2023 Reprint of the 1914 Edition.  Originally published as Light and Shade: Prepared Especially for Home Study . Also reprinted as Light, Shade and Shadow.  Even the most beautiful drawing can appear flat without shading. But with this expert guide, every artist can learn how to use shadow to add visual dimension and drama to their work, and to master techniques such as highlighting and gradation. Beginning with the basics--casting light on simple geometric shapes--and progressing to the human figure, these step-by-step techniques, illustrations ...

2020 Reprint of the 1983 Edition.  This reprint of the 1942 English translation of Douhet's works, while titled Command of the Air , actually consists of five separate works: the original 1921 edition of Command of the Air , a second edition of 1927, a 1928 monograph titled Probable Aspects of Future War , a polemical article of 1929 called Recapitulation and the 1930 study The War of 19---. By transporting ourselves back to the 1920s, past not only the Vietnam and Korean Wars, but nearly two decades before World War II, we become silent ...

2012 Reprint of 1960 Edition. Exact facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. In this unique and fascinating book, two collectors of pictorial symbols tell the story of flower symbolism, explaining its religious, magical and legendary significance and revealing hundreds of curious and little know facts. This is an essential work for folklorists, for artists and designers in all fields, for botanical and gardening specialists, and for all those who would be familiar with the hidden language of flowers, plants and ...

2021 Reprint of the 1929 Edition.  Facsimile of the original edition and not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. This report was originally published in the Bulletin of the United States Bureau of Labor Statistics, No. 604.  Written during the year of the Great Depression, this report attempted to present a picture of American wages from early colonial times to 1929. In general, the policy was to select representative occupations in representative industries, and present for such occupations as continuous a record as possible ...

2010 Reprint of 1951 Edition. The Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius of Loyola, (composed from 1522-1524) are a brief set of Christian meditations, prayers and mental exercises, divided in four thematic 'weeks' of variable length, designed to be carried out over a period of 28 to 30 days. They were composed to help to discern Jesus in everyday life. Though the underlying spiritual outlook is Catholic, the exercises are often made nowadays by non-Catholics. The 'Spiritual Exercises' booklet was formally approved in 1548 by Paul III and serves as a foundation ...

2022 Reprint of the 1926 Edition. A murder in a small English village leads Hercule Poirot into a strange mystery involving a determined, curious spinster, the local doctor, and a wide range of suspects with possible motives and mysterious relationships. Poirot retires to a village near the home of a friend, Roger Ackroyd, to pursue a project to perfect vegetable marrows. Soon after, Ackroyd is murdered, and Poirot must come out of retirement to solve the case. The novel was well-received from its first publication in 1926. In 2013, the British ...

2019 Reprint of 1910 Edition.  Full facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition software.  This profusely illustrated edition contains nearly 1000 illustrations of all types of mechanical devices.  Chapters on: Transmission of Power; Measurement of Power, Springs; Generation of Power, Steam; Steam Power Appliances; Explosive Motor Power and Appliances; Hydraulic Power and Appliances; Air-Power Motors and Appliances; Gas and Air-Gas Devices; Electric Power and Devices; Navigation, Vessels, Marine Appliances; ...

2010 Reprint of 1890 First Edition.  Two volume facsimile of original edition.  William James is widely regarded as America's greatest philosopher.  He is also considered to be the father of modern psychology.  The Principles of Psychology took him 12 years to write.  He considered psychology a natural science that required analysis of feelings, desires, cognitions, reasoning, and decisions according to their own features and dynamics, in the same way that one would explain building a house by looking at its component parts.  ...

2020 Reprint of the 1923 Edition.  Full Color Illustrations of 24 Spring Flowers and their respective Fairies.  Full facsimile of the original edition and not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software.  First published in the 1920s, Cicely Mary Barker’s original Flower Fairies books have been loved for generations. Like the pre-Raphaelite painters whom she so admired, Barker believed in re-creating the beauty of nature in art and drawing from life.  Her Flower Fairies watercolors have a unique combination of naturalism and ...

2016 Reprint of 1938 Edition.  In 1938, before the publication of the First Edition of “Alcoholics Anonymous,” four hundred copies of a preliminary edition (which promised a book to follow when it was finally published) were published and sent out by Bill Wilson and Hank Parkhurst.  The cost of printing the four hundred copies was one hundred sixty-five dollars. Each was about 85 pages, spiral bound. A number were sent out to members, doctors, clergy and other friends of the movement for their comments, criticism, and evaluation. The ...