Product Description: This is an updated text on adolescent development. Conger's work offers coverage of developmental processes, including theoretical background, current issues, and the latest research. This new edition looks at the many "headline" trends and events affecting adolescence in today's society...read more

Product Description: Textbook going over: Dry media -- Wet media -- Mixed media -- The human figure -- The landscape and its elements -- The still life -- The urban environment: architecture and perspective -- Op, Pop and other things -- From A to Z -- The sketchbook -- Some final thoughts.

Introduces drawing and painting materials and equipment, gives tips on working outdoors, and shows how to create still lifes, portraits, and landscapes

Product Description: Ranging from pool hustling to pornography, this book analyzes deviant branches of American life, dispels misconceptions about them, and throws new light on sociological theory and method. Each chapter radically dissents from one or more mainstream opinions about deviance...read more

Product Description: Based on research and made personal through anecdotes and real-life examples, this introduction to human development offers a combination of topical/chronological approach, an eclectic theoretical perspective, and a focus on contemporary issues and concerns...read more

Product Description: Whether you specialize in drawing—even cartooning and animationùor prefer media such as acrylic, oil, pastel, or watercolor, a good knowledge of perspective is invaluable. It is the foundation of all great paintings and drawings, no matter what medium...read more

Written from personal experience, this book is intended for sufferers of facial and other disfigurements, and their families. The author's premise is not that the disfigured should learn just to cope, but that they should play an active and perfectly normal part in society. It includes chapters on the impact of injuries and accidents on those involved, facial injury and its personal and social consequences, plastic surgery - its risks, benefits and limitations - the routine of hospital life, and the future.

Shows how to depict wrinkles, folds, and drapery in drawing the clothed figure

Product Description: About this Book This book is designed to be utilized by professionals, as well as, designers, CAD users, renderers, architects, and illustrators. Each section is specially designed to provide you with a convenient way to use the basic information you will need to produce highly successful, authentic illustrations, using your own style, techniques, and creativity...read more

This text has enjoyed incredible success in the last two editions. The introductory corporate finance market has embraced the "essentialized" product. The message for this edition of Essentials continues from the second edition-this is The text for both finance and non-finance majors. The authors continue to maintain a corporate finance framework but have enhanced general business topics wherever appropriate. (view table of contents)

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Lists and describes the most common prescription drugs in current use, discussing the benefits and risks of each, side effects, interactions, dosages, and essential precautions (view table of contents)

Offers advice on drawing trees, clouds, snow, barns, grass, rocks, and water, and includes step-by-step demonstrations (view table of contents)

Describes how to create quick, impressionistic sketches from life and how to use them in the studio. (view table of contents)

This practical and interesting read contains many anecdotes, real-life examples, and special features drawn from the author's extensive experience as a Marriage, Family and Child Counselor. It reflects the fascinating story of our development—and the development of others around us—to encourage readers to examine their lives and the lives of others. Chapter topics include the beginnings of human life; heredity, environmental influences, and prenatal development; cultural influences and individual differences on human development; child development; adolescent development; adult development; parenting issues, and death, dying, and bereavement. For anyone trying to understand how we have become the individuals we are today, and curious about how our development will change throughout our lives.

James, Laura, and Deborah along with their friends Kip, Lydia, and Gordy relate their experiences when the unpredictable old wishing well in the backyard continues to involve them in a variety of magical adventures

Product Description: This pocket-sized guide is full of tips and ideas to help you draw all kinds of creatures and contraptions. Using easy, step-by-step examples, it shows you how to build up detailed scenes from basic shapes. It is also packed with expert advice on techniques and materials for producing really professional-looking pictures...read more

Product Description: Learn how to approach a drawing by blocking in the basic shapes, then discover how to develop and refine the rendering step by step, from fruits and flowers to animals and portraits. Each lesson offers simple instructions and clear demonstrations. Fully illustrated.