The Leading eBooks Store Online

for Kindle Fire, Apple, Android, Nook, Kobo, PC, Mac, Sony Reader...

New to eBooks.com?

Learn more
Browse our categories
  • Bestsellers - This Week
  • Foreign Language Study
  • Pets
  • Bestsellers - Last 6 months
  • Games
  • Philosophy
  • Archaeology
  • Gardening
  • Photography
  • Architecture
  • Graphic Books
  • Poetry
  • Art
  • Health & Fitness
  • Political Science
  • Biography & Autobiography
  • History
  • Psychology & Psychiatry
  • Body Mind & Spirit
  • House & Home
  • Reference
  • Business & Economics
  • Humor
  • Religion
  • Children's & Young Adult Fiction
  • Juvenile Nonfiction
  • Romance
  • Computers
  • Language Arts & Disciplines
  • Science
  • Crafts & Hobbies
  • Law
  • Science Fiction
  • Current Events
  • Literary Collections
  • Self-Help
  • Drama
  • Literary Criticism
  • Sex
  • Education
  • Literary Fiction
  • Social Science
  • The Environment
  • Mathematics
  • Sports & Recreation
  • Family & Relationships
  • Media
  • Study Aids
  • Fantasy
  • Medical
  • Technology
  • Fiction
  • Music
  • Transportation
  • Folklore & Mythology
  • Nature
  • Travel
  • Food and Wine
  • Performing Arts
  • True Crime
  • Foreign Language Books
Study & Teaching

Most popular at the top

  • The Golden Age of Chinese Artby Hugh Scott

    Tuttle Publishing 2012; US$ 50.00

    For almost three hundred years the noble T'ang Dynasty fostered a period of artistic and intellectual endeavor which has never been equaled in the history of China. Sculpture, ceramics, glass, and textiles were some of the major artifacts that emerged from this glorious renaissance of Chinese taste and skill. This book is the story of the T'ang told... more...

  • Critical Art Pedagogyby Richard Cary

    Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 155.00

    This work identifies the possibilities, concepts, needs and strategies for radical reform of traditional art education by resituating it within the postmodern paradigm. It advocates continued research to inform theory and practice in art education, providing detailed summaries of new methodologies, such as semiotics and deconstruction. more...

  • Spirit of Woodby Farish A. Noor; Eddin Khoo; David Lok

    Tuttle Publishing 2012; US$ 45.00

    In Malaysia, woodcarvers are venerated as artists who have a mystical affinity with wood. This collection of over 250 photographs and line drawings explores the mystical connection between Malaysian woodcarvers and their craft. more...

  • Art Schooledby Larry Witham

    University Press of New England 2012; US$ 19.99

    One year in the life of the students, teachers, and artists at one of the nation's oldest and most prestigious art colleges more...

  • The Melancholy Art:by Michael Ann Holly

    Princeton University Press 2013; US$ 24.95

    Melancholy is not only about sadness, despair, and loss. As Renaissance artists and philosophers acknowledged long ago, it can engender a certain kind of creativity born from a deep awareness of the mutability of life and the inevitable cycle of birth and death. Drawing on psychoanalysis, philosophy, and the intellectual history of the history of... more...

  • A Story of Ruinsby Hung Wu

    Reaktion Books 2013; US$ 60.00

    This richly illustrated book examines the changing significance of ruins as vehicles for cultural memory in Chinese art and visual culture from ancient times to the present. The story of ruins in China is different from but connected to ?ruin culture? in the West. This book explores indigenous Chinese concepts of ruins and their visual manifestations,... more...

  • The New Art History: A Critical Introductionby Jonathan Harris

    Taylor and Francis 2001; US$ 36.95

    The New Art History provides a comprehensive introduction to the fundamental changes which have occurred in both the institutions and practice of art history over the last thirty years. Jonathan Harris examines and accounts for the new approaches to the study of art which have been grouped loosely under the term 'the new art history'. He distinguishes... more...

  • Coordinating Art Across the Primary Schoolby Robert Clement; Judith Piotrowski; Ivy Roberts

    Taylor and Francis 1998; US$ 48.95

    Specifically designed for busy teachers who have responsibility for co-ordinating a subject area within their primary school. Each volume in the series conforms to a concise style, while providing a wealth of tips, case studies and photocopiable material that teachers can use immediately.; There are special volumes dedicated to dealing with OFSTED,... more...

  • Learning to Teach Art and Design In the Secondary Schoolby Nicholas Addison; Lesley Burgess

    RoutledgeFalmer 2000; US$ 45.95

    With reference to current debates, Learning to Teach Art and Design in the Secondary School explores a range of approaches to teaching and learning. It raises issues, questions orthodoxies and identifies new directions. more...

  • The Symbolic Orderby Peter Abbs

    Taylor and Francis 1989; US$ 61.95

    Alongside "Living Powers" and "A is for Aesthetic" this book is intended to establish a conceptual frame for the Arts in Education series. The first and primary aim of this symposium is to put teachers of all the arts in touch with some of the most recent and the best writing on the nature of art. more...