Uncle Peter's Amazing Chinese Wedding

Uncle Peter's Amazing Chinese Wedding
Author: Lenore Look
Publisher: Atheneum/Anne Schwartz Books
Total Pages: 40
Release: 2006
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN:

A Chinese American girl describes the festivities surrounding her uncle's Chinese wedding and the customs behind each one.

A Village Saga

A Village Saga
Author: Maria Klassen (Braun)
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 190
Release: 2012-06-19
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1105811751

A personal memoir by Maria Klassen about growing up in a family with 10 siblings in the small Mennonite village of Blumenort in southern Manitoba. Maria gives her perspective of the history of her Mennonite ancestors dating back to Russia in the late 19th century. The use of personal anecdotes and stories makes for an enjoyable read for those of similar background, or for anyone interested in different cultures and traditions.

Big Jimmy's Kum Kau Chinese Take Out

Big Jimmy's Kum Kau Chinese Take Out
Author:
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Total Pages: 40
Release: 2002
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 9780688160272

The sights, sounds, and smells of a busy Chinese take-out restaurant are seen through the eyes of the owner's young son.

Fly Away Home

Fly Away Home
Author: Eve Bunting
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Total Pages: 40
Release: 1991
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 9780395559628

A homeless boy who lives in an airport with his father, moving from terminal to terminal trying not to be noticed, is given hope when a trapped bird finally finds his freedom. Full-color illustrations.

The Argonaut

The Argonaut
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 420
Release: 1918
Genre: San Francisco (Calif.)
ISBN:

Luxury Arts of the Renaissance

Luxury Arts of the Renaissance
Author: Marina Belozerskaya
Publisher: Getty Publications
Total Pages: 292
Release: 2005-10-01
Genre: Art
ISBN: 0892367857

Today we associate the Renaissance with painting, sculpture, and architecture—the “major” arts. Yet contemporaries often held the “minor” arts—gem-studded goldwork, richly embellished armor, splendid tapestries and embroideries, music, and ephemeral multi-media spectacles—in much higher esteem. Isabella d’Este, Marchesa of Mantua, was typical of the Italian nobility: she bequeathed to her children precious stone vases mounted in gold, engraved gems, ivories, and antique bronzes and marbles; her favorite ladies-in-waiting, by contrast, received mere paintings. Renaissance patrons and observers extolled finely wrought luxury artifacts for their exquisite craftsmanship and the symbolic capital of their components; paintings and sculptures in modest materials, although discussed by some literati, were of lesser consequence. This book endeavors to return to the mainstream material long marginalized as a result of historical and ideological biases of the intervening centuries. The author analyzes how luxury arts went from being lofty markers of ascendancy and discernment in the Renaissance to being dismissed as “decorative” or “minor” arts—extravagant trinkets of the rich unworthy of the status of Art. Then, by re-examining the objects themselves and their uses in their day, she shows how sumptuous creations constructed the world and taste of Renaissance women and men.

Henry's First-Moon Birthday

Henry's First-Moon Birthday
Author: Lenore Look
Publisher:
Total Pages: 40
Release: 2001-04
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN:

A young girl helps her grandmother with preparations for the traditional Chinese celebration for her new baby brother's one-month-old birthday.

The Judge

The Judge
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 894
Release: 1928
Genre: American wit and humor
ISBN: