Born a Crime is a remarkable memoir that chronicles the life of one man's journey through the tumultuous landscape of apartheid South Africa. Trevor Noah's prose is a masterclass in storytelling, weaving together humor, heartbreak, and hard-won wisdom into a captivating tapestry of words. The book is a coming-of-age story that is as much about the...

Acid for the Children is a memoir written by Flea, the bassist of the famous rock band Red Hot Chili Peppers. In this book, Flea takes readers on a journey through his upbringing, his discovery of music and his life as a musician. Flea was born Michael Balzary in Australia and moved to the United States at a young age. Growing up in Los Angeles,...

Embroidery is a widespread type of decorative art in which the pattern and image are hand-made on various fabrics, leather, felt and other materials with linen, cotton, woolen, silk threads, as well as hair, beads, pearls, precious stones, sequins, coins etc. Embroidery is used to decorate clothes, household items, to create independent decorative...

This edition includes the complete notebooks (volume one and two). Most of what we know about Leonardo da Vinci, we know because of his notebooks. Some 6,000 sheets of notes and drawings survive, perhaps one-fifth of what he actually produced. With an artist's eye and a scientist's curiosity, he recorded in these pages his observations on the...

The young student should, in the first place, acquire a knowledge of perspective, to enable him to give to every object its proper dimensions: after which, it is requisite that he be under the care of an able master, to accustom him, by degrees, to a good style of drawing the parts. Next, he must study Nature, in order to confirm and fix in his...

A reproduction of the original book published in 1877. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected...

A book that allow us to travel through da Vinci's thoughts and will forever shift your own thinking to an amazing perspective... "Leonardo had found a refuge in art from the pettiness of material environment. Like his own creations, he, too, had learned the secret of the inner life. The painter, he wrote, could create a world of his own, and take...

In July of 1904 the eighty-seven mortal years of George Frederick Watts came to an end. He had outlived all the contemporaries and acquaintances of his youth; few, even among the now living, knew him in his middle age; while to those of the present generation, who knew little of the man though much of his work, he appeared as members of the...