Dynamic Light and Shade

7 best books like Dynamic Light and Shade (Burne Hogarth): The Long Way Home, The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century, The Nature of the Beast, Save the Cat: The Last Book on Screenwriting You'll Ever Need, Color and Light: A Guide for the Realist Painter, Creating Textures in Pen & Ink with Watercolor, Abandoned in Hell: The Fight For Vietnam's Firebase Kate

The Long Way Home

Author	Louise Penny
ISBN	1250022061

Happily retired in the village of Three Pines, Armand Gamache, former Chief Inspector of Homicide with the Sûreté du Québec, has found a peace he’d only imagined possible. On warm summer mornings he sits on a bench holding a small book, The Balm in Gilead, in his large hands. "There is a balm in Gilead,"...

The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century

Author	Thomas L. Friedman
ISBN	0374292795

A timely and essential update on globalization, its successes and discontents, powerfully illuminated by one of our most respected journalists.

When scholars write the history of the world twenty years from now, and they come to the chapter "Y2K to March 2004," what will they say was the most...

The Nature of the Beast

Author	Louise Penny
ISBN	1250022088

Hardly a day goes by when nine-year-old Laurent Lepage doesn't cry wolf. From alien invasions, to walking trees, to winged beasts in the woods, to dinosaurs spotted in the village of Three Pines, his tales are so extraordinary no one can possibly believe him. But when the boy disappears, the villagers...

Save the Cat: The Last Book on Screenwriting You'll Ever Need

Author	Blake Snyder
ISBN	1932907009

This book is often hyped as the bible of screenwriting, but I would take it a step further and call it the definitive go-to for all storytelling. Trade secrets are fully revealed and once you read them you can't watch a movie without seeing the formula scroll right in front of your eyes. Exactly--to the...

Color and Light: A Guide for the Realist Painter

Author	James Gurney
ISBN	0740797719

From New York Times best-selling author of the Dinotopia series, James Gurney, comes a carefully crafted and researched study on color and light in paintings. This art instruction book will accompany the acclaimed Imaginative Realism: How to Paint What Doesn't Exist.

James Gurney, New...

Creating Textures in Pen & Ink with Watercolor

Author	Claudia Nice
ISBN	1581807252

Claudia Nice shows you how to turn ink and watercolors into the coarse-barked trunk of an oak, or the burnished smoothness of brass, or the verdant velvet of moss or any of many other things. She shows you how to use dots, fine lines, brushstrokes, black and white, color--a mixture of mediums and techniques--to...

Abandoned in Hell: The Fight For Vietnam's Firebase Kate

Author	William Albracht
ISBN	0451468082

In October 1969, William Albracht, the youngest Green Beret captain in Vietnam, took command of a remote hilltop outpost called Fire Base Kate, held by only 27 American soldiers and 150 Montagnard militiamen. He found their defenses woefully unprepared. At dawn the next morning, three North Vietnamese...