From familiar neighbors to distant parts of the globe, this engaging series offers readers a close-up look at countries around the world. Vivid color photographs enhance up-to-date information on each country's geography, history, system of government, lifestyle, language, art, food, and more. An intriguing section of special features provides a window into each country's unique customs, as well as its current issues. Each volume details its country's current and historical relations with the United States and Canada, emphasizing the rich sharing of cultures that helps define today's global society. Also included in each volume is a black-and-white classroom map, easy to photocopy for classroom activities.

Indonesia (Countries of the World (Gareth Stevens))

Fisher, Frederick

Teen & Young Adult

Gareth Stevens Publishing

An overview of the country of Myanmar, formerly known as Burma, that includes information on geography, history, government, lifestyles, language, art, food, and current issues.

Myanmar (Countries of the World)

Khng, Pauline

Gareth Stevens Pub.

Presents an overview of the geography, history, government, economy, people, and culture of Israel.

Welcome to Israel (Welcome to My Country)

Children's Books

Mesenas, Geraldine

Geography & Cultures

This book provides much information on Marjorie Merriweather Post (of the Post Cereals family). She was a collector of Russian decorative arts and had one of the largest collections outside of Russia. Hillwood was her home.

Hillwood Museum and Gardens: Marjorie Merriweather Post's Art Collector's Personal Museum

Hillwood Museum and Gardens

Arts & Photography

Hillwood Museum Bookshop

Robert Venturi's Rome is a guidebook to the city of Rome as seen through the eyes of Robert Venturi and his classic text Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture by two subsequent Rome Prize fellows and architects, Frederick Fisher and Stephen Harby. Fisher and Harby take the reader on a journey back through time by visiting and discussing the Roman buildings and places that exemplify Venturi's revolutionary ideas. The buildings and what they meant to Venturi are re-examined with the perspective of fifty years of architectural advancements. The volume is full of imaginative and analytical watercolor illustrations painted exclusively for the book and inspired by the small black and white illustrations in Venturi's work. In the original book, published in 1966, Venturi viewed architecture, landscape and art as different manifestations of common aesthetic themes. Venturi wrote this seminal publication following a two-year Rome Prize fellowship at theAmerican Academy in Rome, and there is no doubt the city had a profound influence on his thinking. Many buildings in Rome serve as examples that illustrate his theories. From the Pantheon, through works by his favorite artist, Michelangelo, and on to 20th century buildings by Armando Brasini and Luigi Moretti, Venturi reveals Rome as a complex and contradictory city. Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture became one of the era's most significant theoretical works on architectural theory and is still fundamental to the development of every young architect's outlook on architecture. Thus, Fisher and Harby's Robert Venturi's Rome pays homage to the design influence this publication has had, and will continue to have, on the design world.

Robert Venturi's Rome

Harby, Stephen

History & Criticism

ORO Editions

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