100 Figures

100 Figures

Author: Quentin Blake

Publisher: Tate

Published: 2019-04-09

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781849766159

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Published to accompany a major exhibition highlighting Quentin Blake's prolific but unknown work. Quentin Blake's illustrations are instantly recognisable to millions of people around the world. A new exhibition to be held at London's House of Illustration will explore an unusual aspect of Blake's work, however, exhibiting for the first time 100 examples of his works of art. 100 Figures, will feature all of the 100 exhibited works - ranging from large-scale oil paintings to drawings and prints, created between the 1950s and today - providing an unprecedented insight into Blake's creative practice. Works included date back to his post-grad years in the 1950s when he struggled to make a living as an illustrator and took life-drawing classes at Chelsea School of Art. It was here that he first engaged with the human figure, but soon, having observed how the human body behaves, he found he was able to draw it from memory in any pose, working from his vivid imagination. 100 Figures will also offer the chance to catch a rare glimpse of early oil paintings by Blake - some painted on hardboard since he was unable to afford canvases at that time and painted using commercial house-painters' brushes. -- Tate Publishing.


Who Wins?

Who Wins?

Author: Clay Swartz

Publisher: Workman Publishing

Published: 2016-07-12

Total Pages: 107

ISBN-13: 0761185445

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Let’s say Charles Dickens challenges Mother Teresa to a lightsaber duel—they’re both equally fit, so will his superior artistry overcome her advantage in bravery and leadership? Or who wins karaoke—Nelson Mandela or Jane Austen? They certainly both have a way with words, but Mandela’s over-the-top courage might take the day. Mixing and matching 100 historical figures in 50 competitive categories, from Ping-Pong to climbing Mount Everest, Who Wins? turns history into a compelling game, which means kids learn while having fun in the process. Each of the famous people is given a short bio and ranked in six categories—bravery, leadership, artistry, wealth, wisdom, and fitness. And because there are no right answers, the reader decides, and in the very act of deciding and justifying the answer, real learning has taken place. A 2017 YALSA Quick Pick for Reluctant Readers.


Draw Like an Artist: 100 Faces and Figures

Draw Like an Artist: 100 Faces and Figures

Author: Chris Legaspi

Publisher: Quarry Books

Published: 2019-04-16

Total Pages: 115

ISBN-13: 1631597108

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Featuring 600+ sketches depicting a vast array of human expressions, movements, and more, Draw Like an Artist: 100 Faces and Figures is a must-have visual reference book for student artists, illustrators, cartoonists, urban sketchers, and anyone seeking to improve their realistic drawing skills. Designed as a contemporary, step-by-stepguidebook for artists who are learning to draw the human form, Draw Like An Artist: 100 Faces and Figures features an inclusive array of faces, figures, and poses, all shown from a variety of perspectives. Each set of illustrations takes you from beginning sketch lines to a finished drawing. Author Chris Legaspi is a leading figure illustrator and popular workshop instructor whose clear and elegant drawing style will make this a go-to sourcebook for years to come.


Biostratigraphic and Geological Significance of Planktonic Foraminifera

Biostratigraphic and Geological Significance of Planktonic Foraminifera

Author: Marcelle K. BouDagher-Fadel

Publisher: UCL Press

Published: 2015-10-02

Total Pages: 320

ISBN-13: 1910634247

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The role of fossil planktonic foraminifera as markers for biostratigraphical zonation and correlation underpins most drilling of marine sedimentary sequences and is key to hydrocarbon exploration. The first - and only - book to synthesise the whole biostratigraphic and geological usefulness of planktonic foraminifera, Biostratigraphic and Geological Significance of Planktonic Foraminifera unifies existing biostratigraphic schemes and provides an improved correlation reflecting regional biogeographies.Renowned micropaleontologist Marcelle K. Boudagher-Fadel presents a comprehensive analysis of existing data on fossil planktonic foraminifera genera and their phylogenetic evolution in time and space. This important text, now in its Second Edition, is in considerable demand and is now being republished by UCL Press.


Fabulous Figures

Fabulous Figures

Author: Jane Davenport

Publisher:

Published: 2018

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781942021322

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Start with a heart . . . and create beautiful in-proportion people! Aspiring artists who feel intimidated at drawing figures will love Jane Davenport's amazingly easy technique, developed while she worked as a fashion illustrator. It involves using equal-size hearts to build the body's structure, and the results are astounding. Jane lays out the basics and walks you through working with different mediums; drawing the head, face, clothing, hair, and features; and constructing figures inspired by fashion, fantasy, life drawing, and more.


THE POWER OF THE POLITICAL CONTRIBUTION IN THE UNITED STATES

THE POWER OF THE POLITICAL CONTRIBUTION IN THE UNITED STATES

Author: DR AHLEM ARFAOUI TARTIR

Publisher: AHLEM TARTIR

Published: 2024-05-20

Total Pages: 206

ISBN-13:

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The book presents a comprehensive investigation of Political Contributors in the United States. It describes the crusade fund controls and how they decrease the impact of specifically granted parties while simultaneously expanding subject commitments. The experts have introduced us to the results of the strategy of a detailed predisposition in crusade commitments for occupants. The cases of these unexpected outcomes have been put into practical use while serving a resourceful purpose. The following paper, in drafted details, evaluates the deliberate and unimagined outcomes of battle back controls in different states of the USA. This detailed evaluation aims to clarity a theoretical framework of several impacts of authority on two very specific kinds of benefactors, one of which is the particularistic contributor, whose ideas contribute to the practical implications limited by the boundaries of commitment limits. Another is a universalistic contributor, driven by assisting their most desirable applicants, is going to be less focused on directions. Significantly, the unbranching of commitments is not expected to have an effect on the commitment limits. This book further highlights two very specific speculations reflecting the hypothetical scenarios, one of them being restrictive commitment that limits and decreases the figures and the volume of particularistic commitments while also increasing the diverging numbers and, additionally, the measures of commitments. Another speculation includes contribution limits that do not have a significant effect on the numbers, sum, or variations of universalistic commitments Additionally, this book focuses on the practical results that crusade back controls function without the inadvertent result of allotting a financially favorable position to officeholders at both the state level and the applicant level. Moreover, commitment limits lead to an increase in the number of aggregate supporters while decreasing the number and measure of particular commitments and, in turn, uplifting the number of universalistic patrons. In addition to this, the excessive evaluations and examinations portray a dynamic impact on commitment restrictions at the organizational level, on the guilds, on an individual level, in communities, and on the belief system PAC. Restrictive commitment limits significantly decrease the metrics of an organization's commitments, leading to a decrease in the employees commitments. With that said, it is mandatory


A Guide to Managing Research

A Guide to Managing Research

Author: William Fox

Publisher: Juta and Company Ltd

Published: 2008-09-05

Total Pages: 196

ISBN-13: 9780702176845

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It explains the fundamentals of research in the management sciences in a logical way and describes the research process in detail. An outstanding feature of the book is the explanation of the role of research design in both the qualitative and quantitative traditions of research.


Minimal Neoplasia

Minimal Neoplasia

Author: Ekkehard Grundmann

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2012-12-06

Total Pages: 205

ISBN-13: 3642832458

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Minimal neoplasia may be defined as a small cancer that has progressed beyond its site of primary origin into the surrounding tissue, but that has not yet reached the stage of deeper invasion or metastasization. The basic principles of this minimal cancer are presented in chapters on molecular, biological and experimental aspects, and, in particular, on the clinical manifestations in various organs: preleukemia, incipient lymphoma, and minimal carcinomas of the uterine cervix, breast, thyroid, larynx, lung, prostate, stomach and colon. A separate chapter is devoted to cryptic gliomas. The latest morphological methods including cytology, early clinical diagnostics and, in particular, radiodiagnostics, are considered. The reader can expect up-to-date information about prompt diagnosis of the very early manifestations of cancer, together with inferences on therapy, which, especially in tumors of the uterine cervix, breast and thyroid, differs considerably from the treatment of advanced neoplasia.