About this product: David and Claudia Arp help empty-nesters overcome eight marital challenges to make the rest of their marriage the best of their marriage.
You can enrich your relationship and create years of special memories with the fun and creative dates inside this book. Here are a couple of examples:
Put on your black tie or evening gown and grab the picnic basket for an evening under the stars.
Order take out, turn on the answering machine, and just relax and enjoy each other.
52 Fantastic Dates for You and Your Mate is a wonderful tool for those who want to make their marriage come alive with fun, laughter, and good times together. "Will dating make a difference in your marriage?" ask the authors. "Our answer is an emphatic 'Yes!'"
About this product: America's best-selling outdoor humorist for adults has a secret following: middle-grade and young-adult readers.
Never Cry "Arp!" is a lively collection of twelve stories about young Pat's misadventures in the Great American Wilderness.
All the McManus regulars are here: Crazy Eddie Muldoon, the best friend everybody wishes they had (and everybody's mother wishes they didn't); Rancid Crabtree, the good-hearted, if gamey, woodsman; Pat's skunk dog, Strange, who lives up to his name; and Pat's pal, Retch Sweeney, who does, too.
This is a book for kids who love to start fishing at 4am (at least they say they do) or for those who prefer to experience the mighty outdoors in the safety of their homes.
"Everybody should read Patrick McManus," said the New York Times. Now, everybody can.
Swiss-born artist Sophie Taeuber-Arp (1889–1943) ranks among the pioneers of the classical avant-garde in the first half of the twentieth century. The work of this remarkably versatile and gifted artist covers the universal range of the modernist movement, from applied and fine art to dance and architecture, from interior design to teaching. This richly illustrated volume chronicles Taeuber-Arp’s multifaceted career—with an emphasis on her design and architectural oeuvre. Featuring rarely seen architectural drawings and furniture designs, Sophie Taeuber-Arp traces the artist’s life from her beginnings as a dance student of Rudolf von Laban and her involvement in the Dada movement in Zurich to her marriage to French sculptor Jean Arp and her subsequent association with the Swiss Werkbund, to her eventual flight from the Nazis in France and return to Switzerland. Essays by prominent curators and art historians place Taeuber-Arp’s career in context, making this the definitive book on an extraordinary modernist figure.
Hans, or Jean, Arp (1886–1966) is internationally renowned as one of the foremost sculptors and visual artists of the twentieth century. A founder member of the Dada group, he was also associated with Surrealism and with Concrete Art and Minimalism. Such acclaim has overshadowed the fact that he considered himself above all a poet. This book, the first major English-language study of Arp in nearly half a century, is also the first to reveal that Arp’s practices as poet, painter, and sculptor are not only complementary but mutually dependent facets of a coherent aesthetic strategy. Eric Robertson discusses Arp’s lifelong practice of moving freely between his different expressive forms and his two languages (French and German), and his tendency to alter his earlier works. Examining major works in the light of recent critical and theoretical perspectives, the book addresses key questions relating to Arp’s practices and reappraises his relationship to the avant-garde as well as his standing in art-historical and literary contexts.
About this product: The Arp Atlas of Peculiar Galaxies.... A Chronicle and Observer's Guide In 1966, astronomer Halton Arp compiled his Atlas of Peculiar Galaxies, which featured 338 images of some of the strangest looking galaxies and galaxy groups then known to exist. The purpose of the Atlas, Arp stated in his preface, was to graphically present structural peculiarities in galaxies "in order to build a realistic picture of what galaxies are really like." At the time, astronomers were struggling to formulate a workable taxonomy of "symmetrical" galaxies using classification schemes such as Edwin Hubble's tuning fork diagram. But the Atlas was comprised of the "Elephant Men" of galaxies, and their deformations challenged and defied astronomers' attempts at galaxy classification. Although the Atlas itself has been long out of print, this book not only reproduces all 338 of the original Atlas of Peculiar Galaxiesimages, including Arp's preface, it also presents new images of all Arp galaxies taken by amateur astronomers, along with finder charts and observing notes. In addition, it provides a chronicle of Arp's saga, from his early work at Mount Wilson and Palomar, where the original Atlas was assembled, to his controversial research on discordant redshifts. Although Arp's astrophysical interpretations have sparked controversy among his peers - the giants of professional astronomy - history has stoked the interests of amateur astronomers th