For many people, the iPad mini is a happy medium between smartphone and laptop devices, offering both portability and superb functionality. Whether you use it for work or pleasure, this book will guide you through all the iPad mini essentials, from mastering the new operating system iOS 9 to making brilliant videos and presentations. There truly is something for everyone with the extremely versatile iPad mini.
Being bound by reality is, quite frankly, rather boring. Continually retouching models and editing the contrast in your holiday snaps can get repetitive. Thankfully Photoshop, 3ds Max and ZBrush can be used for so much more, from using digital painting techniques to create new worlds to readying your designs for 3D printing. In this book you will learn to utilise concept art to produce your own mechs and monsters, design your own charismatic characters and create original landscapes and architecture for your fantasy world.
Beyond pulling a room together with great fabrics and furniture pieces, Kathryn M. Ireland has an extraordinary talent for pulling together stunning tabletops and delicious meals. Here she celebrates good friends and great food in the French countryside and in southern California. In an elegant scrapbook style, she shares her notes and advice on entertaining, particularly outdoors. Join Kathryn and her talented friend Ithaka for a breakfast, lunchtime picnics, a candlelight dinner, afternoon tea, a barbecue, and a wedding―all interlaced with signature Kathryn M. Ireland fabrics.
Amy Fazio’s second book, The Mason Jar Cookbook, shows the versatility and convenience of creating dishes in the mason jar. No longer just for jellies and jam, mason jars are now being filled in the most creative and often super healthy ways, such as salads and casseroles. The easy-to-follow recipes in this book will show you how to prepare breakfast, lunch and dinner in a mason jar. Oh, and dessert! Can’t forget dessert.
Use traditional piecing skills to create tomorrow’s heirloom quilts. You’ll discover how to give your favorite blocks a scrappy, modern look with elegant and up-to-date versions of time-tested quilt designs from popular designer Amy Ellis. Learn a bit about the history behind each block as Amy reimagines them as new classics.
Diwan and Galal looks at the structure and prospects of the Middle East economies after the 2011 Uprisings, focusing on issues of economic growth, inequality, the impact of oil, and the unfolding political transitions.
When you’re short on time, you’ll love these big-on-flavor, crazy easy meals.
150 recipes from the best seafood markets in New England
An important new look at Rome’s earliest buildings and their context within the broader tradition of Mediterranean culture
“I know it’s hard to watch TV or movies and idolize celebrities with very small waistlines and seemingly unrealistic appearances. I get it-because I do it, too! As a professional dancer, I need to train for over six hours every day when I’m performing. Now that my schedule has changed, I’ve created The 5-6-7-8 Diet and workouts to keep me fit, trim, and brimming with energy. The goal isn’t to be a size two-it’s to move, laugh, and love.” -KYM JOHNSON
‘Being in charge of your own life, and making decisions based on what you want to do rather than what you have to do, gives you a rare kind of contentment and shows you that every ordinary day offers magnificent opportunities.’
Recent studies indicate that 30 million people may suffer from a clinically diagnosable eating disorder at some point in their lives. Additional statistics suggest that half a million teens are experiencing disordered weight control behaviors at any time. The overwhelming majority of individuals who suffer from eating disorders are girls and young women between the ages of 12 and 25, but young males are not immune to the symptoms and suffer just as intensely . . . mostly in silence. Eating disorders affect not only those who battle them, but family members and friends who feel powerless to help.
