Anyone who can hold a pencil can learn to draw.In this book, Bert Dodson shares his complete drawing system-fifty-five "keys" that you can use to render any subject with confidence, even if you're a beginner.These keys, along with dozens of practice exercises, will help you draw like an artist in no time.You'll learn how to:• Restore, focus, map, and intensify• Free your hand action, then learn to control it• C...

Health on the Move 3: The Reviews - volume II series, highlights new advances in the field, with this new volume presenting interesting chapters. Each chapter is written by an international board of authors. - Provides the latest information on public health research - Offers outstanding and original reviews on a range of human health and several impact research topics - Serves as an indispensable reference for researchers and students alike

In The Dilemma of the Liberated, Gorham Munson offers a spirited defense of American Humanism for readers adrift in a modern world of broken authorities and competing beliefs. Framed as a tribute to Seward B. Collins, the book argues that Humanism is not merely a literary movement but a practical philosophy of education, politics, morals, science, and daily conduct, meant to restore order, discipline, and wisdom where modern freedom has become bewildering. Munson traces Humanism from the R...

"The Million-Euro Citizen Spy" picks up where the book "Jacob Hof's Resistance Group" left off, telling the story of a conspiracy at the former Ministry of Security and Justice, where Jacob Hof worked. The plot was not officially deemed proven, but political leaders in the Netherlands and abroad—as well as Jacob Hof himself—knew better. Political relations in the Netherlands were completely turned upside down afterward. What happened next? What were the consequences for Jacob Hof when he l...

Bert Stiles (1920-1944) was an American author of short stories who was killed in action during World War II while serving as a fighter pilot in the US Army Air Forces.His mother commemorated his memory by having his book published in 1947 in England (Lindsay Drummond Ltd.), with its first U.S. publication in 1952 (W.W. Norton & Company). Entitled Serenade to the Big Bird, the book achieved cult status among aviation enthusiasts for its honest depictions of bomber ...

After completing a tour of duty (thirty-five missions) in B-17s, Bert Stiles transferred to a fighter squadron. Just four months later he was killed in action on an escort mission to Hanover, Germany, on November 26, 1944, at the age of 23. Serenade to the Big Bird achieved cult status among aviation enthusiasts for its honest depictions of bomber combat and also won favorable literary reviews for its spare, Hemingway-style prose and its anti-war sensitivity.

There is great news and bad news when it comes to podcasting.The great news? Anybody can start a podcast. The bad news? Anybody can start a podcast. And it seems as if everyone is starting a podcast.A simple Google search reveals countless guides about how to start a podcast. From equipment to software, someone can go live with a new podcast in a matter of days with simple step-by-step instructions about recording and launching th...

Build deep learning models with PyTorch for vision, recommendations, time series, and language tasks. Train, evaluate, fine-tune, monitor, and deploy models with modern supporting tools.Key FeaturesBroad model coverage spans vision, recommendations, graphs, forecasting, and language tasksProduction-focused workflows combine training metrics, monitoring, fine-tuning, and deploymentModern PyTorch tooling includes Lightning, TensorBoard, MLflow, F...

BERLIN, 1942. The Gestapo arrest eighteen-year-old Bert Lewyn and his parents, sending the latter to their deaths and Bert to work in a factory making guns for the Nazi war effort. Miraculously tipped off the morning the Gestapo round up all the Jews who work in the factories, Bert goes underground. He finds shelter sometimes with compassionate civilians, sometimes with people who find his skills useful and sometimes in the cellars of bombed-out buildings. Without proper identity papers, h...

"We Catholics simply don't expect enough of the sacraments. Sometimes I think they must be the most underutilized power sources on the planet." —from Chapter One. The sacraments lie dormant for many because we don't understand them and don't know how to tap into their supernatural energy. Living the Sacraments weaves together Scripture, the writings of the saints, and personal stories to help us understand these seven gifts of the Church and experience their practical and spiritual rewards...

**The first-ever user-friendly guide to Bert Hellinger’s Family Constellations—a powerful group therapy method for interrupting intergenerational trauma, healing painful family patterns, and reclaiming your own empowered narrativeIncludes insights on somatic wisdom, the seven stages of a constellation session, and bringing relational dynamics into awareness for healing and growth**In Family Constellations, Joy Manné introduces the groundbreaking work of Bert Hellin...

College Bound is a touching, coming-of-age story, which tells the tale of a young, working class man who overcomes financial challenges, alcoholism, and a devastating accident to attend college. The main character endures long, punishing hours in the hard rock construction trade and spends his evenings working on muscle cars but he dreams of a better life. He eventually sells everything he owns including his prized Shelby mustang to swap a life of cutting stone and pouring concrete for a c...