Drawing and Painting Imaginary Animals: A Mixed-Media Workshop with Carla Sonheim
10 best books like Drawing and Painting Imaginary Animals: A Mixed-Media Workshop with Carla Sonheim (Carla Sonheim): The Demigod Files, You Have to Fucking Eat, Camp Half-Blood Confidential, The Demigod Diaries, The Way of Zen, Painted Pages: Fueling Creativity with Sketchbooks and Mixed Media, The Idea of the Holy, Paint Lab: 52 Exercises inspired by Artists, Materials, Time, Place, and Method, The Creative Tarot: A Modern Guide to an Inspired Life, G-Strings and Sympathy: Strip Club Regulars and Male Desire
Let me preface this review by saying that I love the Percy Jackson and the Olympian Series. I recommend it to kids all the time, and have read the first four books. I did not like this little addition. I have to admit I was mightily turned off by the little Disney logo next to the Hyperion imprint. Intellectual...
| Author | Adam Mansbach |
| ISBN | 1617753785 |
From the author of the international bestseller Go the Fuck to Sleep comes a long-awaited sequel about the other great parental frustration: getting your little angel to eat something that even vaguely resembles a normal meal. Profane, loving, and deeply cathartic, You Have to Fucking Eat breaks...
Camp Half-Blood Confidential
In response to an awful camp orientation video created by the god Apollo, Percy Jackson and other residents of Camp Half-Blood answer such questions as “What is this place?” and “Do I get to keep the T-shirt?” Newbies can check out the section on the Divine Cabins, read up on Magical Landmarks,...
| Author | Rick Riordan |
| ISBN | 1423163001 |
What dangers do runaway demigods Luke and Thalia face on their way to Camp Half-Blood? Are Percy and Annabeth up to the task of rescuing stolen goods from a fire-breathing giant who doesn't take kindly to intruders? How exactly are Leo, Piper, and Jason supposed to find a runaway table, dodge a band of...
| Author | Alan W. Watts |
| ISBN | 0375705104 |
In his definitive introduction to Zen Buddhism, Alan Watts explains the principles and practices of this ancient religion to Western readers. With a rare combination of freshness and lucidity, he delves into the origins and history of Zen to explain what it means for the world today with incredible...
| Author | Sarah Ahearn Bellemare |
| ISBN | 1592536867 |
More inspirational guide than step-by-step workbook, Painted Pages is about helping you to find your own unique way, in the everyday, to be creative and make art. With specific how-to techniques and creative prompts on using an artist's sketchbook in a new way, these pages provide a gentle push to help...
| Author | Rudolf Otto |
| ISBN | 0195002105 |
The thesis of this book is that a sense of God's presence, with its attendant emotions of sacredness, wonderment and awe, is the fundamental starting point of genuine religion. Everything else -- doctrine, ritual and theological speculation -- are reliant upon, and derived from this experience....
Paint Lab: 52 Exercises inspired by Artists, Materials, Time, Place, and Method
| Author | Deborah Forman |
| ISBN | 1592537820 |
Paint Lab is packed with unique and experimental techniques and ideas in painting. This hands-on book is organized into 52 units, which may, but don't need to be explored on a weekly basis. The labs can be worked on in any order, so that you can flip around to learn a new mixed-media technique or be inspired...
The Creative Tarot: A Modern Guide to an Inspired Life
| Author | Jessa Crispin |
| ISBN | 1501120239 |
A hip, accessible, and practical guide for artists and creative people looking to tarot for guidance and inspiration in the tradition of The Secret Language of Birthdays and Steal Like an Artist.
What if the path to creativity was not as challenging as everyone thinks? What if you could find...
G-Strings and Sympathy: Strip Club Regulars and Male Desire
| Author | Katherine Frank |
| ISBN | 0822329727 |
Based on her experiences as a stripper in a city she calls Laurelton—a southeastern city renowned for its strip clubs—anthropologist Katherine Frank provides a fascinating insider’s account of the personal and cultural fantasies motivating male heterosexual strip club "regulars." Given...
| Author | James Patterson |
| ISBN | 1780895909 |
Penguins – our loveable, cute, flightless friends who are constantly dressed for a formal occasion – have always fascinated us. As we shuffle through life one day at a time, it's easy to take things far too seriously, but when we see penguins taking a walk in our shoes it's impossible not to recognise...
Stephen Colbert's Midnight Confessions
| Author | Stephen Colbert |
| ISBN | 1501169009 |
Culled from a segment by the same name on Colbert's show. This was on a book display at my library as I was checking out so I picked it for the fam. As usual, instead of listing him as author, it is credited to By The Staff of the Late Show by Stephen Colbert. I'll share a few that made me smile, since if you live...
Creativity: The Perfect Crime
| Author | Philippe Petit |
| ISBN | 1594631689 |
In the vein of The Creative Habit and The Artist’s Way, a new manifesto on the creative process from a master of the impossible.
Since well before his epic 1974 walk between the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center, Philippe Petit had become an artist who answered first and foremost to the...
| Author | John Ashbery |
| ISBN | 0374525935 |
Progressive awakenings occur in all these verses. Each sense is engaged, and there is a search for epiphanies of the spirit, too. We are in history but also in the present - in buildings, churches, homes, trains, and cars; then back in the open pursuing the course to Baltimore and Bucharest, to the zoo...
R Cookbook: Proven Recipes for Data Analysis, Statistics, and Graphics
| Author | Paul Teetor |
| ISBN | 0596809158 |
With more than 200 practical recipes, this book helps you perform data analysis with R quickly and efficiently. The R language provides everything you need to do statistical work, but its structure can be difficult to master. This collection of concise, task-oriented recipes makes you productive...
Who Cloned the President?
| Author | Ron Roy |
| ISBN | 0307265102 |
I cannot possibly communicate to you how much disappointment this book brought me.
I adore Ron Roy's A to Z Mysteries series, and I have for as long as I can remember. The Super Specials are still being released, which I didn't realize until recently, so that's thrilling for me. A little piece...
All Work and No Play: A Collection of Sundays
| Author | Lincoln Peirce |
| ISBN | 1449425674 |
Big Nate is big news! Big Nate books have sold more than 4.5 million copies and been on the New York Times best-seller list for more than a year.
Enjoy more than two years of Sunday cartoons, portraying the colorful life of Nate Wright. This spunky eleven-year-old holds the school record for...
Dark Tower: The Battle of Jericho Hill #2
Written by PETER DAVID & ROBIN FURTH
Pencils & Cover by JAE LEE
Variant Cover by LEONARDO MANCO
The first Beam has been broken! The Crimson King has created a prison for powerful psychics who use their powers to erode the very Beams that support the Dark Tower which is the fulcrum...
Dark Tower: The Battle of Jericho Hill #1
Beginning a bold new story arc featuring Roland Deschain and his beleaguered ka-tet on the run following the complete destruction of their beloved city of Gilead!
And when such as Gilead falls, the pillars of reality itself-the six beams holding all of existence together-begins to crumble. The...
Big Nate: What's a Little Noogie Between Friends?
Nate Wright’s a winner--in his own mind, anyway. So when things go wrong, he’s at a loss to explain why. How does his soccer team manage to lose to a school with a sixty-game winless streak? What’s he doing at the movies on a Friday night . . . with GINA? And why, oh why is one of his classmates (hint:...
Soccer Smarts for Kids: 60 Skills, Strategies, and Secrets
The only soccer book for players ages 11 to 15 combining expert advice with essential soccer techniques for improving their skills. As a youth soccer coach for more than twenty years, Coach Andrew Latham sets kids up for success in Soccer Smarts for Kids with his no-fluff, easy-to-understand strategies...
