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Publisher
Print
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"Powerhouse Factories, creators of iconic, handmade posters promoting indie bands and venues across the country, reveal their secrets for using music and design to evoke meaningful responses from fans. In this hands-on guide, the masterminds behind the kickass posters you've seen at your favorite shows and festivals teach you the DIY process of rock poster design and printing."--Dust jacket.
Author
Publisher
Abrams
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
For most films, it's a long, strange road from concept to screen, and sometimes those roads lead to dead ends. In 'Underexposed!: The 50 Greatest Movies Never Made', 50 artists from around the globe each contribute imagined poster art for one such dead-end film-a movie that never made it into production or that changed drastically from initial concept to final film. Each poster is accompanied by a short essay that explains the history behind a never-made...
Author
Language
English
Description
"From the New York Times bestselling author of Nothing to See Here comes an exuberant, bighearted novel about two teenage misfits who spectacularly collide one fateful summer, and the art they make that changes their lives forever. Sixteen-year-old Frankie Budge--aspiring writer, indifferent student, offbeat loner--is determined to make it through yet another sad summer in Coalfield, Tennessee, when she meets Zeke, a talented artist who has just moved...
Author
Publisher
Charlesbridge
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"RISE UP! encourages young people to engage in peaceful protest and stand up for freedom. Photographs of protest posters from the last one hundred years celebrate the ongoing fight for gender equality, civil rights, LGBT rights, refugee and immigrant rights, peace, and the environment. Includes a chapter on youth protest. Developed in collaboration with Amnesty International"--
5) Prisms
Author
Series
Publisher
Child's World
Pub. Date
c2014
Language
English
Description
This book introduces prisms using real-world examples such as presents as rectangular prisms, tents that are triangular prisms, paperweights as pentagonal prisms, and a music box that is an octagonal prism.
Author
Publisher
AK Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"Shawna Potter, singer for the band War On Women, has tackled sexism and harassment in lyrics and on stage for years. Taking the battle to music venues themselves, she has trained night clubs and community spaces in how to create safer environments for marginalized people. Now she's turned decades of experience into a clear and concise guide for public spaces of all sorts, from art galleries to bagel shops to concert halls, that want to shut down...
Author
Publisher
No Starch Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"An introduction to machine learning and artificial intelligence, using the Scratch programming language. Provides instructions to make a game that can learn hand motions, a chatbot that can answer questions, a computer assistant that can learn simple commands, and more"--
Author
Publisher
Pegasus Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Formats
Description
A history of the Cold War as primarily a conflict of psychology.
"More than any other conflict, the Cold War was fought on the battlefield of the human mind. And, nearly thirty years since the collapse of the Soviet Union, its legacy still endures -- not only in our politics, but in our own thoughts and fears. Drawing on a vast array of untapped archives and unseen sources, Martin Sixsmith vividly recreates the tensions and paranoia of the Cold War,...
Author
Publisher
Miller's, a division of Mitchell Beazley
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Miller's Collectibles Handbook & Price Guide 2021-2022 is the up-to-date guide to the collectables market no dealer, collector or auctioneer should be without. Featuring more than 4,000 objects in full color, each with a detailed description and price range, the book also shows you how to spot that rare example that may be worth twenty times more than another piece. In-depth features explain why one piece is worth more than another, show how to value...
Author
Series
Publisher
UXL
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
English
Description
Covers major topics related to the period, including the roots of the war; causes of U.S. involvement; the Espionage Act and Sedition Act; weapons of mass destruction; and more. Profiles the major players of the period, including Woodrow Wilson, Kaiser Wilhelm II, John Pershing, and Henri-Philippe Petain. Presents full or excerpted primary source materials, including diaries, speeches, letters, journals and memoirs.
Author
Language
English
Description
Early in the Great War, men left Britain's factories in droves to enlist. Struggling to keep up production, arsenals hired women to build the weapons the military urgently needed. "Be the Girl Behind the Man Behind the Gun," the recruitment posters beckoned. Thousands of women-cooks, maids, shopgirls, and housewives-answered their nation's call. These "munitionettes" worked grueling shifts often seven days a week, handling TNT and other explosives...
13) Hokuloa Road
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"On a whim, Grady Kendall applies to work as a live-in caretaker for a luxury property in Hawai'i, as far from his small-town Maine life as he can imagine. Within days he's flying out to an estate on remote Hokuloa Road, where he quickly uncovers a dark side to the island's idyllic reputation: It has long been a place where people vanish without a trace. When a young woman named Jessie from his flight becomes the next to disappear, Grady is determined...
14) The lost ticket
Author
Language
English
Description
"Strangers on a London bus unite to help an elderly man find his missed love connection in the heartwarming new novel from the acclaimed author of The Last Chance Library. When Libby Nicholls arrives in London, brokenhearted and with her life in tatters, the first person she meets on the bus is elderly Frank. He tells her about the time in 1962 that he met a girl on the number 88 bus, with beautiful red hair just like hers. They made plans for a date...
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Help! This little girl has lost her best friend. He's a dinosaur (not the extinct kind). He's enormous (bigger than a panda!). He was last seen before she gave him a bath and washed off all the mud (maybe that wasn't a good idea?). She's tried to lure him with snacks and put up Lost Dinosaur posters, but nothing has helped. If only it weren't such a clear day--if only it were raining, or snowing, or the leaves were falling, or something. Would it...
Author
Series
Wolf in underpants volume 3
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Formats
Description
"It's race day in the forest, but a surly chickadee has ruined the event's posters! When the Wolf learns why the little bird feels left out, he hatches a plan to launch it to victory"--
17) I stink!
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
A big city garbage truck makes its rounds, consuming everything from apple cores and banana peels to leftover ziti with zucchini.
Author
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
Description
"In 1942, the Gestapo sent out an urgent transmission: "She is the most dangerous of all Allied spies. We must find and destroy her." The target in their sights was Virginia Hall, a Baltimore socialite who talked her way into Special Operations Executive, the spy organization dubbed Winston Churchill's "Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare." She became the first Allied woman deployed behind enemy lines and--despite her prosthetic leg--helped to light...
Author
Publisher
linkedin.com
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Learn how to design compelling and effective marketing collateral, including brochures, business cards, posters, media kits, and promotional pieces like holiday cards and swag.
Marketing collateral gives your audience a chance to hold something in their hand, get important news right from their mailbox, and encounter your product or idea on a poster in a public place. Sean Adams, cofounder of renowned design firm AdamsMorioka, helps you make the...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Beaked. Feathered. Monstrous. Avita was born to be a star. Her tent sells out nightly, and every performance incites bloodcurdling screams. She's the most lucrative circus act from Texas to Tacoma, the crown jewel of the Family Fortuna, and Avita feeds on the shrieks, the gasps, the fear. But when a handsome young artist arrives to create posters of the performers, she's appalled by his rendering of Bird Girl. Is that all he sees? A hideous monster--all...
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