You don't have to starve to be an artist. Build a career doing what you love.In this practical guide book, professional artist Lisa Congdon reveals the many ways you can earn a living by making art—through illustration, licensing, fine art sales, print sales, teaching, and beyond.• Including industry advice from such successful art-world pros as Nikki McClure, Mark Hearld, Paula Scher, and more• This art and business book will equip you with the tool...

A gorgeous nonfiction book for kids from bestselling artist and author Lisa Congdon!The Illustrated Encyclopedia of the Elements leads young readers in an exploration of all 118 known elements.From their discoveries to their uses to their special properties, this vibrant book explores all things elements.• A visually stunning tour of the periodic table• Complete with profiles of notable scientists, a...

From El Alamein to the breaching of the Siegfried Line, here are the major battles, unforgettably recorded by the men who fought them.EUROPEAN THEATER, 1940 to 1945From the over-all view of grand strategy to the fox-hole view of the individual rifleman, these authoritative accounts recreate with immediacy and in full dimension the historic battle for Europe.THE CHASE OF THE BISMARCKBEHIND ROMMEL'S LINESATTACK AT EL ALAMEINRAID ON REGENSBURGT...

This book explores the historical development of new moral concepts. Starting from examples of new moral terms invented in the twentieth century, like 'sexual harassment', 'racism', and 'hate speech', this book asks: what we are doing when we bring ethically significant acts and events under new descriptions? Are we simply naming moral phenomena that already exist, fully formed and intact, prior to their expression in language? Or are moral phenomena sensitive to the descriptions under whi...

What does the future hold for broadcasting in Britain? At a time when British broadcasting is undergoing great change, what revenues will be available for funding programming in the 1990s and beyond? Paying for Broadcasting: The Handbook presents a wide-ranging discussion of funding options open to broadcasters. Commissioned by the BBC to inform debate in the run up to the 1996 Charter Renewal, and drawing on examples from Britain and other worldwide broadcasting markets, the authors explo...

This is the book Civil War enthusiasts have been waiting for.There are many, many studies of the Civil War. Books have been written on its economic effects, its political causes, its relationship to western expansion. But the real fascination of the war is the story of combat, men in battle. Combat: The Civil War tells this story in the words of men who actually marched into battle. We share their experiences, their fears, and their moments of bravery at Vicksburg, on boar...

In the latter half of the Fraudewolf epic, the jackrabbit, alongside her tutor, traverse through a world soon to be besieged by perilous forces both new and ancient. Upon their journey, the hare and wolf will be tested to the very limits of their body and mind, as a new Scourge rises to consume all that is left.This volume includes 49 illustrations.

'No true Christian could vote for Donald Trump.' 'Real Christians are pro-life.' 'You can't be a Christian and support gay marriage.' Assertive statements like these not only reflect growing religious polarization but also express the anxiety over religious identity that pervades modern American Christianity. To address this disquiet, conservative Christians have sought security and stability: whether by retrieving 'historic Christian' doctrines, reconceptualizing their faith as a distinct...

An intermediate-level treatment of Bayesian hierarchical models and their applications, this book demonstrates the advantages of a Bayesian approach to data sets involving inferences for collections of related units or variables, and in methods where parameters can be treated as random collections. Through illustrative data analysis and attention to statistical computing, this book facilitates practical implementation of Bayesian hierarchical methods.The new edition is a revision o...

In the dying city of Ctesiphon, a female jackrabbit is at the culmination of her decade-spanning search to track down the very same hero that had saved the world before: The Slayer. She will attempt to petition him for a special kind of tutelage, one which the wolf fears above all else.This audiobook is fully casted, with every dialogue dramatized by 60 individual voice actors!Last Fables: Fraudewolf is an anthropomorphic high fantasy, where a hero single-handedly brought a...

The concept of recognition has moved to the forefront of philosophical research in recent decades, particularly in political and social philosophy but also related areas, including philosophy of race and gender, philosophy of mind and language, ethics and aesthetics. It is a concept with deep roots from at least Rousseau and Hegel to contemporary social theory.In this outstanding volume, an international roster of contributors expands our perspective on recognition beyond the stand...

From the popular Tumblr of the same name comes a collection of heart-warming, tear-jerking, and gut-wrenching anonymous letters that people never intended—or didn’t have the courage—to send.The Tumblr Dear My Blank—created by 16-year-old Emily Trunko and followed by over 35,000 people—is now a carefully curated gift book with more than 160 anonymous letters covering a range of topics from heartbreak, unrequited love, and loss, to inspiration, self-awareness, and gr...