420 Characters

420 Characters Review

Alternately surreal, funny, ominous, and lyrical, Lou Beach’s 420 Characters offers an experience as dazzling as any in contemporary fiction. Revealing worlds of meaning in single paragraphs, these crystalline miniature stories began as Facebook status updates, and mark a new turn in an acclaimed artist and illustrator’s career. 420 Characters features original collages by the author.

Hollywood's Earth Shattering Scandals: The infamous, villains, nymphomaniacs and shady character in motion pictures. 8th Edition. Book/Part 3. (Showbiz, ... Drugs, Fame, Sex, Power, Gossip and Greed.)

Hollywood's Earth Shattering Scandals: The infamous, villains, nymphomaniacs and shady character in motion pictures. 8th Edition. Book/Part 3. (Showbiz, ... Drugs, Fame, Sex, Power, Gossip and Greed.) Review

Book/Part 3. 8th Edition. A set of 4 large books with over 600 photos. The largest/biggest book on the market. There is no other book like it! Comprehensive, illustrated, documented, explosive! Movie stars-heroes and role models who in real life are the scum of the earth; their names (Males & Females, past & present), the nymphomaniacs, homosexuals, lesbians, junkies, drugs’ addicts, rapists, suicidal, felons & murderers. Their double lives, shady deals, arrests, convictions & mug shots (Larry King, Al Pacino, Bill Gates, Suzanne Somers, Steve McQueen. F. Sinatra, etc.) Name of the women and stars, Kennedy slept with. Hollywood repulsive moguls, producers, directors. Greatest scandals in Hollywood's history, past & present. Stars naked ambition; how they used their bodies to reach the top! Stars insanity, wild sex parties, orgies, and obsession with money, greed, fame, power, and who are they? How they did it, when, how, and with whom? Their names, and appalling private lives and repulsive affairs; enter their donjons, and learn everything about their most disgusting life style and way of life. Hollywood's most tragic events, suicides, murders, cover-ups, conspiracies, human drama, and how some of the biggest stars ended their career and life, penniless and homeless in the streets and dark alleys. Check a new book by Lafayette: Hollywood’s Most Horrible People, Stars, Times, and Scandals. From The Stars Who Slept With Kennedy To Lavender Marriages And The Casting Couch.”

DragonArt Fantasy Characters: How to Draw Fantastic Beings and Incredible Creatures

DragonArt Fantasy Characters: How to Draw Fantastic Beings and Incredible Creatures Review

Give life to the beings that roam your imagination.

Dragons may terrorize fantasy worlds, but they need peasants to munch on ... heroes to confront ... elegant elves, shrewd sorcerers and dreaded demons to battle. Following on the wings of the ferociously popular DragonArt, this book shows you how to conjure up your own fantasy realms by drawing inspiration from fairy tales, legends and (if you dare) things that go bump in the night.

• Breathe the life into your beings by basing them upon fundamental human anatomy–proportions, facial expressions and gender-specific characteristics.
• Color-coded, step-by-step demonstrations (simple enough that even the dullest of dwarves could follow along!) show you how to create a sordid cast of creatures, including goblins, orcs, sprites, angels, mermaids, centaurs, vampires, werewolves, banshees and more.
• Accessorize each being by tailoring them with tusks, wings, hooves, daggers, armor and various apparel, from the fine garb of nobles to peasant rags.

Copy each being as-is. Or, better yet, follow your own twisted imaginings to conjure up creatures from fantastic lands.

Character of Gods Workman:

Character of Gods Workman: Review

This book contains a series of messages given by Watchman Nee to a group of fellow workers in Kuling, China in 1948 on the subject of character qualities to be exemplified in the lives of those who live and work for God.

What Do You Stand For? For Kids: A Guide to Building Character

What Do You Stand For? For Kids: A Guide to Building Character Review

Even elementary school children can build positive character traits like caring, citizenship, cooperation, courage, fairness, honesty, respect, and responsibility. The true stories, inspiring quotations, thought-provoking dilemmas, and activities in this book help kids grow into capable, moral teens and adults. Previously titled Being Your Best, this award-winning book has a fresh new cover and updated resources.

How to Draw and Paint Crazy Cartoon Characters: Create Original Characters with Lots of Personality (Quarto Book)

How to Draw and Paint Crazy Cartoon Characters: Create Original Characters with Lots of Personality (Quarto Book) Review

Aspiring cartoon artists, comic book collectors, and nostalgia buffs will discover a happy combination of cartoon history and practical instruction in this color-illustrated book. It teaches art students dozens of ways to simplify, exaggerate, and distort the people, animals, and objects in their illustrations to achieve hilarious effects. An overview of cartoon history showcases humorous characters as they appeared in nineteenth-century satire, in children's books, in cartoons of the 1920s, in Hollywood animation of the 1940s, and in today's manga and anime cartoons. The author shows how to create cartoons using a wide range of media, from pen and ink to paint and pixels. Art students will get tips on making their cartoons interesting with funny props and laughter-evoking backgrounds. Most important are the comic character types that they place in their illustrations' foregrounds. Here's how to create stock types--the idiot, the cutie-pie, the comic hero, the evil genius, the loyal sidekick, the straight man, and the heavy. Here, too, are imaginative ways to costume different characters, give them funny poses, and dramatize their emotions through facial expressions, such as fear, anger, boredom, amusement, or surprise. A final chapter advises beginning cartoonists on how to build a portfolio, present their work, create a web site, and find an agent and steady work. More than 300 illustrations.

100 Characters from Classical Mythology: Discover the Fascinating Stories of the Greek and Roman Deities

100 Characters from Classical Mythology: Discover the Fascinating Stories of the Greek and Roman Deities Review

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• ISBN13: 9780764160066
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Dating back roughly 3,000 years, the gods of the ancient Greeks--and later, of the Romans--have figured prominently in legendry, poetry, drama, and the visual arts. But today's readers are often confused when they encounter the myriad names of those deities and try to understand their roles in mythology. This entertaining and mind-expanding book charts 100 of the most prominent characters from Greco-Roman mythology, including the primordial deities, the great gods of Olympus, and the shadowy inhabitants of Hades. Addressing universal themes such as love, jealousy, anger, ambition, deceit, and beauty, the stories told here make fascinating reading while they add significance to countless classical references in our civilization's literature and art. Author Malcolm Day profiles each god with a short, very readable summary of that personage's acts. He sets each deity's story within the larger context of a "family tree" that encompasses all major gods. Full-color illustrations showing memorable scenes from classical mythology include reproductions from famous paintings and photos of statuary. Separate chapters are devoted to:

The Primordial Gods: Gaia, Uranus, Cronus, and others

The Gods of Olympus: Zeus, Poseidon, Athena, Apollo, and others

Descendants of the Titans: Iris, Nike, Helios, Eos, Atlas, and others

Legendary Heroes: Jason, Oedipus, Daedelus, Paris, Helen of Troy, and others

Figures from the Odyssey: Odysseus, Penelope, Circe, and others

This virtual roadmap through the complexities of classical mythology features more than 100 full-color illustrations.

Character Development and Storytelling for Games (Game Development Series)

Character Development and Storytelling for Games (Game Development Series) Review

This is a book of ideas and of choices. Knowing which choices to make is not teachable. It's part of that creative instinct we call talent whose secret voice guides us every time we sit down at the keyboard. All stories are not identical. They are shaped by all those unique facets of the human beings who write them. All any writer can do when he wants to share his knowledge with others is be as open and giving as possible; and hope others can learn from that. You hold in your hands most of what I know about writing for games and much of what I believe and practice no matter what kind of writing I'm doing. It is meant to inform, to instruct, and maybe even inspire. It is as much about game design as it is writing for games. The two are virtually inseparable. The book itself has been designed as a quest. We are all of us on a journey toward a destination for which there is no single road. --Lee Sheldon, Author

Clay Characters for Kids

Clay Characters for Kids Review

Create a world of fun and enchantment with polymer clay!

You can transform a batch of colorful polymer clay into a fantasy world right out of your imagination. You'll find basic techniques for sculpting 10 easy shapes that can be used to create dozens of different creatures, plus details for faces, eyes, noses, ears, mouths, hands, paws and feet.

You'll learn how to shape 30 detailed and colorful fantasy characters in all, including:

• Dragons and sea serpents
• Goblins and fairies
• Pigs and rabbits
• Birds and horses
• Ghosts, snakes, teddy bears and more!

Bring your imagination to life today!

Child's Book of Character Building: Growing Up in God's World - At Home, at School, at Play, Book 1

Child's Book of Character Building: Growing Up in God's World - At Home, at School, at Play, Book 1 Review

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• ISBN13: 9780800754945
• Condition: New
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Can a child understand what it means to forgive, to be wise, to be tenderhearted, or to be orderly? A Child's Book of Character Building uses an imaginative blend of simple explanation and interesting storytelling to teach Christian behavior to children ages 3-7.

Elements of Fiction Writing - Characters & Viewpoint

Elements of Fiction Writing - Characters & Viewpoint Review

Vivid and memorable characters aren't born: they have to be made.

This book is a set of tools: literary crowbars, chisels, mallets, pliers and tongs. Use them to pry, chip, yank and sift good characters out of the place where they live in your memory, your imagination and your soul.

Award-winning author Orson Scott Card explains in depth the techniques of inventing, developing and presenting characters, plus handling viewpoint in novels and short stories. With specific examples, he spells out your narrative options–the choices you'll make in creating fictional people so "real" that readers will feel they know them like members of their own families.

You'll learn how to:

• draw the characters from a variety of sources, including a story's basic idea, real life–even a character's social circumstances
  
  
• make characters show who they are by the things they do and say, and by their individual "style"
  
  
• develop characters readers will love–or love to hate
  
  
• distinguish among major characters, minor characters and walk-ons, and develop each one appropriately
  
  
• choose the most effective viewpoint to reveal the characters and move the storytelling
  
  
• decide how deeply you should explore your characters' thoughts, emotions and attitudes

140 Characters: A Style Guide for the Short Form

140 Characters: A Style Guide for the Short Form Review

Make the most of your messages on Twitter, Facebook, and other social networking sites

The advent of Twitter and other social networking sites, as well as the popularity of text messaging, have made short-form communication an everyday reality. But expressing yourself clearly in short bursts-particularly in the 140-character limit of Twitter-takes special writing skill.

In 140 Characters, Twitter co-creator Dom Sagolla covers all the basics of great short-form writing, including the importance of communicating with simplicity, honesty, and humor. For marketers and business owners, social media is an increasingly important avenue for promoting a business-this is the first writing guide specifically dedicated to communicating with the succinctness and clarity that the Internet age demands.

• Covers basic grammar rules for short-form writing
• The equivalent of Strunk and White's Elements of Style for today's social media-driven marketing messages
• Helps you develop your own unique short-form writing style

140 Characters is a much-needed guide to the kind of communication that can make or break a reputation online.

Leadership Lessons: From a Life of Character and Purpose in Public Affairs

Leadership Lessons: From a Life of Character and Purpose in Public Affairs Review

Leadership Lessons presents a series of object lessons on sound public affairs leadership drawn from the life of one person—Gregory R. Anrig, who died in 1993 after a forty-year career in education and public affairs. It is an antidote to the state of mind and the perceptions and beliefs that produce the thinking that government does as much harm as good. Anrig was a school teacher, principal, superintendent, manager, leader and statesman. While not a high profile personage on the national stage, he clearly had an important part to play in issues of great historical consequence. He worked at the federal level on the frontier of civil rights compliance in the 60's, and in the 70's he exerted ground breaking education leadership in Massachusetts at a time of profound social crisis. His career closed with the reinvigoration of the Educational Testing Service in Princeton, New Jersey which is the world's largest educational testing organization. In these roles he displayed a caliber of statesmanship in the public forum and a brand of organizational stewardship that deserves to be noticed. He exhibited the right values and the right skills at the right time.

Six Characters in Search of an Author

Six Characters in Search of an Author Review

This collection chronicles the fiction and non fiction classics by the greatest writers the world has ever known. The inclusion of both popular as well as overlooked pieces is pivotal to providing a broad and representative collection of classic works.

Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! (Adventures of a Curious Character)

Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! (Adventures of a Curious Character) Review

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• ISBN13: 9780393316049
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A series of anecdotes shouldn't by rights add up to an autobiography, but that's just one of the many pieces of received wisdom that Nobel Prize-winning physicist Richard Feynman (1918-88) cheerfully ignores in his engagingly eccentric book, a bestseller ever since its initial publication in 1985. Fiercely independent (read the chapter entitled "Judging Books by Their Covers"), intolerant of stupidity even when it comes packaged as high intellectualism (check out "Is Electricity Fire?"), unafraid to offend (see "You Just Ask Them?"), Feynman informs by entertaining. It's possible to enjoy Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman simply as a bunch of hilarious yarns with the smart-alecky author as know-it-all hero. At some point, however, attentive readers realize that underneath all the merriment simmers a running commentary on what constitutes authentic knowledge: learning by understanding, not by rote; refusal to give up on seemingly insoluble problems; and total disrespect for fancy ideas that have no grounding in the real world. Feynman himself had all these qualities in spades, and they come through with vigor and verve in his no-bull prose. No wonder his students--and readers around the world--adored him. --Wendy Smith

A New York Times bestseller—the outrageous exploits of one of this century's greatest scientific minds and a legendary American original.

In this phenomenal national bestseller, the Nobel Prize­-winning physicist Richard P. Feynman recounts in his inimitable voice his adventures trading ideas on atomic physics with Einstein and Bohr and ideas on gambling with Nick the Greek, painting a naked female toreador, accompanying a ballet on his bongo drums and much else of an eyebrow-raising and hilarious nature.
Black-and-white photographs throughout

Revolutionary Characters: What Made the Founders Different

Revolutionary Characters: What Made the Founders Different Review

In this brilliantly illuminating group portrait of the men who came to be known as the Founding Fathers, the incomparable Gordon Wood has written a book that seriously asks, "What made these men great?"-and shows us, among many other things, just how much character did in fact matter. The life of each-Washington, Adams, Jefferson, Franklin, Hamilton, Madison, Paine-is presented individually as well as collectively, but the thread that binds these portraits together is the idea of character as a lived reality. They were members of the first generation in history that was self-consciously self-made-men who understood that the arc of lives, as of nations, is one of moral progress.

Building your child's character from the inside out

Building your child's character from the inside out Review

An exciting journey that leads parents into discovering how to nurture and mold their children's inner character with sound values.