Author : Jablokov Alexander
Publisher : HarperCollins Publishers
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 29,31 MB
Release : 1991-04-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
Story of a quest across Earth and the solar system for the source of a mysteriously constructed artifact on the eve of interplanetary war.
Author : Dean Whitlock
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 49,77 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780618443932
Thomas Painter was born with the wrong name. Though his father was a brilliant painter, Thomas couldn’t be less of one. His talent is woodcarving. Yet because he lives in a place where one’s name dictates his trade, he is forced to be a painter’s apprentice. Destiny intervenes when a tree branch falls from the sky. For the branch, at least in Thomas’s hands, is a magic wand. Thomas renames himself Carver and sets off downriver in search of someone who can teach him to use the wand. Accompanied by Raven (the bemagicked girl who dropped the wand in the first place) and the bondservant Fireboy, Carver ventures into a world filled with wonders, some glorious, some terrible, and some beyond his imagining. Masterful storytelling and appealing, memorable characters mark this journey into a magical, beautifully realized world readers won’t soon forget.
Author : Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 33,41 MB
Release : 2013
Category : Art
ISBN : 1588395049
"Featuring 70 works in various media--paintings, calligraphy, photographs, woodblock prints, video, and sculpture--that were created during the past three decades, Ink Art: Past as Present in Contemporary China will demonstrate how China's ancient pattern of seeking cultural renewal through the reinterpretation of past models remains a viable creative path. Although all of the artists have transformed their sources through new modes of expression, visitors will recognize thematic, aesthetic, or technical attributes in their creations that have meaningful links to China's artistic past. The exhibition will be organized thematically into four parts and will include such highlights as Xu Bing's dramatic Book from the Sky (ca. 1988), an installation that will fill an entire gallery; Family Tree (2000), a set of vivid photographs documenting a performance by Zhang Huan in which his facial features--and his identity--are obscured gradually by physiognomic texts that are inscribed directly onto his face; and Map of China (2006) by Ai Weiwei, which is constructed entirely of wood salvaged from demolished Qing dynasty temples." --
Author : Jamie Doeren
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,39 MB
Release : 2012-09
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN : 9781565237681
Learn the secrets of transforming an ordinary piece of wood into a striking work of art. World champion chainsaw carver Jamie Doeren offers 3 step-by-step projects that range in difficulty for chainsaw carving both realistic and caricature bears with easy-to-follow instructions for beginners.
Author : Nat Young
Publisher : Random House Australia
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 49,49 MB
Release : 2019-08-20
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 0143796720
What makes for a surfing life? With a blaze of groundbreaking performances and a swag of titles claimed from all over the world to his name, Australian world champion surfer Nat Young might know. His seventieth birthday inspired some reflection on exactly that, and on the waves and characters that have marked his remarkable life – Miki Dora and Midget Farrelly to name a few. But surfing for Nat Young – and so many like-minded surfers – has never been about winning, never been about the sport. It’s a calling, an endless quest, a philosophy, a religion. Most of all, surfing is a way of life that has underpinned his other identities as board shaper, film producer, writer, raconteur, conservationist, activist, pilot, husband, father. Candid and wryly observed, Church of the Open Sky explores what it means to be a surfer, with a collection of true stories of Nat’s surfing life – and the friends, foes and heroes he’s met along the way.
Author : Samarpan
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 111 pages
File Size : 17,71 MB
Release : 2016-09-10
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9352640160
Evocative, expansive and intensely spiritual, Carving a Sky explores the necessity of space in a human's life that leads one to attain intellectual and emotional fulfilment. It narrates the story of a monk and a passenger on a train who discuss the meaning of existence and the roots of a person's strength, growth and freedom.Deeply embedded in Hindu scriptures, this book will be an invaluable guide in your life's journey.
Author : Felix Bongjoh
Publisher : Trafford Publishing
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 31,11 MB
Release : 2019-05-31
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 1490795510
Sculpted Out of Sky consists of poems about man interacting with, and is shaped by, his environment in such a way that his activities and events are quite often governed by natural forces around him, especially in the sky, among other factors. It is also a metaphorical image of how life is psychologically sculpted out of birds, the sun, the moon, and other natural elements that affect or even govern his life—sculpted, as if out of a slab of sky (comparable to wood or metal), on which all is poetically sculpted to eternalize man’s image, good or bad, in an evolving world, often with space for evil, including conflict and war.
Author : Denise Gillard
Publisher : Groundwood Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 37,49 MB
Release : 2001
Category : African Americans
ISBN : 9780888993113
In rural Nova Scotia, a young girl and her grandfather look for a perfect branch to carve.
Author : Thor Kerr
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 34,73 MB
Release : 2018-12-14
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 0429017251
This work contains a selection of papers from the International Conference on Urban Studies (ICUS 2017) and is a bi-annual periodical publication containing articles on urban cultural studies based on the international conference organized by the Faculty of Humanities at the Universitas Airlangga, Indonesia. This publication contains studies on issues that become phenomena in urban life, including linguistics, literary, identity, gender, architecture, media, locality, globalization, the dynamics of urban society and culture, and urban history. This is an Open Access ebook, and can be found on www.taylorfrancis.com.
Author : Gregory Benford
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 37,26 MB
Release : 2014-04-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0765328704
A human expedition to another star system is jeopardized by an encounter with an astonishingly immense bowl-shaped structure cupping a star, with a habitable area equivalent to many millions of Earths. Investigating the Bowl, or Shipstar, the human explorers are separated, with one group captured by the gigantic structure's alien inhabitants and the other pursued across its strange and dangerous landscape.
