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Product Description: Unique, believable characters that think, feel, and captivate your audience are ones that involve emotion, personality, and story. Successful animators balance all of these elements within a single character and narrative. With Acting and Performance for Animation, discover how to create dynamic, dramatic performances and believable character interaction for 2D and 3D animation and motion capture...read more

Product Description: A colourful and wide-ranging history of Canada's most western province illustrated with over nine hundred contemporary mapsBritish Columbia was among the last temperate places on Earth to appear on the map of the world, a function of its position-remote from Europe...read more

Product Description: Sixteen clever and insightful stories about people who fail to meet fundamental social or cultural expectations. These contemporary, urban, mostly short commuter-like stories capture quiry events in satisfying ways. The dark undertones and sharp-witted ironies emply settings such as apartments, lofts, and studios and use as backdrops the tensions of city life to outré characters and their given idiosyncrasies...read more

Renowned map historian Derek Hayes provides a unique perspective on Toronto's colourful past.In just two centuries, Toronto has grown from a tiny outpost of the British Empire to a world-class city, by far the largest in Canada. First a native village, then a French trading fort, the site became the capital of the newly established Upper Canada in 1793. The little settlement survived two attacks by the American army in the War of 1812, and became a city—Toronto—in 1834, just as it became necessary to withstand the challenge of armed rebellion from within, led by William Lyon Mackenzie, who had been the first mayor of Toronto. The city went on to become a railway hub, and developed an industrial and trading base the equal of no other...

Product Description: European explorers in the late 15th century had a significant focus: traversing the mysterious body of land we now call North America. Whether to seek untold riches or to set up colonies, spread the word of God or seek new botanical and animal species, each of these intrepid explorers added a piece of the puzzle to our geographical knowledge...read more

Using nearly five hundred historical maps and many other illustrations, a lavishly illustrated volume covers five hundred years of history and offers a compelling and informative look at the transformation of the state from before European contact, through the Gold Rush, and up to the present day.

The evolution of geographical knowledge is presented, along with a fascinating chronicle of the expansion and development of the U.S., in a collection of more than five hundred historical maps covering more than half a millennium and ranging from the earliest days of exploration to the transformation of the Gulf Coast following hurricane Katrina.

Product Description: Map researcher and collector Derek Hayes here presents the sixth in a series of critically acclaimed, award-winning historical atlases. Gathered together in a single volume for the first time, here are the maps that shaped Vancouver and the surrounding Lower Fraser Valley...read more

Presents a collection of original maps and historic illustrations to document the exploration of North America.

Describes the journey of Alexander Mackenzie, who in 1793, was the first European to cross the continent north of Mexico.

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