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Have fun and stay busy outside with loads of games, quizzes, challenges, and activities. Even though real life is filled with plenty of action, sometimes you find yourself sitting around the house bugging your parents, re-watching old television shows, or with a couple hours with nothing planned. This book is perfect for those times when you don't have anything to do and want to get outside. It’s jam packed with witty jokes, mind-boggling puzzles and challenges, wacky ideas, silly questions, fun quizzes, and interesting lists. With more than a hundred different activities, it's guaranteed to keep you amused for ages! The Anti-Boredom Book of Brilliant Outdoor Things to Do is divided into various themes with lots of different things to do for each one. There are creative activities, items to choose and score, riddles to solve, games, and loads of funny stuff! Some of those things include:   • How to design and build an outdoor fort • Plan a picnic  • How to make a giant bubble wand • Photo challenges  • How to use a map and compass • Easy to spot constellations  • How to hunt for fossils at the beach  • How to make an obstacle course • Nature themed puns • How to make a snow maze • And more! So sharpen up your imagination, gather your friends and family, head outside, and get ready to never be bored again! |
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Anne is the mother of five, with never a dull moment in her lively home. And now with a new baby on the way and insufferable Aunt Mary Maria visiting - and wearing out her welcome - Anne's life is full to bursting. Still, Mrs. Doctor can't think of any place she'd rather be than her own beloved Ingleside. Until the day she begins to worry that her adored Gilbert doesn't love her anymore. How could that be? She may be a little older, but she's still the same irrepressible, irreplaceable redhead - the wonderful Anne of Green Gables, all grown up .... She's ready to make her cherished husband fall in love with her all over again! |
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Production Design: Visual Design for Film and Television is a hands-on guide to the craft of Production Design and Art Direction. Author Peg McClellan gives an insider’s view of the experiences and challenges of working as a Production Designer in film and television. The book covers three major areas, starting with an overview and the basics of job responsibilities, the artistic approach and the background which every Production Designer needs to be familiar with, and progressing to the mechanics of the role with a day-to-day breakdown of the job itself. McClellan takes you through script analysis, team collaborations, the hierarchy of a production, hiring a team, the business elements, locations, studio facilities, handling change, and everything in between. With case studies, insights from successful Production Designers, and inspiration in the form of over 200 colour photos and illustrations from storyboards to sets, this is the ideal book for students seeking a career in production design, and professionals looking to further their design knowledge. |
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Eric Rodwell's contributions to bidding theory are well-known, but in these ground-breaking books he reveals for the first time his unique approach to the play of the cards.First, he describes and explains the process for deciding on a line of play — using concepts such as +L positions, tightropes, trick packages and Control Units as well as exploring more standard themes such as counting winners, losers, and distribution. Included here too is a checklist of 'defogging questions' to get you back on track when your analysis gets bogged down. Then he moves on to a host of innovative ideas in cardplay, strategies and tactics that can be used by declarer or defenders, each one illustrated with real-life examples from top-level play. Many of these ideas will be new to anyone below the bridge stratosphere. Finally, under the heading 'DOs and DON'Ts', Rodwell talks about the mental side of the game: areas where players often go wrong in their approach to the problem at hand, areas that mark the key differences between an average player and a successful one.The original 'Rodwell File', the collection of notes on which these books are based, has been in existence for more than twenty years, but it is only now that the author is prepared to allow his 'secrets' to become public knowledge.Included in this volume:Part 1 — The Building BlocksChapter 1: Some Basic Ideas Cashing Solid Tricks Promoting High Cards Establishing Small Cards Finesses Ruffing Finesses Ruffing Losers in the Hand with Shorter Trumps Trump Control Crossruff and Dummy Reversal Basic Defensive Ideas Chapter 2: The Basics of Advanced Cardplay Eliminations and Throw-ins Squeeze Play Chapter 3: Tools for Analyzing a Hand Counting Losers Counting Winners Counting the Hand Assume the Best — or the Worst A Short Math Break Trick Packages Chapter 4: Making Your Plan The Basics Defogging — More on the Thought Process For the remaining volumes, look for the following titles:The Rodwell Files, Part 2: Advanced... |
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Optimal Strategy for Pai Gow Poker explains the best way to set each possible pai-gow poker hand, and tells how to win. |
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Antigone est une tragédie grecque de Sophocle. Antigone fait part à sa sœur Ismène de son intention de braver l'interdiction d'accomplir les rites funéraires pour leur frère Polynice — tué par son autre frère Étéocle lors d'une bataille où chaque frère veut tuer l'autre pour devenir roi de Thèbes, mais les deux meurent —, et cela sous peine d'être lapidée par le peuple thébain, car l'interdiction a été émise par le roi Créon. |
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Les 22 arcanes majeurs expliqués et toutes les associations de carte décryptées pour apprendre à interpréter un tirage. Avec des exemples de tirages faciles à réaliser et des informations sur l'univers fascinant du tarot. |
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17 spot-on guitar transcriptions from the legendary bluesman's release: Alberta * Circus * Layla * Lonely Stranger * My Father's Eyes * Rollin' and Tumblin' * San Francisco Bay Blues * Tears in Heaven * Walkin' Blues * and more. |
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Piano solo arrangements of twenty top pop hits, including: All About That Bass (Meghan Trainor) * All of Me (John Legend) * Can't Feel My Face (The Weeknd) * Cheerleader (OMI) * Love Me like You Do (Ellie Goulding) * Love Somebody (Maroon 5) * Rude (Magic) * Shut up and Dance (Walk the Moon) * Stay with Me (Sam Smith) * Style (Taylor Swift) * Thinking Out Loud (Ed Sheeran) * and more. |
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Improve your command of the guitar by mastering the essential scales and their fingerings. This reference will help you play scales up, down and across the fingerboard, in all keys. You will learn multiple scale fingering options to suit different musical contexts. Practice exercises will help you build your muscle memory as you play different fingering patterns across the strings, and then expand them to three octaves. Graphical illustrations, exercises, and etudes will help reinforce all the most useful scale types. Traditional notation and tablature are included. |
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Have you ever heard of Manga?  If so, have you tried drawing Manga before?  Is there even a chance you have and you'd like to improve in your overall education of the art as well as in your own personal drawings?  There may also be a chance you have been learning how to draw Manga for a while now, but you’re looking for more direction and suggestions to improve.  For whatever reason you've sought out an instructional and education guide, rest assured, you don't have to look any further!  This book can help you! When you're first beginning to learn a new hobby, or in this case, a new skill, you can experience many emotions.  Just a few of these might be frustration, stress and a sense of being overwhelmed by all the new information and ideas.  This is perfectly natural and thankfully, when it comes to this book, you no longer have to worry!  This book is written with the intention of reducing your stress, confusion and any chance of you becoming overwhelmed.  Therefore, there will always be step-by-step instructions and easy to understand material in this book as well as straight forward facts and helpful hints along the way!  Sometimes, when it comes to learning a new hobby or skill, like Manga, people turn to perhaps a class or an instructional video.  Although these are sometimes great options, it may also cause you stress to follow along and keep up with a teacher, either in a classroom setting or through a video.  Thankfully, when it comes to this book, you can go at your own pace, take time to practice the different drawing suggestions and techniques and even go back and review if you'd like! This book includes: -An introduction to what Manga is and how it may benefit your life -Ten overall tips to help you become more successful when drawing Manga -A chapter to assist you in drawing eyes and eyebrows better -An entire chapter on how to improve on drawing Manga lips and hair -A chapter on how to draw the basic anatomy of bodies -Many tips and tricks along the way to assist you in drawing Manga and improving your drawing skills! |
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Draw, paint, sculpt the figure anytime and anywhere with this portable figure reference.This elegant nude sitting Pose by model IrinaV gives you 27 photos—one every 15 degrees as the female model turns through a full circle plus overhead and closeup views. Choose your preferred view for 2D art, like painting, or see the whole figure for 3D art, like sculpture. Zoom in to see details in hands and face and other tricky areas, giving you even more options for how to use the photos.Whatever your goal, such as practicing to improve your skills, or creating a finished work of art, or just unwinding at the end of a long day with some figure drawing, Art Models Poses provide a quality reference you can come back to again and again.Don't spend hours searching for reference material only to find photos of questionable content and dubious quality. We've spent years in the studio and you get the benefit—expertly crafted photos designed specifically for figure art. Just look through the Art Models covers for the Poses that inspire you and get right to the part you actually like: creating art.This ebook has the IrinaV022 Pose (from PoseSpace.com) as shown on the cover. |
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In Soft City David Sim, partner and creative director at Gehl, shows how cities with well-designed density can result in a higher quality of life. He presents ideas and graphic examples from around the globe. He draws from his vast design experience to make a case for a dense and diverse built environment at a human scale, which he presents through a series of observations of older and newer places, and a range of simple built phenomena, some traditional and some totally new inventions. Soft City offers inspiration, ideas, and guidance in a highly visual package, for anyone interested in city building. Sim shows how to make any city more efficient, more livable, and better connected to the environment. |
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Serious about jamming, understanding, and creating guitar-driven music? Easy. With an approachable and engaging style, Guitar Theory For Dummies goes beyond guitar basics, presenting the guidance intermediate to advanced players need to improve their improvisational and compositional skills. Plus, with access to audio tracks and video instruction online you can master the concepts and techniques covered in the book. Key content coverage includes: pentatonic and major scale patterns; the CAGED chord system, chord progressions, and playing by numbers; roots, keys, and applying scales, plus modes and modal scales; intervals and chord extensions; popular song references and theory applications that help you understand how to play popular music and contemporary guitar styles, and create music of your own. This title also features companion audio tracks and video content hosted online at Dummies.com The expert instruction and easy-to-digest information provides comprehensive guidance on how to apply music theory concepts to fretted instruments If you already have a handle on the basics and want to know more about the building blocks and theory behind guitar music, Guitar Theory For Dummies has you covered. |
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The 2nd Edition Level 2A Performance Book offers an array of colorful elementary pieces that reinforce the concepts presented in the Lesson Book. The selections range from arrangements of classical compositions to American folk songs and imaginative originals. Students and teachers will enjoy the wide variety of sounds and musical textures in this collection. |
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The music world exploded into Technicolor on February 9, 1964, when the Beatles appeared on the Ed Sullivan Show and ignited the music phenomenon dubbed “The British Invasion”. In the weeks and months to come, hundreds, perhaps thousands, of Ottawa teenagers put away their hockey sticks and picked up guitars, starting up bands in basements and garages, with visions of screaming girls and stardom dancing in their heads. For some, that dream came true, in packed High School Gymnasiums, Church basements, bowling alleys and every other venue they could find. Groups were working three or four nights a week on both sides of the Ottawa River. The Esquires, The Staccatos, The Townsmen, Don Norman and the Other Four and many others cut records that were as good as anything coming out of Britain or the States. DJ's Gord Atkinson, Nelson Davis and Al "Pussycat" Pascal make them stars by playing their records. Sandy Gardiner followed their exploits in his weekly "teen" column in the Ottawa Journal, and we checked out the weekly "Swing Set" to get the lowdown on the newest groups. From the day Elvis Presley came to town in 1957, to the release of The Five Man Electrical Band’s mega-hit “Signs”, we relive those memories with the bands, the clubs, the concerts and the colorful cast of characters who made it happen. Pull back the curtain on the magic of "Ottawa’s Golden Age of Rock and Roll”, |
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In this "vivid and inspiring" NYT bestseller ( Newsweek ), the Red Hot Chili Peppers' lead singer and songwriter shares a searingly honest account of life in the rock scene's fast lane -- from the darkness into the light. In 1983, four self-described "knuckleheads" burst out of the mosh-pitted mosaic of the neo-punk rock scene in L.A. with their own unique brand of cosmic hardcore mayhem funk. Over twenty years later, the Red Hot Chili Peppers, against all odds, have become one of the most successful bands in the world. Though the band has gone through many incarnations, Anthony Kiedis, the group's lyricist and dynamic lead singer, has been there for the whole roller-coaster ride. In Scar Tissue , Kiedis delivers a compelling life story from a man "in love with everything" -- the darkness, the death, the disease. Even his descent into drug addiction was a part of that journey, another element transformed into art. Whether he's honoring the influence of the beautiful, strong women who have been his muses or remembering the roaring crowds of Woodstock and the Dalai Lama's humble compound, Kiedis shares a compelling story about the price of success and excess. Scar Tissue is a story of dedication and debauchery, of intrigue and integrity, of recklessness and redemption -- a story that could only have come out of the world of rock. |
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The 2nd Edition Primer Lesson Book introduces the keyboard, note values, and the grand staff. Students play in C 5-finger scale patterns, develop recognition of steps and skips, and learn letter names independent of finger number. Musicianship is built through the use of dynamics and coloristic experimentation with the pedal. The book is organized into units which represent the major concepts and skills. As new units are introduced, earlier concepts and skills are constantly reviewed. |
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Dans cette pièce, Pierrot-Delpech voyait, en 1961, 'la plus accomplie des tragédies modernes'. La troisième pièce d'Ionesco, créée en 1952, reprise en 1956, connaît maintenant un succès qui ne se dément pas. Le sujet des Chaises est, nous dit l'auteur, 'le vide ontologique' ; mais c'est aussi un drame personnel, le miroir d'une conscience. On y retrouve la nostalgie de l'enfance, le sentiment de culpabilité, l'horreur de la vieillesse et de la mort. C'est encore une comédie qui, bien souvent, excite le rire par ses clowneries, ses calembours, ses parodies, ses pirouettes. C'est un ballet : celui des chaises amoncelées dans le mouvement accéléré d'un tourbillon fantastique, et qui demeurent vides. Les vieux font semblant de recevoir une foule d'invités, jusqu'à ce qu'un seul personnage apparaisse enfin sur la scène : hallucination ? vérité du théâtre ? L'Orateur tant attendu est sourd et muet, et la scène demeure vide, encombrée de chaises. |
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Learn how to bet on sports safely, smartly, and responsibly—and profit big—with this easy-to-use guide, perfect for beginners! Betting money on sports can be great fun and is a sure way to turn any sports game into an exciting must-watch event. However, it can be dangerous to the uninitiated—new gamblers can risk too much, bet randomly, or even lose it all. The Everything Guide to Sports Betting won’t let that happen. Filled with tips, tricks, and tactics, this handy guide shows you how to place bets strategically. You’ll learn all of the different types of bets you can make, how to spot a potentially profitable bet, and when to walk away. Covering all of the major sports leagues, The Everything Guide to Sports Betting will introduce you to the sports betting world and show you how to beat the casinos at their own games. In no time, you’ll be a gambling pro—and cash in on some major wins! |
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A revised edition of the classic bestselling how to draw book. A life-changing book, this fully revised and updated edition of Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain is destined to inspire generations of readers and artists to come. Translated into more than seventeen languages, Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain is the world's most widely used instructional drawing book. Whether you are drawing as a professional artist, as an artist in training, or as a hobby, this book will give you greater confidence in your ability and deepen your artistic perception, as well as foster a new appreciation of the world around you. This revised/updated fourth edition includes: • a new introduction; • crucial updates based on recent research on the brain's plasticity and the enormous value of learning new skills/ utilizing the right hemisphere of the brain; • new focus on how the ability to draw on the strengths of the right hemisphere can serve as an antidote to the increasing left-brain emphasis in American life-the worship of all that is linear, analytic, digital, etc.; • an informative section that addresses recent research linking early childhood "scribbling" to later language development and the importance of parental encouragement of this activity; • and new reproductions of master drawings throughout |
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Bestselling author Alain de Botton considers how our private homes and public edifices influence how we feel, and how we could build dwellings in which we would stand a better chance of happiness. In this witty, erudite look at how we shape, and are shaped by, our surroundings, Alain de Botton applies Stendhal’s motto that “Beauty is the promise of happiness” to the spaces we inhabit daily. Why should we pay attention to what architecture has to say to us? de Botton asks provocatively. With his trademark lucidity and humour, de Botton traces how human needs and desires have been served by styles of architecture, from stately Classical to minimalist Modern, arguing that the stylistic choices of a society can represent both its cherished ideals and the qualities it desperately lacks. On an individual level, de Botton has deep sympathy for our need to see our selves reflected in our surroundings; he demonstrates with great wisdom how buildings — just like friends — can serve as guardians of our identity. Worrying about the shape of our sofa or the colour of our walls might seem self-indulgent, but de Botton considers the hopes and fears we have for our homes at a new level of depth and insight. When shopping for furniture or remodelling the kitchen, we don’t just consider functionality but also the major questions of aesthetics and the philosophy of art: What is beauty? Can beautiful surroundings make us good? Can beauty bring happiness? The buildings we find beautiful, de Botton concludes, are those that represent our ideas of a meaningful life. The Architecture of Happiness marks a return to what Alain does best — taking on a subject whose allure is at once tantalizing and a little forbidding and offering to readers a completely beguiling and original exploration of the subject. As he did with Proust, philosophy, and travel, now he does with architecture. |
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This ebook is an authorised digitisation of its printed counterpart from the Royal Academy of Dance. It is one of a series of products related to the Grade 3 Examinations, Class Awards and Solo Performance Awards offered by the Royal Academy of Dance. It is primarily intended for use by teachers, and contains detailed description in words and Benesh Movement Notation of the set exercises required for the Examinations and Class Awards, and the dances required for the Solo Performance Awards. Features include annotation, highlighting, image zoom, bookmarking and easy-to-use navigation. |
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Winner of the 1999 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, the New York Drama Critics Circle Award, the Drama Desk Award, the Outer Critics Circle Award, the Lucille Lortel Award, and the Oppenheimer Award Margaret Edson's powerfully imagined Pulitzer Prize–winning play examines what makes life worth living through her exploration of one of existence's unifying experiences—mortality—while she also probes the vital importance of human relationships. What we as her audience take away from this remarkable drama is a keener sense that, while death is real and unavoidable, our lives are ours to cherish or throw away—a lesson that can be both uplifting and redemptive. As the playwright herself puts it, "The play is not about doctors or even about cancer. It's about kindness, but it shows arrogance. It's about compassion, but it shows insensitivity." In Wit, Edson delves into timeless questions with no final answers: How should we live our lives knowing that we will die? Is the way we live our lives and interact with others more important than what we achieve materially, professionally, or intellectually? How does language figure into our lives? Can science and art help us conquer death, or our fear of it? What will seem most important to each of us about life as that life comes to an end? The immediacy of the presentation, and the clarity and elegance of Edson's writing, make this sophisticated, multilayered play accessible to almost any interested reader. As the play begins, Vivian Bearing, a renowned professor of English who has spent years studying and teaching the intricate, difficult Holy Sonnets of the seventeenth-century poet John Donne, is diagnosed with advanced ovarian cancer. Confident of her ability to stay in control of events, she brings to her illness the same intensely rational and painstakingly methodical approach that has guided her stellar academic career. But as her disease and its excruciatingly painful treatment inexorably progress, she begins to question the single-minded values and standards that have always directed her, finally coming to understand the aspects of life that make it truly worth living. |
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The best-selling band method just got better] This multi-touch, enhanced edition encompasses all the audio examples from the original book in one easy-to-use ebook. Specially formatted for the iPad, each exercise is easy to read and simple to access. Play-along tracks and a start-up video are now a finger touch away] Essential Elements 2000 provides students with a comprehensive approach to learning a musical instrument. Book 1 is designed for absolute beginners and includes: start-up video, music theory lessons, music history, creativity exercises, play-along tracks, and much, much more] |
