Product Description: Masterpieces Up Close is back in print! Once again readers can explore great works of art from the Middle Ages to the twentieth century in exquisite large-format detail. Captioned, full-color reproductions of more than twenty paintings provide informative and challenging treasure hunts involving more than one-hundred close-up details...read more

This text is well known for using the Keynesian model in the teaching of economics; yet in the 2007 Update edition, the authors have expanded coverage of the growth model considerably to achieve more balanced coverage making the content more accessible for the students. The text uses the aggregate supply/ aggregate demand model as a fundamental tool for learning macroeconomics. It achieves the right level of rigor and detail, presenting complicated concepts in a relatively straightforward manner and using timely economic data. Using puzzles, issues, and well-developed examples, the authors provide a good balance of theory to application allowing students to relate the materials to their every day lives.

Product Description: This beautiful introduction to art and language features some of the world’s most beloved masterpieces as it entices children to discover art, language, objects, and colors. First pictures, first words―this familiar and time-proven book concept for young children is incorporated brilliantly in this multi-lingual art book...read more

Product Description: Since 1964, beginning with a reproduction of Jan van Eycke's St Jerome in His Study, the front cover of JAMA:The Journal of the American Medical Association has featured full-color images of renowned works of fine art as well as many lesser-known gems...read more

A chronological compendium of fifty great artists and their most important works spans six centuries of world art and encompasses biographical profiles and information on style, movements, influences, trademarks, and identifiable techniques for artists including Michelangelo, Van Gogh, Matisse, and others.

Provides a close-up look at forty-five important artworks from the world's greatest artists, furnishing biographical notes on each artist, a detailed analysis of each work, and a study of artistic technique, style, and symbolism.

Product Description: In this fun and accessible book, children learn to develop their ability to "see" art in new ways. Each spread features a different painting and focuses on a different perspective -- up, down, around, inside, outside, and more. Simple text and questions invite children to examine each work more closely, giving them a better understanding of the painting and of artistic techniques...read more

This is a critique of works of art dating from the early fifteenth century through to modern installations. Suggesting a series of questions to ask when looking at a painting this will help develop a critical understanding of art.

Takes a close-up look at the secret histories of some of the world's most famous art masterpieces, describing how they came to be created and how they survived forgery, revolution, burglary, vandalism, ransoms, scandal, religious turmoil, and shipwreck to become to some of the world's most priceless artworks. Original. 40,000 first printing.

An adaptation of a visual exercise known as the 'curator's game' outlines an entertaining approach to understanding and appreciating great works of art, in a volume that introduces key artists, themes, techniques, and styles with a series of essays designed to help readers to identify visual details within a context. Original. 20,000 first printing.

Invites young readers to view thirteen classic paintings of inside scenes from the Metropolitan Museum of Art and and pick out certain details in each work.

Invites young readers to view thirteen classic paintings of outside scenes from the Metropolitan Museum of Art and and pick out certain details in each work.

Presents paintings of various subjects, selected from details of works by artists of different times and places, from an eagle by Hokusai to a pair of shoes by Van Gogh.

Product Description: Looking at 90 of history's greatest masterpieces to explain just what makes them great, this work contains brief, informative essays that examine each work from historic and cultural perspectives and offers intriguing observations and interesting anecdotes about the artists and their eras...read more

The tale of a museum tour led by the Archangel Gabriel from Fra Angelico's 'Annunciation' serves to introduce paintings from the Renaissance to Jackson Pollock and the symbols they use to express their meanings.

Product Description: The third edition of Engineering Noise Control has been thoroughly revised, updated and extended. Each chapter contains new material, much of which is not available elsewhere. The result is a comprehensive discussion of the theoretical principles and concepts of acoustics and noise control, a detailed discussion of the hearing mechanism, noise measuring instrumentation and techniques, noise criteria, sound source characterization and emission, outdoor sound propagation, sound in rooms, sound transmission through partitions, enclosure design, dissipative and reactive mufflers, vibration isolation, equipment sound power emission calculations and active noise cancellation...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: An enlightening conversation continues with The Art of JAMA II. In 1997, an initial one hundred reproductions and essays were published in a handsome, coffee table volume - The Art of JAMA - to generous acclaim. The much-anticipated new volume, The Art of JAMA II: Covers and Essays from The Journal of the American Medical Association, brings you: -One hundred new art cover reproductions culled from the years 1988, 1989 and 1990 -Opposite each full-page color illustration, Dr...read more

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Presents reproductions of or descriptions of nineteen paintings representing classical myths, accompanied by the actual myth (view table of contents)