Product Description: Spanning 170 years, from William Henry Fox Talbot's first negative to Jeff Wall's latest constructed tableau, Singular Images collects thought-provoking essays on individual photographs, one image per writer. The essayists consider, sometimes in highly personal ways, the artist's intention, their own response, the work's technical complexities, its historical context or its formal properties...read more

A core text for the history of education, this chronologically organized text presents the story of American education from precolonial times to the present. Comprehensive and well balanced, it presents each major period in the development of American education against the broader backdrop of national and world events.

Product Description: One hundred works of modern art are presented here in five sections: Faces, Gestures, Postures, Pairs, and Groups. Works from 1880 to 1920 are contrasted with more recent examples to crate an eclectic and provocative examination of figurative art.