LEARN TO DRAW MANGA WOMEN
A BEGINNER’S GUIDE
Learn to create detailed female characters to include in your own comic strip or graphic novel! Professional manga and anime artist Kyachi offers aspiring artists an easy-to-follow approach to drawing manga women. For beginners, it can be intimidating to know where to start when drawing the human form. This book is meant to dispel those fears and wipe away any hesitation, so you can begin with a blank page or empty screen and start populating it with people. Soon your simple forms will take on greater detail and your characters will come to life before you! Kyachi has distilled her specialized knowledge of the skeleton, muscles and physical structures, explaining and analyzing the most difficult aspects of figure drawing and presenting it to you in a clear and simple way. With this all-in-one, how-to guide you’ll: Create compelling characters and eye-catching action poses Learn about contrapposto (a specialized art term, meaning that most of the body’s weight rests on either the left or right leg, achieving an angular or asymmetrical stance) Master traditional freehand, as well as digital techniques Follow along with the step-by-step progressions, before it’s time to try it on your own Consult the cartoon guide who pops up and chimes in when expert tips are needed most A series of detailed lessons shows you how to draw the female form in every possible position. Individual chapters cover standing, sitting, reclining, walking, running and jumping. Essential details are then added–such as realistic creases to clothing and colorizing with brightness, contrast and saturation effects. Lovers of action manga and those hoping to create original, complex female characters will find this book absolutely indispensable! Recommended for artists 16 & up
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LET’S DRAW MANGA SEXY GALS
Main subject categories: • Drawing • Drawing manga • Manga concepts • Female form
Sexy female characters are the spice of every manga story. These heroines find themselves in every position possible! This volume in the Let’s Draw Manga series helps manga artists expand on their knowledge of the human body to draw women in a variety of poses, and with a variety of clothing, facial expressions, hairstyles, and more. It offers valuable instruction on solving tricky problems, such as drawing the folds of fabric and perspective. The seductive, flirtatious women in this heavily illustrated reference are an inspiration to any artist.
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POKER FOR PROFIT
Have you ever watched those late night Poker games and thought “I could do that!?”
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- Why Play Poker
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HOW TO READ A BOOK
THE CLASSIC GUIDE TO INTELLIGENT READING
With half a million copies in print, How to Read a Book is the best and most successful guide to reading comprehension for the general reader, completely rewritten and updated with new material. A CNN Book of the Week: “Explains not just why we should read books, but how we should read them. It’s masterfully done.” –Farheed ZakariaOriginally published in 1940, this book is a rare phenomenon, a living classic that introduces and elucidates the various levels of reading and how to achieve them—from elementary reading, through systematic skimming and inspectional reading, to speed reading. Readers will learn when and how to “judge a book by its cover,” and also how to X-ray it, read critically, and extract the author’s message from the text. Also included is instruction in the different techniques that work best for reading particular genres, such as practical books, imaginative literature, plays, poetry, history, science and mathematics, philosophy and social science works. Finally, the authors offer a recommended reading list and supply reading tests you can use measure your own progress in reading skills, comprehension, and speed.
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SCARNE’S COMPLETE GUIDE TO GAMBLING
The world still recognizes the legendary John Scarne as the most authoritative expert on gambling who ever lived. Author of dozens of books On the subject Scarne Collected and distilled everything he knew in this, the most comprehensive book on gambling ever written. Since its publication in 1961 and subsequent new editions, Scarne’s New Complete Guide to Gambling has been far and away the best-selling book of its kind. As gambling consultant to several governments and many of the world’s top casinos, Scarne knew the world of gambling from the inside out, with access to many of the most powerful figures and innermost secrets of gambling’s fascinating and complicated world. He spices the volumes of gambling advice and inside tips contained here with many of the stories and personalities he knew in his fabulously successful life as a gambling expert, advocate and writer. Every aspect of gambling at games of chance and skill is covered here: official rules; correct adds and house percentages; advice and instruction on playing strategy; explanations of swindling methods and how to detect them. And every game and sporting event involving betting of any kind is reviewed, explained, analyzed. More than 100 million Americans gamble at one time or another during any given year. Now, more than ever, this is the one book they’ll need to become consistent winners in their chosen game.
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HOW TO READ NOVELS LIKE A PROFESSOR
Of all the literary forms, the novel is arguably the most discussed . . . and fretted over. From Miguel de Cervantes’s Don Quixote to the works of Jane Austen, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, and today’s masters, the novel has grown with and adapted to changing societies and technologies, mixing tradition and innovation in every age throughout history.
Thomas C. Foster—the sage and scholar who ingeniously led readers through the fascinating symbolic codes of great literature in his first book, How to Read Literature Like a Professor—now examines the grammar of the popular novel. Exploring how authors’ choices about structure—point of view, narrative voice, first page, chapter construction, character emblems, and narrative (dis)continuity—create meaning and a special literary language, How to Read Novels Like a Professor shares the keys to this language with readers who want to get more insight, more understanding, and more pleasure from their reading.
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HOW TO READ A POEM AND FALL IN LOVE WITH POETRY
How to Read a Poem is an unprecedented exploration of poetry and feeling. In language at once acute and emotional, distinguished poet and critic Edward Hirsch describes why poetry matters and how we can open up our imaginations so that its message can make a difference. In a marvelous reading of verse from around the world, including work by Pablo Neruda, Elizabeth Bishop, Wallace Stevens, and Sylvia Plath, among many others, Hirsch discovers the true meaning of their words and ideas and brings their sublime message home into our hearts. A masterful work by a master poet, this brilliant summation of poetry and human nature will speak to all readers who long to place poetry in their lives.
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A POET’S GLOSSARY
A major addition to the literature of poetry, Edward Hirsch’s sparkling new work is a compilation of forms, devices, groups, movements, isms, aesthetics, rhetorical terms, and folklore—a book that all readers, writers, teachers, and students of poetry will return to over and over.
Hirsch has delved deeply into the poetic traditions of the world, returning with an inclusive, international compendium. Moving gracefully from the bards of ancient Greece to the revolutionaries of Latin America, from small formal elements to large mysteries, he provides thoughtful definitions for the most important poetic vocabulary, imbuing his work with a lifetime of scholarship and the warmth of a man devoted to his art.
Knowing how a poem works is essential to unlocking its meaning. Hirsch’s entries will deepen readers’ relationships with their favorite poems and open greater levels of understanding in each new poem they encounter. Shot through with the enthusiasm, authority, and sheer delight that made How to Read a Poem so beloved, A Poet’s Glossary is a new classic.
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MAKE ‘EM PAY!
A book of ultimate revenge techniques from a master trickster–over 130 topics arranged alphabetically to find the appropriate dirty trick, scheme, or stunt for any special target.
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HOW TO FIND OUT ANYTHING
In How to Find Out Anything, master researcher Don MacLeod explains how to find what you’re looking for quickly, efficiently, and accurately—and how to avoid the most common mistakes of the Google Age.
Not your average research book, How to Find Out Anything shows you how to unveil nearly anything about anyone. From top CEO’s salaries to police records, you’ll learn little-known tricks for discovering the exact information you’re looking for. You’ll learn:
•How to really tap the power of Google, and why Google is the best place to start a search, but never the best place to finish it.
•The scoop on vast, yet little-known online resources that search engines cannot scour, such as refdesk.com, ipl.org, the University of Michigan Documents Center, and Project Gutenberg, among many others.
•How to access free government resources (and put your tax dollars to good use).
•How to find experts and other people with special knowledge.
•How to dig up seemingly confidential information on people and businesses, from public and private companies to non-profits and international companies.
Whether researching for a term paper or digging up dirt on an ex, the advice in this book arms you with the sleuthing skills to tackle any mystery.
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OSINT OPEN SOURCE INTELLIGENCE GLOSSARY
OSINT Glossary, Vol I is a serialized publication, designed for those conducting internet or document research to obtain better and more relevant search results.
Who may benefit from this book? Journalists, writers, law enforcement, police, investigators, information professionals, terrorism experts, military personnel, media outlets, financial analysts, financial/fraud crimes investigators, students, public safety professionals.
Entries in this book have been manually tested for relevancy. The author is retired law enforcement and an Open Source Intelligence specialist. He has spent years at developing search methods along with keywords and phrases for enhanced and more relevant search results for researchers and analysts.
This is the first volume of what will be a continuing publication with subsequent volumes of keywords and key phrases for search.
TOPICS COVERED IN THIS VOLUME:
Crime
Crime/Financial/Fraud/Scams/White Collar
Explosives
Fire
Geography
Health/Injuries/Medical/Public Health
Intelligence/Espionage
Maritime
Military/War/Combat/Conflict
Police/Law Enforement
Politics/Diplomacy/Safety/Security
Public Safety/Environment/Infrastructure/Social Unrest
Terrorism
Travel/Transportation/Crime/Safety
Uncategorized
Weapons
Weather/Climate