Charles R. Knight

Charles R. Knight
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Publisher : Harry N. Abrams
Total Pages : 0
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ISBN-10 : 0810984792
ISBN-13 : 9780810984790
Rating : 4/5 (92 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Charles R. Knight by : Richard Milner

Download or read book Charles R. Knight written by Richard Milner and published by Harry N. Abrams. This book was released on 2012-03-01 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes the life of the famous wildlife artist, known for his groundbreaking images of dinosaurs and other prehistoric creatures, and includes insights on his scientifically accurate restorations and excerpts from his personal papers.

Charles R. Knight

Charles R. Knight
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Publisher : G.T. Labs
Total Pages : 129
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ISBN-10 : 9780966010688
ISBN-13 : 096601068X
Rating : 4/5 (88 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Charles R. Knight by : Charles Robert Knight

Download or read book Charles R. Knight written by Charles Robert Knight and published by G.T. Labs. This book was released on 2005 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book opens with a foreword by special effects pioneer Ray Harryhausen (The 7th Voyage of Sinbad) and a biographical essay on Knight by William Stout (The New Dinosaurs). The autobiographical pieces feature illustrations by Mark Schultz (Xenozoic Tales). To round out the volume, it closes with memories from his granddaughter Rhoda Knight Kalt and appreciations from prominent names in the arts and sciences, from Ray Bradbury to Ian Tattersall. Though Knight once said "No one interests me less than Charles Knight," find out why artists such as Frank Frazetta, Mark Hallett, Doug Henderson, Joe Kubert, Al Williamson, and Bernie Wrightson have said that no one interests them more

Animal Drawing

Animal Drawing
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Publisher : Courier Corporation
Total Pages : 130
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ISBN-10 : 9780486318738
ISBN-13 : 0486318737
Rating : 4/5 (38 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Animal Drawing by : Charles Knight

Download or read book Animal Drawing written by Charles Knight and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2013-04-09 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A master of animal portraiture presents an extensive course in creating lifelike drawings of wild and domestic creatures. Subjects include animal musculature, bone structure, psychology, movements, habits, and habitats. 123 illustrations.

Dinosaurs, Mammoths, and Cavemen

Dinosaurs, Mammoths, and Cavemen
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Publisher : Dutton Adult
Total Pages : 136
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ISBN-10 : UCSD:31822001956671
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Rating : 4/5 (71 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Dinosaurs, Mammoths, and Cavemen by : Sylvia Massey Czerkas

Download or read book Dinosaurs, Mammoths, and Cavemen written by Sylvia Massey Czerkas and published by Dutton Adult. This book was released on 1982 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Life Through the Ages

Life Through the Ages
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Publisher : Indiana University Press
Total Pages : 102
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ISBN-10 : 9780253339287
ISBN-13 : 0253339286
Rating : 4/5 (87 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Life Through the Ages by : Charles Robert Knight

Download or read book Life Through the Ages written by Charles Robert Knight and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new edition of a classic first book about the life of the past

Valley Thunder

Valley Thunder
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Publisher : Savas Beatie
Total Pages : 326
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ISBN-10 : 9781611210545
ISBN-13 : 1611210542
Rating : 4/5 (45 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Valley Thunder by : Charles R. Knight

Download or read book Valley Thunder written by Charles R. Knight and published by Savas Beatie. This book was released on 2010-05-10 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An “exciting and informative” account of the Civil War battle that opened the 1864 Shenandoah Valley Campaign, with illustrations included (Lone Star Book Review). Charles Knight’s Valley Thunder is the first full-length account in decades to examine the combat at New Market on May 15, 1864 that opened the pivotal Shenandoah Valley Campaign. Lt. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant, who set in motion the wide-ranging operation to subjugate the South in 1864, intended to attack on multiple fronts so the Confederacy could no longer “take advantage of interior lines.” A key to success in the Eastern Theater was control of the Shenandoah Valley, an agriculturally abundant region that helped feed Gen. Robert E. Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia. Grant tasked Maj. Gen. Franz Sigel, a German immigrant with a mixed fighting record, and a motley collection of units numbering some 10,000 men to clear the Valley and threaten Lee’s left flank. Opposing Sigel was Maj. Gen. (and former US Vice President) John C. Breckinridge, who assembled a scratch command to repulse the Federals. Included in his 4,500-man army were Virginia Military Institute cadets under the direction of Lt. Col. Scott Ship, who’d marched eighty miles in four days to fight Sigel. When the armies faced off at New Market, Breckinridge told the cadets, “Gentlemen, I trust I will not need your services today; but if I do, I know you will do your duty.” The sharp fighting seesawed back and forth during a drenching rainstorm, and wasn’t concluded until the cadets were inserted into the battle line to repulse a Federal attack and launch one of their own. The Union forces were driven from the Valley, but would return, reinforced and under new leadership, within a month. Before being repulsed, they would march over the field at New Market and capture Staunton, burn VMI in Lexington (partly in retaliation for the cadets’ participation at New Market), and very nearly capture Lynchburg. Operations in the Valley on a much larger scale that summer would permanently sweep the Confederates from the “Bread Basket of the Confederacy.” Valley Thunder is based on years of primary research and a firsthand appreciation of the battlefield terrain. Knight’s objective approach includes a detailed examination of the complex prelude leading up to the battle, and his entertaining prose introduces soldiers, civilians, and politicians who found themselves swept up in one of the war’s most gripping engagements.

Charles Knight

Charles Knight
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Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 252
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ISBN-10 : 9781351161909
ISBN-13 : 1351161903
Rating : 4/5 (09 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Charles Knight by : Valerie Gray

Download or read book Charles Knight written by Valerie Gray and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-11-30 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Charles Knight: Educator, Publisher, Writer is the first modern book-length study of this important nineteenth-century educational reformer, author, and publisher. Though he made significant contributions during his lifetime to the cause of popular education, providing inexpensive but quality reading material for the newly literate working classes, Knight has been largely ignored by scholars. This neglect, the author suggests, may be related to Knight's association with the controversial Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge and to the use scholars make of Knight's Penny Magazine and his two volumes on political economy to support their arguments on theories of social control and other issues. The author argues that Knight's reputation has suffered as a result. She reexamines the evidence to offer fresh assessments of Knight's life and work that illuminate his genuine achievements. She concludes with an evaluation of Knight's role as an innovative publisher who used the latest techniques to provide the emerging mass readership with unique combinations of text and image in his many 'pictorial' books and periodicals.