在世界着名艺术家Trevor Waugh的帮助下，您可以立即开始绘制美丽的水彩花卉！ 在这个有趣，易于理解的指南中，充满灵感的绘画和有用的逐步序列，特雷弗沃伊展示了他绘画水彩花园的*重要技巧。 他讨论了基本形状以及如何将它们结合起来; 产生令人回味的效果; 设计完美的构图; 并创造美丽，细致入微的色彩混合 - 包括栩栩如生的绿色植物。 *重要的是，通过他对使用坚硬，柔软和破碎边缘，巧妙观察和不同角度的详细建议，您将把您的艺术性提升到令人兴奋的新水平。 With the help of world-renowned artist Trevor Waugh, you can begin painting beautiful watercolor flowers right away! In this fun, easy-to-follow guide, packed with inspirational paintings and helpful step-by-step sequences, Trevor Waugh lays out his most important techniques for painting a garden of watercolor flowers. He discusses basic shapes and how to combine them

The moral of this book is that behind every great engineeringsuccess is a trail of often ignored (but frequently spectacular)engineering failures. Petroski covers many of the best knownexamples of well-intentioned but ultimately failed design in action-- the galloping Tacoma Narrows Bridge (which you've probably seentossing cars willy-nilly in the famous black-and-white footage),the collapse of the Kansas City Hyatt Regency Hotel walkways -- andmany lesser known but equally informative examples. The line ofreasoning Petroski develops in this book were later formalized intohis quasi-Darwinian model of technological evolution in TheEvolution of Useful Things , but this book is arguably the moreilluminating -- and defintely the more enjoyable -- of these twotitles. Highly recommended.

Preserved by Arabic mathematicians and canonized by Christianscholars, Aristotle’s works have shaped Western thought, science,and religion for nearly two thousand years. Richard McKeon’s TheBasic Works of Aristotle –constituted out of the definitiveOxford translation and in print as a Random House hardcover forsixty years–has long been considered the best available one-volumeAristotle. Appearing in paperback at long last, this editionincludes selections from the Organon, On the Heavens, The ShortPhysical Treatises, Rhetoric, among others, and On the Soul, OnGeneration and Corruption, Physics, Metaphysics, NicomacheanEthics, Politics, and Poetics in their entirety.

This lively and imaginative book is being used to helpchildren learn about music and sound while they develop the abilityto listen, concentrate, be creative, improvise; and trust oneanother. Using audiocassettes or CDs of popular songs and simpleinstruments, children and adults get to play listening games,concentration games, musical quizzes, and more. The games are notcompetitive--they encourage and reward children for participating,not for winning.

Antonio Stradivari (1644—1737) was a perfectionist whosesingle-minded pursuit of excellence changed the world of music. Inthe course of his long career in the northern Italian city ofCremona, he created more than a thousand stringed instruments;approximately six hundred survive, their quality unequalled by anysubsequent violin-maker. In this fascinating book, Toby Fabertraces the rich, multilayered stories of six of these peerlesscreations–five violins and a cello–and the one towering artist whobrought them into being. Blending history, biography, meticulousdetective work, and an abiding passion for music, Faber takes usfrom the salons of Vienna to the concert halls of New York, andfrom the breakthroughs of Beethoven’s last quartets to the firstphonographic recordings. This magnificent narrative invites us toshare the life, the intrigue, and the incomparable beauty of theworld’s most marvelous stringed instruments.

Vintage presents the paperback edition of the wild andbrilliant writings of Lester Bangs--the most outrageous and popularrock critic of the 1970s--edited and with an introduction by thereigning dean of rack critics, Greil Marcus. Advertising in RollingStone and other major publications.

Now in paperback, the fascinating, quirky, highly acclaimedbook about that indispensable object, the pencil. Petroski tracesits origins back to ancient Greece and Rome, writes factually andcharmingly about its development, and shows what the pencil canteach us about engineering and technology today.

"A cat book with class, this sumptuously produced, highlyliterate collection of felinity as represented in art, literature,and photography is sure to elicit purrs, " raved Publishers Weeklywhen this BOMC Selection was published in 1982. Long out of print,this cat-lovers dream book is now reissued in paperback. 70full-color reproductions. --Ce texte fait référence à uneédition épuisée ou non disponible de ce titre.

When it was originally published in 1970, "How to Draw What YouSee" zoomed to the top of Watson-Guptill's best-seller list--and ithas remained there ever since. "I believe that you must be able todraw things as you see them--realistically," wrote Rudy de Reyna inhis introduction. Today, generations of artists have learned todraw what they see, to truly capture the world around them, usingde Reyna's methods. "How to Draw What You See" shows artists how torecognize the basic shape of an object--cube, cylinder, cone, orsphere--and use that shape to draw the object, no matter how muchdetail it contains.

A passionate, critically incisive biography of one of the mostinfluential rappers of all time, Tupac Shakur, and how he came todominate hip-hop in the 1990s In 1996 Tupac Shakur, a talentedrapper and actor, was murdered in Las Vegas. No one has ever beenarrested for the crime. Tayannah Lee McQuillar and Professor FredL. Johnson examine Tupac's story, from his family roots inLumberton, North Carolina, and Virginia through his meteoric riseto fame and tragic fall. Shakur was a hero to the poor, theimprisoned, the hopeless, and the voiceless. But there was anotherside of him, revealed as his life spun out of control, as thewhispered warnings from friends went unheeded and the denunciationsof critics grew louder. His death ended an era when Americanrappers used their art to speak the truth to corporate, government,and judicial power.