![]() ![]() ![]() A celebration of the longevity and unique authority of Albers’s contribution, this landmark edition will find new audiences in studios and classrooms around the world. With over a quarter of a million copies sold in its various editions since 1963, Interaction of Color remains an essential resource on color, as pioneering today as when Albers first created it.įifty years after Interaction ’s initial publication, this anniversary edition presents a significantly expanded selection of close to sixty color studies alongside Albers’s original text, demonstrating such principles as color relativity, intensity, and temperature vibrating and vanishing boundaries and the illusion of transparency and reversed grounds. Kandinsky defined the material surface on which the work of art is constructed as the basic plane, abbreviated BP. Two minutes of art history delight Learn about the famed modern artist and instructor Josef Albers and the magic and science behind his theories on color. Originally published by Yale University Press in 1963 as a limited silkscreen edition with 150 color plates, Interaction of Color first appeared in paperback in 1971, featuring ten color studies chosen by Albers, and has remained in print ever since. Conceived as a handbook and teaching aid for artists, instructors, and students, this influential book presents Albers’s singular explanation of complex color theory principles. Josef Albers’s classic Interaction of Color is a masterwork in art education. ![]()
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Before Emma's adventures in Oxford, her best friend Diana came face-to-face with a killer.ĭiana Calvert is so over high school. ![]() ![]() ![]() She finds the afterlife to be miserable, but her latest job just might change everything. In the afterlife she gets a job in Project Scrooge as a Ghost of Christmas Past. Those ghosts tried to convince her to change her ways, but she didn’t and she died. In this book, Holly Chase was visited by three Ghosts on Christmas Eve five years ago. Hand is also the author of The Afterlife of Holly Chase. ![]() She’s had visions of a fire and when it strikes, will she be ready to face her destiny? She has visions that lead her to a new school and a new town where she meets Christian, the boy of her literal dreams, and Tucker, a boy who appeals to her non-angelic side. At least in theory, she knows there is a purpose but finding out what that purpose is is another story. 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Japanese overlord Toyotomi Hideyoshi envisioned conquering Korea, Ming China, and eventually all of Asia but Korea's appeal to China's Emperor Wanli for assistance triggered a six-year war involving hundreds of thousands of soldiers and encompassing the whole region. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The musical (and its creation) is the lens through which the audience sees Hamilton’s story. The project, produced by RadicalMedia for the public broadcaster's Great Performances series, tells the chronological story of the founding father’s life, relying on historians and political heavyweights from former president George W. The resulting documentary is PBS' Hamilton’s America (Friday, 9 ET/PT), which manages to tell the story of both the musical and the man. “I said, ‘Look I don’t care where you’re going with this, I think we’ve got a compelling story.’” “When (Miranda) said he was going to do this thing about Alexander Hamilton, I knew he wasn’t talking about doing a hip-hop Schoolhouse Rock,” Horwitz says. But he knew it was going to be something. It was impossible for Horwitz, his college roommate at Wesleyan, to know just how big the musical was going to be. ![]() That’s how director Alex Horwitz managed to get a camera on Lin-Manuel Miranda, the writer and star of Broadway super-smash Hamilton, as he was conceiving the musical in 2014. Discovering the next big thing is easy when it's created by your friend. ![]() ![]() When Maud arranges to get near her at a spa and then overhears Zazza’s plans to take control of Gustaf’s estate, Maud devises an emphatic countermeasure. 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Jasmin Schimmerhof, a 40-year-old avant-garde artist who lives in the building, stops by to say hello. ![]() In the first story, "An Elderly Lady Has Accommodation Problems," a rare event happens: Her doorbell rings. Never married, she loves to travel alone and to be alone. At age 88, she’s lived in a large apartment rent-free for 70 years because of a clause in an old contract. ![]() Five connected stories about a murderous old Swedish lady. ![]() ![]() ![]() They were playing ball with beach boys and that wasn’t what Anna Hibiscus wanted to do, either. She asked Benz and Wonderful to splash with her in the waves, but they didn’t even hear her. They invited Anna Hibiscus to play in the sand with them, but that’s not what she wanted to do. She asked Angel and Chocolate, but they were digging in the sand. She wanted so much to splash, too, and she wanted everyone else to come with her! Even Mama was busy.Īnna Hibiscus watched the ocean waves as they splashed and laughed. ![]() Some of the cousins were on their phones, some were playing soccer, and Chocolate was dumping sand on Angel. Papa was with Uncle Tunde, and they were visiting with fishermen. That’s where Anna Hibiscus lives, and it’s where her whole family was relaxing.Įverybody was having fun. ![]() ![]() It was a beautiful, sunny day on a beach in Africa. Sometimes, it’s hard to get her attention, but if you’re like the little girl in “Splash, Anna Hibiscus!” by Atinuke & Lauren Tobia, you might go ahead and have fun without it. You want to show her something, ask a question, or just get Mom to see what you’re doing. “Splash, Anna Hibiscus!” by Atinuke & Lauren TobiaĬ.2013, Kane Miller $14.99 / $17.95 Canada 32 pages ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Helen Hoang: Originally, The Heart Principle was supposed to be a gender-swapped Sabrina. Goodreads: Where did you get the inspiration for The Heart Principle? ![]() Goodreads contributor Arriel Vinson chatted with Hoang about external validation, the importance of family, and how romance is made to handle every topic. The Heart Principle explores what it means to take on new responsibilities and say no to old ones-and how to fight for yourself and what you love. Will she and Quan still have a chance at love, or will they have to let it go? Then family tragedy strikes, and Anna unexpectedly finds herself taking on a caregiving role. After a few one-night stands with her new hookup, Quan, they both realize something more is in the air. And when her longtime boyfriend suggests that they open their relationship before getting married-just in case-she decides that a string of one-night stands is exactly what she needs. Violinist Anna Sun is tired of trying to please everyone, and exhausted from her career that boomed after a viral YouTube video. Helen Hoang, the bestselling author of The Kiss Quotient series, explores burnout, love, and what happens to a budding romance when family responsibility arises in The Heart Principle, her newest novel. ![]() ![]() ![]() Now Mason will have to lead the cadets in a daring assault to take back the ship, rescue the survivors, and recover the weapon. ![]() ![]() And soon they find out exactly why the Tremist chose this ship to attack: the Egypt is carrying a weapon that could change the war forever. With the captain and crew dead, injured, or taken prisoner, Mason and the cadets are all that’s left to warn the ESC. But routine goes out the airlock when they’re attacked by the Tremist, an alien race who have been at war with humanity for the last sixty years. The trip was supposed to be a short routine voyage to log their required spacetime for summer quarter. Publisher’s Blurb: “Two weeks ago, thirteen-year-old Mason Stark and seventeen of his fellow cadets from the Academy for Earth Space Command boarded the SS Egypt. ![]() ![]() ![]() And in the same way that two streams converge into a river, Kyle's disappearance may have a more sinister meaning than anyone realizes. Kyle's grandmother begs Cassie to find him and, with nothing else to do, Cassie agrees-all the while hunting the truck driver. At the same time, Kyle Westergaard, a troubled kid whom Cassie has taken under her wing, has disappeared after telling people that he's going off on a long-planned adventure. Disgraced, she loses her job and investigation into her role is put into motion. ![]() But the plan goes horribly wrong, and the blame falls on Cassie. Working for the Bakken County, North Dakota sheriff's department, Cassie has set what she believes is the perfect trap and she has lured him and his truck to a depot. For three years, Investigator Cassie Dewell has been on a hunt for a serial killer known as the Lizard King whose hunting grounds are the highways and truck stops where runaways and prostitutes are most likely to vanish. ![]() |