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On the Path of Vengeance: A Historical Western Adventure Book
Austin Grayson - 2019
Soon he discovers that a man called Ambrose Shaughnessy owns the family ranch now,and he's raising Ross' baby sister as his own. He immediately cooks up a plan to work on the ranch undercover for a chance to investigate his family's mysterious fate and get revenge for everything he's lost.Even the best-laid plans can go ashtray though. When things do not turn out to be what they appear, Ross is left to question his motives for revenge. On top of that, he unexpectedly finds himself falling for Shaughnessy's sweet, caring daughter. Will Ross be able to discover what happened to his family and bring justice to those responsible, or will his judgement be clouded by unexpected forces? Will the two lovers unite, or will they have to repeat the cursed events that brought them together, and might still put them both in the ground?An action-packed story of deception and delusion, love and lust, violence and compassion, featuring fascinating characters and twists that will leave the reader breathless. A must-read for fans of Western action and romance."On the Path of Vengeance" is a historical adventure novel of approximately 80,000 words. No cliffhangers, just unadulterated action.
Minimalism
James Meyer - 2000
A beautifully illustrated book, internationally recognized as the definitive survey of Minimalism, now available in paperback
100 More Things Every Designer Needs to Know about People
Susan M. Weinschenk - 2015
Research hasn't stopped since the book was written, and new design challenges have emerged.Weinschenk's new book, 100 MORE Things Every Designer Needs To Know About People applies the latest research in psychology, neuroscience, brain research, and social psychology to the design of technology products, including websites, apps, wearables, and artificial intelligence. Weinschenk combines real science and research citations with practical examples to make her 100 MORE Things engaging, persuasive, easy to read, accessible, and useful. 100 MORE Things Every Designer Needs to Know About People is not just another "design guidelines" book because it explains the WHY behind the guidelines, providing concrete examples and prescriptions that can be easily and instantly applied.
Make Your Own Luck: A DIY Attitude to Graphic Design
Kate Moross - 2014
But it hasn’t always been a smooth ride. In this informative memoir and guide Kate Moross offers true insider’s tips on how to make it in a highly competitive field. Written in an approachable, forthright and refreshingly honest tone, Make Your Own Luck features chapters on how to thrive in art school, developing your own style, how to self-promote, collaboration with other artists, how to deal with “copycats,” and when to consider working for free. Kate Moross also touches on the fine points of music packaging and videos, how to find an agent, and looks back on the touchstone moments that helped shape her career. Designed to mimic Moross’s signature bold, brightly coloured style, this book is filled with dozens of examples of her work for companies such as Google, Adidas, and Nokia, as well as musicians including Simian Mobile Disco, Jessie Ware, Zomby, and Pictureplane. Irreverent and packed with enormously helpful tips for designers of all stripes, Make Your Own Luck is certain to become an indispensable guide for anyone interested in graphic art as a vocation or hobby.
Goth-Icky: A Macabre Menagerie of Morbid Monstrosities
Michael J. Nelson - 2005
What is it about vampires, zombies, skeletons, and other mutants brought to life in the darkest recesses of the imagination? Goth-Icky celebrates modern-day goths, their culture, and the morbid monstrosities that inspire them. Containing over 200 images from the print and advertising archives of the Charles S. Anderson Design Company in combination with a hilarious text by the legendary Michael J. Nelson, this book is an amazingly rich and weird testament to the pervasiveness of goth aesthetics, the appeal of kitsch, and our love of horror.
The Heeding
Rob Cowen - 2021
Gradually at first, then quickly and irreversibly, the patterns by which we once lived altered completely.Across four seasons and a luminous series of poems and illustrations, Rob Cowen and Nick Hayes paint a picture of a year caught in the grip of history yet filled with revelatory perspectives close at hand. A sparrowhawk hunting in a back street; the moon over a town with a loved one’s hand held tight; butterflies massing in a high-summer yard – the everyday wonders and memories that shape a life and help us recall our own.The Heeding leads us on a journey that takes its markers and signs from nature and a world filled with fear and pain but beauty and wonder too. Collecting birds, animals, trees and people together, it is a profound meditation to a time no one will forget.At its heart, this is a book that helps us look again, to heed: to be attentive to this world we share, to grieve what’s lost and to hope for a better and brighter tomorrow.
Adobe Photoshop CC Classroom in a Book (2014 Release)
Andrew Faulkner - 2014
Adobe Photoshop CC Classroom in a Book contains 14 lessons that cover the basics, providing countless tips and techniques to help you become more productive with the program. You can follow the book from start to finish or choose only those lessons that interest you. In addition to learning the key elements of the Photoshop interface, this completely revised CC (2014 release) edition covers new features, including Generator, 3D printing, linked Smart Objects, Blur Gallery, smarter Smart Guides, Perspective Warp, and more. Purchasing this book gives you access to the downloadable lesson files you need to work through the projects in the book, and to electronic book updates covering new features that Adobe releases for Creative Cloud customers. For access, goto www.peachpit.com/redeem and redeem the unique code provided inside this book. "The Classroom in a Book series is by far the best training material on the market. Everything you need to master the software is included: clear explanations of each lesson, step-by-step instructions, and the project files for the students." Barbara Binder, Adobe Certified InstructorRocky Mountain Training
Studio Anywhere: A Photographer's Guide to Shooting in Unconventional Locations
Nick Fancher - 2015
In a perfect world, where every day is a breezy 72 degrees with partial cloud coverage, we would all have a 5,000-square-foot studio-and the entire catalog of B&H(TM) in our equipment lockups. But the reality is that you may have an outdated DSLR with two decent lenses (which took you several years to save up for), and all you have at your disposal is an unfinished basement, your garage, or the empty conference room at your office. That's where "Studio Anywhere" comes in. With photographer Nick Fancher as your guide, you'll learn how to get portfolio-ready photos while working in some of the most problematic scenarios imaginable. Whether shooting a corporate portrait, a test shoot with a model, or a promo shoot with a band, you'll discover that most of the time, there's no need for an expensive studio-you just have to get creative." ""Studio Anywhere" is a resource for photographers to learn through behind-the-scenes photos and lighting diagrams from a range of photo shoots-but it doesn't stop there. Because directing a photo shoot involves more than simply knowing how to wield a camera or process a raw file, Nick also lets you in on the aesthetic decisions he makes in his signature photos, inspiring you to develop your own vision. And, finally, he describes his Lightroom and Photoshop workflow so you can learn how to deftly navigate post-processing. Shows how to create images with minimal equipment that is within reach of anyone's budgetTakes you through the entire shoot, from concept to lighting to exposure to post-processing in Lightroom and PhotoshopTeaches how to build a portfolio without a dedicated studio space
Anatomy for the Artist
Sarah Simblet - 2001
This superb drawing guide helps you unravel its complexity and capture its aesthetic on paper. Packed with instructive illustrations and specially-commissioned photographs of male and female models, Anatomy for the Artist unveils the extraordinary construction of the human body and celebrates its continuing prominence in Western Art today. Through her detailed sketches, acclaimed artist Sarah Simblet shows you how to look inside the human frame to map its muscle groups, skeletal strength, balance, poise, and grace.Selected drawings superimposed over photographs reveal fascinating relationships between external appearance and internal structure. Six drawing classes guide you through human anatomy afresh, offering techniques for observing and drawing the skeleton, including the head, ribcage, pelvis, hands, and feet. By investigating a series of masterworks juxtaposed against photographs of real-life models, Dr. Simblet also traces the visions of different artists across time, from Holbein's Christ Entombed to Edward Hopper's Hotel Room.For any artist, learning about the human body is always a palpable delight. This imaginative reference guide will enhance your anatomical drawing and painting techniques at every level.
Diane Arbus: Magazine Work
Diane Arbus - 1985
This work reveals the growth of an artist who saw no artificial boundary between art and the paying job and who succeeded in putting her indelible stamp on the visual imagination.
Avenging Amy
Annabelle Winters - 2021
. . ANNABELLE WINTERS STYLE!When a brash Saudi prince takes liberties with State Department translator Amy Hadad, she’s told to forget it and move on, to be a patriot and swallow her personal pride for the sake of the bigger picture.Saudi Prince Rafiq is helping the US in a delicate hostage situation with the rogue extremist nation of Jawal, and so Amy is stuck with an impossible choice: If she accuses Prince Rafiq, he might not help the US, and hostages might die.It’s not just an impossible choice, it’s no choice at all.She has to stand down, keep her mouth shut, smile for the camera, and let the show go on.Navy SEAL Jake Axelrod, busted down to security detail for a loudmouthed Senator after running his own mouth off in public, is used to choosing his country over himself.It’s what he was born to do, trained to do, loves to do.But when he senses how Amy reacts to Prince Rafiq at a State Department Gala in Dubai, something awakens in him, something comes alive, a different sense of moral duty that burns strong in his heart, like it comes from someplace deep and ancient, from a time when a man's highest duty was to protect his woman.Soon Axe faces his own impossible choice, and he makes it with his heart instead of his head.An eye for an eye leaves the whole world blind, they say.Well, even a blind man knows when the sun is shining, and that’s what it feels like around Amy.So what the hell.Who needs eyes when your future's so clear.Hooyah.Toe-curling suspense, button-popping steam, mind-breaking action. And of course over-the-top drama and madness, Annabelle Winters style. This is a full length standalone.
Love Against All Odds
Carol Colyer - 2019
Answering a rancher's mail-order bride ad, she hopes to escape an arranged marriage, a deal struck in order to save her father's ailing business. Dan Gallagher struggles to keep the ranch that his belated father left behind alive. His hardships with his brother, and his loneliness lead him to send for a mail order bride. He hasn't even seen her, nor has she, which makes it even more difficult for them to meet. When an unexpected situation starts to unravel, can Kathleen finally find love on her own terms?Love Finally Takes ControlAmy Louise decides to leave her home in order to find a new life and a man she had never met. To her surprise though, she finds Oliver, the man she has come to meet unconscious on the bed! Turns out, Oliver's friendship with a member of the Apache, as well as prejudice, has created all sorts of rumors on his regard. When his intended bride arrives, will he be able to prove himself to be a good man and suitable husband for her?A Love Kept Apart by LiesWhen she discovers her late husband has drank their fortune away, Rose is forced to leave her home, in search of her last living male relative. She needs his help to handle her financial affairs. What happens when she realizes that he was killed only a while ago? Surprisingly, she finds herself falling for the town Marshall, who may know more than he lets on about her cousin's mysterious death. Their attraction is undeniable, but unfortunate events conspire to keep each one of them on their solitary path. Will this continual push-pull battle between the two of them come to an end? If you love clean Western romances that feature strong women of the era and determined, yet charming, male protagonists, then you are going to love this collection!Each book is a standalone, clean and delightful story of approximately 80,000 words. No cheating, no cliffhangers, and a sweet happily ever after.
Daily Routine Mastery: How to Create the Ultimate Daily Routine for More Energy, Productivity, and Success - Have Your Best Day Every Day
Dominic Mann - 2017
From energizing morning routines, to insanely efficient work routines, to empowering evening rituals, the ultra-successful structure their days to utilize every last waking minute to its fullest potential. And in this book, you will learn how to do the same. How will you learn to create the ultimate daily routine? Inside the book:
The secret to creating the ultimate morning routine so you can have your best day every day (Hint: It has 3 parts)
How to get more done with an ultra-efficient work routine (plus the ultimate work routine for squeezing every last drop of potential out of your work hours)
How to renew your energy throughout the day with an “energy ritual” for all-day energy and productivity (plus how to schedule tasks according to your energy levels)
Why having cold showers every morning can leave you feeling more energized, happy, and productive
The secret to waking up feeling energized (Hint: It has nothing to do with how long you sleep for)
How to finish your day with a powerful evening routine so you can kick ass the next day (plus an example of a great evening ritual you can copy)
And much more… To create a powerful daily routine and perform at the peak of your abilities day in and day out, scroll up to the top of this page and click BUY NOW.
Mudras for Weight Loss: 21 Simple Hand Gestures for Effortless Weight Loss: [Discover the Secrets of Effortless Weight Loss, Escape the Diet trap and Transform your Life Forever] ('Mudras' Book 3)
Advait - 2014
Have you been reading book after book on Weight Loss, Trying one Diet After another only to have no positive results whatsoever? Then, this book is for you!! Have you been trying to get rid of fattening toxins from your body and boost your metabolism? Then, this book is for you!! Have you been trying to keep up with a Weight Loss regimen, but simply are not able to maintain the required discipline and will-power to keep going? Then, this book is for you!! Have you been trying to stay away from Fatty and Salty foodstuffs, but are not able to curb your craving and still end up eating them(cause they taste divine!)? Then, this book is for you!! Are you low on Self-Confidence, just because you have put on weight...and want to feel good about yourself since you have taken positive steps to shed that excess weight? Then, this book is for you!! All this is possible by performing Simple Hand Gestures called as 'Mudras'. You don't believe me?? Try out for yourself. These Weight Loss Mudras work wonders!! Discover:: 21 Simple Hand Gestures for Effortless Weight Loss This book details a variety of Simple Hand Gestures called as Mudras, that when performed regularly will burn away your excess weight, remove fattening toxins from your body, boost your metabolism, curb your unhealthy cravings, induce a strong will-power to continue this Weight Loss regimen. Some of the Mudras that you’ll discover inside this book are: # Lingamudra / Mudra of Divine Masculine # Apaanmudra / Mudra of Downward Force # Chakramudra / Mudra of Wheel # Avaahanmudra / Mudra of calling # Shankhamudra / Mudra of conch Effortless Weight Loss is possible!! Just perform these Simple Hand Gestures regularly. Would You Like To Know More? Download now and achieve effortless, non-reversing Weight Loss. Scroll to the top of the page and select the buy button. P.S - This Book is enrolled in 'KINDLE UNLIMITED', If you are a Kindle Unlimited Subscriber, Download this book for FREE, and I bet, you will buy it afterwards for your collection and reference.
The Lives of the Surrealists
Desmond Morris - 2018
In Lives of the Surrealists, Desmond Morris concentrates on the artists as people—as remarkable individuals. What were their personalities, their predilections, their character strengths and flaws?Unlike the Impressionists or the Cubists, the surrealists did not obey a fixed visual code, but rather the rules of surrealist philosophy: work from the unconscious, letting your darkest, most irrational thoughts well up and shape your art. An artist himself, and contemporary of the later surrealists, Morris illuminates the considerable variation in each artist’s approach to this technique. While some were out-and-out surrealists in all they did, others lived more orthodox lives and only became surrealists at the easel or in the studio.Focusing on the thirty-five artists most closely associated with the surrealist movement, Morris lends context to their life histories with narratives of their idiosyncrasies and their often complex love lives, alongside photos of the artists and their work.