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1. Hidden Treasure - Modern Parables Vol 1, Lessons 1 & 2
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HIDDEN TREASURE is part of the MODERN PARABLES series, an original film-based Bible study curriculum on Jesus' parables. Hidden Treasure is a light comedy about an unsuccessful real estate agent who finds oil in a field and so must convince his wife they should sell everything they own to buy it.The DVD includes all you need to teach TWO LESSONS AND A BONUS LESSON: the short film, an application video taught by Dr. Daniel Doriani, a combined leader/study book, and a director's commentary. The study can be used for Sunday School classes, small groups, youth groups, Christian schools, home schools, family study, and evangelism.
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3. ABC San Antonio: An Alphabet Guidebook to the Fiesta City
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Interesting for locals, helpful for newcomers and visitors. Fun and educational for children. ABC San Antonio: An Alphabet Guidebook to the Fiesta City is an unusual and unique souvenir that combines the value of a traditional ABC book for children and a colorful and helpful guidebook (for adults). It is also a tribute to the delightful people of San Antonio in a special feature called Meet Ten San Antonians which introduces readers to local folks whose creative jobs capture our imagination and introduce children to the numbers 1 through 10. The bright, colorful photos include both popular and lesser-known San Antonio sights and events, with their locations and interesting information about them in the Index. Readers can have fun with the Alphabet Scavenger Hunt where they can track down letters on signs and landmarks around town.4. Jackson Pollock: An American Saga
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Jackson Pollock was more than a great artist, he was a creative force of nature. He changed not only the course of Western art, but our very definition of "art." He was the quintessential tortured genius, an American Vincent van Gogh, cut from the same unconforming cloth as his contemporaries Ernest Hemingway and James Dean--and tormented by the same demons; a "cowboy artist" who rose from obscurity to take his place among the titans of modern art, and whose paintings now command millions of dollars.Here, for the first time, is the life behind that extraordinary achievement--the disjointed childhood, the sibling rivalry, the sexual ambiguity, and the artistic frustration out of which both artist and art developed.
Based on more than 2,000 interviews with 850 people, Jackson Pollock is the first book to explore the life of a great artist with the psychological depth that marks the best biographies of literary and political figures. In eight years of research the authors have uncovered previously unknown letters and documents, gained access to medical and psychiatric records, and interviewed scores of the artist's friends and acquaintances whose stories had never been told. They were also the first biographers in twenty years to benefit from the cooperation of Pollock's widow, Lee Krasner.
The results of these unprecedented efforts lie before you: a rich, sprawling, landmark biography of one of the most compelling figures in all of American culture; a brilliant, explosive "portrait of the artist," intimately detailed, abundantly illustrated (with more than 200 photographs from Pollock's life and work, many of them never before published), and filled with new information and new insights.
In a style as richly textured, engrossing, and poignant as the best of contemporary literature, Steven Naifeh and Gregory White Smith give us the family crucible out of which the artist and his art emerged. Beginning with Jackson's birth on a sheep ranch in Wyoming, we follow the Pollock family on a relentless trek across the American West, as their dreams of a better life somewhere else are repeatedly frustrated. We see the young Jack Pollock as a struggling art student in New York, escaping into drunken rages or throwing himself into the Hudson River in one of several attempts at suicide.
Later, we see Pollock, by turns, gently affectionate and outrageously cruel, creatively bankrupt and heroically productive. We see him alternately fascinated and intimidated by his contemporaries: Clement Greenberg, Franz Kline, Willem de Kooning, Robert Motherwell, Barnett Newman, Harold Rosenberg, Clyfford Still, Tennessee Williams. We see him enter into a tumultuous marriage with the painter Lee Krasner, creating a powerful alliance that will lead first to triumph, then to decline, and finally to death when, with his mistress at his side, Pollock smashes his car into a tree.
But Jackson Pollock is more than the epic story of a tormented man and his sublime art, it is also a compulsively readable, sweeping saga of America's cultural coming of age. From frontier Iowa to the dust bowl of Arizona, from the twilight of the Wild West to the desolation of Depression-era New York, from the excitement and experimentation of the Mexican muralists to the fanfare of the Surrealists' visit to America, from the arts projects of the WPA to the explosion of interest and money that marked the beginning of the modern art world, Pollock's story unfolds against the dramatic landscape of American history.
Here then is a definitive record of the journey of an artist, filled with piercing psychological insights, that brings us to a truer understanding of the power and pathos of creative genius.
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6. Archie, Follow Me
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A little girl describes her relationship with her cat7. Speak Now Against the Day: The Generation Before the Civil Rights Movement in the South (Chapel Hill Books)
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The compelling story of the earliest calls for desegregation and racial justice in the South."Make room on your library shelf . . . for John Egerton's magnificent Speak Now Against the Day. His book is a stunning achievement: a sprawling, engrossing, deeply moving account of those Southerners, black and white, who raised their voices to challenge the South's racial mores. . . . [This] is an eloquent and passionate book, and . . . one we cannot afford to forget.--Charles B. Dew, New York Times Book Review
"A rich and inspiring story. . . . [Egerton] has uncovered a buried treasure.--Studs Terkel
"[A] superb book, measured but eloquent.--Dan T. Carter, Washington Post Book World
8. Colonies to Constitution: Critical Thinking in US History Series (Version 1.0.1)
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Critical Thinking in United States History uses fascinating original source documents and discussion-base critical thinking methods to help students evaluate conflicting perspectives of historical events. This process stimulates students interest in history, improves their historical knowledge, and develops their analytical skills for assessment tests. Methods For each lesson, students examine two or more perspectives of an event using analysis and evaluation skills such as identifying types of reasoning and evaluating sources. Through debating historians evidence, inferences, analogies, and assumptions, students come away with a deeper understanding of specific events. They also learn to examine any historical, or current, event with a more critical mind. Instruction/Answer Guide Includes objectives, teaching suggestions, focus questions, and answers. Use of the guides is highly recommended. Book on CD This Book on CD allows you to install and print the Student book andthe Instruction/Answer Guide from your own printer. This book on CD isa useful alternative to photocopying. Publisher: Critical Thinking Company Grades: 6-12+ Format: Book on CD ISBN: 97808945591439. Discourses and Sayings (Cistercian Studies)
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A shrewd observer, a master psychologist, an accomplished raconteur, Dorotheos is also a learned man with a prodigious capacity for assimilating in an organized harmony the wisdom of his precedessors in the life of the Spirit. Yet he is far more interested in humbly serving his brethren than in discoursing about the recondite aspects of the hescyhast experience. His genial candor makes him the ideal spiritual master to introduce modern readers to the rich spiritual universe of the deserts of Egypt, Palestine, and Syria.
10. Barbarian Migrations and the Roman West, 376 - 568 (Cambridge Medieval Textbooks)