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Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
"'A great and calamitous sequence of arguments with the universe: poignant, terrifying, ludicrous, and brilliant. The Exegesis is the sort of book associated with legends and madmen, but Dick wasn't a legend and he wasn't mad. He lived among us, and was a genius.'--Jonathan Lethem. Based on thousands of pages of typed and handwritten notes, journal entries, letters, and story sketches, The Exegesis of Philip K. Dick is the magnificent and imaginative...
4) Art escapes: daily exercises & inspirations for discovering greater creativity & artistic confidence
Author
Publisher
North Light Books
Pub. Date
©2003
Language
English
Description
Presents exercises, and inspirations designed to motivate artists and help them discover greater creativity and artistic confidence; includes "page-a-day" ideas and thirteen projects.
Author
Publisher
Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
"The collection of writings and images in this magnificent book are drawn from the original notebooks and cover wide range of subject matter, from the human figure to the mechanics of a crossbow." - back cover.
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
©2007
Language
English
Description
From the Publisher: Leonardo da Vinci's scientific explorations were virtually unknown during his lifetime, despite their extraordinarily wide range. He studied the flight patterns of birds to create some of the first human flying machines; designed military weapons and defenses; studied optics, hydraulics, and the workings of the human circulatory system; and created designs for rebuilding Milan, employing principles still used by city planners today....
11) Alabardas
Author
Publisher
Alfaguara
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
Español
Description
Months before his death, José Saramago felt once again the vital impulse from fiction to reflect on one of its major concerns: violence against persons and societies, which makes them victims and prevents them from owning their absolute lives. The result of this impulse is Halberds, halberds, muskets, shotguns, an exciting footprint inexhaustible fighting spirit of José Saramago and his last narrative will. The unfinished story has a moral conflict...
Author
Publisher
Lake Union Publishing
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Caroline Grant is struggling to accept the end of her marriage when she receives an unexpected bequest. Her beloved great-aunt Lettie leaves her a sketchbook, three keys, and a final whisper ... Venice. Caroline's quest: to scatter Juliet "Lettie" Browning's ashes in the city she loved and to unlock the mysteries stored away for more than sixty years. It's 1938 when art teacher Juliet Browning arrives in romantic Venice. For her students, it's a...
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
The moment the Grace family moves into the dilapidated Spiderwick Estate, strange things begin to happen. Jared, a curious, adventurous boy, quickly seeks out and finds the hidden laboratory of his great great uncle Arthur Spiderwick. He unleashes a mysterious force when he locates a field guide full of the secrets of the magical creatures that inhabit the forest surrounding the mansion. His twin brother Simon is calm and reserved but is rapidly drawn...
Author
Series
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
c2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.7 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
For more than thirty years-half his life-he was obsessively devoted to investigating Everything in the natural world. Nothing escaped his interest-how our eyes see, why the sky is blue, what forces build mountains, how light travels, where water comes from, and-most fascinating of all to Leonardo-the inner workings of the human body. Nothing stopped him. It was illegal to dissect human corpses, so he did autopsies in secret, even devising a clever...
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