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The African Treasury Series, published from the 1940s onwards, consists of texts written by pioneers of South African literature in African languages. It provided a voice for the voiceless and celebrated African culture, history and heritage. The reissue of these foundational texts with new introductions supports ongoing efforts to highlight the importance of writing in indigenous languages, and to remember and celebrate these early giants of African literature. The African Treasury Series is now available in ebook and print formats. Inkondlo kaZulu (Zulu Poems), the first volume of poetry by B.W. Vilakazi, was first published in 1935. This was the first book of poems ever published in isiZulu; it also marked the launch of the newly established Bantu (later, African) Treasury Series (published by the University of the Witwatersrand Press), a collection of twenty classic works written between 1935 and 1987 in African indigenous languages. It contains superb nature poems and also reflects Vilakazi’s contact with Western modernity. As both a traditional imbongi (bard) and a forward-looking poet who could fuse Western poetic forms with Zulu izibongo (praise poetry), he used his writings to express his resistance to the realities of capitalist exploitation of African labour and the appalling injustices of the migrant labour system. By committing to writing in poetic form what had traditionally been conveyed orally from one generation to the next, he preserves for future generations deep philosophical and emotional experiences of Zulu society. The republication of Inkondlo kaZulu affords the reader the opportunity to reappraise Vilakazi’s intellectual significance and his renown as the ‘father of Nguni literature’ at a time when the need is acutely felt to unshackle ourselves from ethnic boundaries and break the invisible chains of inherited prejudice. Inkondlo kaZulu is part of Wits University Press’ African Treasury Series.

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An intensely interesting book. --Spectator

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This classic story about a mixed-up moose and his exasperated friend Boris is perfect for fans of Amelia Bedelia, Danny and the Dinosaur, and anyone who loves silly stories and fun word play.Morris the Moose has never been to the circus, so his friend Boris takes him there. When the ringmaster invites Morris to be part of the show, the fun begins for everyone—except poor Boris!This classic silly Level One I Can Read is perfect for shared reading with a child.

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In the city of Ismyre, Ed the sculptor works to make small, beautiful scultural pieces (and a big upcoming commission for the local governor). When his sculptures begin to disappear, a detective friend investigates - and starts thinking that these thefts may be linked to the eco-terrorism in the city. Exploring themes of loneliness in cities, ecology, craftsmanship, and the self doubt that goes with making things, Ismyre is a quiet and fantastical mystery tale, set in an old world of ordinary magic.

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In this highly anticipated sequel to Beautiful Nightmare, it’s the girls’ turn to show the men how the killing is really supposed to be done. Sena and Moochie are back, and their love is put to the test time and time again, but Sena is willing to bust down the gates of hell to make sure they stay together. Sena is determined to take down anyone or anything that tries to step in the way of her family’s happiness. Moochie’s whole world is flipped upside down, and his emotions are swept up in a whirlwind. He is forced to bring out the beast inside, but he believes that with Sena at his side, there is nothing anyone can do to stop them. Shay-D is back as Sena’s sidekick, and she is willing to do anything to ride with Sena. Everyone knows that Sena is off her rocker, and Shay soon learns that she might not be able to keep up. She tries her best to replace Sena’s deceased best friend, Valencia, but how will sh

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Create awesome iOS and Android apps with a single tool!  Flutter is an app developer’s dream come true. With Google’s open source toolkit, you can easily build beautiful apps that work across platforms using a single codebase. This flexibility allows you to get your work out to the widest possible audience. With Flutter already being used by thousands of developers worldwide in a market where billions of apps are downloaded every year, now is the right time to get ahead of the curve with this incredible tool.  Flutter for Dummies is your friendly, ground-up route to creating multi-platform apps.       From how to construct your initial frameworks to writing code in Dart, you’ll find the essentials you need to ride the Flutter revolutionary wave to success. This book includes how to create an intuitive and stunning UI, add rich interactivity, and easily pull in data. You’ll also see how Flutter features like Hot Reload—providing sub-second refreshes as you refine your work—help you make sure your app is a delight to use. Start simple: follow steps to build a basic app It’s alive! Keep connected to online data It moves! Make things fun with animated features Get the word out: use tips to expand your audience Whether you’re a fledgling developer or an expert wanting to add a slick feather to your programming cap, join the Flutter revolution now and soar above the rest!

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The crime of the twenty-first century doesn't discriminate: ID theft has hit ordinary citizens and celebrities alike, from Oprah Winfrey to Steven Spielberg, and costs the economy $50 billion a year. Your Evil Twin covers this exploding crime from every possible angle. It includes exclusive whodunit details from mastermind identity thieves who have pilfered money from half the members of the Forbes 400, as well as exclusive interviews with a myriad of criminals in the Internet's underground, such as Russian hackers who have extorted money from U.S. banks. The book also issues a scathing indictment of the credit granting industry, from credit card issuers to the secretive credit reporting agencies, who have misunderstood the crime from the start, have been slow to respond, and bear much of the responsibility for the epidemic. Finally, Bob Sullivan, author and identity theft expert, probes the tepid solutions now being cobbled together by the industry and government. Bob Sullivan (Snohomish, WA), senior technology writer for MSNBC.com, is the nation's leading journalist covering identity fraud. He has written more than 100 articles on the subject since 1996, and is a regular contributor to MSNBC, CNBC, NBC Nightly News, the Today show, and various local NBC affiliates. With colleague Mike Brunker, Sullivan received the prestigious 2002 Society of Professional Journalists Public Service Award for ongoing coverage of Internet fraud.

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Draw Natural and Believable Clothed Figures In Drawing People, award-winning illustrator and instructor Barbara Bradley provides all the information you need to render clothed human figures with energy, detail and control. Bradley begins by teaching the basics of any drawing, including proportion, perspective and value. Next, you'll learn how to overcome the special challenges posed by clothing, including fabric folds and draping effects. Bradley illustrates how they're constructed and how to draw them in different situations—on male and female figures that are active or at rest. These reliable, proven drawing techniques will add a natural feel to your art, resulting in figures that look as if they could walk, run or dance right off the page.

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This book, illustrated with drawings in pencil, charcoal, pen and ink, and brush and ink, shows how to interpret subjects in terms of light and shade. Hogarth demonstrates how a dark silhouette on white paper can communicate form and space. He then shows how the silhouette is transformed into three dimensions with the addition of highlights. There is a chapter devoted to each of the five basic categories of light and shade: single-source light; double-source light; flat, diffused light; moonlight; and sculptural light. Natural and artificial light sources are examined, and the effects of the five types of light on a variety of subjects - faces, figures, landscapes, still lifes - are illustrated. Hogarth also explains more complex light effects: how light and shade can create a sense of near and far; how light is affected by weather, time of day, and the changing seasons; how light reveals the surface qualities of forms; the effects of light passing through transparent materials like glass and water; and much more.

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A woodland craftsman's workshop should bring immense pleasure, whether it be a simple tarpaulin shelter deep in the woods or a purpose-built haven to shelter from the elements. The tools and devices that furnish it are unique to woodland work and have formed the heritage of woodland crafts that we have today. Following on from his successful book Woodland Craft, woodsman Ben Law explains what makes a good workshop, outlines the key tools needed, gives information on how to sharpen them and shows us how to make an array of fascinating devices from scratch. Clear step-by-step instructions, photographs and beautiful illustrations guide you through the making process. Coupled with interesting titbits of historical and practical information, this is an invaluable guide for every green woodworker. AUTHOR: Ben Law, woodsman, craftsman, eco-builder, teacher and writer, lives and works in Prickly Nut Wood in West Sussex, UK. The building of his unique woodland home was featured on Channel 4's Grand Designs in the UK and was voted by viewers as the most popular episode ever. In addition to the coppicing of his own woodland, he runs courses on sustainable woodland management and permaculture and trains apprentices. Ben Law is the author of several books, including The Woodland House, The Woodland Year, Woodsman: Living in a Wood in the 21st Century and Woodland Craft (GMC Publications, 2015). SALES POINTS: . A companion to the successful Woodland Craft . 16 step-by-step woodland device projects . Beautiful photography and illustrations throughout . A foundation book for every green woodworker to use as reference . Projects include: Peeling jig, Sussex knee vice, Triangulated cleaving brake, Shake brake, Pole lathe and Woodsman's grip 300 colour photographs

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Praised by critics and teachers alike for more than forty years, Burne Hogarth's Dynamic Anatomy is recognised worldwide as the classic, indispensable text on artistic anatomy. Now revised, expanded and completely redesigned with more than 75 never before published drawings from the Hogarth archives and 24 pages of new material. This award-winning book brilliantly reveals the live, expressive structure of the human form. Superb action studies and practical diagrams show how to render the anatomical details of the figure in motion and at rest. Over 400 remarkable illustrations explain the anatomical details of male and female figures in motion and at rest, always stressing the human form in space. This revised and expanded edition of Dynamic Anatomy initiates the re-launch of all six titles in the series.

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This book comes from best-selling Marvel Comics writer Brian Michael Bendis. In this book, step-by-step lessons teach everything needed to take ideas from script to dynamic sequential art. It exposes methods for crafting comic scripts, reveals business secrets, insights from Bendis' fellow creators and more. Arguably the most popular writer in modern comics, Brian Michael Bendis shares the tools and techniques he uses to create some of the most popular comic book and graphic novel stories of all time. Words for Pictures provides a fantastic opportunity for readers to learn from a creator at the very top of his field. Bendis' step-by-step lessons teach comics writing hopefuls everything they'll need to take their ideas from script to dynamic sequential art. The book's complete coverage exposes the most effective methods for crafting comic scripts, showcases insights from Bendis' fellow creators, reveals business secrets all would-be comics writers must know, and challenges readers with exercises to jumpstart their own graphic novel writing success.

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Van 1392 tot 1578 heeft Amsterdam een groep kloosterlingen geherbergd die de statuten van de kartuizers hebben nageleefd in hun klooster Sint-Andries-ter-Zaliger-Haven. De kartuis kent zijn grootste bloei in de eerste helft van de vijftiende eeuw, ongetwijfeld mede dankzij de geest van de Moderne Devotie. Later raakt de kartuizerorde ook in Amsterdam over haar hoogtepunt heen, en wanneer rond 1520 de Reformatie deze streken bereikt, heeft het klooster het grootste deel van zijn aantrekkingskracht op de bevolking verloren. Desondanks blijft het kartuizerklooster bestaan, tot het einde wordt ingeluid met plunderingen in de jaren zestig van de zestiende eeuw. Aan het hieropvolgende kwijnende bestaan maakt de Alteratie van 1578 een eind. Er is geen bron uit het kloosterarchief die dergelijke evoluties beter in kaart helpt te brengen dan het manuscript dat in de onderzoeksliteratuur de titel Liber benefactorum heeft gekregen. Dit middeleeuwse ‘weldoenersboek’, vandaag bewaard in het Stadsarchief van Amsterdam, wordt in deze publicatie uitgegeven. De broneditie wordt voorafgegaan door een inleiding die de structuur en genese van dit bijzondere handschrift beschrijft.

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The author publishes 157 tax receipts and other texts from Thebes in Early Ptolemaic Egypt (332-200 BC), including 102 Demotic texts and 55 Greek or bilingual texts. 113 texts are published here for the first time, and the others were previously only partially published or have been substantially reread. The first six chapters contain text editions organized by tax category. Short essays introduce each category, and in several cases reinterpret them. The text editions include facsimile drawings together with transliterations and translations. Photographs are appended for all but 21 of the texts that are known only from facsimiles. The seventh chapter summarizes the careers of the scribes and officials, including attestations outside tax receipts, and distinguishes two different career patterns. The eighth chapter discusses the taxpayers known from multiple tax receipts, and how modern collectors acquired and dispersed these ancient archives. Full indexes complete the volume.

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Graphis JournalTake a deep dive into the minds of some of today's renowned designers, photographers, art directors, and more inside the Graphis Journal A quarterly print and digital magazine we hope inspires your creativity — The Journal is filled with thought-provoking, intimate, meaningful interviews and stories that take you inside the minds, work, and spaces of top designers, agencies, photographers, artists, and other outstanding creatives around the globe.Each Journal issue is beautifully printed and features 12 lead stories and Q&As from creatives in their own words plus images of some of their finest work. You'll learn the celebrations, challenges, and what inspired them along the wayFeaturing fine art quality print, full-page images of Platinum and Gold Award-winning work, Silver Award-winning work and Honorable Mentions are also presented.

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The Wilde YearsExperience the boundless vision of one of the greatest design and advertising professors of our generation, Richard Wilde.The WIlde Years is an immersive book scaled to his mind-expanding universe representing his 50 years of leadership at the School of Visual Arts. Inside, Richard reveals his teaching philosophies and criteria that resulted in his success.his book is a bible for design educators internationally and serves as an example of the potential a student can achieve when properly guided. It will also inspire professionals looking to see the standard of work being produced by one of the top schools in the world.. Included are words of gratitude from SVA President David Rhodes, Exec. VP Anthony P. Rhodes, and last, a letter from Richard’s successor, Gail Anderson.This book presents 275 pages of award-winning work from the Graphis New Talent competitions from 2010 to 2020 with the work of 100 professors and over 300 students presented.

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Winners of the annual international Graphis Design AwardsImmerse in a powerful visual journey through the eyes of over 500 award-winning graphic designers from around the globe. In one of the most coveted industry award competitions, Graphis Design 2020 celebrates design excellence through the captivating and influential work of the past year from solo designers and global firms. Juried by acclaimed international designers, these works can be seen across animation, branding, books, entertainment, packaging, posters, product design and other disciplines.This inspiring collection of work revolves around all categories of graphic design, demonstrating once again the importance of design in culture, commerce, and lifestyle. Read about the creative process from Platinum and Gold Winners regarding their assignments and the approaches they took to reach their award-winning solutions.This book is essential for designers, art/creative directors, illustrators,

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Right-Brain Project Management: A Complementary Approach looks at contemporary project management from a fresh perspective, exploring "right-brain" approaches that are intuitive and capitalize on natural human thinking and activity. Coupled with the logical and formal, or "left-brain," methodology associated with conventional project management, facilitation of right-brain functions offers a good range of techniques for project success. Presenting extensive research and the experiences of project managers who use right-brain approaches successfully, this book sheds a unique and hopeful light on conquering the challenges of contemporary projects. Learn how the successful project manager can become a whole-brain project manager by enlisting resources from both the right and the left sides, and how to further enhance project management by incorporating innovation and flexibility.

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