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The Complete Book of Drawing Techniques


Free Download Barrington Stanyer, Peter;Barber, "The Complete Book of Drawing Techniques"
English | ISBN: 1841933236 | 2010 | 208 pages | PDF | 20 MB
One hugely important aspect of an artist’s skill is a facility with various techniques, with which to express his or her individual style. Being fluent in a range of techniques gives the artist a richer creative vocabulary. This book will help artists to expand their understanding of available media.

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The Book of Numbers From Zero to Infinity, an Entertaining List of Every Number that Counts


Free Download Tim Glynne-Jones, "The Book of Numbers: From Zero to Infinity, an Entertaining List of Every Number that Counts"
English | ISBN: 1848379714 | 2012 | 192 pages | PDF | 5 MB
Within these pages, every number of significance is listed together with its special qualities and associations, featuring explanations, for example, of how a pack of playing cards came to have fifty-two cards, or why there are fifty-two weeks in a year. Where else in one place could you find out how the illegal numbers racket works, what makes some people see numbers as colors, why the standard US rail gauge exactly matches the axle width of an ancient Roman chariot, and the numerological connection between Adolf Hitler and Osama Bin Laden? Our lives are ruled by numbers and this book tells you about every one that counts.

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My Child, the Algorithm An Alternatively Intelligent Book of Love


Free Download My Child, the Algorithm: An Alternatively Intelligent Book of Love by Hannah Silva
English | August 27, 2024 | ISBN: 1593767803 | 272 pages | PDF | 3.90 Mb
"Hannah Silva’s My Child, the Algorithm, is one of the best books I read this year. Merging the cozy familiarity of child-rearing with the mysterious tension of AI {…}, she has created a new genre of personal narrative, and a story whose grief, hope and curiosity takes on poetic, spiritual dimensions, even when exploring the most common chambers of the human heart." -Michelle Tea, author, Knocking Myself Up

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From Ration Book to ebook The Life and Times of the Post-War Baby Boomers


Free Download Paul Feeney, "From Ration Book to ebook: The Life and Times of the Post-War Baby Boomers"
English | ISBN: 0752463454 | 2012 | 224 pages | EPUB | 4 MB
Were you born in the 1940s and raised in the ’50s? Were you a teenager in the ’60s and did you leave home in the ’70s? How has life changed through the ’80s and ’90s? And how did we end up here, in the second decade of the 21st century, when it all just seems like yesterday? In this fascinating new trip down memory lane, Paul Feeney remembers what it has been like to live through the eventful second half of the 20th century. With memories that will strike a chord with readers of the baby-boomer generation, this nostalgic journey through a lifetime of change will resonate with anyone who remembers buying their first Ford Capri in the 1970s, making cheese and pineapple on sticks in the ’80s, and getting to grips with the internet in the 2000s.

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Error Coin Book 2025


Free Download Error Coin Book 2025: Discover High-Value Minting Errors and Pocket Change Treasures by ISAAC J. STONES
English | November 12, 2024 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B0DMWRXBB5 | 78 pages | EPUB | 5.93 Mb
Uncover Rare and Valuable Error Coins Hiding Right in Your Pocket!

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Iliad Book One


Free Download Homer, Simon Pulleyn, "Iliad: Book One"
English | 2001 | ISBN: 0198721862 | PDF | pages: 313 | 6.8 mb
Iliad I provides the commentary and student aids lacking in larger volumes of Homer’s work. It contains a full Introduction designed to highlight the most important features of the text. There are sections on the Iliad and its qualities, the Homeric question, dating, oriental influences, style, gods, men, the transmission of the text, the scholia, the epic dialect, and metre. The Commentary, as well as containing material addressed to advanced readers, is also designed to be accessible to those who are new to Homer. The Greek text of Iliad I is printed with a facing English translation of a literal kind, primarily intended to help beginners to construe the Greek and there is also a full vocabulary list.

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