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Wind And Truth [Bok / Pocket]

Find out how to transform the ordinary into something extraordinary with this guide to minimalist photography.<br/><br/>With advice on composition, balance, shape and texture, this book takes inspiration from the masters of minimalism to demonstrate how stripping a subject down to its very essence can help you craft beautifully bold and unique images.<br/><br/>Illustrated with the finest examples of the style from the likes of Fan Ho, Imogen Cunningham, Michael Kenna, Berenice Abbott, William Eggleston and Horst P. Horst, this book guides you through the key techniques that define minimalism and provides easy-to-follow advice for how to create your own minimalist images that are visually striking in their simplicity.

Discover a clever new way to approach watercolour painting. Begin by building up the muscle memory of the stroke pattern, then put brush to paper, and create a little animal watercolour with ease and confidence.<br/><br/>Once you've mastered the stroke patterns, each animal project takes just 10 minutes to create, and you can create the artworks again and again with confidence.<br/><br/>Animals include: giraffe, panda, flamingo, robin, whale, boar, otter, penguin, tortoise, elephant, hippo, lizard, leopard, chicken, goldfish.

<strong>Combining the whimsy and possibility of <em>The Midnight Library</em> with the mystery and revelatory power of <em>The Secret</em>, a heartwarming and inspiring novel about a man on a magical ride who is unexpectedly offered a chance at happiness.</strong><br/><br/>After losing multiple contracts, Shuichi must make restitution to his company. Faced with this large, unanticipated debt, the trip to Paris he and his wife have been planning for a year must be canceled. Traveling to Europe was more than a vacation; it offered the hope of reaching their teenage daughter who has stopped going to school and will not leave her room. Feeling despondent and directionless, Shuichi believes he's the unluckiest person in Japan.<br/><br/>Then a strange taxi mysteriously appears at his door. The driver promises to take Shuichi not to a destination he needs, but to where his next opportunity will be. With nothing to lose, he settles into the backseat and embarks on a series of magical rides that will teach him surprising life lessons, including how luck is not inherent-it's an investment built over time and even over generations.<br/><br/>A compassionate and uplifting fable, <em>The Lucky Ride</em> will make you reconsider what's important, how to be more present in your life, and empower you to create happiness not just for yourself but for those to come.<br/><br/>Translated from the Japanese by Takami Nieda

If you're looking for new embroidery ideas, this book has them all in one convenient location. Author Jessica Long shares a treasure trove of patterns, lessons, and charming projects you probably haven't tried before. Discover 25 unique ideas for animal embroidery hoops: a bluebird, a seahorse, a beetle, an axolotl, a garden mouse and much more. Beginners will love the full-colour diagrams and step-by-step instructions for creating full-sized patterns from scratch whilst experienced embroidery masters will enjoy the new ideas, not to mention cutting-edge modern techniques to lend new depth, texture, and personality to each design. This book is more than just a few cool embroidery ideas - it's a complete introduction to a unique perspective of looking at your embroidery, all from a gifted, self-taught embroiderer who's turned her hobby into a life-changing passion.

<b>A fleet of modern rockets among the most powerful in the world. A lunar land rush that has sparked a competition over the strategic high ground. Scientific discoveries that could offer new insights into the origins of the solar system. Escalating brinkmanship between the world's two richest men.</b> <b>Space has entered a golden age, and this is just the beginning.</b><br/><br/>After the first Trump administration launched the Artemis program, NASA created a historic competition that pit Elon Musk's SpaceX against Jeff Bezos's Blue Origin, flanked far away by Russia and China. At stake: billions of dollars, national prestige, and a place in the history books.<br/><br/>In this gripping work, veteran reporter Christian Davenport chronicles the mad scramble to shape humanity's off-planet future. He takes readers behind the scenes at NASA and the Pentagon as China's aggressive moon mining and military plans raise alarms, onto the sprawling Cape Canaveral factory where Bezos works toward Amazon-style lunar deliveries, and onto SpaceX launch pads as Musk's engineers log 100-hour weeks, ultimately pulling off the harrowing but triumphant launch of its first human spaceflight mission.<br/><br/>What will happen as frenetic public and private ambition outpaces governmental regulation? Who will win the race to the moon, and will the US finally be able to start a real push toward Mars? Masterfully paced, rigorously reported, and vividly told, <i>Rocket Dreams</i> weaves cutting-edge science with high-stakes capitalism and old-fashioned nationalism into a vision of humanity's next giant leap.

<b>One of the most popular genres of modern times, fantasy literature has as rich a cultural and literary heritage as the magical worlds that so enrapture its readers. In this book, a concise history of the genre, Adam Roberts traces the central forms and influences on fantasy through the centuries to arrive at our understanding of the fantastic today.</b><br/><br/> Pinning the evolution of fantasy on three key moments - the 19th-century resurgence of interest in Arthurian legend, the rise of Christian allegory, and a post-Ossian, post-Grimm emergence of a Norse, Germanic and Old English mythic identity - Roberts explores how the logic of 'the fantastical' feeds through into the sets and trappings of modern fantasy. Tracking the creation of heroic and high fantasy subgenres through antiquarian tradition, through C. S. Lewis and J. R. R. Tolkien and into the post-Tolkien boom in genre fantasy writing, the book brings the manifestation of the fantastic beyond literature into art, music, film and TV, video games and other cultural productions such as fandoms. From Tennyson and Wagner, through Robert Graves, David Jones, Samuel Delany, <i>Dungeons and Dragons</i>, Terry Pratchett and Robin Hobb, to the <i>Game of Thrones</i>, <i>Skyrim</i>, <i>The Witcher</i> and <i>The Lord of the Rings </i>media franchises, the book digs into the global dissemination and diversity of 21st-century fantasy. Accessible and dynamic, wide-ranging but comprehensive, this is a crash-course in context for the most imaginative form of storytelling.