'The essential guide to putting down your phone' - Catherine Price'Everyone should read this book!' - Annabel Streets'When I owned a smartphone, my life was bad. I knew this. What I did not know was that I had a choice.'August Lamm knows how it feels to be glued to a screen. In her late twenties, burnt out as a social media influencer, she sold her smartphone and switched to a dumb phone. Immediately, her mental heal...

**In this revelatory manifesto, anti-tech activist August Lamm gives you the courage and confidence to ditch your smartphone once and for all.“The essential guide to putting down your phone — and coming back to real life.”—Catherine Price, #1 NYT bestselling author of How to Break Up With Your Phone**When I owned a smartphone, my life was bad. I knew this. What I did not know was that I had a choice.August Lamm wasted her yo...

Learn the unique art of crosshatching and create stunning works of art with expert guidance from August Lamm.How to Crosshatch in Pen & Ink begins with a potted history of the artform, and elucidates exactly what crosshatching entails, and where it came from. After a helpful exploration of the materials and media that a crosshatcher may need, there then begins a practical guide to the very basics of crosshatching, approaching concepts such as how to look accurately, and ho...

Lambing Season follows a young woman, a newly disabled illustrator, as she comes to terms with a body that can no longer produce art. Desperate for stability in the wake of her diagnosis, she follows an impulse to move to rural Wales and become engaged to a near stranger, a misanthropic airplane pilot living in a rundown house to save money while attending flight school. Putting immense faith in the redemptive power of marriage, the pair are united by their recklessness and little...

'The essential guide to putting down your phone' - Catherine Price'Everyone should read this book!' - Annabel Streets'When I owned a smartphone, my life was bad. I knew this. What I did not know was that I had a choice.'August Lamm knows how it feels to be glued to a screen. In her late twenties, burnt out as a social media influencer, she sold her smartphone and switched to a dumb phone. Immediately, her mental heal...

**In this revelatory manifesto, anti-tech activist August Lamm gives you the courage and confidence to ditch your smartphone once and for all.“The essential guide to putting down your phone — and coming back to real life.”—Catherine Price, #1 NYT bestselling author of How to Break Up With Your Phone**When I owned a smartphone, my life was bad. I knew this. What I did not know was that I had a choice.August Lamm wasted her yo...

Former NFL general manager and three-time Super Bowl winner Michael Lombardi takes readers on the ultimate journey through the NFL's history to present his calls on the greatest players and coaches the sport has ever seen.From Monday Night Football to Super Bowl Sunday, the NFL is a dominating force in the lives of millions of fans who tune in and passionately cheer for their favorite teams. And when the games are over, the conversation is just getting started. Who...

Arthur L. Guptill's classic Rendering in Pen and Ink has long been regarded as the most comprehensive book ever published on the subject of ink drawing. This is a book designed to delight and instruct anyone who draws with pen and ink, from the professional artist to the amateur and hobbyist. It is of particular interest to architects, interior designers, landscape architects, industrial designers, illustrators, and renderers.Contents include a review of materials and tool...

Learning to draw needn't be complicated or expensive, nor does one need a particularly spectacular subject to draw.In this, his first practical art book, artist Matthew Rice encourages readers to look at and draw the scenes around them - the desk they are sitting at, the view out the window, a bowl of produce from the supermarket. And it is by truly sitting with and engaging with our everyday world that drawing skills can be learnt and strengthened, confidence buil...

Capture the details of your unique and remarkable experiences with this illustrated guide to drawing your travels and adventures, whether close to home or around the world.In Draw Your Adventures, artist and illustrator Samantha Dion Baker invites you to savor moments and capture memories using your eyes, your creativity, and a few art-making tools. With as little as a sketchbook and some pens, begin a new art practice or enliven an existing one with inspi...

Connect with your deepest emotions through a daily sketching practice and transform negative thinking and anxiety into abundant possibilities, mindfulness and joy.You don't need to be an artist to express yourself. Discover the meditative and therapeutic tool that will help you find true fulfilment, healing and creative freedom. All you need is a pen and paper, and a willingness to reflect and look within.During a difficult time in her life, Sheila Darcey f...

**"An essential text for all students of design . . . [and] inspiration and intel for those simply interested in the art and practice." --Alexa Hampton, from the forewordFrom the nation's top college for interior design comes a definitive design school in a book and a fabulous reference for decorating the home.** In the past decade, New York School of Interior Design, which was founded in 1916, has drawn a large crossover audience of passionate decorating enthusiasts and hobbyists-...