Product Description: Written by an interdisciplinary team of scholars, this authoritative text explores the emotive issues surrounding the commemoration of war and atrocity, and the profound challenges for conservators posed by virtual, intangible and multicultural heritage...read more

Product Description: Beginning in the "heroic" period of the 1920s, Le Corbusier presented his work to the world in his lectures: in Paris and Rome, Geneva and Zurich, Barcelona and Brussels, Prague and Moscow, Buenos Aires and Rio de Janeiro, as well as at Columbia University in New York...read more

Product Description: This is another "How To" guide and part of the successful series that tells children everything they need to know about the hottest topics in the world today. Everyone wants to live a long and happy life. In "How to Live for Ever", you can find out how! For thousands of years people have dreamt of fountains of youth and elixirs of life that would extend their lives...read more

Product Description: The villas of the 1920s in and around Paris, including such modern classics as the Villa La Roche-Jeanneret in the Auteuil district of Paris, the Villa Stein-de Monzie in Garches, and the Villa Savoye in Poissy, constituted a radically new orientation for architecture that have made them central points of reference for all subsequent generations of architects right up to the present...read more

When a boy joins her ballet class, Rose has trouble concentrating, and hopes that she can focus enough to pass her grade four exam.

Rose has a hard time keeping her ballet and gymnastics lessons straight--the problem is, she is better at gymnastics but likes ballet more, which leaves her with a tough decision to make when she has to choose only one class.

Jasmine knows that she wants to be a ballerina, but her strict father won't allow her to go to the ballet's Junior Associates auditions, until Jasmine gets the professional ballerina Anna Lane involved.

Jasmine's dad does not approve of her taking ballet, so she is hoping to impress him when her school puts on a show and she is the star.

When two strangers come into ballet class to review the dancers, Poppy is nervous that she is not good enough to get picked for whatever it is, and her health and grades may not stand up to her concentration on being a 'perfect' dancer.

Ten-year-old Poppy wants nothing more than to advance to the next ballet grade, but when a new girl, Rose, arrives in class and causes her to mess up during class, she is not sure she will be able to move up with her best friend, Jasmine.

Product Description: The Modernist house dissolved the closed spaces of the traditional home, overhauling the bathrooms and kitchens, opening the interior to natural light, and providing balconies and terraces. In The Modernist Home, art professor and curator Tim Benton examines its elements, from the technology that provided central heating and electric lighting, to new construction materials like concrete and steel, to features like winter gardens and folding furniture...read more

Product Description: This sticker atlas contains maps of the world and 140 colorful country stickers. Just match the stickers to the places on each map to discover which countries belong to what continents. Paperback. Pages: 24

A richly illustrated overview of Art Deco design and decoration features nearly forty essays by leading experts in the field, along with more than four hundred full-color and black-and-white illustrations, as it looks at the Art Deco phenomenon--its sources, forms of expression, evolution, and influence.

Looks at a variety of homes designed by Le Corbusier, shows floor plans and sketches, and discusses the architect's working methods