Product Description: Originally published in 1939, this book contains a series of unfinished lectures written by Roger Fry, the Slade Professor of Fine Arts at the University of Cambridge. Fry's lectures cover a wide range of artistic styles, from the art of Ancient Greece and Egypt to American and Chinese art, as well as a review of art history as an academic study...read more

Product Description: What is it like to dive in the murky depths of the ocean? How do you raise the wreck of a ship or aircraft? Here, Kenneth Clark relives his diving experiences from training in the 1950s, to being awarded the Gold Sub Aqua Medal by the Duke of Edinburgh...read more

Product Description: This book provides the essential knowledge and guidance teachers and library media specialists need to design, create, store, and deliver effective web-based presentations.• Addresses the full spectrum of web-based presentation tools available• Provides a customizable rubric for selecting the most appropriate tool• Supplies detailed examples of features available in web-based presentation tools as well as suggested teacher and student uses• Introduces teachers to important safety and legal concerns regarding the use of online tool...read more

Product Description: Many people think that greedy lenders intent on victimizing unsuspecting borrowers caused the mortgage crisis, saddling them with loans they couldn't afford and taking their houses through foreclosure for later sale at a profit. If that's what you think, you're dead wrong...read more

Kenneth Clark explains, with the help of practical and informative text together with step-by-step illustrations and examples of finished work, the various aspects of pottery. These include techniques of wedge making, pinching, coiling, slab building, throwing, joining, moulding and turning.

Selections from the writings of the influential British critic cover nature, art, architecture, economics, and social reform, and are accompanied by background information and comments