Andrew Henry's Meadow by Doris Burn is a children's classic. This 40th Anniversary Edition will entertain children and adults alike. The creative antics of Andrew Henry Thatcher and his friends will inspire your imagination.

Product Description: This exciting book is full of action-packed prehistoric scenes to color. There are also simple step-by-step instructions for drawing dinosaurs and prehistoric creatures.

American poster design during the 1890's is surveyed through profiles of the leading artists and a collection of posters from magazines, books, newspapers, and exhibitions

Fanciful drawings of imaginary architectural achievements and moments in architectural history show the skewed plans for the Tower of Pisa, the future ruins of a MacDonald's stand, the Lesser Wall of China, and other noteworthy endeavors

Captures the life and life-style of the Tudor family and their many pets, and the special memories of Tasha Tudor, who has done many portrayals of the New England rural scene

Product Description: Contributions by over eighty professionals provide an overview of the subject that includes statistics, numerical computations, theory of computation, hardware systems, artificial intelligence, programming languages, operating systems, database management systems, software methodology, and applications...read more

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A handbook for amateurs in the field of restoration provides step-by-step instructions and illustrations, along with information on specific materials and their methods of application, for subjects ranging from restoring stained-glass panels to re-threading pearls.

In this first major historical study of Islam among the Swahili, Randall Pouwels shows how Islam and other aspects of coastal civilization have evolved since about AD 1000 as an organic whole. Coastal Africans, he argues, simply adopted Islam as the spiritual vehicle best suited to their expanding intellectual needs and to meeting the opportunities presented by their physical and cultural environment. The culture and religion that developed were strong, rich, supple, self-assured. yet capable of accommodating change where it was unavoidable or preferable. All these characteristics were put to the test in the nineteenth century, when coastal peoples were subjected to intense Arabizing and Westernizing influences. Pouwels demonstrates how local people went on asserting their own traditions while assimilating what they chose from both worlds. East African Muslims, therefore faced the twentieth century divided on issues of local cultural autonomy and the need to conform to external cultural pressures. (view table of contents)

Describes the life of Jesus Christ and presents twenty-four paintings showing scenes from the life of Christ by the fourteenth-century Italian artist Giotto

A mouse trapped in a book discovers what colors are.

Locally semialgebraic spaces serve as an appropriate framework for studying the topological properti....

Product Description: The Third Edition of The Stieglitz Informal Reading Inventory, known as the SIRI, continues to offer a simple and clear approach to reading assessment. This inventory can be used in a variety of educational settings allowing teachers with limited or no experience with informal reading inventories can easily administer this instrument...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This issue of Contemporary European Affairs covers a variety of important topics such as the Gulf War and the problems of German unification. These and other issues are analysed by experts in their field from a variety of European perspectives.