There are many transitions that children experience before they are five, including the first major transition from home to an early years setting. Successive changes can have a serious impact on young children and stress, separation and insecure attachments can affect not only a child's emotional h[...]
The spellbinding story, part fairy tale, part suspense, of Gustav Klimt's "Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer," one of the most emblematic portraits of its time; of the beautiful, seductive Viennese Jewish salon hostess who sat for it; the notorious artist who painted it; the now vanished turn-of-the-cen[...]
Designed to cover the requirements of the National Curriculum, this book's features include a flexible resource for teaching the National curriculum, an integrated approach to language study at all stages, a range of authors, poets, and playwrights from different centuries and cultures. Activities h[...]
In this groundbreaking study, Gary M. Ciuba examines how four of the South's most probing writers of twentieth-century fiction -- Katherine Anne Porter, Flannery O'Connor, Cormac McCarthy, and Walker Percy -- expose the roots of violence in southern culture. Ciuba draws on the paradigm of mimetic vi[...]
The true story that inspired the movie "Woman in Gold" starring Helen Mirren and Ryan Reynolds.
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"Contributor to the "Washington Post" Anne-Marie O'Connor brilliantly regales us with the galvanizing story of Gustav Klimt's 1907 masterpiece--the breathtaking portrait of a Viennese Jewish socia[...]