Gathers children's picture-poems about rain, myths, legends, roofs, chimneys, dreams, color, musical instruments, and mountains

Creating the World: Poetry, Art, and Children

Literature & Fiction

Carpenter, John

Poetry

Univ of Washington Pr

The distinctive style of Japanese art known as Rinpa embraces bold, graphic renderings of natural motifs and formalized depictions of fictional characters, poets, and sages. An aesthetic that arose in Japan in the 16th century and flourished until modern times, the Rinpa school is celebrated for its use of lavish pigments and its references to traditional court literature and poetry. Central to the Rinpa aesthetic is the evocation of the natural world—especially animals and plants with literary connotations—as well as eye-catching compositions that cleverly integrate calligraphy and image.
Featuring beautiful color reproductions of some ninety works—including painting, calligraphy, printed books, textiles, lacquerware, ceramics, and cloisonné—from the Metropolitan Museum of Art and other notable public and private collections, Designing Nature traces the development of Rinpa, highlighting the school's most prominent proponents and, for the first time, the influence of this quintessential Japanese style on modern design aesthetics in both the East and the West.

Designing Nature: The Rinpa Aesthetic in Japanese Art

Arts & Photography

History & Criticism

Metropolitan Museum of Art

Puts fans of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire to the test with a collection of some 1,500 trivia questions and challenge quizzes that include multiple-choice questions of increasing levels of difficulty in the fields of history, geography, science, sports, and more. Original.

Matching Wits with the Million-Dollar Mind: The World;s Hardest Trivia Quizzes from America's First Quiz Show Millionaire

Humor & Entertainment

Evans Ph.D., Rod L.

Puzzles & Games

Berkley Trade

Problems and Solutions in Marital and Family Therapy

This practical handbook identifies the major problems which confront therapists working with couples and families and suggests solutions to the difficulties which thwart them in providing effective help. Such problems include difficulties in engaging clients and in maintaining the therapeutic alliance; the questioning of the therapists's competence; the failure to complete an agreed task; dealing with secrets and violence; and deciding when and how young children should be involved. Throughout, the authors warn against the dangers of perceiving clients as "resistant" or "unmotivated". The therapist's task is rather to identify and analyze difficulties and to cooperate with the clients in developing solutions to the problems posed. The book brings together theory, research and practice. The authors draw on their own experience of marital and family therapy and consultation in different settings, and the text contains case examples. There is a bibliography and each chapter is followed by suggestions for further reading. The text is aimed at therapists (psychiatrists, psychologists, nurses, social workers) who use the techniques of family therapy, students of family therapy, marriage guidance counsellors and is not confined to practice in the UK.

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Treacher, Andy

Psychology & Counseling

Blackwell Pub.

On the major problems (and their solutions) confronting therapists. Based on long practice; has case studies. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.

Medical Books

Medicine

The original edition of "Using Family Therapy" (published in 1984) showed how the techniques of family therapy could be used in a variety of agency settings, providing that the important organizational, practical and conceptual problems could be solved. This completely revised edition takes into account significant changes in government policy and legislation, including the Children Act and the Community Care Act, as well as developments in family therapy theory. New chapters cover family therapy in mediation, learning disability, child abuse, mental health rehabilitation and consulting to organizations. It should prove to be a useful guide to practitioners in the 1990s.

Using Family Therapy in the Nineties

Designing a Safer Built Environment: A complete guide to the management of design risk

Business & Money

Industries

Thomas Telford, Ltd.

Sword and Olive Branch: Oliver Otis Howard (The North's Civil War)

Oliver Otis Howard devoted his life to the service of his country, both as a distinguished army officer in two wars and as the founder of two universities. Oliver Otis Howard was a graduate of Bowdoin College and of West Point. Being reared in a pious New England (Maine) atmosphere gave him a deep sense of obligation to lead a Christian life, for the good of others and for the development of his own best self. He was often disturbed by the conflict presented him in his dual career in peace and war.
General Howard’s strong sense of duty to his country brought about his distinguished career of command during the Civil War―at the Battle of Chancellorsville, itself a disappointing rout, and at Gettysburg, where he recovered any reputation the earlier defeat might have lost him. Under General Sherman, in the Atlanta campaign, and as a leader of the Army of the Tennessee he won special distinction. In total, Howard fought at the First Bull Run, Fair Oaks (where severe wounds forced the amputation of his right arm), Second Bull Run, Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, and Gettysburg.
The same strong sense of duty made him accept the commission of the Freedmen’s Bureau and the promotion of African–American education. Following his service in the Nez Perce Campaign of 1877 he was superintendent of West Point and the founder of Lincoln Memorial University. His greatest service to education, however, was as founder and president of Howard University, where his name and career are held in honor.

Biographies & Memoirs

Community & Culture

Fordham University Press

Poems deal with the ethical need to discover and portray the truth, the power of propaganda, and the experience of political repression

Report from the Besieged City (English and Polish Edition)

Herbert, Zbigniew

Carpenter, Bogdana

Ecco Pr

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