The third title in "National Geographic Little Kids First Big Book" series, this book is for kids 4- to 8-years-old who LOVE dinos The prehistoric world comes alive with dinosaurs small, big, giant, and gigantic, with stunning illustrations by Franco Tempesta--who illustrated "National Geographic K[...]
A fiercely vivid collection of stories about troubled California teenagers and misfits--violent and harrowing, from the astonishingly talented actor and artist James Franco.
"Palo Alto" is the debut of a surprising and powerful new literary voice. Written with an immediate sense of place[...]
A fiercely vivid collection of stories about troubled California teenagers and misfits--violent and harrowing, from the astonishingly talented actor and artist James Franco.
"Palo Alto" is the debut of a surprising and powerful new literary voice. Written with an immediate sense of place--claust[...]
This book is the first graduate-level textbook presenting a comprehensive treatment of Data Converters. It provides comprehensive definition of the parameters used to specify data converters, and covers all the architectures used in Nyquist-rate data converters. The book uses Simulink and Matlab ext[...]
Often hailed as one of the greatest television series of all time, The Sopranos is a product of its time, firmly embedded in the problems of post-industrial, post-ethnic America. In The Sopranos: Born under a Bad Sign, Franco Ricci examines the groundbreaking HBO series and its impact as a cultural [...]
This book teaches the art of writing mathematics, an essential -and difficult- skill for any mathematics student. The book begins with an informal introduction on basic writing principles and a review of the essential dictionary for mathematics. Writing techniques are developed gradually, from the s[...]
This is the first in a new series of postcard books showcasing the work of contemporary creative talents, curated and edited by The Thing Quarterly. This collection features new work by actor, filmmaker, artist, and author James Franco. On each of the thirty postcards, Franco reimagines the cover of[...]
Includes topics such as: Targeting IGF-1R, Tyrosine Kinase Inhibitors in Lung Cancer, Targeting mTOR, Targeting Hedgehog, Mitotic Inhibitors, Topoisomerase I Inhibitors, and New Strategies and Drugs Inhibiting Folate Pathways.[...]
Now a "provocative" and "impressive" ("Variety") film from director Gia Coppola (Francis Ford Coppola's granddaughter)--starring Emma Roberts, James Franco, Nat Wolff, and Val Kilmer--the fiction debut from James Franco that "Vogue" called "compelling and gutsy." James Franco's story collection trac[...]
This book provides practitioners with a single volume that reviews the clinical and pathologic features of rarely encountered cutaneous neoplasms. The text includes an in-depth discussion of the clinical findings, as well as the histologic and immunologic features of these diseases that are rarely e[...]
The debut poetry collection by the actor, director, and writer James Franco
I'm a nocturnal creature,
And I'm here to cheat time.
You can see time and exhaustion
Taking pay from my face--
In fifty years
My sleep will be death,
I'll go like the rest,
But I'll have played [...]
Portly and good-natured, Otto Porfiri may not look the part the part of a hard-as-nails private eye, but don't be fooled. He may abhor violence, but when circumstances require a little mayhem, Porfiri rises to the occasion, in spades![...]
Private eye Otto Porfiri may look a little overstuffed, but don't push him too far. His placid nature can turn to fists of fury quicker than the ex-soccer star could put one past a diving goal-keeper. And he'll need those knuckles as his latest list of cases leaves him double-chin-high in sleazy sex[...]
An infinite series of bifurcations: this is how we can tell the story of our life, of our loves, but also the history of revolts, defeats and restorations of order. At any given moment different paths open up in front of us, and we are continually presented with the alternative of going here or goin[...]