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Product Description: This is the classic series from Pulitzer Prize-winning historical novelist Kenneth Roberts, all featuring characters from the town of Arundel, Maine. Arundel follows Steven Nason as he joins Benedict Arnold in his march to Quebec during the American Revolution...read more

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Product Description: Cultural Writing. Essays. Interviews. Photographs. The INDUSTRIAL CULTURE HANDBOOK, edited by V. Vale, is a reference guide to the philosophy and interests of a flexible alliance of the following deviant international artists: Throbbing Gristle, Cabaret Voltaire, SPK, Z'er, Non, Monte Cazazza, Mark Pauline, Sordide Sentimental, Johanna Went, and R&N...read more

Looks at modernism in art, literature, and music, examines the opposition it attracted, and discusses the intellectual movements associated with the avant-garde

Looks at the history of performance art, discusses Futurism, Constructiveism, Dada, Surrealism, and the Bauhaus, and identifies themes of modern performance art

Product Description: Contents: Preparing for the Assignment; Negotiating; Researching; Choosing Equipment; Packing; On the Road; Security, and more. Country Files. Appendixes. 27 line drawings, 3 halftones.

For the freshman/sophomore level of the introductory foods course at universities and community colleges.A leading seller for many years, this text has helped prepare thousands of students for careers as food scientists, foodservice managers, dieticians, and extension agents. Written for the beginning student, it provides clear, straightforward explanations of all of the basic principles of food preparation. It treats the chemistry involved in a way that is non-threatening and does not interfere with the flow of the text. The first part of the text covers basic principles, preparing the way for discussions in subsequent chapters. The new edition encompasses the latest information on technological advances in food preparation and processing. It also deals with the effect of shifting demographics on food trends, and the increasing body of knowledge available to the general populace about nutrition. (view table of contents)

Product Description: This comprehensive view of the Orpheus myth in modern art focuses on an extremely rich artistic symbol and cuts through all the clichés to explore truly significant problems of meaning. The author takes a new approach to the iconography of major modern artists by incorporating psychological and literary analysis, as well as biography...read more

Product Description: With essays by cultural theorists, artists, filmmakers, authors and art critics, Territories of Difference moves beyond traditional polarities of mainstream and periphery, normal and deviant, universal and particular; and proposes challenging ideas about how the meaning of difference is made...read more

Product Description: The persecution of lesbians and gay men by the Nazis is a subject that has been constantly debated during the last decade, providing a theme for books, articles, and plays. Until recently the discussion has remained speculative: most of the relevant documents were stored in closed East German archives, and access was denied to scholars and researchers...read more

Product Description: A comprehensive, straightforward description of modern-day principles of financial accounting and reporting which balances practical accounting procedures with the theory and concepts upon which they are based. The book emphasises financial accounting fundamentals as they relate to today's business environment, and illustrates the role that accounting plays in decision making for both external (investor, government official, taxpayer/voter) and internal audiences (the business and financial manager)...read more

This package covers computer concepts for introductory computing courses. Including a CD-ROM which corresponds to the chapters in the text, this text includes learning aids such as exercises, activities, animations, audio, visual, video and photography.

Product Description: A comprehensive, straightforward description of modern-day principles of financial accounting and reporting which balances practical accounting procedures with the theory and concepts upon which they are based. The book emphasises financial accounting fundamentals as they relate to today's business environment, and illustrates the role that accounting plays in decision making for both external (investor, government official, taxpayer/voter) and internal audiences (the business and financial manager)...read more

Product Description: Along with Russian Constructivism and Surrealism, Dada stands as one of the three most significant movements of the historical avant garde. Born in the heart of Europe in the midst of World War I, Dada displayed a raucous skepticism about accepted values...read more

A distinguished cultural critic presents an insightful compilation of thirty-one essays in which she reflects on the life and work--and the creative process involved--of Simone de Beauvoir, Dorothy Parker, Saul Bellow, Twyla Tharp, Jerome Robbins, Susan Sontag, Bob Fosse, Philip Roth, and other influential artists, writers, and saints Joan of Arc and Mary Magdalene. Reprint. 12,500 first printing.

Product Description: A cross-cultural perspective on the aesthetics and politics of pop art.How does pop art translate across cultures? What does pop art look like through a postcolonial lens? In the global marketplace of images, artists have long challenged the discourse of officialdom by turning to dissident elements in the languages of vernacular culture...read more

Traces the rise of Modernism in the arts from its inception in the mid-nineteenth century to its end in the wake of the development of Pop Art, analyzing its influences on the fields of literature, poetry, music, and other art forms and profiling key figures.