The striking landscape of the Pacific Northwest has inspired painters to put brush to canvas ever since the first European explorers sailed into local waters. A continuous, robust, and evolving artistic view of the region is represented in the140 paintings selected for this beautiful book

This book is about a man who, unwittingly, seems to have solved one of the riddles of Time and bridged the chasm between the remote past and the present, and about his life and his art. He is a Nenets by nationality, coming from the Far North

This book is about famous russian painter. He was one of the first Russian painters to combine in his art the reality of life with symbolism, a passionate love for nature with a strongly individual approach to it

This edition presents about the IFLA conference in Oslo in 2005 and the Norwegian Library Association and Norwegian Librarianship

A young Indian boy carves a canoe and travels through the Great Lakes to the Atlantic Ocean. The text and pictures provide an excellent geographical and historical picture of the region

Red Tile Style is a vivid exploration of the historical roots and modern-day applications of Spanish Revival architecture in America. And it is the first comprehensive collection of illustrations and descriptions of Spanish Revival

The Metropolitan Museum of Art's collection of American Quilts and Coverlets is extremely diverse, encompassing excellent representative examples of most types of bedcoverings from many regions of the United States. This Book provides greater access to the Museum's outstanding collection and enables all who are interested to discover the beauty and historical significance of American quilts and coverlets

This unique resource gives you over 175 complete, ready-to-use activities that draw on important content concepts through all of the popular American holidays, customs, and special events, to give ESL students at all levels a solid grasp of English vocabulary, reading, and language skills

The Light of New York, a stunning photographic essay by Jean-Michel Berts, features black-and-white photographs taken before sunrise and after sundown. 128 pages, 70 images

The book provides insight into the development of collections of western american art, the representation of western american art themes and subjects in popular culture, photography as a vital theme in western art, and the image of the American West in western art