Discover how to capture the female figure in fantasy-themed artwork with this handy guide featuring all the techniques and tips you’ll need.Readers will learn how to draw and paint truly fabulous fantasy females with this practical and inspirational guide for improver artists. Fleming demonstrates the basics of female anatomical structure, how to use both drawing and painting media effectively, and how to design and build fantasy female characters. Key to this subj...

Ottawa County, Kansas. The homesteader era. The eastern newspapers of the period promoted the Midwestern frontier as a paradise for settlers. They didn't mention the Indian raids, droughts, grasshopper plagues, and prairie fires that awaited the pioneers. 'Prairie Tapestry' tells the true tales of the visitors and homesteaders of Ottawa County, Kansas - Horace Greeley, Susan B. Anthony, George Washington Carver, and 'Lincoln's Little Girl,' Grace Bedell. The settlers confronted the numerou...

The four Gospels from the widely acclaimed modern literary classic The New Testament in Scots are now being made available as an audio digital download for the first time. Tom Fleming's reading brings out the poetry, wit and humanity of William Lorimer's translation in a way which speaks to everyone.

The four Gospels from the widely acclaimed modern literary classic The New Testament in Scots are now being made available as an audio digital download for the first time. Tom Fleming's reading brings out the poetry, wit and humanity of William Lorimer's translation in a way which speaks to everyone.

The four Gospels from the widely acclaimed modern literary classic The New Testament in Scots are now being made available as an audio digital download for the first time. Tom Fleming's reading brings out the poetry, wit and humanity of William Lorimer's translation in a way which speaks to everyone.

The four Gospels from the widely acclaimed modern literary classic The New Testament in Scots are now being made available as an audio digital download for the first time. Tom Fleming's reading brings out the poetry, wit and humanity of William Lorimer's translation in a way which speaks to everyone.

In "Tom Jones" schildert Henry Fielding die abenteuerliche Odyssee seines Protagonisten, eines foundlings namens Tom, durch die gesellschaftlichen und moralischen Strukturen des 18. Jahrhunderts in England. Der Roman kombiniert Elemente der Komödie und Satire, wobei Fielding meisterhaft die menschlichen Schwächen und die Absurditäten seiner Zeit offenbart. Mit einer vielschichtigen Erzählweise, die an die Tradition des Bildungsromans anknüpft, führt er die Leser durch Toms Entwicklung vom ...

Design, deploy, and maintain your own private or public Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), using the open source OpenStack platform. In this practical guide, experienced developers and OpenStack contributors show you how to build clouds based on reference architectures, as well as how to perform daily administration tasks.Designed for horizontal scalability, OpenStack lets you build a cloud by integrating several technologies. This approach provides flexibility, but knowing which ...

Full-cast adaptations of two Flashman novels, plus a standalone historical romp, a humorous short story and an interview with George MacDonald FraserScottish author George MacDonald Fraser took the loutish bully from Thomas Hughes’ Tom Brown's Schooldays and gave him a new lease of life. Over the course of 12 novels, caddish anti-hero Flashman swashbuckled his way around the British Empire, playing a key role in some of the 19th century’s most significant ...

In "Onkel Toms Hütte" entwirft Harriet Beecher Stowe ein eindringliches Bild der Sklaverei in den Vereinigten Staaten des 19. Jahrhunderts. Durch die prägnante, emotional aufgeladene Erzählweise verdichtet Stowe das Elend und die moralischen Konflikte, die das Leben von Sklaven prägten. Das Werk kombiniert fiktive Charaktere mit historischen Bezügen und bietet eine erschütternde Kritik an der Sklaverei, die sowohl die gesellschaftlichen als auch die individuellen Dimensionen des Leids bele...

A dream came true for 23-year-old Christina Fleming, when she got the opportunity to interview Ysaye Barnwell, a member of the Grammy award-winning African American female a cappella ensemble Sweet Honey in the Rock. Experience her excitement as she and Barnwell discuss a myriad of topics, from the group’s African roots to the magic behind the manifestation of dreams.

"Onkel Toms Hütte" ist ein bedeutendes literarisches Werk, das 1852 von Harriet Beecher Stowe veröffentlicht wurde. In diesem eindringlichen Roman wird das leidvolle Schicksal der Sklaven in den Südstaaten der USA dargestellt, wobei Stowe in ihrem emotionalen und fesselnden Erzählstil sowohl die Grausamkeiten der Sklaverei als auch die Würde und den Glauben der Betroffenen schildert. Der Roman ist nicht nur ein sozialkritisches Dokument, sondern auch ein wichtiger Bestandteil der abolition...