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This best-selling resource contains proven techniques for integrating literature, art, music, drama and dance into daily classroom instruction. Complete with research-based examples, authentic teacher stories, and strategies for integration, it addresses INTASC standards, assessment and differentiated instruction throughout. Discover ten ways to integrate the arts using the Arts Integration Blueprint presented in the book. Explore each art form and use the compendium of starter activities (presented in Seed chapters) to generate sound, creative ways to incorporate literature, art, music, drama and dance into K-8 classrooms.
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Color: Messages and Meanings, A PANTONE® Color Resource is the follow-up to the PANTONE® Guide to Communicating With Color. This book contains all new material to help you make effective, unique and credible color choices. Based on research and filled with hundreds of color combinations and illustrations, this book presents color expert, Leatrice Eiseman's insights on color and emotion, and addresses how best to integrate these qualities into your work, insuring your intended message is communicated. Experience inspiration through the most effective combinations for communicating moods, ranging from assertive to provocative or intimate, and many other moods. These essential guidelines and illustrations can be applied to so many of your projects... branding, packaging, signage, point-of-purchase, displays, advertising, logos, websites and more. Everything you need to make color work more effectively in your designs, from valuable color information to charts for converting PANTONE solid ink colors to four-color process (CMYK) formulas, is thoughtfully presented. Created for everyone whose color choices are critically important for the success of a project, this book will prove a valuable tool and resource that will enable you to jump-start your imagination, and provide you with the appropriate rationales for making those choices.
Customer Reviews:
Leatrice... you rock!.......2007-09-10
I wasn't sure what to expect from this book having already read "Communicating with color" till the pages started falling out.
I really thought I was in for more of the same and I was right.
HOWEVER!
Leatrice, being the great color expert that she is has updated this book with newer associations and rationale behind the changes.
She could've just called it;
"The Pantone Guide to Communicating With Color Version 2"
But how boring is that?
Most people know that trends change as do ideals and views on the world around us. Because of this our affinities and associations with colors will also change. Sometimes slightly and sometimes dramatically.
Most color books dont really dive into this much, they simply give you some palettes and expect you to keep using them until your clients stop calling.
But with this new book not only does Leatrice give a bit more insight to color associative trends but she also ads a section about practical uses in media and point of sale (I know, I know... she kind of did in the last one too). She throws in some interesting little facts and tidbits as well as a few new color wheels for you to mill over.
Granted there is a lot of the same, you could almost pull a few paragraphs straight from the last book. But as I mentioned this one is just a bit more up to date.
As with the last book this is not a Pro's Guide to color association and theory.
What it is, is a fantastically comprehensive guide and reference with plenty of inspirational examples and palettes for you to paw through when you need a creative kick in the pants.
If your new to color theory and association, dont miss this book.
If your an experienced designer like myself, you probably have "Communicating with Color" and think you dont need this one...
Well you probably dont, but the updated palettes and explanations were worth it for me. Besides, she just makes good lookin books!
I love having this on my desk, it's got appeal like a Com Arts Annual or something!
My only gripe is that I really loved having all the color responses on one page, now they're written in more detail for each color but are found through out the book in their respective sections.
The addition of detail is nice but it would've been handy to have them all located in some kind of quick reference page again.
Oh and one last thing, if you didnt get "Pantone Guide to Communicating With Color", you missed a great book but this is the updated version get this... seriously, get it.
Excellence, as always, from Leatrice Eiseman.......2007-06-03
As always, another helpful book from Leatrice Eiseman. I disagree with the review that says this is more for a student than a professional. As a professional, I have always found Leatrice's combinations to be inspirational and I use the book as a constant reference. You won't go wrong with this book.
A Great Resource.......2007-05-09
I am a beginner to the world of design and I have found this book to be very useful. It does a great job explaining color theory and provides a number a great color scheme samples. The real world examples provided in the book bridge the gap between theory and application.
A Beginners Guide to Color.......2007-05-08
This book gives very basic information on color theory and great quick-reference color combinations. The title of the book, `Color: Messages & Meanings', is the the book's weakest area. The author's arguments about color messages and meaning are backed only by weak empirical and anecdotal evidence sometimes in disagreement with actual scientific results. A good introduction to color, this book will be useful to high school students, amateurs and hobbyists. It doesn't offer much to professionals.
Highly recommended.......2007-03-13
Great explanations and incredible color combination ideas!!! I'm so glad to have this in my graphic design library.
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Using data from cultures and languages throughout the world to highlight both similarities and differences in human languages—this book explores the many interconnections among language, culture, and communicative meaning. It examines the multi-faceted meanings and uses of language and emphasizes the ways that language encapsulates speakers' meanings and intentions. Includes new section on Narratives (Ch. 4) and Language Ideologies (Ch. 13). Features Interactional, situational, and social functions of languages. > For anyone interested in Language and Culture, Anthropological Linguistics, and Language and Communication.
Customer Reviews:
Good Introductory Linguistics Book.......2006-11-09
This book is fairly easy to read, using data from many languages to illustrate key concepts relating to language and culture. Most linguistics books are full of technical language, and this one is no exception...people new to the study of language may find it helpful to have a textbook (or Wikipedia) on hand for reference. But it isn't as dense as some books I've read for undergrad courses, so I thought it was a nice break from the heavier stuff while still providing a good overview of the field
An excellent text for Language, Culture & Society courses!.......2002-09-14
Nancy Bonvillain is one of the top anthropological linguists in America. This is one of the best text books on the subject that's ever been written. It includes clear explanations and excellent cross-cultural examples. It follows the major traditions set by American linguists and anthropologists in the study of language description, language structure, language acquisition, language change, and the ways in which language reflects differences in cultural values, beliefs, and practices cross-culturally. It's a handy book to use in the undergraduate linguistic anthropology course and students enjoy it.
Language, Culture, and Communication.......2001-12-15
I'm trying to wade through this book for a class. It's like trying to run in shoulder-deep mud. I cannot make out what the author is trying to say. I'm considering dropping the class.
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`Complex and remarkably lucid, it's the first book dealing with punk to offer intellectual content. Hebdige is concerned with the UK's postwar, music-centred, white working-class subcultures, from teddy boys to mods and rockers to skinheads and punks.' - Rolling Stone
Customer Reviews:
Excellent Resource.......2006-03-14
Hebdige's book is an excellent text that is enjoyable and informative to read. It is academic and poetic all at once, mirroring certain aspects of the self-conscious scene he describes. He takes on the challenge of recording both the history and method of cultural creation and change in Britain, and leaves the savvy reader at a good place for interpreting later subcultural movements (US punk & hardcore, for example). I would say this is an essential read for the student or layman interested in subculture (past and present) or the history of punks, skins, etc.
Buy this book........2005-04-04
Professor Hebdige is a genius, and contrary to the other review he immersed himself in "this scene." He grew up right in the middle of the movement in England and witnessed firsthand the events and shifts that the book covers. He is a brilliant professor at UCSB and to take his class is an experience like no other. Reading this book is only a glimpse into the mind of one of the world's most exceptionally brilliant and artistic men.
Lacking in-depth analysis.......2003-10-01
This book lends itself to the idea that some subjects are best written about when one has experienced them first-hand. Lauraine LeBlanc's book Pretty in Punk, for example, offers an academic AND an experiential view of the movement. Hebdige could have benefited by letting more members of the subculture speak for themselves in his book or if he had actually lived in a subculture scene. While it is important to maintain some distance between your subject and yourself, too much distance leads to too many gaps and too much assumption. Although I enjoyed reading the book and think it is a good brief overview of many subcultures and styles, it might have been better to dedicate a separate book to each subculture and their particular style rather than trying to encompass them all in such a small space. The result would have been a more in-depth study of each group instead of a stereotypical glossing over - to understand the style one needs to understand each group more in-depth. I need to read his latest version to see if he addresses some of these issues.
fun, interesting, complex.......2003-08-15
this book takes an awesome and serious look at punk as a social and cultural phenomenon, and examines the roots that made punk into what it was. it is a very enlightening read, but is the kind of book you must read in the front and the back at the same time to have it all sink in. hebdige uses a number of endnotes throughout the book, which made me have to jump back and forth to understand what he was saying. i think a second reading would provide an even deeper understanding-- there were definitely times on the first read when i had to reread passages. i definitely recommend this book and have greatly enjoyed it.
Art Primer.......2002-02-06
This book is fundmentally the the bases for anyone who is studying art theory. This books goes into how subcultures like the punk movement to hip hop and gang cultures got started and why they are important to understanding diverse social structures.
Althought this book is small it is not an easy read. I read this book four or five time before things started to sink in. After finishing this book I felt more prepared for the art going experience.
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Photography's great success gives us the impression that the major questions that have haunted the medium are now resolved. On the contrary - the most important questions are just beginning to be asked. These fourteen essays, with over 200 illustrations, critically examine and challenge the prevailing formalist values of late modernism that have been applied to the medium and suggest new ways to explain the history of photography.
The essays examine the social consequences of aesthetic practice and look at how photography constructs sexual difference, how it is used to promote class and national interests, and at the politics of photographic truth.
Richard Bolton is Associate Professor and Chairperson in the Art Studio Department at the University of California, Santa Barbara.
Customer Reviews:
Ouch, but Ahhh........2001-11-24
This book makes my brain hurt, but in a good way. Some of the essays are pretty tough to read as they are very deeply rooted in the world of art historical criticism, but don't let that stop you from getting this book; you'll learn a lot and come away with some good insights into the subject of photography and the history of photography. It would be very helpful to get a companion book that contains some of the artists and works that are discussed here, so you have the images to look at and non-critical, historical looks at the artists for background and context. Something like Beumont Newhall's "History of Photography" would be an excellent match.
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A parrot uncomprehendingly rattles off a string of words learned by rote. And we marvel! Yet we seem to take our own astonishing linguistic powers for granted—the ability to speak, listen, and understand, to read and write. We all understand why language works—we have to communicate to survive—and now David Crystal, the world authority on language, shows us how.
How are languages born? How does conversation work? How do we learn how to read? How do gestures and tone of voice impact communication? And what happens when a language goes wrong? How Language Works answers questions about the innumerable facets of language, from how we absorb all those grammatical rules to how we decide if a word is rude or polite.
Whether looking at the whistle languages of the Canary Islands, or describing the layout of the human throat; whether assessing the importance of eyebrow flashes in conversation, or showing how the way we speak betrays who we want to be—How Language Works is a book that will enrich the lives of everyone who reads it. Illuminating and intriguing, this landmark book is the ultimate guide to the mysteries of the language we all use every day.
Customer Reviews:
Living language.......2007-08-31
I enjoyed this book - lots of interesting data, much of which was new to me. I thought that the 'mechanical' chapters at the beginning were a rather dry intro and could perhaps have been put in an appendix.
On what we say-in so many words........2007-07-23
The book was easy to read and relaxingly informative-I learnt a lot,David Crystal shows how linguistics and language should be discussed once again.
An Excellent Overview of the HOW.......2007-07-20
I would strongly disagree with the review that contends that this book does not explore its subject matter in enough depth. I particularly disagree with the reviewer when he keeps asking for further explanation ("it doesn't explain WHY...") The book is not intended to explain why. As the introduction makes clear, it is intended as an explanation of the HOW of linguistics; in other words, it is intended as a diagnostic overview of linguistic science. It is not a scientific investigation. It is not a historical (or etymological) overview of linguistic practices. It is a description of those practices. In this light, it succeeds admirably. I found the book extremely informative as an effective introduction to linguistics. And I did NOT find it a difficult read.
If you have no background study in linguistics, I HIGHLY recommend this book.
tough going.......2007-07-03
Don't be fooled by the cartoony cover: this book is very technical and will make for slow going. It could easily be used as the text in a linguistics survey course.
If you're looking at lighthearted romp through the beauty and weirdness of languages, this certainly isn't it.
If you say so, but why?.......2007-05-09
I found this book somewhat disappointing.
Since the author is clearly one of the top dudes in the language business, it seems not unreasonable to expect its accurate use in a work of his. It's a little unnerving, therefore, to read on the flyleaf that he "received the Order of the British Empire"*.
Fortunately, this sloppiness does not extend to the interior of the book (although prescriptivists may be irritated by words such as "mediums", and I had a few uneasy twinges even apart from that. When the author says that small communities can easily be decimated or wiped out [p. 337], does he mean reduced by a tenth, or to a tenth? The context seems to imply the latter.)
The organization is logical, systematic, and well thought out. In fact, since we learn things by organizing them in our minds rather than by ingesting them in unstructured lumps, the layout of the book and the clear explanations of terminology are themselves useful learning tools.
Nevertheless, despite all the expertise and careful organization, the impression I got at the start of this book was of facts dumped on to the page the way a trashcan is emptied into a garbage truck; or -- more to the point -- the way a schoolboy told to write an essay on the Canadian Redwood dumps the relevant contents of his encyclopedia. Assertions are made with a sort of stolid incuriosity about the reasons for them that I would normally ascribe either to a dull mind, or to total disinterest in the subject matter. Since presumably neither of these can apply here, I assumed there must be a third reason that escaped me.
For instance, in the chapter on childhood language acquisition ("How We Learn Grammar"), we're told that it can take several years before errors such as "Are we going on the bus home?" are eliminated [p. 257]. What we're not told is why this is considered an error: if "Are we going on the bus tomorrow?" is alright, why should the first sentence not be?
Likewise, we learn that "a few advanced constructions are not acquired until the early school years, e.g. the use of `some' vs. `any' [...] or the use of `hardly' or `scarcely' ". But there is no explanation of *why* these constructions are considered advanced -- which in fact they are, having whole sections to themselves in books that teach English as a Second Language. Remember, the title of this book is "How Language Works"!
We're told that backward-looking coreference relationships are known as `anaphoric' and forward-looking ones as `cataphoric', but not why; and after all, you can't expect every reader to be a classical scholar!
"I've got a pencil. Do you have one?" This is given as an example of substitution, but it seems decidedly strange to me, being neither British (as is the author) nor American: I would expect either "I've got a pencil. Have you got one?" or "I have a pencil. Do you have one?". But the author passes over this without remark, so perhaps it's just me.
The traditional Clause Analysis, that those of us who are old enough had to suffer through in school, is described; but no explanation is given of why this is now considered unsatisfactory or inadequate. A couple of references are made in passing to Chomsky, but none that sheds any light on his work, which (let's face it) is as opaque to most people as Quantum Chromodynamics.
And so on.
More generally, topics are abandoned just when they're getting interesting. For instance, we learn [p. 288] that the character of a person's voice can affect the way in which a jury judges the credibility of what is said; but then the discussion veers off in another direction. So perhaps everything is simply the result of trying to cram too much into a single book.
It really started to come into focus for me when the author moved on from grammar to the subject of different languages; and, in particular, how they live or die (I see that Professor Crystal is bilingual in English and Welsh, which may go some way towards explaining this). From this point on, I found the material far more engaging, although still disappointingly brief. Fortunately, there is an interesting-looking list of further reading.
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So all in all, I would say this book is worth reading: the author is clearly an expert; compresses into a reasonable space a large amount of material not easily found elsewhere; and writes more than serviceably.
But if you haven't read any books on language before, I would still recommend Steven Pinker's The Language Instinct (with its very clear exposition of language acquisition, among many other things) first. And his Words and Rules would be a strong contender for second.
*For those unfamiliar with the arcane British honors system, the Order is an organization, and one can no more receive it than one can receive the Internal Revenue Service. One may be made a Member of it (M.B.E.), or, as in Professor Crystal's case, an Officer of it (O.B.E.), etc.
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Drama, dance, music, art, literature—all exciting tools for the K-6 classroom. But how do you make the most of them? By using the numerous hands-on activities and ideas in this popular, practical book. Here are dozens of daily routine ideas, integrated unit ideas, and adaptable classroom structures that set forth solid, dependable “how to's” for using the arts throughout the curriculum—in social studies and science, in reading and language arts, even in math. Only in this book will you find such a clear, straightforward summary of these five art forms. And only in this book will you find a clearly presented argument for integrating at least one art form into every lesson in every area—every day. Targeted topics include assessment, classroom management/discipline and intervention/adaptation for special needs.
Customer Reviews:
Too Many Words!.......2006-03-28
While I am sure this book may have some good ideas in it, they would be hard to find. This book is very wordy. I was looking for a book full of integration ideas, this book is full of more justifications of why the arts are important. I know why they are important, what more authors (including this one) need to do is tell us simply and practically how to do it better.
Claudia Cornett Sparks Interest.......2002-11-26
I had the pleasure of having Claudia Cornett visit my school recently. She is a very energetic lady with a storehouse of great ideas! Her discussion, which was based on her book, made a whole room of teachers laugh and act silly. We were playing sock toss to help children with word chunks. We became actors with a simple pen. This pen became: a hairbrush, a microphone, a straw...
I can't wait to pick up a copy of this book and use all of the ideas in my classroom. Her energy and fire is contagious!
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This major reference work, first published in 1946, is a fully documented alphabetical listing of over 8,000 Scottish family and personal names and is an invaluable source of information for genealogists, historians and families interested in their Scottish ancestry.
Customer Reviews:
Another Genealogy Gem.......2000-10-25
George Fraser Black, Ph.D., compiled this listing of Scottish surnames from public and other records of Scotland throughout the centuries. An impressive and detailed bibliography lists his sources. The listing includes all the variations of spelling for each name, the date when it appeared and the location, and some insights or explanation, where appropriate. The 838 page volume includes a Glossary of Obsolete or Uncommon Scots Words. This is an invaluable reference for anyone interested in Scottish genealogy. It can quickly aid the person who is unsure whether his or her ancestry is Irish or Scottish. I highly recommend this book and am proud to have it in my library.
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How did electricity enter everyday life in America? Using Muncie, Indiana, as a touchstone, David Nye explores how electricity seeped into and redefined American culture. With an eye for telling details and a broad understanding of cultural and social history, he creates a thought-provoking panorama of a technology fundamental to modern life.
Emphasizing the experiences of ordinary men and women rather than the lives of inventors and entrepreneurs, Nye treats electrification as a set of technical possibilities that were selectively adopted to create the streetcar suburb, the amusement park, the "Great White Way," the assembly line, the electrified home, and the industrialized farm. He shows how electricity touched every part of American life, how it became an extension of political ideologies, how it virtually created the image of the modern city, and how it even pervaded colloquial speech, confirming the values of high energy and speed that have become hallmarks of the twentieth century. He also pursues the social meaning of electrification as expressed in utopian ideas and exhibits at world's fairs, and explores the evocation of electrical landscapes in painting, literature, and photography.
Electrifying America combines chronology and topicality to examine the major forms of light and power as they came into general use. It shows that in the city electrification promoted a more varied landscape and made possible new art forms and new consumption environments. In the factory, electricity permitted a complete redesign of the size and scale of operations, shifting power away from the shop floor to managers. Electrical appliances redefined domestic work and transformed the landscape of the home, while on the farm electricity laid the foundation for today's agribusiness.
Customer Reviews:
Plug it in, turn it on.......2005-10-11
This book is about how electricity transformed America. Nye explores how electricity changed the home (it was now cleaner and safer than gas), the factory, and transportation (it made the subway and inter-urban trolley-car systems possible). Americans embraced this new source of energy quickly and convincingly. The mantra, however, that electric appliances would free the housewife was not true: men did not take to the appliances as readily and (surprise!) women suddenly were doing chores (vacuuming) that men used to do (beat the rugs). There is a lot of detail in the book, but not much that is new or not obvious. For that reason it was somewhat dull.
A fantastic history of the development of electricity.......2000-06-09
Did you know, in the early days of electricity, the power went off at 11:00 pm each night? Or that electricity was billed at a flat rate of $1 per day? Or that most homes had only one or two outlets and a light bulb hanging from a string?
This book is a compendium of both fascinating facts and substantial histories of the development of residential electrical usage in our country.
I love old houses and historical information, and perhaps because of that, I found this book to be a fascinating read. Some parts of it were a wee bit dry, where he delved into some of the more technical aspects of this modern utility, but the majority of the book was a treasure.
After reading this book, and gaining an better understanding of the history of electricity, I'd say, without hesitation, that introducing the modern convenience of electrical current into our homes may be the most significant discovery of the last 500 years.
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