This resource book for teachers of young students contains a bank of motivating activities to supplement course material. The eight sections are full of useful ideas for fun activities in a variety of teaching situations. Activities range from 'getting to know you' activities to games that practise the alphabet, numbers and spelling as well as activities that focus on vocabulary, writing, grammar and longer projects. Each activity is explained using step-by-step instructions with photocopiable material on facing pages

This catalogue is published to coincide with an exhibition in celebration of the 50th anniversary of the Henry Francis du Pont Winterthur Museum, at the National Gallery of Art in Washington DC. The five sections cover: early America, high style rococo, East meets West, Pennsylvania German and classical style. Approximately 300 examples of decorative arts made or used in America between 1640 and 1840 - including furniture, textiles, paintings, ceramics, glass and metalwork - form the collection at the museum

Along Route 66 describes the architectural styles found along the highway from Chicago, Illinois, to Santa Monica, California, and pairs photos with stories of the buildings and of the people who built them, lived in them, and made a living from them

A beautiful exhibition catalog for a landmark collection of works on paper, An American Focus: The Anderson Graphic Arts Collection, reproduces the complete exhibition including works by Diebenkorn, Stella, Lichtenstein, and Rauschenberg, in addition to a checklist and essays on American collecting prints and printmaking

Art Deco 1910-1939 surveys the sources and development of the popular style with more than 400 color illustrations and 40 chapters by numerous design specialists. The book's broad focus encompasses industrial artifacts (the Hindenburg blimp, the Burlington Zephyr locomotive), as well as architecture, furniture, accessories, fashion, jewelry, typography and poster design

The book demonstrates the resurgence of interest in streamlining among international vanguard designers from the 1980 to the present. It celebrates streamlining as epitomized by the work of Raymond Loewy, Donald Deskey, Henri Dreyfuss, Russel Wright, and Norman Bel Geddes, and introduces other industrial designers

This book examines how agricultural innovation arises in four African countries―Ghana, Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda― through the lens of agribusiness, public policies, and specific value chains for food staples, high value products, and livestock. Determinants of innovation are not viewed individually but within the context of a complex agricultural innovation system involving many actors and interactions

This splendid book explores the dynamic tradition of Art Deco in America and, in over 500 illustrations, reveals the beauty and extent of the style as it was manifested here

The intense relationship between the American people and their surroundings has been the source of a rich artistic tradition. American Visions is a consistently revealing demonstration of the many ways in which artists have expressed this pervasive connection. In nine eloquent chapters, which span the whole range of events, movements, and personalities of more than three centuries, Robert Hughes shows us the myriad associations between the unique society that is America and the art it has produced

Edited and with an introduction by Sam Watters, American Gardens has more than 250 archival photographs and plans and an invaluable biography section profiling the schooling and projects of the landscape designers whose work is featured in the book. In a large landscape format, American Gardens captures estate gardens as they existed for one generation, a time when people had the land, the time, and the skill to fulfill the grandest gardening fantasies