Overwhelming Odds
Susan O'Leary - 2004
The book unveils a truth of universal importance, namely, by helping others in need we can become their miracles.
Right Place, Right Time
Joseph Prince - 2006
When God puts you in the right place at the right time, you can't help but get blessed!
The Carter Girls
Desiree M. Granger - 2015
From Elijah Carter? The rising music star. Balancing his music life and his woman Jordyn, all while being the humorous glue that holds his family together. To his pretty boy twin brother Trent Carter. The one that can’t seem to get it right with the ladies, and at this point? Isn’t sure if he wants to. Yeah reading about these Carter men and their wild ways is fun, but it’s the women who are the heart and soul of this family. From drama filled baby mamas and childhood sweethearts to future wives and heartaches full of regret. Lets take another trip down to the A where there’s a waffle house on every corner, trapping is a way of life, and sweet tea is law, but when it comes to them Carter Boys, those Carter Girls don’t play…
Rembrandt: A Life from Beginning to End (Biographies of Painters)
Hourly History - 2021
Drawing Autism
Jill Mullin - 2009
Add Drawing Autism to your wish list, tell your friends about it, and show it to your kids on the spectrum."--
Autism/Asperger's Digest
"Mullin, a behavior analyst, brings together fascinating works by 40 artists on the spectrum with their answers to her questions about their process."--
The Boston Globe
"Editor Jill Mullin has collected artwork from a host of painters and other graphic artists who are all somewhere on the spectrum. The fascinating and often lovely reprints in Drawing Autism help provide another perspective on the capabilities of people with autism."--
Time Out New York
"Mullin's clinical background in Applied Behavior Analysis, combined with more than a decade helping individuals with ASD, serve her well as the book’s curator."--
The Portland Phoenix
"[Editor Jill Mullin] has put together a beautiful and stimulating exhibition-in-a-book."--Story Circle Book Reviews"Drawing Autism is absolutely wonderful in its entirety."--Brain Pickings"Jill Mullin embraces the full range and spectrum of autism and artistic expression...Rich and varied images."--BookTrib"This book is like a key to opening doors across educational and medical landscapes. But perhaps even more importantly, the fact that many of the artists are able to explain what they were feeling at the time of their drawings will surely help this book find solid footing among parents, caregivers, and extended family members who have, up to this point, struggled to understand the inner workings of their precious loved one’s autistic mind."--New York Journal of Books"A book of astonishing beauty."--
BOOKS
(France)"What is the actual experience of living with autism in a deep-felt sense, beyond the social stereotypes and headline-worthy superskills? Drawing Autism, a celebration of the artistry and self-expression found in artwork by people diagnosed with autism, explores just that. The stunning volume features works by more fifty international contributors, from children to established artists, that illustrate the rich multiplicity of the condition."--
The Atlantic
Over the last decade autism spectrum disorder (ASD) has become an international topic of conversation, knowing no racial, ethnic, or social barriers. Behavior analyst and educator Jill Mullin has assembled a staggering array of work from established artists like Gregory Blackstock and Jessica Park to the unknown but no less talented. Their creations, coupled with artist interviews, comprise a fascinating and compelling book that serves to educate and inspire anyone who knows someone diagnosed with ASD. Mullin's introduction and the foreword by best-selling author Temple Grandin provide an overview of autism and advocate for nurturing the talents, artistic and otherwise, of autistic individuals.
Brian Eno's Another Green World (33 1/3 Book 67)
Geeta Dayal - 2009
It was the first Brian Eno album tobe composed almost completely in the confines of a recording studio,over a scant few months in the summer of 1975. The album was a proofof concept for Eno's budding ideas of "the studio as musicalinstrument," and a signpost for a bold new way of thinking aboutmusic.In this book, Geeta Dayal unravels Another Green World's abundantmysteries, venturing into its dense thickets of sound. How was analbum this cohesive and refined formed in such a seemingly ad hoc way?How were electronics and layers of synthetic treatments used to createan album so redolent of the natural world? How did a deck of cardsfigure into all of this? Here, through interviews and archivalresearch, she unearths the strange story of how Another Green Worldformed the link to Eno's future -- foreshadowing his metamorphosisfrom unlikely glam rocker to sonic painter and producer.
Tupac Shakur Legacy
Jamal Joseph - 2006
It includes approximately 20 removable facsimiles & an hour-long CD.
The World of the Witcher
Marcin Batylda - 2015
This gorgeous, illustrated hardbound volume contains in-depth knowledge about the locales, the deadly beasts that inhabit them, and the lethal weapons used to put them down.