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Penguin USA, Inc
Language
English
Description
Use your true colors to make things go your way
Ever wonder why your favorite first date outfit hasn't landed you Mr. Right? Feel uncomfortable at job interviews in your trendy new power suit? The problem isn't you-it may be that you aren't showing the world your true colors. David Zyla knows how color can change a woman's mood and even her life. As the Emmy-nominated head costume designer of All My Children and the designer of
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Publisher
Project Gutenberg
Language
Français
Description
Accusé de subversion politique, Dostoïevski fut à l'âge de vingt-huit ans condamné aux travaux forcés dans un bagne de Sibérie. Il fit dans ces Souvenirs le récit de cette terrible expérience dans la maison des morts qui allait transformer sa vision du monde et du peuple russe et le « ressusciter ».
« Je me sentais un peu souffrant ces jours-ci, et je lisais la Maison des morts. Je n'en avais gardé qu'un souvenir incertain et j'ai...
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Series
Publisher
Workman Publishing Company
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
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Keep Working. Keep Playing. Keep Creating.
In his previous books, Austin Kleon gave readers the keys to unlock their creativity and showed them how to become known. Now he offers his most inspiring work yet, with ten simple rules for how to stay creative, focused, and true to yourself, for life.
The creative life is not a linear journey to the finish line, it's a loop, so find a daily routine, because today is the only day that matters. Disconnect...
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Series
Publisher
Japanime Co. Ltd
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
From the art studios of Manga University, Japan's leading publisher of English-language educational manga, comes an all-new series of mini How to Draw Manga guides.
Each guide consists of about two dozen pages of easy-to-follow tips and basic manga-drawing techniques, all fully illustrated in the award-winning Manga University style!
Designed with the beginning artist in mind, this entry-level guide explains the basics of drawing manga
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Publisher
Dorling Kindersley Limited
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"A guide to building 30 LEGO animals, with tips and techniques from expert LEGO builders. Discover how to build your own awesome LEGO Animals! Be inspired by 30 incredible LEGO animals, from a roaring lion to a multi-coloured turtle. Embark on an imaginative building journey as the models get more challenging through the book. Each animal idea is broken down into three, four, or five important building steps. Learn essential building techniques to...
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Publisher
Abrams Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"After losing her mother very early in life, Anna Atkins (1799-1871) was raised by her loving father. He gave her a scientific education, which was highly unusual for women and girls in the early 19th century. Fascinated with the plant life around her, Anna became a botanist. She recorded all her findings in detailed illustrations and engravings, until the invention of cyanotype photography in 1842. Anna used this new technology in order to catalogue...
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Publisher
Project Gutenberg
Language
English
Description
Nathaniel Hawthorne presents a multilayered story consisting of six Greek myths that are told from a unique perspective and appeals to all readers, specifically children. His writing style transcends age to deliver a family-friendly narrative.
A Wonder-Book for Girls and Boys is a compilation of classic stories inspired by Greek mythology. Hawthorne's interpretation is filtered through the fictional character, Eustace Bright, a college student...
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Criterion collection volume 1210
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
Intertwined are the mission of PAIN, an advocacy group focused on the Sackler family's role in the opioid crisis, with Nan Goldin's journey through New York City's underground arts scene, addiction, and activism. Goldin's photographs and reflections on memory and trauma underscore her solidarity with marginalized communities, making for a powerful narrative of art, activism, and survival.
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English
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"Picasso & Matisse. Manet & Degas. Pollack & de Kooning. Lucian Freud & Francis Bacon. This is the story of four pairs of artists -- each linked by friendship and a spirit of competitiveness. Taken together, they form an impressive lineage stretching across more than 150 years. But in each case, these relationships had a flashpoint, a damaging psychological event that seemed to mark both an end and a new beginning, a break that led onto new creative...
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Series
Pigeon private detectives volume 2
Publisher
Union Square Kids
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
When a thief steals the prized painting from the Museum of Food Art in the middle of the night, the Pigeon Private Detectives take on the case and break down clues, while still taking time to indulge in a sweet treat from Mama Pigeon.
4034) The woman's Bible
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English
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The Woman's Bible (1895-1898) is a work of religious and political nonfiction by American women's rights activist Elizabeth Cady Stanton. Despite its popular success, The Woman's Bible caused a rift in the movement between Stanton and her supporters and those who believed that to wade into religious waters would hurt the suffragist cause. Reactions from the press, political establishment, and much of the reading public were overwhelmingly negative,...
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Publisher
Running Press, an imprint of Hachette Book Group, Inc
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Dave Karger--Turner Classic Movies on-air host, entertainment media darling, and the Oscars expert--offers a one-of-a-kind collection of original interviews with an A-list lineup of Oscar winners discussing the highs, lows, and never-before-told tales of Hollywood's most storied awards show"--
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Publisher
Search Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
WATERCOLOURS. Life has a way of throwing unexpected obstacles in our path. Your personal anxieties can build up and seem overwhelming. Help is at hand. Master artist Jean Haines leads you on a journey through paint, showing how you can wipe away your worries with the soothing and gentle movement of watercolour on paper. Meditative, peaceful and calming, watercolour painting offers relief and solace to everyone, with no judgement or goal beyond itself....
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English
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"Fumio Sasaki is not an enlightened minimalism expert or organizing guru like Marie Kondo--he's just a regular guy who was stressed out and constantly comparing himself to others, until one day he decided to change his life by saying goodbye to everything he didn't absolutely need. The effects were remarkable: Sasaki gained true freedom, new focus, and a real sense of gratitude for everything around him. In Goodbye, Things Sasaki modestly shares his...
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"In this seductive, multilayered biography, based on original letters and diaries, Donna M. Lucey illuminates four extraordinary women painted by the iconic high-society portraitist John Singer Sargent. With uncanny intuition, Sargent hinted at the mysteries and passions that unfolded in his subjects' lives. Elsie Palmer traveled between her father's Rocky Mountain castle and the medieval English manor house where her mother took refuge, surrounded...
Author
Publisher
Canterbury Classics
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
An entertaining graphic adaptation of the oldest military treatise in the world. Hailed as the oldest philosophical discussion on military strategy, Sun Tzu's The Art of War has been adapted as a graphic novel by award-winning illustrator Pete Katz. In this collectible thread-bound edition, the narrative focuses on a teacher instructing a pupil on the main points of Sun Tzu's treatise, with vibrant battle scenes interspersed throughout. Issues such...
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Publisher
Project Gutenberg
Language
English
Description
Excerpt: "The writer of this Narrative was hired by his master to a "soul-driver," and has witnessed all the horrors of the traffic, from the buying up of human cattle in the slave-breeding States, which produced a constant scene of separating the victims from all those whom they loved, to their final sale in the southern market, to be worked up in seven years, or given over to minister to the lust of southern Christians. Many harrowing scenes are...
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