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Take a fresh look at an up-and-coming art medium with “Anywhere, Anytime Art: Gouache!”
Gouache paint has a long history, but it's often associated with watercolor and multimedia art. Until now, that is! Trendy artists with large social-media followings are reinvigorating gouache, making this the ideal time to add this medium to your toolbox...or start your art journey with it!
Like the other books in this series, Gouache explores this medium...
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University of Michigan Press
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2020
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The Cultural Revolution was an emotionally charged political awakening for the educated youth of China. Called upon by aging revolutionary Mao Tse-tung to assume a "vanguard" role in his new revolution to eliminate bourgeois revisionist influence in education, politics, and the arts, and to help to establish proletarian culture, habits, and customs, in a new Chinese society, educated young Chinese generally accepted this opportunity for meaningful...
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The award-winning textile artist presents her modern approach to 150 fabric manipulation techniques in this fully illustrated sewing guide.
In Fabric Manipulation, Ruth Singer presents the most in-depth and comprehensive guide to sculptural and embellishing effects since Collette Wolff's The Art of Manipulating Fabric.
Divided into three sections-Pleat and Fold, Stitch and Gather, Apply and Layer-Fabric Manipulation teaches sewists of all skill...
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Peter Singer is the Ira W. DeCamp Professor of Bioethics in the University Center for Human Values at Princeton University and the recipient of the Berggruen Prize for ideas that shape human self-understanding. His books include Animal Liberation, Practical Ethics, and The Life You Can Save.
Provocative essays on real-world ethical questions from the world's most influential philosopher
Peter Singer is often described as the world's most influential...
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This book will change your lifeYou're Not Crazy: Living with Anxiety, Obsessions and Fetishes is designed to help those who suffer deeply from anxiety and its manifestations, especially in these times of escalating mental health concerns exacerbated by the devastating pandemic.Are you suffering from any of the following?Anxiety (a feeling of worry, nervousness or unease, typically about an imminent event or something with an uncertain outcome)Agoraphobia...
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From the author of Animal Liberation, an examination of the chasm between the words and actions of George W. Bush, who claimed the moral high ground more than any president in recent US history During his time in public office, George W. Bush framed a striking number of his major policies and initiatives with the concepts of good and evil. From his christening of the "axis of evil" to the wars in the Middle East to his condemnation of stem cell research,...
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It's 2050 and the planet Earth is in crisis because of the disastrous and ever increasing damage being done to the climate. Its population has been severely affected all over the globe. Professor John Thomas is attending the Davos Congress Centre to give a speech about the space industry. He will hijack his own talk to berate the prestigious audience of elite business people, shaming them for their disregard of our planet and announce to the world...
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Springer International Publishing
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2016
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This open access Topical Survey offers a brief overview of the current state of research on and activities for mathematically gifted students around the world. This is of interest to a broad readership, including educational researchers, research mathematicians, mathematics teachers, teacher educators, curriculum designers, doctoral students, and other stakeholders. It first discusses research concerning the nature of mathematical giftedness, including
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La guía transformadora que te conducirá a una vida despierta
Todos deseamos alcanzar la felicidad y encontrar un sentido más profundo a nuestra vida, pero los estamos
buscando en los lugares equivocados. Cuando nuestra sensación de plenitud depende de personas u objetos
externos -un trabajo muy deseado, una nueva casa, unas vacaciones espléndidas o incluso una nueva
relación-, tarde o temprano acabamos sintiéndonos insatisfechos. Si...
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In this Tenth Anniversary Edition of The Life You Can Save, Peter Singer brings his landmark book up to date. In addition to restating his compelling arguments about how we should respond to extreme poverty, he examines the progress we are making and recounts how the first edition transformed the lives both of readers and the people they helped. Learn how you can be part of the solution, doing good for others while adding fulfillment to your own life....
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In recent years, narratives about the music industry tend to hew to a common theme: it was humming along for decades until the Internet and Napster came along and disrupted it. Key Changes shows that this view is incorrect: the industry was actually shaken up not once in the 1990s, but ten times over more than 100 years. These ten disruptions came with the introduction of new formats for enjoying recorded music: starting with the cylinders and discs...
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