Author: Lucy Wang
Publisher: Walter Foster
Keywords: library, series, artist, painting, chinese, brush, art
Number of Pages: 64
Published: 2004-01-01
List price: $9.95
ISBN-10: 1560108215
ISBN-13: 9781560108214

Master the grace and elegance of Chinese brush painting with this compelling how-to guide. Renowned artist Lucy Wang demonstrates how to paint a variety of subjects in this ancient and expressive style, with colorful illustrations and simple instructions. As you follow the 17 step-by-step lessons, you’ll find helpful advice and practical tips that will enable you to create your own impressive Chinese brush paintings! • Learn about all the materials needed to begin Chinese brush painting, such as the traditional ink stick and ink stone • Practice basic Chinese brushstrokes, inc

Author: Lucy Micklethwait
Publisher: Greenwillow Books
Keywords: art, shapes, spy
Number of Pages: 40
Published: 2004-08-01
List price: $19.99
ISBN-10: 0060731931
ISBN-13: 9780060731939

Each of the fourteen magnificent paintings in this book contains a different shape for you to find. Some are easy to spot, and others are more challenging. But take a closer look -- after you think you’ve found them all, there are even more shapes to look at and discover. I Spy Shapes in Art features a remarkable variety of artists from around the world, including Georgia O’Keeffe, Henri Matisse, and M.C. Escher. This picture book pairs a classic game with timeless art, making it the perfect way to introduce fine art to children.

Author: Lucy Monroe
Publisher: Kensington
Keywords: willing
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 2008-08-01
List price: $6.99
ISBN-10: 0758208766
ISBN-13: 9780758208767

They’re the good guys fighting the bad guys. They’ll get the job done—if the price is right and so is the cause. Meet three sexy men who individually are READY, WILLING, and ABLE to go the distance—and together, are unstoppable… Josie McCall has been raised to be a soldier, and she could be the best—if she wanted it. Instead, she left her dad’s mercenary school behind for a normal job in computers. But now that someone has torched the school and her dad is MIA from the hospital, Josie’s going to use every bit of her merc training to find him and hunt down the culprits who t

Author: Lucy E. Salyer
Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
Keywords: law, immigration, studies, legal, history, modern, shaping, harsh, tigers, chinese, immigrants, laws
Number of Pages: 360
Published: 1995-11-20
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 0807845302
ISBN-13: 9780807845301

Focusing primarily on the exclusion of the Chinese, Lucy Salyer analyzes the popular and legal debates surrounding immigration law and its enforcement during the height of nativist sentiment in the early twentieth century. She argues that the struggles between Chinese immigrants, U.S. government officials, and the lower federal courts that took place around the turn of the century established fundamental principles that continue to dominate immigration law today and make it unique among branches of American law. By establishing the centrality of the Chinese to immigration policy, Salyer also i

Author: Lucy Micklethwait
Publisher: Greenwillow Books
Keywords: art, colors, spy
Number of Pages: 40
Published: 2007-09-01
List price: $19.99
ISBN-10: 0061348376
ISBN-13: 9780061348372

I spy with my little eye . . . a yellow circle, an orange orange, two blue eyes staring right back at me! The whole family will delight in exploring fine art through these fourteen glorious paintings, ranging from ancient to contemporary, their artists hailing from all around the globe. Each time you look at one of the colorful canvases in this book—or in a museum—you’re sure to discover another delightful and surprising detail. What a wonderful way to foster a love of art in the youngest of children and to instill an appreciation for close observation and attention to detail.

Author: Niall Lucy
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Keywords: introduction, theory, literary, postmodern
Number of Pages: 296
Published: 1997-12-30
List price: $49.95
ISBN-10: 0631200010
ISBN-13: 9780631200017

"You couldn’t use terms like ’text’ in an English course without incurring the disapproval of some crusty old moralist...." "In a postmodern world, literature is just another text.... " "Forget depth: think surface! ...... everything is a text." In this brilliantly provocative and comprehensively informative introductory text, Niall Lucy shows the student how postmodern literary theory derives from a late eighteenth-century romantic tradition. In that tradition the literary was conceived as inseparable from the literary theoretical. But for postmodernism, Lucy argu

Author: Lucy Jackson
Publisher: St. Martin’s Press
Keywords: posh
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 2007-01-09
List price: $23.95
ISBN-10: 0312363893
ISBN-13: 9780312363895

Set in the private school world of Manhattan’s Upper East Side, POSH tracks the lives of a group of teenagers and the adults who hope to control them: from the school’s headmistress to the social x-ray mom to the mom who drives a cab, this is commercial fiction that shows a cutaway of a rarefied world.