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Manga Fantasy Madness

Over 50 Basic Lessons for Drawing Warriors, Wizards, Monsters and more

By: David Okum

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Manga Fantasy Madness

Over 50 Basic Lessons for Drawing Warriors, Wizards, Monsters and more

By: David Okum

Enter the magical world of fantasy manga! Draw wizards, warriors, elves, knights, dragons, goblins and many more enchanted beings and creatures from faraway lands! With over 60 step-by-step lessons plus countless tips and ideas for creating your own incredible fantasy characters and scenes, Manga Fantasy Madness shows you how to: • Style and pose a variety of heroes and villains • Draw details, from wings to weapons • Invent lively settings and unique stories Make your best fantasy drawings yet, and bring to life every merciless netherworld and majestic kingdom you can dream up!

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1600613810

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9781600613814

Manga Monster Madness

By: David Okum

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Manga Monster Madness

By: David Okum

Grab a pencil and draw the coolest and most outrageous creatures just like the pros! What are you waiting for? Capture the excitement of manga monsters in your drawings now! Find hundreds of action-packed illustrations for getting the dynamic look you want all your comics to have. Over 50 step-by-step colorful lessons give you the skills and secrets you need to create awesome monsters. Do you want your characters to have punch? personality? Manga Monster Madness will show you how. In this complete guide you'll find: • Drawing basics such as shading, color, anatomy and creating 3-D forms • Japanese terms, traditions and mythology • Quick tips giving you details about every monster From Giant monsters (Daikaiju) and Mutants, to Aliens, Fantasy heroes and Pet monsters, you'll get speedy results and achieve your best manga drawings yet!

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160061387X

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Manga Madness

By: David Okum

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Manga Madness

By: David Okum

Draw awesome manga characters and scenes just like the pros! Capture the excitement of manga in your drawings! Inside you'll find hundreds of dynamic illustrations for achieving the hot, action-packed look you want. Loaded with detail and over 40 step-by-step lessons, you'll learn the skills and tips you need to create amazing characters and scenes. From drawing characters in cool poses to exploring visual storytelling, Manga Madness will show you the way! • Drawing basics such as shading, perspective and foreshortening • Japanese terms, traditions and character types • Quick tips for having fun and improving your work From pretty girls and rebellious heroes to space pirates and giant robots, you'll get fast results for your best manga drawings yet!

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1600615406

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Monster Book of Manga Drawing

150 Step-by-Step Projects for Beginners

By: David Okum

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Monster Book of Manga Drawing

150 Step-by-Step Projects for Beginners

By: David Okum

It's the most mammoth book of manga drawing EVER! If there's one key to drawing manga, it's GO BIG--starting with this humongous book of step-by-step instruction and inspiration. Compiled from nearly 10 years of best-selling books by David Okum, these pages are teeming with the most popular characters--ninjas, wizards, cyberpunk kids, space pirates, evil queens, mindless goons and more--all broken down into easy-to-follow steps, from pencil sketch to full-color renderings. Throughout, you'll find expert advice on rendering dynamic poses, expressions, weapons, clothing, cool modes of transportation and more. Hero or villain, chibi or giant, mecha or mega-cute...you'll learn how to draw them all manga-style. Simply add your one-of-a-kind twist, and POW! There's no stopping you! 150 step-by-step demos make it easy to learn by doing! • 30+ memorable superheroes and the villains that make their lives difficult • 30+ terrific monsters--killer robots, zombies, mutant cyborgs, vampires and the like • 30+ varieties of fantasy characters, including goblins, elves, witches and skeleton warriors • Sidekicks, thugs and other supporting characters to round out your cast • PLUS a whole chapter of wicked-cool martial arts moves for action-filled fight scenes! Join the LEGIONS of budding artists who have learned to draw with David Okum!

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Penguin

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1440332150

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9781440332159

Superhero Madness

By: David Okum

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Superhero Madness

By: David Okum

Draw fearless heroes and ruthless villains! Awesome aliens, warriors, martial artists, monsters, robots and more are waiting for you to bring them to life on the pages of your sketchbook! Create creatures and characters that explode with energy and power! Let Superhero Madness show you: • Drawing basics such as shading, poses and 3-D effects • Penciling, inking and coloring techniques • Character ideas, page design tips and secrets for great storytelling Draw one cool character or an entire army of good and bad guys and gals. Invent other worlds, costumes, weapons and more. Hundreds of action-packed illustrations and over 45 easy step-by-step lessons show you how!

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1600613896

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9781600613890

Caucasian Battlefields

A History of the Wars on the Turco-Caucasian Border 1828-1921

By: William Edward David Allen,Paul Muratoff

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Caucasian Battlefields

A History of the Wars on the Turco-Caucasian Border 1828-1921

By: William Edward David Allen,Paul Muratoff

The authoritative description and analysis of four major wars which took place in the Caucasus region between 1828 and 1921.

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Cambridge University Press

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110801335X

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9781108013352

The Book Before Printing

Ancient, Medieval and Oriental

By: David Diringer

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The Book Before Printing

Ancient, Medieval and Oriental

By: David Diringer

An exploration of rare and priceless manuscripts from museums around the world, this survey features nearly 200 photographic facsimiles that depict ancestors of the modern book. Contributions from numerous people and cultures include ancient sources of Greece and Rome, central and southern Asia, Africa, pre-Columbian America, the Far East, and Europe.

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Courier Corporation

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0486242439

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9780486242439

Stone Babies

By: David Hellerstein

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Stone Babies

By: David Hellerstein

Synopsis of Stone Babies A young doctor in New York City, Dr. Jay Sones has just finished training as an obstetrician and infertility specialist. For over a decade he has been working at Manhattan Medical Center, located on Manhattan's Upper East Side, first as a medical student, then as an obstetrics resident, then as an Infertility Fellow, treating women with fertility problems and doing ground-breaking research with his mentor, the world-renowned Dr. Leon Witt. After years of sleepless nights in which Jay has delivered innumerable babies and treated almost every type of difficult pregnancy, he has become an expert obstetrician-gynecologist. In several years of Infertility Fellowship, working with the temperamental and brilliant Dr. Witt, Jay has survived a different kind of apprenticeship, becoming a medical scientist who can participate in the amazing advances of infertility research. After years of sacrifices--financial and emotional--Jay is ready for the rewards of "real life." He prepares to open up a private practice in Manhattan in partnership with his friend and colleague from the hospital, Dr. Alli Daniel. For a while it looks like life will be perfect--an Upper East Side practice, the opportunity to continue doing research with Dr. Witt. And, most of all, some time for a personal life, for love and romance, with his sometimes-girlfriend, Janine Stern. Janine, who is elegant and intriguing and quite successful (she runs a large consulting firm), has her eye on Jay's future, though he is content to remain in the present--dinners at elegant restaurants, nights at her East End Avenue penthouse, leisurely Sunday brunches together after running the Reservoir in Central Park, not to mention occasional romantic weekend in her Connecticut country house. * Just as Jay's new life begins, though, disaster strikes. One weekend afternoon, while working in the research lab at Manhattan Medical Center, Jay's partner, Dr. Alli Daniel, is assaulted and nearly killed. Then Jay's application for Admitting Privileges at Manhattan Medical Center (which will allow him to deliver babies and treat patients there) is denied. And out of nowhere, he is caught up in a vicious malpractice suit. To make ends meet, Dr. Sones takes jobs in New York's dreaded outer boroughs. There is The Lamb, a beleaguered hospital in the South Bronx, and Brooklyn Woman's Care, or BWC, a storefront clinic in the slums of Brooklyn. At The Lamb, he delivers baby after baby, enduring brownouts and shootouts, and squalid operating rooms and thirteen-year-old mothers having their second or third babies. And in Brooklyn, Jay sees a different side of urban medicine, working in the front lines in what can only euphemistically be described as a "clinic" but is really the private preserve for Eddie Polito, better known for his prior professions of refuse removal and stolen car redistribution. Nonetheless, The Lamb and BWC pay the bills. And when your fancy Park Avenue practice is bleeding money, and when your lawyer is running a $250 per hour meter with no end of billable hours in sight, cash is king. And so Jay Sones's dreams of a glamorous medical existence rapidly fade into oblivion. There is more, though: As he runs from one patient to the next, and from the squalor of urban poverty to the glamorous world of his wealthy girlfriend, Jay's suspicions grow that the three disastrous events are related--that there is a connection between Alli's attack and the malpractice suit and the way in which his privileges were denied at Manhattan Medical Center. Then things get nasty. Jay becomes persona non grata at Manhattan Medical Center, banished from even setting foot in the Infertility Center. Dr. Witt turns from chilly politeness to open hostility. And then Jay himself is sucker-punched, unexpectedly caught up in the inc

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Xlibris Corporation

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0738867322

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9780738867328

The Warship Mary Rose

The Life and Times of King Henry VII's Flagship

By: David Childs

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The Warship Mary Rose

The Life and Times of King Henry VII's Flagship

By: David Childs

This new paperback edition brings the history of Henry VIII's famous warship right up to date with new chapters on the stunning presentation of the hull and the 19,000 salvaged artefacts in the new museum in Portsmouth.??Mary Rose has, along with HMS Victory, become an instantly recognisable symbol of Britain's maritime past, while the extraordinary richness of the massive collection of artefacts gleaned from the wreck has meant that the ship has acquired the status of some sort of 'time capsule', as if it were a Tudor burial site. But she is much more than an archaeological relic; she was a warship, and a revolutionary one, that served in the King's navy for thirty-four years, almost the entire length of his reign.??This book tells the story of her eventful career, placing it firmly within the colourful context of Tudor politics, court life and the developing administration of a permanent navy. And though the author also brings the story right down to the present day, with chapters on the recovery, the fresh ideas and information thrown up by the massive programme of archaeological work since undertaken, and the new display just recently opened at Portsmouth Historic Dockyard, it is at heart a vivid retelling of her career and, at the end, her dramatic sinking.??With this fine narrative and the beautiful illustrations the book will appeal to the historian and enthusiast, and also to the general reader and museum visitor.

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Seaforth Publishing

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1848322119

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9781848322110

Public Administration in Perspective

Theory and Practice Through Multiple Lenses

By: David John Farmer

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Public Administration in Perspective

Theory and Practice Through Multiple Lenses

By: David John Farmer

Throughout its history, public administration has used a number of different perspectives for analyzing the discipline's theory and practice, and both mainstream and alternative lenses have produced valuable insights and prescriptions. At the same time, an individual way of looking at PA can be misleading. Alone, a solitary lens can miss critical aspects and often gives only part of the picture. Public Administration in Perspective has been specifically crafted to give new life to public administration theory and practice by helping readers view the discipline through a variety of perspectives. Designed for the capstone course in public administration programs, as well as a fresh approach for courses in PA theory and organizational theory, this unique book provides a culminating experience--bringing together what has been learned in previous MPA courses without simply rehashing old content. It offers a comprehensive guide to eleven major approaches to PA, and synthesizes them to deepen our understanding of the discipline. Each chapter in Part I describes the key features of the selected perspective--history, content, and proponents--and discusses the strengths and weaknesses related to PA theory and practice. Part II synthesizes the various perpectives, with specific implications for PA management and practice. Part III concludes with a complete overview, identifying ways in which readers can think more creatively and productively about PA, putting the perspectives themselves into perspective.

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Routledge

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1317461908

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9781317461906

Dangerous Waters

By: David Philpott

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Dangerous Waters

By: David Philpott

For David Philpott, a successful middle-aged land-developer, the rebellion against his "perfect" life begins innocently enough with his decision to buy a bicycle. Soon he is cycling several miles a day before breakfast; then he decides to bicycle to his annual Florida vacation. The next stop is riding across Canada. This bike journey only whets Philpott's appetite for adventure, however, and soon he becomes preoccupied with the ultimate challenge: a solo sail around the world. From Halifax he sails to Bermuda, the Caribbean, and then out into the Atlantic. During the endless days on the water, Philpott goes back over his life, his attitudes, his accomplishments and dissatisfactions, in a rite of passage that turns into catastrophe when a storm wrecks his boat, leaving him helpless and drifting, running out of food and water, and coming to grips with the increasing certainty that he will die alone at sea.

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iUniverse

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0595137822

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9780595137824

Tudor Sea Power

The Foundation of Greatness

By: David Childs

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Tudor Sea Power

The Foundation of Greatness

By: David Childs

In the sixteenth century England turned from being an insignifcant part of an offshore island into a nation respected and feared in Europe. This was not achieved through empire building, conquest, large armies, treaties, marriage alliances, trade or any of the other traditional means of exercising power. Indeed England was successful in few of these. Instead she based her power and eventual supremacy on the creation of a standing professional navy which firstly would control her coasts and those of her rivals, and then threaten their trade around the world. This emergence of a sea-power brought with it revolutionary ship designs and new weapon-fits, all with the object of making English warships feared on the seas in which they sailed. Along with this came the absorption of new navigational skills and a breed of sailor who fought for his living. Indeed, the English were able to harness the avarice of the merchant and the ferocity of the pirate to the needs of the state to create seamen who feared God and little else. Men schooled as corsairs rose to command the state's navy and their background and self-belief defeated all who came against them. This is their story; the story of how seizing command of the sea with violent intent led to the birth of the greatest seaborne empire the world has ever seen.

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Pen and Sword

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147381992X

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Handbook of Religion and Health

By: Harold G. Koenig,Michael E. McCullough,David B. Larson

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Handbook of Religion and Health

By: Harold G. Koenig,Michael E. McCullough,David B. Larson

What effect does religion have on physical and mental health? In answering this question, this book reviews and discusses research on the relationship between religion and a variety of mental and physical health outcomes, including depression and anxiety; heart disease, stroke, and cancer; and health related behaviors such as smoking and substance abuse. The authors examine the positive and negative effects of religion on health throughout the life span, from childhood to old age. Based on their findings, they build theoretical models illustrating the behavioral, psychological, social, and physiological pathways through which religion may influence health. The authors also review research on the impact of religious affiliation, belief, and practice on the use of health services and compliance with medical treatment. In conclusion, they discuss the clinical relevance of their findings and make recommendations for future research priorities. Offering the first comprehensive examination of its topic, this volume is an indispensable resource for research scientists, health professionals, public policy makers, and anyone interested in the relationship between religion and health.

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Oxford University Press

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0199880662

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9780199880669

Amirs, Admirals, and Desert Sailors

Bahrain, the U.S. Navy, and the Arabian Gulf

By: David F Winkler

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Amirs, Admirals, and Desert Sailors

Bahrain, the U.S. Navy, and the Arabian Gulf

By: David F Winkler

Host to the U.S. Navy for nearly six decades, Bahrain has been a steadfast American ally in the turbulent Middle East. Its unique relationship with the United States evolved through a series of friendships between Bahrain's ruling Al Khalifa royal family and top U.S. Navy flag officers assigned to the fleet in the Gulf. Over the years it has become a strategic partnership critical to global security. As naval historian David F. Winkler examines these developing relationships, he offers a fascinating overview of Bahraini history, the entry of American humanitarian and economic interests, the establishment of an American naval presence in the Cold War, the Arab-Israeli conflicts, and the downfall of the Iranian shah, among other subjects. The author tells the story from both Bahraini and American perspectives. Given U.S. commitment to the region and its concurrent objectives of combating the global war on terrorism and establishing democracy, this book provides an important historical context for those interested in a crucial facet of American foreign relations. While many works describe the history of U.S. diplomatic and military involvement in the Gulf, this is the first to cover in depth the history of the U.S. Navy in Bahrain.

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Naval Institute Press

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1612515304

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9781612515304

Manga Madness

By: David Okum

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Manga Madness

By: David Okum

Draw awesome manga characters and scenes just like the pros! Capture the excitement of manga in your drawings! Inside you'll find hundreds of dynamic illustrations for achieving the hot, action-packed look you want. Loaded with detail and over 40 step-by-step lessons, you'll learn the skills and tips you need to create amazing characters and scenes. From drawing characters in cool poses to exploring visual storytelling, Manga Madness will show you the way! Drawing basics such as shading, perspective and foreshortening Japanese terms, traditions and character types Quick tips for having fun and improving your work From pretty girls and rebellious heroes to space pirates and giant robots, you'll get fast results for your best manga drawings yet!

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