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Painter, arts writer, and educator Becky Hendrick reveals the impact of the terrorist attacks of 9/11/2001 on her art and her overall creative processes. She demonstrates various intentions of her lengthy art career and compares painting in order to pay attention to painting (as well as creating in other genres) to say, as if in prayer, "please, please, please..." She details the discovery of the image and the changes made to it --- and the ch...

From previously published essays and articles, artist, writer, and educator Becky Hendrick puts together several talks/writings about Art, capital A. These memoirs document essays given at College Art Association, lessons learned from 50 years of creative work, and specifics on her peripheral (and rarely shown/seen) portraits and self-portraits. It also reproduces a previously published catalogue designed by Jud Burgess (El Paso) about her uni...

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In this timely history, the editor of the National Review chronicles the history of nationalism and its intellectual roots, revealing how this political model--a refutation of globalism--became maligned and why it offers a viable way forward for America.r America.

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This book presents all the core material needed to teach development economics in a one semester course. The book allows students to see different perspectives on key development questions, and therefore to understand more fully the contested nature of many key areas of development economics.

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Adoption, exile, and family are the focus of this exploration of what it means to belong.

JM Farkas takes on Ovid's Ars Amoratis, in her signature feminist, revisionist twist, Farkas and speaks to emerging "girl" poets.

A chess grandmaster reveals the powerful teachings this ancient game offers for staying present, thriving in a complex world, and crafting a fulfilling life. Refined and perfected through 1, 500 years of human history, chess has long been a touchstone for shrewd tacticians and master strategists. But the game is much more than just warfare in miniature. Chess is also an ever-shifting puzzle to be solved, a narrative to be written, and a task t...

Daniel Paterna's Feast of the Seven Fishes: A Brooklyn-Italian's Recipes Celebrating Food and Family is a timely reminder that a shared memory of food draws upon and enriches our souls.In Feast of the Seven Fishes: A Brooklyn Italian's Recipes Celebrating Food and Family, Daniel Paterna takes you on magical journey into a hidden world. Through recipes handed down in his family, stunning photos taken by the author himself, and three-generations...

A melting snowman leads her-of course!-to explore climate change and how to reduce her carbon footprint. The helium balloons at her eleventh birthday party beg questions-naturally!-of molecular structure, weights of gases, and neutral buoyancy. An afternoon making paper airplanes brings discoveries in aerodynamics. Tracks in the snow raise questions of how animals survive the winter. And an afternoon of sledding slides right into an investigat...

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First published in A Continuous Harmony in 1972, "Think Little" is cultural critic and agrarian Berry at his best: prescient about the dire environmental consequences of people's mentality of greed and exploitation, yet hopeful that they will recognize war and oppression and pollution not as separate issues, but aspects of the same.

Lisa Wool-Rim Sjoblom's powerful memoir of her adult engagement with her origins as one of the nine-thousand South Korean children adopted by Sweden in the 1970s and 1980s. Presented in Sjoblom's distinctive autumnal tones and clear-line style.

A full-color, hardcover collector's edition of the landmark webcomic.

Long heralded as a city treasure herself, expert "mudlarker" Lara Maiklem is uniquely trained in the art of seeking. Tirelessly trekking across miles of the Thames' muddy shores, where others only see the detritus of city life, Maiklem unearths evidence of England's captivating, if sometimes murky, history-with some objects dating back to 43 AD, when London was but an outpost of the Roman Empire. From medieval mail worn by warriors on English ...

The selected works of one of our finest American poetsThe thread that dangles us between a dark and a darker dark, Is luminous, sure, but smooth sided. Don't touch it here, and don't touch it there. Don't touch it, in fact, anywhere-Let it dangle and hold us hard, let it flash and swing.-from "Scar Tissue"Over the course of his work-more than twenty books in total-Charles Wright has built "one of the truly distinctive bodies of poetry created ...

The author discusses a more effective way to lead that is enabled by the Information Age. He provides real solutions to real problems using GIS technology and helps develop a management strategy using data that will profoundly change an organization.