Learning Chinese is notoriously difficult and has long put off even the most linguistically savvy Westerners until now. ShaoLan has used her entrepreneurial and software background to unpick Chinese characters and create a simple system for quickly understanding the basic building blocks of the written language. Working with renowned illustrator Noma Bar, she has developed a unique set of illustrations

It\'s Jake\'s birthday. He is sitting in a small plane, being flown over the landscape that has been the backdrop to his life - his childhood, his marriage, his work, his passions. Now he is in his early sixties, and he isn\'t quite the man he used to be. He has lost his wife, his son is in prison, and he is about to lose his past. Jake has Alzheimer\'s. As the disease takes hold of him, Jake struggles

*The world we knew is gone. The world of commerce and frivolous necessity has been replaced by a world of survival and responsibility. An epidemic of apocalyptic proportions has swept the globe, causing the dead to rise and feed on the living. In a matter of months society has crumbled: no government, no grocery stores, no mail delivery, no cable TV. In a world ruled by the dead, the survivors are

The Language of Graphic Design provides design students and practitioners with an in-depth understanding of the fundamental elements and principles of their language, graphic design: what they are, why they are important, and how to use them effectively. To communicate in a new language, you first have to gain a complete understanding of its fundamentals; the ABC\'s of that language-definitions, functions,

A brilliant way to discover famous characters from Shakespeare\'s plays, with over 160 reusable stickers to dress them for their performances. There are star-crossed lovers, girls disguised as boys, murderers, fools and fairy royalty and quotations to add from the plays, too. Includes internet links to websites to find out more about Shakespeare.

The organization of public space raises many challenges. Its very nature of being on public display makes urbanism one of the fields of architecture that is most open to debate and controversy. Urban spaces should not only strive for a balance betweeen solid and void in the urban fabric, but they must also be highly functional. All architecture stems from the need to offer answers and solutions to

Spinning directly out of X-MEN: SCHISM, the X-Men are split in two. In the oversized debut issue of the new ongoing flagship X-series, Wolverine takes one half of the X-Men back to Westchester to start over again with a new school, a new student body and a lot of surprises up his sleeve. But when the new Hellfire Club decides they don\'t like what the ol\' Canucklehead has started, and decide to burn

\'What guts. What attitude! These are the immortals I wish I\'d learned about at school.\' - Olivia Colman Channel the feminist power of mythical goddesses in this witty, inspirational gift book. Want to break free from what\'s holding you back? Channel the Norse warrior goddess Freyja Feeling stressed? Turn the playful Japanese goddess Uzume for a superheroine superboost Tired of being nice? Meet

Now that the evil Count has been killed and dragged to Hell by the demon lords of the Godhand, Guts, the Black Swordsman, hooks up with his former benefactor, the mercenary Gambino. But it\'s a deadly reunion, one that nearly takes Guts\' life. The following years see Guts wandering from battlefield to battlefield, where his awesome skills as a slayer catch the eye of both warring parties, including

Mikami\'s middle age hasn\'t gone as he planned: He never found a girlfriend, he got stuck in a dead-end job, and he was abruptly stabbed to death in the street at 37. So when he wakes up in a new world straight out of a fantasy RPG, he s disappointed but not exactly surprised to find that he s not a knight or a wizard but a blind slime demon. But there are chances for even a slime to become a her

Hercule Poirot stood on the cliff-top. For here, many years earlier, there had been a tragic accident - the broken body of a woman was discovered on the rocks at the foot of the cliff. This was followed by the grisly discovery of two more bodies a husband and wife shot dead. But who had killed whom? Was it a suicide pact? A crime of passion? Or cold-blooded murder? Poirot delves back into a crime committed

It is a frosty December night in Stockholm. Inside the City Hall, over a thousand guests attend the prestigious Nobel Prizewinners\' dinner. With a lavish meal laid on to the backdrop of a full orchestra, this is one of the city\'s most glamorous events of the year. But things are different tonight. Two shots are fired on the dance floor. Crime reporter Annika Bengtzon is there, covering the event

Cinema has been a fortunate art form. It had the immense good fortune to seduce Orson Welles and Marcel Pagnol away from theatre, Pasolini and Jean Cocteau away from poetry, and Stanley Kubrick away from chess. It was a comparable stroke of luck that Luis Bu&241&894uel, one of the most brilliant representatives of the surrealist movement, chose to make films and was able to make them with unflagging

The plot is highly original. Peter Brown is a young Manhattan intern who is not all he seems to be. He has a past and as any reader of crime novels knows the past never stays buried for long. Peter has had an edgy run-in with a mugger and a more congenial elevator one-to-one with a female pharmaceutics rep. But his most significant encounter is to be with a new hospital patient, Nicholas LoBrutto a

Un jeune homme veut mourir. Il entre par hasard chez un antiquaire et ce dernier lui fait cadeau d\'une peau de chagrin couverte de signes mystérieux. Attention, la peau réalise tous les désirs, mais la réalisation de chacun d\'eux la fait se rétrécir et raccourcit d\'autant la vie de son possesseur. Ce jeune homme va tre comblé de richesses et d\'amour, seulement, il prendra peur de tous ses désirs

The dazzling new Culture novel from one of the most exciting science-fiction writers of modern times - a tour de force of brilliant storytelling, world-building and imagination.

Vladimir Vysotskij - fenomenalnoe javlenie v russkoj poezii. Vysotskomu-poetu udalos ulovit puls istorii, samomu stat nervom, bolevoj tochkoj epohi, vobrat v sebja ogromnyj slovar svoego naroda, podhvatit ritm svoego vremeni, otrazit samye nasuschnye prob

TÖDLICHE JAGD NACH DEM BUCH DER BÜCHER Konstantinopel 1203: Kreuzritter belagern die Stadt. In der Nacht gelingt einer Gruppe Tempelritter der Ausbruch durch die feindlichen Linien. Doch sie kommen nicht weit. Istanbul 2010: Ein iranischer Archäologe macht eine ungeheuerliche Entdeckung. Und überlebt es nicht. Wenige Tage später wird eine Frau entführt. Nur einer kann sie retten. Er muss dafür brisante

Stylists are some of the most influential people working within the fashion industry, responsible for the final shape of many exciting works in popular culture. Still unsung heroes, they are now becoming increasingly well known in their own right, alongside the photographers, art directors and magazine editors of the industry. The book will cover styling for commercial ad campaigns, for fashion editorial