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This informative and easy-to-follow guidebook makes the ancient sites of Maui, Molokai and Lanai available to the general public for the first time. Grouping the sites by location, the book characterizes the cultural background of five main types of sites: heiau (temples), pohaku (sacred stones), petroglyphs, caves and fishponds. Now this entirely revised, updated, full color edition of the book includes numerous additional sites and expanded site descriptions with photographs.

This guidebook put the accessible ancient sites of Hawai'i Island within the grasp of the general public for the first time in the mid-1990s. Now an entirely revised and updated, full color edition of the book includes 20 additional sites, and expanded site descriptions. Although many remnants of ancient Hawai'i are accessible, often they are hidden, and few resources provide comprehensive interpretive information. In this informative and easy-to-follow book, three-time Ka Palapala Po'okela award winning author Van James highlights the features, legends, and archaeology of 50 Big Island sites. Each site description includes one or more photographs, directions, and a map for easy location. While the book is organized for touring the island's sites region by region, cross-referenced lists make it easy to develop alternatives according to personal interest. A preface by kupuna Danny Akaka and an introduction by the late Hawaiian authority Edward L. H. Kanahele give the reader an understanding of the intimate connection Hawaiians feel to the land and its features. They describe the concept of wahi pana, sacred places of Hawai'i that are imbued with spiritual significance as well as natural beauty. Further context for the site descriptions is given by Van James in chapters describing aspects of Hawaiian culture and five main types of sites: heiau (temples), pöhaku (sacred stones), petroglyphs, caves, and fishponds. Tips on selected sites for visitors and cultural collections are also included. Sections on site preservation, Hawaiian pronunciation (David "Kawika" L. Eyre), and a glossary of Hawaiian terms round out the volume. A must for visitors and kama'äina alike, this book provides an introduction to cultural treasures little known or understood.

An essential resource for Steiner-Waldorf teachers, filled with practical examples and beautiful illustrations to help teachers create lessons to build their students' artistic skills and confidence.

An engaging and beautifully illustrated guide to teaching art history in Waldorf schools Class 9 (age 14-15).

"What if imagination and art are not frosting at all, but the fountainhead of human experience?" -- Rollo MayDrawing with Hand, Head, and Heart is a comprehensive and practical guide to the art of drawing and to the process of visual thinking that is part of our full human intelligence. More than 500 illustrated exercises and examples--collected and developed over many years of Waldorf classroom experience--show teachers, parents, and students how to learn to draw simply and naturally, as a child would learn to draw.The introduction examines contemporary research on brain development and its relationship to learning, showing how the process of picture making contributes to the development of visual thinking. An overview follows about how children learn to draw and how their visual intelligence can be engaged through age-appropriate drawing exercises. Many useful examples of form drawing, portraiture, and geometric and perspective drawing illustrate the art and science of drawing for students of all ages and ability levels.Van James also provides samples of inspiring blackboard drawings and main lesson book pages for teachers and students and includes an informative appendix on therapeutic drawing, a bibliography of resources, and an index. Includes 576 color and black and white illustrations.Drawing with Hand, Head, and Heart provides an invaluable resource for teachers, parents, and visual artists.

Artist Van James offers that something more. This is a richly readable and lavishly illustrated text that reveals how, at every stage, human consciousness has evolved through the medium of art. It makes the case for a hidden stream that has put forth art works and art movements throughout history, in an ongoing visible revelation of invisible spiritual currents.Art, originally a part of the secret Mystery cults of the ancient world, has become an expression of the individual creative intuition. At every stage, Albert Einstein's comment applies: "The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science".