Discover how to capture the female figure in fantasy-themed artwork with this handy guide featuring all the techniques and tips you’ll need.Readers will learn how to draw and paint truly fabulous fantasy females with this practical and inspirational guide for improver artists. Fleming demonstrates the basics of female anatomical structure, how to use both drawing and painting media effectively, and how to design and build fantasy female characters. Key to this subj...

Ottawa County, Kansas. The homesteader era. The eastern newspapers of the period promoted the Midwestern frontier as a paradise for settlers. They didn't mention the Indian raids, droughts, grasshopper plagues, and prairie fires that awaited the pioneers. 'Prairie Tapestry' tells the true tales of the visitors and homesteaders of Ottawa County, Kansas - Horace Greeley, Susan B. Anthony, George Washington Carver, and 'Lincoln's Little Girl,' Grace Bedell. The settlers confronted the numerou...

The four Gospels from the widely acclaimed modern literary classic The New Testament in Scots are now being made available as an audio digital download for the first time. Tom Fleming's reading brings out the poetry, wit and humanity of William Lorimer's translation in a way which speaks to everyone.

The four Gospels from the widely acclaimed modern literary classic The New Testament in Scots are now being made available as an audio digital download for the first time. Tom Fleming's reading brings out the poetry, wit and humanity of William Lorimer's translation in a way which speaks to everyone.

The four Gospels from the widely acclaimed modern literary classic The New Testament in Scots are now being made available as an audio digital download for the first time. Tom Fleming's reading brings out the poetry, wit and humanity of William Lorimer's translation in a way which speaks to everyone.

The four Gospels from the widely acclaimed modern literary classic The New Testament in Scots are now being made available as an audio digital download for the first time. Tom Fleming's reading brings out the poetry, wit and humanity of William Lorimer's translation in a way which speaks to everyone.

In "Tom Jones" schildert Henry Fielding die abenteuerliche Odyssee seines Protagonisten, eines foundlings namens Tom, durch die gesellschaftlichen und moralischen Strukturen des 18. Jahrhunderts in England. Der Roman kombiniert Elemente der Komödie und Satire, wobei Fielding meisterhaft die menschlichen Schwächen und die Absurditäten seiner Zeit offenbart. Mit einer vielschichtigen Erzählweise, die an die Tradition des Bildungsromans anknüpft, führt er die Leser durch Toms Entwicklung vom ...

Full-cast adaptations of two Flashman novels, plus a standalone historical romp, a humorous short story and an interview with George MacDonald FraserScottish author George MacDonald Fraser took the loutish bully from Thomas Hughes’ Tom Brown's Schooldays and gave him a new lease of life. Over the course of 12 novels, caddish anti-hero Flashman swashbuckled his way around the British Empire, playing a key role in some of the 19th century’s most significant ...

Design, deploy, and maintain your own private or public Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), using the open source OpenStack platform. In this practical guide, experienced developers and OpenStack contributors show you how to build clouds based on reference architectures, as well as how to perform daily administration tasks.Designed for horizontal scalability, OpenStack lets you build a cloud by integrating several technologies. This approach provides flexibility, but knowing which ...

No podía ser de otra manera: precisamente el día en que Cassie Forrester ha decidido recuperar las riendas de su vida, tiene que llegar el fin del mundo. Aunque era de esperar: desde la muerte de sus padres, ambos preparacionistas, Cassie no levanta cabeza. Ha dejado de pintar, ha roto con Adrian, su prometido, y se ha liado con un idiota de campeonato. Sin embargo, no es momento de corregir sus errores; bastante tienen Cassie y sus amigos con escapar de Brooklyn y refugiarse en la cabaña ...

Ebook with full color pictures - Contents - With over 180 illustrations and over 50 tables of data, is designed for firework display firers, designers and organisers of outdoor events. From the enthusiastic amateur firer who wants to get the most from the legally available fireworks, all the way up to the seasoned professional, this book will benefit those needing more information about the ways professionals plan and use fireworks to the greatest effect. - Dr. Smith's book covers the area...

In "Onkel Toms Hütte" entwirft Harriet Beecher Stowe ein eindringliches Bild der Sklaverei in den Vereinigten Staaten des 19. Jahrhunderts. Durch die prägnante, emotional aufgeladene Erzählweise verdichtet Stowe das Elend und die moralischen Konflikte, die das Leben von Sklaven prägten. Das Werk kombiniert fiktive Charaktere mit historischen Bezügen und bietet eine erschütternde Kritik an der Sklaverei, die sowohl die gesellschaftlichen als auch die individuellen Dimensionen des Leids bele...