Some comics can make you laugh, but some are designed to be very scary. Readers explore the genre of horror comics as they learn the techniques used to make their drawings go from good to ghoulish. They follow step-by-step instructions to create a variety of horror characters, such as a terrifying swamp zombie. These instructions are presented alongside detailed sketches and vivid illustrations of each character. Helpful tips for drawing scary characters fill each page, allowing readers to build on what they’ve learned to create their own scene straight out of the creepiest horror comics!
En este libro descubrirás un modelo de comunicación totalmente natural adaptado a todas las culturas y contextos basado en las necesidades sociales de todos los seres humanos. Sin pasos a pasos ni miles de conceptos que llenan nuestra cabeza de tonterías. Solo tendrás que recodar un sencillo gráfico de 5 puntos para que tu comunicación emocional fluya sin límites. Aprenderás a mejorar tu labia para ligar, seducir a tu pareja o comunicarte con más fluidez en todas tus relaciones sociales. Encontrando respuestas a las preguntas más frecuentes que nos surgen a la hora de comunicarnos por redes sociales vía chat. Además descubrirás numerosas técnicas creativas para que tus mensajes sean más estimulantes y exictantes; generando conexiones emocionales y sexuales. Todo esto acompañado de actitudes que te ayudarán a sentir la auténtica seducción del ahora; invitándote a despejar tu mente de inseguridades inútiles. Fluyendo y siendo natural bajo el amparo de tus habilidades sociales, tu autoestima, tu confianza y una filosofía cargada de valentía que te permitirá vivir más intensamente el momento presente. APRENDE CON MÁS DE 50 EJEMPLOS En este libro encontrarás multitud de ejemplos de conversación reales extraídos de las conversaciones de WhatsApp de sus autores, así como frases que acompañan los múltiples conceptos explicados. Todo alrededor de un modelo de comunicación muy sencillo de aprender y al alcance de todos. CUARTA EDICIÓN MARZO 2019: AMPLIADA Y MEJORADA En Ligar por WhatsApp descubrirás la respuesta a todos esos problemas comunes a cualquier conversación en esta App, y aprenderás a seducir de una forma natural y eficaz mediante el desarrollo de tus propias habilidades. Los conocimientos que en él se exponen te servirán a través de una pantalla, en tu WhatsApp o en las distintas Redes Sociales, pero también para desarrollar tu creatividad comunicativa (labia). Utilizando tus conversaciones vía chat como un simulador de vuelo en el que incrementar tu ingenio y practicar tu comunicación seductora, también para el cara a cara. Desarrollado por David Jungle, Graduado en Marketing y Experto Creativo en Diseño de Moda, escritor de relatos y poemas, y cientos de artículos que hacen de su Web una de las más vistas sobre comunicación, inteligencia emocional y meditación en España y Latinoamérica. Autor que lleva impartiendo cursos y talleres de comunicación creativa desde el año 2013. ESTA OBRA TE APORTARÁ: 1. Un sistema de comunicación totalmente natural y efectivo probado en los cursos impartidos por sus autores. 2. Respuestas a las preguntas más frecuentes que nos surgen a la hora de Ligar por WhatsApp, y cuya correcta gestión nos lleva a ser más atractivos y proyectar rasgos únicos de una personalidad magnética. 3. Uso adecuado de las palabras para que nunca más te quedes sin saber qué decir, mediante el uso de los hilos conversacionales y sus miles de asociaciones mentales entrelazadas, y la correcta utilización de habilidades de demostrada eficacia como son la comunicación emocional, la empatía y la asertividad 4. Descubrirás como despertar la pasión y la tensión sexual usando únicamente las palabras a través de un segundo modelo de comunicación nunca visto para sexualizar una conversación con: Insinuaciones, dobles sentidos, narrativas, sugestiones y hablando de sexo. 5. Aprenderás a crear conexiones emocionales para que siempre contesten a tus conversaciones, encontrando aquello que os une y sabiendo alimentar el fuego del romanticismo. ¡Un estilo de comunicación que te enamorará! 6. Sabrás cómo elogiar de forma efectiva y precisa, mejorando tus capacidades de apreciación hacia esos rasgos únicos que realmente valoramos. Aprendiendo también a hablar positivamente de ti mismo sin necesidad de venderte.
« C’est un beau jour pour mourir ! » Été 1874, Territoire du Dakota. De l’or est découvert dans les Black Hills, la terre sacrée des Sioux. En pleine période de récession, le gouvernement américain cherche un moyen pacifique d’acquérir cette contrée aux dépens des Indiens et de satisfaire les velléités d’expansion des colons. Mais les négociations échouent. Au printemps 1876, la guerre est déclarée. Tandis que trois colonnes sont lancées simultanément à la recherche des bandes irréductibles, le chef Sitting Bull décrète l’union sacrée et prend la tête d’une vaste coalition de Sioux et de Cheyennes. Les États-Unis s’apprêtent à fêter le centenaire de leur indépendance et personne ne peut imaginer le désastre qui va suivre... À la tête du 7e régiment de cavalerie, le fer de lance de l’armée fédérale, le lieutenant-colonel George Armstrong Custer entend bien mener ses hommes à la victoire et entrer dans la légende. Après une folle chevauchée, il parvient à localiser ses adversaires dans le sud du Montana et se prépare, seul, à l’assaut. Devant lui, pourtant, se dresse le plus grand campement indien jamais vu dans les Grandes Plaines. Le dimanche 25 juin, après un combat d’une extrême violence, les tuniques bleues essuient leur plus cinglante défaite dans leurs affrontements contre les tribus amérindiennes. Il n’y a aucun survivant parmi les troupes placées sous les ordres directs de Custer. À la stupéfaction générale s’ajoute l’humiliation d’une défaite qui ne cessera pas d’alimenter la controverse. Mais que s’est-il réellement passé à Little Big Horn ? Aux côtés de l’historien Farid Ameur, spécialiste de la conquête de l’Ouest américain, David Goy et Luca Blengino reviennent sur un des événements les plus marquants de l’Histoire américaine avec un western haletant. Le dessin réaliste d’Antoine Giner-Belmonte, en disciple de Christian Rossi, nous transporte sur ce champ de bataille pour revivre, comme si nous y étions, cet épisode mythique des guerres indiennes.
This easy-to-use compilation includes nine guides for using genealogical records: Using the Federal Census: 1790–1840, Using the Federal Census: 1850–1940, New York State Census, Massachusetts State Census, Rhode Island State Census, Immigration to the U.S., U.S. Naturalization, and Using Catholic Records, plus Applying to Lineage Societies." -- Publisher's description.
What happens when operas that are comfortably ensconced in the canon are thoroughly rethought and radically recast on stage? What does a staging do to our understanding of an opera, and of opera generally? While a stage production can disrupt a work that was thought to be established, David J. Levin here argues that the genre of opera is itself unsettled, and that the performance of operas, at its best, clarifies this condition by bringing opera’s restlessness and volatility to life. Unsettling Opera explores a variety of fields, considering questions of operatic textuality, dramaturgical practice, and performance theory. Levin opens with a brief history of opera production, opera studies, and dramatic composition, and goes on to consider in detail various productions of the works of Wagner, Mozart, Verdi, and Alexander Zemlinsky. Ultimately, the book seeks to initiate a dialogue between scholars of music, literature, and performance by addressing questions raised in each field in a manner that influences them all.
What happens when operas that are comfortably ensconced in the canon are thoroughly rethought and radically recast on stage? What does a staging do to our understanding of an opera, and of opera generally? While a stage production can disrupt a work that was thought to be established, David J. Levin here argues that the genre of opera is itself unsettled, and that the performance of operas, at its best, clarifies this condition by bringing opera’s restlessness and volatility to life. Unsettling Opera explores a variety of fields, considering questions of operatic textuality, dramaturgical practice, and performance theory. Levin opens with a brief history of opera production, opera studies, and dramatic composition, and goes on to consider in detail various productions of the works of Wagner, Mozart, Verdi, and Alexander Zemlinsky. Ultimately, the book seeks to initiate a dialogue between scholars of music, literature, and performance by addressing questions raised in each field in a manner that influences them all.
Lovers of Shakespeare's plays will delight in this companion reader that dissects plot construction and character development as well provides a look at England during the 1590s.
WITH MORE THAN 100 BLACK-AND-WHITE ILLUSTRATIONS THROUGHOUT Who are “the Jews”? Scattered over much of the world throughout most of their three-thousand-year-old history, are they one people or many? How do they resemble and how do they differ from Jews in other places and times? What have their relationships been to the cultures of their neighbors? To address these and similar questions, twenty-three of the finest scholars of our day—archaeologists, cultural historians, literary critics, art historians , folklorists, and historians of relation, all affiliated with major academic institutions in the United States, Israel, and France—have contributed their insight to Cultures of the Jews. The premise of their endeavor is that although Jews have always had their own autonomous traditions, Jewish identity cannot be considered immutable, the fixed product of either ancient ethnic or religious origins. Rather, it has shifted and assumed new forms in response to the cultural environment in which the Jews have lived. Building their essays on specific cultural artifacts—a poem, a letter, a traveler’s account, a physical object of everyday or ritual use—that were made in the period and locale they study, the contributors describe the cultural interactions among different Jews—from rabbis and scholars to non-elite groups, including women—as well as between Jews and the surrounding non-Jewish world. Part One, “Mediterranean Origins,” describes the concept of the “People” or “Nation” of Israel that emerges in the Hebrew Bible and the culture of the Israelites in relation to that of the Canaanite groups. It goes on to discuss Jewish cultures in the Greco-Roman world, Palestine during the Byzantine period, Babylonia, and Arabia during the formative years of Islam. Part Two, “Diversities of Diaspora,” illuminates Judeo-Arabic culture in the Golden Age of Islam, Sephardic culture as it bloomed first if the Iberian Peninsula and later in Amsterdam, the Jewish-Christian symbiosis in Ashkenazic Europe and in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, the culture of the Italian Jews of the Renaissance period, and the many strands of folklore, magic, and material culture that run through diaspora Jewish history. Part Three, “Modern Encounters,” examines communities, ways of life, and both high and fold culture in Western, Central, and Eastern Europe, the Ladino Diaspora, North Africa and the Middle East, Ethiopia, Zionist Palestine and the State of Israel, and, finally, the United States. Cultures of the Jews is a landmark, representing the fruits of the present generation of scholars in Jewish studies and offering a new foundation upon which all future research into Jewish history will be based. Its unprecedented interdisciplinary approach will resonate widely among general readers and the scholarly community, both Jewish and non-Jewish, and it will change the terms of the never-ending debate over what constitutes Jewish identity.
Titles in the Listener’s Companion Series provide readers with a deeper understanding of key musical genres and the work of major artists and composers. Aimed at nonspecialists, each volume clearly explains how to listen to works from particular artists, composers, and genres. Examining both the context in which the music appeared and its form, authors provide the environments in which key musical works were written and performed—from a 1950s bebop concert at the Village Vanguard to a performance of Handel’s Messiah in eighteenth-century Dublin. Wolfgang Amadé Mozart (1756–1791) remains as popular today as ever. His recordings fill iTunes playlists, and annual Mozart festivals are performed worldwide. His eminence as a musician has supported overseas guided tours, served as the subject of a cartoon series (Little Amadeus: twenty-nine episodes from 2006 to 2008), inspired movies and documentaries, and launched a French rock opera. In Experiencing Mozart: A Listener’s Companion, music historian David Schroeder illustrates how the issues Mozart cared about so deeply remain important to modern listeners. His views on politics, women, authority, and religion are provided, along with compelling analysis of selected great symphonies and sonatas, moving concertos and innovative keyboard works, and groundbreaking operas. Schroeder merges his vast knowledge of the great artist’s personal and professional life, late eighteenth-century European culture and society, and remarkable musicianship to guide listeners in the art of listening to Mozart. This work is an ideal introduction to readers and listeners at any level.
In this thoroughly researched work, David M. Gitlitz traces the lives and fortunes of three clusters of sixteenth-century crypto-Jews in Mexico's silver mining towns. Previous studies of sixteenth-century Mexican crypto-Jews focus on the merchant community centered in Mexico City, but here Gitlitz looks beyond Mexico's major population center to explore how clandestine religious communities were established in the reales, the hinterland mining camps, and how they differed from those of the capital in their struggles to retain their Jewish identity in a world dominated economically by silver and religiously by the Catholic Church. In Living in Silverado Gitlitz paints an unusually vivid portrait of the lives of Mexico's early settlers. Unlike traditional scholarship that has focused mainly on macro issues of the silver boom, Gitlitz closely analyzes the complex workings of the haciendas that mined and refined silver, and in doing so he provides a wonderfully detailed sense of the daily experiences of Mexico's early secret Jews.
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