The definitive artist’s reference guide and comprehensive sourcebook of art materials and painting techniques, now available in a modern ebook edition.The Complete Artist’s Manual covers all the elements of painting and drawing from materials to techniques, colour composition and media – the ultimate artist’s bible.In addition, it contains a structured painting course with simple exercises developing into more advanced projects, with demonstrations by well-known practising ...

This topical and exciting textbook describes fisheries exploitation, biology, conservation and management, and reflects many recent and important changes in fisheries science. These include growing concerns about the environmental impacts of fisheries, the role of ecological interactions in determining population dynamics, and the incorporation of uncertainty and precautionary principles into management advice. The book draws upon examples from tropical, temperate and polar environments, a...

The year is 2300 AC. The fourth planet in our solar system, Mars, had already been inhabited for over a hundred years. A young, ambitious generation was developing here. One of the young Martians was Cailan Count. He had a sister, Fia. She and her fiancé belonged to a community known for collective nostalgia. They truly internalized the good old days, the golden age before colonization. Accordingly, they had chosen a renowned but very old hotel for their wedding reception. It was s...

Contact with the organic spaceship is successful. Paurusheya picks up Alethea in the Omega Centauri star cluster. Alethea still thinks that she will find Sigurd again in the Earth system of the year 2269. Almost a year has passed since the two of them crashed through the black hole. She is even more disappointed when Sigurd is not there. Sigurd lies in a coma in 2019, while Alethea searches for him in 2269.Sigurd has been placed under arrest! When it becomes clear that the aliens f...

Extraterrestrial intelligences are operating on Earth undetected by the public. Life-Int-Ltd, the world's largest security service, becomes aware of this. Sigurd Westall, a new employee of the company, is set on the aliens immediately after his basic training. No one, apart from his direct superior, knows that he has had a special ability since puberty. He is assigned to a team of specialists who set out on the trail of the aliens. When it comes to a direct confrontation, it is only thanks...

Sigurd's spirit is in Marvin's body. He is transferred with him 200 years back in time. He is 25 years old and is imprisoned by aliens. His fight for survival begins in a world of chaos that threatens to be torn apart by the battle between two alien power groups. The 'Guardians of the Stars' have suddenly become his henchmen. They are trying to get hold of him, while GLEESITT, the 'City of a Thousand Stars' seems to be on his side. When the aliens from Earth launch an attack on the mother ...

Sigurd and Alethea are on the planet ANUN'HA, which was once a living entity. Today, on one of two continents there stands the star ziggurat, the only legacy of a very old star people, the Ancient Race of Krsutner. The second continent is populated by human-like intelligences. They call themselves Akkattarians. When the so-called 'Secret Invaders' appeared from the stars over a generation ago, society was in turmoil. King Šamšī-Rohh II, the head of AKKATTA, tries to minimize the economic e...

The 14th floor of the hotel was the gateway to the infinity of the stars. Activating the transfer could only be done by an intelligent being with paranormal abilities. In Cailan Count's case, this happened inadvertently. He is torn from his frugal and secluded life on the newly colonized Mars and hurled into infinity. Here, he encounters extraterrestrial civilizations that present him with the greatest challenges of his life so far, and he meets a princess who will fundamentally ch...

Mysterious events shake the local civilization. It seems that sorcerous powers and magic are at play. Several assassinations attempt on Sigurd, which he survives only because of his special abilities, convince him that he must join forces with the new MBF organization to solve the mysteries. His top priority, however, is to find the organic ship PAURUSHEYA, which also mysteriously disappeared 250 years ago. In a forgotten and impenetrable part of the world, in the middle of the dense Hondu...

The small village of Tautenburg in the Tautenburg Forest, Thuringia. Here stands the largest telescope in Germany. Strange signals are received. The castle ruins of the Schenk von Vargula family are suddenly transformed into a stately home. This is where the strange events begin, which often degenerate into bizarre and dangerous adventures.The astronomer Calvin-Jasper Melchor visits extraterrestrial cultures and encounters a superbeing. However, he finds his true happiness here on ...

The years between 2257 and 2268 are determined by the magical construct. The tyrannical magician Sol'altoo has removed the artifact city from the super Earth in 2268, thus undoing the possibility of time travel in the solar system, which the construct made possible in the first place and which does not exist in the normal space-time continuum due to the laws of nature. 2279, the tyrant Sol'altoo becomes active for the last time. He has recreated the artifact city on one of the super-Earths...

Sigurd lives in the past of his own world. He does not know that he has become a prisoner of a living program. The digital world presents itself to him as reality. His parents are still alive and he lives in his old family home. In search of a job, he leaves his small village and suddenly finds himself on the edge of the programmed sequence. A black infinity opens in the middle of the street. Only very slowly does he realize that something must be wrong in his life. An old book seems to pl...