EBookClubs

Read Books & Download eBooks Full Online

EBookClubs

Read Books & Download eBooks Full Online

Book United States Senate Catalogue of Fine Art

Download or read book United States Senate Catalogue of Fine Art written by Diane K. Skvarla and published by Government Printing Office. This book was released on 2005-08 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The U.S. Capitol abounds in magnificent art that rivals its exterior architectural splendor. The fine art held by the U.S. Senate comprises much of this treasured heritage. It spans over 200 years of history & contains works by such celebrated artists as Augustus Saint-Gaudens, Hiram Powers, Daniel Chester French, Charles Willson Peale, Gilbert Stuart, Walker Hancock, & Alexander Calder. This volume provides previously unpublished information on the 160 paintings & sculptures in the U.S. Senate. Each work of art -- from portraiture of prominent senators to scenes depicting significant events in U.S. history -- is illus. with a full-page color photo, accompanied by an essay & secondary images that place the work in historical & aesthetic context.

Book Introduction to Forensic Science and Criminalistics  Second Edition

Download or read book Introduction to Forensic Science and Criminalistics Second Edition written by Howard A. Harris and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2019-06-20 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Second Edition of the best-selling Introduction to Forensic Science and Criminalistics presents the practice of forensic science from a broad viewpoint. The book has been developed to serve as an introductory textbook for courses at the undergraduate level—for both majors and non-majors—to provide students with a working understanding of forensic science. The Second Edition is fully updated to cover the latest scientific methods of evidence collection, evidence analytic techniques, and the application of the analysis results to an investigation and use in court. This includes coverage of physical evidence, evidence collection, crime scene processing, pattern evidence, fingerprint evidence, questioned documents, DNA and biological evidence, drug evidence, toolmarks and fireams, arson and explosives, chemical testing, and a new chapter of computer and digital forensic evidence. Chapters address crime scene evidence, laboratory procedures, emergency technologies, as well as an adjudication of both criminal and civil cases utilizing the evidence. All coverage has been fully updated in all areas that have advanced since the publication of the last edition. Features include: Progresses from introductory concepts—of the legal system and crime scene concepts—to DNA, forensic biology, chemistry, and laboratory principles Introduces students to the scientific method and the application of it to the analysis to various types, and classifications, of forensic evidence The authors’ 90-plus years of real-world police, investigative, and forensic science laboratory experience is brought to bear on the application of forensic science to the investigation and prosecution of cases Addresses the latest developments and advances in forensic sciences, particularly in evidence collection Offers a full complement of instructor's resources to qualifying professors Includes full pedagogy—including learning objectives, key terms, end-of-chapter questions, and boxed case examples—to encourage classroom learning and retention Introduction to Forensic Science and Criminalistics, Second Edition, will serve as an invaluable resource for students in their quest to understand the application of science, and the scientific method, to various forensic disciplines in the pursuit of law and justice through the court system. An Instructor’s Manual with Test Bank and Chapter PowerPoint® slides are available upon qualified course adoption.

Book Adobe PageMaker 6 5

Download or read book Adobe PageMaker 6 5 written by and published by Adobe Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Classroom in a Book: Adobe PageMaker 6.5" is a cross-platform, self-paced training guide to all the power and features of the top-rated DTP software. In a matter of hours, users can fully comprehend the complexities of the software by "doing" rather than reading. The CD contains the art files, text files, fonts, and training materials needed to complete the tutorial lessons.

Book James Earl Scones

Download or read book James Earl Scones written by Darren Bader and published by . This book was released on 2005-06-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Hey  America  Your Roots are Showing

Download or read book Hey America Your Roots are Showing written by Megan Smolenyak and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A noted genealogist reveals what it is like to be a history detective using twenty-first-century techniques and technology, and discusses some of the cases she has solved, including the families of celebrities and work for the Army and the FBI.

Book I Will Survive

Download or read book I Will Survive written by Gloria Gaynor and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2014-03-11 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I Will Survive is the story of Gloria Gaynor, America's "Queen of Disco." It is the story of riches and fame, despair, and finally salvation. Her meteoric rise to stardom in the mid-1970s was nothing short of phenomenal, and hits poured forth that pushed her to the top of the charts, including "Honey Bee," "I Got You Under My Skin," "Never Can Say Goodbye," and the song that has immortalized her, "I Will Survive," which became a #1 international gold seller. With that song, Gloria heralded the international rise of disco that became synonymous with a way of life in the fast lane - the sweaty bodies at Studio 54, the lines of cocaine, the indescribable feeling that you could always be at the top of your game and never come down. But down she came after her early stardom, and problems followed in the wake, including the death of her mother, whose love had anchored the young singer, as well as constant battles with weight, drugs, and alcohol. While her fans always imagined her to be rich, her personal finances collapsed due to poor management; and while many envied her, she felt completely empty inside. In the early 1980s, sustained by her marriage to music publisher Linwood Simon, Gloria took three years off and reflected upon her life. She visited churches and revisited her mother's old Bible. Discovering the world of gospel, she made a commitment to Christ that sustains her to this day.

Book The Cave of Font  chevade

    Book Details:
  • Author : Philip G. Chase
  • Publisher : Cambridge University Press
  • Release : 2009
  • ISBN : 0521898447
  • Pages : 289 pages

Download or read book The Cave of Font chevade written by Philip G. Chase and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Summary of recent Paleolithic excavations at Fontéchevade, France, and their archaeological and paleontological implications.

Book A Forest of Signs

    Book Details:
  • Author : Mary Jane Jacob
  • Publisher : Mit Press
  • Release : 1989
  • ISBN : 9780262071192
  • Pages : 176 pages

Download or read book A Forest of Signs written by Mary Jane Jacob and published by Mit Press. This book was released on 1989 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Forest of Signs documents a major exhibition of critical art in the last decade, one that marks a change in the art world, perhaps even in the broader culture. The thread of representation ties together the work of the 30 artists included in the book, encompassing such issues as allegory, appropriation, and commodification, the role of the artist, and the functions of authorship and originality in vesting meaning in art. Much of the work is provocative, challenging the way we look at art, the way we talk about it, where we see it, and how we buy it. The development of these issues and their role in shifting the focus of much recent art from insistence on the art as object, to a host of representations is addressed in four essays and a section of "artists' pages." In the first essay, exhibition co-organizer Ann Goldstein discusses the individual artists and points to key issues and methods in their art. The artists themselves are represented by a 60 page portfolio of their works. Designed by the artists, these pages include personal statements, the remarks of others, works made specifically for the book and works using the tools of mechanical reproduction. In the three essays that follow, Anne Rorimer, former Curator of 20th Century Painting and Sculpture at the Art Institute of Chicago, traces the roots of recent American art to the development of international conceptualism in the 1960s and early 1970s; Mary Jane Jacob, exhibition co-organizer and MOCA Chief Curator, places the artists within the current trends of European as well as American art; and editor and critic Howard Singerman examines the relationship of recent art to its circle of critics and to the emergence of critical theory. Copublished with the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles. The Artists Richard Baim, Thomas Lawson, Judith Barry, Sherrie Levine, Ericka Beckman, Robert Longo, Gretchen Bender, Allan McCollum, Dara Birnbaum, Matt Mullican, Barbara Bloom, Peter Nagy, Troy Brauntuch, Stephen Prina, Sarah Charlesworth, Richard Prince, Jack Goldstein, Cindy Sherman, Jenny Holzer, Laurie Simmons, Larry Johnson, Haim Steinbach, Ronald Jones, Mitchell Syrop, Mike Kelley, James Welling, Jeff Koons, Christopher Williams, Barbara Kruger, Louise Lawler

Book This Tranquil Land

    Book Details:
  • Author : William Kloss
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2000
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 68 pages

Download or read book This Tranquil Land written by William Kloss and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nineteenth-century Americans responded to landscape paintings because the subject existed all around them. Unlike paintings of ancient kings or mythic goddesses that in Europe were regarded as the highest achievement but in America were considered frivolous or morally corrupt, the land was a tangible presence, sometimes tranquil and serene, often mysterious and dangerous. Before 1820, depictions of the landscape had essentially served as backgrounds for portraits or as topographic documents. Thomas Cole transformed this "useful" landscape into a transcendental vision, where the hand of God was seen enlivening every aspect of nature. Cole's example opened the eyes of countless talented artists who sought the American soul in the vistas of its landscapes. This quest is vividly brought to life in the paintings included here, by 31 artists who painted in and around the Hudson River in the 19th century. They not only show an America that was, but an America that still exists in the core of our national consciousness.

Book The Cornell Alumni News

Download or read book The Cornell Alumni News written by and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Mallard Fillmore

    Book Details:
  • Author : Bruce Tinsley
  • Publisher : Andrews McMeel Pub
  • Release : 1995
  • ISBN : 9780836207781
  • Pages : 96 pages

Download or read book Mallard Fillmore written by Bruce Tinsley and published by Andrews McMeel Pub. This book was released on 1995 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mallard Fillmore lampoons everything from political correctness to Phil, Oprah, and Geraldo to our government's insatiable appetite for spending our money. His marvelous supporting cast includes wickedly wonderful cariacatures of everyone who's anyone, from Hollywood to D.C. to Arkansas.

Book Diffusive Geometries

Download or read book Diffusive Geometries written by Honghao Deng and published by Honghao Deng. This book was released on 2018-05-30 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Architecture primarily serves as a way to create and control the environment around us. Unlike natural weather, climate conditions in architecture are often static and binary, with no diffusion in between. As a result, sensory experiences that are directly accessible outdoors, like atmospheric quality, diffusiveness, and flow, are completely excluded from the indoors. The climate is discretized in space into strict self-contained, functional units, where wetness is kept in wet spaces yet other areas are completely dry. Many of these weather experiences have certain architectural qualities. This project uses vapor as a medium to create the experience of micro-climates and weather conditions from the outside, and bring them back inside architecture as tectonic elements that modulate visibility, create cooling gradients, and produce spatial patterns in a controlled manner. The three main elements are: point – vapor vertex ring, line – vapor tornado, plane – vapor wall. The focused and diffused conditions of vapor enable both localized and global conditions with soft boundaries. Imagine a future where architects not only sculpt their ideal space but also control the weather inside: one corner feels like the Saharan Desert, while the other behaves like the Amazon rainforest. In one corner, an early morning mist greets the contemplative mind, and in the center space, a focused tornado vapor attracts a gathering crowd. The interior space no longer acts like static and binary units—with clear boundaries like rain for shower, snow for fridge, or sun for light—but like dynamic, diffused, and phenomenal experiences.

Book The Uncanny

    Book Details:
  • Author : Mike Kelley
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2004
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 276 pages

Download or read book The Uncanny written by Mike Kelley and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Erweiterte Neuauflage des legendären Arnheim-Katalogs von 1993 in zwei Auflagen: Im März die rein englische Ausgabe anlässlich der Ausstellung in der Tate Liverpool, im Juli 2004 eine Ausgabe mit deutschem Textanhang mit einem zusätzlichen Interview mit Mike Kelley anlässlich der Ausstellung im Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig, Wien. Museum Moderner Kunst, Stiftung Ludwig, Wien, Juli 2004

Book Hearing Impairment and Disability

Download or read book Hearing Impairment and Disability written by Ariel Tenenbaum and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Much research has been conducted to provide researchers and hearing healthcare professionals with updated information in regard to hearing assessments, results interpretation and case management. This ongoing research is particularly imperative to guide clinicians with optimized methods in assessing and managing pediatric patients with hearing impairment and disability. As such, tremendous research efforts have been made in determining the most optimum methods in assessing hearing using both subjective and objective tests. Since hearing loss can occur due to disrupted peripheral and/or central auditory pathway, there is also a growing interest to study children with auditory processing disorder (APD). Even though notable achievements have been observed in understanding APD, more research is required, particularly in establishing a gold standard APD test and its specific interventions. Aditionally, having an objective test such as speech-evoked auditory brainstem response is beneficial to understand how speech sounds are encoded within the brainstem region in hearing-impaired children, as well as in those with compromised neural function. In this book, we have gathered research from Malaysia and India in this field and hope it will be of interest to our readers"--

Book Ithaca Then and Now

    Book Details:
  • Author : Richard Pieper
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2000-06-01
  • ISBN : 9780935526882
  • Pages : 128 pages

Download or read book Ithaca Then and Now written by Richard Pieper and published by . This book was released on 2000-06-01 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing upon the vast photo archives of the DeWitt Historical Society, this new edition dramatically juxtaposes old views of Ithaca architecture, parades, celebrations, and residential and shopping districts with shots taken in the very same locations today.

Book You Can t Spell Truth Without Ruth

Download or read book You Can t Spell Truth Without Ruth written by Mary Zaia and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2018-04-03 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Speaking the Ruth to America Ruth Bader Ginsburg became a Supreme Court Justice in 1993, but her popularity has exploded over the last couple of years as she has been adopted as a modern feminist icon. An octogenarian who has proven that disagreeing does not make one disagreeable, Ginsburg is well-known for her pithy observations as well as her strongly argued dissents. Beloved by many – including her ideological opposition, former Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, who was her dear friend – Ginsburg’s wisdom has never been more relevant or more important to American democracy. Sample quotes: “Women belong in all places where decisions are being made...it shouldn’t be that women are the exception.” “Fight for the things you care about, but do it in a way that will lead others to join you.” “People ask me sometimes...When will there be enough women on the Court? And I say, ‘When there are nine.’ People are shocked. But there’d been nine men, and nobody’s ever raised a question about that.” “My mother told me two things constantly. One was to be a lady and the other was to be independent. For most girls growing up in the ‘40s, the most important degree was not your B.A. but your M.R.S.” “We have the oldest written constitution still in force in the world, and it starts out with three words, ‘We, the people.’”

Book Notorious RBG

    Book Details:
  • Author : Irin Carmon
  • Publisher : Dey St.
  • Release : 2015-10-01
  • ISBN : 9780062425737
  • Pages : pages

Download or read book Notorious RBG written by Irin Carmon and published by Dey St.. This book was released on 2015-10-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Irin Carmon: I heard you can do 20 pushups. Ruth Bader Ginsburg: Yes, but we do ten at a time. And then I breathe for a bit and do the second set. Nearly a half-century into being a feminist and legal pioneer, something funny happened to Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg: the octogenarian won the internet. Across America, people who weren t even born when Ginsburg made her name are tattooing themselves with her face, setting her famously searing dissents to music, and making viral videos in tribute. In a class of its own, and much to Ginsburg s own amusement, is the Notorious RBG Tumblr, which juxtaposes the diminutive but fierce Jewish grandmother with the 350-pound rapper featuring original artwork submitted from around the world. Notorious RBG: The Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg offers a visually rich, intimate, unprecedented look at the Justice and how she changed the world. From Ginsburg s refusal to let the slammed doors of sexism stop her to her innovative legal work, from her before-its-time feminist marriage to her perch on the nation s highest court with the fierce dissents to match get to know RBG as never before. As the country struggles with the unfinished business of gender equality and civil rights, Ginsburg stands as a testament to how far we can come with a little chutzpah."