From a cup of coffee to a panda, this comprehensive directory of 100 step-by-step watercolor projects will teach you how to paint it, in six steps or less!Watercolor painting has never been easier or more fun with this super-accessible guide to painting animals, botanicals, food and drink, and more! With easy-to-follow visual steps, you’ll see how to build up realistic looking pictures from the first washes to the final details.This value-packed book will b...

Learn how to use watercolor to soothe your soul with this beginner's guide to painting for relaxation.In this guide for the absolute beginner, artist and teacher Sharone Stevens makes the joy of watercolor accessible to everyone. With simple techniques and exercises, she shows how painting lines, patterns, and shapes can have a powerful meditative effect. Along the way, you will find yourself creating beautiful artwork that you'll be proud to display in your home.

The authors slant to the subject in this book is an original approach, which should appeal to a wide audience of all age groups.

THE AMAZING TRUE STORY—NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTUREA true story full of drama, love, insurmountable odds, and miraculous triumph experienced by ordinary people who rose up to answer the call to help an innocent child, about one woman in particular who looked beyond her own limitations to say yes to the impossible.Sharon Stevens, twice divorced, barely making enough to support herself, would never claim to be an angel. Early in life, perilous situations were t...

Lexington, the seat for Rockbridge County, is situated in the beautiful Shenandoah Valley within minutes of the Blue Ridge Mountains. Main Street is part of Route 11'the Valley Pike/Great Road'and the architecture downtown looks much as it did in the 19th century. Lexington is home to Washington and Lee University and Virginia Military Institute. It is also the final resting place for Thomas 'Stonewall' Jackson and Robert E. Lee, as well as their horses. Within a few blocks, one visits the...

In the wake of Californias energy crisis, policymakers rush to satisfy growing demand requirements may run the risk of naively ignoring the larger issues and dangers associated with increased reliance on nuclear power. A connection between national nuclear power programs and nuclear proliferation can be found in the strategic initiatives of North Korea, Iraq, Iran, India, and Pakistan. In response to this threat, the Nuclear Control Institute has assembled a consortium of experts ...

A Magazine Celebrating Romance:Love romance? Love discovering the best new writers with bite-sized stories? Or maybe you prefer to treat yourself by escaping into a sure-to-please favorite author's world now and again, but don't have the time to read a full-length novel. Heart's Kiss magazine offers delicious variety and more.Each issue has at least 60,000 plus words of fiction from names readers will recognize, to newly discovered writers, including interviews and...

This edited collection explores the relationships between humans and nature at a time when the traditional sense of separation between human cultures and a natural wilderness is being eroded. The ‘Anthropocene,’ whose literal translation is the ‘Age of Man,’ is one way of marking these planetary changes to the Earth system. Global climate change and rising sea levels are two prominent examples of how nature can no longer be simply thought of as something outside and removed from humans (an...

Why do powerful leaders get outedpeople like Weiner, Schwarzenegger, Petraeus, Woods, and Clinton? Why do leaders risk it all to cheat, andeven closer to homewhy might you?Know thyself! To do this, the leader is taken on a journey of their inner rooms to explore the impact of family dysfunction and beliefs. Only when you commit to becoming the leader of your own life do you possess the alchemical formula for authentic leadership. If not, beware the BeOUTEDtudes! Those are the attit...

In Home, eighteen of our finest writers evoke different rooms--from their pasts, their present, or simply their imaginations--in order to investigate the ways in which homes contain our lives. The results are touching, provocative, and sometimes hilarious. And since a portion of the editors' proceeds will go to organizations that help the homeless, Home is really where the heart is. Contributors include: Lynda Barry, Richard Bausch, Tony Earley, James Finn...

In Knowledge Leadership, Cavaleri and Seivert describe the dawning of a new era in which individuals are “leading” rather than “managing” knowledge. In the past, many knowledge-based initiatives have failed because leaders underestimated the powerful link between knowledge and performance improvement – and also because they mistakenly thought that “information” was the same as knowledge. Cavaleri and Seivert claim that, while information is a necessary precursor to knowledge, it is not suf...

A comprehensive analysis of the astonishing changes that elevated the Chicago public school system from one of the worst in the nation to one of the most improved.How a City Learned to Improve Its Schools tells the story of the extraordinary thirty-year school reform effort that changed the landscape of public education in Chicago. Acclaimed educational researcher Anthony S. Bryk joins five coauthors directly involved in Chicago’s education reform efforts,...