Product Description: The companion to a one-of-a-kind exhibit originating at the Smart Art Museum in Chicago and traveling across the country, Feast is a stimulating and illuminating exploration of the role of food in art: from the art of the meal, both in its preparation and in its presentation, to the performative aspects of eating and the social role of food...read more

Product Description: Throughout the vast interior of the United States, contemporary artists are responding to the world around them and reshaping it in unexpected ways. Published to coincide with an exhibition of the same name that first appeared last year in the Netherlands and will open in fall 2009 at the University of Chicago’s Smart Museum of Art, Heartland offers an idiosyncratic look at innovative forms of cultural production taking place across the region...read more

Product Description: If you've ever felt lonely, abandoned, lost, or unloved, you're not alone. Although she's a successful Gotee recording artist today, Stephanie Smith has had her fair share of hurt and heartbreak. Her journey has been a long one, filled with the pain of being fatherless, struggling with her identity, and looking for love in the wrong places...read more

Product Description: Everyone in the galaxy knows the legend of the Tigress, the mysterious striped-haired woman whose sole mission is to overthrow the tyrannical empire of the Dragon. Even Jaseff Terrod, a small-town mechanic from the backwater world of Orile Minor, is familiar with the story...read more

Product Description: Balancing environmental, ethical, economic, and aesthetic concerns, sustainable design has the potential to transform everyday life and has already dramatically reshaped the practice of architecture. Beyond Green introduces a new generation of international artists who work at the intersection of sustainable design and contemporary art...read more

Product Description: "Encapsulating 143 exhibitions with illustrations of work by 77 of the over 800 artists who participated, Perspectives@25: A Quarter Century of New Art in Houston celebrates the 25th anniversary of the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston's Perspectives series (one of the first in the U...read more

Product Description: Is it possible for a photographic portrait to reveal anything "real" about its subject? As part of a twelve-week residency at the University of Chicago's Smart Museum of Art, acclaimed photographer Dawoud Bey asked this question of twelve teenagers from nearby schools...read more

Product Description: The massive political, economic, and social changes China has undergone during the past decade have dramatically altered its cultural landscape. The exhibition New Photography from China and its catalogue offer the first comprehensive look at the body of photographic art produced during this period...read more

Product Description: Richly illustrated, this story looks beneath the elegant final Cauldron design to reveal the discarded concepts, the wildly complex engineering and the fire-truck-rolling travails it took to make this journey. It will also take you into the hearts and minds of the people who made it...read more

Presents lessons, practice questions, and a review to prepare for the GED test.

A mischievous gray wolf pup strays from his pack and learns a valuable lesson.

Two lynx kittens learn to care for themselves and avoid danger in their forest home.

An ermine leaves his family's den to find a home of his own.

There is a difference between knowing how to teach and understanding the culture of public education in America. Although specific laws and procedures vary from state to state, it is vitally important that today's educator effectively relate to other educators, facilitate the inner workings of the classroom, and successfully survive the stresses of teaching. This book is designed to empower the new educator, whether traditionally or alternatively certified, with the knowledge and the wisdom to create a successful teaching career.¿When a teacher begins a career, he/she can easily locate teacher resources that give endless activity and lesson ideas for the classroom, worksheets to copy, and form letters and notes for parents. However, Do You Think Teaching is Easy? provides new educators with the unique opportunity to learn the culture of education that many training programs and books never address. You will be challenged to ask yourself the tough questions, to rethink your assumptions, to proactively enhance your performance as a professional, as well as to work toward improvement of yourself as a person.¿If you are a new educator or are a mentor of new teachers, this is for you!

Product Description: Many nations around the globe are unable to experience a change in government without violence and bloodshed, but in America a peaceful transition from one presidential administration to the next has always been the case. Regardless of the bitterness surrounding a campaign like the 2000 election, the United States went through no coups or forcible attempts to hinder the change from the Clinton to Bush administrations...read more

Product Description: Since the 1960s, many artists have incorporated ecological concerns into their work, an endeavor that has required new strategies in art-making. To explore recent American manifestations of these interests, the David and Alfred Smart Museum commissioned new projects from artists Mark Dion, Peter Fend, and Dan Peterman, each focusing on interrelationships between particular organisms—human beings-and a specific group of sites—a museum building, a river landscape, and a university campus...read more

Covers basic mathematical concepts and offers related exercises and practice problems. (view table of contents)

Product Description: Federal advisory committees are frequently chartered by the Chief Executive, Congress, and agency heads to render independent advice and to make recommendations. This report sets forth definitions and requirements for creating commissions as required by the Federal Advisory Committee Act...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: In summer, Snowshoe Hare's light brown coat blends perfectly with the brush. In winter, Snowshoe Hare's coat turns white, allowing her to hide in the snowy landscape.