Proving Woman - Female Spirituality and Inquisitional Culture in the Later Middle Ages

Capture the Charm and Tranquility of the Country

Nothing pleases the eye and stirs the senses quite like landscape paintings. Now you can experience the joy and satisfaction of painting your own charming country scenes with this complete step-by-step guide.

Inside you'll find 10 start-to-finish painting demonstrations that empower you to paint a range of realistic pastoral scenes, from dancing waterfalls and mountain pines to fragrant fields and rolling farmland.

• Five step-by-step demonstrations in acrylic and five step-by-step demonstrations in oil with a conversion chart for using either medium successfully for any project
• Beginner-friendly introductory chapters that cover the basics of capturing light, value, color and texture
• In-depth guidance for learning how to create dynamic compositions using your own photos and references
• Subjects spanning a variety of seasons and country vistas

Every delicate detail is clearly illustrated with hand-in photographs, so you can achieve complete success with each composition. Whether you're a seasoned painter, or you just want to try your hand at a new subject or medium, Painting Peaceful Country Landscapes is the perfect guide for you. Great painting awaits. Pick up a brush and start today!

For Writing and Grammar Aficionados From All Walks of Life!

The Little Gold Grammar Book is based on a simple but powerful observation: Individuals who develop outstanding grammar skills do so primarily by mastering a limited number of the most important grammar rules, which they use over and over again. What are these recurring rules? The answer to this question is the basis of this book.

Enjoy the benefits of your own self-paced grammar course:
•Grammar: A 100-question quiz focuses on the most useful areas of the “big six” grammar categories – subject-verb agreement, pronoun usage, modification, parallelism, comparisons, and verb tenses.
•Diction: A collection of 50-plus word pairings highlight differences among easily confused word choices. Should we write anyone or any one … who or whom … may be or maybe … toward or towards … different from or different than?
•Idioms: A compilation of 200 idioms provides a convenient review of tricky “grammatical phrases.” Do we write prefer x to y or prefer x over y … in comparison to or in comparison with … regarded as or regarded to be?
•Review: A selection of 30 multiple-choice problems, complete with explanations and author’s notes, integrate key concepts of grammar, diction, idioms, and style.
•Also included are special sections on editing tips and punctuation, American English vs. British English, and traditional writing vs. digital writing.

This book — a winner at the USA Book News Best Book Awards and voted Educational Book of the Year by the BPAA — is suitable for high school, community college, or university students, as well as any individual wanting to improve his or her core essential grammar skills.

Author's bio: Brandon Royal is an award-winning writer whose educational authorship includes The Little Red Writing Book, The Little Red Writing Book Deluxe Edition, The Little Green Math Book, The Little Blue Reasoning Book, and Reasoning with Numbers. During his tenure working in Hong Kong for US-based Kaplan Educational Centers – a Washington Post subsidiary and the largest test-preparation organization in the world – Brandon honed his theories of teaching and education and developed a set of key learning “principles” to help define the basics of writing, grammar, math, and reasoning. A Canadian by birth and graduate of the University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business, his interest in writing began after completing writing courses at Harvard University. Since then he has authored a dozen books and reviews of his books have appeared in Time Asia magazine, Publishers Weekly, Library Journal of America, Midwest Book Review, The Asian Review of Books, Choice Reviews Online, Asia Times Online, and About.com. Brandon is a five-time winner of the International Book Awards, a five-time gold medalist at the President’s Book Awards, as well as a winner of the Global eBook Awards, the USA Book News “Best Book Awards,” and recipient of the 2011 “Educational Book of the Year” award as presented by the Book Publishers Association of Alberta.

“A must-have for anyone wishing to improve her or his writing capabilities. Whether you’re interested in personal achievement, professional advancement, or educational attainment, I highly recommend this book as a permanent addition to your library.”
—Dr. Donald C. Martin, PhD, college admissions expert and former Dean of Enrollment for the Teacher’s College at Columbia University

This story has comedy, adventure and action. ?A New Beginning? is the start of a series of stories about Jenny Dewberry, just an ordinary, thirteen year old girl, who had an ordinary life, until her grandmother, Alinore Grayson passes away. Alinore leaves Jenny an old wooden trunk, which is hidden in a magical attic. The trunk is full of surprises and secrets of the past.

            Jenny Dewberry loves adventure and her grandmother. But when she finds out that her grandmother and Agnes, Allison and Agatha, Alinore?s three sisters, were witches, who had powers beyond imagination; she wondered what she was getting herself into.

The four sisters had a spell cast upon them which stripped them of their powers, forcing them to live out their lives as mortals. Jenny has to break the spell in order to bring white magic back. For her to do this, she must find and collect four magical and important gifts. Once the spell is broken, through Alinore, the oldest of the four sisters, the powers are passed on to Jenny and she is rightfully the sole heir to this wonderful ancestry that has been in the family for centuries. This wakes up a whole new world of people and unlocks the doors to some unwanted and evil ones. Jenny reclaims her grandmother?s magic and becomes one of the most powerful witches known. She is able to continue the lineage of witches and will have wonderful, wild adventures come her way.

Join in on Jenny?s magical adventures of this warm loving story and live the life you have always dreamed of, with her. She will captivate your heart and bring adventure into your life.

            The saga continues in book II, ?A New World, A Jenny Dewberry Series? coming soon. Jenny has to bring her grandmother?s world back to life, after fifty years of being asleep, caused from the spell that had been cast upon the four sisters and fight a conniving, evil witch.