Product Description: In the great age of English garden design, eighteenth-century women working in the “sister arts” of painting, poetry, and landscape gardening adapted the Linnaean system of plant classification and the tradition of the erotic garden to create art with and for other women that celebrated everything from classical friendship to erotic love...read more

Product Description: Examining the complex intersections between art and scientific approaches to the natural world, Biocentrism and Modernism reveals another side to the development of Modernism. While many historians have framed this movement as being mechanistic and "against" nature, the essays in this collection illuminate the role that nature-centric ideologies played in late-nineteenth to mid-twentieth-century Modernism...read more

Product Description: Jumpstart your paintings to exciting new levels of expression!With Terrence Lun Tse's absolutely innovative, thoroughly enjoyable approach, even a first-time painter can create soft and dreamy, quick and easy landscapes, flowers and nature scenes...read more

Product Description: Meditations on Nature, Meditations on Silence is a collection of hundreds of quotes on the beauty and mystery of the natural world by writers and thinkers, including Aldo Leopold, Rachel Carson, Edward Abbey, Rainer Maria Rilke, Henry David Thoreau, Louise Dickinson Rich, and Lewis Thomas...read more

Introduces aspiring artists to the fundamental materials, equipment, and techniques used to paint nature-themed subjects in a realistic style, with tips on how to re-create a variety of different habitats, from forests and meadows to mountains and deserts, as well as animals and plants, and includes seven complete painting demonstrations. 20,000 first printing.

Detailed, objective reviews of hotels and restaurants to suit any budget are accompanied by up-to-date coverage of sightseeing, nightlife, shopping, and local activities; dozens of maps; and expert trip-planning advice, in this premier travel series.

'Improbably balanced stone sculptures, strangely beautiful, often large, natural rocks, seemingly on the verge of falling, which, together with interwoven stories and discussions, create an experience of the 'bodily sublime' -- the exhilarating but sometimes hair-raising state of nature (and art) pushed to a limit'--Provided by publisher.

This is a comprehensive collection of articles which aims to give students a deeper appreciation of viewpoints different from their own and a clearer understanding of current issues on American government. The book contains at least two articles on each topic, which take alternative or opposing points of view and each pair of articles has a concise introduction. This edition includes articles on democracy, federalism, public opinion, voting, elections, political parties, the presidency, courts and affirmative action.

Product Description: In recent years, many psychologists and cognitive scientists have published their views on the psychology of music. Unfortunately, this scientific literature has remained inaccessible to musicologists and musicians, and has neglected their insights on the subject...read more

Creating your own nature journal is just plain fun! This guide shows how easy it is to observe, sketch and record what's going on outside. Journal-keeper Susie Mottashed shows that sketching can be fun, quick, and easy--peek into her journals about various natural environments and learn who lives there. Discover, record and draw the everyday events in the lives of the birds, animals, plants and insects that live nearby.

Introduces the theory of technical analysis to investors focusing on trend analysis, market profiles, Dow Theory and Eliot Wave, momentum, and stock price fluctuations (view table of contents)

Introduces the theory of technical analysis to investors focusing on trend analysis, market profiles, Dow Theory and Eliot Wave, momentum, and stock price fluctuations

Product Description: New Organic Architecture is a manifesto for building in a way that is both aesthetically pleasing and kinder to the environment. It illuminates key themes of organic architects, their sources of inspiration, the roots and concepts behind the style, and the environmental challenges to be met...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: In this book, John Agnew shares his secrets for creating subtle, intimate natural scenes, where tiny mammals hide and lizards creep along quietly. The book is filled with mini-demonstrations showing readers exactly how to capture this beauty in their own work, regardless of medium, through control of light, color, textures, point of view and design...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

We humans owe an immense architectural debt to many other species. Indeed, the first hexagons humans saw may have been in honeycombs, the first skyscrapers termitaries (termite high-rises), and the first tents those of African weaver ants. In The Monumental Impulse, art historian George Hersey investigates many ties between the biological sciences and the building arts. Natural building materials such as wood and limestone, for example, originate in biological processes. Much architectural ornament borrows from botany and zoology. Hersey draws striking analogies between building types and animal species. He examines the relationship between physical structures and living organisms, from bridges to mosques, from molecules to mammals. Insects, mollusks, and birds are given separate chapters, and three final chapters focus on architectural form and biological reproduction. Hersey also discusses architecture in connection with the body's interior processes and shows how buildings may be said to reproduce, adapt, and evolve, like other inanimate or "nonbiotic" entities such as computer programs and robots. The book is both learned and entertaining, and is abundantly illustrated with fascinating visual comparisons. (view table of contents)

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Offers advice on drawing trees, clouds, snow, barns, grass, rocks, and water, and includes step-by-step demonstrations (view table of contents)

Product Description: At a time when beauty is much out of favor in the art world, Joseph Raffael has taken what some would consider the highly radical step of daring to paint beautiful pictures. Long one of contemporary art's most highly regarded painters, Raffael transforms intense observations of nature into color-drenched, deeply felt works of art...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)