"In this volume, we have made every effort to preserve Helen Gardner's freshness of style and, above all, her sympathetic approach to individual works of art and the styles of which they are a part."- Preface.

A retrospective look at the work and the unique creativity of this pioneering new-media artist

This classic art history survey text has sold more than two million copies since it was first published in 1926. The ideal text for the full-year history course, it surveys the entire span of Western art from prehistory to the present and offers overviews of significant areas of non-Western art. Features: * New to this edition: * Increased number of illustrations, more in color. * Heightened visual appeal and superior accuracy of color resulting from printing at 175-line screen resolution. * Addition of new maps, timelines, and improved photographic views. * Reorganized, expanded, and revised chapters in Part One reflect significant changes in the field of ancient art over the last decade. (Author Fred S. Kleiner, Classical scholar, is Editor-in-Chief of the American Journal of Archaeology, the official journal of the Archaeological Institute of America). * Inclusion of more art from North American museums facilitates students' viewing of actual works. * Inclusion of many new views of previously illustrated monuments. * Increased attention to social and political context of works of art in the ancient world. * Presentation of more classical works of art created for non-elite patrons. * Reorganized by Early Christian, Islamic, and Byzantine material. * Addition of twenty-eight new line art figures. * Expanded coverage of Chinese art and introduction of Korean art. * Expanded coverage of Mayan ceramics and stelae, new coverage of Peruvian textiles and Colombian gold work. * Revision of African art, updated in a separate chapter with twice as many images as the previous edition. * Reorganized chapters covering Northern and Italian Renaissance. * Reorganized coverage of eighteenth-century material. * Increased coverage of women and minority artists. * Totally reorganized nineteenth- and twentieth-century material, many new images from nineteenth- and twentieth-century artists. -- Amazon.com

This is a story about how I dealt with my son's diagnosis of juvenile arthritis. I spent so much time blaming myself for not doing enough fix the disease that never seemed to go away. But with the help of doctors, nurses and luck, my son's disease has not won. I can see that as my son has gotten older, he deals with the disease better, accepting his limits and acknowledging his strengths. He can probably go anywhere or do anything he wants. This future is quite different than the one that use to haunt me as a young mother. I feared that he would regret all the things he missed. I imagined him living in my basement, depressed, playing video games and blaming me for his problems. Being a child with juvenile arthritis is the only thing that Dan knows. If it changed him in anyway it was to make him stronger. He has a great attitude. He is smart and compassionate especially for people who deal with chronic disease. He is my one child who always remembers to take his medicine without any reminders. My favorite nurse told me that the reason that Dan was able to do so many things --from playing the violin, to having a job and doing so well at school was because he had a mother who worked so hard to take care of him. And maybe for the first time I believed it because she had seen a lot of patients with his condition and always remarked that he was doing so well. I teared up because being the mother of a child with a chronic disease it one of the hardest, thankless jobs around.

In this book, Rosie and her family learn about weather. Rosie is full of questions about the world around her. Dad uses every-day examples to teach her about science. You're invited to come along and learn too. This book contains: 19 short stories explaining topics in meteorology Puzzle activities for each lesson Images and diagrams Topics include: The atmosphere, clouds, fog, rain, snow, tornadoes, hurricanes, monsoons, sunsets, rainbows, and forecasting.Great for summer skills or homeschool Learn about hurricanes, tornadoes and winter storms. Experience a hail storm on the way to the airport. Observe sunsets and rainbows and learn what makes them colorful. Watch rain and snow on a family hike.Plus many more.