Product Description: As a parent you cannot prepare yourself; when something goes wrong during the birth of a child, the results are immediate, and the consequences ongoing. Mary Chan and her husband, Paul, were expecting their first child with delight and anxiety, and, when Sabrina was born, their dreams came true...read more

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.

Product Description: A challenging exploration of the visual arts from 1880 through 1920, Modern Starts is an unconventional guide to the beginnings of modernism. Deliberately abandoning customary labels--such as Fauvism, Cubism, and Futurism--and accepted chronological ordering, Modern Starts offers many pathways, each independent and self-sufficient, intended to suggest fresh modes of looking at and thinking about works both very familiar and quite unfamiliar...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: This edition offers the "Life" as Roger North finally conceived of it. Assessment of North's place in the history of life-writing based on the evidence of the 1742 version has misrepresented and, Mary Chan claims, underestimated North's achievement...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Roger North's The Musicall Grammarian 1728, first published in 1990, is a treatise on musical eloquence in all its branches. Of its five parts, I and II, on the orthoepy, orthography and syntax of music, constitute a grammar; III and IV, on the arts of invention and communication, form a rhetoric; and V, on etymology, consists of a history...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)