Product Description: Jockum Nordström creates oddball, apparently naïve narratives that owe much to the twin influences of folk art and modernist absurdism. Each of his painted, drawn or collaged stories is both specific and open-ended, as though--not unlike Henry Darger’s paintings--they are part of a much grander and ongoing tale that unfolds over a prolonged period...read more

Product Description: Pat Jones grew up in a large family of nine children moving from place to place as tenant farmers and sharecroppers during the Great Depression. These stories reveal her love of the earth, of animals and birds, of barns and ponies...read more

Product Description: Sights, sounds, quiet and mice—they are all a part of the surroundings that speak to the receptive soul of this eloquent poet. Adirondack Sojourn is our own cabin in the woods inviting us inside for awe and meditation…and laughter...read more

Product Description: A variety of poems about love and Nature and a picture to match each. Featured at "Art from the Heart". Large print.

Product Description: This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work...read more

Product Description: This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work...read more

Product Description: This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work...read more

Product Description: This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work...read more

Product Description: The poetry in A Taste of the Sun unearths the small pieces of gold within the stones of our common experiences. The author invites the reader to see the everyday through a different set of lenses. The colors are heightened but never sentimentalized...read more

Product Description: `In this excellent and thought-provoking book. Hutchinson has taken the debate about nations and nationalism a significant step forward. His view of nations as zones of conflict is a useful and appropriate way of approaching this subject, making an important contribution to the field - one that may come to shape the literature′ - Paul Hopper, School of Historical and Critical Studies, University of Brighton What is the relationship between nations and conflict? Is globalization really eroding national sovereignty and cultural unity? This novel and compelling book explores such questions, arguing that it is wrong to assume that nations are culturally uniform...read more

Product Description: Book by Hutchinson, John

Product Description: This book offers the most up-to-date survey of current perspectives and debates in the fields of nations and nationalism. It brings together a selected group of leading scholars in each of the sub-fields who offer a comprehensive and challenging approach to the study of nationalism...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Recipient of the 1994 Turner Prize, Antony Gormley is an internationally acclaimed artist who has revitalized the human figure in sculpture. His public sculpture projects, such as the Angel of the North, have continued to grow in scale and ambition, as well as popularity...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: This volume sheds light on the pride of the region - the great medieval churches of York Minster, the Minster and St Mary at Beverley, and Holy Trinity, Hull but also on less well known architectural pleasures of town and county. Outstanding Victorian village churches, including masterpieces by Street & Pearson, are as rewarding as the major country houses of Burton Agnes, Burton Constable and Sledmere...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Presents projects and experiments exploring calculation and chance in such areas as cards, heredity, wind speed, and games.

Presents projects and experiments exploring scientific principles in different habitats and environments, including a butterfly farm, bird feeder, forest, and pond.

Presents projects and experiments exploring the presence of various scientific principles in nature, including friction, electrical resistance, acceleration, and the displacement of water.