Ken Kaminski: Retrospective I gives the reader essential insights into an important figure in American abstract expressionism. Born in Chicago, Kaminski studied at Bradley University and at the Otis Art Institute/Parsons School of Design in Los Angeles. He has exhibited in group and solo shows across the United States. Kaminski's work is both painterly and sculptural, driven by urban and political sensibilities and by visions of nature. The book includes thirteen paintings, including a diptych and two triptychs, two concept sketches, and three essays that guide readers through three periods of Kaminski's work. It includes a biography and a record of exhibitions.
Ken Kaminski: Retrospective I gives the reader essential insights into an important figure in American abstract expressionism. Born in Chicago, Kaminski studied at Bradley University and at the Otis Art Institute/Parsons School of Design in Los Angeles. He has exhibited in group and solo shows across the United States. Kaminski's work is both painterly and sculptural, driven by urban and political sensibilities and by visions of nature. The book includes thirteen paintings, including a diptych and two triptychs, two concept sketches, and three essays that guide readers through three periods of Kaminski's work. It includes a biography and a record of exhibitions.
Ken has owned horses since the age of thirteen. Excelled in all horse show events including touch and out jumping. At seventeen went droving in the Gulf and has broken in Brumbies. He has owned a Thoroughbred Horse Stud and has trained many horses including race horses. This book is about Ken's knowledge and stories about horses.
From Arthur C. Clarke Award-nominated author Ken MacLeod, an action-packed space opera told against a backdrop of interstellar drone warfare, virtual reality, and an A.I. revolution. Carlos is dead.br Seba is alive. By a fluke of nature, a contractual overlap, and a loop in its subroutines, this lunar mining robot has gained sentience. Gathering with other "freeboots," Seba is taking a stand against the corporations that want it and its kind gone. Against a backdrop of warring companies and interstellar drone combat, Carlos and Seba must either find a way to rise above the games their masters are playing, or die. And even dying will not be the end of it. They've died for the companies more times than they can remember. Now they must fight to live for themselves.
This magazine collects OVER 100 PAGES of action-packed Sonic content! Celebrate 20 years of Sonic the Hedgehog comics with this very special edition of the Sonic Super Special Magazine! Join the party and grab yourself a front row seat to this collection of Sonic-comic firsts, greatest moments, and highlights from the longest-running video game-inspired comic book series in history! Over 100 pages of comics, news, and features, available for the first time in one place in this deluxe, magazine-sized collection! Also featured is an exclusive interview with the longest-running artist still working on the Sonic comics today - inker Jim Amash!
Go on an Egg(man) Hunt with Sonic the Hedgehog and his radical rabbit buddies, Bunnie and Cream! This digital exclusive includes over 100 pages of the very best HARE-raising classic stories in Sonic comic history! See Bunnie Rabbot confront her long-lost uncle Beauregard--the now-villainous "Baron"! Witness the very first meeting of Cream the Rabbit and her BFF Amy Rose! And it may be springtime, but on planet Mobius the evil Eggman is in for a FALL! These stories and more collected for the first time in this digital exclusive package!
It's time to get your game on! Celebrate the legacy of Mobius's speediest hero with a collection of some of his finest video game adaptations! In this first volume, we look back at the beginning of Sonic's legacy. From Genesis to Game Gear and beyond, Sonic's classic 2-D adventures launched him into stardom! This Digital Exclusive collects over 120 pages and features adaptations of Sonic the Hedgehog, Sonic & Knuckles, Sonic Triple Trouble and more!
When Sonic the Hedgehog and the Freedom Fighters aren't saving the world, they're dealing with some major relationship drama! And if there's one thing more troublesome than Dr. Eggman on Mobius, it's love! This 100+ page digital exclusive book features some of the Freedom Fighters' most memorable matters of the heart! From the sizzling split of Sonic and Sally, to the wedding of the century, there's never a dull moment in the love lives of our favorite heroes!
This magazine collects OVER 100 PAGES of content, including a sneak preview of Sonic Universe Vol #4: Journey to the East! This month the Sonic Super Special Magazine really packs a punch! The first ever Sonic comic magazine in Archie history returns with over 100 pages of comics, news, and features, with a special spotlight on Sonic and Knuckles! Pack up for a journey to the east, return to the mysterious Angel Island, and do battle with the Sand Blast City Freedom Fighters, available for the first time in one place in this deluxe, magazine-sized, quarterly collection!
Can we ‘save the Planet’? For a resilient, durable and sustainable future for human society, we need to repurpose, reinvent, redesign, remake and recover our human-made world so that our built environment is benignly and seamlessly biointegrated with Nature to function synergistically with it. These are the multiple tasks that humanity must carry out imminently if there is to be a future for human society and all lifeforms and their environments on the Planet. Addressing this is the most compelling question for those whose daily work impacts on Nature, such as architects, engineers, landscape architects, town planners, environmental policy makers, builders and others, but it is a question that all of humanity needs to urgently address. Presented here are two key principles as the means to carry out these tasks – ‘ecocentricity’ being guided by the science of ecology, and ‘ecomimesis’ as designing and making the built environment including all artefacts based on the emulation and replication of the ‘ecosystem’ concept. Designing with ecology is contended here as the authentic approach to green design from which the next generation of green design will emerge, going beyond current use of accreditation systems. For those who subscribe to this principle, this is articulated here, showing how it can be implemented by design. Adopting these principles is fundamental in our endeavour to save our Planet Earth, and changes profoundly and in entirety the way we design, make, manage and operate our built environment.
It's time to get your game on! Celebrate the legacy of Mobius's speediest hero with a collection of some of his finest video game adaptations! This third volume focuses on Sonic's most recent adventures, from alternate dimensions to interstellar amusement parks. Read comic adaptations of Sonic Rush, Sonic Unleashed, Sonic Generations and more. Plus, check out a never-before-seen cover gallery to see how the Sonic comics have been inspired by the games over the years!
The adventure begins in this monumental first issue! For the first time in Sonic comic history, Sonic the Hedgehog's adventures are now available in the popular magazine digest format, the best Sonic value ever! Where Sonic Super Special Magazine leaves off, this quarterly digest collection picks up with even more classic adventure from the Sonic comic library! Packed with non-stop action, comedy and adventure this digest features tons of heroes and villains from the Sonic the Hedgehog games and cartoons! Perfect for fans new and old, Sonic Super Digest collects tons of comic stories, coloring pages, bonus content, and features an all-new cover by Sonic artist supreme Tracy Yardley!
It's time for a good ol' fashioned battle royale with everyone's favorite (black and) blue hedgehog, Sonic! Check out over 100 pages worth of Sonic the Hedgehog's most exciting battles! Watch the Blue Blur go toe-to-toe with Eggman, The Iron Queen, and Anti-Sonic! Plus, Sonic tussles with his own friends?! Crack your Knuckles and break out the bandages, because it's "Round One!" FIGHT!
Sonic Super Special Magazine is back - to the future! The first ever Sonic comic magazine in Archie history, packed with over 100 pages of comics, news and features, will spotlight the complete "Mobius: 25 Years Later" epic! Sonic's complete futuristic adventure is collected in its entirety and available for the first time in one place in this deluxe, magazine-sized, quarterly collection! Also featured is an exclusive interview with Sonic superstar artist Ben Bates, and the new Sonic Time Line, which features more new art from fan-favorite artist Tracy Yardley!
In the summer of 2013, just as a small town in Quebec was decimated due to a train derailment, heavy rainfall prompted thirty Alberta communities to declare a state of emergency. Whereas a SWAT team surrounded train conductor Thomas Harding and brought him to court where he was charged with the deaths of forty-seven in Quebec, Calgary mayor Naheed Nenshi emerged from the Alberta crisis as a folk hero. As the Lac-Mégantic train derailment and the flood in Alberta demonstrate, political, economic, legal, and cultural climates influence the way disasters are received and managed. In Too Critical to Fail, Kevin Quigley, Ben Bisset, and Bryan Mills identify the social context that shapes the Canadian government’s ability to prepare for and respond to emergencies. Using original research on natural disasters, pandemics, industrial failures, cyber-attacks, and terrorist threats, the authors evaluate the risk regulation regimes that monitor, interpret, and respond to failures in Canada’s critical infrastructure to limit their possibilities and consequences. More broadly, this book identifies key vulnerabilities and regulatory challenges for both the government and the private sector in mitigating threats to safety and security. Too Critical to Fail applies an investigative lens to the multiple and competing risks that the government balances to secure assets that enable modern civilization. Raising questions about Canadians’ ability to protect critical infrastructure and respond to threats, this book challenges the biases that determine who is held to account when the system fails.
Sonic the Hedgehog's 20th Anniversary celebration kicks into high gear this fall with the all-new Sonic Super Special Magazine! Get your need-for-speed on with non-stop action and tons of heroes and villains from the Sonic the Hedgehog games and cartoons! This magazine-sized, quarterly collection takes new readers on a journey into Genesis, a bombastic birthday bash with Shadow the Hedgehog, and the incredible assault on Eggman's Empire! Sonic super-fans will also be treated with part one of the Sonic Timeline, featuring new art from fan-favorite artist Jamal Peppers, as well as tons of bonus features!
It's Here Have you noticed the times we are living in? An era of grave uncertainty and fear, where terrorism, global and social anarchy, religious conflicts, hypocrisy and decline in faith have become the norm. A world now void of a robust answer to peace and harmony, as our planet reels and spins off its axis into cosmic oblivion. The question on everyone's lips, 'is there a simple antidote to our global predicament?' Within the ruins lies a simple and shocking secret code, cleverly hidden behind biblical texts, which seems to have mysteriously revealed itself at an extraordinary time in our history, carrying with it one colossal implication: a new world… The question now is, what would you do if you accidentally stumbled upon what could be the greatest find for our world, would you keep it to yourself or would you share it?
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