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|  | Quotable Star Trek by Jill Sherwin
A comprehensive guide to the entire Star Trek universe--33 years of wit, wisdom, and memorable moments. AUTHOR: Jill Sherwin
PUBLISHER: Pocket Books
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Art & Architecture 
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 | Designing Playgrounds by Catherine Anderson, Jan Ham, Joan Gideon
Grab students` attention with a subject they know and care about: playgrounds! New in the Math Projects series of imaginative teaching units, this in-depth two- to three-week project helps students practice and deepen a variety of skills, including math, reasoning, drawing, and collaboration, as they research, design, and build a model of a playground. Students begin by investigating the nature of play and play environments. Next, they gather data on how children play, study professionally designed playgrounds, and learn to accommodate client needs, including physical challenges_ Finally, students draw plans to scale, build a three-dimensional model, and present their final plan and model. Includes background information on playgrounds, samples of play equipment and playgrounds in plan and elevation, and blackline masters. Plans provided can easily be made into overhead transparencies. AUTHOR: Catherine Anderson, Jan Ham, Joan Gideon
PUBLISHER: Seymour, Dale Publications
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Art & Architecture
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 | Juke Joint by Birney Imes
Richard Ford writes the introduction to this appreciation of a Southern institution. AUTHOR: Birney Imes
PUBLISHER: University Press of Mississippi
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Art & Architecture
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 | American Silent Film by William K. Everson
Praised as the best modern survey of the silent period (New Republic), this indispensable history tells you everything you need to know about American silent film, from the nickelodeons in the early 1900s to the birth of the first talkies in the late 1920s. The author provides vivid descriptions of classic pictures such as The Birth of a Nation, Intolerance, Sunrise, The Covered Wagon, and Greed, and lucidly discusses their technical and artistic merits and weaknesses. He pays tribute to acknowledged masters like D.W. Griffith, Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton, Douglas Fairbanks, Mary Pickford, and Lillian and Dorothy Gish, but he also gives ample attention to previously neglected yet equally gifted actors and directors. In addition, the book covers individual genres, such as the comedy, western, gangster, and spectacle, and explores such essential but little understood subjects as art direction, production design, lighting and camera techniques, and the art of the sub-title. Intended for all scholars, students, and lovers of film, this fascinating book, which features over 150 film stills, provides a rich and comprehensive overview of this unforgettable era in film history. AUTHOR: William K. Everson
PUBLISHER: Da Capo Press, Incorporated
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Art & Architecture
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 | Children of Promise by Charles Sullivan
From slavery and colonial times through the Civil Right Movement and up to the present, Children of Promise vividly evokes the African-American experience through nearly 100 poems, songs, and text excerpts, specially designed for young readers. The text includes folk tales and works by Gwendolyn Brooks, W. E. B. Du Bois, Langston Hughes, and Frederick Douglass; while the illustrations reveal intriguing historical photographs as well as reproductions of paintings and sculptures by Jacob Lawrence, Horace Pippin, Ben Shahn, Henry O. Tanner, and Romare Bearden. Biographical notes on the artists and writers greatly enhance the educational value of the book. AUTHOR: Charles Sullivan
PUBLISHER: Abrams, Harry N. Incorporated
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Art & Architecture
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 | Collector's Style by Better Homes and Gardens Staff
Description not available.Richly illustrated with full-color photographs and featuring dozens of entertaining projects, this innovative home decorating handbook explains how to use one's personal hobbies, treasures, and collectibles to create unique and stylish designs and includes practical suggestions on how to arrange and dispay one's collections. 35,000 first printing. AUTHOR: Better Homes and Gardens Staff
PUBLISHER: Meredith Books
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Art & Architecture
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