In words, color photos, and art renditions these guides provide detailed explanations of art materials and how accomplished artists use them to achieve desired effects in the various media. The emphasis in these books is not on completing a finished painting -- a subject covered in other Barron's art series -- but on how to select and use the right materials for the right project, along with practical solutions to common artists' problems. Topics are treated in the form of easy-to-follow step-by-step directions. These volumes are valuable reference sources, both for the art classroom and for use by self-teaching hobbyists. Twenty-six concise sections describe oil paints, canvases, brushes, palettes, palette knives, easels, paint boxes, and related tools. Other topics covered in these sections include paint mixing and thinning, use of different brushes to achieve various effects, selecting pigments for a balanced palette, blending colors on the canvas, as well as controlling line and shape with brushwork.

Learning to Paint in Oil (Barron's Art Guides)

Arts & Photography

Barron's Editorial Team

Painting

B.E.S. Publishing

Sam, Jo, Matthew, and Katie are four animal-loving kids who start up their own neighborhood service--the Petsitters Club--as a school-related community service. In this volume, the aristocratic and bossy Mrs. Potter-Bunn is off to Paris, so she leaves the kids with Trixie-Belle, her Yorkie. Then the little pup finds a wonderful new friend: Henry, the cyber pet!

Trixie and the Cyber Pet (Petsitters Club, No. 6)

Children's Books

Krailing, Tessa

Animals

This revised third edition is your comprehensive personal guide to the most popular Praxis tests.  It incorporates recent changes in Praxis testing.TESTING STRATEGIES:  Proven strategies for passing both multiple choice and essay/short answer Praxis tests

How to Prepare for Praxis : PPST, PLT, Elementary School Subject Assessments, Listening Skills Test, Overview of Praxis II Subject Assessments and Specialty Area Tests

Robert D. Postman

Learn Spanish (Espa�ol) the Fast and Fun Way

Heywood, Wald

Gene M. Hammitt

This handsome, richly coated native of Japan is bold, courageous, and intensely loyal to its owner. It makes an excellent watchdog. Titles in Barronï¿½s wide-ranging and heavily illustrated selection of Complete Pet Ownerï¿½s Manuals present sound and useful information for pet owners. High-quality photos are in color and line drawings are anatomically accurate. These fact-filled books instruct owners on how to care for dogs, cats, birds, fish, caged pets, reptiles, and virtually every other animal that people are likely to keep as a pet. Books in this series are written by breeders, trainers, veterinarians, and other pet-care specialists. They advise on purchasing, feeding, health care, training, grooming, and all other aspects of responsible pet ownership.

Shiba Inus (Complete Pet Owner's Manual)

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Payton, Laura

Pets & Animal Care

Book by Willner M.S., Mark, Hero M.S., George A., Weiner Ph.D., Jerry, Briggs M.S., Bonnie-Anne

Global History: The Industrial Revolution to the Age of Globalization: 2

Mark Willner

Jerry Weiner

George A. Hero

501 Spanish Verbs, Seventh Edition/By Christopher Kendris and Theodore Kendris

Christopher Kendris

Theodore Kendris

Presenting advice and instruction on a more basic level than found in most other calligraphy books, this brand-new title starts with fundamentals. It takes absolute beginners by the hand and walks them through 15 key alphabets. The author guides neophyte calligraphers stroke-by-stroke in the process of creating each elegant letter. Entry-level students of the art will quickly learn to create beautiful scripts for . . . 
<li> Greeting Cards </li>
<li> Scrapbooks </li>
<li> Party Invitations and Favors </li>
<li> Wedding Announcements </li>
<li> Menus </li>
<li> Place Cards . . . . . and literally every other item that requires a handsome, professional-looking script. Every page of this easy-to-follow manual is filled with step-by-step diagrams and photos, each having a detailed instructive caption. After readers master an alphabet, they can refer to the author's suggestions for adding an embellishment or two that makes the script truly their own. The book's final section shows how to add color and sparkle to a text by employing illumination techniques that are quick to learn and fun to do. Hundreds of illustrations.</li>

Calligraphy Alphabets for Beginners: The Easy Way to Learn Lettering and Illumination Techniques

Noble, Mary

Mehigan, Janet

Other Media

Spanning the centuries from the pre-classical era to the present day, this book presents brief, information-packed, and highly readable biographies of the world's 501 most important composers. Compiled by music critic Matthew Rye and written by an international team of music historians, critics, and musicians, this reference volume offers a succinct summary of each composer's life, as well as commentary on his style and artistic development. The artists' major compositions are also listed with a partial discography. A selection of intriguing remarks attributed to the composers themselves will enlighten and often amuse readers. The biographies vary in length, with up to four pages given to the most important musical figures. Just a few of the many masters of music covered in these pages are--     Pre-classical era:  FranÃ§ois Couperin, Domenico Scarlatti, Antonio Vivaldi, Johann Sebastian Bach . . . and others   Classical era:  Joseph Haydn, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Ludwig van Beethoven . . . and others   The romantics:  Franz Schubert, Frederic Chopin, Felix Mendelssohn, Robert and Clara Schumann, Johannes Brahms, Anton Bruckner, Gustav Mahler . . . and others   Masters of opera and musical theater:  Giuseppe Verdi, Richard Wagner, Giacomo Puccini, Kurt Weill, Richard Rodgers, Irving Berlin, Cole Porter. . . and others   20th century masters:  Claude Debussy, Maurice Ravel, Arnold Schoenberg, Anton Webern, Samuel Barber, Sergei Rachmaninoff, Elliott Carter, George Gershwin, Leonard Bernstein, Philip Glass, Pierre Boulez. . . and others   Jazz composers:  Ornette Coleman, John Coltrane, "Jelly Roll" Morton, Duke Ellington, Thelonious Monk . . . and others   Here is a comprehensive guide to the giants of music, enhanced with discussions of their compositions and photos of them at work or conducting on the podium. Each entry is also illustrated with a portrait of the composer.

501 Great Composers

Biographies & Memoirs

Arts & Literature

Toddlers will love Action Books because the pictures really go into action! Bright, simple illustrations on every page--including the front cover--display moving parts that kids manipulate via small finger holes. Farm Animals introduces toddlers to a pig, a cow, a lamb, a chicken, and their babies--animals that come to life at the simple movement of baby's finger. Pictures are simply labeled on pages constructed of extra-thick board stock with rounded corners for safety.

Farm Animals (A Very First Action Book)

Everitt-Stewart, A.

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