Learning to Draw is a practical and insightful guide designed to help aspiring artists develop the most important skill in drawing: the ability to truly see. Rather than focusing solely on techniques, Carl Jackson teaches readers how to observe relationships, proportions, shapes, light, shadow, and space with greater accuracy. Through clear explanations, examples, and exercises, readers learn how to overcome common drawing mistakes, strengthen visual perception, and build confidence in the...

Barbados, an island paradise, prepares to celebrate the anniversary of its independence from England. Maneuvering from the shadows, unseen forces threaten to destabilize the country politically and economically. When Edge, field agent for the Bureau - the island's secret service - thwarts an attempt to smuggle arms into the country, he is left with more questions than answers. As Edge's investigation draws him closer to the truth, he becomes entangled in a deadly game of murder, money, and...

Charlie is a dog environmental investigator. On one of Charlie's many walks near a creek, he runs across one of his friends feeling sick. Charlie is really concerned that the source of his friend's illness is a potential threat to animals and humans. Follow along with Charlie as he meets with several of his friends that help guide him during his hunt to find the source of the hazardous pollutant. Also, learn about Charlie's featured friend, Nutria and how to help protect the environment.

Charlie is the first of his kind...a dog and an environmental investigator! He loves nature and knows that every little action counts. What is supposed to be a fun day at the beach turns into a crisis for Charlie's ocean friends. In the end, Charlie was tired but happy. He had saved his ocean friends and made a difference in protecting the environment. Charlie hopes that more people would follow in his footsteps to protect the environment for all living things. Continue to read after the s...

There is an urgent need for prayer in our world today. Prayer is more than asking for things. Prayer is communion with the Father through Jesus by the Holy Spirit. This book is meant to help the reader develop a closer relationship with God and thus affect the world. We are admonished by the Lord to ask, seek and knock. He wants us to keep on asking, keep on seeking and keep on knocking. By doing this we learn how to overcome obstacles and roadblocks the enemy may attempt to put in our way...

Charlie The Enviro Dog Series is the first of his kind...a dog and an environmental investigator! Charlie loves nature and knows that every little action counts. Charlie is enjoying his day while out in his neighborhood. He runs into his friend Sassy who is complaining about a terrible smell in the storm water drain. Soon, he and Sassy team up with a horse and rat snake to solve the mystery of the stinky water. Once again, Charlie with the help of his friends help solve the mystery of the ...

Selected from the pages of Woodworker's Journal, these classic table projects will deliver both form and function to your home. Appropriate for beginner to intermediate woodworkers, these projects have been test built by experts and are presented with detailed instructions and color photos, exploded drawings, lists of required materials, and complete finishing options that guarantee success.

The foremost historian of Greek religion provides the first comprehensive, comparative study of a little-known aspect of ancient religious beliefs and practices. Secret mystery cults flourished within the larger culture of the public religion of Greece and Rome for roughly a thousand years. This book is neither a history nor a survey but a comparative phenomenology, concentrating on five major cults. In defining the mysteries and describing their rituals, membership, organization, and diss...

A Dusty Tomes Audio BookIn Cooperation with Spoken RealmsFrederick Jackson Turner by Carl Becker. John Stambaugh Professor of History at Cornell University. Extracted from American Masters of Social Science edited by Howard W. Odum. Henry Holt and Company 1927.Narrated by Joseph TablerNote - This book is ‘read as written'. It was published in 1827. It is in the public domain.Frederick Jackson Turner, American historian during the early twentieth century, based at th...

Despite Disney’s carefully crafted image of family friendliness, Gothic elements are pervasive in all of Disney’s productions, ranging from its theme parks to its films and television programs. The contributors to Disney Gothic reveal that the Gothic, in fact, serves as the unacknowledged motor of the Disney machine. Exploring representations of villains, ghosts, and monsters, this book sheds important new light on the role these Gothic elements play throughout the Disney universe...

From the earliest times, philosophers and others have thought deeply about ethical questions. But it was Aristotle who founded ethics as a discipline with clear principles and well-defined boundaries. Ethics After Aristotle focuses on the reception of Aristotelian ethical thought in the Hellenistic and Roman worlds, underscoring the thinker’s enduring influence on the philosophers who followed in his footsteps from 300 BCE to 200 CE.Beginning with Aristotle’s student and c...

Commemorating the 50th anniversary of the Shalem Institute, this collection of experiential and academic essays offers modern contemplative reflections from new and renowned voices in spiritual leadership.Founded in 1973 by the Rev. Dr. Tilden H. Edwards, Jr., Shalem Institute for Spiritual Formation offers retreats, workshops, and groups centered around contemplative spirituality. The culmination of half a century of charitable ministry, this commemorative antholo...