Master the art of drawing the figure. Drawing from life has been an important source of expression and satisfaction for artists through the ages. Robert Barrett, master fine artist, instructor and university professor, re-creates his studio class on the pages of this book. Inside, you'll find a comp[...]

Drawing people is more than just accurately capturing the anatomy and details of the subject. Artists that capture the soul of the model breath life into the artwork by expressing a mood, idea, or emotion, that cannot be captured by accurate rendering alone."Life Drawing" will give the reader all th[...]

"Aurora Leigh" (1856), Elizabeth Barrett Browning's epic novel in blank verse, tells the story of the making of a woman poet, exploring 'the woman question', art and its relation to politics and social oppression. The texts in this selection are based in the main on the earliest printed versions of [...]

SSH is a popular protocol for securing your network connections. It's reliable, robust, and reasonably easy to use, and both free and commercial implementations are widely available for most operating systems. Everything you want to know about SSH is in our updated second edition of 'SSH, the Secure[...]