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Drawing Digital: The complete guide for learning to draw & paint on your iPad

Lisa Bardot - Walter Foster Publishing
Format: Paperback

Learn how to draw digitally and get the most use out of your tablet with this book full of helpful tips, creative inspiration, and 12 step-by-step drawing and painting projects.. In Drawing Digital, artist and teacher Lisa Bardot, the expert behind @Bardot Brush, introduces the art of digital...
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Journeys with Emperors: Tracking the World's Most Extreme Penguin

Gerald L. Kooyman - University of Chicago Press; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

With stunning photographs from the ice edge, a firsthand account of a researcher's time in Antarctica and of the perilous journeys of the world's largest penguin species: the iconic emperor.. . Nearly all emperor penguin colonies are extremely remote; of the sixty-six known, fewer...
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Pigs, Pork, and Heartland Hogs: From Wild Boar to Baconfest

Cynthia Clampitt - Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Format: Hardcover

Among the first creatures to help humans attain the goal of having enough to eat was the pig, which provided not simply enough, but general abundance. Domesticated early and easily, herds grew at astonishing rates (only rabbits are more prolific) . Then, as people spread around the globe,...
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Unsettled: What Climate Science Tells Us, What It Doesn't, and Why It Matters

Steven E. Koonin - BenBella Books
Format: Hardcover

"Surging sea levels are inundating the coasts." "Hurricanes and tornadoes are becoming fiercer and more frequent." "Climate change will be an economic disaster." You've heard all this presented as fact. But according to science, all of these statements...
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