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sketching from nature 1883

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Name: sketching from nature 1883
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Size: 2.71 MB

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Title: Sketching from nature
Author: Tristram James Ellis
Language: angielski
Year: 2025
Subjects: Art, Nonfiction
Publisher: David & Charles
ISBN: 9781849762069
Total pages: 173

Description:

Learn how to start a botanical sketchbook, to improve both your drawing skills and your appreciation of the natural world, with renowned botanical illustrator and tutor Dianne Sutherland.
Sketchbooks are a simple and accessible way of becoming more involved with nature, with all the wellbeing benefits that brings, while learning to draw and paint with purpose. This beautiful yet practical book is aimed at those just starting out in botanical art and nature journaling, as well as more experienced artists looking to evolve their sketching practice.
• Explore a variety of subjects: From delicate flowers and towering trees to fascinating insects and their habitats.
• Learn to compose your sketches effectively: Highlight key features and capture the unique beauty of each specimen.
• Experiment with different techniques and materials: Add depth and dimension to your work with expert guidance.
• Incorporate colour swatches, notes, and labels: Enhance your sketchbook’s educational value and create a lasting record of your observations.
In this comprehensive book packed with step-by-step instructions, Dianne generously shares her knowledge on selecting the perfect sketchbook (or even making your own with simple bookbinding techniques), to the in-depth development of sketchbook pages, covering content and composition, what parts of the plant to include, how to deal with different subjects, and now to bring your work to life with simple watercolour techniques.
Illustrated throughout with examples of Dianne’s beautiful sketchbook pages this is a truly inspirational guide that will give you everything you need to start creating stunning nature sketchbooks and journals.
Discover the profound therapeutic benefits of botanical sketchbooking, immerse yourself in nature, observe the intricate details of plants and insects, and harness your creativity to capture their essence on paper with Sketching Nature.

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sketching and rendering in pencil 1922

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Name: sketching and rendering in pencil 1922
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Size: 34.12 MB

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Title: Colored Pencil Basics
Author: Cynthia Knox
Language: polski
Year: 2020
Subjects: Art, Nonfiction
Publisher: Walter Foster Publishing
ISBN: 9781633228443
Total pages: 200

Description:

Discover the secrets to creating beautiful, realistic colored pencil drawings with Drawing: Colored Pencil Basics.
*Named One of the 54 Best Colored Pencil Drawing Books of All Time by BookAuthority*
Whether you’re a novice or an accomplished artist just getting started with colored pencil, Drawing: Colored Pencil Basics provides you with the instruction and inspiration you need to master this versatile medium. By starting with the necessary supplies and basic techniques, this colorful, comprehensive guidebook gives you a solid foundation so you can work through each stunning project with ease and joy. Award-winning artist Cynthia Knox first teaches the fundamentals: tools and materials, colored pencil techniques, color basics, the basic shapes drawing method, the grid method, using photo references, and more. She explores blending, burnishing, and layering colors, plus a range of styles and techniques for creating your own works of art in colored pencil.
After learning the basics of drawing in colored pencil, move on to the step-by-step lessons, which demonstrate how to draw strikingly realistic still life and animals. Each drawing project in this 10.25 x 13.75-inch book focuses on a specific technique. Included drawing projects are a fall leaf, a colorful cupcake, a butterfly on a flower, a pony, a bowl of cherries, and a puppy-all in gorgeous, realistic detail. A reference photograph is used for each project, so you can learn how to transform your everyday photographs into beautiful pieces of art with only paper and colored pencil.
Designed for beginners, the How to Draw & Paint series offers easy-to-follow guides that introduce artists to basic tools and materials and include simple step-by-step lessons for a variety of projects suitable for the aspiring artist. Drawing: Colored Pencil Basics allows artists to develop drawing skills by demonstrating how to start with basic shapes and use pencil and coloring techniques to create varied textures, values, and details for realistic colored pencil drawings.

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sketches of printers and printing in colonial new york 1969

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Name: sketches of printers and printing in colonial new york 1969
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Title: Sketches of printers and printing in colonial New York
Author: Charles Swift Riché Hildeburn
Language: angielski
Year: 2012
Subjects: N/A
Publisher: Wydawnictwo: Forgotten Books
ISBN: N/A
Total pages: 215

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Published: 1920
In this book I have sketched the principles of the mental life of groups and have made a rough attempt to apply these principles to the understanding of the hfe of nations. I have had the substance of the book in the form of lecture notes for some years, but have long hesitated to pub Ush it. I have been held back, partly by my sense of the magnitude and difficulty of the subject and the inadequacy of my own preparation for deahng with it, partly because I wished to build upon a firm foundation of generally accepted principles of human nature. Some fifteen years ago I projected a complete treatise on Social Psychology which would have comprised the substance of the present volume. I was prevented from carrying out the ambitious scheme, partly by the difficulty of finding a pubhsher, partly by my increasing sense of the lack of any generally accepted or acceptable account of the constitution of human nature. I found it necessary to attempt to provide such a foundation, and in 1908 pub Ushed my Introduction to Social Psychology. That book has enjoyed a certain popular success. But it was more novel, more revolutionary, than I had supposed when writing it; and my hope that it would rapidly be accepted by my colleagues as in the main a true account of the fundamentals of human nature has not been reahsed. All this part of psychology labours under the great difficulty that the worker in it cannot, like other men of science, pubhsh his conclusions as discoveries which will necessarily be accepted by any persons competent to judge. He can only state his conclusions and his reasonings and hope that they may gradually gain the general approval of his colleagues. For to the obscure questions of fact with which he deals it is in the nature of things impossible to return answers supported by indisputable experimental proofs.

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skates and rays-interesting fishes of great food value with 29 recipes for cooking them 1918

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Name: skates and rays-interesting fishes of great food value with 29 recipes for cooking them 1918
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Title: Skates and rays. Interesting fishes of great food value, with 29 recipes for cooking them
Author: Moore, H. F. (Henry Frank), 1867-1948
Language: angielski
Year: 2022
Subjects: N/A
Publisher: Wydawnictwo: Penguin Workshop
ISBN: 9780593223499
Total pages: 9

Description:

“Gaby Melian tells so many stories through her relationship with food-about love, about loss, about hard work, and about finding her passion. The pages are dripping with delicious smells and tastes, and will give you a new way to look at both cooking and what it means to have a plan.” -Molly Birnbaum, editor in chief, America’s Test Kitchen Kids

In this moving, personal account, chef and activist Gaby Melian shares her journey with food and how creating a relationship with food – however simple or complicated – is a form of activism in its own right.

“Food rescued me so many other times – not only because I sold food to survive. I cook to entertain; I cook to be liked; I cook to be loved.” In this installment, chef and activist Gaby Melian shares her personal journey with food – from growing up in Argentina to her time as a Jersey City street vendor and later, as Bon Appetit’s test kitchen manager. Powerful and full of heart, here, Melian explores how we can develop a relationship with food that’s healthy, sustainable, and thoughtful.

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sixty years of journalism-anecdotes and reminiscences 1906

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Name: sixty years of journalism-anecdotes and reminiscences 1906
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Size: 3.31 MB

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Title: Sixty Years of Journalism
Author: Harry Findlater Bussey
Language: angielski
Year: 2022
Subjects: N/A
Publisher: Wydawnictwo: Europe Comics
ISBN: N/A
Total pages: 306

Description:

A subtle and touching tale of liberation, following a protagonist on the path to self-discovery. On the day of her sixtieth birthday, Josy refuses to blow out the candles on her cake. Her bags are packed. She’s come to a decision: she’s going to win back her freedom by taking off in her old Volkswagen minibus! Even if it means leaving behind her husband and family. In a state of shock, they all blame her for making such a selfish move. But is it really so selfish to listen to that little voice deep within? Josy soon finds support among new friends who have faced similar scorn and incomprehension from family and society… But will that be enough to stop her from leaving once more? Perhaps a newfound love can help her find her way…

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six hundred receipts worth their weight in gold

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Name: six hundred receipts worth their weight in gold
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Size: 13.97 MB

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Title: Six hundred receipts, worth their weight in gold : including receipts for cooking, making preserves, perfumery, cordials, ice creams, inks, paints, dyes of all kinds, cider, vinegar, wines, spirits, whiskey, brandy, gin, etc., and how to make imitations of all kinds of liquors : together with valuable gauging tables : the collections, testing, and improvements on the receipts extending over a period of thirty years
Author: Marquart, John
Language: angielski
Year: 2018
Subjects: N/A
Publisher: Wydawnictwo: Tor Books
ISBN: 1250295297
Total pages: 332

Description:

Winslow Remington Houndstooth, notorious outlaw, handsomest heartbreaker in the American South, has just finished a lucrative job, but he’s faced with a hippo-sized problem that would test even the most seasoned of hoppers. A slyly funny, raucous adventure in the alternate America of Sarah Gailey’s River of Teeth and Taste of Marrow.

https://www.tor.com/2018/04/18/worth-her-weight-in-gold-sarah-gailey/

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simple rules and problems in navigation 1918

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Name: simple rules and problems in navigation 1918
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Size: 2.37 MB

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Title: Simple rules and problems in navigation
Author: Charles Hurst Cugle
Language: angielski
Year: 2015
Subjects: N/A
Publisher: Wydawnictwo: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 1500951641
Total pages: 266

Description:

I would do anything for my dream job. Now I have to.

In order to save my skin at the office, I’m forced to sell it at an exclusive and illegal blindfold club. He paid thousands of dollars for one night to own me, but when my blindfold comes off, I want more. More nights, more rules, and more from this unavailable and uncompromising man.

Rule number one, no questions. Rule number two, no lies. But, rule number three? That’s the hardest one to obey.

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simple elements of navigation 1890

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Name: simple elements of navigation 1890
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Size: 10.19 MB

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Title: Simple Elements of Navigation
Author: Lucien Young
Language: angielski
Year: 2017
Subjects: N/A
Publisher: Wydawnictwo: UWA Publishing
ISBN: 9781742589213
Total pages: 235

Description:

The year of the Slippery When Wet Tour three girls leave their safe suburban world to spend a life-changing night in a forest on the outskirts of Melbourne, where they plan a half-serious séance to call forth bushranger Ned Kelly. A world away in time Edward Kelley – alchemist, necromancer and crystal ball ‘scryer’ for Elizabeth I’s astrologist Doctor Dee – is beset by visions. Narratives from 1987, 1587 and 2087 merge and converge as this gothic ghost story becomes a fantastic tale of possession in a blazing work of speculative fiction.

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simple cooking of wholesome food for the farm home-1913

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Name: simple cooking of wholesome food for the farm home-1913
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Size: 2.42 MB

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Title: Simple cooking of wholesome food for the farm home
Author: Rich, Jessie Pinning
Language: angielski
Year: 2025
Subjects: Cooking & Food, Nonfiction
Publisher: Rock Point
ISBN: 9781577154754
Total pages: 36

Description:

Discover how delectably simple and healthy French cooking can be with Paris-born food influencer Géraldine Leverd (@la.cuisine.de.geraldine).
As a French girl who loves to share her national cuisine, Géraldine has made it her mission to teach others how to make delicious and inspiring home-cooked meals using French cooking methods. In The New French Kitchen, Geraldine demystifies French cooking with delectable yet easy-to-make recipes that have a little twist, or je ne sais quoi.
Say au revoir to being intimidated by French cooking and learn how to add sure-to-be-favorite recipes to your rotation, including quiches; salads; appetizers; soups; meat, fish, and vegetarian mains; and desserts. In The New French Kitchen, you’ll find:

Over 70 brand-new recipes

Twists on French classics, lesser-known French recipes, and Géraldine’s own French-inspired creations

How to stock your modern French pantry

Recipes for cooks of all levels that feature fresh, easy-to-find ingredients and plenty of vegetarian options

Flexible recipes for brunches, lunches, dinners, and special occasions

A stunning photo accompanying every recipe

Beautiful binding, including a cloth-textured cover and a ribbon marker for fashionable flair

Thoughtfully curated, vibrantly delicious, and, most importantly, accessible, these recipes are your roadmap to mastering the art of new French cooking.

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simonov sks-aks-ak47 assault rifle

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Name: simonov sks-aks-ak47 assault rifle
Format: pdf
Size: 3.01 MB

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Title: The World’s Assault Rifles
Author: Gary Paul Johnston, Thomas B. Nelson
Language: angielski
Year: 2023
Subjects: N/A
Publisher: Wydawnictwo: Chipotle Publishing
ISBN: 0996521887
Total pages: 30

Description:

The World’s Assault Rifles, Third Edition, is an in-depth history of the gradual turning point from the type of rifles used by the world’s armies before the 20th Century.

The lighter, shorter and automatic models first seen in the mid-1930’s proved superior where closer offenses and mass assaults took place using the advances in rifles and ammunition. 77 countries, twenty-four chapters and some 1,200 images fill 1,239 pages with weapons and their history as never before seen, as well as a view of what the future may hold, not only in weaponry, but also how they affect how wars might be fought.

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