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"The Adventures of Tucker Harper" is a story about a Boxer Bulldog who lives with ten year old Hannah, her older brother, mom and dad. Tucker believes with all his heart that he is a human and can do what his humans do. He tries to go to school with Hannah, he loves to play dress up, help bake in the kitchen, loves movies and popcorn. Tucker even loves to escape once in a while to go explore. He is one special dog and is very loved by everyone he crosses paths with. We hope you enjoy all the adventures Tucker will take you on in this book that is sure to bring joy to kids for generations.
Shaun Willis carried within him horrific secrets throughout his young life. Reckless sexual and physical acts, emotional disconnect, they became the cries for help from the pain he could not understand. Hurt people, hurt people. He would not be free from this pain until he went Screaming into the Light. "It's a tough book-in a good way. It's meant to be tough. It's meant to be hard to read, emotionally. I think you're telling a story rarely heard. It's a violent, blunt story and in many parts, and maybe not the parts one would expect, it can be very tough to read because Shaun is going through such a horrible moment. But we all know a guy like Shaun. Many of us were a guy like Shaun to some degree." - Bull Garlington - Founder of Creative Writer Pro - Award Winning Author "The book is a real, sometimes explicit, tale of the lives of the many abused children in today's world. While it is often gut wrenching as you experience these seemingly endless ordeals with Shaun, it is uplifting to watch him progress throughout the book in both his healing and personal discovery. It gives hope and a realistic depiction of abuse that so many of us have faced." - Imani Boyette, Poet, Wife, Professional Women's Basketball Player and Mental Health Advocate
A wide-ranging, accessible reference on plastics and processes The broad range of professionals involved in plastics and related industries requires a comprehensive, accessible resource on these ubiquitous materials that foregoes cumbersome, technical jargon. Plastics Materials and Processes: A Concise Encyclopedia defines materials, processes, properties, test methods, and other useful information in a straightforward and efficient manner. Charles Harper and Edward Petrie selected the contents of their encyclopedia with an eye toward giving readers an efficient, intelligent overall insight into plastics without requiring them to wade through additional texts or handbooks in specific areas. Organized alphabetically, the Encyclopedia includes information on: *Application guidelines *Process method trade-offs *Design, finishing, and performance criteria *Chemical, structural, and other basic polymer considerations The authors begin with a brief introduction to polymers and plastics that brings the disparate information of the Encyclopedia together. Several appendices of valuable property data are also included, comparing plastics and other commonly used materials with one another and offering guidance on processing methods and final applications. Intended for general managers, executives, purchasing and manufacturing personnel, supervisors, engineers, and students, this comprehensive guide will be useful to anyone involved in product design, development, application, manufacturing, marketing, or other periphery functions in the plastics industry. Plastics Materials and Processes provides a concise reference to an extraordinary volume of pertinent material.
A paperback edition of the Eisner Award-winning collection features thirty-two pages of additional material from the Charles M. Schulz Museum archives, including a vintage advertisement from the cartoonist's father's barber shop, a first United Features brochure for Peanuts, previously unpublished sketches, and a mural painted by the cartoonist for his daughter's bedroom. Reprint. 75,000 first printing.
This first comprehensive biography of Charles M. Russell examines the colorful life and times of Montana's famed Cowboy Artist. Born to an affluent St. Louis family in 1864, young Russell read thrilling tales of the West and filled sketchbooks with imagined frontier scenes.
Almost as familiar as the images of the American West he painted and sculpted is the figure of Charles M. Russell himself. Standing or mounted, in boots and wide-brimmed hat, sash knotted at his waist, gaze steady under a hank of unruly hair: he is the one and only ""Cowboy Artist."" What is not so well known is the story that unfolds in the myriad photographs of Russell, pictures that document a remarkable life while also reflecting the evolution of photography and the depiction of the American West at the turn of the twentieth century. This biography makes use of hundreds of images of Russell, many never before published, to explore the role of photography in shaping the artist's public image and the making and selling of his art. More than that, the book shows how the Cowboy Artist personified what he portrayed. Born in 1864 to a well-to-do family in St. Louis, Russell was smitten early on by the burgeoning art of photography and the images of the West that were proliferating as rapidly as the frontier was disappearing. When he moved to Helena at sixteen, his passions came together, as professional and amateur photographers made their way to the Montana Territory to document the cowboy life that Charlie was embracing and beginning to paint. Larry Len Peterson traces Russell's image and his career from these first adventures to his apotheosis as an artist, and then to his California period and his final days as the grand statesman of the American West. Along the way we meet some of the most interesting photographers of the era, as Russell posed for Edward S. Curtis, Roland Reed, Clarence S. Bull, Hildore C. Eklund, and Dorothea Lange, among others. Because Nancy Russell used photographs to promote her artist husband's career and artistic identity, we also see the medium's early application as a marketing tool in the hands of a surprisingly savvy businesswoman. Alongside Peterson's engrossing tale of the life of this American icon, the hundreds of photographs of Russell, his friends, family members, business associates, colleagues, and celebrities of his time offer a unique view of the artist's historic and cultural milieu - a view at once panoramic and intimate.
Charles M. Russell has long been recognized for his action-packed paintings, drawings, and sculpture of cowboys, fur trappers, Native American buffalo hunters and warriors, and other heroes of the Old West. Russell's best-known works capture the excitement and deadly risk of men battling nature and one another in a majestic landscape of mountains and plains. Less well known are Russell's hundreds of depictions of western women. As renowned author and art historian Ginger K. Renner observed thirty-five years ago, no other artist of the West devoted more of his time and talent to the portrayal of women. But few have followed Renner's lead - until now. Lavishly illustrated with full-color illustrations, Charles M. Russell: The Women in His Life and Art presents groundbreaking essays essential to understanding the role of western women in Russell's art. This volume is both a tribute to the women who nurtured Russell's artistic development and a landmark in the study of the role of women in a genre all too often identified almost exclusively with a masculine world. The catalogue essays examine the exhibition's theme from four unique perspectives. Joan Carpenter Troccoli provides an overview of the works in the exhibition and the social, cultural, and personal values that influenced them. Emily Crawford Wilson explores Russell's interest in the feminine ideal, tying it to wider artistic trends of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Jennifer Bottomly-O'looney describes Russell's friendship with Ben and Lela Roberts, who introduced the artist to Nancy Cooper, the woman who would become his wife and indispensable business partner. Thomas A. Petrie employs extended excerpts from Nancy's unpublished biographical memoir to illuminate the Russells' marriage, a relationship sustained by affection and mutual respect, as well as shrewd creative and marketing decisions.
Well known for his sketches, paintings, and sculptures of the Old West, Charles M. Russell (1864-1926) was also an accomplished author in the humorous genre known as "local color." Raphael Cristy sorts Russell's writings into four general categories: serious Indian stories, men encountering wildlife, cattle range characters, and nineteenth-century westerners facing twentieth-century challenges.Russell's art is often misinterpreted as mere longing for a fading open-range west, but his writings tell a different story. Cristy shows how Russell amused his peers with stories that also delivered sharp observations of Euro-American suppression of Indians and humorous treatment of wilderness and range issues plus the emergence of women and urbanization as bewildering agents of change in the modern West."A welcome departure from the usual biographies and coffee table volumes on Russell and his art. . . . [Cristy] deals with an important, yet relatively unexplored, aspect of the career of one of the most influential interpreters of the American West."--Byron Price, Director, C. M. Russell Center for the Study of Art
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""Charles M. Russell, The Cowboy Artist: A Biography"" is a comprehensive account of the life and work of one of America's most iconic Western artists, Charles M. Russell. Written by Ramon F. Adams, a noted Western historian and biographer, the book traces Russell's life from his childhood in Missouri to his years as a cowboy in Montana, and finally to his success as a painter, sculptor, and writer. Adams delves into Russell's artistic process and the inspiration behind his work, which often depicted the rugged beauty and harsh realities of life in the American West. The book also examines Russell's personal life, including his marriage to his wife Nancy and his friendships with other notable figures of the time, such as Teddy Roosevelt and Will Rogers. Filled with beautiful illustrations of Russell's artwork, as well as photographs of the artist and his surroundings, ""Charles M. Russell, The Cowboy Artist: A Biography"" is a must-read for anyone interested in the history of the American West or the life and work of this beloved artist.This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the old original and may contain some imperfections such as library marks and notations. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions, that are true to their original work.
