Thursday, August 25, 2011

Kids Draw Funny and Spooky Holiday Characters

Kids Draw Funny and Spooky Holiday Characters Review



A child's guide to drawing funny and spooky holiday characters. It contains step-by-step instructions and the lessons progress incrementally, starting with the basic head shape and anatomy and continuing through a wide range of stretching and action poses and with a variety of facial expressions. The volume also discusses how to infuse drawings with personality to make figures come to life.


Wednesday, August 24, 2011

The Ascent of a Leader: How Ordinary Relationships Develop Extraordinary Character and Influence

The Ascent of a Leader: How Ordinary Relationships Develop Extraordinary Character and Influence Review



A Leadership Network Publication



Become the leader people are proud to follow by opening yourself to the influences that develop character: Anduring relationships with friAnds, family, and God.Solidly based on Christian values, this practical, visionary, and hope-filled book guides readers through a step-by-step process for developing both personal character and the network of important relationships that enable character to win out, even in the face of setbacks, adversity, and temptations to take short cuts. Leadership is about character, the authors assert, and character weaves values like integrity, honesty, and selfless service into the fabric of our lives, organizations, and cultures.

The Ascent of a Leader is written for ordinary people-mothers, husbands, bosses, secretaries, pastors, teachers, and students-who want to develop extraordinary character, find and follow God's plan for their lives, and lead others where they need to go. We all have innate leadership potential. To maximize it, we must do much more than develop performance-based skills, the authors assert. We must consciously choose who and what we allow to influence us, find and develop our humility, and build Anduring relationships with colleagues, family, friAnds, and God. They offer engaging real-life examples to show how we can grow into our true potential as leaders and inspire us to "make a difference in the 21st century-in our families, our communities, our companies, our government, and even our world."



With a foreword by Ken Blanchard.


Tuesday, August 23, 2011

NIR! Plays: Goldilocks and the Three Bears Level 1 (24 Page Storybook, 5-Play Scripts, 4 Character Masks)

NIR! Plays: Goldilocks and the Three Bears Level 1 (24 Page Storybook, 5-Play Scripts, 4 Character Masks) Review



Not too easy and not too hard, this adaptation of a classic tale brings Goldilocks to a level that is just right for beginning readers. As they play the parts of Goldilocks, Papa Bear, Mama Bear, and Baby Bear, kids will be gaining necessary skills to help strengthen their reading confidence and comprehension.

Each set includes Storybook, 5 Scripts & 4 Masks.


Monday, August 22, 2011

Dissolute Characters: Irish Literary History Through Balzac, Sheridan Le Fanu, Yeats and Bowen

Dissolute Characters: Irish Literary History Through Balzac, Sheridan Le Fanu, Yeats and Bowen Review



Irish literature in English commands world-wide respect, but it is rarely discussed in a comparative light. This study of the making and unmaking of character commences with Balzac's impact on nineteenth-century Irish fiction. Sheridan Le Fanu links Balzac and Swedenborg to Yeats, and anticipates Elizabeth Bowen's deployment of ghost story conventions in the 1940s.
 
Through painterly imagery, biblical quotation and the distortion of proper names, Le Fanu shows character to be a self-consuming project. Yeats' Parnell emerges as a modernist gothic hero of the 1930s. Bowen's The heat of the day anatomizes the problems of identity, bequeathed by Yeats.
 
Radically revising the idea of a gothic tradition and traversing two centuries of Irish literary history, Dissolute Characters gives a fluent and detailed account of the emerging relation between Irish culture, modernism and politics.


Sunday, August 21, 2011

Iowa Curiosities, 2nd: Quirky characters, roadside oddities & other offbeat stuff (Curiosities Series)

Iowa Curiosities, 2nd: Quirky characters, roadside oddities & other offbeat stuff (Curiosities Series) Review



Your round-trip ticket to the wildest, wackiest, most outrageous people, places, and things the Hawkeye State has to offer!


Saturday, August 20, 2011

More How To Draw Manga Volume 4: Mastering Bishoujo Characters

More How To Draw Manga Volume 4: Mastering Bishoujo Characters Review



This fourth volume in the More How to Draw Manga series presents the basic drawing techniques depending on twelve (12) types of bishoujo characters, as well as their costumes, movements, etc.


Friday, August 19, 2011

Authenticity: Living a Spiritually Healthy Life (Building Character Together)

Authenticity: Living a Spiritually Healthy Life (Building Character Together) Review



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What does it take to build character? How do you instill godly qualities inside yourself that are displayed consistently through words, actions, and attitudes that reflect what Jesus himself is like? Building Character Together takes you and your small group inside the Bible to learn character-building lessons from some of its most compelling figures. In six enjoyable, interactive sessions, each volume in this six-volume series helps you deeply explore the complex issues of developing Christian character. Combining study, discussion, and shared experiences, here is a pathway to growth both individually and as a group. Explore the lives of David, Mary Magdalene, Jacob, and other men and women of the Bible. Learn lessons from their successes and failures and from their relationships with God and other people that you can readily link to yourself and your own life circumstances. Enjoy frank discussions that draw you and other group members deeper into each others' lives. And put it all into action in a one-day group retreat, a service project, a mini-mission work, and other experiences that help you make the leap from good words to good works.