Books with author David Antram

David Abram’s first book, The Spell of the Sensuous—hailed as “revolutionary” by the Los Angeles Times, as “daring and truly original” by Science—has become a classic of environmental literature. Now Abram returns with a startling exploration of our human entanglement with the rest of nature. As the climate veers toward catastrophe, the innumerable losses cascading through the biosphere make vividly evident the need for a metamorphosis in our relation to the living land. For too long we’ve inured ourselves to the wild intelligence of our muscled flesh, taking our primary truths from technologies that hold the living world at a distance. This book subverts that distance, drawing readers ever deeper into their animal senses in order to explore, from within, the elemental kinship between the body and the breathing Earth. The shapeshifting of ravens, the erotic nature of gravity, the eloquence of thunder, the pleasures of being edible: all have their place in Abram’s investigation. He shows that from the awakened perspective of the human animal, awareness (or mind) is not an exclusive possession of our species but a lucid quality of the biosphere itself—a quality in which we, along with the oaks and the spiders, steadily participate. With the audacity of its vision and the luminosity of its prose, Becoming Animal sets a new benchmark for the human appraisal of our place in the whole.

These books offer artists the animal and pet models that can help a new artist become a strong manga cartoonist. With discussion that ranges from pencil and materials to shading, layering and perspective, these are high interest subjects that strongly support the discovery routines of STEAM enviroments, will supporting the reader with projects of progressive complexity.

As an ancient Egyptian, your body is being prepared for the afterlife. But it's fairly disgusting business, and you can't be sure that you will always be treated with respect. This title in the popular You Wouldn't Want to Be series features full-colour illustrations which combine humour and accurate technical detail. Featuring brand new extra content including a timeline, fun facts a list of 'top' characters and a map.

Few readers haven’t imagined themselves the king or queen of a fantastic castle with great turrets and a forbidding moat. This imaginative volume introduces readers to drawing basics. Once armed with these essential techniques they are taught how to use them to design the castle of their dreams. Using the step-by-step instruction readers will learn to create an underwater castle, an ice castle, and many other wonderful castles.

From the grace of a free-falling skydiver to the skillful tricks of a wake boarder on the water, some of the most extreme sports provide some fun-to-draw imagery. Using the fundamental techniques introduced in this volume, young artists will learn to draw their favorite extreme sports. Drawing materials, perspective, and observation are all covered in clear, step-by-step instructions. Skateboarding, skydiving, and wakeboarding, and many other exciting sports are all broken down into easy-to-follow steps.