Author: Caroline Weaver
Publisher: Chronicle Books
ISBN: 145217850X
Category : Design
Languages : en
Pages : 171
Book Description
Pencils You Should Know traces the evolution of pencils over time and across the globe. From the humble, handcrafted pencil of the 19th century to the novelty writing implement of the 1990s, each object in this book tells a different story. This book features a selection of 75 modern and vintage pencils curated by pencil powerhouse Caroline Weaver, owner of legendary New York pencil emporium CW Pencil Enterprise. Pencil fanatics will find old favorites here—the original Blackwing 602 puts in an appearance, of course—and make exciting new discoveries, too. • Vintage pencils and accessories are photographed against vibrant, colorful backgrounds and accompanied by Weaver's insightful commentary. • A love letter to one of the most important inventions in human history This supremely charming book celebrates the enduring magic of the pencil. Trace the history of the pencil over time and across the globe, and discover everything you need to know about this simple yet ingenious invention. • A great book for pencil collectors, admirers, historians, artists, writers—anyone who gets excited about the new Palomino Blackwing, a perfectly sharpened No. 2 Ticonderoga • Fans of The Pencil by Henry Petroski, How to Sharpen Pencils by David Rees and John Hodgman, and The Pencil Perfect by Caroline Weaver will want this in their collection. The perfect book for pencil devotees, analog and vintage ephemera lovers, designers, and fans of CW Pencil Enterprise
Pencil Warrior
Author: Poptropica (Firm)
Publisher: Grosset & Dunlap
ISBN: 9780448462301
Category : Drawing
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Something sinister is erasing its way across Poptropica, and the only way to stop it is by re-drawing all the islands and re-creating the world before this new threat can erase every trace. This 64-page full-color doodle book is perfect for fans of Poptropica and anyone who loves to draw.
Publisher: Grosset & Dunlap
ISBN: 9780448462301
Category : Drawing
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Something sinister is erasing its way across Poptropica, and the only way to stop it is by re-drawing all the islands and re-creating the world before this new threat can erase every trace. This 64-page full-color doodle book is perfect for fans of Poptropica and anyone who loves to draw.
Pencils You Should Know
Author: Caroline Weaver
Publisher: Chronicle Books
ISBN: 145217850X
Category : Design
Languages : en
Pages : 171
Book Description
Pencils You Should Know traces the evolution of pencils over time and across the globe. From the humble, handcrafted pencil of the 19th century to the novelty writing implement of the 1990s, each object in this book tells a different story. This book features a selection of 75 modern and vintage pencils curated by pencil powerhouse Caroline Weaver, owner of legendary New York pencil emporium CW Pencil Enterprise. Pencil fanatics will find old favorites here—the original Blackwing 602 puts in an appearance, of course—and make exciting new discoveries, too. • Vintage pencils and accessories are photographed against vibrant, colorful backgrounds and accompanied by Weaver's insightful commentary. • A love letter to one of the most important inventions in human history This supremely charming book celebrates the enduring magic of the pencil. Trace the history of the pencil over time and across the globe, and discover everything you need to know about this simple yet ingenious invention. • A great book for pencil collectors, admirers, historians, artists, writers—anyone who gets excited about the new Palomino Blackwing, a perfectly sharpened No. 2 Ticonderoga • Fans of The Pencil by Henry Petroski, How to Sharpen Pencils by David Rees and John Hodgman, and The Pencil Perfect by Caroline Weaver will want this in their collection. The perfect book for pencil devotees, analog and vintage ephemera lovers, designers, and fans of CW Pencil Enterprise
Publisher: Chronicle Books
ISBN: 145217850X
Category : Design
Languages : en
Pages : 171
Book Description
Pencils You Should Know traces the evolution of pencils over time and across the globe. From the humble, handcrafted pencil of the 19th century to the novelty writing implement of the 1990s, each object in this book tells a different story. This book features a selection of 75 modern and vintage pencils curated by pencil powerhouse Caroline Weaver, owner of legendary New York pencil emporium CW Pencil Enterprise. Pencil fanatics will find old favorites here—the original Blackwing 602 puts in an appearance, of course—and make exciting new discoveries, too. • Vintage pencils and accessories are photographed against vibrant, colorful backgrounds and accompanied by Weaver's insightful commentary. • A love letter to one of the most important inventions in human history This supremely charming book celebrates the enduring magic of the pencil. Trace the history of the pencil over time and across the globe, and discover everything you need to know about this simple yet ingenious invention. • A great book for pencil collectors, admirers, historians, artists, writers—anyone who gets excited about the new Palomino Blackwing, a perfectly sharpened No. 2 Ticonderoga • Fans of The Pencil by Henry Petroski, How to Sharpen Pencils by David Rees and John Hodgman, and The Pencil Perfect by Caroline Weaver will want this in their collection. The perfect book for pencil devotees, analog and vintage ephemera lovers, designers, and fans of CW Pencil Enterprise
Drawing Heroic Warriors
Author: Steve Sims
Publisher: Gareth Stevens Publishing LLLP
ISBN: 1433940523
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 34
Book Description
Offers detailed advice on how to draw male and female warriors, show combat, and create scenes for these characters.
Publisher: Gareth Stevens Publishing LLLP
ISBN: 1433940523
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 34
Book Description
Offers detailed advice on how to draw male and female warriors, show combat, and create scenes for these characters.
War Virtually
Author: Roberto J. González
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520402170
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 269
Book Description
A critical look at how the US military is weaponizing technology and data for new kinds of warfare—and why we must resist. War Virtually is the story of how scientists, programmers, and engineers are racing to develop data-driven technologies for fighting virtual wars, both at home and abroad. In this landmark book, Roberto J. González gives us a lucid and gripping account of what lies behind the autonomous weapons, robotic systems, predictive modeling software, advanced surveillance programs, and psyops techniques that are transforming the nature of military conflict. González, a cultural anthropologist, takes a critical approach to the techno-utopian view of these advancements and their dubious promise of a less deadly and more efficient warfare. With clear, accessible prose, this book exposes the high-tech underpinnings of contemporary military operations—and the cultural assumptions they're built on. Chapters cover automated battlefield robotics; social scientists' involvement in experimental defense research; the blurred line between political consulting and propaganda in the internet era; and the military's use of big data to craft new counterinsurgency methods based on predicting conflict. González also lays bare the processes by which the Pentagon and US intelligence agencies have quietly joined forces with Big Tech, raising an alarming prospect: that someday Google, Amazon, and other Silicon Valley firms might merge with some of the world's biggest defense contractors. War Virtually takes an unflinching look at an algorithmic future—where new military technologies threaten democratic governance and human survival.
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520402170
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 269
Book Description
A critical look at how the US military is weaponizing technology and data for new kinds of warfare—and why we must resist. War Virtually is the story of how scientists, programmers, and engineers are racing to develop data-driven technologies for fighting virtual wars, both at home and abroad. In this landmark book, Roberto J. González gives us a lucid and gripping account of what lies behind the autonomous weapons, robotic systems, predictive modeling software, advanced surveillance programs, and psyops techniques that are transforming the nature of military conflict. González, a cultural anthropologist, takes a critical approach to the techno-utopian view of these advancements and their dubious promise of a less deadly and more efficient warfare. With clear, accessible prose, this book exposes the high-tech underpinnings of contemporary military operations—and the cultural assumptions they're built on. Chapters cover automated battlefield robotics; social scientists' involvement in experimental defense research; the blurred line between political consulting and propaganda in the internet era; and the military's use of big data to craft new counterinsurgency methods based on predicting conflict. González also lays bare the processes by which the Pentagon and US intelligence agencies have quietly joined forces with Big Tech, raising an alarming prospect: that someday Google, Amazon, and other Silicon Valley firms might merge with some of the world's biggest defense contractors. War Virtually takes an unflinching look at an algorithmic future—where new military technologies threaten democratic governance and human survival.
Shangri-La Frontier 3
Author: Katarina
Publisher: Kodansha America LLC
ISBN: 1636992897
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 193
Book Description
Making it through a gang of lethal player-killers, Sunraku prepares for a ten-battle gauntlet as part of the "Invitation from Lagonia" unique quest. Meanwhile, his friend (and fellow fan of awful games) Pencilgon approaches him with an offer: Help her defeat one of the Seven Colossi, a feat never achieved by anyone else in Shangri-La Frontier's thirty-million-strong player base! Now this band on the far outskirts of gaming fandom is about to carve their name into legend in the greatest RPG ever made!
Publisher: Kodansha America LLC
ISBN: 1636992897
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 193
Book Description
Making it through a gang of lethal player-killers, Sunraku prepares for a ten-battle gauntlet as part of the "Invitation from Lagonia" unique quest. Meanwhile, his friend (and fellow fan of awful games) Pencilgon approaches him with an offer: Help her defeat one of the Seven Colossi, a feat never achieved by anyone else in Shangri-La Frontier's thirty-million-strong player base! Now this band on the far outskirts of gaming fandom is about to carve their name into legend in the greatest RPG ever made!
Shangri-La Frontier 2
Author: Katarina
Publisher: Kodansha America LLC
ISBN: 1646599489
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description
As he tackles the "god-tier" game Shangri-La Frontier, Sunraku is thoroughly trashed by the powerful boss Lycaon. Even worse, now he's cursed and can't equip anything on his body or legs—but with Ellym, the vorpal bunny he recruited as part of a rare side quest, he's now storming his way through the game! He's doing so well, in fact, that his exploits are attracting the attention of certain very powerful players...but with the help of some old friends, Sunraku may just manage to live another day!
Publisher: Kodansha America LLC
ISBN: 1646599489
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description
As he tackles the "god-tier" game Shangri-La Frontier, Sunraku is thoroughly trashed by the powerful boss Lycaon. Even worse, now he's cursed and can't equip anything on his body or legs—but with Ellym, the vorpal bunny he recruited as part of a rare side quest, he's now storming his way through the game! He's doing so well, in fact, that his exploits are attracting the attention of certain very powerful players...but with the help of some old friends, Sunraku may just manage to live another day!
The Warrior Elite
Author: Dick Couch
Publisher: Crown
ISBN: 0307566234
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description
With a postscript describing SEAL efforts in Afghanistan, The Warrior Elite takes you into the toughest, longest, and most relentless military training in the world. What does it take to become a Navy SEAL? What makes talented, intelligent young men volunteer for physical punishment, cold water, and days without sleep? In The Warrior Elite, former Navy SEAL Dick Couch documents the process that transforms young men into warriors. SEAL training is the distillation of the human spirit, a tradition-bound ordeal that seeks to find men with character, courage, and the burning desire to win at all costs, men who would rather die than quit.
Publisher: Crown
ISBN: 0307566234
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description
With a postscript describing SEAL efforts in Afghanistan, The Warrior Elite takes you into the toughest, longest, and most relentless military training in the world. What does it take to become a Navy SEAL? What makes talented, intelligent young men volunteer for physical punishment, cold water, and days without sleep? In The Warrior Elite, former Navy SEAL Dick Couch documents the process that transforms young men into warriors. SEAL training is the distillation of the human spirit, a tradition-bound ordeal that seeks to find men with character, courage, and the burning desire to win at all costs, men who would rather die than quit.
Warrior's Song
Author: Thomas M. Hill
Publisher: Launchpad Press
ISBN: 1461099536
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 238
Book Description
Parker Shaw, a political philosophy major at the University of Virginia, tries to figure out what to do with his life. His father wants him to study law. Parker has a strange dream which sends him on a seeker's path. Curiosity takes him and his buddy, Sam, on a road trip to the American Southwest, where he meets an eerily familiar Indian man. When he returns to school to complete his final year, is it fate or a strange confluence of events that finds him near the Pentagon on September 11, 2001? This is the first novel in a four-part series, which is a thought-provoking and at times satirical inquiry into the roots of modern American identity and the ageless tension between rationality and spirituality.
Publisher: Launchpad Press
ISBN: 1461099536
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 238
Book Description
Parker Shaw, a political philosophy major at the University of Virginia, tries to figure out what to do with his life. His father wants him to study law. Parker has a strange dream which sends him on a seeker's path. Curiosity takes him and his buddy, Sam, on a road trip to the American Southwest, where he meets an eerily familiar Indian man. When he returns to school to complete his final year, is it fate or a strange confluence of events that finds him near the Pentagon on September 11, 2001? This is the first novel in a four-part series, which is a thought-provoking and at times satirical inquiry into the roots of modern American identity and the ageless tension between rationality and spirituality.
Shangri-La Frontier 4
Author: Katarina
Publisher: Kodansha America LLC
ISBN: 1636994644
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description
As Sunraku and Cazzo grind levels like crazy to prepare for taking on in-game "Colossus" Wezaemon the Tombguard, Pencilgon introduces them to Setsuna. She tells them about her and Wezaemon's regrets, and the vestiges of the game's age of Divinity...and after promising to help her, the party sets off to take down the boss! Can they be the first to defeat one of the Seven Colossi and achieve a feat nobody in Shangri-La Online's accomplished before?!
Publisher: Kodansha America LLC
ISBN: 1636994644
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description
As Sunraku and Cazzo grind levels like crazy to prepare for taking on in-game "Colossus" Wezaemon the Tombguard, Pencilgon introduces them to Setsuna. She tells them about her and Wezaemon's regrets, and the vestiges of the game's age of Divinity...and after promising to help her, the party sets off to take down the boss! Can they be the first to defeat one of the Seven Colossi and achieve a feat nobody in Shangri-La Online's accomplished before?!
You Can Draw in 30 Days
Author: Mark Kistler
Publisher: Da Capo Lifelong Books
ISBN: 0786727233
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
Pick up your pencil, embrace your inner artist, and learn how to draw in thirty days with this approachable step-by-step guide from an Emmy award-winning PBS host. Drawing is an acquired skill, not a talent -- anyone can learn to draw! All you need is a pencil, a piece of paper, and the willingness to tap into your hidden artistic abilities. With Emmy award-winning, longtime PBS host Mark Kistler as your guide, you'll learn the secrets of sophisticated three-dimensional renderings, and have fun along the way -- in just twenty minutes a day for a month. Inside you'll find: Quick and easy step-by-step instructions for drawing everything from simple spheres to apples, trees, buildings, and the human hand and face More than 500 line drawings, illustrating each step Time-tested tips, techniques, and tutorials for drawing in 3-D The 9 Fundamental Laws of Drawing to create the illusion of depth in any drawing 75 student examples to encourage you in the process
Publisher: Da Capo Lifelong Books
ISBN: 0786727233
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
Pick up your pencil, embrace your inner artist, and learn how to draw in thirty days with this approachable step-by-step guide from an Emmy award-winning PBS host. Drawing is an acquired skill, not a talent -- anyone can learn to draw! All you need is a pencil, a piece of paper, and the willingness to tap into your hidden artistic abilities. With Emmy award-winning, longtime PBS host Mark Kistler as your guide, you'll learn the secrets of sophisticated three-dimensional renderings, and have fun along the way -- in just twenty minutes a day for a month. Inside you'll find: Quick and easy step-by-step instructions for drawing everything from simple spheres to apples, trees, buildings, and the human hand and face More than 500 line drawings, illustrating each step Time-tested tips, techniques, and tutorials for drawing in 3-D The 9 Fundamental Laws of Drawing to create the illusion of depth in any drawing 75 student examples to encourage you in the process