Author : Travis Louie
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 38,56 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Fantasy in art
ISBN : 9780979330759
Readers can enter into the world of Travis Louie, a curiously imagined place inspired by Victorian and Edwardian styles. Human oddities inhabit this world, alongside eerie mythical beings. Louie uses inventive painting techniques, such as acrylic washes and simple textures on smooth boards, to create the atmospheric tone of his work. The works are presented as a series of pseudo-portraits from an alternate reality that the reader can't help but marvel at.
Author : Diana Murray
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 35 pages
File Size : 45,68 MB
Release : 2017-01-17
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1510705090
Groggle has been up all night making a Valentine’s Day card. This isn’t just any Valentine, though, and it has to be perfect—it’s for Snarlina, his beast friend in the whole wide world. Searching in the dark forest, he finds just the right heart-shaped leaves. He collects some bog slime and squirts everything he wants to say in bold, gooey letters. Groggle’s creation looks horribly good. But there’s just one problem—gobble, crunch, crunch, slurp! He has a monster appetite! Groggle tries again, this time writing poem after poem to make sure he has some extras just in case. He picks skunk flowers, carefully ties on snake bows, and sprinkles shiny beetle glitter. He decorates each card with care. But . . . gobble, crunch, crunch, slurp! Groggle’s monster impulses foil his efforts and he’s run out of time. Will Groggle ever be able to give his toothsome, stomping, monstrous friend Snarlina a Valentine? Find out in this monster of a tale. Sky Pony Press, with our Good Books, Racehorse and Arcade imprints, is proud to publish a broad range of books for young readers—picture books for small children, chapter books, books for middle grade readers, and novels for young adults. Our list includes bestsellers for children who love to play Minecraft; stories told with LEGO bricks; books that teach lessons about tolerance, patience, and the environment, and much more. While not every title we publish becomes a New York Times bestseller or a national bestseller, we are committed to books on subjects that are sometimes overlooked and to authors whose work might not otherwise find a home.
Author : Ryan McGinley
Publisher : Young Writers
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 25,9 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Art
ISBN :
2nd ed. of photographs from exhibition. Over the past year, Ryan McGinley and his crew explored huge underground caves, venturing into unknown territory and seeking out spectacular natural spaces, some previously undocumented. The title, Moonmilk, alludes to the crystalline deposits found on the walls of many caves; it was once believed that this substance was formed by light from celestial bodies passing through rock into darkened worlds below. The series, a departure from Ryan's iconic images of the past, firmly places Ryan as one of the most innovative and influential artists of a generation! Moonmilk has been deemed photobook of the year (2009) by the New York Times Magazine!
Author : Ian Stewart
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 19,12 MB
Release : 2010-10-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1458716546
First there was Edwin A. Abbott's remarkable Flatland, published in 1884, and one of the all-time classics of popular mathematics. Now, from mathematician and accomplished science writer Ian Stewart, comes what Nature calls "a superb sequel." Through larger-than-life characters and an inspired story line, Flatterland explores our present understanding of the shape and origins of the universe, the nature of space, time, and matter, as well as modern geometries and their applications. The journey begins when our heroine, Victoria Line, comes upon her great-great-grandfather A. Square's diary, hidden in the attic. The writings help her to contact the Space Hopper, who tempts her away from her home and family in Flatland and becomes her guide and mentor through ten dimensions. In the tradition of Alice in Wonderland and The Phantom Toll Booth, this magnificent investigation into the nature of reality is destined to become a modern classic.
Author : Franz Xaver von Schonwerth
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 43,32 MB
Release : 2015-02-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0698144554
A rare discovery in the world of fairy tales—now for the first time in English Move over, Cinderella: Make way for the Turnip Princess! And for the “Cinderfellas” in these stories, which turn our understanding of gender in fairy tales on its head. With this volume, the holy trinity of fairy tales—the Brothers Grimm, Charles Perrault, and Hans Christian Andersen—becomes a quartet. In the 1850s, Franz Xaver von Schönwerth traversed the forests, lowlands, and mountains of northern Bavaria to record fairy tales, gaining the admiration of even the Brothers Grimm. Most of Schönwerth's work was lost—until a few years ago, when thirty boxes of manuscripts were uncovered in a German municipal archive. Now, for the first time, Schönwerth's lost fairy tales are available in English. Violent, dark, and full of action, and upending the relationship between damsels in distress and their dragon-slaying heroes, these more than seventy stories bring us closer than ever to the unadorned oral tradition in which fairy tales are rooted, revolutionizing our understanding of a hallowed genre. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,500 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
Author : Printed in Blood
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 36,16 MB
Release : 2022-01-04
Category : Art
ISBN : 1789097029
A collection of stunning brand-new exclusive original art collated with Printed in Blood to celebrate the classic film Aliens. A lavish coffee table book bursting with brand new and exclusive art. The book includes over 100 pieces by professional artists, illustrators, concept artists, comics artists and graphic designers. From character portraits, faux book covers and poster concepts, to iconic scenes, recruitment posters and renderings of the iconic Xenomorph and Alien Queen, each artist puts their own stamp on the Alien universe.
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Page : 852 pages
File Size : 47,34 MB
Release : 1881
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Author : John Pilger
Publisher : Random House
Page : 458 pages
File Size : 37,88 MB
Release : 2010-09-02
Category : History
ISBN : 1407086324
Expatriate journalist and film-maker John Pilger writes about his homeland with life-long affection and a passionately critical eye. In this fully updated edition of A Secret Country, he pays tribute to a little known Australia and tells a story of high political drama.
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Page : pages
File Size : 50,83 MB
Release : 2019-11-07
Category :
ISBN : 9781886212527
American Illustration 38 presents the year's best photographs from 2018 as selected by a jury of art and design experts. From over 7,000 images submitted to our annual competition, the jury selected only 362 illustrations to be presented in the oversized, beautifully printed, deluxe, hardcover, 384-page annual award book. The AI38 jury included: Christopher Brand, Crown Publishing; Hannah K Lee, The New York Times; Janet Michaud, Politico; Dennis Huyhn, Buzzfeed; Maria G. Keehan, Smithsonian; Aaron Rinas, Art + Mechanical; and Marianne Seregi, National Geographic.
Author : Lloyd Kahn
Publisher : Shelter Publications, Inc.
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 11,94 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0936070110
Shelter is many things - a visually dynamic, oversized compendium of organic architecture past and present; a how-to book that includes over 1,250 illustrations; and a Whole Earth Catalog-type sourcebook for living in harmony with the earth by using every conceivable material. First published in 1973, Shelter remains a source of inspiration and invention. Including the nuts-and-bolts aspects of building, the book covers such topics as dwellings from Iron Age huts to Bedouin tents to Togo's tin-and-thatch houses; nomadic shelters from tipis to "housecars"; and domes, dome cities, sod iglus, and even treehouses. The authors recount personal stories about alternative dwellings that illustrate sensible solutions to problems associated with using materials found in the environment - with fascinating, often surprising results.
