Emily had a good life, a safe life, a quiet life. I had a place to live and food to eat and a bed to sleep in. Books to read, paper to draw on and a friend who didn't mind when I wouldn't answer quest
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This attractive, full-color illustrated guide shows readers how to create all types of digital art using different software platforms. It introduces readers to the major software packages available an
If your pressure cooker has been collecting dust, then you need to get Comfortable Under Pressure! Meredith Laurence, the Blue Jean Chef, has been cooking on live television on QVC for over ten years.
In Knowing Subjects, Barbara Simerka uses an emergent field of literary study— cognitive cultural studies—to delineate new ways of looking at early modern Spanish literature and to analyze cognition
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A man without a memory arrives in strange city of robots. By his side is a mysterious young woman facing a fatal madness. Immersed in the boom of a robotic renaissance, see how the positronic conscien
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The Fundamentals of Drawing is a classic drawing manual covering a wide range of subject matter, suitable for artists of all levels. This edition is accompanied by a DVD showing Barrington Barber putt
Join Nathanial "Nate" McGray, the fifteen-year-old son of the king’s woodsman, on an unforgettable adventure. He is determined to be the first peasant to become a wizard in the magical world of Zndari
Over the last two decades, earth modeling has become a major investigative tool for evaluating the potential of hydrocarbon reservoirs. Current modeling procedures provide no way to link a range of da
From the age of ten, looking up at the stars, Jerry Ross knew that he wanted to journey into space. This autobiography tells the story of how he came not only to achieve that goal, but to become the m
"This timely collection written by an interdisciplinary array of law professors, who specialize in legal and policy issues surrounding ecosystem management, and scholars and practitioners in areas suc
While architects have been the subject of many scholarly studies, we know very little about the companies that built the structures they designed. This book is a study in business history as well as c
In Watering the Greyhound Garden, Warren B. Smith recounts his job as a Travelers Aid social worker at the San Francisco Greyhound Bus Terminal. In fifty-one heartfelt stories, Smith describes some of
Ontario in Transition is a unique contemporary look at Ontario from a distinguished Quebecer's perspective. Scholarly, erudite, sensitive to the nuances of the Ontario reality, Jean-Louis Roy weaves a
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In recent years, men have been given a lot of mixed messages as to what it means to be a man, husband, or father. Men hate mixed messages. Just tell us like it is (or should be) without all of the ext
The statistics are staggering on the failure rate of weight loss plans, especially plans that don’t include a mental component. In Think: Use Your Mind to Shrink Your Waistline, author David Meine, a
The progressing cavity pump (PCP), invented by Rene Moineau, is a great innovation for the whole industry, particularly in petroleum production. The aim of this new edition is to provide clear related
In recent years, Italian cinema has experienced a quiet revolution: the proliferation of films by women. But their thought-provoking work has not yet received the attention it deserves. Reframing Ital
At no time in history has the United States had such a high percentage of theocratic members of Congress--those who expressly endorse religious bias in law. Just as ominously, especially for those who
Never Give in to Fear: Laughing All the Way Up from Rock Bottom, the enhanced edition of this darkly funny, dramatic memoir, describes an emerging standup comic’s drug-fueled descent into the underwor
The 70th volume of the Eranos Yearbooks presents the work of the last three years of activities at the Eranos Foundation (2009-2011). It includes the papers given on the theme of the 2011 conference,
In this colorful journal, writer-illustrator Barbara Bash has re-created her chronicles of meditation and contemplative wandering during a series of solitary country retreats. Combining journal notes
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In the epic that follows, not only do we find how the Word that was preserved in its purest form for a thousand years could affect the human spirit, but also we learn of the miraculous powers that cam
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October, 1948. Former OSS agent Hal Schroeder gets an invitation to Washington D.C. from Frank Wisner, who heads the CIA's new covert ops division. Hal is whisked off to Wisner's Maryland shore retrea
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