Product Description: Thirty-one full-page patterns offer a captivating array of stylish designs to color. Artfully arranged circles, squares, triangles, and other geometric shapes form a gallery of streamlined repeating images in the ever-popular Art Deco mode...read more

Product Description: This extensive essay by William Rowe aims to assist students and teachers of literature to consider the verbal texts within the larger field of cultural practices. It is a movement of concepts between theoretical frameworks and texts, beginning with the last instead of favoring the first ones...read more

Product Description: The purpose of the book is to enhance the concept of Technique in the teaching and practice of Social Work. Over the years Technique has not been stressed as a part of practice even though the actual practice of Social Work consists of the utilization of techniques in addition to theory and the process of assessment and diagnosis...read more

Product Description: This book offers the general reader an introduction to some of the most exciting poetry of recent years. These poets take lyrical emotion away from gutless pastoral nostalgia and dull conservative language and bring it into the contemporary: poetry that, instead of lulling to sleep, explodes with the possibilities of life...read more

Comprehensive Handbook of Social Work and Social Welfare, Volume 3: The Profession of Social Work features contributions from leading international researchers and practitioners and presents the most comprehensive, in-depth source of information on the field of social work and social welfare.

Product Description: This is a collection of essays about, and interviews with, the contemporary British poet, Bill Griffiths. His poetry, written over four decades, is wide-ranging in tone, subject, practice and effect, dealing with anything from London, prison, hospital, colonial history, boats, cartoons, old English and dialect poetry, or the classics...read more

Product Description: In this book, social work practitioners, theorists and researchers offer new perspectives on the meaning, role and history of addiction in our society and the construction of illicit drug use as a social problem. Some of the contributors discuss assessment tools and therapeutic programs being employed today in the treatment of addicted individuals...read more

Product Description: Who are the important poets of Latin America since the 1950s? What are the key features of their work? This book shows that contemporary Latin-American poetry continues to be as exciting as it was with Pablo Neruda and César Vallejo...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This book brings together essays by front-line workers and researchers from across the country. The essayists describe their own successes and failures in dealing with the effects of HIV in rural communities, and upon urban Aboriginal street youth, haemophiliacs, the gay male community, women, injection drug users, and families with children...read more

Product Description: This Spanish text is useful for teaching Peruvian, Latin American literature and cultural history at university level. It could also be read at upper sixth-form level as the plot is uncomplicated and the emotional atmosphere is immediately graspable...read more

Product Description: Four styles of art deco pattern wrapping paper, presented in book form.

Product Description: Samba and carnival, radio soaps and telenovelas, oral poetry, popular drama, Amerindian art. This illustrated overview of Latin America’s popular culture considers the broad spectrum of cultural forms in the various countries of the subcontinent...read more

Product Description: Add eye-catching Deco dazzle to almost any graphic project with this collection of 32 extremely useful royalty-free border designs. In addition to a complete border configured in circular, oval, square or rectangular format, each page also features many different lengthening and embellishing elements making hundreds of variations possible...read more

Add antique flair to almost any graphic project calling for a flowery touch with the lovely illustrations in this practical archive of floral beauty. Reproduced from authentic nineteenth-century engravings in rare periodicals, these 750 royalty-free illustrations depict columbine, aster, morning glory, lady's slipper, dandelion, iris, foxglove, and hundreds of other flowers. A magnificent testimonial to the talents of Victorian engravers, the images are so finely detailed that the most delicate aspects of foliage and blossoms are often clearly visible.Artists, illustrators, and crafters will turn again and again to this sourcebook for inspiration and ready-to-use graphics. Nature lovers will delight in the accuracy and realism of these hard-to-find images. And decorators may even color and frame William Rowe's whimsical and charming floral arrangements for hanging on their walls.

Product Description: The stylized geometric forms of Art Deco continue to be extremely popular with today's artists, designers, and craftspeople. In this highly useful archive, William Rowe interprets this streamlined decorative style in his own unique way...read more

Product Description: "William Rowe takes aim at every aspect of the holiday season.... These 24 postcards will surprise and delight your holiday correspondents." - from Publishers note inside book.

Product Description: Bizarre tableaux featuring amalgams of vintage machines, contraptions, and gizmos of the 19th century. Hundreds of exotic illustrations.

Product Description: This text presents the knowledge, attitudes, and skills pertinent to responding to the sexual problems of developmentally handicapped persons, their families, and communities. It details fully documented cases, issues concerning the law, and resource materials available.

Product Description: The sleek, exciting geometric motifs seen everywhere in today's decorative arts reflect the continuing Art Deco revival. Textiles, wallpaper, upholstery, and graphics abound with the dynamic, distinctive patterns associated with this influential and popular style...read more

Product Description: This handsome collection presents 72 full-page original Art Deco designs — all royalty-free and ready to use. Masterfully executed in pen and ink, these borders, frames, and motifs combine circles, squares, and other abstract forms with foliate and floral elements...read more

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