Draw 50 Animal ‘Toons shows aspiring artists how to draw with ease by following simple, step-by-step instructions. Acclaimed author Lee J. Ames helps you bring to life a skateboarding crocodile, a funky monkey, and a juggling seal. Also included are dinosaurs, flamingos, squirrels, gorillas, and a whole spectrum of fun-loving animals.
This book brings to life Siamese, Persians, lions, tigers, panthers and such celebrity felines as Felix, Top Cat and Snaggle Puss.
Enchantment, as defined by bestselling business guru Guy Kawasaki, is not about manipulating people. It transforms situations and relationships. It converts hostility into civility and civility into affinity. It changes skeptics and cynics into believers and the undecided into the loyal.
Instead of just enumerating rules that work only some of the time, this book will teach you how to become a great poker thinker and strategist, so you can expertly navigate any new poker challenge that comes up. Most players think the goal of poker is to make money, but that’s not correct. The goal of poker is to make good decisions. Money is simply the way you measure how well you’re fulfilling that objective. Are you ready to start making world-class decisions at the poker table, as well as reap the substantial rewards that those decisions yield? All you have to do is decide: Decide to Play Great Poker now.
With advice and insider tips from dozens of designers, this entry in the magazine’s popular pocket guide series (which includes Colors for Your Home and Fabrics for Your Home) simplifies all your decorating decisions. A fun visual quiz helps you get started. Then an overview of hallmark elements and designers for five distinct decorating styles leads into room-by-room insider advice on selecting everything from furnishings and colors to carpets, window treatments, and lighting. It’s a fresh approach to decorating!
By now it’s clear that whether you’re promoting a business, a product, or yourself, social media is near the top of what determines your success or failure. And there are countless pundits, authors, and consultants eager to advise you.
You can’t design without type. However, you can use only type (or mostly only type) to create breath-taking designs. Many graphic designers and artists take exactly this route to communicate their ideas through their works and in this course we’ll take a look how this can be done!
This book examines writing in professional and academic settings. It features a variety of exercises and examples designed to help writers effectively connect with their audiences. The activities in this book help writers with critical thinking, specificity, audience awareness, rhetorical strategies, and more. Sixth edition.
Neurosurgery Tricks of the Trade: Cranial presents core surgical procedures in a concise, highly didactic format, enabling surgeons to quickly grasp their essence from the bulleted text and superb illustrations that accompany them. Expert neurosurgeons specializing in the cranial region describe how they perform common procedures and offer surgical tips and pearls.
Arranged for quick, easy reference, the Horror Writers’ Phrase Book contains over 3,000 ways to describe death, gore, hauntings, monsters, weapons, and more—plus dark emotions and writing exercises.Before using this book: “The chainsaw cut her neck.”After using this book: “The buzzing blade savaged her soft, white throat.”There are plenty of violent descriptions, but the book covers all kinds of horror subgenres like paranormal romance.For example, take this boring sentence: “She made out with the vampire.”And turn it into: “Their hungry mouths fed on each other in the darkness.”See the difference? The Horror Writers’ Phrase Book is the perfect tool to inspire your imagination and cure even the most stubborn case of writer’s block.
Wall Street Journal Business Best-Seller, Jeffrey Gitomer’s Little Red Book of Selling! It includes Jeffrey’s 12.5 Principles of Sales Greatness and strategies and answers from a lifetime of selling that will teach you how to make sales forever. In this book, you will have the opportunity to understand why sales happen. And by mastering the elements that Jeffrey Gitomer gives you, you’ll make sales happen for yourself forever.
If you want to learn Excel VBA and have no experience whatsoever with coding, then this is the book for you. There’s no boring theory here. You just follow along with the lessons and exercises to gradually build up your skills. By the end of the course, you’ll be writing fuller apps for Excel. Here are the chapters in the book, with each chapter packed with lessons:
