Draw 50 People teaches aspiring artists how to draw with ease by following simple, step-by-step instructions. Acclaimed author Lee J. Ames shows you how to draw a wondrous diversity of people from around the world and throughout history. Included here are people from ancient times, like an Egyptian mathematician, a medieval troubadour, and a Roman athlete. But there are also pirates, queens, soldiers

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Romanov Sisters and Caught in the Revolution, The Last Days of the Romanovs is Helen Rappaport\'s riveting, moment-by-moment account of the last fourteen days of the Russian Imperial family. \"The brutal 1918 massacre of the Romanov family may be familiar, but in Russian scholar Rappaport\'s hands, the tale becomes as shocking and immediate as a thriller.

The latest novel in Alexander McCall Smith\'s much-loved Isabel Dalhousie

Presents cutting-edge, evidence-based interventions for dealing with specific difficulties of reading comprehension in children aged 7-11. An in-depth introduction to the \'poor comprehender profile\', which describes children who despite being fluent readers have difficulty extracting meaning from text. Sets out a range of practical interventions for improving reading skills in this group - along

It\'s time to dress up the magical friends in this dreamy interactive sticker book. Party with mermaids, fairies and unicorns at a musical gala, a magical birthday celebration and a midsummer festival in an enchanted

When Russia Did Democracy challenges the notion that the Russian people have only ever been ruled by tsars, communists or Vladimir Putin. The author traces the long and surprisingly rich traditions of genuine \'people\'s power\' in the Russian lands, beginning with the popular assemblies of the Early Slavs and the medieval republic of Novgorod - once the world\'s largest democracy. In the sixteenth

Whether writing of the Alps, the high seas, or the North Pole, Fergus Fleming has won acclaim as one of today\'s most vivid and engaging historians of adventure and exploration. The Sword and the Cross takes us to the Sahara at the end of the nineteenth century, when France had designs on a hostile wilderness dominated by deadly Tuareg nomads.Two fanatical adventurers, Charles de Foucauld and Henri

The S.M.A.R.T. Squad is back to tackle more middle school mayhem with science, technology, engineering, math, and friendship!In this third book in the S.M.A.R.T. Squad series, best friends Izzy Newton, Allie Einstein, Marie Curie, Charlie Darwin, and Gina Carver set out on a mystery-filled outdoor adventure. Now that Izzy\'s finally found her voice in public speaking class and become an ice hockey

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Engaging and simple attachment-based tools for improving social success, boosting self-confidence, feeling more secure, and connecting genuinely with others.Being a teen can feel like a full-time job. If it\'s not the pressure to get good grades or get along with your parents, there\'s always the anxiety of asking someone out on a date, or the agony of waiting for that first \'Like\' on your latest

9/11 almost instantaneously remade American politics and foreign policy. The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the Patriot Act, water boarding and Guantanamo are examples of its profound and far-reaching effects. But despite its monumental impact--and a deluge of books about al-Qaeda and Islamist terrorism--no one has written a serious assessment of the man who planned it, Osama bin Laden. Available biographies

This pioneering book stands as the most comprehensive treatment of the lives, ideas, and art works of the remarkable group of women who were an essential part of the Surrealist movement. Leonora Carrington, Frida Kahlo, and Dorothea Tanning, among many others, embodied their age as they struggled toward artistic maturity and their own \"liberation of the spirit\" in the context of the Surrealist revolution.

Discover \"perhaps the funniest novel ever written\" (The Guardian ), now beautifully reissued\"The classic comic novel of the First World War.\" --The New Yorker - \"A literary masterpiece.\" --New York Review of Books - \"One of the greatest works of 20th century literature.\" --Boston Globe Jaroslav Hasek\'s The Good Soldier Svejk follows the adventures of Josef Svejk, a boisterous and sometimes

Part of the PCCS Books bestselling Primers in Counselling series, The Existential Counselling Primer is a concise summary of the philosophical origins of existentialist therapy, existentialist understandings of what it is to be human, and how both inform the theory and practice of existential counselling. It ends with a case study to demonstrate what the approach might look like in practice and includes

After Hurricane Higgins crashed out of snooker\'s top league, Jimmmy White has been the People\'s Champion\' even though he never quite made the top World spot, pipped at the post in 1995 by Stephen Hendry, after missing one single black. Aged 16, White was the youngest player to win the English Amateur Championship. At 18, he won the World Amateur title. By 1984, he\'s a professional success, married

A visual exploration of the Deccan Indian architectural history. Contains maps guiding would-be travellers to these temple

Written by Cara Flanagan, the UK\'s most trusted author for A Level Psychology. // Whether you are aiming for an A* or a C this guide is a friend to keep with you from the start to the end of your

What is a muscle? How do they work? Why are they so important? Find out the answers to all of these questions in this information book, filled with detailed illustrations and

Missionary trio Mildred Cable and Evangeline and Franscesca French were the first Englishwomen to cross the infamous Gobi Desert, living for years among the diverse peoples of northwestern China in places few Europeans ever reached. Educated and rich, Mildred Cable once planned to be a concert pianist. Instead she served the people of China through wars and revolutions. Whether speaking the truth