Cute Drawings: 474 Fun Exercises to Draw Everything Cuter

Cute Drawings: 474 Fun Exercises to Draw Everything Cuter
Author: たかしまよーこ
Publisher: Nippan Editions
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2018-06
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9784865051407

Have you ever wanted to learn to draw "cuter"? Well you're in luck! Cute Drawings is a lesson book with nearly 500 samples of super cute drawings. Each is accompanied by gray traceable lines and blank spaces where you can practice your freehand. Drawing subjects range from human figures, animals and plants to various shapes and icons. You'll not only have tons of fun working through this book, but your drawings are sure to be cuter as a result!

The Awesome Paper Airplane Book for Kids

The Awesome Paper Airplane Book for Kids
Author: Stefania Luca
Publisher: Rockridge Press
Total Pages: 100
Release: 2021-01-12
Genre:
ISBN: 9781646116935

Let your creativity soar with paper airplanes--folding and flying fun for kids ages 6-9 Whoosh! Prepare for takeoff--you're in for hours of high-flying, folding fun with these paper airplanes! Organized by airplane type and level of difficulty, this book is packed with 15 unique paper airplane designs for dart planes, wide-winged glider planes, and exciting stunt planes. Get a crash course in airplane folding with step-by-step instructions and diagrams. Tear out and color the specially designed included paper, then fold your airplanes using the patterns on the paper to help you. Find hands-on help with how to launch each type of paper airplane, plus troubleshooting tips for problem planes. This kid-friendly book of paper airplanes includes: Pilot in training--Simple instructions and diagrams help you level up your folding and flying skills as you progress from an easy Classic Dart Plane to an impressive Around the World Loop Plane. Artistic airplanes--Make each plane a work of art by coloring it in, and then fold along the lines to create your own fleet! Tips and techniques--Discover the best way to throw each of these amazing airplanes, what parts make up planes and how they fly, and tips on how to give your planes an extra boost. Have a blast folding and flying your very own fleet of airplanes with The Awesome Paper Airplane Book for Kids.

Be Happy

Be Happy
Author: Editors of Thunder Bay Press
Publisher: Thunder Bay Press
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2018-10-30
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9781684125777

A soft touch of water and your colored pencils are all you need to make dozens of beautiful and inspiring works of art with this delightful book. Just add water to the included paintbrush and watch as vibrant colors merge and mingle on the pages of this magical painting book. Thirty vibrant designs in Be Happy: Just Add Water contain pigments embedded onto the page, and a gentle touch of water will cause the colors to emerge. A dozen other images are ready to be colored in using your own pencils, pens, and markers. Images include nature scenes, animals, flowers, and mosaics, accompanied by positive affirmations to remind you of all the joy that is to be found in the world.

Journal with Purpose

Journal with Purpose
Author: Helen Colebrook
Publisher: David and Charles
Total Pages: 207
Release: 2019-11-26
Genre: Self-Help
ISBN: 1446378721

Journal with Purpose is the ultimate reference for journaling, packed with over 1000 motifs that you can use to decorate and enhance your bullet or dot journal pages. Copy or trace direct from the page, or follow one of the quick exercises to improve your skills. Featuring all the journal elements you could wish for – banners, arrows, dividers, scrolls, icons, borders and alphabets – this amazing value book will be a constant source of inspiration for journaling and an 'instant fix' for people who find the more artistic side of journaling a challenge.

In the Time of the Butterflies

In the Time of the Butterflies
Author: Julia Alvarez
Publisher: Algonquin Books
Total Pages: 353
Release: 2010-01-12
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1616200995

Celebrating its 30th anniversary in 2024, internationally bestselling author and literary icon Julia Alvarez's In the Time of the Butterflies is "beautiful, heartbreaking and alive ... a lyrical work of historical fiction based on the story of the Mirabal sisters, revolutionary heroes who had opposed and fought against Trujillo." (Concepción de León, New York Times) Alvarez’s new novel, The Cemetery of Untold Stories, is coming April 2, 2024. Pre-order now! It is November 25, 1960, and three beautiful sisters have been found near their wrecked Jeep at the bottom of a 150-foot cliff on the north coast of the Dominican Republic. The official state newspaper reports their deaths as accidental. It does not mention that a fourth sister lives. Nor does it explain that the sisters were among the leading opponents of Gen. Rafael Leónidas Trujillo’s dictatorship. It doesn’t have to. Everybody knows of Las Mariposas—the Butterflies. In this extraordinary novel, the voices of all four sisters--Minerva, Patria, María Teresa, and the survivor, Dedé--speak across the decades to tell their own stories, from secret crushes to gunrunning, and to describe the everyday horrors of life under Trujillo’s rule. Through the art and magic of Julia Alvarez’s imagination, the martyred Butterflies live again in this novel of courage and love, and the human costs of political oppression. "Alvarez helped blaze the trail for Latina authors to break into the literary mainstream, with novels like In the Time of the Butterflies and How the García Girls Lost Their Accents winning praise from critics and gracing best-seller lists across the Americas."—Francisco Cantú, The New York Times Book Review "This Julia Alvarez classic is a must-read for anyone of Latinx descent." —Popsugar.com "A gorgeous and sensitive novel . . . A compelling story of courage, patriotism and familial devotion." —People "Shimmering . . . Valuable and necessary." —Los Angeles Times "A magnificent treasure for all cultures and all time.” —St. Petersburg Times "Alvarez does a remarkable job illustrating the ruinous effect the 30-year dictatorship had on the Dominican Republic and the very real human cost it entailed."—Cosmopolitan.com

Permanent Present Tense

Permanent Present Tense
Author: Suzanne Corkin
Publisher: Basic Books
Total Pages: 402
Release: 2013-05-14
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0465033490

In 1953, 27-year-old Henry Gustave Molaison underwent an experimental "psychosurgical" procedure -- a targeted lobotomy -- in an effort to alleviate his debilitating epilepsy. The outcome was unexpected -- when Henry awoke, he could no longer form new memories, and for the rest of his life would be trapped in the moment. But Henry's tragedy would prove a gift to humanity. As renowned neuroscientist Suzanne Corkin explains in Permanent Present Tense, she and her colleagues brought to light the sharp contrast between Henry's crippling memory impairment and his preserved intellect. This new insight that the capacity for remembering is housed in a specific brain area revolutionized the science of memory. The case of Henry -- known only by his initials H. M. until his death in 2008 -- stands as one of the most consequential and widely referenced in the spiraling field of neuroscience. Corkin and her collaborators worked closely with Henry for nearly fifty years, and in Permanent Present Tense she tells the incredible story of the life and legacy of this intelligent, quiet, and remarkably good-humored man. Henry never remembered Corkin from one meeting to the next and had only a dim conception of the importance of the work they were doing together, yet he was consistently happy to see her and always willing to participate in her research. His case afforded untold advances in the study of memory, including the discovery that even profound amnesia spares some kinds of learning, and that different memory processes are localized to separate circuits in the human brain. Henry taught us that learning can occur without conscious awareness, that short-term and long-term memory are distinct capacities, and that the effects of aging-related disease are detectable in an already damaged brain. Undergirded by rich details about the functions of the human brain, Permanent Present Tense pulls back the curtain on the man whose misfortune propelled a half-century of exciting research. With great clarity, sensitivity, and grace, Corkin brings readers to the cutting edge of neuroscience in this deeply felt elegy for her patient and friend.

How to Doodle Year-Round

How to Doodle Year-Round
Author: Kamo,
Publisher: Tuttle Publishing
Total Pages: 133
Release: 2020-08-04
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1462921922

Create simple seasonal and holiday doodles using multicolored pens! Want to draw a jack-o'-lantern with a toothy smile? How about a silly Santa out cruising in his sleigh? How to Doodle Year-Round helps you create these sweet and sensational designs--no previous artistic training required! Kamo provides hundreds of examples, unlocking the simple secrets to drawing freewheeling, lively and amusing doodles. Unlike fine-art or manga, there are no rules and no art-school techniques to master. All you need is a free hand and a free spirit. This book encourages doodlers to pick up a pen and start artfully scribbling whenever and wherever they are. Doodles can be dashed off on a piece of scrap paper or permanently enshrined on a T-shirt, bookmark, invitation or gift. *Recommended for artists 16 & up*

Actionable Gamification

Actionable Gamification
Author: Yu-kai Chou
Publisher: Packt Publishing Ltd
Total Pages: 500
Release: 2019-12-03
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 183921077X

Learn all about implementing a good gamification design into your products, workplace, and lifestyle Key FeaturesExplore what makes a game fun and engagingGain insight into the Octalysis Framework and its applicationsDiscover the potential of the Core Drives of gamification through real-world scenariosBook Description Effective gamification is a combination of game design, game dynamics, user experience, and ROI-driving business implementations. This book explores the interplay between these disciplines and captures the core principles that contribute to a good gamification design. The book starts with an overview of the Octalysis Framework and the 8 Core Drives that can be used to build strategies around the various systems that make games engaging. As the book progresses, each chapter delves deep into a Core Drive, explaining its design and how it should be used. Finally, to apply all the concepts and techniques that you learn throughout, the book contains a brief showcase of using the Octalysis Framework to design a project experience from scratch. After reading this book, you'll have the knowledge and skills to enable the widespread adoption of good gamification and human-focused design in all types of industries. What you will learnDiscover ways to use gamification techniques in real-world situationsDesign fun, engaging, and rewarding experiences with OctalysisUnderstand what gamification means and how to categorize itLeverage the power of different Core Drives in your applicationsExplore how Left Brain and Right Brain Core Drives differ in motivation and design methodologiesExamine the fascinating intricacies of White Hat and Black Hat Core DrivesWho this book is for Anyone who wants to implement gamification principles and techniques into their products, workplace, and lifestyle will find this book useful.

Historical Painting Techniques, Materials, and Studio Practice

Historical Painting Techniques, Materials, and Studio Practice
Author: Arie Wallert
Publisher: Getty Publications
Total Pages: 241
Release: 1995-08-24
Genre: Art
ISBN: 0892363223

Bridging the fields of conservation, art history, and museum curating, this volume contains the principal papers from an international symposium titled "Historical Painting Techniques, Materials, and Studio Practice" at the University of Leiden in Amsterdam, Netherlands, from June 26 to 29, 1995. The symposium—designed for art historians, conservators, conservation scientists, and museum curators worldwide—was organized by the Department of Art History at the University of Leiden and the Art History Department of the Central Research Laboratory for Objects of Art and Science in Amsterdam. Twenty-five contributors representing museums and conservation institutions throughout the world provide recent research on historical painting techniques, including wall painting and polychrome sculpture. Topics cover the latest art historical research and scientific analyses of original techniques and materials, as well as historical sources, such as medieval treatises and descriptions of painting techniques in historical literature. Chapters include the painting methods of Rembrandt and Vermeer, Dutch 17th-century landscape painting, wall paintings in English churches, Chinese paintings on paper and canvas, and Tibetan thangkas. Color plates and black-and-white photographs illustrate works from the Middle Ages to the 20th century.

Motorcycles & Sweetgrass

Motorcycles & Sweetgrass
Author: Drew Hayden Taylor
Publisher: Vintage Canada
Total Pages: 361
Release: 2021-06-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1039000614

A story of magic, family, a mysterious stranger . . . and a band of marauding raccoons. Otter Lake is a sleepy Anishnawbe community where little happens. Until the day a handsome stranger pulls up astride a 1953 Indian Chief motorcycle – and turns Otter Lake completely upside down. Maggie, the Reserve’s chief, is swept off her feet, but Virgil, her teenage son, is less than enchanted. Suspicious of the stranger’s intentions, he teams up with his uncle Wayne – a master of aboriginal martial arts – to drive the stranger from the Reserve. And it turns out that the raccoons are willing to lend a hand.