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Author
Publisher
Visible Ink Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Ruthless killers and murderers for hire: they are here, there, and everywhere. They lurk in the shadows, ready to pounce. They terminate on command. And, in the process, they change the course of the world. They are among the world's most cold-hearted, deadly, and emotionless figures. They are assassins, and they have a long history of grievous deeds. From the cunning, calculating, government-trained warriors to the psychopathic, homegrown freelancers,...
Author
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"African Americans' Struggle for Freedom in the Civil War Era For a century and a half, Abraham Lincoln's signing of the Emancipation Proclamation has been the dominant narrative of African American freedom in the Civil War era. However, David Williams suggests that this portrayal marginalizes the role that African American slaves played in freeing themselves. At the Civil War's outset, Lincoln made clear his intent was to save the Union rather than...
1770) Photography
Author
Publisher
Pearson
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Overview: The most comprehensive, up-to-date resource for today's photography students. Photography Eleventh edition offers an in-depth approach to photography that spans the ever-changing landscape of photography-from dark-room to digital print. This edition presents all facets of photography, laying out what you need to know to make photographs with digital tools as well as the integral steps to perfecting film print.
Publisher
SAGE Publications
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Educational practices have rapidly changed in the last few decades, especially in how exchanges of information and learning are delivered and processed. Yet, while the field of international comparative studies has grown, there has not been an extensive study on the relationship between educational practices, students, and how practitioners are prepared and trained. This handbook explores international educational practices and behaviours through...
Author
Publisher
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Pub. Date
c2001
Language
English
Description
"The Road to Aztlan: Art from a Mythic Homeland explores the art derived from and created about the legendary area that encompasses the American Southwest and portions of Mexico, from long before they were separated by an international border to the present day. Produced to accompany a major exhibition at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, The Road to Aztlan contains nineteen essays by an international team of scholars and artists who investigate...
Author
Publisher
Teaching Company
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Professor Connel Fullenkamp of Duke University guides you through four centuries of economic disasters--from tulip mania in the 1600s to the Great Recession of 2007-2009. Each of his 24 lectures (30 Minutes per lectures) covers a notable incident of financial misfortune or folly that is worthy of a Hollywood thriller. You hear how Charles Ponzi conducted the moneymaking scam that bears his name; how mining companies in the Old West sprang up like...
Publisher
Hal Leonard
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Altered chords (variations of the original chords) make a song sound even more rich and professionally arranged. This book gives pianists the very best chord changes for some of the most beautiful songs ever written. Also included are playing tips, music examples and harmonic analysis--from publisher description.
Author
Series
Publisher
The Johns Hopkins University Press
Pub. Date
[1992]
Language
English
Description
In Rainer Werner Fassbinder's "A Year of Thirteen Moons," the camera watches the prostitute Red Zora as she watches Fassbinder in a television interview. The actress is Ingrid Caven, the director's former wife and the woman with whom he claims to have his most important "elective affinity." At once provocative and revealing, the scene illustrates Fassbinder's interest in blurring the boundaries between art and life, between fiction and autobiography....
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
The first anthology ever to present the entire range of ancient Greek and Roman stories--from myths and fairy tales to jokes Captured centaurs and satyrs, talking animals, people who suddenly change sex, men who give birth, the temporarily insane and the permanently thick-witted, delicate sensualists, incompetent seers, a woman who remembers too much, a man who cannot laugh--these are just some of the colorful characters who feature in the unforgettable...
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