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In this book, William F. Powell invites you into his artistic world as he shows you how to render a variety of beautiful landscape subjects in pencil. Explore a number of basic drawing techniques and learn to develop a drawing to its fullest through a series of step-by-step demonstrations. You'll discover different methods of shading, ways of manipulating drawing tools to produce specific textures, and tips on how to design a well-balanced composition, providing you with the necessary knowledge to create your own landscape drawings from preliminary sketch to the completed work. Product details For ages 12-17 Format Paperback | 32 pages ...

Throughout time, telling stories has been an integral part of culture, history, and the human experience. Once Upon a Digital Story: A Modern Approach to an Ancient Art teaches readers the concepts, principles, and construction of storytelling across a variety of digital formats and platforms in our technological age. These range from fiction and nonfiction linear narrative to nonlinear interactive media including online, video, performance, game scenarios, and transmedia. Students will learn what it is that makes good digital storytelling. They will explore the development process, organization, construction, and the use of social media and mobile devices for storytelling. Finally, students will gain valuable information about working in the industry, including freelance opportunities. Each chapter concludes with an extension topic for discussion and a content-related assignment. From process to production, Once Upon a Digital Story provides examples, hyperlinks, and imagery that info...

- Waterproof - Tear-Resistant - Topographic Map Explore the uniquely inspiring and wondrous landscape of the Grand Canyon with National Geographic's Trails Illustrated map of Grand Canyon National Park, North and South Rims. Expertly researched and created in partnership with local land management agencies, this map is designed to meet the needs of outdoor enthusiasts with unmatched detail of the heart of the park. Key areas of interest featured on this map include Colorado River miles 60-98, North and South Rim visitor centers, Grand Canyon Village, Tusayan, Bright Angel Trail (plus elevation profile), West Rim Trail, Kaibab Trail, Arizona Trail, and more. With miles of mapped trails in some of the most breathtaking scenery in the entire country, the Grand Canyon North and South Rims map can guide you off the beaten path and back again. Designed with a wide range of visitors in mind, this map features detailed and easy to read trails, accurate road network, campgrounds, scenic ove...

Das Handbuch stellt speziell für Entscheidungsträger die Nutzungsmöglichkeiten von Data-Warehouse-Konzepten und Technologien vor. Neben den Data-Warehouse-Grundlagen werden vor allem die Einsatzgebiete, verfügbare Lösungen und praktische Erfahrungen beschrieben. Durch den kompakten Überblick über dieses wichtige Thema erhält das Management so die Möglichkeit, für das eigene Unternehmen die optimale Entscheidung zu treffen. Product details Format Hardback | 356 pages Dimensions 156 x 234 x 20mm ...

Si quieres dejar de lado la ansiedad y abrazar una relación amorosa, aunque nunca hayas podido hacerlo antes, entonces sigue leyendo... ¿Me quiere de verdad o sólo está fingiendo? ¿Y si hago algo malo? ¿Y si nunca encuentro a la persona adecuada para mí? Los pensamientos ansiosos y la preocupación constante plagan las relaciones y amenazan con separar a dos personas antes de que puedan experimentar la maravilla del amor. Ya sea que hayas vivido con ansiedad toda tu vida o que los eventos recientes hayan despertado inseguridades subyacentes, no tienes que aceptar que el resto de tu vida será así. Puedes recuperar el control y sacar la ansiedad. Si estás cansado de vivir en un estado constante de pánico, cansado de analizar todo lo que hace tu pareja para determinar si se va a ir, y abrumado con la carga de llevar el valor de las preocupaciones de una relación sobre tus hombros, es hora de dejar de lado tu miedo. Te mereces una relación amorosa y satisfactoria en la que la ansiedad no ju...

The Sunday Times and New York Times Bestseller. Winner at The National Book Awards 2018 Everything you love about Ottolenghi, made simple. Yotam Ottolenghi's award-winning recipes are always a celebration: an unforgettable combination of abundance, taste and surprise. Ottolenghi SIMPLE is no different, with 130 brand-new dishes that contain all the inventive elements and flavour combinations that Ottolenghi is loved for, but with minimal hassle for maximum joy. Bursting with colourful photography, Ottolenghi SIMPLE showcases Yotam's standout dishes that will suit whatever type of cooking you find easy - whether that's getting wonderful food on the table in under 30 minutes, using just one pot to make a delicious meal, or a flavoursome dish that can be prepared ahead and then served when you're ready. These brilliant, flavour-forward dishes are all SIMPLE in at least one (but very often more than one) way: S - short on time: less than 30 minutes I - 10 ingredients or...

"The Pocket Guide to Senior Housing: "What they Don't Tell You and What You Need to Know", was written to help seniors and/or their families navigate their way through the process of selecting the best affordable housing for themselves or loved ones. It includes several pages of important questions to ask when touring, and is a step-by-step guide through the process, from the first call to the move in, and defines terms that are tossed around in the industry but unfamiliar to those outside the senior market. Small enough to fit in a purse or briefcase, the Pocket Guide includes several pages to keep track of the facilities you visit, and includes a list of resources to access both locally and nation-wide. User-friendly terms describe differences between Medicare and Medicaid, and the variety of housing options such as Continuing Care Retirement Communities, "stand-alones", independent and residential care facilities. The Pocket Guide explores the costs of s...

Credit is the lifeblood of capitalism and development. Brazil, Russia, India, and China-also called BRICs-have become important creditors to developing countries. However, how will their loans affect economic development and democracy in recipient countries? We need to understand why governments accept Chinese over Western loan offers before we can predict their likely consequences. In Raise the Debt, Jonas B. Bunte systematically explains how governments choose among competing loan offers. Using statistical analyses and extensive interview data, he shows that the strings attached to loans vary across creditors. Consequently, one domestic interest group may benefit from Chinese credit but not U.S. loans, while the opposite is the case for other groups. Bunte provides evidence that governments cater to whichever domestic interest group is politically dominant when deciding between competing loan offers. Combining a comparative politics approach with international political economy met...

In seiner Naturfotoschule zeigt Reinhard Eisele, wie Sie das Erlebnis Natur gekonnt fotografisch umsetzen und wie sich Ihnen dabei neue, überraschende Sichtweisen eröffnen können. Die fundierten Hintergrundinformationen und die zahlreichen Praxistipps zur Ausrüstung, Fototechnik und Bildgestaltung machen dieses Buch zu einem nützlichen Ratgeber für alle diejenigen, die Spaß am Fotografieren in der Natur haben und ihr Know-how optimieren möchten. Der Autor weckt die Freude am Entdecken von Sujets und setzt dabei den Schwerpunkt auf Landschaften, Pflanzen und Tiere unserer Breiten. Dort findet er Motive in Hülle und Fülle, sei es im heimischen Garten, im Naherholungsgebiet, auf dem Land, am Meer oder in den Bergen. Bildbeispiele aus entfernteren bzw. exotischen Ländern runden das Spektrum ab. Aus dem Inhalt: - Die ideale Fotoausrüstung - Technik, die gestaltet - Optimale Tageszeiten für gelungene Fotos - Aspekte des Wetters - Abend- und Nachtaufnahmen meistern - Tipps und Regeln für die ...

From New York Times bestselling author Toni Anderson comes a heart-wrenching, emotional story about love, bioweapons, and the importance of keeping promises.In the midst of wedding preparations, a shadowy figure from Alex Parker's past reappears and threatens the joy he's found with Mallory Rooney.Four years ago, Jane Sanders's powerful ex-husband kidnapped their young daughter and Jane hasn't seen her since. Now, she finally has a lead and she knows just the man to help get her daughter back. Trouble is, he's an assassin. And he terrifies her.Despite his upcoming nuptials, Alex agrees to help, but it doesn't take long for the routine operation to turn complicated-and deadly on a global scale. Can the former assassin make it home in time to marry the woman he loves, or will his dark past destroy all hope for their future?A Cold Dark Promise takes place during the week leading up to the wedding of former CIA assassin Alex Parker to FBI Agent Mallory Rooney, ...

"A brilliant, powerful elegy from a living brother to a lost one, yet pulsing with rhythm, and beating with life." --Marlon James "Highly recommend Brother by David Chariandy--concise and intense, elegiac short novel of devastation and hope." --Joyce Carol Oates, via Twitter WINNER--Toronto Book Award WINNER--Rogers' Writers' Trust Fiction Prize WINNER--Ethel Wilson Prize for Fiction Esquire Best Books of the Year Kirkus Best Books of the Year Guardian Best Books of the Year New York Public Library Best Books of the Year Aspen Words Literary Prize Finalist PEN Open Book Awards Longlist Orwell Prize for Political Fiction Longlist The Believer Book Awards Longlist "Every sentence feels like a polished stone." --Entertainment Weekly "Elegiac and incendiary" --Boston Globe "A dwarf star of mourning and regret" --Wall Street Journal "Elegant, vital, indubitably dope" --Guardian "An important, vital and groundb...

The first in-depth biography of the American actress and humanitarian campaigner who married Prince Harry in May 2018, written by the world's best-known royal biographer. When Meghan Markle and Prince Harry were set up by a mutual friend on a blind date in June 2016, little could they know that just sixteen months later the resulting whirlwind romance would lead to their engagement in November 2017 and marriage in May 2018. Since then, our fascination with the woman who has smashed the royal mould has rocketed. So different to those coy brides of recent history, Meghan is confident, charismatic and poised, her warm and affectionate engagement interview a stark contrast to the stilted and cold exchange between Prince Charles and Lady Diana Spencer. In this first-ever biography of the duchess-to-be, acclaimed royal biographer Andrew Morton goes back to Meghan's roots, interviewing those closest to her to uncover the story of her childhood: growing up in The Valley in LA, studyin...

The Making of Modern Law: U.S. Supreme Court Records and Briefs, 1832-1978 contains the world's most comprehensive collection of records and briefs brought before the nation's highest court by leading legal practitioners - many who later became judges and associates of the court. It includes transcripts, applications for review, motions, petitions, supplements and other official papers of the most-studied and talked-about cases, including many that resulted in landmark decisions. This collection serves the needs of students and researchers in American legal history, politics, society and government, as well as practicing attorneys. This book contains copies of all known US Supreme Court filings related to this case including any transcripts of record, briefs, petitions, motions, jurisdictional statements, and memorandum filed. This book does not contain the Court's opinion. The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this ...

Although it's the smallest of all AKC breeds, the Chihuahua is big on affection, loyalty and intelligence. Enjoy a full years' worth of these little bundles of joys via twelve, cheerful, full color photos. The large format features daily grids providing ample room for jotting appointments, birthdays and reminders; six bonus months of July through December 2017; moon phases; U.S. and international holidays. Product details Format Calendar Dimensions 298.45 x 298.45 x 6.35mm | 283g ...

A contemporary, easy-to-teach text by high-profile authors, this casebook invites students and teachers to re-imagine the field of Insurance Law. The authors demonstrates the big-picture role of insurance law and policy in American business and society, exploring federal-state regulatory roles in depth as well as the traditional topics covered in casebooks. Insurance Law and Policy: Cases and Materials uses more statutory material than any other casebook, with statutes typically presented through problems. Manageable assignments contain one major case followed by informative notes, questions and a problem. Product details Format Hardback | 760 pages Dimensions ...

This series provides a forum for cutting-edge studies in logic and the modern philosophy of language as well as for publications in the field of analytical metaphysics. Product details Format Paperback | 166 pages Dimensions 178 x 254 x 12mm | 408g Publication date 02 May 2013 ...

Gyoergy Ligeti's Le Grand Macabre (1974-77, revised 1996) has consolidated its position as one of the major operatic works of the twentieth century. Few operas composed since the 1970s have received such numerous productions, bringing the eclectic score to a global audience. Famously dubbed by Ligeti as an 'anti-anti-opera', the piece is a highly ambiguous, apocalyptic fable about the human condition, fear of death and the final judgement. As the first book in English solely dedicated to discussion of this work, Gyoergy Ligeti's Le Grand Macabre: Postmodernism, Musico-Dramatic Form and the Grotesque offers new perspectives on the opera's musico-dramatic identity in the context of musical postmodernism. Peter Edwards draws on a range of modernist and postmodernist theories to explore the collision of past styles and genre models in the opera, its expressive states and its engagement with the grotesque. This is ably supported by musical analysis and extensive stud...

A kingdom teetering on the brink of destruction. A king gone missing. Who will survive? Find out in the thrilling sequel to Jennifer A. Nielsen's New York Times bestselling blockbuster The False Prince! Just weeks after Jaron has taken the throne, an assassination attempt forces him into a deadly situation. Rumors of a coming war are winding their way between the castle walls, and Jaron feels the pressure quietly mounting within Carthya. Soon, it becomes clear that deserting the kingdom may be his only hope of saving it. But the further Jaron is forced to run from his identity, the more he wonders if it is possible to go too far. Will he ever be able to return home again? Or will he have to sacrifice his own life in order to save his kingdom? The stunning second installment of The Ascendance Series takes readers on a roller coaster ride of treason and murder, thrills and peril, as they journey with the Runaway King. And don't miss the highly anticipated fourth book in the ser...

Americans have long been taught that events such as the notorious My Lai massacre were "isolated incidents" in the Vietnam War, carried out by a few "bad apples." However, as award-winning journalist and historian Nick Turse demonstrates in this pioneering investigation, violence against Vietnamese civilians was not at all exceptional. Rather, it was pervasive and systematic, the predictable consequence of official orders to "kill anything that moves." Drawing on a decade of research into secret Pentagon files and extensive interviews with American veterans and Vietnamese survivors, Turse reveals the policies and actions that resulted in millions of innocent civilians killed and wounded. He lays out in shocking detail the workings of a military machine that made crimes in nearly every American unit all but inevitable. "Kill Anything That Moves" takes us from archives filled with Washington's long-suppressed war crime investigations to the ru...

Die beliebte Mundart-Reihe ist der besondere Spaß für Asterix-Fans. Wenn sich der Gallier durch die deutschsprachigen Dialekte von Schleswig bis Südtirol babbelt, schwätzt, schnackt und redt, sorgt das für jede Menge zusätzliche Lacher in den sowieso schon vor Witz sprühenden Geschichten. In diesem Band brechen Asterix und Obelix nach Rom auf, um den entführten Troubadix zu befreien - der Klassiker "Asterix als Gladiator" neu erzählt auf Saarländisch. Product details Format Hardback | 48 pages Dimensions 222 x 295 x 8mm...

Written by an eminent author team whose expertise spans the full breadth of the subject, The Business Environment provides comprehensive coverage and sound academic insight into this dynamic subject. The unique 'themes and issues' approach the book has become known for provides students with a consistent and holistic framework for analysing businesses and the business environment, as well as a reliable method to organize their thinking. The core business environments and their interrelationships are explored using the established STEEPLE framework in Part One. Part Two then looks beyond these topics and invites students to analyse a range of contemporary issues such as the financial crisis and austerity, globalization, corporate power, equal opportunity, and entrepreneurship. A host of examples, 'Mini-Cases', and end-of-chapter case studies illustrate key topics in real-life, international, and wide-ranging business settings. Unilever's corporate responsibility ...

What if your suffering could end...not in some distant future, but very soon, even today? What if many divine beings, including your own higher self, are present here and now, to help you attain this freedom from suffering? What if the beliefs that have conditioned your mind, such as "no pain, no gain," hold only in limited contexts, and you could make the quantum leap and blossom into a flower of primordial joy? What if the perfume of this flower, which is you being you, is experienced as love by all who care to partake of you? In an extraordinary conversation, Goddesses Lakshmi and Goddess Saraswati reveal the secrets of walking on this new feminine "path of joy" to dissolve your suffering and blossom into enlightenment. Goddess Lakshmi and Goddess Saraswati promise nothing short of a grand transformation of humanity with the birthing of a new joy-centered consciousness on Earth at this time. These ascended Goddesses create fertile ground for this transformation b...