New Releases by Diana Fisher

A how-to-draw book with spaceships, robots, alien creatures and more outer space drawing subjects, in easy-to-understand steps, for age 4 and up. Includes "starter drawings" of partially drawn subjects so every child at any skill level can complete a beautiful picture. Builds confidence and self-esteem. With surprise activities, fun facts, and more. By veteran children''s how-to-draw expert, Diana Fisher.

A how-to-draw book with super-cute sea creatures and more ocean drawing subjects, in easy-to-understand steps, for age 4 and up. Includes "starter drawings" of partially drawn subjects so every child at any skill level can complete a beautiful picture. Builds confidence and self-esteem. With surprise activities, fun facts, and more. By veteran children''s how-to-draw expert, Diana Fisher.

A curated juxtaposition of the photography of Asako Shimazaki and the writing of Diana Fisher.

A how-to-draw book with friendly monsters, super cute, drawing subjects in easy-to-understand steps, for age 4 and up. Includes "starter drawings" of partially drawn subjects so every child at any skill level can complete a beautiful picture. Builds confidence and self-esteem. With surprise activities, fun facts, and more. By veteran children''s how-to-draw expert, Diana Fisher.

A how-to-draw book with princess, mermaid, and fairy world drawing subjects in easy-to-understand steps, for age 4 and up. Includes "starter drawings" of partially drawn subjects so every child at any skill level can complete a beautiful picture. Builds confidence and self-esteem. With surprise activities, fun facts, and more. By veteran children''s how-to-draw expert, Diana Fisher.

Drawing is the cat’s meow! With the easy step-by-step instructions and full-color illustrations, any cat lover can learn to draw 20 different lifelike kitties of all shapes and sizes. As kids follow along with the clear illustrations, they’ll learn to develop their drawings from basic shapes to finished masterpieces. And fun facts about the featured breeds add extra entertainment value. The step-by-step projects showcase 20 popular cat breeds, including: Persian Egyptian Mau British Shorthair Maine Coon Ragdoll Russian Blue American Curl Norwegian Forest Siamese Sphynx With How to Draw Cats & Kittens, kids will be drawing their own cattery full of cats and kittens in no time at all!

Learn the secrets to drawing realistic dogs and puppies through step-by-step projects, focusing on techniques specific to drawing canines, from creating a variety of fur types and features to achieving accurate proportions. Facts and trivia add to the fun and learning along the way. â??How to Draw Dogs & Puppies is perfect for beginning artists who want to draw their best friends—the ones with four paws and fur, that is! The step-by-step projects showcase 20 popular dog breeds, including: Golden Retriever Pug Pomeranian Dachshund Beagle Siberian Husky German Shepherd Great Dane Chihuahua And more beautiful dogs and puppies! Beginning with a basic shape, young artists proceed step by step to a final piece of color artwork. Following the simple prompts, children will make beautiful renderings of their favorite canines; and with the featured fun facts, have more things to love about them!

With How to Draw Zoo Animals, young artists learn to bring their favorite creatures to life, guided by realistic illustrations and step-by-step instructions for 20 different animals found at the zoo. Now anyone can learn to draw realistic animals! Simple step-by-step instructions make it fun and easy to draw a lifelike animals, including: Panda bear Giraffe Elephant Tiger Cheetah Toucan Hippopotamus Kangaroo Orangutan Zebra and more! Each drawing lesson begins with a basic shape and progresses, step by step, to a finished piece of artwork, making it easy to follow along. Trivia, fun facts, and the conservation status for each animal provide inspiration and additional learning opportunities. Just start with basic shapes and follow the illustrated examples—you''ll be creating your own amazing masterpieces in no time at all.

Eighty percent of the ex-pats in Taiwan were Canadian. Most of them were there to teach English and to pay off their student loans. Among them was a 35-year-old mother of three, trying to start a new life, on the other side of the world. This is her story.

Emmerson Cogwell never knew true love until she moved in with the Hucks. Jackson Huck was nothing like her real father, who abused her. She went from hiding snacks in a wall to having a home cooked meal on the table every night, and she slowly learned what it meant to have a family; a true family. All because of one man, one horse, and a guy whom she was supposed to consider a brother. But she didn''t. Paul had always been more than a brother, and he would always hold her heart. But the journey to officially give it to him was a long, painful one filled with tears, heartbreak, and the struggle to let him go when she needed to.

Written by artists of national profile, this book provides an insiders guide to good tools, and tricks along with best practice techniques. Step by step "proofs".

Purr-fect for kitty-crazy kids, this meow-velous new activity kit is chock-full of fun! Inside the cute take-along case, there''s an activity book filled with color photos of all kinds of cats, as well as plenty of art supplies ? including a drawing pad, markers, and self-inking stamp ? to help kids learn to draw their favorite feline friends. A cat figurine, door hanger, stickers, poster, bookmark and an I Love Cats diary add up to even more fun. It''s like catnip for feline fanciers!

Easy instructions for creating one-of-a-kind, hand-painted greeting cards "Banzai!" is a Japanese word commonly used in toasts and cheers-and this unique kit includes everything needed to make 10 Japanese-themed note cards for any occasion! Designed for artists and non-artists alike, the 48-page instruction book begins with simple watercolor techniques that anybody easily can accomplish, including flat and wet-into-wet washes, sponging, wax resist, and salt effects. Author/artist Diana Fisher then presents two different design options for each subject, offering readers the opportunity to either replicate one of her ideas or mix and match techniques to create their own original designs. Diana also includes practical information on hand lettering and calligraphy for writing personalized messages with style. This complete kit comes with everything needed to make 10 hand-painted greeting cards. And to ensure success, the greeting cards are preprinted with black outlines of the subjects. Banzai! features five whimsical Japanese icons: Maneki Neko (the happy lucky cat), sushi, koi fish, paper lanterns, and a kimono.

This book provides a set of materials that enables educators at the secondary and college levels to teach a one-semester or one-year course in System Dynamics modeling. These materials are also useful for trainers in a business environment. Developed for beginning modelers, the lessons contained in this book and accompanying CD can be used for a core curriculum or for independent study. The package also includes STELLA® Systems Thinking software from isee systems. Using STELLA, students are actively engaged in the creation of visual models to study and explore a wide variety of problems where the study of the behavior of dynamic systems is the focus.

Despite considerable efforts to decrease the impact of the environment on the health of American Indians and Alaska Natives, many health problems attributed to environmental factors continue to pose significant challenges for many tribal communities. The challenges in particular point to the need for environmental protection policies, especially agricultural communities where high and persistent uses of pesticides have bearing on human health conditions. Although there is a need for tribal environmental health policies, research on tribal leaderships'' interpretations and the implications the interpretations have for constructing environmental health policies are minimal. For example, understanding how one tribe defines environmental health is central to how they construct and develop environmental protection laws aimed at protecting the environment and human health. This qualitative research study took place in a rural agricultural Indian community on the Colorado River Indian Reservation in Parker, Arizona. The qualitative data assessed Tribal Council leader''s interpretations and understanding of how environmental health is defined and understood. The study method employed a semi-structured interview process with selected tribal council members who served a term on tribal council between 1980-2002, especially members who were appointed to specific sub-committees concerned with agricultural activities (i.e. pesticide, agricultural, and farm board). The rationale for conducting qualitative interviews was to determine and ascertain how environmental health has been defined and understood over the past 22 years when these tribal leaders constructing, developing, and implemented various environmental protection laws. Other forms of data acquisition was through relevant public records from Tribal Council and special committee meeting minutes that centered on developing environmental health policy. The central aim of this research was to recognize and comprehend the level of understanding, and consideration employed by tribal leaders as they defined environmental health for their agricultural Indian community. By examining and presenting the core values and interpretations of environmental health policy of the Colorado River Indian Tribes, other tribes may learn from this as they formulate and develop appropriate environmental health policies aimed at protecting their environments, human health, cultural beliefs and practices and become more accountable and responsible to their allegiance to their communities.

- Books are written and illustrated by professional artists- Each provides instructions for artists aspiring to reach a new level of expertise- Series covers a wide array of art subjects and techniques

This volume introduces a wide range of painting techniques and guides you, step-by-step, through 12 projects. It offers tips and shortcuts, detailed painting and baking instructions, and photo demonstrations to ensure that your adventures in glass painting are successful and enjoyable.

Designed to inspire creativity, these titles allow kids to experience their subjects in 3D! Each book comes complete with all the materials needed to create and color press-out paper fun. Contains lots of cool materials to create cards for birthdays, holidays, or any occasion!

Designed to inspire creativity, these titles allow kids to experience their subjects in 3D! Each book comes complete with all the materials needed to create and color press-out paper fun. Comes with markers and an assortment of designs for making cards and decorations.

One of the best ways to remember a new word is to draw a picture of it! That''s the idea behind this fun-filled activity book.! Inside you''ll discover more than 100 words that you can draw and color. Each word has a brief definition and a simple illustration to copy. There''s even space to add your own words and pictures to create a dictionary. The six color markers that come with this book are safe and nontoxic.

Provides detailed instructions for advanced programming using the BASIC language particularly with the APPLE II+, PET, TRS-80, and IBM-PC computers.