People and Places: A Visual Encyclopedia

People and Places: A Visual Encyclopedia
Author: DK
Publisher: National Geographic Books
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2019-08-20
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 146548177X

Meet the people of the world and find out about some of the fascinating cultures that make up our global community. From Spaniards to Samoans, and the Miao to the Miskitu, this fully updated edition of DK's popular Encyclopedia of People will take you on a worldwide tour of continents, peninsulas, and islands to discover what life is like for the billions of people on our planet. Discover how the Yakut people survive in the Arctic temperatures of Siberia, or why tattoos are so important in Maori culture. Learn about the Mbendeje people's hunting sign language that lets them silently creep up on unsuspecting prey. People and Places: A Visual Encyclopedia allows you to explore different cultures through illuminating photography and bitesize chunks of information. The perfect companion to geography and culture projects for school-aged children, this book is a treasure trove of facts and information about the people that make up our world.

The World Book Encyclopedia of People and Places

The World Book Encyclopedia of People and Places
Author: World Book (NA)
Publisher: World Book Encyclopedia
Total Pages: 1632
Release: 2005-01-01
Genre: Reference
ISBN: 9780716637554

Introduces a wide range of cultures and the landscapes which they inhabit.

Urban People and Places

Urban People and Places
Author: Daniel Joseph Monti
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Total Pages: 225
Release: 2014-02-10
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1483315339

Providing a thorough and comprehensive survey of the contemporary urban world that is accessible to students, Urban People and Places: The Sociology of Cities, Suburbs, and Towns will give balanced treatment to both the process by which cities are built (i.e., urbanization) and the ways of life practiced by people that live and work in more urban places (i.e., urbanism) unlike most core texts in this area. Whereas most texts focus on the socio-economic causes of urbanization, this text analyses the cultural component: how the physical construction of places is, in part, a product of cultural beliefs, ideas, and practices and also how the culture of those who live, work, and play in various places is shaped, structured, and controlled by the built environment. Inasmuch as the primary focus will be on the United States, global discussion is composed with an eye toward showing how U.S. cities, suburbs, and towns are different and alike from their counterparts in Africa, Asia, and Central and South America

Russia ABCs

Russia ABCs
Author: Ann Berge
Publisher: Capstone
Total Pages: 33
Release: 2004
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1404802843

Privyet! Welcome to Russia! Come along on this ABC adventure through the biggest country on Earth. Read about diamond-studded eggs, the deepest lake in the world, and other fascinating facts.

Laura Ingalls Wilder Country

Laura Ingalls Wilder Country
Author: William Anderson
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Total Pages: 124
Release: 1990-11-09
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780060973469

Laura Ingalls Wilder Country takes the millions of fans of the Little House books and the hit TV series on an enchanting tour of the real world of the well-loved author, visiting the people and places who inspired her classic books. With hundreds of photos, many in full color, this memorabilia book makes a beautiful gift.

Places to Be, People to Kill

Places to Be, People to Kill
Author: Martin Harry Greenberg
Publisher: D A W Books, Incorporated
Total Pages: 309
Release: 2007
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780756404178

Featuring contributions from Tanya Huff, Jim C. Hines, Jean Rabe, and Ed Gorman, this thrilling collection enters the mysterious and deadly realm of the assassin, exploring how one chooses this line of work and how one becomes a cold-blood killer. Original.

Andrew Wyeth

Andrew Wyeth
Author:
Publisher: Rizzoli Publications
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2017-05-02
Genre: Art
ISBN: 0847859088

The major paintings of iconic American artist Andrew Wyeth (1917–2009) presented together in an accessible volume. Andrew Wyeth is an essential introduction to the enduring masterworks of this profoundly popular American artist. Published on the occasion of the centennial of the artist’s birth, this handsome book highlights works spanning the entirety of the artist’s seven-decade career painting the landscapes and people he knew in Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania, where he lived, and in Maine, where he summered. Many of his most important landscapes and portraits were created in and around his Chadds Ford studio, now part of the Brandywine River Museum of Art, with which Andrew Wyeth was intimately connected since its founding in 1971. A short introduction provides an overview of his life, and descriptive captions contextualize some fifty of the artist’s finest and most beloved paintings, including Pennsylvania Landscape (1942), Wind from the Sea (1947), Christina’s World (1948), Trodden Weed (1951), Roasted Chestnuts (1956), Braids (1977), and Pentecost (1989). Readers will also be treated to works previously unseen, such as Betsy’s Beach (2006) and Crow Tree (2007).