Product Description: The Ceramics Reader is an impressive collection of essays and text extracts which covers all the key areas of ceramics – both past and present. It focuses on thoughts and discussions within ceramics from the last 20-30 years in particular, but also gives the reader a broad overview of the last 100 years...read more

Product Description: Pottery and ceramics is normally regarded in a serious, mirthless manner. It doesn't matter whether it is magnificent works of art, educational and therapeutic activities, or the cutting edge of industrial technology in electronics or safe storage of nuclear waste that is under consideration...read more

Product Description: A lavishly illustrated look at a unique form of pottery created 1500 years ago by Mound Builders living in the Mississippi River Valley of Southeast Missouri and Northeast Arkansas. Hundreds of full color photographs illustrate the varied forms and are accompanied by detailed descriptions...read more

This structured book offers a solid overview of the types of early childhood programs available today, and explores all aspects of their administration. Rooted in the philosophy that thoughtful planning and administration are essential to the success of early childhood programs, it examines how specific program bases affect decisions in all areas of program planning. It is designed to equip readers with the necessary strategies, tactics, and resources to make better judgements in administering early childhood programs. Chapter topics include an overview of these programs and detailed information pertaining to operationalizing and implementing of them—such as considering regulations and establishing policies, leading and managing personnel, planning the physical facility, financing and budgeting, and working with families. For administrators of early childhood programs.

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Product Description: The Mint Museum’s collection of British ceramics is one the best and largest in the United States, numbering over two thousand items. It boasts objects from all the major centers of production: Wedgwood, Chelsea, Worcester and Staffordshire...read more

Product Description: The Willett Collection is unique. It is the only collection formed to illustrate what 19th century businessman Henry Willett called 'popular British history'. The collection of nearly 2,000 items is arranged here in chapters corresponding to Willett's own cataloguing system...read more

Product Description: This practical text is a best seller in the field due to del Carmen's succinct and clear writing style, use of engaging pedagogy, and ability to communicate important information without bogging students down with the minutiae. Filled with case briefings, examples, sample police forms, and the most recent Supreme Court rulings, this book is known for its relevance to law enforcement officials and professionals in the field...read more

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Product Description: This book looks at decorative tiles manufactured in Germany, Austria, Hungary and Bohemia/Moravia/Czechoslovakia in the years between 1895 and 1935. These ceramic tiles, used primarily on walls, floors, and stoves, but also furniture, trays and more, were an affordable decor element that made art accessible to many...read more

Product Description: When this book first appeared in 1996, it was “Pottery 101,” a basic introduction to the subject. It served as an art book, a history book, and a reference book, but also fun to read, beautiful to look at, and filled with good humor and good sense...read more

Product Description: You'll get your first OS/2 device drivers and running in less than one hour with this easy-to-understand guidebook. Newly revised and expanded, this updated edition defines each type of driver, explains how various components of the operating system interact and shows you how to fit drivers into your system...read more