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Series
Publisher
Walter Foster Jr., an imprint of The Quarto Group
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"With How to Draw Dinosaurs, young artists learn to bring these incredible creatures to life, guided by realistic illustrations and step-by-step instructions for 20 different dinosaur species. Fascinating facts throughout provide inspiration and learning opportunities. The book opens with a brief description of how to get started, using basic drawing tools. Each drawing lesson begins with a basic shape and progresses, step by step, to a finished piece...
Series
Publisher
Walter Foster Jr
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"With How to Draw Zoo Animals, young artists learn to bring their favorite creatures to life, guided by realistic illustrations and step-by-step instructions for 20 different animals found at the zoo. Now anyone can learn to draw realistic animals! Simple step-by-step instructions make it fun and easy to draw a lifelike animals, including: panda bear, giraffe, elephant, tiger, cheetah, toucan, and more. Each drawing lesson begins with a basic shape...
3) How to draw sea creatures: learn to draw 20 ocean animals, step by easy step, shape by simple shape!
Series
Publisher
Walter Foster Jr
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"Few artistic subjects can compete with the vibrant, colorful splendor of the ocean and its inhabitants. Now kids can learn to re-create their own underwater world with How to Draw Sea Creatures, where they ll find easy-to-follow, step-by-step instructions for drawing 20 different aquatic creatures of all shapes and sizes."-- provided by publisher.
Author
Language
English
Description
"A graphic edition of historian Timothy Snyders bestselling book of lessons for surviving and resisting Americas arc toward authoritarianism, featuring the visual storytelling talents of renowned illustrator Nora Krug. Timothy Snyders New York Times bestseller On Tyranny uses the darkest moments in twentieth-century history, from Nazism to Communism, to teach twenty lessons on resisting modern-day authoritarianism. Among the twenty include a warning...
5) My Ántonia
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
MY ANTONIA is the wistful tale of an immigrant girl from Bohemia, who has settled in Nebraska. Narrated by Antonia's childhood friend Jim Burden, the novel draws heavily upon Willa Cather's own formative years, as well as, through the persona of Jim, Cather's experience of New York, where she worked as Editor of the MCCLURE magazine. MY ANTONIA is the third in a sequence of Cather's works which deal with immigrant settlers in the USA. Writing as a...
Author
Language
English
Description
"Tell Me More is a funny, wise and insightful exploration of seven sentences adult life requires. With Kelly's signature candor and good will, each chapter draws from her sometimes ridiculous, sometimes profound struggles with parenting and marriage, career and friendship, illness, aging and mortality. Each chapter is animated by poignant, hilarious stories from Kelly's own life and is focused on one of seven sentences: Onward, a one-word sentence...
Publisher
LearningExpress
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
Learn to dissect a story, find the main idea, and draw conclusions through study of practical exercises. With passages from literature, essays, technical writing, and articles, this guide includes lessons with exercises in test format to help you acquire or refresh essential reading comprehension skills.
Author
Publisher
Yellow Pear Press, a division of Mango Publishing Group
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"This beautifully illustrated instructional watercolor book will be perfect for beginning watercolor artists, artists who want to improve their watercolor skills, and visual creatives"--
This vibrant guide is filled with step-by-step instructions to get you started or build on your watercolour painting skills. Learn the tools and skills you need to create gifts, invitations, and wall art.
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Based on her popular commencement speech at the University of Tennessee and drawing on her own life experiences, the country superstar explores the four great hopes she urges everyone to embrace--dream more, learn more, care more, and be more.
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"In this deep and incisive study, General David Petraeus, who commanded the US-led coalitions in both Iraq, during the Surge, and Afghanistan and former CIA director, and the prize-winning historian Andrew Roberts, explore over 70 years of conflict, drawing significant lessons and insights from their fresh analysis of the past. Drawing on their different perspectives and areas of expertise, Petraeus and Roberts show how often critical mistakes have...
Author
Publisher
Maker Media
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
"After-school and out-of-school programs--as well as home schooling--have been growing steadily for nearly a decade, but instructors are still searching for high-interest content that ties into science standards without the rigidity of current classroom canon. The author draws on more than 20 years of experience doing hands-on science to facilitate tinkering: learning science while fooling around with real things. In this book, you'll learn tinkering...
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
In "Why Grow Up? "the philosopher Susan Neiman asks not just why one should grow up but how. In making her case she draws chiefly from the thought of Kant and Rousseau, who articulated very different theories on the proper way to "come of age." But these thinkers complement each other in seeking a "path between mindlessly accepting everything you're told and mindlessly rejecting it," and in learning to live without despair in a world marked by painful...
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"Whether you re a kid who's just starting to read by yourself or a future librarian or both! this book of tips and activities to improve your reading comprehension skills is so much fun you ll forget you re learning!"-- cover page 4.
Author
Publisher
Icon Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Complex, exciting and often turbulent, every teenage experience is different, and growth, development and learning are intrinsic to these years. This book is for anyone who cares about a teenager's wellbeing, development and learning. Experienced professional educational psychologist Kairen Cullen, parent of four adult children, draws upon a wealth of experience as she looks at the areas of particular challenge in the teenage years, and the different...
Author
Series
Publisher
Penguin Workshop
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Author L. M. Montgomery first brought Anne Shirley onto the page in 1908, and this independent and inspiring character has been capturing readers' hearts ever since. The story of an orphaned girl who is sent to Avonlea on Prince Edward Island to live with the Cuthbert family includes adventure, romance, and an ensemble of iconic characters like Diana Barry and Gilbert Blythe. Today, fans enjoy Anne on page, on screen, and even on stage as the popular...
Author
Series
Publisher
Hodder Education
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
A unique programme for diagnosing, understanding and tackling your stress, whatever its source and whatever your needs. The tailored stress management plan draws on the latest psychological research and techniques and will help you return long-term peace to your life.
Author
Series
Publisher
University of Texas Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
At a time when "Friday night lights" shone only on white high school football games, African American teams across Texas burned up the gridiron on Wednesday and Thursday nights. The segregated high schools in the Prairie View Interscholastic League (the African American counterpart of the University Interscholastic League, which excluded black schools from membership until 1967) created an exciting brand of football that produced hundreds of outstanding...
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