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Don't Lose Your Head: Life Lessons from the Six Ex-Wives of Henry VIII
by Harriet MarsdenSurvive alongside Henry VIII’s ill-fated wives with this witty book of essential life advice, history, and trivia—perfect for fans of the hit musical Six.Get the inside scoop from some of the toughest women in English history, as ex-wives, mothers, and daughters of King Henry VIII dish out all their survival secrets in this humorous guide to life. With a bit of sarcasm and friendly charm, each of these legendary ladies explains how their sixteenth-century hard-earned lessons (from living with unstable men to stifling Tudor traditions) apply to twenty-first-century dating, marriage, and feminism.Written from the perspectives of each of the different women around Henry VIII, you’ll get the facts from the Queen Mother and the less-remembered but no less important Anne of Cleves, Katherine Howard, and more.With must-know historical trivia alongside wise life advice, Don’t Lose Your Head is the perfect survival guide for fans obsessed with Broadway’s latest historical pop musical Six, as well as anyone fascinated by British royalty and culture.
Don't Move the Muffin Tins: A Hands-Off Guide to Art for the Young Child
by Bev BosTeaching children about paper, paint, crayons, felt pens, chalk, printing, collages, holiday and special art, with an index to the projects described.
Don't Think, Dear: On Loving and Leaving Ballet
by Alice Robb&‘Don&’t think, dear&’ said Balanchine. &‘Just do.&’ For centuries, being a ballerina has been synonymous with being beautiful, thin, obedient and feminine. It is the crucible of womanhood, together with the harassment, physical abuse and eating disorders endemic at top schools. Can we abide this in a post #MeToo world? Weaving together her own time at America&’s most elite ballet school with the lives of renowned ballerinas throughout history, Alice Robb interrogates what it means to perform ballet today. She confronts the all-consuming nature of the form: the obsessive and dangerous practices to perfect the body, the embrace of submission and the idealisation of suffering. Yet ballet also gifts its dancers &‘brains in their toes&’, a way to fully inhabit their bodies and a sanctuary of control away from the pressures of the outside world. Perhaps it is time to reimagine its liberating potential.
Don't Think, Dear: On Loving and Leaving Ballet
by Alice RobbAn incisive exploration of ballet’s role in the modern world, told through the experience of the author and her classmates at the most elite ballet school in the country: the School of American Ballet.Growing up, Alice Robb dreamed of becoming a ballet dancer. But by age fifteen, she had to face the reality that she would never meet the impossibly high standards of the hyper-competitive ballet world. After she quit, she tried to avoid ballet—only to realize, years later, that she was still haunted by the lessons she had absorbed in the mirror-lined studios of Lincoln Center, and that they had served her well in the wider world. The traits ballet takes to an extreme—stoicism, silence, submission—are valued in girls and women everywhere.Profound, nuanced, and passionately researched, Don’t Think, Dear is Robb’s excavation of her adolescent years as a dancer and an exploration of how those days informed her life for years to come.As she grapples with the pressure she faced as a student at the School of American Ballet, she investigates the fates of her former classmates as well. From sweet and innocent Emily, whose body was deemed thin enough only when she was too ill to eat, to precocious and talented Meiying, who was thrilled to be cast as the young star of the Nutcracker but dismayed to see Asians stereotyped onstage, and Lily, who won the carrot they had all been chasing—an apprenticeship with the New York City Ballet—only to spend her first season dancing eight shows a week on a broken foot.Theirs are stories of heartbreak and resilience, of reinvention and regret. Along the way, Robb weaves in the myths of famous ballet personalities past and present, from the groundbreaking Misty Copeland, who rose from poverty to become an icon of American ballet, to the blind diva Alicia Alonso, who used the heat of the spotlights and the vibrations of the music to navigate space onstage. By examining the psyche of a dancer, Don’t Think, Dear grapples with the contradictions and challenges of being a woman today.
Don't Try This at Home!: Don't Try This at Home!
by Kian Lawley Jc CaylenFrom personalities and entertainers Kian Lawley and Jc Caylen comes a completely wild and entirely true account of their rise to internet fame: Kian and Jc: Don’t Try This at Home! More than 7 million YouTube subscribers, 5 million Twitter followers, and 5 million Instagram followers cannot wait for this sometimes hilarious, sometimes awkward, and always crazy collection of stories, interviews, and exclusive photos.Fans of their YouTube channel, KianAndJc, can expect an intimate look at the comedians’ wild ride to fame and insight into their future plans, along with big laughs. This candid record of Kian and Jc’s success documents a whirlwind experience full of highs, lows, and, of course, awesome pranks.Kian and Jc: Don’t Try This at Home! combines the raucous tone that made the duo YouTube sensations with the sincerity and honesty Kian and Jc fans have been waiting for.
Don't Worry, He Won't Get Far on Foot
by John F. CallahanNow a major motion picture directed by Gus Van Sant and starring Joaquin Phoenix, Jonah Hill, and Rooney MaraFeaturing more than 60 of Callahan's original cartoons“When people laugh like hell and then say, ‘That’s not funny,’ you can be pretty sure they’re talking about John Callahan.”— P.J. O’RourkeIn 1972, at the age of 21, John Callahan was involved in a car crash that severed his spine and made him a quadriplegic. A heavy drinker since the age of 12 (alcohol had played a role in his crash), the accident could have been the beginning of a downward spiral. Instead, it sparked a personal transformation. After extensive physical therapy, he was eventually able to grasp a pen in his right hand and make rudimentary drawings. By 1978, Callahan had sworn off drinking for good, and begun to draw cartoons.Over the next three decades, until his death in 2010, Callahan would become one of the nation’s most beloved—and at times polarizing—cartoonists. His work, which shows off a wacky and sometimes warped sense of humor, pokes fun at social conventions and pushes boundaries. One cartoon features Christ at the cross with a thought bubble reading “T.G.I.F.” In another, three sheriffs on horseback approach an empty wheelchair in the desert. “Don’t worry,” one sheriff says to another, “He won’t get far on foot.”Don’t Worry, He Won’t Get Far on Foot recounts Callahan’s life story, from the harrowing to the hilarious. Featuring more than 60 of Callahan’s cartoons, it’s a compelling look at art, addiction, disability, and fame. A film adaptation scheduled for 2018, starring Joaquin Phoenix as John Callahan, will bring fresh attention to this underappreciated classic.
Don't You Forget About Me: Contemporary Writers on the Films of John Hughes
by Jaime ClarkeNo one captured the teen portion of the eighties as poignantly as writer-director John Hughes. Sixteen Candles, The Breakfast Club, Weird Science, Pretty in Pink, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, and Some Kind of Wonderful are timeless tales of love, angst, longing, and self-discovery that illuminated and assuaged the anxieties of an entire generation. Fondly nostalgic, filled with wit and surprising insights, don't you forget about me contains original essays from a skillfully chosen crop of novelists and essayists on the films' far-reaching effects on their own lives -- an irresistible read for anyone who came of age in the eighties (or just wishes they did). Featuring new writing from: Steve Almond * Julianna Baggott * Lisa Borders * Ryan Boudinot * T Cooper * Quinn Dalton * Emily Franklin * Lisa Gabriele * Tod Goldberg * Nina de Gramont * Tara Ison * Allison Lynn * John McNally * Dan Pope * Lewis Robinson * Ben Schrank * Elizabeth Searle * Mary Sullivan * Rebecca Wolff * Moon Unit Zappa
Don't You Know Who I Am?: Insider Diaries of Fame, Power and Naked Ambition
by Piers Morgan'They say you can always remember where you where when pivotal moments happen, such as losing your virginity or Elvis dying. Let me add another to the list: the moment I sang a duet to the the "Macarena" with Timmy Mallett, live to millions of people...'Sacked from his high-profile job as a national newspaper editor, Piers Morgan dived helplessly into the world of celebrity. But even twenty years of commenting on the lives of the rich and famous couldn't prepare him for the extraordinary world he uncovered...A riveting, scandelous and brutally honest account of one man's quest for celebrity, Don't You Know Who I Am? lifts the lid on the egos and outrageous behaviour of everyone from Paris Hilton to Cherie Blair, Kate Moss to the legend that is the Hoff.
Donald Rodney: Autoicon (Afterall Books / One Work)
by Richard BirkettAn illustrated examination of Donald Rodney&’s seminal digital media work Autoicon (1997–2000).Donald Rodney's Autoicon, a work originally produced as both a website and CD-ROM, was conceived by the artist in the mid-1990s but not completed until two years after his death in 1998. Referencing Jeremy Bentham&’s infamous nineteenth-century "Auto-Icon," the work proposes an extension of the personhood and presence of Rodney, while critically challenging dominant conceptions of the self, the body, and historicity. Grounded in a partial collection of medical documents that constitute biomedicine&’s attempts to comprehensively "know" and maintain Rodney&’s body during his lifelong experience of sickle-cell aneamia, Autoicon pursues the artist&’s address, from the mid-1980s onward, of the British social and institutional body&’s cellular composition through racialized, biopolitical power. Autoicon consists of a Java-based AI and neural network that engages the user in text-based "chat," and provides responses by drawing from a dense body of "data points" related to Rodney and his work, including documentation of artworks, medical records, interviews, images, notes, and video. Pulling both from this internal archive and the external archive of the Internet, a "montage machine" composes constantly mutating images according to a rule-based system established around Rodney&’s working process. In this One Work edition, curator Richard Birkett traces the distinct contemporary presence of Autoicon, and the ideas and relations that emerged around its conception before and after Rodney&’s death, particularly linking the work to the artist&’s seminal 1997 exhibition 9 Night in Eldorado. Birkett addresses Autoicon as both an index of entangled social and material relations around Rodney—a form of dispersed memory—and a vector of critical creative production that continues to resonate with contemporary artistic practices and radical thought. While attuned to late twentieth century discourse around the body&’s dissolution into the "virtual" and the technological potential for extending consciousness, in its content and structure Autoicon locates these discourses of the human and posthuman in relation to the durable productive forces of post-Enlightenment racialization and ableism. The workings of the mind that Autoicon presents are intrinsically tied to Rodney&’s wider use in his work of bodily matter, and genealogically bound to a Black history of displacement, dispossession, and resistance experienced physiologically, socially, and familially by the artist. Autoicon offers up a counter-manifestation of the subject as formed and multiplied through temporal disjuncture, affectability and acts of preservation, care, and collectivity.
Donald Shebib's 'Goin' Down the Road'
by Geoff PevereSince its release in July 1970, Donald Shebib's low-budget road movie about displaced Maritimers in Toronto has become one of the most celebrated Canadian movies ever made. In this study of Goin' Down the Road, renowned film critic Geoff Pevere provides an engaging account of how a film produced under largely improvised circumstances became the most influential Canadian movie of its day as well as an enduring cultural touchstone.Featuring extensive interviews with the film's key participants, Pevere provides behind-the-scenes history and explores how the movie's meaning and interpretation have changed over time. He gives special attention to the question of why the film's creative mix of documentary techniques, road movie tropes, and social commentary have proven so popular and influential in Canadian filmmaking for decades.
Donna Dewberry's Complete Book of One-Stroke Painting (Decorative Painting Ser.)
by Donna DewberryDonna's unique One-Stroke method - which lets you blend, shade and highlight all in one stroke - makes painting quick and easy. And there's just no better way to learn this technique than by Donna's example. In this book, Donna leads you through all the strokes you need - shell strokes, C-strokes and more - to create leaves, roses, fruit, ribbons and many other beautiful subjects. You'll also find 12 step-by-step projects that show how Donna's One-Stroke method can be used to decorate an exciting variety of surfaces in just a few easy strokes. The One-Stroke method is perfect for the beginner, and so versatile that decorative artists of any skill level will enjoy its speed and simplicity.
Donna Dewberry's Essential Guide to Flower and Landscape Painting: 50 Decorative and One-Stroke Painting Projects
by Donna Dewberry50 of Donna's favorite projects in one gorgeous book! Donna Dewberry flowers are beautiful to behold, and they are beautifully simple to create. You can achieve the same loveliness using her easy-to-master One-Stroke painting techniques. Inside, you'll see how--step by simple step. Pages are abloom with Donna's favorite flowers (soon to be your favorites, too!), fabulous landscapes, and garden projects to make your outside space a happier place. An intro chapter covers all the basics, from selecting your tools and loading your brush, to fundamental brushstrokes, palette knife painting techniques, and instructions for painting a variety of beautiful backgrounds. Then follow along step by step to create: 38 flowers--cottage garden blooms, spring bulb flowers, wildflowers, herbs, exotics, floral motifs and more. 7 beautiful outdoor projects, including an address sign, a trio of butterfly houses, and a patio clock. 5 fast and fabulous landscapes, from wildflower fields to a tropical paradise. Assembled from three of Donna's top-selling books, this collection has everything you need to fill your every day with painted sunshine!
Donna Dewberry's Essential One-Stroke Painting Reference
by Donna DewberryThe ultimate guide to one-stroke paintingBecome a one-stroke wonder with this all-in-one reference! Here, beloved decorative painter and PBS television instructor Donna Dewberry takes you step-by-step through more than 60 demonstrations using her popular One-Stroke techniques.From flowers, trees and berries to birds, fruit and more, the at-a-glance format makes it quick and easy to find the subject you want. Simply grab a brush and follow along as Donna guides you through mixing colors, loading brushes and making strokes. Each demonstration features big, beautiful color photos, color swatches, brush selection and complete instructions that will have you painting like a pro right away. Donna even helps you put it all together with 10 gorgeous designs that show you how to create great compositions every time.This really is the perfect reference for every decorative painter. Start at the beginning to learn the basics, or flip through to quickly find what you need. Either way, Donna Dewberry's Essential One-Stroke Painting Reference is the book you'll turn to again and again for inspiration, instruction and instant creative success!
Donna Dewberry's Quick & Easy Murals
by Donna DewberryDonna Dewberry, America's favorite painter, will help you create beautiful murals and borders for your homeYou can keep a garden blooming all year 'round! Donna's trademark one-stroke methods will help you quickly and easily create charming murals, borders, and wall treatments. Brighten any room in your house or apartment. With easy-to-follow photos and her step-by-step instructions, Donna shows you how to paint:Beautiful borders of roses, hydrangeas or trailing ivyTranquil landscapes framed by faux marble columnsLively birdbath scenesStunning metallic or floral wall treatmentsDonna also includes practical advice on how to turn your mural painting into a business, and encourages you to use the murals inside as starting points for creating stunning designs of your own.Make your walls come alive, with the beauty of hand-painted murals!
Donnybrook: A History (Ireland in Old Photographs)
by Beatrice M. DoranDonnybrook is one of the most iconic areas of South Dublin, a prosperous and peaceful suburb that is well-known as the being the heartland of Leinster Rugby. It derived its name, however, from the violence and carousing that were a regular feature of the area in the 1800s, and this book tells the story of the development and the journey from these inauspicious beginnings to its current form through a series of rare and beautifully produced photographs.
Donora
by Charles E. Stacey Brian Charlton David LonichThe industrial community of Donora was founded in 1901 on a bend of the Monongahela River, 30 miles south of Pittsburgh. The founding of Donora was the result of social, political, and economic interaction among elite and powerful capitalists. Andrew and Richard Mellon partnered with William H. Donner and Henry C. Frick to create the Union Improvement Company and build a mill, developing the surrounding municipality. In less than a year, the population of Donora quickly boomed from an original 12 residents to more than 4,000 inhabitants. The opportunity for employment drew people from all over the United States and Europe, generating a diverse community. Regardless of differences, the races, religions, and ethnic groups that settled in Donora shared a common value system based on education, hard work, and devotion to faith and family.
Don’t Force It, Solve It!: How To Design Meaningful and Efficient Design Processes
by George Kalmpourtzis"Knowing various frameworks and methodologies is crucial.… This book takes you one step further by transforming individuals or teams into adaptable problem-solving powerhouses." George Ketsiakidis, Design Researcher, Shanghai Jiao Tong University "George is a master of design process thinking, and it comes out in every word of his writing." Ryan Gerber, Founder, Quest Labs It’s not how much time we spend on design that impacts product and service success: it’s whether that time has been spent on solving the right problems. The field of design, with a greater focus on user-centered design, steadily acquires a central position on the work of product design teams. From large corporate environments to startups, multidisciplinary teams of developers, designers, project managers, and product managers need to find ways to understand each other’s needs, overcome obstacles, communicate efficiently, and perform, creating products that satisfy their users’ needs. In an era when the main differentiating factor between products are the teams that created them, George Kalmpourtzis’ Don’t Force It, Solve It!: How To Design Meaningful and Efficient Design Processes is the perfect roadmap for navigating the twisting paths of project management and user-centered design. KEY FEATURES: • This book aims at helping software teams work more efficiently by setting up their own design processes. • For organizations, this book helps decode the design processes, allowing them to deliver experiences that address the real problems of their audiences. • This book offers a combination of theory and practice that will help its readers understand how to design efficient processes and apply this knowledge in their own work. • This book includes many insights in the form of colorful doodles. George Kalmpourtzis is an award-winning User Experience & Learning Experience Consultant and Game Designer. Finding himself between the fields of educational technology, design, and game studies, he has been founder, C-level stakeholder, director, and board member of several design studios, startups, and consulting agencies.
Dooby Lane: Also Known as Guru Road, A Testament Inscribed in Stone Tablets by DeWayne Williams
by Gary Snyder Peter GoinIf left alone, what might a place say? If we must leave it, what must we leave behind? Guru Road, Dooby Lane. It was in this place where, nearly twenty years ago, Gary Snyder discovered, considered, and chronicled such latitudinal ruminations by way of one man, DeWayne "Dooby" Williams, and the coalesced stories and tributes which Williams faithfully etched upon granite, his elected canvas. When Snyder and his wife, Carole, were camping along the Black Rock playa, northwest of the Great Basin and northeast of the town of Gerlach, they deviated from their journey down a paved path to explore a little dirt road that glinted with intrigue. This spontaneous decision led Snyder to "this remarkable text of life and spirit" and to Williams who, retired and living with cancer, was creating the testament of a lifetime-that which would transcend corporeal measures and touch the lives of countless people in endless moments for many years to come.DeWayne Williams created this work of Earth Art in the Black Rock desert, near the current site of the Burning Man gathering. This full-color book presents a series of photographs by Peter Goin, accompanied by the prose and poetry of Gary Snyder.
Doodle Art and Lettering: Inspiration and Techniques for Personal Expression
by Joanne SharpeInspiration and Techniques for Personal Expression
Doodle Days: Over 100 Creative Ideas for Doodling, Drawing, and Journaling
by Jane MadaySimple and fun doodle ideas and inspiration for anyone who loves to draw, sketch, or journalWhether you're into journaling, drawing, or both, this delightful guide will provide creative ideas and simple instruction for doodling to your heart's content. Artist and author Jane Maday presents basic techniques, step-by-step instructions, and a world of ideas for drawing animals, flora and fauna, seashells, shapes, and more. The perfect way to add whimsy and fun to any sketchbook, journal, or bujo page, these doodles will make you smile and help you express your creativity, one adorable little doodle at a time.
Doodle Designs Coloring
by Bethany Pease SheetsColoring has never been this creative. Get inspired with 18 different designs you can color or draw or paint all day. Add your own flair with pens, pencils, crayons, markers or paint. Learn how colors go together and try out a new color theory today. • Keep yourself busy in the car, while waiting for friends - anywhere you go • Decorate your room, your binder, or your locker with finished pages, or give them to friends • Collect the whole series! Each book features designs by different quilt artists Doodle Designs has 18 magnificent freeform designs to color, plus fun facts about quilting designs. *Free table-top display available with purchase of 12 coloring books! (Wholesale minimum: 3 units.)
Doodle Quilting Mania: 250+ New Free-Motion Designs for Blocks, Borders, Sashing & More
by Cheryl MalkowskiStuck in a quilting rut? Stop dawdling and start doodling! Get inspired to machine quilt that unfinished top with an astounding two hundred and fifty new designs from best-selling Doodle Quilting author Cheryl Malkowski. Dozens of free-motion ideas for quilting individual blocks—plus themed motifs, allover designs, and sashing and border patterns—mean you’ll find a new freedom in traveling across the quilt. So change your tune from just getting it done to quilting up some fun! When you don’t know what to do, doodle! Enjoy two hundred and fifty unique machine quilting designs from best-selling author Cheryl Malkowski Know where to go next in your quilting and learn to “travel” without trauma Get fresh ideas for individual blocks, layouts, sashing, borders, and backgrounds
Doodle Quilting: Over 120 Continuous-Line Machine-Quilting Designs
by Cheryl MalkowskiLearn to draw...with your sewing machine! In this beginner's guide to free-motion, continuous-line quilting designs, the focus is on selecting the right forms and lines that get you where you need to go...because sometimes the hardest part is figuring out where to quilt next! You'll gain confidence in your innate artistic ability to draw basic shapes, then you'll learn how to put them together into over a hundred different all-over quilting designs. • See how easy it can be to create interesting quilting designs by mastering your doodling skills • From squiggles and swirls to flowers and feathers, learn which shapes are best for confined spaces and which work better traveling across your quilt • Includes drawing exercises and tips for transferring your designs from paper to fabric
Doodle School: A Daily Design Challenge to Up Your Free-Motion Quilting Game
by Dara Tomasson Amy Colleen Robertson31 days to master doodle designing! Transform into a skilled free-motion quilting expert with a month-long series of daily design prompts. Take the challenge with experienced free-motion quilters Dara Tomasson and Amy Robertson and their direct methods. Each design helps build muscle memory and spurs creativity with dozens of unique shapes and styles. Start sketching feathers, arrows, shells, rainbows, bubbles, spider webs, and so much more. Designs range from basic and vary in difficulty and intricacy making this the perfect reference for those learning to draw free-motion designs. Once you’ve completed your daily doodle challenges, show off your skills with a sampler quilt that features all of your doodle challenges. Start with pen and paper and take on daily doodle prompt challenges Become a confident free-motion quilt designer by learning to stitch a variety of different shapes Includes skill-building techniques and easy-to-follow visual guides for each doodle design
Doodle Stitching Embroidery Art: Move Beyond the Pattern with Aimee Ray
by Aimée RayLearn to use floss like a boss with these twenty original embroidery art projects, from the bestselling author of Doodle Stitching and Patchwork Embroidery.Create one-of-a-kind embroidery art using simple techniques! Bestselling author Aimee Ray of Doodle Stitching fame is back with the fresh motifs and contemporary inspiration her fans have come to love. With Aimee’s help, you'll move beyond the pattern to reflect your artistic self?making hoop framed embroidery art, decorative keepsakes, pillows, patches, charms, and fabric scrapbooks. Create artwork you'll display in every room of the house! Mix and match motifs and personalize wall art with lettering and numbers. With twenty projects to personalize, Doodle Stitching Embroidery Art will intrigue both beginners and seasoned embroiderers.Sew 20 original embroidery art projects with bestselling author Aimee RayExpress your individuality with exciting ideas for beginners and skilled stitchersPersonalize your projects with fun embroidery motifs, words, and dates