The Illustration Idea Book: Inspiration from 50 Masters
By: Steven Heller
3.63
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
This book serves as an introduction to the key elements of good illustration. The Illustration Ide…
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1. Pen and Ink Drawing: A Simple Guide
By: Alphonso Dunn
4.52
Format: 166 pages, Paperback
Pen & Ink Drawing: A Simple Guide covers the essential aspects of pen and ink drawing and more. It … read more
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"It's not what you look at that matters, It's what you see"-Alphonso Dunn, Pen and Ink Drawing: A Simple Guide
"It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see" ~Someone who had great insight"-Alphonso Dunn, Pen and Ink Drawing: A Simple Guide
2. Invisible Man
By: Ralph Ellison
3.91
Format: 581 pages, Paperback
First published in 1952 and immediately hailed as a masterpiece, Invisible Man is one of those rare… read more
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"When I discover who I am, I’ll be free."-Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man
"You're very insistent, but I'm very busy."-Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man
"I could hardly get to sleep for dreaming of revenge."-Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man
"They could laugh at him but they couldn't ignore him"-Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man
3. Illustrating Children's Books: Creating Pictures for Publication
By: Martin Salisbury
1.50
Format: None pages, Hardcover
The successful book illustrator starts by understanding his author's flight of fancy, then renderin… read more
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4. The Artist's Way
By: Julia Cameron
4.23
Format: None pages, Paperback
The Artist's Wayis the seminal book on the subject of creativity. An international bestseller, mill… read more
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5. Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative
By: Austin Kleon
3.97
Format: 250 pages, Paperback
You don't need to be a genius, you just need to be yourself. That's the message from Austin Kleon, … read more
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6. Layout Essentials: 100 Design Principles for Using Grids
By: None
4.33
Format: 306 pages, Hardcover
Adhering to certain layout and grids standards and principles is important for any job from brochur… read more
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7. Just My Type: A Book About Fonts
By: Simon Garfield
3.89
Format: 440 pages,
What's your type? Suddenly everyone's obsessed with fonts. Whether you're enraged by Ikea's Verdana… read more
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8. Paradise Lost
By: John Milton , John Leonard
3.84
Format: 512 pages, Paperback
John Milton's Paradise Lost is one of the greatest epic poems in the English language. It tells the… read more
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"What hath night to do with sleep?"-John Milton, Paradise Lost
"Solitude sometimes is best society."-John Milton, Paradise Lost
"Awake, arise or be for ever fall’n."-John Milton, Paradise Lost
"Wild above rule or art, enormous bliss."-John Milton, Paradise Lost
9. Simple Passion
By: Annie Ernaux
3.93
Format: 67 pages, Paperback
In her spare, stark style, Annie Ernaux documents the desires and indignities of a human heart ensn… read more
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"I experienced pleasure like a future pain."-Annie Ernaux, Simple Passion
"I do not wish to explain my passion—that would imply that it was a mistake or some disorder I need to justify—I just want to describe it."-Annie Ernaux, Simple Passion
"A partir du mois de septembre l'année dernière, je n'ai plus rien fait d'autre qu'attendre un homme : qu'il me téléphone et qu'il vienne chez moi."-Annie Ernaux, Simple Passion
"Yet it is that surreal, almost non-existent last visit that gives my passion its true meaning, which is precisely to be meaningless, and to have been for two years the most violent and unaccountable …"-Annie Ernaux, Simple Passion
10. Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures
By: Merlin Sheldrake
4.35
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
There is a lifeform so strange and wondrous that it forces us to rethink how life works…Neither pla… read more
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"I have tried to find ways to enjoy the ambiguities that fungi present, but it's not always easy to be comfortable in the space created by open questions. Agoraphobia can set in. It's tempting to hide…"-Merlin Sheldrake, Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures
"Anthropomorphism is usually thought of as an illusion that arises like a blister in soft human minds: untrained, undisciplined, unhardened. There are good reasons for this: when we humanise the world…"-Merlin Sheldrake, Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures
"Fungi make worlds. They also unmake them. There are lots of ways to catch them in the act. When you cook mushroom soup, or just eat it. When you go out gathering mushrooms, or buy them. When you ferm…"-Merlin Sheldrake, Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures
11. Amongst Our Weapons (Rivers of London, #9)
By: Ben Aaronovitch
4.33
Format: 294 pages, Hardcover
Now in hardcover, the ninth book of the bestselling Rivers of London urban fantasy series returns t… read more
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"What makes you think I know?' asked Zach, who, if questioned, would deny his own existence out of sheer habit."-Ben Aaronovitch, Amongst Our Weapons (Rivers of London, #9)
"I saw nothing suspicious—which is unusual. A copper can usually find something suspicious if they look hard enough."-Ben Aaronovitch, Amongst Our Weapons (Rivers of London, #9)
"Always look after your people,' he said as I noted down the order. 'The way you treat them sets an example for the way they treat others."-Ben Aaronovitch, Amongst Our Weapons (Rivers of London, #9)
"Lips too thick and nose too wide–he looked like he’d stepped out of an early Asterix comic. Subconscious racism, I thought–it will fuck you up every time."-Ben Aaronovitch, Amongst Our Weapons (Rivers of London, #9)
12. A Terrible Kindness
By: Jo Browning Wroe
4.30
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
When we go through something impossible, someone, or something, will help us, if we let them . . . … read more
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13. Why Has Nobody Told Me This Before?
By: Julie Smith
3.88
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
Drawing on years of experience as a clinical psychologist, online sensation Dr Julie Smith provides… read more
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"When we focus on trying to fix the problem, it is easy to underestimate the power of simply being there."-Julie Smith, Why Has Nobody Told Me This Before?
"In acceptance, the new reality is still not OK. It is still not as we want it to be. But we begin to take on the new reality, listen to our needs, open up to new experiences and make connections."-Julie Smith, Why Has Nobody Told Me This Before?
14. The Hurting Kind: Poems
By: Ada Limon
4.34
Format: 120 pages, Hardcover
An astonishing collection about interconnectedness—between the human and nonhuman, ancestors and ou… read more
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"There is a solitude in this world I cannot pierce. I would die for it."-Ada Limon, The Hurting Kind: Poems
"Before, the only thing I was interested in was love, how it grips you, how it terrifies you, how it annihilates and resuscitates you. I didn’t know then that it wasn’t even love that I was interested…"-Ada Limon, The Hurting Kind: Poems
15. Strangers on a Train
By: Patricia Highsmith
3.73
Format: 273 pages, Paperback
" Strangers on a Train has lost none of its power to disturb…We will likely be reading Patricia Hig… read more
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"The word “marriage"-Patricia Highsmith, Strangers on a Train
"I know that Southern redhead type,"-Patricia Highsmith, Strangers on a Train
"The train tore along with an angry, irregular rhythm."-Patricia Highsmith, Strangers on a Train
"I like to drink when I travel. It enhances things, don’t you think?"-Patricia Highsmith, Strangers on a Train
16. Art Matters: Because Your Imagination Can Change the World
By: Neil Gaiman
4.30
Format: 101 pages, Kindle Edition
A stunning and timely creative call-to-arms combining four extraordinary written pieces by Neil Gai… read more
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"When things get tough, this is what you should do: make good art."-Neil Gaiman, Art Matters: Because Your Imagination Can Change the World
"Physical books are tough, hard to destroy, bath resistant, solar operated, feel good in your hand: they are good at being books, and there will always be a place for them."-Neil Gaiman, Art Matters: Because Your Imagination Can Change the World
"I love the way words and pictures work together on a page. I have also noticed how when wise words have visuals added to them, they seem to travel further online, like paper aeroplanes catching an up…"-Neil Gaiman, Art Matters: Because Your Imagination Can Change the World
"I decided that I would do my best in future not to write books just for the money. If you didn't get the money, then you didn't have anything. If I did work I was proud of, and I didn't get the money…"-Neil Gaiman, Art Matters: Because Your Imagination Can Change the World
17. The Illustration Idea Book: Inspiration from 50 Masters
By: Steven Heller
3.63
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
This book serves as an introduction to the key elements of good illustration. The Illustration Ide… read more
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