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5-Minute Sketching -- Animals and Pets: Super-quick Techniques for Amazing Drawings

Gary Geraths · Firefly Books
Pages: 128
Format: Paperback

A great guide to making quick sketches of pets and animals. What pet owner has not doodled a drawing of their pet cat or dog but wished they could be better at it? For them, and for the many aspiring artists that love animals, here is an excellent guide to quick sketching. 5-Minute Sketching...
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Know Thyself: Western Identity from Classical Greece to the Renaissance

INGRID ROSSELLINI · Doubleday
Pages: 496
Format: Hardcover

A lively and timely introduction to the roots of self-understanding--who we are and how we should act--in the cultures of ancient Greece, the Roman Empire, and Middle Ages and the Renaissance "Know thyself"--this fundamental imperative appeared for the first time in ancient...
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Hemingway's Havana: A Reflection of the Writer's Life in Cuba

Robert Wheeler · Skyhorse Publishing
Pages: 208
Format: Hardcover

Ernest Hemingway lived in Cuba for more than two decades, longer than anywhere else. He bought a home -- naming it the Finca Vigia -- with his third wife, Martha Gellhorn and wrote his masterpiece The Old Man and the Sea there. In Cuba, Papa Hemingway found a sense of serenity and enrichment...
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Celestial Bodies: How to Look at Ballet

Laura Jacobs · Basic Books
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover

A distinguished dance critic offers an enchanting introduction to the art of balletAs much as we may enjoy Swan Lake or The Nutcracker, for many of us ballet is a foreign language. It communicates through movement, not words, and its history lies almost entirely abroad-in Russia, Italy,...
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