The "Metropolitan Museum Journal, " issued annually by The Metropolitan Museum of Art, publishes original research on works in the Museum s collection. Volume 50 includes articles on a rare mechanical figure from ancient Egypt; isolated heads in south Italian vase painting; a bronze hellenistic dwarf; identification of the origins of Kizil paintings in the Metropolitan Museum; The Story of the Mercury and Herse tapestries and Gian Battista Lodi da Cremona; collecting sixteenth-century tapestries in twentieth-century America, specifically examining the Blumenthals and Jacques Seligmann; and...

Most of the confusion children have around understanding assignments is comprehension What can you do to help your child understand assignments better? Teach them prefixes. After years of research, I learned most of the common prefixes in textbooks and children's school work. How does this help? By knowing the meaning of these prefixes, your child will have an increased vocabulary and improved comprehension because he/ she will be about to figure out the meaning of and understand unfamiliar words with those prefixes. I designed this book to take you and your child through a step by step...