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3) Digital art
Author
Publisher
Thames & Hudson
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
Description
In this title, the author surveys the developments in digital art from its appearance in the early 1990s right up until the present day, and looks ahead to what the future may hold for the medium.
Author
Publisher
Amherst Media
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
This volume teaches readers how to craft more flattering and professional-looking portraits. It includes techniques for eliminating common portrait problems, finding the right light, posing subjects to disguise any figure flaws, using digital retouching and adding finishing touches that really stand out.
Author
Publisher
Bolinda audio
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Description
If you are aged under 18, you have your own set of human rights. Child rights are unique freedoms and protections designed for you. Governments should uphold them but all across the world they are violated. Know Your Rights and Claim Them gives you the knowledge and tools to claim your rights. It introduces them and explains why they matter in the real world. From gender and racial equality, to the rights to free expression, health, a clean climate...
Author
Publisher
BBC Digital Audio
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Jimmy Spud is Newcastle's only trainee angel, determined to solve cosmic mysteries and save his father from the grip of lung cancer. By the author of Billy Elliott.Written by Lee Hall. Lee Hall has asserted his moral rights (including the right to be identified as the author) in the Work. All rights reserved. Applications for performance or other use should be made to Judy Daish Associates Limited, 2 St Charles Place, London W10 6EG.
Author
Publisher
Wiley
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Description
This guide to the art and craft of taking great pictures with a digital camera, features step-by-step examples and case studies. It takes readers beyond the technology of today's cameras and programs and teaches them the aesthetics of the digital image.
Author
Publisher
Ebury Digital
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
Description
In Practical Thinking de Bono?s theme is everyday thinking, how the mind actually works - not how philosophers think it should. Based on the results of his famous Black Cylinder Experiment (a critical thinking task that asks participants why they think a black cylinder falls over), de Bono explores the four practical ways of being right. From there he picks out and names the five levels of understanding - and the five major mistakes in thinking. From...
Author
Publisher
BBC Digital Audio
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
'Children of the Rain' by Lee Hall, starring Ben Tibber and Sita Patel. Drama about extraordinary children presenting the thoughts and opinions of British children about children in other parts of the world. By the author of Billy Elliott. Written by Lee Hall. Lee Hall has asserted his moral rights (including the right to be identified as the author) in the Work. All rights reserved. Applications for performance or other use should be made to Judy...
Author
Publisher
BBC Digital Audio
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Matti is the 14-year-old son of a traditional Sami family living in Lapland, living 250 miles inside the Arctic Circle. Matti is a modern boy, who loves messing about with computers and hates pollution, drugs, and Ginger Spice. By the author of Billy Elliott. Performed by Ben Tibber. Written by Lee Hall. Lee Hall has asserted his moral rights (including the right to be identified as the author) in the Work. All rights reserved. Applications for performance...
11) Gristle
Author
Publisher
BBC Digital Audio
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Peter returns home to poverty in Newcastle, from active service in Northern Ireland. He has been horribly injured, and his relationship with his wife and friends deteriorates. His status as the outsider allows him to see the corruption of everyday existence, but he is unable to salvage any dignity from his situation. 'Gristle' is based on Ernst Toller's 'Hinkerman', which deals with the impact of war on ordinary people's lives. By the author of Billy...
12) Good omens
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
'Armageddon only happens once, you know. They don't let you go around again until you get it right' People have been predicting the end of the world almost from its very beginning, so it's only natural to be sceptical when a new date is set for Judgement Day. But what if, for once, the predictions are right, and the apocalypse really is due to arrive next Saturday, just after tea? You could spend the time left drowning your sorrows, giving away all...
13) Persuader
Author
Series
Jack Reacher volume 7
Publisher
Bolinda audio
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
Formats
Description
Never forgive, never forget. Jack Reacher lives for the moment. Without a home. Without commitment. But he has a burning desire to right wrongs - and rewrite his own agonising past. Never apologise. Never explain. When Reacher witnesses a brutal kidnap attempt, he takes the law into his own hands. But a cop dies. Has Reacher lost his sense of right and wrong?.
Author
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Formats
Description
In 2012, Roddy Doyle showed us the world anew: through the back-and-forth of two Dublin pub-dwellers. They chewed the fat, set the world to rights, slagged each other unmercifully. And along the way, they chased the ebb and flow and stupidity of the year right to the bottom of their pints. Today, they're still at it - even over Zoom, if needs be. Collected for the first time, here is almost a decade's worth of elections and referendums, births and...
Author
Publisher
BBC Digital Audio
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
The listener response to this play when it was first broadcast as part of the 'God?s Country' series was overwhelming and it has gone on to become an audio bestseller.Performed by Becky Simpson, Spoonface is a young autistic Jewish girl who, learning that she is terminally ill, contemplates the meaning of life and death in a dramatic monologue interwoven with operatic extracts from the magical voice of Maria Callas.It was awarded Best Drama and Talkie...
Author
Publisher
Vintage Digital
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Description
?All the history you need to understand why you're so furious, angry and still hopeful about being a woman now? Caitlin Moran Feminism?s success is down to complicated, contradictory, imperfect women, who fought each other as well as fighting for equal rights. Helen Lewis argues that too many of these pioneers have been whitewashed or forgotten in our modern search for feel-good, inspirational heroines. It?s time to reclaim the history of feminism...
Author
Series
Cornish hearts volume 3
Publisher
Rosa Audiobooks
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Fran Gandolfini can't help taking in strays; with four dogs, five cats and two bearded dragons, she refuses to give up on a creature in need. The only thing Fran has given up on, in fact, is her love life. Moving from the city to Penhallow Sands to work in the Tea Shop, Ethan Clarke hopes he's made the right choice for his daughter, Tilly. Ethan's past means he struggles to trust people. Just as Fran starts to change that, a life-changing secret that...
18) Thud!
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Koom Valley? That was where the trolls ambushed the dwarfs, or the dwarfs ambushed the trolls. Anyway, it was far away and a long time ago. But if Commander Sam Vimes of Ankh-Morpork City Watch doesn't solve the case of a murdered dwarf, he could see the whole battle again, fought right outside his office.
Author
Publisher
Lamplight Audiobooks
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Otis Hewetson is 17 years old, pretty but unconventional and rebellious. She spends the summer of 1911 on a glorious holiday with her parents, and on a quest for independence. But little does she realise how her new friendships with Jack and Esther will change her life forever. Their paths are destined to cross as they grow from adolescence through to marriage, the fight for women's rights and the bitter bloodspilling of the War.
Author
Publisher
Transworld Digital
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
Description
?It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man of over forty is in possession of a major defect . . .? Cassandra Leigh has woken as if from a bad dream: forty-four, childless and twenty-plus years into an affair with a married man. Max assures her they just need a little more patience and for his wife to die (!) but Cass is desperate for a baby and running out of time. Maybe Max is not the only man for her? There?s her friend Jason - though...
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