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Figure Drawing Master Class Lessons In Life Drawing
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: Lessons In Life Drawing
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Gelli Plate Printing Mixed media Monoprinting Without A Press
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: <p class="description">mixed-media monoprinting without a press
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The Hidden Girl and
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: From award-winning author Ken Liu comes his much anticipated second volume of short stories.
Ken Liu is one of the most lauded short story writers of our time. This collection includes a selection of his latest science fiction and fantasy stories over the last five years-sixteen of his best-plus a new novelette.
In addition to these seventeen selections, The Hidden Girl and Other Stories also features an excerpt from book three in the Dandelion Dynasty series, The Veiled Throne.
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The Warsaw Protoco
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: In New York Times bestseller Steve Berry's latest Cotton Malone adventure, the arrogant greed of politics comes face-to-face with the weight of history.
One by one the seven precious relics of the Arma Christi , the weapons of Christ, are disappearing from sanctuaries across the world.
After former Justice Department agent Cotton Malone witnesses the theft of one of them, he learns from his old boss, Stephanie Nelle, that a private auction is about to be held where incriminating information on the president of Poland will be offered to the highest bidder--blackmail that both the United States and Russia want, but for vastly different reasons.
The price of admission to that auction is one of the relics, so Malone is first sent to a castle in Poland to steal the Holy Lance, a thousand-year-old spear sacred to not only Christians but to the Polish people, and then on to the auction itself. But nothing goes as planned and Malone is thrust into a bloody battle between three nations over a secret that, if exposed, could change the balance of power in Europe.
From the tranquil canals of Bruges, to the elegant rooms of Wawel Castle, to the ancient salt mines deep beneath the earth outside Krakow, Malone is caught in the middle of a deadly war--the outcome of which turns on something known as the Warsaw Protocol.
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Advance Praise for The Warsaw Protocol
"Berry once again sho there's no working author more skilled at combining thrilling adventure with engrossing historical detail." ― Publishers Weekly
"Berry has called Dan Brown and raised him, taking the lead in the big-money game of the religious-relic thriller." ―Booklist
Praise for Steve Berry
"The intrigue is intense . . . . Thriller fans will have their violence fix, but the real fun is in learning about the inner workings of the church, its history dating all the way back to Constantine, and the troubled past of Malta . . . . This one will appeal to Dan Brown fans and anyone else in the mood for a page-turning yarn." ―Kirkus Revie on The Malta Exchange
"[Berry] really is very good at the historical-conspiracy thriller; he's a skilled writer―much more so than Dan Brown, to whom he's often compared―and a more dexterous plotter than many of his contemporaries. Fans of the Malone series will give this one an enthusiastic thumbs-up." ― Booklist on The Malta Exchange
"The Lost Order, Steve Berry's latest Cotton Malone adventure, combines the history of a secret society with a look inside the Smithsonian Institution ―and it's terrific. Berry has written another gripping novel." ―Jeff Ayers, Associated Press (USA Today, Washington Post, ABC Ne) on The Lost Order
"Another terrific blend of history and thrills." ―Library Journal "Best of 2017" on The Lost Order
<span style="color: #eeeeee">About the Author
Steve Berry<span style="color: #eeeeee"> is the New York Times<span style="color: #eeeeee"> and #1 internationally bestselling author of the Cotton Malone novels ( The Bishop's Pawn<span style="color: #eeeeee"> , The Malta Exchange<span style="color: #eeeeee"> ), among other books, and several works of short fiction. He has 25 million books in print, translated into 40 languages. With his wife, Elizabeth, he is the founder of History Matters, which is dedicated to historical preservation. He serves as an emeritus member of the Smithsonian Libraries Advisory Board and was a founding member of International Thriller Writers, formerly serving as its co-president.
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She's a Rainbow The Extraordinary Life of Anita Pallenberg The Black Queen
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: "How Anita came to be with Brian is really the story of how the Stones became the Stones. She almost single-handedly engineered a cultural revolution in London by bringing together the Stones and the jeunesse dorée…The Stones came away with a patina of aristocratic decadence that served as a perfect counterfoil to the raw roots blues of their music. This…transformed the Stones from pop stars into cultural icons." -Marianne Faithfull. Pallenberg epitomised the hedonistic counter-culture world of sex, drugs and rock ‘n' roll during the sixties and seventies; muse to the Rolling Stones and star of enduring cult movies like Barbarella and Performance, this is Anita's incredible story of excess, art, motherhood and her often unknown influence on one of the greatest rock bands of all time.
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Being Heumann An Unrepentant Memoir of a Disability Rights Activist
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: A powerful memoir of one of the most influential disability rights activists in U.S. history and her mission to create a more accessible world for all.
From fighting for educational access as a young person, to laying the foundation of the Americans with Disabilities Act as an activist, to ultimately working in Washington to establish disability rights as human rights, Judy's story will inspire readers to continue to fight for an accessible world for all.
Paralyzed from polio and raised by her Holocaust surviving parents, Judy Heumann's fight for equal access began early in life. She fought her high college, who initially denied her a diploma because of her inability to participate in gym; she fought her college who described her as "a fire hazard;" and she filed a lauit against the New York City college system, who denied her a teacher's license because of her paralysis, which she won.
As a young woman, Judy rolled her wheelchair through the doors of the U.S....
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The Original Area Mazes 100 Addictive Puzzles
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: The rules are simple . . . The math is easy . . .The puzzles get harder and harder! Once you match wits with area mazes, you'll be hooked! Your quest is to navigate a network of rectangles to find a missing value.Just Remember:Area = length x widthUse spatial reasoning to find helpful relationshipsWhole numbers are all you need. You can always get the answer without using fractions! Originally invented for gifted students, area mazes (menseki meiro), have taken all of Japan by storm. Are you a sudoku fanatic? Do you play brain games to stay sharp? Did you love geometry . . . or would you like to finally show it who's boss? Feed your brain some area mazes-they could be just what you're craving!
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: Unable to watch her father waste away from a mysterious illness, fierce warrior Yenni, of the Yirba tribe, sets off for a distant empire. Determined to find a cure for her father, Yenni travels to Cresh, where she comes face to face with culture shock, prejudice, and a brazen shape-shifting dragon, Weysh. As her gods, the Sha, watch and judge, Yenni only has two options: succeed and save her father, or fail and face exile. To complicate her journey, Weysh believes that Yenni is his "Given", his destiny-if only he knew that falling in love isn't part of her plan.
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Game Theory A Very Short Introduction
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: SUMMARY:Games are everywhere: Drivers maneuvering in heavy traffic are playing a driving game. Bargain hunters bidding on eBay are playing an auctioning game. The supermarket's price for corn flakes is decided by playing an economic game. This Very Short Introduction offers a succinct tour of the fascinating world of game theory, a ground-breaking field that analyzes how to play games in a rational way. Ken Binmore, a renowned game theorist, explains the theory in a way that is both entertaining and non-mathematical yet also deeply insightful, revealing how game theory can shed light on everything from social gatherings, to ethical decision-making, to successful card-playing strategies, to calculating the sex ratio among bees. With mini-biographies of many fascinating, and occasionally eccentric, founders of the subject--including John Nash, subject of the movie A Beautiful Mind--this book offers a concise overview of a cutting-edge field that has seen spectacular successes in evolutionary biology and economics, and is beginning to revolutionize other disciplines from psychology to political science.
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Something Doesn't Add Up Surviving Statistics in a Post Truth World
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: Some people fear and mistrust numbers. Others want to use them for everything. After a long career as a statistician, Paul Goodwin has learned the hard way that the ones who want to use them for everything are a very good reason for the rest of us to fear and mistrust them. Something Doesn't Add Up is a fieldguide to the numbers that rule our world, even though they don't make sense.
Wry, witty and humane, Goodwin explains mathematical subtleties so painlessly that you hardly need to think about numbers at all. He demonstrates how statistics that are meant to make life simpler often make it simpler than it actually is, but also reveals some of the ways we really can use maths to make better decisions. Enter the world of fitness tracking, the history of IQ testing, China's social credit system, Effective Altruism, and learn how someone should have noticed that Harold Shipman was killing his patients years before they actually did. In the right hands, maths is a...
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142 Ostriches
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: Set against the unexpected splendor of an ostrich ranch in the California desert, April Dávila's beautifully written debut conjures an absorbing and compelling heroine in a story of courage, family and forgiveness. When Tallulah Jones was thirteen, her grandmother plucked her from the dank Oakland apartment she shared with her unreliable mom and brought her to the family ostrich ranch in the Mojave Desert. After eleven years caring for the curious, graceful birds, Tallulah accepts a job in Montana and prepares to leave home. But when Grandma Helen dies under strange circumstances, Tallulah inherits everything-just days before the birds inexplicably stop laying eggs. Guarding the secret of the suddenly barren birds, Tallulah endeavors to force through a sale of the ranch, a task that is complicated by the arrival of her extended family. Their designs on the property, and deeply rooted dysfunction,...
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How We Learn by Stanislas Dehaene
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: An illuminating dive into the latest science on our brain's remarkable learning abilities and the potential of the machines we program to imitate them
The human brain is an extraordinary machine. Its ability to process information and adapt to circumstances by reprogramming itself is unparalleled and it remains the best source of inspiration for recent developments in artificial intelligence. In How We Learn, Stanislas Dehaene decodes the brain's biological mechanisms, delving into the neuronal, synaptic, and molecular processes taking place. He explains why youth is such a sensitive period, during which brain plasticity is maximal, but assures us that our abilities continue into adulthood and that we can enhance our learning and memory at any age. We can all learn to learn by taking maximal advantage of the four pillars of the brain's learning algorithm: attention, active engagement, error feedback, and consolidation.
The exciting advancements in artificial...
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The Psychobiotic Revolution
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: Written by the leading researchers in the field, this information-rich guide to improving your mood explains how gut health drives psychological well-being, and how depression and anxiety can be relieved by adjusting your intestinal bacteria.
This groundbreaking book explains the revolutionary new science of psychobiotics and the discovery that your brain health and state of mind are intimately connected to your microbiome, that four-pound population of microbes living inside your intestines. Leading medical researchers John F. Cryan and Ted Dinan, working with veteran journalist Scott C. Anderson, explain how common mental health problems, particularly depression and anxiety, can be improved by caring for the intestinal microbiome. Science is proving that a healthy gut means a healthy mind-and this book details the steps you can take to change your mood and improve your life by nurturing your microbiome.
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Total Recall My Unbelievably True Life Story
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: THE GREATEST IMMIGRANT SUCCESS STORY OF OUR TIME
His story is unique, and uniquely entertaining, and he tells it brilliantly in these pages.
He was born in a year of famine, in a small Austrian town, the son of an austere security officer chief. He dreamed of moving to America to become a bodybuilding champion and a movie star.
By the age of twenty-one, he was living in Los Angeles and had been crowned Mr. Universe.
Within five years, he had learned English and become the greatest bodybuilder in the world.
Within ten years, he had earned his college degree and was a millionaire from his business enterprises in real estate, landscaping, and bodybuilding. He was also the winner of a Golden Globe Award for his debut as a dramatic actor in Stay Hungry.
Within twenty years, he was the world's biggest movie star, the husband of Maria Shriver, and an emerging Republican leader who was part of the Kennedy family.
Thirty-six years after coming to America, the man once known by fellow bodybuilders as the Austrian Oak was elected governor of California, the seventh largest economy in the world.
He led the state through a budget crisis, natural disasters, and political turmoil, working across party lines for a better environment, election reforms, and bipartisan solutions.
With Maria Shriver, he raised four fantastic children. In the wake of a scandal he brought upon himself, he tried to keep his family together.
Until now, he has never told the full story of his life, in his own voice.
Here is Arnold, with total recall.
About the Author
Stephen Lang 's Broadway credits include Wait Until Dark, A Few Good Men, The Speed of Darkness (Tony and Outer Critics noms), and Death of A Salesman (Drama Desk nom). Among his feature films are Last Exit to Brooklyn, Tombstone, Gettysburg, and Manhunter. His television work includes, The Fugitive, Crime Story, Babe Ruth, and Death of A Salesman.
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Ishmael Covenant
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: His marriage in tatters and his career ruined by lies, Diplomatic Security Service agent Brian Mullaney is at the end of his rope. Banished to Israel as punishment by his agency, he's assigned to guard a US ambassador and an insignificant box. Little does he know that this new job will propel him straight into a crisis of global proportions.
Inside the box is a messianic prophecy about the fate of the world. And a dark enemy known as The Turk and the forces of evil at his command are determined to destroy the box, the prophecy, and the Middle East as we know it. When Ambassador Cleveland gets in the way, his life and his daughter's life are threatened-and Mullaney must act fast.
Now agents of three ancient empires have launched covert operations to secure nuclear weapons, in direct defiance of the startling peace treaty Israel and its Arab neighbors have signed. And a traitor in the US State Department is leaking critical information to a foreign power. It's up to...
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Watching From the Dark
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: <span style="font-weight: 600; color: #eeeeee; font-style: italic">One crime. One witness. One question . . . Why didn't he call the security officer?<span style="color: #eeeeee">
When a vibrant young woman is murdered while on a video chat, a small-town detective wades into a circle of friends and lovers with dangerous secrets-in the new novel from the acclaimed author of the "enjoyably chilling"<span style="font-weight: 600; color: #eeeeee; font-style: italic"> She Lies in Wait*.<span style="color: #eeeeee">
The New York Times Book Review<span style="color: #eeeeee">*
<span style="color: #eeeeee">Aidan Poole logs on to his laptop late at night to Skype his girlfriend, Zoe. To his horror, he realizes that there is someone else in her flat. Aidan can only listen to the sounds of a violent struggle taking place in the bathroom-and then the sound of silence. He is desperate to find out if Zoe is okay. But then why is he so hesitant to call the security officer?
<span style="color: #eeeeee">When Aidan's cryptic messages finally reach them, Detective Chief Inspector Jonah Sheens and his team take the case-and discover the body. They soon find that no one has a bad word to say about Zoe, a big hearted young artist at the center of a curious web of waifs and strays, each relying on her for support, each hiding dark secrets and buried resentments. Has one of her so-called "friends" been driven to murder? Or does Aidan have the biggest secret of them all? **
<span style="color: #eeeeee">Review
<span style="color: #eeeeee">"Gripping." - *Publishers Weekly<span style="color: #eeeeee">*
<span style="color: #eeeeee">"Lodge alternates between chapters following the investigation into Zoe's death and chapters that recount the final twenty months of her life, allowing the reader to understand Zoe as a fully rounded and complicated character, not just a victim. This choice, trendy in thrillers but almost always effective when the characters are strong, consistently reminds us to look beyond simplistic binaries of victim and perpetrator, innocent and guilty, and recognize that all humans make problematic choices, sometimes for good reasons and sometimes for bad. Lodge's choices celebrate the complexity of humanity and elevate this security officer procedural." - *Kirkus Revie<span style="color: #eeeeee">*
Praise for <span style="font-weight: 600; color: #eeeeee; font-style: italic">She Lies in Wait<span style="color: #eeeeee">
"This enjoyably chilling suspense tale . . . conveys both the thrills and the dangers of being a teenager on the brink of adult independence. . . . The fascination of this story is in the character studies of the surviving children, all grown up now and participants in a dark mystery that they all wish had never seen the light of day." - *The New York Times Book Review<span style="color: #eeeeee">*
<span style="color: #eeeeee">"Classic detective fiction at its best! Lodge paints an absorbing tale of murder-and more-involving a cast of superbly drawn characters. Rarely does a book so seamlessly blend the past and the present, building edge-of-the-seat suspense to the very final scene, all the while offering up piercing psychological insight that dra us in as completely as the plot." -Jeffery Deaver, author of <span style="font-weight: 600; color: #eeeeee; font-style: italic">The Never Game and <span style="font-weight: 600; color: #eeeeee; font-style: italic">The Bone Collector<span style="color: #eeeeee">
"A novel that literally makes you hold your breath, then gasp out loud." -Val McDermid
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"The mystery intrigues and twists, offering enough red herrings and moments of security officer procedural to please fans of the genre." - <span style="font-weight: 600; color: #eeeeee; font-style: italic">Kirkus Revie (starred review)
<span style="color: #eeeeee">About the Author
Gytha Lodge<span style="color: #eeeeee"> is the author of She Lies in Wait<span style="color: #eeeeee">. She studied English at Cambridge University and received an MA in creative writing from the University of East Anglia.
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Reverse Heart Disease Naturally
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: The long-awaited resource for those seeking to reverse heart disease-naturally.
Reverse Heart Disease Naturally contains step by step, do-it-yourself instructions to help you treat and reverse heart disease including cures for high cholesterol, blood clots, aneurysms, myocardial infarcts, strokes, hypertension, and arteriosclerosis.
Complete with healing remedies, dietary regimens, and protocols for every stage of healing and maintenance, Reverse Heart Disease Naturally also includes the most effective dietary programs proven to help strengthen the heart and reverse cardiovascular disease.
Heart disease is the leading cause of death for both men and women. With traditional medicine offering little in the way of safe, low-risk solutions, more patients are turning to the world of natural medicine. With Reverse Heart Disease Naturally, learn to work withyour body to achieve lasting and effective results that will let you...
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The Search for the Perfect Protein
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: Proteins are the basic building blocks of the human body. But most people are malnourished in amino acids, which are required to form protein-a deficiency that can lead to diabetes, obesity, cancer, and chronic diseases. It's a serious problem for which Dr. David Minkoff offers a powerful solution in The Search for the Perfect Protein.
A medical doctor and IRONMAN triathlete, Dr. Minkoff provides a new appreciation and understanding of these vital components of life and wellness. He examines the healthful or harmful effects of the foods you eat regularly. And he explores the importance of clean proteins in your diet while offering indispensable guidance on where to find them.
Not all proteins are created equal, and they're not just for bodybuilders. Whether you're female or male, young or old, an athlete or a couch potato, The Search for the Perfect Protein will lead you to a stronger, healthier life.
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Thai Massage & Thai Healing Arts Practice, Culture and Spirituality
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: This fascinating anthology presents a much wider scope than other books on Thai massage, and uncovers a wealth of previously unavailable information on the historical, spiritual, and cultural connections to this powerful healing art.
Topics include ways to refine and maintain a healthy practice, breathwork and body mechanics, self-protection techniques, reading body language, acupressure concepts, Thai medicine theory, and Thai herbal compress therapy. The spiritual and cultural section offers modern translations of ancient texts, Indian and Buddhist influences, magic amulets and sacred tattoos, and accessory modalities such as reusi dat ton (stretching) and tok sen (hammering therapy). The final section features essays about practice with clients, written by therapists and teachers from around the world.
In addition to the author's work, other contributions in this anthology are from well known Thai massage professionals, including the following authors: Kira Balaskas...
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Ani Trime's Little Book of Affirmations
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: "Every thought I think is creating my future." So begin the 52 affirmations of Ani Trime, a beloved teacher in the Tibetan Buddhist tradition who began her own life as a gruff, plainspoken West Virginian. Noted for her humor and no-nonsense approach to spiritual practice, Trime offers wise uplifting affirmations that will resonate with everyone. Collected in an appealing, pocket-size volume, Ani Trime's Little Book of Affirmations features original illustrations created by 39 well-known contemporary commercial artists.
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