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  Claude Monet - The Impressive...

  Kelly Mass

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  Claude Monet has been the icon for the impressionist movement. Painting vague strokes of color and contrast, water, and flowers were typical. Other aspects of the art weren’t as clear but were just as important, nonetheless. 
  Claude Monet certainly faced many struggles as he tried to build his passion for painting into a career. His family life wasn’t perfect either, but despite of all these obstacles, the French genius painter has left us a legacy and a new perspective on realism and technique in their purest forms. 
  In this guide, we’ll go over his youth, his style, his methods, his most famous paintings, and many of the reasons why he made the decisions he made. Embark on a journey by diving into the world of art in the French countryside in the 19th century. Find out what made this painter so unique and beloved by so many.

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  The Orchid Folios

  Mok Zining

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  “When you take an orchid out of its pot, you must first loosen the roots’ hold on the soil. Late last evening as I unravelled the braids of the shattered phalaenopsis, I saw how the ends were white and shrivelled from neglect. You have to do it gently—it’s like combing hair. I remember Mum’s fingers running through mine, and mine through hers, until the final months when all of it started to fall.” 
   
   
  A pot shatters. An arrangement falls apart. A florist finds herself amidst the scattered leaves of history. At once a poetry collection and a documentary novella, The Orchid Folios reimagines the orchid as a living, breathing document of history: a history that enmeshes the personal, colonial, linguistic, and biotechnological with the Vanda Miss Joaquim, the symbol of Singapore’s postcolonial hybridity. While the Orchid has shaped the fantastical narratives that govern our multiracial City in a Garden, it continues to shape-shift and bloom on its own terms, challenging us to imagine a decolonised Singapore. This is the organism at the heart of The Orchid Folios—by turns stark and unruly, documenting and challenging the narratives that are the roots of our national consciousness.

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  Mid-century Woodworking - 80...

  A.W.P. Kettless

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  Make your own beautiful mid-century wooden objects for the home.
  With over 80 projects, from the simple to the advanced, this is the perfect book to progress your woodworking skills and create something beautiful for your home. These sought-after classic designs from the 1950s and 60s include a range of items for home and garden, simple display shelves, bookends and a tray to a chest of drawers and a desk. 
  Every project includes a clear pattern and diagrams, detailed step-by-step instructions and  illustrations of the finished pieces. The projects are arranged by level of difficulty as you go through the book; some suit those fairly new to woodworking and some work best for more experienced hands. Packed with useful tips and hints, and featuring spotlights on individual techniques within every chapter, this book is perfect not just as a project book but as a way to build up your knowledge. No complicated equipment is needed and all projects can be made at home. 
  So whether you want the iconic curves of a mid-century coffee table, the warmth of walnut wood in a cabinet or the clean lines in an easy chair, this book has it all.  

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  Pet Care and Training -...

  Virversity Online Courses

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  This comprehensive Pet Care and Training course equips you with essential knowledge and practical skills to better understand, care for, and train your pets. Suitable for both new and experienced pet owners, it enhances your ability to communicate with your pet, address behavioral challenges, and build a trusting relationship.  Learn to interpret pet body language and vocalizations to understand their needs and emotions. Discover key care techniques such as feeding, grooming, and creating a safe environment. Master positive reinforcement and behavior modification to encourage good behavior and tackle issues.  Gain strategies for socializing pets and supporting their mental health by managing stress and anxiety. Explore specialized care and training methods for different pet types and advanced problems like aggression and separation anxiety.  The course begins with pet behavior basics, teaching you to read body language and vocal cues to improve communication. It then covers physical and emotional care—feeding, grooming, and creating secure environments to foster well-being and bond strength.  Training focuses on building trust through positive reinforcement, identifying problem behavior causes, designing modification plans, and promoting confident socialization. You’ll also learn to recognize stress signs and provide comfort.  By completing this course, you’ll become a confident, knowledgeable pet owner with the skills to nurture a happier, well-behaved pet and enrich your relationship for a healthier, happier life together.

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  The Great American Transit...

  Nicholas Dagen Bloom

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  A potent re-examination of America’s history of public disinvestment in mass transit. 
    
  Many a scholar and policy analyst has lamented American dependence on cars and the corresponding lack of federal investment in public transportation throughout the latter decades of the twentieth century. But as Nicholas Dagen Bloom shows in The Great American Transit Disaster, our transit networks are so bad for a very simple reason: we wanted it this way. 
    
  Focusing on Baltimore, Atlanta, Chicago, Detroit, Boston, and San Francisco, Bloom provides overwhelming evidence that transit disinvestment was a choice rather than destiny. He pinpoints three major factors that led to the decline of public transit in the United States: municipal austerity policies that denied most transit agencies the funding to sustain high-quality service; the encouragement of auto-centric planning; and white flight from dense city centers to far-flung suburbs. As Bloom makes clear, these local public policy decisions were not the product of a nefarious auto industry or any other grand conspiracy—all were widely supported by voters, who effectively shut out options for transit-friendly futures. With this book, Bloom seeks not only to dispel our accepted transit myths but hopefully to lay new tracks for today’s conversations about public transportation funding.

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  Logos From Planet Blip - An...

  Claire L. Evans, Jona Bechtolt

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  This comprehensive design sourcebook provides a behind-the-scenes peek into the making of the Panic-produced video game Blippo+. Every logo and graphic element used in the game is reproduced faithfully, alongside notes from Blippo+ writer Claire L. Evans about the wide-ranging references that inspired the visual world of Planet Blip. 
  With never-before-seen designs for graphics that didn't make the final cut, technical details, iterations of familiar logos, anecdotes about the history of broadcast television, and tidbits of Blippian lore, this is a concise and vital reference for any serious Blippohead.

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