The Rock & Gem (Smithsonian) by DK

The Rock and Gem Book is packed full of photos of natural wonders, including rocks, minerals, gems, shells and fossils.

This children's encyclopedia displays more than 1,200 full-colour specimens, from sapphires and rubies to silver and pearl, revealing the unique qualities of each material and how it is used in industry, architecture, art and science.

Including precious metals, rare fossils, tiny gemstones and giant shells, The Rock and Gem Book gives a complete overview of the Earth's naturally occurring marvels and the beautiful objects created from them.

The Train Book By Dorling Kindersley

"Definitive visual history and glorious celebration of all things train and track

The Train Book traces the history and role of trains from the first steam engines to diesel engines and then to today's high-speed bullet trains.

You'll take a journey through the most important trains of each period and see iconic trains such as the Orient Express, the Fairy Queen, the Mallard and the Javelin in incredible detail, discovering the anatomy of these legendary engines. The Train Book gives you a truly international view of trains, exploring some of the world's most impressive rail routes from South Africa to Siberia, including the Darjeeling Himalayan Railway and the high-speed Japanese Tokaido Shinkansen line. You'll discover the stories of key innovators, designers and engineers who advanced rail travel, the challenges they faced and the cultural backdrop against which the railways were built." (Goodread.com) 

Paint Tool SAI tutorial DANG! its japanese

SAI is a lightweight painting application. The user interface allows multiple documents to be opened at the same time. The drawing canvas can be both zoomed and rotated using the sliders on the navigator or the hotkeys configured on the keyboard. The toolbar on the top part of the screen also includes a button to mirror the drawing view without mirroring the actual drawing. It is also possible to open multiple viewports to the same document. An application-wide scratchpad (which can be used as a color mixing panel) is provided, which is saved between sessions. Colors can be stored in the swatches panel.(...)

The Art of Steampunk by Art Donovan

As presented by Oxford Universities Museum of the history of science. Steampunk is rooted in the aesthetic of Victorian technology. Yet it is not a nostalgic recreation of vanished past: its devices are both imaginative and contemporary.

 Inside, you will find the fantastical and stunning artwork of Steampunk artists from around the world.  The 17 artists featured on these pages, among the frontrunners of the Steampunk genre, have had their work displayed at an exhibition at The Museum of History of Science at the University of Oxford, UK and have attracted the media attention of BoingBoing, one of the world’s largest blogs.  Their artwork consists of everything from clocks and watches to light fixtures and jewelry, but every piece demonstrates hours of painstaking work and devotion from its creator.  You will find that the artists themselves are just as unique and colorful as their masterpieces.  Fully embracing Steampunk ideology, many have adopted a Victorian alter ego—a mad scientist persona to match the complicated intricacies of their artwork.

    The Art of Steampunk brings the vision of the Steampunk artist alive on the page, providing a unique insight into the captivating and dynamic world of a vastly underground genre.

Use sumatraPDF to read and open the file. Its usefull software so far.

Waiting for Godot & other plays

I find it difficult to talk about this book, so as I read I am looking for a comment about this book. I think this comment is interesting.

“What happened?"
“Nothing happened.”
“Why did nothing happen?
“How would I know?”
“You would know.”
“I would?”
“Yes.”
“How I would know?”
“Because you read it.”
“Did I?”
“Yes.“
“How do you know?”
“It is on your shelf.”
“So?”
“You rated it.”
“What does it mean?”
“It means you have read it.”
“Oh I have.”
“So what happened?”
“Nothing happened.”
“Why did nothing happen?”
“Because they were waiting for Godot.”

Waiting and nothing – I could take these two words and use them in as many combinations as the rules of probability allow to create a ‘review’ that would be as much meaningful as it would be meaningless. I could draw upon the elusive symbolism of the text in the manner of a perspicacious hermeneut whose convoluted exegesis would only serve to frustrate him even more. Or like a blurb-writer I could summarise the four-and-a-half characters, the austere landscape, the leafless tree, the role of the taut rope and jangling bucket, and the heap of nonsense, but what would that achieve? 

Suffice it to say that the sheer speed of the bare dialogue makes you want to slow down and look for something queer happening between the lines, but nothing happens. Or perhaps everything happens? You can look at from any number of angles and it adapts itself to your point of view. You can attach any meaning to the memorable symbolism and it helps you comprehend that meaning. You may hypothesize at will and the text will lend you a hand to prove it. 

Beckett in his frugal minimalist brilliance paints a powerful imagery of an agitated self, a helpless being, a lonely traveller, in eternal yet meaningless wait, which life ultimately is, till we take the final leap into oblivion. The act of wait, which is an act of life, is given a comic dimension in the play. By the end the reader becomes one with the characters, waiting for things to happen, for something to happen, but nothing ever happens. Yet life happens.

I think it's impossible to review Waiting for Godot adequately, not even after a long and thorough analysis, because in that case one would be seeking directions where none exist. 

The best review of the play is the one that is not written."

Gundala Putra Petir

Gundala lightning son is a comic character created around the early 70s, with a superhero theme. The title I have read at that time is:

• Gundala Cuci Nama.
• Dr.Jaka dan Ki Wilawuk.
• Gundala Bernafas Dalam Lumpur.(recomended)
• Gundala Jatuh Cinta.

This will be a little different, I will present the old comics quite famous in Indonesia, this comic has given sweet memories.
This comic file is cbr so to read it using cbr reader or i suggest sumatraPDF because this software can open PDF file, epub, and cbr at once.

Exploring Art, Student Edition 3rd Edition

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There are 3 books output McGraw-Hill Education and all about middle school art program ; Introducing Art, Exploring Art, Understanding Art. each has been reprinted for many requests.
this book is great because of the fun way of delivering. Help them understand and appreciate other cultures, and encourage them to think more creatively and solve problems more effectively.

Exploring Art, Student Edition 3rd Edition, contains introducing art with media approach, painting, sculpture, etc. and media used.

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Living With Art by Mark Getlein

In this book students are given understanding to be able to analyze the art. The tools for analyzing are also explained here, coupled with historical knowledge and influences. Make it analysis tool more rich and original.

Taken together, all of these elements help students to better appreciate art as a reflection of the human experience and to realize that living with art is living with ourselves.

"Throughout the previous seven editions, this text has earned a reputation for elegance and the highest standards of quality. Living with Art helps students develop an appreciation of art by offering a clear and comprehensive introduction to the visual arts from several perspectives: themes and purposes of art; the vocabulary of art; individual art media (painting, drawing, camera arts, sculpture, architecture, etc.); and the history of art. The book is rich with illustrations drawn from a wide range of artistic cultures and time periods" www.goodreads.com

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Glencoe Introducing Art Student Edition

This book is designed to introduce art to school students. So if you want to know the art more deeply not this book you are looking for.

But what I saw was not so. the book is built by a variety of good skills on art theory as well as art practice. this book also makes the reader excited because in between the discussion inserted biographical artists close to the subject. artist quotes are sometimes discussed.
in addition to discussing the theory in this book also in the present practice of art at the end of the discussion. this is so interesting.

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what is epub extension?

"EPUB is an e-book file format with the extension .epub that can be downloaded and read on devices like smartphones, tablets, computers, or e-readers. It is a technical standard published by the International Digital Publishing Forum (IDPF). The term is short for electronic publication and is sometimes styled ePub" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EPUB. 

Here some software to open epub;
1. Epub File Reader, it is free software it is nice and easy to use. 
    u can download at http://www.epubfilereader.com/

2. Sumatra PDF is a free and open-source document viewer, it supports many      document formats including: Portable Document Format (PDF), Microsoft            Compiled.HTML. Help (CHM), DjVu, EPUB, FictionBook (FB2), MOBI, PRC, Open XML Paper Specification (OpenXPS, OXPS, XPS), Comic Book Archive file (CB7, CBR, CBT, CBZ).It is developed exclusively for Microsoft Windows, but it can run under Linux with help of WINE. download the sumatra pdf here

The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Weaponry by Chuck Wills.

This book explains the history of weapons from time to time, with illustrations accompanied by clear descriptions we are invited to wade through time to get to know various weapons. What, why guns are created, over time and knowledge of weapons are changing.

"Weapons have a unique appeal for collectors and museums because of their technology, materials, craftsmanship, and beauty. The most ordinary weapons tell the story of the time and the society in which they were made and used. Though they served and continue to serve deadly purposes, weapons allow a glimpse into human history" ROBERT LINDLEY

Creating Characters with personality by Tom Bancroft

"Creating Characters has never been easy for me. The designs don't gives themselves up without a struggle; there are no formulas for a quick and easy path. To design the character i do hundreds of drawing, exploring and waiting for that moment of recognition when i can see the face of the character I am searching for staring back at me. That is the magic moment I am always working to achieve" Glen Keane

The Fundamental os Illustration , Lawrence Zeegen/ Chrush

'The Fundamental of Illustration' is intented as a comprehensive guide for illustrators, designers and those who commission illustration. Investigating the generation of ideas, interpretation of the brief, analogue and digital working methods, and the art selfpromotion through example of contemporary practice, this book offers a unique resource and insight into illustration.

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What is Packagind Design? by Giles Calver

as implied in the title of the book, this book introduces us to the packaging, what it is and explains a bit of its history and explains a great deal about the understanding, the type and function of packaging.
This book is so interesting that we can get an insight into the packaging.

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The Time of a Repetition by Miguel de Beistegui

Philosophy's  fundamental and only constitutive question is that of being of beings, and of the decisive yet unrecognized difference between being and beings. If being is not in the way of a being then what is its mode of being? to what extent can we say that being is?

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50 robots to draw and paint by Keith Thomson

The robots shown were really intricate and interesting. The steps were well shown, and I liked that it showed things like hinges and screws in detail to better complete a final project. Illustrations were really interesting to look at.

It brings in many skill building techniques and tips. Each of the robots shown has a unique style and the design concept of each is explained very well.

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Nietzsche's Revolution Décadence, Politics, and Sexuality

This book claims Nietzsche as a leftist revolutionary but without overlooking the conservative and retrogressive elements of his political philosophy. The author argues that these two 'halves' of his philosophy help construct a new form of politics for contemporary readers, a possibility of revolution post-Marx.

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Women of Manara

Women of Manara by Milo Manara a comic artist collects some drawings along with an interesting descriptive story. As for the comic readers who are reliable or who know the comic Milo Manara, this book is for adult readers +21.
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Typography Workbook

There is an elegance to letters and words I appreciate. The shape of individual letters and the way they fit together beautifully, when set properly, is noticeably better than slap-dash text thrown down with little care.

This book covers the fundamentals of dealing with type and shows how it is best used in graphic design. It includes detail on the general mechanics of typography, such as the dos and don’ts of typesetting, alignment, kerning, leading, information on optimal line length for legibility, etc. There are numerous examples illustrating the information discussed plus graphic design styles from around the world too.

The Typography Workbook was a good refresher for me, an experienced designer, but it would also prove helpful to those just starting out, as well. I found this book informative and educational but especially loved the fun layout! That, in and of itself, was useful to me. I was surprised by the high volume of graphic design samples. They took up half the book and, though interesting to look at, not all seem to pertain to typography. 

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The Human Machine by George B Bridgman

What is the difference between art anatomy and Bridgman's concept of the human machine? The human machine is the body as not only a fixed framework but also as a complex work of art which moves and was designed to move.
In over 400 drawings, George B. Bridgman demonstrates the machine through the presentations which made him a gifted lecturer and teacher in his nearly fifty years at the Art Students League in New York and which gave life to drawings by his many students during those years. All skeletal and muscular systems are fully identified, and all are shown in front, back, and side views.

Anatomy for Fantasy Artists: An Illustrator's Guide to Creating Action Figures and Fantastical Forms

I really enjoyed this book, mainly because there were step by step instructions, and some great illustrations. It really sets this art apart from everything else. Fantasy Art really is art, not cartoons, not that cartooning isn't art, mind you.
Fantasy Art alloys the artist to be as creative as possible, in "designing " the ultimate character. What fun this was to read and slobber over.

Perspective: A Guide for Artists, Architects and Designers by Gwen White

This book started so well. I had wide eyes and high hopes like "yes, finally, I will learn and understand perspective, goddamn!" and I read it so attentively. 

And then. Then I am not even sure what changed, suddenly it was more like a college book for architects and designers and I fell into despair. This book failed me too, like the previous one, I was not able to learn perspective. Maybe I'm too stupid but I'll have to find another book. The book itself has lots of drawings and I actually think it could be really good for someone who has an instructor or a bit of background knowledge ( or more of a mathematical brain then I do)

Conceptual Art: A Critical Anthology

This anthology is a very good collection of some of the more pertinent writings (and some examples) of conceptual art. 

What struck me is that most of the writings from the artists who began the "movement" (and if there is one thing this collection makes clear, it's that it is impossible to speak of conceptual art as a "movement" in any sort of easy, art-historical terms) in the mid to late 1960s reflect their each artist's own concerns with the commodity status of art and the gallery system (or the sense of stagnation in art circles of that time). However, most of those writing are entirely incoherent to someone entering them (like me) from the outside. I was much more impressed by the work that began to appear in the 1970s that sought to seriously theorize what was going on and what the various social and economic problems were that these artists were wanting to take on, change, or avoid. Much of t his work is theorized in Marxist form (though some do use some of the continental structuralist and poststructuralist theories that would make up "postmodernism"), and much of that theoretical work is very impressive indeed. The best of it, paradoxically, shows how weak how much of a failure much of the work of conceptual artists actually was (such as the work of Adrian Piper and Benjamin H. D. Buchloe). Most of the "theory" put forth by Art and Language (in either its British or New York collectives) is terrible, Stalinist crap, including most everything included here by Joseph Kosuth (who, early on and especially by the 1980s and 1990s, seemed much more interested in settling personal scores than in theorizing about art or the art system more generally).

What is missing from this anthology is more of the contemporary voices from the 1960s and 1970s who were not very impressed by conceptual art (there is one article from the time in this category and one retrospective account published here). Otherwise, this is a very deep and interesting collection that illuminates the complexities of the situation(s) around conceptual art both at the time and in various forms of retrospection

How to Draw Manga, Getting Started

How To Draw Manga, Getting Started, this book is like a book book on how to draw other. But this book has its own style in delivering the lesson material.

As well as delivering the message is quite detailed. As shown in the title of this book, this book is for beginners or just starting drawing, starting from material introduction, ink pencil and pen type of eye is explained along with its designation. After the explanation of the picture proceed with the story ideas and composition panel and so on.

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Drawing Portraits by Giovanni Civardi

Drawing Portraits faces and figures composed by Giovanni civardi is full of illustrations with various media images, pencils, ink, pens presented to explain and practice how to draw faces and figures. In one session like explaining about the shadows he presents a statue-faced highlighted face from various directions to highlight the face's volume from different angles and light.

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Rumi The Masnavi

Jawid Mojaddedi is known world-wide as a Rumi expert. He has published several books, including translations of Rumi's longest poem, known as the Masnavi, into simple English. The Masnavi: Book One was published in 2004 and was awarded the Lois Roth Prize for excellence in translation of Persian literature by the American Institute of Iranian Studies. The Masnavi: Book Two was published in 2007. - Wikipedia

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How to draw comics in Marvel way by Stan Lee, John Buscema

How to Draw Comics the Marvel Way composed by John Buscema and Stan Lee is quite interesting. As in the book on drawing lesson all begins with the required equipment, then draw the next shape drawing point of view and so on. As in the book on comics also introduced anatomy, facial expression. In this book they both also introduce about the composition of each frame. Also introduce what they call action game, that is to imagine a movement and we choose which movement we should draw.

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Learning How to Draw - Hagan

This webrip has been collected from the John Hagan website containing about learning basic drawing from drawing perspective to painting. We can hopefully draw constructions for every object. Here he also explains theories about painting and color selection.

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Enemy Game Character

Enemy character side scroll shooter. There are 3 enemy characters build for side scroll shooter game. They are; the robot cannon, robot 2 leg that can fly dan shoot the cannon to player. The drone, flying robots that roam quickly, is expected to annoy the the player, be careful it can shoot, The dragon, Mega enemy, the boss fight Lvl 1, 3 turret on its boddy can shoot 360° also 3 cannon on its head can shoot randomly, the ultimate giant laser from its mouth that is scary. The characters asset is build with vector software and animated with brushmonkey spriter pro. To edit the robot you can use adobe illustrator cs 4 or higher and if want to edit the animation you can use Spriter Pro. Also i add PNG files and Gif animated files without background.

Loneliness as a Way of Life by Thomas Dumm

"While loneliness is close to being a universal experience of human life, for many reasons it is not easy to describe. However, certain generally accepted truths concerning the human condition might serve as guideposts for discussion. For instance, we may note that to be human is to risk being alone in a way that is unbidden and unwanted. And we may also note that while we are alive, we humans search for what we imagine our world to be. It is true that from the start of our lives and for our lives' duration, we seek others to comfort us, harm us, ignore us, and move us onto our paths through and out of life. Loneliness is deeply entangled in all paths of life because it reveals in sharp profile some of the most important limits of who we are and how we are with each other. It may be said that loneliness is fundamental to the very constitution of our selves." page 26

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The Murder of Vincent van Gogh

This is story about Vincent van Gogh, but it is not historical biography. What you will read is a tribute to Vincent van Gogh: a book that invents character and situations that reach beyond reality to express what might have been Vincent van Gogh's inner experience on his unique life-journey.

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Sunstone by Octavio Paz

a poet book from Octavio Paz. Who is Octavio Paz? 

He is a Mexican poet and diplomat. It would be wise if you look on the wiki, it's all enough to expose him a bit..

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beyond Hegel and Nietzsche by Elliot L. Jurist

This book is very heavy, try to read more calmly and without emotion, because the two figures are very hard in writing. Elliot L. Jurist tries to manifest both figures whether or not a philosopher can still be called? In this day and age. Can be read here!

Hikaru Hayashi - Techniques For Drawing Female Manga Characters

This is how to learn to draw manga. Hikaru hayashi has compiled his book.
Structured and as a reader or who is practicing drawing manga feel welcome to see it.

Ernest R. Norling - Perspective Made Easy

Perspective, the author tells us, is easy; yet surprisingly few artists are aware of the simple rules that make it so. This easy-to-follow book — the first devoted entirely to clarifying the laws of perspective.

Originally published in 1939, this Dover Book reprint has faithfully reproduced the original illustrations and the text is clear and easy to read. As a technique book, Norling covers each topic in simple steps with clear illustrations of each idea. If you're a beginner, this book will be very helpful, especially if you don't have a teacher and are trying to learn on your own.

I picked up this book to help me prepare lesson plans for next fall, and I was pleasantly surprised at the range of topics Norling covers, some of which I'd never considered before, and some which I haven't thought of since I was an art student back in the dark ages. Overall, a pleasant surprise and a useful resource for artists, teachers, and students.

Pencil Drawing Techniques

 Pencil Drawing Techniques brings together six of today's best artists, all of whom are incredibly fine instructors as well.

A fairly good book for beginners and intermediaries. It can be instrumental in getting the fundamentals right from the very beginning because once you start and pick up a pattern of drawing , then it gets very difficult to adopt a different methodology.

The book is divided into seven sections: how to handle a pencil, fundamentals of drawing, drawing landscapes, drawing portraits, drawing animals, drawing for watercolors, and handling color pencils. The copious illustrations show in detail how the artists use their techniques. For the artist who uses the pencil, Pencil Drawing Techniques is an an excellent instructional book of ideas for using the pencil creatively

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how to draw great looking comic book women

Christopher Hart compiled this book is very neat and interesting, we will know how to make beautiful and eye-catching a female comic character.

The goodread.com said that from basic anatomy, musculature, body positions, and action poses to facial expressions, hairstyles, and costumes, this truly invaluable and unique resource covers in great detail every aspect of depicting great-looking women for comic books. The book also shows how to handle perspective and compose art specifically for comic book panels. In addition to chapters offering effective drawing lessons are sections on tricks of the trade, lists of comic book publishers and their submissions addresses, and interviews with industry professionals Bobby Chase of Marvel Comics and Renae Geerlings of Top Cow, who provide insiders’ views of the business and give tips on how newcomers can land their first jobs in the field. Contributing illustrators have penciled and inked such famous characters as the X-Men, Superman, Batman, Spiderman, Catwoman, Supergirl, Green Lantern, Captain America, and many others.

David Bellamy’s Watercolour Landscape Course

I think this is a great book for someone learning how to work with watercolours. Very informative with great illustrations and exercises to worth through. as  www.goodreads.com review "Well-known teacher-artist David Bellamy helps students to learn techniques by producing actual sketches, studies and watercolour paintings in this inspiring and practical guide.

The book is divided into three main parts:
• The first section covers all the practical aspects of watercolour painting;
• the second section is more challenging, requiring students to take a little more initiative and develop their own style; and
• the third shows how to paint the many different elements of the landscape.

The course includes numerous practical exercises which highlight the key points covered in each chapter and there are twelve demonstration pictures with clear, step-by-step instructions

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how to draw comic book heroes and villains by christopher hart

This is an old school book that deserves to be read and can be a drawing practice buddy. Christopher Hart as in any other book, the simple way of delivering but about the most basic goal.
How to draw anatomy, selection of text, sounds, clothing, frames and even the selection of scenes per frame was explained in a straightforward and simple way. Personally I liked this book with this book I can build on what Christopher Hart stacking, or may exceed him in building a comic character.

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Film Studies by Andrew M Butler

I think this is the best review I have seen.
"The world of movies and films is such an expansive universe that it's hard for anyone to say that they have seen them all. At one point that might have been true, but now with so many films and shorts being made every minute, there is just no way to do it. But at least there is a way to understand them all.

Film Studies is not just for film students, it's for anyone that truly wants to understand what it is they are watching. Just as students learn how to read, film studies should be viewed in the same way. People who just sit down and watch movies are probably only getting less than half of what the director wanted you to understand, and just like when you learn how to read certain books in a particular way you begin to understand what the author/director was really trying to say. The same can be said about film. When you study film and learn how to understand and watch them, a whole new world opens up. You begin to see the small details in the dialogue, the settings, the characters, the plot, and mise-en-scene.

Have you ever heard the phrase, watching TV and movies will turn your brain to mush? Probably came from those people we have to call parents, right? So what do they think is the cure-all solution? Read a book, why? Because it engages your imagination and requires you to think about what is going on, which is true. But you can only do that once you understand how to really read. Well, what most parents don't do, is teach their kids how to watch and understand TV and movies, because if they did, they will begin to see that it is just as stimulating as a book, because the viewer is now able to understand why the director moved the camera frame a certain way and what it means for the story. The viewer can understand the plot structured based on the actions of the character, and not only that, but the viewer understands what colors represent in film. At this point the viewer's mind is very much engaged with the TV show or film and so it doesn't turn their brain to mush.

The author of this book talks about all the related studies that film has to offer. The depth of the stories based on psychological perspectives, what Marx would say about certain films and why it matters. How Truffaut understood film and why he made his movies the way he did. Then there is the point of semiotics and the importance of dialogue and character structure in signifying certain actions and objects. Film is a very engaging act and when you begin to see that it is NOT a passive experience like so many (parents) believe, you begin to see why so many people, especially as young kids, felt inspired to do or become what they saw in a certain film. How many people became paleontologists because of Jurassic Park? or how many wanted to study oceanography after watching The Abyss? Film plays a very important role in everyone's life, as do TV Shows, so it should never be discounted as a waste of time, if it makes that big of an impact.

But it is not until you truly understand how to watch a film that you will be able to see beyond the moving images in front of you. Once you get beyond that, it's like stepping into a whole new world, or as they might say in the reading world, now you can read between the lines and see what the author was really saying.

If you truly want to understand movies and enjoy them on a much deeper level, take the time, just like you did when you learned how to read, to learn how to watch films. Find a film studies book and learn what everything means in each frame you see in a movie, because remember, every frame in a movie was painstaking chosen as to what would be in it, so it all has a meaning. If you do that, you will be able to go back and really enjoy some of the greatest classics ever made. "Gone with the Wind" will be even more Epic, "400 Blows" will truly mean something to you, and you will see why, even to this day, "KES" is still one of the greatest films made ever made in Yorksire, and probably the world. So knowing all this, I'm sure there are some films you will want to watch after reading this book, am I right? Can you imagine what Schindler's List will be like after this? Now, go, teach kids how to watch movies correctly!"

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Children's Dreaming and the Development of Consciousness

David Foulkes is one of the international leaders in the empirical study of children’s dreaming, and a pioneer of sleep laboratory research with children. In this book, which distills a lifetime of study, Foulkes shows that dreaming as we normally understand it—active stories in which the dreamer is an actor—appears relatively late in childhood. This true dreaming begins between the ages of 7 and 9. He argues that this late development of dreaming suggests an equally late development of waking reflective self-awareness. Foulkes offers a spirited defense of the independence of the psychological realm, and the legitimacy of studying it without either psychoanalytic over-interpretation or neurophysiological reductionism.

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Plato the complete works

Plato the complete works Compiled by Dr Mohamed Elwany, Translated by Benjamin Jowett
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Carrie Stuart Parks & Rick Parks - Secrets to Realistic Drawing

Reaping the joys of drawing doesn't have to be a long and painful process. With Secrets to Realistic Drawing, even complete beginners can get great results fast. It's easy to create lifelike sketches in no time.
The authors' infectious, you-can-do-it attitude is sure to make budding artists feel like they've finally found a true cheerleader for their creative dreams!

Byzantine Pilgrimage Art by Gary Vikan

Brynmawr.edu had given a very thorough review, ranging from introducing the author of Gary Vikan to review per chapter, they reviewed that "Vikan's book is lavishly produced, especially the beautiful illustrations. The update and expansion of his 1982 essay is very welcome and will serve as a first orientation for all those studying the Byzantine pilgrimage as represented by various types of artefacts. The book is a good read for everybody interested in the Byzantine period; it will certainly attract more attention to the fascinating world of belief, ritual, and life in Byzantine times. Technical terms and Greek words (always given in Latin script) are explained or translated into English. Scholars will find most helpful the depth and accuracy of the information provided so that they can rely on this overall depiction of “Early Byzantine Pilgrimage Art” and use it as a starting point for their own special studies. It must not be forgotten that Vikan himself has published a large number of such specialized treatments of topics and objects a selection of which can be found in his bibliography, to which the specialist is referred for more in-depth information."

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Carol Belanger Grafton - Dover - Ancient and Medieval Arms and Armor

This book is compiled with a collection of very detailed images of defense systems and weaponry in the 19th century, such as suits of armor, chain mail, swords, halberds, spears, pikes, lances, crossbows, axes, daggers, helmets, shields, knives, small arms, and a host of other implements, along with scenes of battle, siege, jousts, soldiers, horses, and more. This very interesting and important for someone who usually create character or illustration.

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Burne Hogarth - Dynamic Anatomy (Revised and Expanded)

Burne Hogarth's Dynamic Anatomy(revised and expanded) is a wonderful introductory and intermediate course to drawing humans. In its strict technical sense, the book covers five aspects: proportions of the human body, anatomical details, the surface (light planes), foreshortening, and movement. The drawing style is powerful, dynamic, perhaps more often found in action-hero comics and computer games than in traditional figure drawing. The book also covers some of the philosophy and evolution of drawing. The writing style is perhaps the book's negative side; it is terse and sometimes obscure. Overall, though, a great read for wannabe artists.

Islamic art and culture: a resource for teachers

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Islamic art and culture: a resource for teachers, This packet was produced in conjunction with the exhibition Palace
and Mosque: Islamic Art from the Victoria and Albert Museum. It has been
supplemented with objects not in the exhibition.

you can read this book here