dominated by men to a far greater extent than its primary rival? With literature on conservative women in the United States still in its infancy, this book fills an important gap. It does so by examining Republican women...

What is the big deal about cannabis? This book covers everything from botany to the historical uses and common misconceptions of cannabis, with a focus on the political process of prohibition and legalization of cannabis in the United States. Why is marijuana-to which few if any deaths can be attributed-generally banned in the United States, while cigarettes and liquor-which unquestionably kill millions-are currently legal? This question can b...

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Focusing on portrayals of California in popular culture, this collection of new essays traces a central theme of darkness through literature, video games, music, TV series, and film. Providing insight into the significance of Californian icons, the contributors explore the interplay between positive stereotypes and ambivalent responses connected with the myth of the Golden State.

This is a classic reprint of an end times, Christian Bible tract (circa 1875). It goes into some detail concerning: death, salvation, hell, the resurrection, judgment, Satan, the Antichrist, Babylon, the Great Tribulation, the Millennium, the end of the world, new heaven and new earth, and the Lake of Fire (among others), with biblical references throughout.

The heroic Filthy Thirteen of World War II were the inspiration for the movie "The Dirty Dozen." Now, one of the integral members reveals his own inside account of fighting in Normandy, Market Garden, and the Battle of the Bulge.

This book consists of previously unpublished manuscripts by Vygotsky found in the first systematic study of Vygotsky’s family archive. The notebooks and scientific diaries gathered in this volume represent all periods of Vygotsky’s scientific life, beginning with the earliest manuscript, entitled The tragicomedy of strivings (1912), and ending with his last note, entitled Pro domo sua (1934), written shortly before his death. The notes reveal ...

In the spring of 1940 Canada sent hundreds of volunteers to serve in Britain's Royal Air Force as it began a concerted bombing campaign against Germany. Nearly half of them were killed or captured within a year. This is the story of one of those airmen, as told through his own letters and diaries as well as those of his family and friends.

Written and edited by experts in the field, this collection from Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Biology focuses on the critical questions currently debated in the field of immune memory and vaccination. Topics include the plasticity of memory CD4 T cells, the formation of germinal centers by memory B cells, the contributions of natural killer cells to immune memory, and the influence of commensal microbiota on immune responses. Several con...

Mangoes are one of the most important and widely-cultivated fruits in tropical as well as sub-tropical regions. There have been a number of recent developments with the potential to improve crop yields and quality. There has been new research in understanding the physiology of tree and fruit development with implications for both breeding and cultivation. Analysis of the mango genome promises new, faster breeding techniques to develop improved...

Mit seiner innovativen Farbgebung, effektvollen Lichtführung und seinem neuartigen Bildaufbau wurde Tiziano Vecellio (um 1490-1576), gemeinhin bekannt unter dem Namen Tizian, zur Galionsfigur der venezianischen Malerei des 16. Jahrhunderts. Schon zu Lebzeiten ein bewunderter, überaus erfolgreicher Malerfürst, zu dessen Auftraggebern auch Kaiser Karl V. und Philipp II. von Spanien gehörten, hinterließ er ein erstaunlich breit gefächertes OEuvre...

Oil palm is widely cultivated in tropical countries for use in food processing, personal care products and other applications such as biodiesel. Cultivation faces a range of challenges such as its environmental impact (e.g. in deforestation and biodiversity loss) as well threats from pests and diseases. There is an urgent need to make oil palm cultivation more efficient and environmentally sustainable. This collection reviews the key research ...

Europas Faible für die Kunst und Kultur des Alten Ägyptens kann auf eine lange Tradition zurückblicken. Schon zur Zeit der Römer gelangten Obelisken, Statuen und Reliefs, die man pharaonischen Grabstätten und Tempeln entnommen hatte, über das Mittelmeer. Mit der Wiederentdeckung Ägyptens in der Neuzeit, den Ausgrabungsaktivitäten der frühen Ägyptologen und im Sog der im 19. Jahrhundert voll erblühenden Ägyptomanie gelangten zahllose Kunstschät...

Viele Projektleiter benötigen für die Umsetzung von Projekten zunehmend die Fähigkeit, neue Wege und neue Zugänge zu Projektherausforderungen zu finden. Gerade bewährten Projektleitern fällt es schwer, abseits bekannter Wege zu gehen und zu denken. Die Devise in diesem Buch lautet: " Manchmal muss man vom Wege abkommen, um nicht auf der Strecke zu bleiben.