Quality Time Anytime: How to Make the Most of Every Moment with Your Child by Penny Warner, ISBN 0743234510

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Buy Quality Time Anytime: How to Make the Most of Every Moment with Your Child by Penny Warner, ISBN 0743234510

Any parent can spend quality time with his or her child. All it takes is a little imagination, a minimum of supplies, and the hundreds of ideas inside Quality Time Anytime. This book contains over 200 games and activities to help parents and their children turn moments spent in the car, kitchen, bath, bedroom, outdoors, store -- in short, anytime -- into quality time! Parents can choose an activity from the book and enhance their special bond with their child and teach social skills that will prove valuable the rest of the child's life.


Objects of Desire: A Portrait of Love and Marriage by Ralph Graves, ISBN 0740740083

This is a love story, told in a completely different way. Eleanor MacKenzie, just graduated from Barnard, and Ralph Graves, just graduated from Harvard, met as brand-new researchers at Life magazine in September 1948. They soon married other people, but the two couples then became closest friends. After seven years of that closeness, Eleanor and Ralph realized that they were profoundly in love. Both went through bitter and punitive divorces to get to each other. It was worth it. They have now been married for 45 years. This book is the story of their love and marriage, told through the myriad objects that have played a significant role in that story. Gifts, homes, cars, painting, books, furniture, jewelry, clothes--all are invested with a deeply emotional value that grew out of what those objects of desire meant to these two people. But the story does not apply only to these two particular people. As Ralph Graves says about these objects of desire, "They have resonance. Each of us, in every... Objects of Desire: A Portrait of Love and Marriage by Ralph Graves, ISBN 0740740083
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The Cambridge Companion to Modern Italian Culture by Zygmunt G. Baranski, ISBN 0521559820

This book provides a comprehensive account of the culture of modern Italy. Specially-commissioned essays by leading specialists focus on a wide range of political, historical and cultural questions. The volume provides information and analysis on such topics as regionalism, language, social and political cultures, the Church, feminism, organized crime, literature, art, the mass media, and music. Each essay contains suggestions for further reading on the topics covered. The Cambridge Companion to Modern Italian Culture is an invaluable source of materials for courses on all aspects of modern Italy. The Cambridge Companion to Modern Italian Culture by Zygmunt G. Baranski, ISBN 0521559820
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Period Rooms in the Metropolitan Museum of Art

*Back in print*
In this classic book, readers can experience a grand tour through the history of interiors and interior design by viewing thirty-four spectacular period rooms in the Metropolitan Museum. From an ancient Roman bedroom excavated near Pompeii to a Louis XVI grand salon from eighteenth-century Paris to the Frank Lloyd Wright Room in the American Wing, these popular galleries can now be viewed at all times through the book's beautiful color photographs and accessible explanatory text. Period Rooms in the Metropolitan Museum of Art
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A Renaissance Treasury: The Flagg Collection of European Decorative Arts and Sculpture by Laurie Winters, ISBN 1555951740

The Richard and Erna Flagg collection, given to the Milwaukee Art Museum in 1991, is one of the most important single donations of European decorative arts to an American museum. It includes unique and historically significant objects that provide insight into the culture, religion, and history of the Renaissance.

Highlights of the collection include masterpieces of precious materials and virtuoso craftsmanship: rare and visually stunning clocks; tablewares and vessels; furniture; and religious works. A Renaissance Treasury was designed and produced with a visual opulence to match the magnificent collection it celebrates; each object is reproduced in color with authoritative commentary.

A Renaissance Treasury: The Flagg Collection of European Decorative Arts and Sculpture by Laurie Winters, ISBN 1555951740
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Italian: A Self-Teaching Guide by Edoardo A. Lebano, ISBN 0471638382

Written to allow those learning Italian or brushing up on their skills to study on their own at their own pace, this guide acquaints readers with the basic elements of Italian grammar and vocabulary, gradually giving them the skills and facility to speak, read, write, and understand the language. Unlike most other texts, it focuses on grammar and situations relevant to traveling in Italian-speaking countries and to situations germane to everyday life in Italy. Includes a pronunciation guide, appendixes with grammar references, and an extensive glossary. Italian: A Self-Teaching Guide by Edoardo A. Lebano, ISBN 0471638382
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Italian Lakes

Italian Lakes Essential Guide is pocket-size and packed with vivid photographs, color maps, insider tips and detailed descriptions - everything travelers need for a successful trip. Travel experts who have been there and done it all tell where to stay, dine, shop, be entertained, and take the children. The In the Know section steers visitors with limited time to the best places to experience local flavor, while user-friendly maps and lots of practical information about currency, transportation, language, and the like assist with day-to-day maneuvering. From the big-picture to the author's pick of the top 10 points of interest, these guides truly capture the essence of a locale. Italian Lakes
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