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Already well established as a children¹s book illustrator, Wenzel is also well-remembered for his beautiful comics adaptation of Tolkien¹s The Hobbit. He brings his knowledge of both crafts here to eyestopping effect with fresh and authentic versions of ²Little Snow White², among others. Script adaptation by Doug Wheeler. ... Read more

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Collector's Edition
Philip has faithfully translated this collection of the Grimm Brothers' anthology of oral folktales.He has chose to include twenty of the classic German tales in this beautiful edition.Hardcover, with gilted pages, and metallic highlights in the illustrations creates a very stunning picture.Philip has selected some of the most well known favorites, but also a few that modern times have forgotten.The reading level is approximately third grade, though the stories look as though they would be better understood and more entertaining if read aloud.There tends to be just one illustration per story.While they are wonderfully done and framed with more artwork, they don't do much to tell the plot of the story and are not always matched up with the text.Every classroom should have a collection of Grimm's fairy tales, but this isn't the one.This book seems to have been designed more for collectors and to sit on a shelf than to be handled by youngsters on a daily basis in a classroom environment.

Why 4 stars?:
This is not a book to be read, but one to be collected and set upon a shelf to collect dust.The illustrations are beautiful and the information provided about the tales and the brothers is excellent.However, this book was not made for children to read their favorite tales from. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Environmental Health Perspectives, published by Thomson Gale on August 1, 2007. The length of the article is 8705 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Exposure to ultrafine particles from ambient air and oxidative stress-induced DNA damage.(Research)
Author: Elvira Vaclavik Brauner
Publication: Environmental Health Perspectives (Magazine/Journal)
Date: August 1, 2007
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 115Issue: 8Page: 1177(6)

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THE SCULPTOR SPEAKS JACOB EPSTEIN TO ARNOLD L. HASKELL A series of conversations on Art GARDEN CITY NEW YORK DOUBLEDAY, DORAN AND COMPANY, INC 1932 SELF PORTRAIT 1920 Dedicated by the Author to MRS. JACOB EPSTEIN CONTENTS INTRODUCTION Arnold L. Haskell i CHAPTER I. ON ART CRITICISM AND THEE WRITING OF BOOKS I II. MAINLY AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL. EARLY DAYS PARIS THEE STRAND STATUES THEE OSCAR WILDE MEMORIAL. IO III. A DISCUSSION ON BEAUTY RIMA. A RESUME OF THE CRITICISM OF RIMA 2.1 IV. THE STATUE OF CHRIST 3 3 V. NIGHT AND DAY. A RESUME OF THE CRITICISM OF NIGHT AND DAY 40 VI. IN THE STUDIO ON PORTRAITURE PSYCHOLOGY AND ART MODELLING AND CARVING NAMING A WORK DISTORTION IN ART 56 VII. PRIVATE VIEW DAYS GENESIS A DISCUSSION ON BAROQUE SCULPTURE AFRICAN ART THE MEANING OF INFLUENCES IN ART JJ VIII. PUBLIC MONUMENTS PICASSO PRIMI TIVE ART PERIOD AND NATIONAL ITY SUBJECT MATTER IN ART CONTENTS continued. CHAPTER PAGE SENSUALITY RUDE AND LA MAR SEILLAISE 95 IX. PAST AND PRESENT MICHAEL ANGELO AND DONATELLO RODIN BRANCUSI MODIGLIANI MAILLOL GAUDIER - BR ESKA HENRY MOORE IIJ X. CHARACTERISTICS OF GREAT ART TRADITION AN INTRODUCTION TO THE APPRECIATION OF ART 134 XI. AMERICA AND AMERICAN SCULPTURE 148 Appendix I. An article by the late T. E. Hulme. Appendix II. Catalogue raisonn6 of the works of Jacob Epstein, 1907-1931. Appendix III. Exhibitions held by Jacob Epstein, ILLUSTRATIONS PAGE SELF-PORTRAIT Frontispiece SUNITA charcoal drawing faing iv THE MADONNA AND CHILD xi THE SERAPH 4 ELLEN JANSEN IO THE LITTLE NEGRESS pencil drawing 12 PROFESSOR JOHN DEWEY 21 MAY 26 RIMA 29 DAME SYBIL THORNDIKE 34 DAY 47 NIGHT 50 ESTHER 55 THE RT. HON. THE VISCOtJNT ROTHER MERE, P. C. 59 THE SICK CHILD 6l .-THE VISITATION 63 THE RT. HON. JAMES RAMSAY MAC DONALD, P. C. 68 THE MADONNA AND CHILD detail 70 MARCHESA CASATI 78 GENESIS 3 82 ILLUSTRATIONS continued PAGE THE HON. STEPHEN TENNANT facing 84 BIBLICAL SUBJECT pencil and wash drawing 91 ISRAFEL 3 , 94 DUKE OF MARLBOROUGH 99 A PORTRAIT ,, 1 08 ELSA LANCHESTER 112 MIRIAM 117 PUTTI 122 DR, CRAMER iz6 JOAN GREENWOOD 131 DAISY DUNN 135 PAUL ROBESON 139 MIRIAM PLICHTE 143 LYDIA 150 AFTER TWO DOVES 169 AFTER THE CHRIST 3 175 AFTER THE SUN GOD , 190 AFTER LYDIA 191 INTRODUCTION I CANNOT in this introduction explain Epstein, and in his own conversation Epstein cannot and does not attempt to explain himself. The French painter Vlaminck summed up the situation admirably when he said La bonne peinture cest comme de la bonne cuisine, ca se goute mais a ne sexplique pas. We can only hint. His work is there for all to see. It is extremely unlikely that this book will convert anyone to the view held by the writer of this introduction that Jacob Epstein, almost alone in the world to-day, holds the secret of true beauty, and that his work like all things truly beautiful will endure without relying in any way upon fashion for its appreciation. It may well be that so positive a statement of belief at the very beginning of this study does my subject a disservice in the eyes of the reader not prepared to follow me to such lengths, or who may well already be in positive and violent disagreement with me. But I have reached my conclusion after very many years and a close study of all the work, and I am therefore unwilling to state it in a more INTRODUCTION subtle and roundabout manner, were that possible. There is altogether too much vague and incon clusive writing on art, and enthusiasm is too often carefully hidden under a mass of so-called technical jargon. I am not prepared to call every work of the sculptor a masterpiece, just because it is signed Epstein to do that would most surely infuriate the artist, and under such conditions this book would never have been written. But my position with regard to Epsteins vision is clear, and I stress it fully conscious of the risk of losing sympathy at the outset... ... Read more

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PREFACE THE compression of the last two thousand years of Pales tinean history within the limits of a single volume, presented numerous difficulties. Though in the introduction the remoter backgrounds have been lightly sketched, the writer avoided the pre-biblical and biblical periods. The archeological discoveries made in recent years and the prospective results of the ex cavations now in process, will have to be evaluated before a new and useful content of political, social and economic facts can be poured into the fixed outline established by the Bible and Josephus, Because no more than current comment may be applied to history while in the making, the temptation has been withstood to analyze and summarize the wealth of material accumulated since Palestine came under the British mandate. The literature on Palestine in all languages, is extremely numerous. In some respects the detailed information available is almost overwhelming in its minutiae. For some interesting periods, however, a small nugget of fact is the only reward for the patient sifting of tons of verbal ore Much that has been written about Palestine has been inspired by the reverent desire to establish the literal accuracy of biblical passages, whether they describe past conditions or presage the future. Many authors have speculated in the interest of some pet theory, and as many have yielded to the enticement of archeological dis putation. Hopeful of its future the author in 1900 sought for a useful, balanced history of Palestine. Kittos four hundred and twenty-six interesting pages contained less than, three pages devoted to all that happened in Palestine since 1291, Other periods were treated even more scantily. Munk, though a little kinder to the sixteenth century, was wholly fugitive in his vii viii PREFACE treatment of other periods. Episodic histories there were aplenty, but they began and ended abruptly Even painstaking archeologists cultivated this disjunctive and intermittent atti tude In all books treating of the country, the great blanks were between the third century and the Crusades, and from the fall of the Latin Kingdom to present times This treatment created a well-defined state of mind towards everything Pales tinean. A single illustration will serve In the nineteenth cen tury, a period of intense investigation, Palestine was largely treeless, its rocks exposed, and the land poorly cultivated To the pious this was evidence of the fulfillment of a curse. To the sceptic it was proof that the biblical writers exaggerated the land was infertile, and the country hopeless A third group accepted the Bible as accurate but speculated on climatic changes, and the drying up of water courses to explain the difference between the past and the present. The author had no preconceived theories To fill a blank in his own knowledge he devoted the leisure of thirty years to patient research and a careful study of the topography and his toric sites. The Palestine thus discovered differs materially from the accepted picture That the dry southland of Palestine once blossomed and sustained a considerable population, that Trans-Jordan is a ruin wrought by the Tartar horde, that just one hundred years ago Palestine had a period of prosperity will surprise the majority of readers... ... Read more