A millionaire by his mid-twenties, John Paul Getty became a billionaire and one of the most powerful men in the world by the time of his death in 1976. The owner of Getty Oil Company, he became a philanthropist in his later life, and founded an art museum that still bears his name. Book jacket.
Examines the period of American history beginning with the Roaring Twenties and the disastrous stock market crash of 1929 and ending with financial rebuilding through the New Deal and World War II.
Character Counts! has become the most widely implemented approach to character education in America. Utilized in thousands of schools and by more than 7 million students, Character Counts! uses at its foundation the Six Pillars of Character (see titles below). The six books in this important new collection address a great demand as they foster good citizenship and values in young people. Created and produced in partnership with Josephson Institute, this unique series is a valuable tool in character education. Book jacket.
Finally, a reference for kids and adults alike! Attractive and easy-to-read graphics make the New View Almanac an invaluable reference resource for readers of all ages. Clever presentations and engaging visual elements make the information come alive for report writers, researchers, and recreational readers. Also included are more than 2,000 illustrations.
Character Counts! has become the most widely implemented approach to character education in America. Utilized in thousands of schools and by more than 7 million students, Character Counts! uses at its foundation the Six Pillars of Character (see titles below). The six books in this important new collection address a great demand as they foster good citizenship and values in young people. Created and produced in partnership with Josephson Institute, this unique series is a valuable tool in character education. Book jacket.
Relies on charts, graphs, maps, and illustrations to present information about world issues such as health and nutrition, politics and government, drugs and crime, money, science, sports, and education.
Provides facts and figures on a wide variety of topics, including health and nutrition, science and technology, and sports and records, accompanied by easily understood graphics.
Examines the physical and psychological changes that teenage boys experience as they grow into manhood and discusses such aspects as grooming, social responsibilities and pressures, and sexual behavior.
Discusses the problems and adjustments involved in having only one parent in the family and what happens when that parent remarries, giving the child a stepfamily.
Examines the life and career of the business tycoon and oilman who dominated one of the largest business empires ever built by a single man and died owning close to one billion dollars.
In a career that spanned five decades, most of them spent in San Francisco, Bruce Conner (1933--2008) produced a unique body of work that refused to be contained by medium or style. Whether making found-footage films, hallucinatory ink-blot graphics, enigmatic collages, or assemblages from castoffs, Conner took up genres as quickly as he abandoned them. His movements within San Francisco's counter-cultural scenes were similarly free-wheeling; at home in beat poetry, punk music, and underground film circles, he never completely belonged to any of them. Bruce Conner belonged to Bruce Conner. Twice he announced his own death; during the last years of his life he produced a series of pseudonymous works after announcing his 'retirement.' In this first book-length study of Conner's enormously influential but insufficiently understood career, Kevin Hatch explores Conner's work as well as his position on the geographical, cultural, and critical margins. Hatch finds a set of abiding concerns that inform Conner's wide-ranging works and changing personas. A deep anxiety pervades the work, reflecting a struggle between private, unknowable, interior experience and a duplicitous world of received images and false appearances. The profane and the sacred, the comic and the tragic, the enigmatic and the universal: each of these antinomies is pushed to the breaking point in Conner's work..."--Publisher's description.
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