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Life: A Journey Through Time
Planet earth, home sweet home In the year 2000, world-renowned wildlife photographer Frans Lanting set out on a personal journey to photograph the evolution of life on earth. He made pilgrimages to true time capsules like a remote lagoon in Western Australia, spent time in research collections photographing forms of microscopic life, and even found ways to create visual parallels between the growth of organs in the human body and the patterns seen on the surface of the earth. The resulting volume is a glorious picture book of planet earth depicting the amazing biodiversity that surrounds us all. Lanting's true gift lies beyond his technical mastery: it is his eye for geometry in the beautiful chaos of nature that allows him to show us the world as it has never been seen before. From crabs to jellyfish, diatoms to vast geological formations, jungles to flowers, monkeys to human embryos, LIFE is a testament to the magical beauty of life in all its forms and is Lanting's most remarkable achievement to date. The photographer: Dutch-born Frans Lanting has been hailed as one of the great nature photographers of our time. For the past two decades he has documented wildlife and our relationship with nature in environments from the Amazon to Antarctica. Exhibits of his photographs have been shown at major museums in Paris, Milan, Tokyo, New York, Madrid, and Amsterdam. Lanting's previous TASCHEN titles include Eye to Eye, Jungles, and Penguin. The editor: Christine Eckstrom is a writer and editor specializing in natural history. She collaborates with Lanting on fieldwork, books, and other publishing projects from their home base in California..
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Space Art: How to Draw and Paint Planets, Moons, and Landscapes of Alien Worlds
What is it like to walk through an alien world? Artists have been imagining otherworldly landscapes for hundreds of years—but only in the past few decades have we started to see what other planets and moons really look like. These exciting scientific discoveries have led to ever more "realistic" space art. Space Art shows artists how to capture and create these partly real, partly imagined vistas by combining the latest facts with traditional landscape drawing. Put the two together and the results are memorable, dreamlike, haunting. Author Michael Carroll, one of the country’s most distinguished astronomical artists, explains how to use washes and texturing, how to paint water and ice, rocks and geological formations, craters and alien skies. Linear and atmospheric perspective, color, composition, color, value, and shading are also covered as they relate to showing otherworldly landscapes. Fourteen paintings, building in complexity, are presented step-by-step, accompanied by NASA photos and the author’s own photos of mysterious landscapes closer to home: Death Valley, Iceland, Alaska. For everyone who has ever wanted to travel to far-off worlds…or just show what they’re imagining… Space Art is a rocket to the stars. .
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Mind Maps at Work: How to Be the Best at Your Job and Still Have Time to Play
Bestselling author Tony Buzan brings his groundbreaking Mind Maps® system to the world of business Tony Buzan has used his patented Mind Maps system to teach millions of people around the world how to unlock the infinite creativity of the human mind. Now Buzan has created Mind Maps at Work, a practical guide to achieving workplace success and satisfaction. Mind Maps are a revolutionary thinking tool: a visual and colorful form of note-taking that unleashes our creative and logical sides simultaneously. Incorporating a number of high-profile success stories—including the impressive results that Buzan’s system has yielded for companies like Boeing, Con Edison, and Apple Computer—Mind Maps at Work guides individuals, work groups, and companies large and small to plan and strategize effectively, solve problems creatively, and recall facts easily, maximizing every individual’s creativity and productivity..
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Still Time
Expanded from an earlier catalogue of the same title, Still Time accompanied a traveling exhibition featuring more than twenty years of Sally Mann's photography Still Time celebrates an artist whose acute perceptions and imagination embrace not only the photographs of children for which she is renowned, but also earlier landscapes, and the unexpected, compelling forays into color and abstract photography. The sixty images include abstract platinum prints, Cibachromes and Polaroids, landscapes, portraits of women and twelve-year-olds, and her celebrated family pictures. .
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Will You Still be My Daughter? (Fable for Our Times, 3)
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Seven Words to Change Your Family While There's Still Time
For anyone who’s serious about improving the quality of their family life, Seven Words to Change Your Family gives hard-hitting practical guidance on how to make it happen. In his captivating and contemporary style, Pastor James MacDonald will challenge readers to avoid devastating complacency and become proactive in loving their families. Whether it’s learning to speak words of blessing, extend forgiveness, or be faithfully committed, families will be transformed by the step-by-step realistic plan laid out in this excellent resource..
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Kaleidoscope Sky
A magical, illustrated tour of nature’s wondrous, almost supernatural skyscapes, Kaleidoscope Sky reveals the beauty—and the science—behind Earth’s rarest, most unusual celestial phenomena For millennia, the sky has provided a spectacular show with bright, quiet sunrises and fiery red sunsets, the wispy, whimsical patterns of clouds passing overhead, or the violent thrill of lightning flashing at night. In Kaleidoscope Sky, author Tim Herd explains to the armchair voyager the conditions that produce these everyday phenomena, as well as rarer sights including auroras, halos, mirages, arcs, and even moonbows (nighttime rainbows often too faint to capture on film). Although the subject is complex, Herd provides a clear, accessible guided tour of the fleeting, ephemeral works of art that populate the heavens’ own natural museum. Herd’s non-technical treatment reveals his own appreciation for (and wonder at) the awesome and wonderful palette of the sky above us. In addition to shedding light upon the causes of these unusual spectacles, Herd provides tips on the best ways to predict, locate, and observe these phenomena..
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Consulting on the Side: How to Start a Part-Time Consulting Business While Still Working at Your Full-Time Job
Build a thriving business while holding down a full-time job. Do you yearn to strike out on your own, take charge of your destiny, and create a better, more independent lifestyle for yourself? Read this book and learn how to start your consulting business while you still have the security of a regular job. Consulting on the Side is for the professional who longs for independence but can't simply walk away from a steady paycheck and company health benefits. Successful consultant and business author Mary F. Cook shows you how to build a thriving consulting practice gradually, without leaving your full-time job. Drawing upon her own experiences and those of others who established successful consulting practices on the side, she covers all the bases and offers sound, practical advice on everything from logistics to finances, ethics to personal issues. You'll learn how to: * Build a healthy client base while working a 9-to-5 job * Market your services effectively without spending a fortune * Respond to outside clients while staying productive at your current job * Set fees and negotiate contracts * Handle non-compete agreements and conflict-of-interest issues * Develop an accounting/financial system that keeps your personal and business finances separate * Set up and run a home office * Learn to handle the stress of working two jobs * Know when the time is right to quit your job and become a full-time consultant Consulting on the Side helps you realize your dreams of financial independence without gambling with the job security you've worked so hard for..
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