Make Your Own Pixel Art is a complete, illustrated introduction to the creation of pixel art aimed at beginners just starting out right through to the experienced pixel artist wanting to enhance their skills.Hand anyone a pencil and paper and they can start drawing, but it's just as easy to draw digitally using a keyboard and mouse. With Make Your Own Pixel Art, pixel artist Jennifer Dawe and game designer Matthew Humphries walk you step-by-step t...

This book gathers together selected papers and book chapters by Dilys Daws, covering her 50 years of pioneering work as a child psychotherapist.It provides those working with parents, infants, and children with a means of learning from Daws’s decades of experience as a psychotherapist and therapeutic consultant, with plentiful case material illustrating her method of working in action. The first two sections of the book focus on her work as consultant psychotherapist in the baby cl...

Timmy loves spending time with his dad. Like most busy families, finding that time was difficult until one magical night when Timmy and his dad embark on their own fantastic moon adventure! Let's Go to the Moon takes readers on an imaginative ride through the stars, past fighting spaceships, and to the surface of the moon! With great imagination, Matthew Dawe crafts an outer space tale that highlights the bond between father and son.Look for more stories from the When Bedtime Is an...

The world of A to Z is one of the first explorations for children, and this colorful, entertaining pre-reader takes children beyond just the alphabet. From author Matthew Dawe, I Have a Friend engages young readers with quirky characters and everyday activities, so each letter brings both a name and action association. This alphabet read-aloud is a fantastic introductory book that will engage children and become an essential in your library.

In The Ecological Thought, eco-philosopher Timothy Morton has argued for the inclusion of “dark ecology” in our thinking about nature. Dark ecology, he argues, puts hesitation, uncertainty, irony, and thoughtfulness back into ecological thinking.” The ecological thought, he says, should include “negativity and irony, ugliness and horror.” Focusing on this concept of “dark ecology” and its invitation to add an anti-pastoral perspective to ecocriticism, this collection of essays on American ...

With the centenary of the First World War, communities across Canada arranged commemorations of the war experience to honour local servicemen who, through their triumphs and sacrifices, were presented as laying the foundation for a free and independent country. Often overlooked are the triumphs and sacrifices of those who supported those soldiers, and the war effort in general, back at home. The Frontier of Patriotism provides an in-depth look at all aspects of Alberta’s involvement in the...

This volume collects contributions from participants in the IWOTA conference held virtually at Lancaster, UK, originally scheduled in 2020 but postponed to August 2021. It includes both survey articles and original research papers covering some of the main themes of the meeting.

What could be worse than letting billions die?In the near future, to escape the crush and clutter of a packed and polluted Earth, the world’s elite flock to Atopia, an enormous corporate-owned artificial island in the Pacific Ocean. It is there that Dr. Patricia Killiam rushes to perfect the ultimate in virtual reality: a program to save the ravaged Earth from mankind’s insatiable appetite for natural resources.The Atopia Chronicles (Book 1 of the ...

"[Dawes] is highly original and intelligent, possessing poetic sensibility that is rooted and sound, unshakeable and unstopped, both in its vibrancy and direction. He writes poetry as it ought to be written."-World Literature Today"Dawes asserts himself as man and artist and finally, with grace achieved and grace said, sits down to begin life's tragic feast . . . a writer of major significance."-Brag Book"The notion of a reggae aesthetic-of the language mo...

Christopher Matthew's tribute to A. A. Milne's classic poems - such as 'Buckingham Palace', 'Lines and Squares', 'Puppy and I' and 'Rice Pudding' - is the perfect listen for those just turning sixty. Publishing for the first time in audio download to coincide with the 20th anniversary of the original publication of the book**.**When Christopher was six, the poems of Milne were always on hand to reassure him that ot...