Book 1 of the Passion Trilogy: The story of the love that grows between an agent in the court of King George II and a Cherokee Princess who would paint herself as a warrior and run through the wilds of a savage country to save the life of the man she has chosen.

Inspired by the sheer rawness of the west, Isabella Bird paints a vivid verbal scenery of the joys and hardships she encountered during her travels through the Rocky Mountains. Her descriptions of the land, the air, and the sounds of the wilds are utterly factual, yet ravishing. The mesmerizing letters to her sister relate unpredictable anecdotes of eating nothing but raisins for fourteen hours, and of a blond-ringlet, one-eyed desperado suitor called “Rocky Mountain Jim.” While she doesn’t paint a rosy picture of everyone and everything, she nonetheless celebrates Colorado in its purest and most powerful state.

George Catlin traveled the North American continent from 1830-1838 to chronicle the people, customs and traditions of Native American tribes. His life's ambition was to record the disappearing Native American culture in paint and print. He attempted to share his knowledge with Europeans in an eight-year tour of England, France and Belgium. This second volume continues to chronicle his adventures in Europe.

Nothing has ever gone right in Stanley Brumburger?s eight years of life. Paint falls on his head at school, the bullies on the bus take his glasses, and he doesn't have any friends. Then Stanley's neighbor gives him a stone. A magic stone. And he becomes Kid Cool. Suddenly, the other kids like him! He's not having accidents or making silly mistakes. He even has the self-confidence to become the first third-grader to climb the rope to the top of the gym! Everything is perfect until Stanley starts working on a science project about rocks - and he drops his magic stone. The pile of hundreds of look-alike stones swallows it up. Can he still be Kid Cool without it?

Dylan Landis has an inside track with the decorating pros. Elegant and Easy Rooms will tell you their opinions on everything from how to arrange furniture in comfortable and imaginative ways to how to choose a color to create a certain mood or period (in the 1940's a particular shade of yellow was the most popular). The chapters include: Paint and Color, Walls, Windows, ...

In My Name is Asher Lev, Chaim Potok creates the original, deeply moving story of Asher Lev, the religious boy with an overwhelming need to draw, to paint, to render the world he knows and the pain he feels, on canvas for everyone to see.

* Published in conjunction with the next version of Paint Shop Pro software, this easy-to-use reference shows how to edit photos and create high-quality, professional-looking graphics * Covers how to capture images from a variety of different media-paper, camera, and screen * More advanced topics include retouching, adjusting colors, creating artistic effects, adding layers of text and shapes, masking layers, and creating Web images * A sixteen-page color insert features before-and-after image edits and graphics highlighting the visual effects that people can achieve

Nearly seven million individuals in the U.S. currently maintain their own Web sites, and family sites are becoming an increasingly popular way to share family photos, news, and history Includes step-by-step instructions and templates for a variety of family site projects, including sites focused on new babies, weddings, family reunions and other get-togethers, kids’ hobbies and activities, and genealogical history The CD-ROM is loaded with pre-designed Web site templates and trial versions of popular software programs, including Photoshop Elements, Dreamweaver, Paint Shop Pro, and Family Tree Maker

In the worst case of treason in U.S. history, General William Morrison has been charged with a breathtaking array of crimes. Oddsmakers give Sean Drummond zero chance of saving his client from a death sentence. However, his obligation runs deeper than simply professional: Morrison's wife, a CIA executive, has begged Sean to save her husband, and Drummond doesn't want to disappoint his old flame. Despite ever-more-damning intelligence leaks that paint Morrison worse than Benedict Arnold, Drummond bulls ahead and soon discovers that this simple case of turncoat is actually a chess game being played at the highest levels by the best and brightest-and in which Morrison is merely a pawn. Now, Drummond must defeat the most adept player of all-a man called the Kingmaker, the force behind every Russian leader of the past three decades-or he'll find himself caught in a deadly checkmate.

This volume represents an approach to the analysis of glass and paint as they occur as trace evidence in forensic cases. Each chapter is written by an expert in their particular area.

Caroline Mytinger, a portrait painter and anthropology enthusiast, traveled among the Solomon Islands for two years just before WWII with her friend Margaret Warner, who could make music with anything. Their aim was to paint portraits of the different types of people inhabiting these islands. They left the United States with little equipment, less money, and no support, planning to pay their way as they went by painting portraits. This book is the story of that journey, a hilarious and often uncomfortable epic of infections, alligators, fevers, bad weather, restless models, and their obsession with eating shredded coconut.