Summary: Say goodbye to boredom and challenge your mind and each other with this family-fun puzzle game! Q-bitz offers three types of visual challenges, making it the perfect game for multiple playing styles. Round one of this popular MindWare game is all about speed as players race to manipulate their cubes to copy the pattern on the Q-bitz pattern card. In round two, players roll all of their cubes on...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mindware 0000
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1 available in STEM Kits, Call number: J STEM KIT #12 Q*BITZ GameCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in STEM Kits, Call number: J STEM KIT 86Summary: It's the one and only Etch a Sketch, the classic drawing toy that's been challengeing artists with its magic and mystery since 1960! Use the knobs to create anything your imagination dreams up, then give it a shake, shake, shake to erase and start all over again.
Format: three dimensional object
Publisher / Publication Date: Ohio Art 1987
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Summary: "Art historian Amy Herman has trained experts from many fields how to perceive and communicate better. By showing people how to look closely at images, she helps them hone their 'visual intelligence', a set of skills we all possess but few of us know how to use properly. Whether you want to be more effective on the job, more empathetic toward your loved ones, or more alert to the trove of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2016
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 152.14 HERSummary: Stack the colored beads on five hardwood dowels to match the pattern cards. There are ten patterns that increase in difficulty to build matching, sequencing, and fine motor skills.
Format: three dimensional object
Publisher / Publication Date: Melissa & Doug 2003
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1 available in Juvenile Cares Kits, Call number: CARES KIT 38Summary: Player draws a challenge card and places towers on the grid as indicated. The goal is to create a maze that will carry a marble from the start position to the target tower.
Format: three dimensional object
Publisher / Publication Date: ThinkFun Inc 2014
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1 available in STEM Kits, Call number: J STEM KIT 9Copies Available at Interlochen
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1 available in STEM Kits, Call number: S.T.E.M. KIT #21 GRAVITY MAZE FALLING MARBLE LOGIC GAMENational Geographic Society (U. S.)
Summary: Presents a collection of vivid optical illusions, encompassing a wide range of visual tricks and deceptive eye puzzles, from images that appear to move to perplexing distortions and hidden objects.
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Publisher / Publication Date: National Geographic Society 2012
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Summary: "Seventeen traditional American and Chinese songs are written in artist Xu Bing's signature Square Word Calligraphy"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking Books for Young Readers 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 793 XUCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 793 XUSummary: The challenges and laser make the hugely popular Laser Maze Game fun. The fact that it’s a logic maze game that teaches STEM skills makes it a perfect game for anyone. Laser Maze requires you to use mirrors, beam-splitters, a little science and brainpower to direct the laser through a series of mind-challenging mazes and light up the target. This award-winning maze game is designed for solo...
Format: three dimensional object
Publisher / Publication Date: ThinkFun Inc 2014
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1 available in STEM Kits, Call number: J STEM KIT 129Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in STEM Kits, Call number: J STEM KIT 13Copies Available at Interlochen
1 available in STEM Kits, Call number: JT STEM KIT 15Grandin, Temple
Summary: "A quarter of a century after her first book, Thinking in Pictures, forever changed how the world understood autism, Temple Grandin--the "anthropologist from Mars," as Oliver Sacks dubbed her--transforms our understanding of the different ways our brains are wired. Visual thinkers constitute a far greater proportion of the population than previously understood, she reveals, and a more varied...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 152.14 GRASarcone, Gianni A
Summary: A second collection of optical illusions and puzzles introduces key scientific concepts about perspective and perception that reveal how the mind enables people to experience interesting impressions through static images.
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Publisher / Publication Date: National Geographic Society 2015
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Summary: Developed in collaboration with The Metropolitan Museum of Art, this book of black and white artworks and objects from The Met's incredible collection is sure to inspire a lifelong love of learning and art appreciation.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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Summary: Presents a series of animal picture puzzles with a question on each page. Suggested level: junior.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gecko Press 2008
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE ONISummary: Throughout the history of painting and sculpture no muse has exerted more influence than the artist's model. This program studies the role of the human form in art, focusing on complex relationships between famous male artists and their female subjects. Works featuring the male figure are also examined. Discussing numerous artistic milestones-including classical Greek statuary, Masaccio's...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2007
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Summary: Everyone has the desire to arrange things in a way that is most pleasing to the eye. In painting, composition involves arranging every ingredient-shape, color, texture, and light-so that working together, they create artistic balance. In this program, artist Ray Richardson deliberately chooses a long, slim canvas to challenge his compositional abilities. As he confronts his quest to create a...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: A quarter-century following the death of Abstract Expressionist firebrand Jackson Pollock, renowned critic Clement Greenberg and art historian T. J. Clark sat down to discuss the legendary painter's career, working methods, and legacy. This program documents their talk, focusing on Pollock's work from the mid-1940s onward and highlighting Greenberg's firsthand observations of the artist in his...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009
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Summary: Physical metamorphosis as a theme in painting, sculpture, photography, and cinema reveals an ongoing fascination with all manner of transformations and distortions of the human form. Ranging from classical to modern times, this program presents zoomorphism; hybrids from mythology, the hells of Hieronymus Bosch, and the caricatures of Granville; "botanomorphism," people as plants; treatments of...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: No storytelling medium is more powerful than the modern movie-but the ability to inspire and entertain by combining words and pictures is hardly a recent phenomenon. This program reveals the age-old roots of the cinematic narrative form and their evolution over the centuries. Beginning in the ancient Mesopotamian city of Nineveh, the film points to the Epic of Gilgamesh as one of the earliest...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009
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Summary: Described as "the artful dodger meets Einstein meets an explosion in a sequin factory," public artist Martin Firrell specializes in large-scale digital projections onto iconic architecture-text messages that raise questions about faith, human rights, cultural diversity, and other subjects. Marking the first time that Firrell has allowed cameras into his creative process, this program follows...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
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Summary: Throughout history, one type of individual has instinctively grasped art's power to persuade and manipulate-and indeed, images have become at least as deadly as swords or guns in the hands of political and military leaders. This program revolves around a basic question: when did art mutate from a vehicle of the imagination into a tool of the ruler? Beginning in Britain, the program looks at the...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009
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Summary: How did modernist ideas reshape the presentation of art in museums and galleries? And how did that approach evolve in the postmodern era? This program examines intellectual and aesthetic issues associated with the display of art, using rooms in the Tate Modern as case studies. Overviewing the exhibition style Alfred Barr established during his transformation of MOMA in the 1930s, the video...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009
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Summary: Thirty years after the heyday of Abstract Expressionism, one of its principal champions sat down with historian T. J. Clark to discuss the evolution of art criticism and issues surrounding modernist painting. This program documents their conversation, spotlighting Clement Greenberg's reflections on his career and its place in the wider arenas of art theory, art journalism, and the philosophy of...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009
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Summary: Ten thousand years ago, Magdalenian artists carved expressive faces into slabs of limestone, creating a Paleolithic portrait gallery that required sophisticated drawing skills. This program shows how the art of portraiture has been refined and expanded through the ages. Examples of Egyptian sarcophagi portraits segue into discussions of paintings by Titian, Rafael, Durer, and other...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2007
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Summary: Beginning with the classical and biblical subjects of Diana, Susannah, and Bathsheba, this program discusses female nudity as it relates to the act of bathing. Depicted as a chaste ritual, a sensual invitation, and a terrifying opportunity for violence, the act of bathing is deconstructed and scrutinized from an artistic point of view. Topics include the inherent dramatic tension of nudity; the...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: What do modern art, a symphony, and a documentary film have in common? They all require aesthetic considerations. This program presents the ideas of key figures in the shaping and understanding of aesthetics-from Plato, Francis Hutcheson, and Kant to Leon Battista Alberti, Stendhal, and Tolstoy-and addresses pivotal writings, including Aristotle's Poetics and Morris Weitz's "The Role of Theory...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005