THE ADVANTAGES OF THE PICK-AND-SCREEN SYSTEM This book is for the coach who likes to share ideas. I'm hoping -::ices questions that some coach can answer or want A coach might have the exciting conclusion or alter-r_-. e to a certain play we are using. I don't know everything : basketball, but I do know that this system will bring the discipline that all coaches would like to have. This offense will be adaptable to your way of thinking and V.7ti.:7 offensive patterns, whatever they may be. The strongest point of this system is that it develops a pride in shoot-rebounding, and even movement without the ball. This offense has worked for me for 19 years. It is one that works no matter what material you have; and the the material, the better the results. Although this offense is a patterned one, its options are and therefore, very difficult to stop.

Designed as a companion to '1000 Chairs', this title contains a selection of over 1000 lights. It presents history's most interesting electric lights, arranged chronologically by decade, from Edison's first light to Tiffany's beautiful leaded glass shades to the outrageous designs from the late 1960s and 1970s to the high-tech LED lamps.

Product Description: This comprehensive handbook, intended for anyone whose work involves the use of ornamental art, contains 1,000 representative examples of decorative designs. Identified by time and place of origin, they span the centuries and cover a wide diversity of cultures, with such primary forms represented as the square, circle, and triangle, as well as a variety of flora and fauna...read more

Provides twenty-five craft projects that revolve around Latino culture to create such items as masks, piänatas, and dolls.

Product Description: These impressive, royalty-free images, representing the finest in Art Nouveau design, include engaging black-and-white illustrations of everything from a simple medallion to elaborate panels, borders and vignettes, plus elegant representations in color of flowers, shells, exotic animals, and other outstanding motifs...read more

Product Description: During the Victorian and Edwardian eras, elaborately tiled walls and floors were revived as an essential element of interior decor. Now scores of richly decorative tile designs of the period have been reproduced in this permission-free collection, reprinted in beautiful full color from the plates of rare nineteenth and early twentieth century manufacturers' catalogs...read more

Product Description: Juried by Fred Fenster, a distinguished presence in the field, 500 Metal Vessels features page after page of superbly crafted bowls, teapots, vases, chalices, urns, and other exquisite handmade hollowware. Made from diverse metals and techniques (forging, raising, casting, forming, soldering, and welding), these eye-catching pieces also display gorgeous applied surface embellishments, from enamel to repoussé...read more

Rates mutual funds and provides information on category, quarterly performance, manager strategy, fund history, risk analysis, performance analysis, holdings, total cost, and tax analysis.

Product Description: The extraordinary creations of expert engraver F. Knight defined the lavish style of ornamentation associated with Victorian design. With clean lines and artful shading, Knight captured the spirit of the age in fanciful illustrations that combined the sentimental, the intricate, and the fantastic...read more

Looks at posters from Children's Book Week's history, gives information on the artists, and traces the history of children's book publishing since 1919

Product Description: Every year from 1919 to the present, we have had a national celebration of literacy and the pleasure of reading with the young. A listing of the poster artists reads like a "Who's Who" of children's book illustrators, as it chronicles the social climate of America throughout the 20th century through 70 posters...read more

Product Description: In the nineteenth century, the company of Palm & Fechteler was a major supplier of elegant decorations for horse-drawn carriages, coaches, and buggies. The firm advertised its wide variety of transferable designs — including ornamental shields, emblems, mottos, and monograms, ranging in price from $1 to $10 — in catalogs rightly described as "indispensable to every carriage maker and painter...read more

Product Description: An amazingly comprehensive 19th-century collection offers an array of elegant, finely detailedblack-and-white designs gleaned from the art and decorative traditions of several countries and historical eras. Images include scrolls, shields, designs drawn from Italianate-style architecture, Moorish decorations from the Alhambra, Louis Quatorze furniture, and much more...read more

Product Description: This is the inaugural volume in Electa's latest series on design and graphics, and presents an annotated selection of the many texts written by the distinguished Italian architecture and design historian Sergio Polano over the last ten years...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This series of clip art is the most up-to-date, contemporary illustration on the market today. Artists will turn to these books for budget-saving, ready-to-scan superior illustration printed in black on white repro-quality paper. You'll turn to them for their low cost and quick turns...read more

Explains basic painting techniques, how to use different types of strokes, and how to do lettering and numbers, and includes patterns (view table of contents)