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Making Comics
The renowned author of Understanding Comics offers brilliant instruction on how to actually create this widely beloved art form.
Scott McCloud tore down the wall between high and low culture in 1993 with Understanding Comics, a massive comic book about comics, linking the medium to such diverse fields as media theory, movie criticism, and web design. In Reinventing Comics, McCloud took this to the next level, charting twelve different revolutions in how comics are generated, read, and perceived today.
Now, in Making Comics, McCloud focuses his analysis on the art form itself, exploring the creation of comics, from the broadest principles to the sharpest details (like how to accentuate a character's facial muscles in order to form the emotion of disgust rather than the emotion of surprise.) And he does all of it in his inimitable voice and through his cartoon stand–in narrator, mixing dry humor and legitimate instruction.
McCloud shows his reader how to master the human condition through word and image in a brilliantly minimalistic way. Both comic book devotees and the uninitiated will marvel at this journey into a once–underappreciated art form.
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One Last Breath
The New York Times bestselling author of Dark & Shallow Lies delivers another chilling supernatural thriller filled with murder, romance, and a decades long mystery that haunts a small Florida town.
The perfect blend of Natasha Preston, Krystal Sutherland, and Delia Owens, with a paranormal twist.
Mount Orange, Florida, is famous for two things: Cerulean freshwater springs, ideal for free divers who aren't afraid of lurking gators. And the gruesome cold case murder of best friends, Bailey and Celeste, twenty years ago.
Bailey and Celeste's murders cast a permanent darkness over sunny Mount Orange. Tru has always lived in that shadow. Now she's supposed to head to FSU in the fall with her boyfriend, but those unsolved murders — and the death of her own sister — invade her every thought. It's only in the shadowy deep of Hidden Glen Springs that she can breathe.
When a strange girl named Rio rolls into town, hell-bent on figuring out who killed Bailey and Celeste, Tru can't resist entangling herself in the thrill of solving the decades old mystery any more than she can resist her familiar, aching attraction to Rio.
As the summer heat ignites, so does the spark between Tru and Rio...along with their other-worldy connection to Bailey and Celeste. But when someone begins stalking them, the girls become convinced the killer is back in town. And if they keep digging into the past, Tru and Rio know this time, it could be their blood that makes the springs run red.
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River Cottage Great Roasts
Let the oven do the work with these quick and simple ingredient-focussed recipes from the River Cottage kitchen
In River Cottage Great Roasts, all you will need are good ingredients, an oven and some simple bakeware to create easy weeknight dinners, showstopping Sunday roasts, fuss-free breakfasts, tea-time treats and indulgent puds. Often only requiring one roasting tin and minimal prep, these are recipes that let the oven do the hard work, and leave you with very little washing up:
Spiced whole cauliflower with preserved lemon and yoghurt
Roast mushrooms with beer and dumplings
Pot roast brisket with orange and star anise
Ripped potato oven chips with smoked chilli and roast garlic dip
Creamy fish pie
Roasted cherry and almond crumble
Pears with ginger and toffee
Divided into chapters like Breakfast & Brunch, One-tray Wonders, Sunday Roast, Super Sides and Puddings, the recipes all harness the power of the oven to transform everyday ingredients into their more deliciously caramelised, roasted counterparts.
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Batman: Fear State Saga
The Batman: Fear State Event brilliantly collected!
Gotham City is on the brink of martial law as Batman fights a two-front battle! The Scarecrow is unleashing a devasting attack on the city while the Magistrate have made their move to invade! Gotham City is on the brink of a violent evolutionary path and the danger level to Batman and his allies reaching a fever pitch!
The Magistrate now have full support from the mayor to handle high-level law enforcement in Gotham and have branded the Dark Knight as Public Enemy #1. Batman must also contend with the return of the Scarecrow who pursues his own terrifying agenda as he takes this chaotic moment to launch his FEAR STATE.
And that’s just the start of the Dark Knights twisted tale in Batman: Fear State Saga collecting Batman #112-117; Batman Secret Files: The Gardener #1; Batman Secret Files: Peacekeeper #1; Batman Secret Files: Miracle Molly #1; Batman: Fear State: Alpha #1; Batman: Fear State: Omega #1!
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Angelika Frankenstein Makes Her Match
For generations, every Frankenstein has found their true love and equal, unlocking lifetimes of blissful wedded adventure. Clever, pretty (and odd) Angelika Frankenstein has run out of suitors and fears she may become the exception to this family rule. When assisting in her brother Victor's ground-breaking experiment to bring a reassembled man back to life, she realizes that having an agreeable gentleman convalescing in the guest suite might be a chance to let a man get to know the real her. For the first time, Angelika embarks upon a project that is all her own.
When her handsome scientific miracle sits up on the lab table, her hopes for an instant romantic connection are thrown into disarray. Her resurrected beau (named Will for the moment) has total amnesia and is solely focused on uncovering his true identity. Trying to ignore their heart-pounding chemistry, Angelika reluctantly joins the investigation into his past, hoping it will bring them closer. But when a second suitor emerges to aid their quest, Angelika wonders if she was too hasty inventing a solution. Perhaps fate is not something that can be influenced in a laboratory? Or is Will (or whatever his name is!) her dream man, tailored for her in every way? And can he survive what was done to him in the name of science, and love?
Filled with carriages, candlesticks, and corpses, Angelika Frankenstein Makes Her Match is the spooky-season romcom that reminds us to never judge a man by his cadaver!
La lunga strada di sabbia
The extraordinary picture story by Paolo Di Paolo, accompanied by texts by Pier Paolo Pasolini which documents and narrates Italians on vacation during Summer 1959, from the Tyrrhenian to the Adriatic Sea; from Ventimiglia to Trieste (from the western to the eastern border). In 1959 Paolo Di Paolo is a 34-year-old photographer collaborating with the cultural weekly magazine Il Mondo directed by Mario Pannunzio, and the widely distributed magazine Tempo. Pier Paolo Pasolini is a promising 37-year-old writer who had published The Best of Youth, The Street Kids and A Violent Life.He is not yet a film director. In Italy, the "economic miracle" has just begun. The newspapers tend to offer to Italian families a microcosm of mythical characters as a diversion to the dullness and fear of war, emigration, and poverty.
Arturo Tofanelli, editor in chief of the monthly Successo and the weekly Tempo, entrusts the two young men, Di Paolo and Pasolini, who did not know each other, to do a report on the Italian Summer Holidays that will be published by Successo magazine in three issues (July, August and September 1959). The writer and the photographer set off from Ventimiglia together, with the plan of travelling through the coasts of Italy to the south and climbing up to Trieste. But they have different visions.
"Pasolini was looking for a lost world of literary ghosts, an Italy that no longer existed," recalls Di Paolo. "I was looking for an Italy that was looking to the future. I conceived the title The Long Road of Sand meaning the strenuous road traveled by Italians to reach well-being and holidays after the War." A complex, delicate partnership is born between Pasolini and Di Paolo, they will travel together only the first stage of this journey, but this experience would later be consolidated in mutual respect and trust.
Text in English, German and Italian.
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The Hideaway
What would you do if you discovered you were living a lie?
When a shocking news report shatters Juno Ryan's world, she suddenly finds herself without the man she loves - and with no way of getting the answers she needs.
Juno flees to the enchanting Villa Naranja in Spain. The blue skies and orange groves - along with Pep, the local winemaker's handsome son - begin to soothe her broken heart. But just when she begins to feel whole again, another bombshell drops.
Juno might have run away from her secrets, but the past isn't finished with her...
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Don't Call Us Dead
*WINNER OF THE FORWARD PRIZE FOR BEST COLLECTION 2018*
*A Finalist for the National Book Award for Poetry 2017*
*A Financial Times and Telegraph Book of the Year 2018*
Award-winning poet Danez Smith is a ground-breaking force, celebrated for deft lyrics, urgent subjects, and performative power. Don’t Call Us Dead opens with a heartrending sequence that imagines an afterlife for black men shot by police, a place where suspicion, violence, and grief are forgotten and replaced with the safety, love and longevity they deserved here on earth. Smith turns then to desire, mortality – the dangers experienced in skin and body and blood – and an HIV-positive diagnosis.
‘Some of us are killed / in pieces,’ Smith writes, ‘some of us all at once.’ Don’t Call Us Dead is an astonishing and ambitious collection, one that confronts, praises, and rebukes an America where every day is too often a funeral and not often enough a miracle.
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Commonwealth
A powerful story of two families brought together by beauty and torn apart by tragedy, the new novel by the Orange Prize-winning author of Bel Canto and State of Wonder is her most astonishing yet It is 1964: Bert Cousins shows up at Franny Keating's christening party uninvited and notices a heart-stoppingly beautiful woman. When he kisses Beverly Keating, his host's wife, he sets in motion the joining of two families whose shared fate will be defined on a day seven years later. In 1988, Franny Keating, now twenty-four, has dropped out of law school and is working as a cocktail waitress in Chicago. When she meets the famous author Leon Posen one night at the bar, and tells him about her family, she unwittingly relinquishes control over their story. Told with equal measures of humour and heartbreak, Commonwealth is a powerful tale of a family's far-reaching bonds of love and responsibility - and a meditation on inspiration, interpretation and the ownership of stories.
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Trato Hecho espaňol de los negocios
El desarrollo de las destrezas de expresión y comprensión tanto orales como escritas se potencia mediante el planteamiento de situaciones de la vida diaria relacionadas con el mundo de la empresa, lo que permite al alumno familiarizarse con la práctica de
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Se veled se nélküled
Gracie harmincéves és még szűz. A szülei annak idején egy aggok otthonát vezettek, s a lányt éjjel-nappal idős emberek vették körül. Édesanyja pedig gyakorta mondogatta neki, hogy női ágon hozzájuk hasonlóan valamennyi felmenőjük jelentéktelen külsejű volt. Apja halála után az édesanyja túlad az öregotthonon, és lányával Floridába költözik, ahol Gracie-nek életében először a saját lábára kell állnia. Úgy véli, egy filmstúdiónál szerzett produkciós asszisztensi állásával unalmas hétköznapjaiból jegyet váltott a kalandok csillogó világába. Ám azonnal minden a feje tetejére áll, amikor első megbízatásaként a stúdió legújabb filmjének leendő sztárját, a futballikon Bobby Tomot kell rávennie arra, hogy időben jelenjen meg a forgatáson és teljesítse a szerződését.
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Born Survivors
The Sunday Times bestseller now updated with a new foreword
Among millions of Holocaust victims sent to Auschwitz II-Birkenau in 1944, Priska, Rachel, and Anka each passed through its infamous gates with a secret. Strangers to each other, they were newly pregnant, and facing an uncertain fate without their husbands. Alone, scared, and with so many loved ones already lost to the Nazis, these young women were privately determined to hold on to all they had left: their lives, and those of their unborn babies.
That the gas chambers ran out of Zyklon-B just after the babies were born, before they and their mothers could be exterminated, is just one of several miracles that allowed them all to survive and rebuild their lives after World War II. Born Survivors follows the mothers' incredible journey - first to Auschwitz, where they each came under the murderous scrutiny of Dr. Josef Mengele; then to a German slave labour camp where, half-starved and almost worked to death, they struggled to conceal their condition; and finally, as the Allies closed in, their hellish 17-day train journey with thousands of other prisoners to the Mauthausen death camp in Austria. Hundreds died along the way but the courage and kindness of strangers, including guards and civilians, helped save these women and their children.
Sixty-five years later, the three 'miracle babies' met for the first time at Mauthausen for the anniversary of the liberation that ultimately saved them. United by their remarkable experiences of survival against all odds, they now consider each other "siblings of the heart." In Born Survivors, Wendy Holden brings all three stories together for the first time to mark their seventieth birthdays and the seventieth anniversary of the ending of the war.
A heart-stopping account of how three mothers and their newborns fought to survive the Holocaust, Born Survivors is also a life-affirming celebration of our capacity to care and to love amid inconceivable cruelty.
A Vous la France+CD
A vous la France propose aux élves de partir pour un voyage coloré et amusant la découverte de la culture et de la civilisation de la France et des pays francophones. Deux adolescents, Camille et Thomas, accompagnent les élves tout au long de leur voyage et leur font partager leur connaissance de nombreux aspects du monde francophone proche – la France et les pays francophones – et plus lointain – la Polynésie française, le Québec ou le Sénégal. Une photo ou une illustration de Camille ou de Thomas stimulent la réflexion et l’interaction orale et écrite, ouvrant une fentre sur les différentes unités thématiques : de la métropole au village, de la montagne la mer, de la campagne l’océan, de la ville au lac et du fleuve l’île. Ainsi, de découverte en découverte, sur la route des corsaires Saint-Malo ou sur les traces de Léonard de Vinci Amboise par exemple, on approfondit la connaissance de la culture, de la géographie, de l’histoire, de la gastronomie, de l’art, des traditions et des sports dans les pays francophones travers des thme proches des intérts des adolescents et un apprentissage actif. vous la France propose des activités de réception écrite et orale (vrai/faux, QCM, mots croisés, exercices d’association entre des éléments lexicaux et des photos) ainsi que des activités de production et interaction orale et écrite, agrémentées par de nombreuses illustrations, des jeux, des exercices guidés et libres tels que l’écriture d’un courriel ou la page d’un journal de bord. La dimension ludique tient une place importante grâce des activités variées, motivantes et toujours liées au thme de chaque unité : des jeux basés sur le lexique (anagrammes, charades, devinettes, mots croisés), des expressions figurées et des proverbes. Sur la base des techniques d’écriture créatives, on propose des haku, dans lesquels on invite les élves créer un logorallye ou compléter un message effacé dans une bouteille. La compréhension interculturelle passe par des activités de réflexion sur les symboles, la comparaison avec sa propre culture et la recherche autonome sur Internet dans la rubrique Civilisaction . L’histoire française se développe la fin des unités thématiques grâce un amusant parcours illustré. la fin du volume, on trouve les cartes de la francophonie, de la France, de Paris et de son métro, ainsi qu’un index analytique des principaux lieux du livre et un lexique multilingue avec les termes et les expressions les plus difficiles. Un CD audio contient les enregistrements des teste oraux : dialogues, conversations téléphoniques, interviews, contes et légendes. Un livret avec les corrigés des exercices est disponible séparément.
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17,34 €
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La France au quotidien B1-B2
Concu pour des étudiants et des enseignants de français langue étrangre, la nouvelle édition actualisée de La France au quotidien permet une approche vivante et documentée de la vie en France. Treize chapitres présentent le cadre de vie des Français et leurs comportements dans la vie de tous les jours. Les thmes abordés sont en rapport avec les notions définies par le CECR pour les niveaux B1 et B2 : la famille, l'habitat, le travail, les médias, la santé, l'enseignement, etc. Un coffret de deux CD audio, vendu séparément, propose des illustrations sonores faisant écho ces thmes, pour un entraînement la compréhension orale.
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