arts

Introduces young readers to the various jobs in the field of art, including makeup artists, animators, and more.

"Do you want to be a recording engineer, photographer, or choreographer? Learn about different career paths in the arts and entertainment industries"--.

"There are numerous books on STEAM, but most are either arts and crafts project books designed for children or high-level books that can be weighty and inaccessible for new teachers. As an artist/educator who has taught art and technology for years, Tim Needles brings a fresh and unique approach to these topics, focusing on creativity, innovation and collaboration. This accessible and engaging book offers creative ideas for blending arts and STEM learning (STEAM). It covers the fundamentals of STEAM, with project ideas and best practices, while providing insight from educators in the field. Technologies covered include: coding, robotics, 3D printing, virtual and augmented reality, photography, video, animation and digital drawing. In addition, the book addresses several different approaches to bringing STEAM learning to the next level, such as collaboration, global learning, project-based learning, makerspaces and social-emotional learning"--.

"Have you ever gotten chills while listening to a particularly gorgeous piece of music? Or felt a sense of calm while gazing at a painting of a serene landscape? We have experiences like those every day, but rarely stop to consider what's happening internally to cause them. [The authors] explain how, by understanding how we biologically react to aesthetic experiences, we can not only heal as individuals but thrive as communities. Using the new science of neuroaesthetics, which explores our physiological reactions to art, Magsamen and Ross show us how, for instance, gardening can help a person heal from trauma or listening to a major fifth interval can snap the body out of a fight-or-flight response. Beyond enjoyment and abstraction, art can change the way we operate on a daily, practical level. And, in addition to helping each of us heal from stress, anxiety, burnout, and other malaises of modern life, neuroaesthetics can effect major change in society writ large, whether through public art murals in high-crime areas or music and dance therapy for patients experiencing neurodegenerative disorders"--Provided by publisher.

"Do you enjoy painting, drawing, or sculpting? You may want to become an artist. Artists train their brains to think in an imaginative way. With the help of the ideas in this book, you can start to think like an artist too"--Provided by publisher.

"In [this] book, students learn about the creative Asian men and women who have contributed so much to the artistic fabric of America--from poetry to painting to writing to music"--Provided by publisher.

"From the . . . author . . . , comes a simple and colorful introduction to the first 100 art words every baby should know. Each spread in this primer of the arts focuses on 8 to 12 words related to painting, photography, theater, music, film, and even history"--Provided by publisher.

". . . debat[es] the Greatest of All Time in a variety of categories. Topics include the greatest athlete of all time, greatest band, greatest inventor, greatest scientist, greatest writer, greatest sci-fi franchise, and more"--Provided by publisher.

"A step-by-step guide to using the brain's hardwired desire for story to achieve any goal, whether it's successfully pitching a product, saving the planet, or convincing your kids not to text and drive, from the author of Wired for Story"--Provided by publisher.

"Travel back in time to the 1920s and 1930s to the sounds of jazz in nightclubs and the 24-hours-a-day bustle of the . . . Black neighborhood of Harlem in uptown Manhattan. It was a . . . time when there was an outpouring of the arts of African Americans--the poetry of Langston Hughes, the novels of Zora Neale Hurston, the sculptures of Augusta Savage, and that brand-new music called jazz as only Duke Ellington and Louis Armstrong could play it. [The] author . . . traces Harlem's history all the way to its seventeenth-century roots, and explains how the early-twentieth-century Great Migration brought African Americans from the deep South to New York City and gave birth to the . . . years of the Harlem Renaissance"--Provided by publisher.