The Art of Discworld confirms that the Librarian was indeed Dr. Horace Worblehat, and that his fears of turning back into human are baseless at most.

While no detailed description of his physical appearance shows up in any of the Discworld novels, Pratchett says in the companion work, The Art of Discworld, that he has always imagined Vimes as a younger, slightly bulkier version of British actor Pete Postlethwaite.

In The Art of Discworld, Pratchett explains that Vimes protects himself from the Beast with the symbol of his own badge, which prevents him from becoming the criminal he despises, at least in his own mind.

As the series progresses, she also begins to take on roles educating children, so that, as Pratchett mentions in The Art of Discworld, she has " ended up, via that unconscious evolution that dogs characters, a kind of Goth Mary Poppins ".

In The Art of Discworld, Paul Kidby draws Susan in Edwardian clothing, which he feels fits well with her job as a nanny in Hogfather.

In The Art of Discworld, Pratchett describes Susan as " rather chilly ", and Susan herself admits in Thief of Time that she finds it difficult to relate to other humans on a personal level because the supernatural parts of her mind tend to view mortal creatures as nothing more than " a temporary collection of atoms that not be around in another few decades ".

In The Art of Discworld, Pratchett identifies The Little Grey Men and Down the Bright Stream, both by " BB ", the nom-de-plume of Denys Watkins-Pitchford, as possible inspiration, featuring faries that could talk to animals, but " there was nothing tinkly about them ; they lived in a world of dangers.

In The Art of Discworld, cover artist Paul Kidby acknowledged Connolly as the inspiration for Yan's look.

In the Discworld Companion, Pratchett describes Wee Mad Arthur, an Ankh Morpork gnome, as an urbanised Nac Mac Feegle, ( however, he is later revealed to be a Feegle ( see above )) and Paul Kidby's illustration of Buggy Swires in The Art of Discworld is indistinguishable from the pictsies on the cover of The Wee Free Men.

In The Art of Discworld, Pratchett says, " I've always suspected that Nanny is, deep down, the most powerful of the witches and part of her charm lies in the way she prevents people from finding this out.

In the " Art of Discworld ," Terry Pratchett notes that he has always believed that Nanny Ogg is the most powerful of the witches, but that she is far too clever to let it be known.

In The Art of Discworld, Pratchett mentions a fossil species of Mesozoic ginkgo known as Ginkgoites nannyoggiae.

In The Discworld Companion, Pratchett claimed that Foul Ol Ron and his Canting Crew were listed as a special Guild classification all their own, having previously referred to Ron as " a Mutterer in good standing " in Men at Arms ; however, in The Art of Discworld and later novels he claims that they are not members of the Guild, which has too many rules for their tastes.

As Terry Pratchett notes in The Art of Discworld, humour, as a profession, is hard, and nowhere is it harder than in the Fools ' Guild.

The portfolio was published in 1996 and followed in 2004 by The Art of Discworld.

Terry Pratchett even says in The Art of Discworld that he has received a number of letters from terminally ill fans in which they hope that Death will resemble the Discworld incarnation ( he also says that those particular letters usually cause him to spend some time staring at the wall ).

In The Art of Discworld, Pratchett explains that " the wizards invented something sufficiently computer-like that computerness entered into it.

In The Art of Discworld Pratchett says that Carrot has a bright future ahead of him, " should Lord Vetinari not survive the next assassination attempt.

Pratchett describes the Assassins ' Guild in The Art of Discworld as a typical British public school with the knobs turned up to eleven.

a `` Double-Figure '', which went to the Chicago Art Institute, and is considered by him the most successful of his abstracts ; ;

The party is to raise money for the Old Town Art center and to plant more crabapple trees along the streets of Old Town.

Made of gold-plated britannium on a black metal base, it is 13. 5 in ( 34 cm ) tall, weighs 8. 5 lb ( 3. 85 kg ) and depicts a knight rendered in Art Deco style holding a crusader's sword standing on a reel of film with five spokes.

Art is a term that describes a diverse range of human activities and the products of those activities, but here refers to the visual arts, which cover the creation of images or objects in fields including painting, sculpture, printmaking, photography, and other visual media.

* Salvatore Iro, artist, author of Manifesto Art is ... Shit, a collection of works conceived to decrypt the language of modern and contemporary art, in 2012 creates the artwork Ceci est une pomme, marked by the subheading: " non aristotelian obviousness ".

Baroque Art is less complex, more realistic and more emotionally affecting than Mannerism.

* Atomic Dog, a song that is popular world wide ; written and performed by Our Father Who Art of Funk ; " George Clinton " from Parliament and the Funkadelics

One of Alan ’ s most popular and widely distributed works is his manual on preaching, Ars Praedicandi, or The Art of Preaching.

* 1870 – The New York City Metropolitan Museum of Art is founded.

He is generally regarded as the author of the Rhetoric to Alexander, an Art of Rhetoric included in the traditional corpus of Aristotle's works.

Andreas Capellanus ( Capellanus meaning " chaplain ") was the 12th-century author of a treatise commonly known as De amore (" About Love "), and often known in English, somewhat misleadingly, as The Art of Courtly Love, though its realistic, somewhat cynical tone suggests that it is in some measure an antidote to courtly love.

Art is the first stage in which the absolute spirit is manifest immediately to sense-perception, and is thus an objective rather than subjective revelation of beauty.

Art is an autonomous entity for philosophy, because art deals with the senses ( i. e. the etymology of aesthetics ) and art is as such free of any moral or political purpose.

A further approach, elaborated by André Malraux in works such as The Voices of Silence, is that art is fundamentally a response to a metaphysical question (' Art ', he writes, ' is an ' anti-destiny ').

Tolstoy defined art ( and by no coincidence also characterized its value ) as the following: " Art is a human activity consisting in this, that one man consciously, by means of certain external signs, hands on to others feelings he has lived through, and that other people are infected by these feelings and also experience them.

Art is politics by other means.

Art clearly does have spiritual goals in many contexts, but what exactly is the difference between religious art and religion per se?

Art is set aside from ordinary life and made a dramatic focus of experience.

This is described by Donald E. Knuth and can be referenced from here The Art of Computer Programming.

The development of this department at the British Museum moved the focus for the development of conservation from Germany to Britain, and in 1956 Plenderleith wrote a significant handbook called The Conservation of Antiquities and Works of Art, it was this book rather than Rathgen's that is commonly seen as the major source for the development of conservation as we know it today.

Baldessari critiques formalist assessments of art in a segment from his video How We Do Art Now ( 1973 ), entitled " Examining Three 8d Nails ", in which he gives obsessive attention to minute details of the nails, such as how much rust they have, or descriptive qualities such as which appears " cooler, more distant, less important " than the others.

To learn technical military terms, Lincoln borrowed and studied Henry Halleck's book, Elements of Military Art and Science from the Library of Congress.

Rudolph Grey's book Nightmare of Ecstasy: The Life and Art of Edward D. Wood Jr. contains anecdotes regarding the making of this film.

* The story of Carmilla is illustrated using old antique etchings by Tiffini Elektra X in the book In This House: A Collection of Altered Art Imagery and Collage Techniques.

Sun Tzu's influential book The Art of War ( first appearance dated in between 500 BC to 300 BC ) refers in chapter V to the traits and in XII to the use of crossbows.

In the 1903 book titled The Art of Cross-Examination by Francis L. Wellmann much effort is devoted to highlighting components of cross-examination and the impact on trials of the past century.

* The The Nine Chapters on the Mathematical Art, a mathematics Chinese book composed by several generations scholars of Han Dynasty.

* The Fine Art of Mixing Drinks – A classic cocktail book

He had initially accepted a commission to write a book on compilers which would later become the multi-volume The Art of Computer Programming.

In 1500, German alchemist Hieronymus Braunschweig published Liber de arte destillandi ( The Book of the Art of Distillation ) the first book solely dedicated to the subject of distillation, followed in 1512 by a much expanded version.

* The Art of Unix Usability, the book about programming and user interface philosophy in UNIX

Some scholars believe that, because the only evidence for the " courts of love " is Andreas Capellanus ’ s book The Art of Courtly Love, they probably never existed ; to further strengthen their argument, they say that there is also no evidence that Marie ever stayed with her mother in Poitiers, beyond her name being mentioned in Andreas ’ s work.

Woodcut print of a kite from John Bate's 1635 book, The Mysteryes of Nature and Art in which the kite is titled How to make fire Drakes.

In 2009 graffiti artist " Scape " published " GRAFF ; the Art & Technique of Graffiti ", the world's first book dedicated to displaying the full techniques of creating graffiti art.

A later book also claiming to have been written by Solomon was originally written in Greek during the 15th century, where it was known as the Magical Treatise of Solomon or the Little Key of the Whole Art of Hygromancy, Found by Several Craftmen and by the Holy Prophet Solomon.

Within the book, the statement of divine immanence verbalized between the main characters, " Thou Art God ", is logically derived from the concept inherent in the term grok.

Dewey's most significant writings were " The Reflex Arc Concept in Psychology " ( 1896 ), a critique of a standard psychological concept and the basis of all his further work ; Democracy and Education ( 1916 ), his celebrated work on progressive education ; Human Nature and Conduct ( 1922 ), a study of the function of habit in human behavior ; The Public and its Problems ( 1927 ), a defense of democracy written in response to Walter Lippmann's The Phantom Public ( 1925 ); Experience and Nature ( 1925 ), Dewey's most " metaphysical " statement ; Art as Experience ( 1934 ), Dewey's major work on aesthetics ; A Common Faith ( 1934 ), a humanistic study of religion originally delivered as the Dwight H. Terry Lectureship at Yale ; Logic: The Theory of Inquiry ( 1938 ), a statement of Dewey's unusual conception of logic ; Freedom and Culture ( 1939 ), a political work examining the roots of fascism ; and Knowing and the Known ( 1949 ), a book written in conjunction with Arthur F. Bentley that systematically outlines the concept of trans-action, which is central to his other works.

When Maroger's book became available, Reginald Marsh drew on Maroger's book-jacket an airplane dropping an atomic bomb on the Maryland Art Institute, a reference to the controversy Maroger was causing in the local press over the abstract art versus realism debate.

Jaynes later expanded on the ideas in his book in a series of commentaries in the journal Behavioral and Brain Sciences, in lectures and discussions published in Canadian Psychology, and in Art / World.

* Interview with Peter Maresca ( editor of So Many Splendid Sundays ) and Art Spiegelman from the KCRW radio show Bookworm-excerpt from the book

** Thou Art That ( book ).

Written by Chinese general Sun Tzu in the 6th century BC, The Art of War is a military strategy book that, for managerial purposes, recommends being aware of and acting on strengths and weaknesses of both a manager's organization and a foe's.

His book The Amazing Book of Mazes ( 2006 ) contains examples and photographs of numerous methods of maze construction, several of which have been pioneered by Fisher ; The Art of the Maze ( Weidenfeld and Nicholson, 1990 ) contains a substantial history of the subject, whilst Mazes and Labyrinths ( Shire Publications, 2004 ) is a useful introduction to the subject.

Hufeland, a German physician, in his book The Art of Prolonging Human Life ( 1797 ), first used the word " macrobiotics " in the context of food and health.

In their book The Art of Woo, G. Richard Shell and Mario Moussa present a four-step approach to strategic persuasion.