This book is great! I've used it with first - third graders in class. It helps them become familiar with the artists work, and they also enjoy using it for tracing.

This book is great! I have used it with children in my classroom (ages 6-9 years). It gives them exposure to the work of Matisse, while the coloring part also allows them to find the details. It is also great to use as a tracing tool, or for patterning.

I've loved the whole Dover publishing program for years, and this is one of my favorites. My Christmas tree is covered in these little boxes, and we are currently using them as favor boxes for a Celtic-themed wedding. Beautiful color and quality paper for [price], how rare is that?!

There are 30 different abstract art masterpieces represented here, so it is definitely worth the price. All pieces are shown in color on the front and back covers, and each individual page has the name of the artist (years of their birth-death), title of the work, date created and type of medium used. So, it's educational and fun. I recommend it for all ages.

These stickers are great! Every single one is a different design! They stick well on everything. Some of them are 'wierd' looking, & some are adorable. I love them all & you will too!

Having several pieces of Muncie and NOT knowing it - this book helped with their idenficiations - Lots of marks - glazes and shapes - this helps from novice and expert collector as none of us have seen or will ever have a chance to see all that is listed in the book. As I have over thirty reference book - this is one of the best.

An Awesome Book and A Must Have for all who Love Muncie Pottery! This wonderful book features so many wonderful Pictures, as well as prices. An Awesome book you won't want to be without!

This is a fantastic resource for any children's art program. Whether you are writing your own lesson plans or connecting art with literature. This inexpensive resource is a must for your collection.

There are 30 different modern art masterpieces represented here, so it is definitely worth the price. All pieces are shown in color on the front and back covers, and each individual page has the name of the artist (years of their birth-death), title of the work, date created and type of medium used. So, it's educational and fun. I recommend it for all ages. Some of the artists included are: Picasso, Miro, Klee and Mondrian.

Nice cheap way to get a lot of wallpaper for a dollhouse project. Thereis enough in there for a large dollhouse, all rooms and for under $5 that is a steal! I have paid that much for one room before using other papers!

"Middletown" (1929) and "Middletown in Transition (1937) are among the highlights of American sociology. The books were studies of smalltown America by Robert and Helen Lynd and the typical American town they studied was Muncie, Ind.
The Lynds more or less ignored Muncie's Jewish community because it was statistically insignificant.
In the preface to "Middletown Jews: The Tenuous Survival of an American Jewish Community" (Bloomington, University of Indiana Press, 1997), Dan Rottenberg quoted the Lynds: "The Jewish population of Middletown is so small as to be numerically negligible."
The book is a collection of 19 interviews with members of Muncie's Jewish community, conducted in 1979, and is sad a reflection on the future of Jewry in America as you are likely to find. The oral history was edited by Rottenberg.
Muncie has had a temple since 1922, a Reform temple, but has never had a resident rabbi. It uses itinerant rabbis or students from Cincinnati's Hebrew Union College.
There are a few souls who want to follow kashrut and observe tradition, but in the end they usually join the temple. There is a great amount of intermarriage with non-Jews and even attendance at non-Jewish religious services, especially that of the Church of Jesus Christ, Scientist.
The spark for the book was Martin D. Schwartz, owner of a paper company and a graduate of Harvard College, who wanted to have the history of his shrinking community recorded. It is not explained why the 1979 interviews were the last word on the community. But Schwartz contributed a 1996 afterword, which shows some of the change.
What had been a community of merchants, almost all having shops on the same street, has become a community in which faculty of Ball State University have taken leading roles. There is still no rabbi, no kosher food, no real Sunday school.
What got mention in the 1979 interview was the Ku Klux Klan, which acted as a cementing force for the 200 or so 1920s families. Not one interviewee mentions the establishment of Israel and no one mentions visiting it.
But there are mentions of Christmas trees and non-Jewish relatives. There are no conversions to Christianity.
Jews were once excluded from certain neighborhoods and from the country club. They were later admitted to both and several interviewees see this as progress, although they remain members of the non-exclusive country club founded by Jews (which, it is specifically stated, is not a Jewish country club because there were not enough Jews to be able to support a country club of their own).
In his afterword, Schwartz wrote: "The possibility of Judaism's demise through intermarriage and gradual secularization concerns most thoughtful Jews. What they don't agree on is how to counter those trends."

This is a very typically Dover book of labels/stickers. Good quality, nice tacky adhesive and well made labels that remove fairly easily from most surfaces. The labels themselves are beautiful and tastefully colorful. Make great address labels, book plates (esp. for quilting books) or general purpose labels for your sewing room.

We found the book to be a good tool, but limited in its use. Many of the pieces we have didn't fit those provided, so we had to improvise (you punch our standard funriture pieces for placement on a grid of your room). Also, the paper isn't a standard graph paper, so it's limited (unless you want to copy it)... other than that it was a good tool...

The concept is good but it should be available in a 1/4"= 1' scale so it could be used with standard house plans.

I found this book by mistake and sure am glad that I did. What a find. Use the information here and your house will look like a professional did it!