Accessible treatment offers highly detailed accounts concerning development of ideas and theories about the nature of electricity and space (aether), focusing on period from Descartes to Lorentz, Einstein, and Minkowski.
Suitable for folders of intermediate to advanced skills, the book presents step-by-step instructions and full-color photographs for more than two dozen breeds ranging from the familiar to the more exotic.
These slick renditions of classic cars, rendered in woodcut-style illustrations, race through the decades from a 1926 Ford Model T to a 2006 Ferrari. Thirty-one images include a VW Bus, a Peugeot, and a Moon Rover.
These ready-to-color illustrations draw inspiration from kimono and fabric patterns, Ukiyo-e and Edo period paintings and wood block prints, lanterns and parasols, Shoji screens and window latticework, vintage matchbox art, and more.
Bring these fanciful illustrations to colorful life! Thirty-one enchanting drawings depict highlights from "Puss in Boots," "The Ugly Duckling," "Sleeping Beauty," "Hansel and Gretel," "Cinderella," "The Little Mermaid," more.
Rendered in a realistic woodcut style, 31 ready-to-color illustrations celebrate Western stars of movies and television, including John Wayne, Maureen O'Hara, Clint Eastwood, Randolph Scott, Gene Autry, Barbara Stanwyck, many others.
A founding father of modern advertising discusses the lure of telling a story, use of headlines and art, the power of specificity, and the value of samples and testing campaigns.
Clearly and concisely written book covers two subjects seldom treated thoroughly in the same volume. Demonstrations of figure drawing include the use of such simple forms as the cube, cylinder, and sphere. 96 black-and-white figures.
These poetic, inspiring essays offer remarkable insights into the world of a gifted woman who was deaf and blind. Keller relates her impressions, perceived through the senses and imagination, of the world's beauty and promise.
A rich world of the imagination that will captivate readers of all ages, this compilation's tales include The Princess-Frog, The Tale of Prince Ivan, The Firebird and the Gray Wolf, many others.
Exquisite fine-line royalty-free images of flowers, plants, and insect life in elegant full-page compositions. Reprinted from the illustrated works of the famed artist/entomologist, with new English captions.
A collection of stories. It comprises works by Voltaire, de Maupassant, Colette, Balzac, Flaubert, and other major authors in the original French, with English translations on... Læs mere