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The Art of Antiquity

The Art of Antiquity
By:"John K. Papadopoulos","John McK. Camp","Piet De Jong"
Published on 2007 by ASCSA

The archives of the American School of Classical Studies excavations in the Athenian Agora contain a remarkable series of watercolours and drawings - well over 40 - by Piet de Jong, one of the best-known, most distinctive, and influential archaeological illustrators of the 20th century. They show landscapes, people, and, above all, objects recovered during many seasons of fieldwork at one of the longest continuously running archaeological projects in Greece. The aim of this volume is to bring these illustrations out of the storage drawers and to assemble in colour a representative sample of some of the finest of Piet de Jongs contributions. Along the way, this book tells the story of the Agora excavations and assesses their contribution to scholarship. It includes essays by 16 scholars currently working at the Agora, and surveys the entire span of the material they are studying - from Neolithic pottery to the Late Byzantine and post-Byzantine frescoes from the Church of Ayios Spyridon.

This Book was ranked 39 by Google Books for keyword art.

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The Young Catholic's Illustrated Speller

The Young Catholic's Illustrated Speller
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Published on 1884 by

This Book was ranked 36 by Google Books for keyword young.

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The Kids' Guide to Digital Photography

The Kids' Guide to Digital Photography
By:"Jenni Bidner"
Published on 2004 by Lark Books

A comprehensive instructional guide created especially for youngsters tells them exactly what they need to know to capture those special events digitally and get creative to create photo magnets, digital scrapbooks, puzzles, and more. Reprint.

This Book was ranked 18 by Google Books for keyword photography.

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Young, Black, Rich, and Famous

Young, Black, Rich, and Famous
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Published on 2008-03-01 by U of Nebraska Press

In Young, Black, Rich, and Famous, Todd Boyd chronicles how basketball and hip hop have gone from being reviled by the American mainstream in the 1970s to being embraced and imitated globally today. For young black men, he argues, they represent a new version of the American dream, one embodying the hopes and desires of those excluded from the original version. Shedding light on both perception and reality, Boyd shows that the NBA has been at the forefront of recognizing and incorporating cultural shifts?from the initial image of 1970s basketball players as overpaid black drug addicts, to Michael Jordan?s spectacular rise as a universally admired icon, to the 1990s, when the hip hop aesthetic (for example, Allen Iverson?s cornrows, multiple tattoos, and defiant, in-your-face attitude) appeared on the basketball court. Hip hop lyrics, with their emphasis on ?keepin? it real? and marked by a colossal indifference to mainstream taste, became an equally powerful influence on young black men. These two influences have created a brand-new, brand-name generation that refuses to assimilate but is nonetheless an important part of mainstream American culture. This Bison Books edition includes a new introduction by the author.

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