The Art and Craft of Pedagogy: Portraits of Effective Teachers
'The Art and Craft of Pedagogy confirms the intrinsic pedagogical character of art practice. By bringing together the stories of an array of art practitioners working within different settings and environments, Richard Hickman helps his readers to better understand the relationship between art and teaching. In so doing he also dispels the mechanistic fallacy of "art as an instrument of education" where artists are expected to remain accountable to a schooled establishment that reduces art education into a functionalist machine.' John Baldacchino, Associate Professor, The Art and Art Education Programme, Teachers College, Columbia University, USA
An Introduction to the History of Mathematics, Third EditionThis classic best-seller by a well-known author introduces mathematics history to math and math education majors. Suggested essay topics and problem studies challenge students. CULTURAL CONNECTIONS sections explain the time and culture in which mathematics developed and evolved. Portraits of mathematicians and material on women in mathematics are of special interest.
A treasure of a gift for the well-read woman, this collection brings together 50 stirring portraits, in watercolor and in word, of literature’s most well-read female characters. Anna Karenina, Clarissa Dalloway, Daisy Buchanan...each seems to live on the page through celebrated artist Samantha Hahn’s evocative portraits and hand-lettered quotations, with the pairing of art and text capturing all the spirit of the character as she was originally written.
Thea Gouverneur's Flower Portraits is a delectable selection of cross stitch designs for fifty favourite flowers. Arranged into fields of colour, these designs are certain in inspire beginners and have experienced cross-stitchers rushing for their embroidery frames. Following in the footsteps of the popular Secret Garden in Cross Stitch, these fresh flower portraits will bring the delight of the flowering garden into the home all year round.
Added by: Kahena | Karma: 11526.37 | Fiction literature | 25 September 2011
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The Pyramid
The five stories in this outstanding collection from Mankell (Faceless Killers) provide glimpses into Kurt Wallander's early life as a policeman as well as paint evocative portraits of contemporary Swedish society. An unremarkable businessman is poisoned in The Man on the Beach but—in typical Mankell fashion—the case is larger, more complex and more interesting than it first appears. In the volume's best entry, The Death of the Photographer, Simon Lamberg takes studio portraits of weddings and children, but a couple of nights each week, he uses his darkroom to distort published photographs of politicians and newsworthy people for a macabre personal scrapbook.
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