THINKING CRITICALLY teaches the fundamental thinking, reasoning, reading, and writing abilities that students need to succeed in the classroom and beyond. The text begins with basic skills related to personal experience and then carefully progresses to the more sophisticated reasoning skills required for abstract, academic contexts.
Paint Along with Jerry Yarnell Volume One: Painting Basics
This book is all about having a great time painting! The first book in a wonderful new series, Painting Basics makes painting landscapes easy! Readers will experience the joy of painting for pure pleasure as Jerry Yarnell guides them through each step of the 10 detailed step-by-step projects. No previous experience is necessary. All the artist has to do is follow along with Jerry to create a beautiful landscape in acrylics in 15 steps. The first book begins with a short introduction then guides the reader in the selection of the right paints, tools, and surfaces, along with just enough background information to make following Jerry's step-by-step instructions even easier and more fun.
Was Queen Matilda more important to William the Conqueror's reign than even he realized? Was Francis Walsingham a role model for future security chiefs? Was Alfred The Great a signifcant shaper of the Viking experience in the British Isles? Answers and more (such as rugby and war) in this edition of History.
Beaten, Seared, and Sauced: On Becoming a Chef at the Culinary Institute of America
Millions of people fantasize about leaving their old lives behind, enrolling in cooking school, and training to become a chef. But for those who make the decision, the difference between the dream and reality can be gigantic—especially at the top cooking school in the country. For the first time in the Culinary Institute of America’s history, a book will give readers the firsthand experience of being a full-time student facing all of the challenges of the legendary course in its entirety.
Ellipsis - Of Poetry and the Experience of Language After Heidegger, Holderlin, and Blanchot
What is the nature of poetic language when its experience involves an encounter with finitude; with failure, loss, and absence? For Martin Heidegger this experience is central to any thinking that would seek to articulate the meaning of being, but for Friedrich H?lderlin and Maurice Blanchot it is a mark of the tragic and unanswerable demands of poetic language.
