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Include books by the same author101 Things I Learned in Architecture School
Matthew Frederick · 128 pages
Anatomy for the Artist
Sarah Simblet · 255 pages
Syllabus: Notes from an Accidental Professor
Lynda Barry · 200 pages
Offers selected pages from the author's illustrated notebooks kept during a three year period when she was figuring out how to teach a course on keeping creative notebooks. The award-winning author Lynda Barry is the creative force behind the genre-defying and bestselling work ***What It Is***. She believes that *anyone can be a writer* and has set out to prove it. For the past decade, Barry ha
Nasreen's Secret School: A True Story from Afghanistan
Jeanette Winter · 40 pages
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cmAD630L Lexile
Architecture: Form, Space, & Order
Francis D.K. Ching · 446 pages
Interaction of Color
Josef Albers · 81 pages
Josef Albers' "Interaction of Color" is a masterwork in twentieth-century art education. Conceived as a handbook and teaching aid for artists, instructors, and students, this timeless book presents Albers' unique ideas of colour experimentation in a way that is valuable to specialists as well as to a larger audience. Originally published by Yale University Press in 1963 as a limited silkscreen edi
An Illustrated Book of Bad Arguments
Ali Almossawi · 61 pages
If the World Were a Village: A Book about the World's People
David J. Smith · 32 pages
What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions
Randall Munroe · 312 pages
Millions of people visit xkcd.com each week to read Randall Munroe's iconic webcomic. His stick-figure drawings about science, technology, language, and love have a large and passionate following. Fans of xkcd ask Munroe a lot of strange questions. What if you tried to hit a baseball pitched at 90 percent the speed of light? How fast can you hit a speed bump while driving and live? If there was a
It's Perfectly Normal: Changing Bodies, Growing Up, Sex, and Sexual Health
Robie H. Harris · 96 pages
Provides accurate, lucid, and unbiased answers to almost every conceivable question on sex, including birth control and AIDS, that children may ask. Two cartoon characters, a bird and a bee have, often humorous, questions of their own. Biology.
Inside the Human Body
Joanna Cole · 40 pages
A special field trip on the magic school bus allows Ms. Frizzle's class to get a first-hand look at major parts of the body and how they work
Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art
Scott McCloud · 215 pages
Praised throughout the cartoon industry by such luminaries as Art Spiegelman, Matt Groening, and Will Eisner, Scott McCloud's Understanding Comics is a seminal examination of comics art: its rich history, surprising technical components, and major cultural significance. Explore the secret world between the panels, through the lines, and within the hidden symbols of a powerful but misunderstood art
The Montessori Toddler: A Parent's Guide to Raising a Curious and Responsible Human Being
Simone Davies · 362 pages
Malala's Magic Pencil
Malala Yousafzai · 48 pages
The author presents her story and life philosophy, describing how she wished for a magic pencil that she would use to fix the world's problems, and how she realized that even if she never found the pencil, she could still have a positive impact.
Picture This: How Pictures Work
Molly Bang · 96 pages
"Everyone knows that a picture tells a thousand words. But what about the elements that make up a picture? Using the tale of Little Red Riding Hood as an example, Molly Bang uses boldly graphic artwork to explain how images--and their individual components--work to tell a story that engages the emotions: Why are diagonals dramatic? Why are curves calming? Why does red feel hot and blue feel cold?
Ancient Greece and the Olympics
Mary Pope Osborne, Natalie Pope Boyce · 121 pages
Annie and Jack present information about ancient Greece and the athletic events known as the Olympic games that were held there.
Why's (Poignant) Guide to Ruby
Why The Lucky Stiff · 258 pages
I'll be straight with you. I want you to cry. To weep. To whimper sweetly. This book is a **poignant** guide to Ruby. That means code so beautiful that tears are shed. That means gallant tales and somber truths that have you waking up the next morning in the arms of this book. Hugging it tightly to you all the day long. If necessary, fashion a makeshift hip holster for _Why's (Poignant) Guide to R
The Daring Book for Girls
Andrea J. Buchanan, Miriam Peskowitz · 288 pages
The Daring Book for Girls is the manual for everything that girls need to know—and that doesn't mean sewing buttonholes! Whether it's female heroes in history, secret note-passing skills, science projects, friendship bracelets, double dutch, cats cradle, the perfect cartwheel or the eternal mystery of what boys are thinking, this book has it all. But it's not just a guide to giggling at sleepovers