When a girl ventures through a hidden door she finds a secret world with shocking similarities to her own.

Photoshop is one of those programs that's so cool you just want to dive right in and start creating. This book takes you through a series of hands-on projects that build on your Photoshop knowledge. It includes step-by-step instructions, review questions, and a companion CD with all of the book's project files.

A young man arrives in the Ukraine, clutching in his hand a tattered photograph. He is searching for the woman who fifty years ago saved his grandfather from the Nazis. Unfortunately, he is aided in his quest by Alex, a translator with an uncanny ability to mangle English into bizarre new forms.

Watchmen redefined superhero conventions and re-introduced comics to an adult audience with a gripping, labyrinthine piece of comic art. Rorschach, a half-psychotic vigilante, must convince his ex team-mates, now middle-aged and retired, that he has uncovered a plot to murder the remaining superheroes, along with millions of innocent civilians.

Brain-ticklingly brilliant!

The hilarious (and ever so slightly sacrilegious) true story of the New Testament.

Harrius Potter et Philosophi Lapis; Caput Primum; Puer qui Vixit; 'Dominus et Domina Dursley, qui vivebant in aedibus Gestationis Ligustrorum numero quattor signatis...' this opening, also known as 'Mr and Mrs Dursley, of number four, Privet Drive...' has become one of the most read opening chapters in the world. Newly translated into Latin for the first time, this is following in the steps of ...

Believing that creativity is central to our being, May outlines the limits to what we know and do not know about creativity. He links the element of courage to creativity to reveal the process of discovery in which a person generates new forms and patterns that build new social systems.

Combined here are Maus I: A Survivor's Tale and Maus II - the complete story of Vladek Spiegelman and his wife, living and surviving in Hitler's Europe. By addressing the Holocaust through cartoons the author captures the everyday reality of fear and the sensation of survival.

One boy, one boat, one tiger...

An illustrated gothic novella told in three parts that may just convince you that fairies really do exist. It is a story told by David Ellwand who, while wandering on the Sussex Downs, finds a deserted house in which there's an old chest containing some extraordinary objects including a set of ancient cylinder recordings.

Brain-ticklingly brilliant!

Our homes are not just bricks and mortar, but vital spaces with which we interact. Different colours can change, soften, intensify and alter mood and atmosphere. This book shows how to achieve the results you seek through the use of paint, fabrics, furnishings, ornamentation, plants and flowers.

Collects Sandman issues numbered forty-one to sixty.

Explores fresh trends in handcrafted illustration, each of which lends a welcome departure from digitally generated graphics.

Presents a selection of 150 illustrators from five continents, including more than 30 countries, with styles ranging from cutting edge to traditional. This book is suitable for creative professionals and illustration students, as well as artists and those with an appreciation for visual language.

For many graphic designers, problems with sourcing and storing images are a major cause of frustration, stress, expense and delay. This resource manual provides designers with an understanding of creative asset management procedures to ensure smooth-running projects and success in producing all forms of illustrated design work.

Teaches metal etching with rubber stamps, simple wiring to create lighting, instruction for altering simple toy figures (making two-headed animals, for instance) and more. This book also covers surface alterations and includes several projects and techniques.

A novel made up of stories: twenty-three of them to be precise. These stories were told by the people who have answered the ad headlined 'Artists Retreat: Abandon your life for three months'.

Contains a series of projects that teach you what you need to know to get your creations talking to each other, connecting to the web, and forming networks of smart devices. The projects in this book are powerful but inexpensive to build. With a couple of microcontroller kits and the networking gadgets, you can make things that talk to each other.