In this blistering and soulful novel of the underworld, an ex-con finds himself caught between the light and the dark sides of the street after a malevolent young killer spoils his chances to stay straight.
ISBN: 978-0-446-61144-2
Издательство:
Warner Books
Дата выхода: август 2011
Jane Boyers, sleek, gorgeous and highly successful TV executive, barely has time to eat and sleep, let alone keep up with old friends. Especially ones like Miranda, who has rejected glamorous New York in favour of settling with the love of her life in rural Ireland. But when Jane`s career comes crashing down, her panicked response is to jump straight on a plane to Dublin and throw herself on Miranda`s mercy. Life there is definitely not what Jane is used to, and the culture shock goes both ways. When she gets herself mixed up with an independent theatre company, her no nonsense American approach gets right up the natives` noses – particularly the rather attractive nose of Shay Gallagher, the enthusiastic, if hopelessly disorganised...
ISBN: 978-0-7553-4572-4
Издательство:
Headline Publ.
Дата выхода: июль 2011
This is a complete guide to all aspects of drawing for fashion designers, from simple line drawing, though crayons, painting to collage and computers. It gives the technical information on mastering the human figure in clothed form while encouraging readers to find their own creative style. It offers drawing and illustration techniques galore - most with step-by-step demonstrations. But the book also pays great attention to the creative process, how to use colour when designing and how to build up a knowledge of fabrics and illustrate them to best is the most complete book on the subject to date and is made more useful by the sheer range of different styles of drawing. It encourages the reader to find a style that suits them.
For years, American comic book artists have been inspired by the style of Japanese manga artists. Manga has transformed the work of cutting-edge American comic-book artists so much that a new term has evolved: amerimanga. In Drawing American Manga Superheroes , author Andy Smith uses his own clear, informative step-by-step format, along with tips and ideas to show artists exactly how to create their own amerimanga by giving traditional American figures and storytelling a twist with manga style and techniques.
Drawings by the great Italian Mannerist painter and poet Agnolo Bronzino (1503-1572) are extremely rare. This important and beautiful publication brings together for the first time nearly all of the sixty drawings attributed to this leading draftsman of the 16th century. Each drawing is illustrated in colour, discussed in detail, and shown with many comparative photographs. Bronzino`s technical virtuosity as a draftsman and his mastery of anatomy and perspective are vividly apparent in each stroke of the chalk, pen, or brush. The younger generations of Florentine artists particularly admired Bronzino for his technical virtuosity as a painter, and Giorgio Vasari praised him for his powers as a disegnatore (designer and draftsman).
ISBN: 978-0-300-15512-9
Издательство:
Yale University Press
Дата выхода: июль 2011
When a young woman returns from holiday to find her elderly neighbour dead, she immediately alerts the police. Commissario Brunetti is called to the scene but, though there are signs of a struggle, it seems the woman has simply suffered a fatal heart attack. Vice-Questore Patta is eager to dismiss the case as a death from natural causes, but Brunetti believes there is more to it than that. His suspicions are further aroused when the medical examiner finds faint bruising around the victim`s neck and shoulders, indicating that someone might have grabbed and shaken her. Could this have caused her heart attack? Was someone threatening her? Conversations with the woman`s son, her upstairs neighbour, and the nun in charge of the old-age home...
ISBN: 978-0-09-955977-1
Издательство:
Random House
Дата выхода: май 2012
