Download or read book Make Good Art written by Neil Gaiman and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2013-05-14 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THIS BOOK IS FOR EVERYONE LOOKING AROUND AND THINKING, "NOW WHAT?” Neil Gaiman’s acclaimed commencement address, "Make Good Art," thoughtfully and aesthetically designed by renowned graphic artist Chip Kidd. This keepsake volume is the perfect gift for graduates, aspiring creators, or anyone who needs a reminder to run toward what gives them joy. When Neil Gaiman delivered his "Make Good Art" commencement address at Philadelphia’s University of the Arts, he shared his thoughts about creativity, bravery, and strength. He encouraged the fledgling painters, musicians, writers, and dreamers to break rules and think outside the box. Most of all, he encouraged them to make good art. The speech resonated far beyond that art school audience and immediately went viral on YouTube and has now been viewed more than a million times. Acclaimed designer Chip Kidd brings his unique sensibility to this seminal address in this gorgeous edition that commemorates Gaiman's inspiring message.
Download or read book The Last Lecture written by Randy Pausch and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author, a computer science professor diagnosed with terminal cancer, explores his life, the lessons that he has learned, how he has worked to achieve his childhood dreams, and the effect of his diagnosis on him and his family.
Download or read book Factfulness written by Hans Rosling and published by Flatiron Books. This book was released on 2018-04-03 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “One of the most important books I’ve ever read—an indispensable guide to thinking clearly about the world.” – Bill Gates “Hans Rosling tells the story of ‘the secret silent miracle of human progress’ as only he can. But Factfulness does much more than that. It also explains why progress is so often secret and silent and teaches readers how to see it clearly.” —Melinda Gates "Factfulness by Hans Rosling, an outstanding international public health expert, is a hopeful book about the potential for human progress when we work off facts rather than our inherent biases." - Former U.S. President Barack Obama Factfulness: The stress-reducing habit of only carrying opinions for which you have strong supporting facts. When asked simple questions about global trends—what percentage of the world’s population live in poverty; why the world’s population is increasing; how many girls finish school—we systematically get the answers wrong. So wrong that a chimpanzee choosing answers at random will consistently outguess teachers, journalists, Nobel laureates, and investment bankers. In Factfulness, Professor of International Health and global TED phenomenon Hans Rosling, together with his two long-time collaborators, Anna and Ola, offers a radical new explanation of why this happens. They reveal the ten instincts that distort our perspective—from our tendency to divide the world into two camps (usually some version of us and them) to the way we consume media (where fear rules) to how we perceive progress (believing that most things are getting worse). Our problem is that we don’t know what we don’t know, and even our guesses are informed by unconscious and predictable biases. It turns out that the world, for all its imperfections, is in a much better state than we might think. That doesn’t mean there aren’t real concerns. But when we worry about everything all the time instead of embracing a worldview based on facts, we can lose our ability to focus on the things that threaten us most. Inspiring and revelatory, filled with lively anecdotes and moving stories, Factfulness is an urgent and essential book that will change the way you see the world and empower you to respond to the crises and opportunities of the future. --- “This book is my last battle in my life-long mission to fight devastating ignorance...Previously I armed myself with huge data sets, eye-opening software, an energetic learning style and a Swedish bayonet for sword-swallowing. It wasn’t enough. But I hope this book will be.” Hans Rosling, February 2017.
Download or read book Amazing Fantastic Incredible written by Stan Lee and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2015-11-03 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Graphic memoir about the career of Stan Lee, the American comic book writer, editor, publisher, and former president and chairman of Marvel Comics.
Download or read book Kirby Is Fantastic written by Stan Lee and published by Marvel Entertainment. This book was released on 2019-05-29 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collects Fantastic Four (1961) #4, #12, #25-26, #52-53, #66-67, #84-87 & Annual #6. Kirby is the greatest storytelling mind in comic book history. Kirby is an architect of the worlds most-famous universe of characters. Kirby is Fantastic! The first in a line of collections celebrating the incomparable talent of Jack The King Kirby, Kirby is Fantastic! brings together a selection of all-time great issues from his tenure on Fantastic Four. Featuring the 1960s debut of the Sub-Mariner, knitting together Marvels Silver and Golden Ages; earth-shaking battles between the Thing and the Hulk; the debut of the Black Panther; the unveiling of the utopian man-god Him (a.k.a. Adam Warlock); a life-or-death epic battle with Doctor Doom in the heart of Latveria; and a deadly trip into the Negative Zone topped off by the history-making birth of Franklin Richards.
Download or read book Fantastic Four Epic Collection written by Stan Lee and published by Marvel Entertainment. This book was released on 2019-08-21 with total page 473 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collects Fantastic Four (1961) #52-67 and Annual #4-5, and material from Not Brand Echh #1 and #5. Stan Lee and Jack Kirby unveil yet another unmatched Marvel milestone: the debut of the world's first African super hero, the Black Panther - and his kingdom of Wakanda! And that's just the start of it all, as the Thing goes toe-to-toe with the Silver Surfer, the Human Torch takes on his 1940s namesake and the FF must face Doctor Doom - who's armed with the Silver Surfer's Power Cosmic! Plus: Experience another instant classic with the first appearances of Blastaar, the alien Kree, Ronan the Accuser, Sentry 456 and that spaghetti-headed wonder, the Supreme Intelligence! And if all that wasn't enough, the utopian scientists of the Enclave unleash the golden being called Him - the man who will one day become known as Adam Warlock!
Download or read book The Dark Fantastic written by Ebony Elizabeth Thomas and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2020-09-22 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reveals the diversity crisis in children's and young adult media as not only a lack of representation, but a lack of imagination Stories provide portals into other worlds, both real and imagined. The promise of escape draws people from all backgrounds to speculative fiction, but when people of color seek passageways into the fantastic, the doors are often barred. This problem lies not only with children’s publishing, but also with the television and film executives tasked with adapting these stories into a visual world. When characters of color do appear, they are often marginalized or subjected to violence, reinforcing for audiences that not all lives matter. The Dark Fantastic is an engaging and provocative exploration of race in popular youth and young adult speculative fiction. Grounded in her experiences as YA novelist, fanfiction writer, and scholar of education, Thomas considers four black girl protagonists from some of the most popular stories of the early 21st century: Bonnie Bennett from the CW’s The Vampire Diaries, Rue from Suzanne Collins’s The Hunger Games, Gwen from the BBC’s Merlin, and Angelina Johnson from J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter. Analyzing their narratives and audience reactions to them reveals how these characters mirror the violence against black and brown people in our own world. In response, Thomas uncovers and builds upon a tradition of fantasy and radical imagination in Black feminism and Afrofuturism to reveal new possibilities. Through fanfiction and other modes of counter-storytelling, young people of color have reinvisioned fantastic worlds that reflect their own experiences, their own lives. As Thomas powerfully asserts, “we dark girls deserve more, because we are more.”
Download or read book Plastic Fantastic written by Eugenie Samuel Reich and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2009-05-12 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses the scientific scandal that arose when researchers at Bell Laboratories discovered that wunderkind physicist Jan Hendrik Schön falsified his data to prove that he had discovered a simpler way to make transistors, which would have drastically improved energy technology.
Download or read book The Fantastic Made Visible written by Matthew Wilhelm Kapell and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2015-10-14 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fantasy and science fiction began in print, and from the first films to the latest blockbusters, print stories have provided the inspirations, the ideas, and in some cases the detailed blueprints. Adaption Studies has long been an area of intense debate in literature and film studies, but no single work has ever approached fantasy and science fiction texts as unique and important areas of inquiry by themselves. The Fantastic Made Visible with 16 fresh essays is the first book to do exactly that. From the earliest adaptations of Jules Verne, Robert A. Heinlein, and Shakespeare to recent films based on The Hobbit, Planet of the Apes, and The Hunger Games, this book offers a wide range of critical approaches and films from around the world.
Download or read book HCA the Kylberg Collection Comics Auction Catalog 828 written by Jim Steele and published by Heritage Capital Corporation. This book was released on 2008-04 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Amazing Law of Influence written by Duncan, King and published by Pelican Publishing Company, Inc.. This book was released on 2010-09-23 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
You have heard about it in Pay It Forward, you've heard about it in Six Degrees of Separation , but no single author has given as much consideration to the laws of influence as King Duncan does here. This reader-friendly book looks at chaos theory--how small changes can trigger monumental transformations. The example of this theory most often cited is that of Edward Lorenz, who discovered in the 1960s that the tiniest movement in the air in one part of the world can produce dramatic changes in weather patterns months later in another part of the world. Thus, a butterfly flapping its wings in Malibu might set into motion a series of events that could produce a monsoon months later in Malaysia. The Law of Influence states that one life touches another and potentially both lives are changed; through this change, potentially the entire world is changed. Even chance events--a smile, a word spoken at just the right moment, or even people like John Howard, who helped a young English journalist return home. The young journalist was Winston Churchill, and the rest is history. More important than explaining what the law of influence is, this book explains how individuals can use it to create a life worth living, and to share the lessons to create families and communities that work together for the greater good. Together, people aware of and involved with their own influence on others have the potential to make amazing things happen. King Duncan is a professional speaker and author of two other books, Amazing Grace: Humor to Heal Mind, Soul, and Body , and The One-Minute Motivator . In 1993, he was the national winner of the International Platform Association's prestigious Speaker's Ladder Award. He lives in Knoxville, Tennessee, where he owns and manages his communications company, Seven Worlds Corporation.
Download or read book The World of Wonders a record of things wonderful in nature science and art Correspondence written by and published by . This book was released on 1874 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book From ETC An Amazing Conversation Between the Descendant of Slave Owner and Slave A Chance at Healing and Reconciliation written by Christopher Desloge and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2011-11-20 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book contains the correspondence between Christopher Desloge, whose ancestors in early Missouri had been slaveholders, and Theresa Delsoin, whose ancestor Malindy Wilson was a slave in Franklin County Missouri. Delsoin and her sister, Mildred Johnson, coauthored the 2005 book "Malindy's freedom" about their ancestor. The "etc." of the title refers to the use of that word in wills at the end of property lists that included slaves along with other household items. The year-long correspondence lasted from Oct. 2009-Sept. 2010.
Download or read book God s Amazing Grace written by Ellen G. White and published by Review and Herald Pub Assoc. This book was released on 1973 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Amazing Love written by Corrie ten Boom and published by CLC Publications. This book was released on 2018-01-09 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: FORGIVENESS REQUIRES MORE STRENGTH THAN HATRED. Following her release from a Nazi concentration camp, Corrie ten Boom refused to give in to the weakness of anger. Instead, she chose to forgive her captors and spread the message of Christ’s love throughout the world. Amazing Love shares Corrie’s incredible stories of encounters with people from all walks of life and shows us how a childlike faith in the wisdom and love of God pushes us to forgive the seemingly impossible. Within these pages you will meet Corrie ten Boom, but you will also meet Corrie’s Christ.
Download or read book Disputing the Deluge written by Darko Suvin and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2021-12-02 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Featured on the 2021 Locus Recommended Reading List For over 50 years, Darko Suvin has set the agenda for science fiction studies through his innovative linking of scifi to utopian studies, formalist and leftist critical theory, and his broader engagement with what he terms "political epistemology." Disputing the Deluge joins a rapidly growing renewal of critical interest in Suvin's work on scifi and utopianism by bringing together in a single volume 24 of Suvin's most significant interventions in the field from the 21st century, with an Introduction by editor Hugh O'Connell and a new preface by the author. Beginning with writings from the early 2000s that investigate the function of literary genres and reconsider the relationship between science fiction and fantasy, the essays collected here--each a brilliant example of engaged thought--highlight the value of scifi for grappling with the key events and transformations of recent years. Suvin's interrogations show how speculative fiction has responded to 9/11, the global war on terror, the 2008 economic collapse, and the rise of conservative populism, along with contemporary critical utopian analyses of the Capitalocene, the climate crisis, COVID-19, and the decline of democracy. By bringing together Suvin's essays all in one place, this collection allows new generations of students and scholars to engage directly with his work and its continuing importance and timeliness.
Download or read book The Amazing Adventures of Doctor Dolittle written by Hugh Lofting and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2023-12-03 with total page 1963 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hugh Lofting's 'The Amazing Adventures of Doctor Dolittle' is a delightful children's novel that follows the whimsical adventures of Doctor John Dolittle, a kind-hearted veterinarian who can communicate with animals. Written in a charming and imaginative style, the book is filled with engaging dialogue between the Doctor and his animal friends, as they embark on journeys to exotic lands and solve various animal-related problems. Lofting's use of simple language and engaging storytelling makes this book a timeless classic in children's literature, captivating readers of all ages. The book also explores themes of empathy, friendship, and the importance of understanding and respecting nature. It is a perfect blend of fantasy and moral lessons that continue to resonate with readers today. Hugh Lofting's background as a World War I soldier may have influenced his creation of Doctor Dolittle, a character who seeks to bring harmony between humans and animals. His experiences may have inspired the book's underlying message of compassion and unity. I highly recommend 'The Amazing Adventures of Doctor Dolittle' to anyone looking for a heartwarming and imaginative tale that celebrates the bond between humans and animals, and reminds us of the magic of storytelling.
