A Sketchbook by A Victorian Artist of Drawings and Watercolors - In Forty Eight Plates. This rediscovered sketchbook from the 1890s shows an artist of skill and sensitivity observing the world with sketches and watercolors of people, birds, animals and the landscape. It is an interesting view into the time and a useful guide for students of drawing and painting.
A family History. Our Grandfather made the trip to America before WWI but returned and was drafted into the German Army. After the War he worked his way back to the USA from Hamburg and sent for our Grandmother as soon as he could afford it. Neither of them returned until our Grandmother did in the 1970s. This book tells the family story from just before the war up until the present time.
Renowned college basketball coach Tom Penders revisits his successful, if tumultuous, career in a new autobiography Dead Coach Walking: Tom Penders Surviving and Thriving in College Hoops. One of the winningest head coaches in NCAA Division I basketball history, Penders reflects on four decades steering programs at 7 universities-Tufts, Columbia, Fordham, Rhode Island, Texas, George Washington and Houston. As he lifted them from depths of "death row" to winning glory, he enhanced his reputation as "Turnaround Tom." Penders achieved success with distinction: he has coached more NCAA Division I basketball programs than any coach in history and has taken four different schools to the Division I Men's Basketball Tournament. He also retired in 2010 ranked 4th total among active coaches in games-coached, trailing only Connecticut's Jim Calhoun, Duke's Mike Krzyzewski and Syracuse's Jim Boeheim. In Dead Coach Walking, Penders talks about the teams he led and how he dealt with athletic directors, conference commissioners, assistants, AAU coaches, the NABC and the NCAA. The book also goes behind the scenes, revealing game strategies, coaching personalities, locker room stories, and experiences on the recruiting trail. Penders' perspective, while sometimes controversial, is riveting not to mention entertaining. Dead Coach Walking is truly as unique, quirky, and remarkable as its subject.
This guide to the proportions of the human form is a reformatted reproduction of the famous but hard to find work by Johann Gottfried Shadow. It includes images of plates engraved by John Sutcliffe from the English translation, and images of the original German plates. The original was a huge book, each plate was 24" by 19" for this version the large plates were photographed to reproduce them on a single page, but also reproduced in sections so they can be seen as large as possible. It includes an introduction, a history of the study of human proportion and a description of the plates plus the original German plates reproduced on single pages. Schadow based based his work on the pioneering work of the Greek Sculptor Polycletus who both wrote a treatise on human proportion and sculpted a figure to illustrate his work. Polycletus was among the creators of classical Greek sculpture, famous for his naturalism.
Business is a Contact Sport" introduces 12 crucial principles for managing each business relationship as an asset at every level of the company, whether dealing with customers, stockholders, suppliers, employees, or community leaders. Relationship Asset Management (RAM) takes the understanding of the one-to-one relationship to the highest level, explaining how to use not just what you know but who you know to succeed in business. "Business is a Contact Sport" shows managers and entrepreneurs how to recognize all of their company's relationships as strategic assets and manage them as such.
With 80 Plates Originally Published between 1828 and 1855 In the nineteenth century students who did not have access to plaster casts and teachers who wished for a course of instruction turned to copy books for drawing lessons. They were popular and many authors produced versions either for use in schools or for learning at home. This book combines examples from seven different books. The selections focus on those sections of the books devoted to drawing the human figure. The books include: Buchanan's Initiatory Drawing Lessons The Illustrated Drawing Book The Young Artists Assistant in the Art of Drawing A Guide to Figure Drawing Oxford Drawing Book Drawing Lessons for Family and School Systematische Zeichen Schule
This is a revised and updated edition of one of the bestselling paint handbooks in the industry. It includes current information on HVLP paint guns and equipment and waterborne paint technology. It also has sections on hammer and dolly, paintless dent removal, patching panels, spray guns and compressors, paint prep, shooting paint, color sanding, plastic bumper repair, and custom paint tips and tricks.
This first full-career monograph, featuring two decades of iconic fashion and celebrity editorial photographs, reveals the enormous influence and impact that Richardson has made on contemporary style, culture, and photography. Since Terry Richardson first rose to prominence in the 1990s, he has shocked and intrigued the world with his singular view and signature style of bold lighting, hypersexualized styling, and striking, off-kilter glamour. From glossy, high-end fashion photographs to raw in-studio portraits, Richardson’s work has had an unmistakable impact on contemporary visual culture. This much-anticipated monograph is the first to cover Richardson’s complete career to date. It chronicles more than twenty years of photographs, advertising campaigns, and editorial work, revealing the evolution of Richardson’s style, an unexpected mix of glamour and rawness. This two-volume set, which is separated into Richardson’s fashion photography and celebrity portraiture, features more than 600 photographs and includes early, rarely seen magazine work from now-defunct publications; iconic and influential work for magazines such as Vogue, Harper’s Bazaar, The Face, i-D, Vice, and Interview; advertising work for brands such as Gucci, Yves Saint Laurent, Chloé, and A.P.C.; and very intimate studio portraits. This compilation is an intriguing look at the mark Richardson’s work has made on fashion, photography, and pop culture, and it captures his edgy, provocative style in a book that is as unusual and unforgettable as the photographer himself.
Have you ruined your life beyond all reason?Do you question God and "His plan" for your life?Is what you dread most knocking on your front door?Are you slow to figure out how life works?An accomplished trial lawyer and a university professor along with their pastor-friend open up about their painful, sometimes senseless stories searching God's sovereign nature. Their quest creates a page-turning, life-changing read for you.GARY L. RICHARDSON: Gary's successes in public service and private practice of law have garnered accolades, honors, awards, and settlements. As an attorney, he has set a number of historical records for jury verdicts over the years, one reported in the Guinness Book of Record for fifty-eight-million dollars, the largest verdict in the nation for one plaintiff defamation case. In 1980, President Ronald Reagan appointed Gary to serve for four years as the United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Oklahoma. Gary is the author of "Fear Is Never Our Friend," "Thank God They Ate the Apple!," and "Black Robe Fever." He and his beloved wife, Lanna, live in Tulsa, OK. Find him at garyrichardsonspeaks.com.TOM WESTBROOK: Tom teaches creativity in the nationally ranked School of Entrepreneurship at Oklahoma State University. Find him at tlwestbrook.com.DAVID WILLETS: David is a consummate pastor and communicator, who God brought through a stunning tragedy. He is the author of the book, "Silverlining." Find him at silverlining.ws.
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