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Nervous about statistics? This guide offers you a clear, straight
to the point break down of exploratory and descriptive statistics
and its potential. Anchored by lots of examples and exercises to
enhance your learning, this book will give you the know-how and
confidence needed to succeed on your quantitative research journey.
What were Montmartre and Montparnasse really like in their hey-day,
roughly between 1904, when the youthful Picasso had just arrived on
the Hill of Martyrs, and 1920, when Amedeo Modigliani, justly
called `the prince of Bohemians', died of consumption and
dissipation in Montparnasse? This book, written by an Englishman
who lived in Montmartre for 30 years and knew its famous habitue
intimately, gives a vivid description. It reveals the truth behind
the many legends, is packed with authentic stories about writers
and painters whose name are now household words, and contains much
hitherto unpublished information about the life and career of
Modigliani obtained from his family and friends. Much of the text
was written in Montmartre amid the scenes described, and after
personal consultation with survivors of the great days when Frede
presided over the Lapin Agile and Libion, patron of the Cafe de la
Rotonde, was beginning to rival him in Montparnasse. It is the most
complete account which has yet been written in English of the birth
of Cubism and other contemporary movements in modern painting, and
of the lives and loves who started them.
Distillations: Nancy Goldring Drawings and Foto-Projections
1971-2021 surveys 50 years of visual and conceptual explorations by
artist and writer Nancy Goldring. Material is arranged according to
predominating themes throughout her career: Thresholds, Sites,
Sets, Perspectives, Dreams and Visions, and Chiaroscuro. The book
reveals her unique process, how she devised her technique of
melding graphic and photographic material through projection, and
tracks its evolution from the sandwiching of black-and-white
graphic and photographic images through to the creation of her
"foto-projections" and large installation work. Included are
interviews with the artist and an introduction by Jarrett Earnest
with essays by writers and curators Paolo Barbaro, David Levi
Strauss, Michael Taussig, and Ellen Handy.
"This is the major text on the integration of field palaeontology
and sedimentology, particularly valuable for both practical lab
exercises and students working independently and unsupervised on
field projects" Reviewer's comment Field Palaeontology provides a
comprehensive, rigorous and unique approach to the analysis of
fossils and sediments and offers a practical field guide which no
palaeontology student can afford to be without. The past decade has
seen immense changes in palaeontology and in the study of
sedimentary rocks in general. This edition has been thoroughly
revised to take into account these advancements in the subject to
produce a book that is unique in its coverage of palaeontology and
sedimentology. It aims to provide a basis for evaluating the
information potential of fossiliferous sediments, and then to give
an outline of the strategy and tactics whicn can be adopted in the
field. Field Palaeontology is written for advanced undergraduate
courses in palaeontology, palaeoecology, palaeobiology,
sedimentology and biostratigraphy within geoscience and geology
degrees. It is also useful reading for Masters earth science
students and first year postgraduates looking for a grounding in
the basics of the subject.
This edition of Boswell's Life of Johnson details how Boswell's
original words were changed during the publication process, and
offers a fresh reading of Boswell's work. Marshall Waingrow charts
the changes made during composition and at the proof stage, and
corrects and explains the printer's misreadings and author's errors
which crept into the final edition. This edition of the manuscript
is a companion work to the standard scholarly edition of the Life
of Johnson, known as the Hill-Powell version.
"This is the major text on the integration of field palaeontology
and sedimentology, particularly valuable for both practical lab
exercises and students working independently and unsupervised on
field projects" Reviewer's comment Field Palaeontology provides a
comprehensive, rigorous and unique approach to the analysis of
fossils and sediments and offers a practical field guide which no
palaeontology student can afford to be without. The past decade has
seen immense changes in palaeontology and in the study of
sedimentary rocks in general. This edition has been thoroughly
revised to take into account these advancements in the subject to
produce a book that is unique in its coverage of palaeontology and
sedimentology. It aims to provide a basis for evaluating the
information potential of fossiliferous sediments, and then to give
an outline of the strategy and tactics whicn can be adopted in the
field. Field Palaeontology is written for advanced undergraduate
courses in palaeontology, palaeoecology, palaeobiology,
sedimentology and biostratigraphy within geoscience and geology
degrees. It is also useful reading for Masters earth science
students and first year postgraduates looking for a grounding in
the basics of the subject.
Festival culture is an area which has attracted increasing interest
in the field of Renaissance studies in recent years. In part the
outcome of scholars' focus on the place of the city in the
establishment and dissemination of common culture, the attention
paid to festivals also arises from the interdisciplinary nature of
the topic, which reaches across the usual demarcation lines between
disciplines such as cultural, political and economic history,
literature, and the visual and performing arts. The scholars
contributing to this volume include representatives from all these
disciplines. Their essays explore common themes in festival culture
across Renaissance Europe, including the use of festival in
political self-fashioning and the construction of a national
self-image. Moreover, in their detailed examination of particular
types of festival, they challenge generalizations and demonstrate
the degree to which these events were influenced the personality of
the prince, the sources of funding for the ceremony, and the role
of festival managers. Usually perceived as binding forces promoting
social cohesion, festivals held the potential for discord, as some
of the essays here reveal. Examining a wide range of festivals
including coronations, triumphal entries, funerals and courtly
spectacles, this volume provides a more inclusive understanding
than hitherto of festivals and their role in European Renaissance
culture.
Shaker Fancy Goods tells the story of the Shaker Sisters of the
nineteenth and early twentieth century who responded to the
economic perils of the Industrial Revolution by inventing a
lucrative industry of their own-Fancy Goods, a Victorian term for
small adorned household objects made by women for women. Thanks to
their work ethic, business savvy, and creativity, the tireless
Shaker Sisters turned a seemingly modest trade into the economic
engine that sustained their communal way of life, just as the men
were abandoning the sect for worldly employment. Relying on
journals and church family records that give voice to the
plainspoken accounts of the sisters themselves, the book traces the
work they did to establish their principal revenue streams, from
designing the products, to producing them by hand (and later by
machine, when they could do so without compromising quality) to
bringing their handcrafts to market. Photographs, painstakingly
gathered over years of research from museums and private
collections, present the best examples of these fancy goods. Fancy
goods include the most modest and domestic of items, like the pen
wipes that the Sisters shaped into objects such as dolls, mittens,
and flowers; or the emeries, pincushions, and needle books lovingly
made back in an era when more than a minimal competency in sewing
was expected in women; to more substantial purchases like the
Dorothy cloaks that were in demand among fashionable women of the
world; or the heavy rib-knitted sweaters, cardigans, and pullovers
that became popular items among college boys and adventurous women.
An exchange on education ideas has shaped the transatlantic
discourse in education for a long time. Over the past two decades
education science has increasingly become networked
internationally. Since 2015, the Office for International
Cooperation in Education at DIPF | Leibniz Institute for Research
and Information in Education has organized international sessions
on education research at the Annual Meetings of the American
Educational Research Association, thus providing a floor for
transatlantic exchange on current research topics. The volume gives
an overview of the transatlantic activities in education research
with regard to these sessions representing a collection of topics
ranging from school development over the use of large scale
assessment and digital data in education to questions related to
migration and public education or the economization of education.
At the same time the volume offers a reflection on the assets and
obstacles of international exchange.
Thousands of children each year experience the death of a loved one
before they reach the age of 18, and some 10 to 15 percent of them
experience mental health problems, such as depression, as a result.
One study found that childhood grief is correlated with low grades,
sleep problems, moodiness, behavior problems, and an inability to
concentrate. When a loved one dies, children are faced with a
kaleidoscope of feelings, thoughts, myths, and questions. This
workbook offers tools that you can use to help a grieving child in
your life deal with these feelings. The first section of Why Did
You Die? is for adults. It describes a child's grief process and
what can be expected as it progresses. The latter section includes
activities you can do with a grieving child. Using an art therapy
approach, the activities guide the child through the issues he or
she must eventually confront. Different activities help the child
express difficult feelings, separate myths from facts, and
understand the finality of death. This direct yet non-threatening,
secular approach will help children learn, grow, and thrive.
This is a collection of essays on an important but overlooked
aspect of early modern English life: the artistic and intellectual
patronage of the Inns of Court and their influence on religion,
politics, education, rhetoric, and culture from the late fifteenth
through the early eighteenth centuries. This period witnessed the
height of the Inns' status as educational institutions: emerging
from fairly informal associations in the fourteenth century, the
Inns of Court in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries had
developed sophisticated curricula for their students, leading to
their description in the early seventeenth century as England's
'third university'. Some of the most influential politicians,
writers, and divines - as well as lawyers - of Tudor and Stuart
England passed through the Inns: men such as Edward Hall, Richard
Hooker, John Webster, John Selden, Edward Coke, William Lambarde,
Francis Bacon, and John Donne. This is the first interdisciplinary
publication on the early modern Inns of Court, bringing together
scholarship in history, art history, literature, and drama. The
book is lavishly illustrated and provides a unique collection of
visual sources for the architecture, art, and gardens of the early
modern Inns -- .
This illustrated biography follows Nicholas Hilliard's long and
remarkable life (c. 1547-1619) from the West Country to the heart
of the Elizabethan and Jacobean courts. It showcases new archival
research and stunning images, many reproduced in color for the
first time. Hilliard's portraits-some no larger than a
watch-face-have decisively shaped perceptions of the appearances
and personalities of many key figures in one of the most exciting,
if volatile, periods in British history. His sitters included
Elizabeth I, James I, and Mary, Queen of Scots; explorers Sir
Francis Drake and Sir Walter Raleigh; and members of the emerging
middle class from which he himself hailed. Hilliard counted the
Medici, the Valois, the Habsburgs, and the Bourbons among his
Continental European patrons and admirers. Published to mark the
400th anniversary of Hilliard's death, this is the definitive
biography of one of Britain's most notable artists. Published in
association with the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art
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