Mythotopia

Author: Vexx
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0593419561
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 97

Book Description
The much-anticipated sequel to Creatopia, from YouTube star and Instagram artist Vexx, featuring dragons, unicorns, and other mythological creatures. Vexx is back with another incredible collection of critters to color, drawn in his signature street-art doodle style. In this book, you will find entirely new line art depicting magical creatures from griffins and mermaids to krakens and yetis. Go crazy with color and ink in the intricate linework paired with bubbly characters, all on single-sided pages for minimum bleed-through. Both relaxing and challenging, this book is sure to inspire your inner artist.

Creatopia

Author: Vexx
Publisher: National Geographic Books
ISBN: 0593330307
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
A creative and mind-blowing coloring book by YouTube and Instagram artist, Vexx Explore your creativity in this incredible collection of critters and creatures, featuring the signature street-art style of popular artist, Vexx. From fierce tigers to serene turtles, there are dozens of pages to get crazy with color--and there are even a few collaboration pages for aspiring artists to doodle-in and share. Fans of adult coloring books will love the combination of intricate line art with bubbly characters, all on single-sided pages. Equal parts relaxing and challenging, this book is perfect for zenning out and inspiring your inner artist.

Personhood and Social Robotics

Author: Raya A Jones
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317600509
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 226

Book Description
An exponentially growing industry, human robot interaction (HRI) research has drawn predominantly upon psychologists’ descriptions of mechanisms of face-to-face dyadic interactions. This book considers how social robotics is beginning unwittingly to confront an impasse that has been a perennial dilemma for psychology, associated with the historical ‘science vs. art’ debate. Raya Jones examines these paradigmatic tensions, and, in tandem, considers ways in which the technology-centred discourse both reflects and impacts upon understanding our relational nature. Chapters in the book explore not only how the technology-centred discourse constructs machines as us, but also how humans feature in this discourse. Focusing on how the social interaction is conceptualised when the human-robot interaction is discussed, this book addresses issues such as the long-term impact on persons and society, authenticity of relationships, and challenges to notions of personhood. By leaving aside terminological issues, Jones attempts to transcend ritual of pitching theories against each other in order to comprehensively analyse terms such as subjectivity, self and personhood and their fluid interplay in the world that we inhabit. Personhood and Social Robotics will be a key text for postgraduate students, researchers and scholars interested in the connection between technology and human psychology, including psychologists, science and technology studies scholars, media studies scholars and humanists. The book will also be of interest to roboticists and HRI researchers, as well as those studying or working in areas of artificial intelligence and interactive technologies more generally.

The Magic Pendant

Author: Tamili
Publisher: Notion Press
ISBN: 1649837593
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 91

Book Description
Two sisters get sucked into a pendant and find themselves in a whole new world! There, they are forced to go on breathtaking adventures to redeem magical items in order to save the world and their skulls! Mysteries and puzzles are one thing while life threatening and magical adventures are another! Magical powers!? Talking animals!? Ice breathing dragons!?Could their lives get any more mystical!? And that's not all, they are in for the biggest twists of their lives! So, will they save the world? Will they make it?

Cities’ Vocabularies and the Sustainable Development of the Silkroads

Author: Stella Kostopoulou
Publisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3031310276
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 365

Book Description
This book discusses how cities’ identities are formed and developed over time and portrays architecture and the arts as the embodiment of the historical, cultural, and economic characteristics of cities. Furthermore, it explores strategies and solutions to preserve the cultural heritage along the Silk Road, representing a compilation of research addressing the economic and social opportunities and challenges related to the development of a more sustainable and responsible approach to tourism development and the preservation of heritage. As such, it covers a wide range of audiences including economists, architects, planners, tourism experts, and decision-makers interested in making use of cities' available resources and features, offering strategies to explore development opportunities through sustainable and responsible tourism along the Silk Road. This book is a culmination of selected research papers from the first version of the International Conference on "Silk Road Sustainable Tourism Development and Cultural Heritage (SRSTDCH)" which was held in 2021 in collaboration with Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, the European Interdisciplinary Silk Road Tourism Centre, Greece and the 5th Edition of the International Conference on “Cities’ Identity Through Architecture and Arts (CITAA)” which was held in 2021 in collaboration with University of Pisa, Italy.

Black Women in Sequence

Author: Deborah Elizabeth Whaley
Publisher: University of Washington Press
ISBN: 0295806117
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 257

Book Description
Black Women in Sequence takes readers on a search for women of African descent in comics subculture. From the 1971 appearance of the Skywald Publications character “the Butterfly” - the first Black female superheroine in a comic book - to contemporary comic books, graphic novels, film, manga, and video gaming, a growing number of Black women are becoming producers, viewers, and subjects of sequential art. As the first detailed investigation of Black women’s participation in comic art, Black Women in Sequence examines the representation, production, and transnational circulation of women of African descent in the sequential art world. In this groundbreaking study, which includes interviews with artists and writers, Deborah Whaley suggests that the treatment of the Black female subject in sequential art says much about the place of people of African descent in national ideology in the United States and abroad. For more information visit the author's website: http://www.deborahelizabethwhaley.com/#!black-women-in-sequence/c65q

Art in Renaissance Italy, 1350-1500

Author: Evelyn S. Welch
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 9780192842794
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 356

Book Description
"Focuses primarliy on the social and historical context in which art was made and used"--Bibliographic essay (p. 326).

World of Flowers

Author: Johanna Basford
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0143133829
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 82

Book Description
A fantastic floral adventure and the latest sensational coloring book from bestselling artist Johanna Basford This book invites you to travel the world and beyond into fantastical realms, discovering exotic blooms and extraordinary plants along the way. From floating gardens of water poppies in South Africa to delicate cosmos in Japan, and from fanciful toadstools to enchanted fairytale gardens, an abundance of fascinating florals awaits, ready for you to bring to life in color. Join “colorist queen” (New York Magazine) Johanna Basford on a dazzling floral adventure of fantasy and imagination, filled with countless new blooms and blossoms to discover. Beautiful and interactive, World of Flowers is a blissful and relaxing at-home activity for people of all ages.

Shedding the Shackles

Author: Lynne Stein
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1789940311
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 193

Book Description
A celebration of female inventiveness and aesthetic sensibility, Shedding the Shackles explores women's craft enterprises, their artisanal excellence, and the positive impact their individual projects have on breaking the poverty cycle. In the first part of the twentieth century, suffering from a legacy inherited from the Victorian era, craft skills, such as weaving, sewing, embroidery, and quilting were regarded largely as women's domestic pastimes, and remained undervalued and marginalised. It has taken several decades for attitudes to change, for the boundaries between 'fine art' and craft to blur, and for textile crafts to be given the same respect and recognition as other media. Featuring artisans and projects from across the globe Shedding the Shackles celebrates their vision and motivation giving a fascinating glimpse into how these craft initiatives have created a sustainable lifestyle, and impacted upon their communities at a deeper level.

Here Be Dragons

Author: Stefan Ekman
Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
ISBN: 081957323X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 297

Book Description
First in-depth study of the use of landscape in fantasy literature