A first-century Roman cinerary urn. A Coca-Cola bottle from 1910. A contemporary sculpture of bandaged bones.Contrasts: A Glass Primer presents a wide variety of remarkable glass objects in an accessible and lively format. These objects are grouped, as in a child's book of opposites, to illustrate highlights in glass history (factory/studio, for example), characteristics of the medium (fluid/rigid), and ways of describing art in general (abstract/figurative). Above all, Contrasts is an invitation to creative seeing.Contrasts: A Glass Primer is published in conjunction with an exhibition of the same name on display at the Museum of Glass, Tacoma, through November 2009.
Links documents the first presentation of a broad spectrum of contemporary Australian studio glass to an American audience. The book explores an international network of craft influences and exchanges that started in the mid-1970s, clarifies techniques of glass production from manufacture to finished product, and illustrates significant contemporary glasswork that is not blown.Links begins in 1974, when American Richard Marquis traveled to Australia at the request of its government to promote studio glass and establish hot shops in educational institutions. His relationship with Australian Nick Mount initiated a lineage of blown-glass artists that is represented in the book. A second lineage of artists working in kiln-formed glass was initiated in 1979 when Klaus Moje, soon to be head of the Canberra School of Art Glass Workshop at ANU, met the founder of Oregon's Bullseye Glass Company at the Pilchuck Glass School north of Seattle. At Moje's instigation, the Bullseye factory began to research and manufacture fusible, compatible glass-a complicated technical feat. Their product has fueled an explosion of kiln-worked glass internationally, most prominently in Australia.The book features the work of 25 Australian artists linked to each other and to the Northwest through workshops and classes, use of a common material, training and education, shared space, and/or production assistance.Exhibition curator Vicki Halper , Seattle, specializes in art of the Pacific Northwest and American craft. She is the co-editor of Choosing Craft: The Artist's Viewpoint and Morris Graves: Selected Letters. Margot Osborne and Grace Cochrane are esteemed Australian art historians and curators. Lani McGregor is co-owner of Bullseye Glass and director of Bullseye Gallery.
Validationsmetoden utvecklades av den amerikanska socialarbetarenNaomi Feil redan på 1970-talet. Målet var att hjälpa äldre desorienterade personer att uttrycka sig, känna sig respekterade och fortsätta att kommunicera, istället för att bli mer inneslutna i sig själva. Att validera (bekräfta), betyder enligt Naomi Feil, att kommunicera på ett respektfullt och känslomässigt sätt. Hon har utvecklat både verbala och icke verbala kommunikationstekniker för att lättare kunna kommunicera med personer som har kognitiv sjukdom.I dag praktiseras validationsmetoden av personal på sjukhus, vårdboenden och inom kommunal omsorg i USA, Europa, Australien och Asien.I Sverige har den använts med framgång sedan mitten av 1990-talet.Målet med Validationsmetoden är att minska stresskänslor hos äldre desorienterade personer, stärka deras upplevelse av värdighet och trygghet och samtidigt förebygga utbrändhet hos vårdpersonal och anhöriga.Den här boken riktar sig till dig som möter desorienterade äldre personer och som vill lära dig mer om kännetecknen på desorienteringen, de fysiska, emotionella och sociala faktorerna som kan leda till det Naomi Feil kallar, den sista livskampen, ‘Resolutionen’.Validationsmetoden visar hur man bygger en kärleksfull relation och kommunicerar med mycket gamla personer i alla faser, oavsett om personen är verbal eller inte längre uttrycker sina behov och känslor med ord.
Victory Lee is a kid living in the Chinatown area of Downtown L.A. when she was accidentally kidnapped and taken to South Central in the month of April 1992. No cell phones, no CCTV, no high speed internet. This is just a day in the life of an Asian American kid who ended up hanging out with a bunch of gangsters. Just a quick little story to find moments of comedy between the intersection of race, culture, education, immigrants, and economic inequality with the backdrop of the L.A. riots.
In Book 2 of the Vicki Barr Flight Stewardess series, Vicki Barr is now a graduate of the Federal Airlines Stewardess School or, a ?proud possessor of a career in the clouds.? On a flight to New York, Vicki meets a troubled passenger named Joan Purnell. Reluctantly, Joan confides in Vicki that she is running away from home because her father is in debt and may lose his lumber business. Vicki convinces Joan to stay with her aunt that night, promising to take her back home the next day. Determined to help her new friend, Vicki persuades hot shot pilot Dean to fly her out to the Purnell's lumbermill in Norfolk, Virginia. There Vicki discovers that Mr. Purnell's partner is sending shipments of lumber via more expensive routes than necessary, creating false losses in an attempt to pressure Joan's father into selling his half the business. Vicki has no proof of her suspicions and must work quickly before Mr. Parnell loses everything and before Joan does something rash in an attempt to help her father?
This essential book features practical information on guiding your children through your divorce. Topics include: how to tell the children, keeping your ex from becoming an ex-parent, handling the holidays, learning "divorce-speak", dating and more.
