From familiar fairy tales and legends - "Red Riding Hood", "Bluebeard", "Puss in Boots", "Beauty and the Beast", vampires and werewolves, the author has created a collection of dark, sensual, fantastic stories.[...]

Neuroscience is by definition a multidisciplinary field. A young scientist must learn how to read the primary literature and then develop their own experiments. This book offers an overview of mainstream research techniques, provides guidelines on how to choose one technique over another, and offers[...]

Designing Science Presentations guides researchers and graduate students of virtually any discipline in the creation of compelling science communication. Most scientists never receive formal training in the creation, delivery, and evaluation of such material, yet it is essential for publishing in hi[...]

Helps you to design circuits that are reliable, have low power consumption and can be implemented in as small a size as possible, at the lowest possible cost. This title bridges the gap between the theoretical and the practical by giving practical solutions using components that are available in the[...]

Get Bold offers the most systematic approach to creating a worldwide social media strategy that delivers maximum business valuefrom social media on every continent, in any marketplace. Written by an award-winning social media evangelist who has helped make social media work in 60+ countries, it incl[...]

Sophi Fevvers--the toast of Europe's capitals, courted by the Prince of Wales, painted by Toulouse-Lautrec--is an "aerialiste extraordinaire," star of Colonel Kearney's circus. She is also part woman, part swan. Jack Walser, an American journalist, is on a quest to discover Fevvers's true identity: [...]

Gathers eighteen stories by Katherine Mansfield, Colette, Grace Paley, and Djuna Barnes

The transformation of Desiderio's city into a mysterious kingdom is instantaneous: Hallucination flows with magical speed in every brain; avenues and plazas are suddenly as fertile as fairy-book forests. And the evil comes, too, as imaginary massacres fill the streets with blood, the dead return to [...]

One night Melanie walks through the garden in her mother's wedding dress. The next morning her world is shattered. Forced to leave the comfortable home of her childhood, she is sent to London to live with relatives she has never met: Aunt Margaret, beautiful and speechless, and her brothers, Francie[...]

The "Three Emperors" by Miranda Carter is the juicy, funny story of the three dysfunctional rulers of Germany, Russia and Great Britain at the turn of the last century, combined with a study of the larger forces around them. Three cousins. Three Emperors. And the road to ruin. As cousins, George V, [...]

A modern fable, a post-apocalyptic romance, a gothic horror story; Angela Carter's genre-defying fantasia "Heroes and Villains" includes an introduction by Robert Coover in "Penguin Modern Classics". Sharp-eyed Marianne lives in a white tower made of steel and concrete with her father and the other [...]