This ebook on landscape painting in watercolour is a no-nonsense guide that really gets down to basics.In The Duffer’s Guide to Painting Watercolour Landscapes Don Harrison shows just how easy it can be to learn to paint effective and realistic landscapes in watercolour. With a simple and straightforward approach, using easy-to-follow step-by-step sequences, he teaches how to paint skies, mountains, boats, trees, bridges, buildings and figures in the landscape.He starts wit...

Whether Connecticut fans were cheering on Connecticutteams in baseball's major and minor leagues or watching their native sons participate in America's favorite pastime all across the country, they have taken satisfaction in the contributions of the Nutmeg State. As former Commissioner of Baseball Fay Vincent notes in hisforeword, Don Harrison has lovingly assembled the best selections from a lifetime spent covering Connecticut's corner of the game. Read twenty-five interviews from his own...

Home to both the University of Connecticut's men's and women's NCAA championship teams as well as the Connecticut Sun WNBA team, this small state has made a name for itself in basketball. Infatuation with the sport started here in 1896 with the first intercollegiate game between Yale and Wesleyan Universities. The roster of Connecticut's round ball greats includes Naismith Hall-of-Famer Calvin Murphy; NBA stars Vin Baker, Marcus Camby, Charles Smith, the late John Williamson, Johnny Egan a...

Harry had been admitted to the small group who know Atharrais' heavily-rationed secrets. A shocking meeting resulted in a life-changing induction to the innermost workings of the world around us. In the process he had discovered a true soulmate for the first time in his life, but despaired of them ever being together.However his life appeared to be falling apart since the great revelations of the last year.When everything seemed predestined and comfortable Harry had realise...

In the aftermath of the events in Symmetry Violations, Atharrais must now discover what really happened.Several strands of research merge with a series of unexpected events to throw new light on reality. The truth that emerges is even stranger and more concerning than Atharrais had imagined. As usual, actions put in place to achieve their goals lead to unexpected and unwanted side-effects.Harry is trying to recover as much of his life as he can, but nothing seems to be as i...

"A well-conceived and well-argued book that is essential reading for those interested in the study of community building." --Journal of American History"This study is important for both frontier and urban historians. It is well written, thoroughly documented, and illustrated in an informative manner. One may hope that future studies of other nineteenth century American towns will be completed with the competence and style of this excellent volume." --The Old Northwest

The cheeky, curious fox finds boredom in the day-to-day predictability of the forest he knows as home. Despite the admiration of other woodland creatures, he decides to venture far, only to be enamored by bigger animals than himself. The bears and wolf along this new path are in want of friendship but the fox soon becomes aware that there are both good and bad motives behind their advances. He begins to wonder if he should engage or find his way back to his delightful den.Told as a...

'Masterful' GEORGE AINSLIE'A fascinating tour of risk taking in the natural world' ADAM KUCHARSKI'A sweeping and page-turning story' NICK CHATER'A fascinating and challenging explanation of how the secrets to human success may be our downfall' PSYCHOLOGY TODAYEvolution is a series of bets, and no animal gambles the way humans do. This has led us to unprecedented ecological dominance...

The personal and professional story of a former FBI agent, this is the journey Don Adams has taken over the past 50 years that has connected him to the assassination of the 35th president of the United States. On November 13, 1963, Adams was given a priority assignment to investigate Joseph Milteer, a man who had made threats to assassinate the president. Two weeks later John F. Kennedy was dead, and Agent Adams was instructed to locate and question Milteer. Adams, however, was only allowe...

You're doing everything right.You take breaks. You unwind with Netflix. You scroll to "decompress." You take care of yourself.And you're still exhausted.Here's why: Modern "rest" isn't rest. It's just different work disguised as relaxation.Your grandparents worked harder—manual labor, long hours, no modern conveniences. But they weren't burned out the way you are.The difference? Their lives had built-in restoration. Yours has infinite stimulation.

Mama, something terrible is wrong with me. There is blood in my panties! Those were the words of seven-year-old Sarah. Mama told her she must have fallen or something and not to worry. Sarah went away feeling sad; her chance for help was gone! It was Sarahs alter, Susie, who had been sticking pencils and other items in her private place. Susie had come when Sarah was only four years old. Susie had become Daddys special little girl by sitting on his lap. In return he gave her a dollar for any...

One of the military leaders of South America's long fight for independence from Spain, Argentinean general Jose de San Martin (1778-1850) is not well known outside Spanish-speaking lands. But his revolutionary spirit and legend as a great hero of Argentina—and of all of South America—makes him a brother in courage and character to the likes of George Washington. First published in 1943, this is one of the very few biographies of the general and political leader in the English language. A l...