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 The Modern Art of Figure Drawing - And Pinups: Merging Digital and Traditional Techinques Together in Sketching, Drawing & Painting the Figure by Derek K Matters English | February 4, 2016 | ISBN: 1523885211 | 70 pages | PDF | 8.33 Mb The Art of Figure Drawing & Pin-ups The Modern Art of Figure Drawing is meant to be enjoyed by anyone with a passion for the human figure. See a series of mixed digital and traditional drawings and paintings and view the steps taken to get them there. With more than 150 original drawings including sketches and step by step visual breakdowns of his process, this book is sure to spark the creative process of both beginners, professionals and casual art admirers.  Carys Davies, "The Mission House" English | 2021 | ISBN: 1982144831 | 272 pages | EPUB | 1.55 MB Fleeing his demons and the dark undercurrents of contemporary life in the UK, Hilary Byrd takes refuge in a former British hill station in South India. Charmed by the foreignness of his new surroundings and by the familiarity of everything the British have left behind, he finds solace in life's simple pleasures, travelling by rickshaw around the small town with his driver Jamshed and staying in a mission house beside the local presbytery where the Padre and his adoptive daughter Priscilla have taken Hilary under their wing.  Jennifer Howd, "The Mindfulness Diaries: How I Survived My First Nine-Day Silent Meditation Retreat" English | 2014 | ISBN: 0991252306 | 136 pages | EPUB | 0.5 MB Jennifer Howd had been building a mindfulness practice for two and a half years before taking on the challenge of her first nine-day silent meditation retreat. In this debut memoir in "The Mindfulness Diaries" series, she chronicles the humorous-and often harrowing-adventures of the dueling inner voices that emerge in the silence: one intent on focusing on the seemingly negative aspects of her experiences, and the other on helping her see the positivity that can come from them. Illuminating for those who are new to mindfulness and resonant for those with established practices, The Mindfulness Diaries: How I Survived My First Nine-Day Silent Meditation Retreat is a vulnerable, touching, playful peek behind the curtain into the mind of a woman learning how to befriend herself.  The MeatEater Guide to Wilderness Skills and Survival by Steven Rinella English | December 1st, 2020 | ISBN: 0593129695 | 464 pages | EPUB | 46.35 MB An indispensable guide to surviving everything from an extended wilderness exploration to a day-long boat trip, with hard-earned advice from the host of the show MeatEater as seen on Netflix  The Mauna Loa: The Largest Volcano in the United States (Natural Wonders) by Christine Webster English | 2000 | ISBN: 1590361628 | 32 pages | PDF | 8 MB Discusses Mauna Loa, the largest volcano on earth, located on the island of Hawaii.  The Marriage of Cadmus and Harmony (Penguin Modern Classics) by Penguin Classics English | July 25, 2019 | ISBN: 0241399203 | 416 pages | PDF | 13 Mb 'It will be read and re-read not as a treatise but as a story: one of the most extraordinary that has ever been written of the origins of Western self-consciousness' Simon Schama  Michele Bacci, "The Many Faces of Christ: Portraying the Holy in the East and West, 300 to 1300" English | ISBN: 1780232683 | 2014 | EPUB | 256 pages | 36 MB Thanks to current portrayals of Jesus of Nazareth, we are apt to think of him as having long hair and a short beard. But, the holy scriptures do not describe Christ's physiognomy, and his representations are inconsistent in early Christian and medieval arts. How did this long-haired archetype come to be accepted in the late ninth century as the standard iconography of the Son of God? To answer this question, The Many Faces of Christ examines the complex historical and cultural dynamics underlying the making and final establishment of Christ's image between late antiquity and the early Renaissance.  The Journalist: Life and Loss in America's Secret War by Jerry A. Rose, Lucy Rose Fischer 2020 | ISBN: 1684630657 | English | 352 pages | EPUB | 5 MB Jerry Rose, a young journalist and photographer in Vietnam, exposed the secret beginnings of America's Vietnam War in the early 1960s. Putting his life in danger, he interviewed Vietnamese villagers in a countryside riddled by a war of terror and intimidation and embedded himself with soldiers on the ground, experiences that he distilled into the first major article to be written about American troops fighting in Vietnam. His writing was acclaimed as "war reporting that ranks with the best of Ernest Hemingway and Ernie Pyle," and in the years to follow, Time, The New York Times, The Reporter, New Republic, and The Saturday Evening Post regularly published his stories and photographs.  The Janus Point: A New Theory of Time by Julian Barbour 2020 | ISBN: 0465095461 | English | 400 pages | EPUB | 10 MB In a universe filled by chaos and disorder, one physicist makes the radical argument that the growth of order drives the passage of time - and shapes the destiny of the universe.  Gordon L. Rottman, Johnny Shumate, Alan Gilliland, "The Hand Grenade (Weapon)" English | 2015 | ISBN: 1472807340 | 80 pages | EPUB | 11 MB The Hand Grenade is the dramatic story, covering its origins, development, use - in the World Wars and into the present day - and lasting influence on close-quarter combat and infantry tactics. |
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