Reporting World War II Vol. 1: American Journalism 1938-1944
10 best books like Reporting World War II Vol. 1: American Journalism 1938-1944 (Samuel Hynes): Delivered from Evil: The Saga of World War II, Reporting Vietnam: American Journalism 1959-1975, Making Color Sing: Practical Lessons in Color and Design, The Eye of the I: From Which Nothing is Hidden, Realistic Abstracts: Painting Abstracts Based on What You See, The New Creative Artist, Abstracts: 50 Inspirational Projects, The Ten Thousand Things, Silence of the Heart: Dialogues with Robert Adams, Abstract Explorations in Acrylic Painting: Fun, Creative and Innovative Techniques
Delivered from Evil: The Saga of World War II
| Author | Robert Leckie |
| ISBN | 0060158123 |
"A first-class popular history of the war, lively, entertaining, and continuously informative."-- "Publishers Weekly" "His ability to recreate the emotions of war makes this monumental work a living history."-- "Booklist" "His ability to recreate the emotions of war makes this monumental work...
Reporting Vietnam: American Journalism 1959-1975
| Author | Milton J. Bates |
| ISBN | 1883011906 |
Some of these pieces are very powerful. Others show how journalism is often, in the end, an ephemeral art.
One passage I highlighted on the horror of the war, from a 1967 New Republic story.
"But the newest weapon of them all, and in its own way, the most incredibly impressive for all its...
Making Color Sing: Practical Lessons in Color and Design
| Author | Jeanne Dobie |
| ISBN | 0823029921 |
Through clear, illuminating exercises, this best-selling book stimulates new ways to think about color, generating responses that unlock personal creativity and allow artists to express themselves with paint as never before. Readers are shown how the interplay of complementary hues can trigger...
The Eye of the I: From Which Nothing is Hidden
| Author | David R. Hawkins |
| ISBN | 0964326191 |
Highlights:
1. The way out of conflict is not to try to eliminate the negative but instead to choose and adopt the positive. To view that one’s mission in life is to understand rather than to judge automatically resolves moral dilemmas.
Meaning is defined by context which determines the motive....
Realistic Abstracts: Painting Abstracts Based on What You See
| Author | Kees van Aalst |
| ISBN | 1844485609 |
I didn't read as much of this book as I would have liked to but it's overdue at the library and time to return it. The paintings within are gorgeous, and are done in a loose, flowing style I aspire to. I love the "realistic abstracts" (and that is a perfect description for what these loose, flowing watercolor...
| Author | Nita Leland |
| ISBN | 1581807562 |
Play, Experiment and Discover the Creative Artist within!
Choose to be creative! Artist and teacher Nita Leland believes that creativity lives in everyone, from the novice artist to the professional. Develop and strengthen your natural curiosity, flexibility, independence and playfulness,...
Abstracts: 50 Inspirational Projects
| Author | Rolina van Vliet |
| ISBN | 1844487156 |
Abstract artists aim to make unseen ideas visible, and this inspiring guidebook collects 50 abstract exercises for painters looking to expand their abilities and build their expressive repertoires. From purely conceptual compositions to emblematic interpretations of real objects, instructor...
When I imagine speaking to a person who for the first time opens the pages of this book, I think of telling that person something like this: “You are about to read an authentic and incredibly lucid account of what it is like to live in this world as an awakened being while simultaneously functioning as...
Silence of the Heart: Dialogues with Robert Adams
| Author | Robert Adams |
| ISBN | 1889051535 |
Any time and anywhere you can find the words of Robert Adams, I would advise you to do everything in your power to get as close as possible and dive in. Robert went to India to meet Ramana Maharshi as a teenager and has given us a very clear vision into the Knowledge of the Self through the teaching of Truth which...
Abstract Explorations in Acrylic Painting: Fun, Creative and Innovative Techniques
| Author | Jo Toye |
| ISBN | 1440341532 |
Discover abstract painting with acrylics!
"If you approach your art with a playful attitude you will be more apt to keep making art, and the more art you make, the better your art will be." --pg. 10
Like a diving board for creativity, Abstract Explorations in Acrylic Painting will help...
Mixed Media Revolution: Creative Ideas for Reusing Your Art
| Author | Darlene Olivia McElroy |
| ISBN | 1440318719 |
Recycle, Reuse, Reinvent!With "Mixed Media Revolution," you'll learn how to leverage your art and take your paintings and transfers to the next level!
Leftovers, little bits and scraps, pieces of art that didn't turn out quite right...we all have them. And it hurts to have to throw them away....
The Gospel of Thomas: The Enlightenment Teachings of Jesus
| Author | Robert Wolfe |
| ISBN | 0982449127 |
Does The Gospel of Thomas record the enlightenment teachings of Jesus--and were they left out of the New Testament for that reason? Do conventional understandings of Thomas miss its real significance? How does the message of Jesus in The Gospel of Thomas exemplify the ancient teachings of nonduality?...
Adolph Hitler: TIME Person of the Year 1938
Führer of the German people, Commander-in-Chief of the German Army, Navy & Air Force, Chancellor of the Third Reich, Herr Hitler has reaped the harvest of an audacious, defiant, ruthless foreign policy he has pursued for five and a half years. He had torn the Treaty of Versailles to shreds. He had...
Wild Ideas: Creativity from the Inside Out
| Author | Cathy Wild |
| ISBN | 0996810501 |
"Wild Ideas: Creativity from the Inside Out" takes you on an intimate journey through the seven stages of the creative process. All along the way, counselor, artist, and writer Cathy Wild interweaves her own personal journey as well as fascinating stories from her private practice.
Discover...
These are my mother's recollections of the Shoah (Holocaust). Growing up Jewish in a small Polish town near the German border, my mother and one sister were all that survived from among her parents, 4 sisters, 2 brothers, husband and young daughter. Persecuted and hunted by the Germans. Hiding with...
Japan's War: The Great Pacific Conflict
| Author | Edwin P. Hoyt |
| ISBN | 0815411189 |
The many factors that led to Japan's participation in World War II, and the horrifying battles that resulted, come into focus in Japan's War: The Great Pacific Conflict. The book, which takes into account Japanese and Asian documents and scholarship in addition to American and European sources, chronicles...
