Lessons, demonstrations, definitions, and tips on what to expect in art school, what it means to make art, and how to think like an artist.What is the first thing to learn in art school? “Art can be anything.” The second thing? “Learn to draw.” With 101 Things to Learn in Art School, artist and teacher Kit White delivers and develops such lessons, striking an instructive balance between technical advice and sage concepts. These 101 maxims, meditations, and...

After tragedy befalls him, Nick is forced to return home in order to seek solace from those close to him. As he reminisces about times gone by, he is forced to confront the ghosts from his past in order to rediscover who he really is and where he truly belongs. Set in 1980's West Australia, Story of My Life: Glory Days is a celebration of the events, people and music that so defined the period.

His school days now behind him, Nick begins the next stage of his development into adulthood with his self confidence at a low ebb, having suffered heart breaking rejection .He soon learns that a change of environment is not necessarily a bad thing. But life, as it so often does, brings new challenges and experiences that will provide a true test of whether he is indeed ready to become a man.

Nick Blackwell is on a quest to discover how his life brought him to where he finds himself: International music producer, DJ, Author, loving husband and father.A settled life of sorts.But it wasn´t always like that.As Nick reflects on his past we begin the Soundtrack Of My Life series with First Love and Nick as an insecure teenager, trying to discover who he is and where he fits. He soon discovers that affairs of the heart can be troublesome yet powerfully uplifting ...

Strange forces are at work causing Penny Cornwall to see and hear people from the past and feel all their emotions. More disconcerting is the tune she does not recognise play over and over inside the English Cotswold stone cottage she shares with Harry Winchester. The music will not go away, spoiling the rural idyll she and Harry have found. And so begins a fruitless search to find the source of the music and its title, a quest that rapidly becomes an obsession taking over her life and thr...

Jane Austen and Masculinity is an eclectic collection of contemporary scholarship addressing the representation of men and masculinity in the fiction and popular adaptations of Austen. This anthology includes work by a variety of esteemed and emergent Austen scholars from around the world who engage in a dialogue on critical questions surrounding her fictional treatment of men and masculinity, such as historical (post-French Revolutionary) changes in social expectations for men and women, ...

Strange forces are at work causing Penny Cornwall to see and hear people from the past and feel all their emotions. More disconcerting is the tune she does not recognise play over and over inside the English Cotswold stone cottage she shares with Harry Winchester. The music will not go away, spoiling the rural idyll she and Harry have found. And so begins a fruitless search to find the source of the music and its title, a quest that rapidly becomes an obsession taking over her life and thr...

Utilizing Dr. Martin Luther King's Beloved Community framework, activists will be empowered to create change and equity through fierce yet compassionate dialogue against racism and systematic white supremacy.Can a person be both fierce and compassionate at once? Directly challenge racist speech or actions without seeking to humiliate the other person? Interrupt hateful or habitual forms of discrimination in new ways that foster deeper change? Dr. Roxy Manning believes it's possible...

Featuring essays from David Olusoga, Dawn Butler MP, Kit de Waal, Kwame Kwei-Armah, and many more.In response to the international outcry at George Floyd's death, Lenny Henry and Marcus Ryder have commissioned this collection of essays to discuss how and why we need to fight for Black lives to matter - not just for Black people but for society as a whole.Recognising Black British experience within the Black Lives Matter movement, nineteen prominent Black fi...

A helpful and easy to follow guide to building your own shed or sun house. Full of illustrations, including an introductory essay on woodworking.

"Keep My White Sneakers, Kit Carson" is a book about the Blackfeet Indians and the mountain men, trappers who tried to survive in the same, stunningly beautiful land just northwest of the Great Plains in what is now Colorado, Utah, Wyoming and Montana. That they would get in each other's way was a given if one understands the fiercely independent nature of both. In a twist of science fiction, Ted, a high school student, is hurled back in time to join the man reputed to be the grea...

"The Life of Kit Carson" is a Western novel by American author E. S. Ellis. The story is based around the exaggerated exploits of Kit Carson, a legendary hunter, scout, and guide in the American Old West. A fantastic example of classic Western fiction, "The Life of Kit Carson" is not to be missed by fans of the genre. Contents include: "Kit Carson's Youth", "His Visit To New Mexico", "Acts As Interpreter And In Various Other Employments", "Joins A Party Of Trappers And Engages In A Fight W...