In this book, each part of every costume is broken down into its pieces to illustrate exactly how the right miniskirt, baby t-shirt, hair ribbon, and shoe can create the perfect manga character. The book also includes a complete description of each character: her friends and boyfriends, her hobbies [...]
New York Times Bestseller 5 Starred Reviews "Will have listeners in stitches." --Kirkus Reviews (starred review)"Purely absurd, sidesplitting humor." --Booklist (starred review)"Demands bombastic, full-volume performances." --Publishers Weekly (starred review)"Perfect for a guffawing share with you[...]
The first ever book of Doctor Who paper dolls, including all twelve doctors, a range of companions and characters, and more than fifty different outfits accompanied by captions and trivia for each Take your obsession with Doctor Who to an imaginative new dimension with Doctor Who: Paper Dolls. Role [...]
Named one of Amazon's Best Romances of May!The Reluctant Royals series returns with a good girl searching for the life that's not too big, and not too small, and the bad boy prince who might be just right for her...Nya Jerami fled Thesolo for the glitz and glamour of NYC but discovered that her Prin[...]
From the brightest minds in the field-a revealinglook at how countries use their currencies toachieve prosperity ...and the coming repercussions Bloomberg Television's Sara Eisen sheds light on the complex global financial system through this illuminating collection of essays. She hand selected the [...]
Offers an overview of the forestry, wood preserving, pulp and paper industries and identifies the key environmental aspects, supported by case studies of major incidents. This handbook provides general explanations of the major unit operations and processes in pulp and paper mills and wood treating [...]
Includes letters that gives us a living portrait of one of the twentieth century's greatest writers and thinkers. The letters show a great mind at work.[...]
The traditional pulp and paper producers are facing new competitors in tropical and subtropical regions who use the latest and largest installed technologies, and also have wood and labor cost advantages. Due to the increasing global competition, the forest products prices will continue to decrease.[...]
Paper recycling in an increasingly environmentally conscious world is gaining importance. Increased recycling activities are being driven by robust overseas markets as well as domestic demand. Recycled fibers play a very important role today in the global paper industry as a substitute for virgin pu[...]
Pulp and Paper Industry: Chemicals features in-depth and thorough coverage of Chemical additives in the Pulp and Paper Industry. It discusses use of Enzymes "Green Chemicals" that can improve operations in pulp and paper, describes Chemicals demanded by the end user and many key and niche players su[...]
Pulp and Paper Industry: Microbiological Issues in Papermaking features in-depth and thorough coverage of microbiological issues in papermaking and their consequences and the current state of the different alternatives for prevention, treatment and control of biofilm/slime considering the impact of [...]
Pulp and Paper Industry: Energy Conservation presents a number of energy-efficient technologies and practices that are cost-effective and available for implementation today. Emerging energy-efficient technologies and future prospects in this field are also dealt with. Qualitative and quantitative re[...]
Pulp and Paper Industry: Emerging Waste Water Treatment Technologies is the first book which comprehensively reviews this topic. Over the past decade, pulp and paper companies have continued to focus on minimizing fresh water use and effluent discharges as part of their move towards sustainable oper[...]
Pulp and Paper Industry: Nanotechnology in Forest Industry covers the latest scientific and technical advances in the area of nanotechnology in forest sector providing information on recent developments, structure and properties, raw materials and methods for the production of nanocellulose along wi[...]
Pulp and Paper Industry: Chemical Recovery examines the scientific and technical advances that have been made in chemical recovery, including the very latest developments. It looks at general aspects of the chemical recovery process and its significance, black liquor evaporation, black liquor combus[...]
The Paper Trail tells the story of how a simple Chinese product has for two millennia allowed knowledge, ideas and religions to spread at an unprecedented rate around the world. Alexander Monro traces this groundbreaking invention's voyage, beginning with the Buddhist translators responsible for its[...]
'The color is hideous enough, and unreliable enough, and infuriating enough, but the pattern is torturing.' Written with barely controlled fury after she was confined to her room for 'nerves' and forbidden to write, Gilman's pioneering feminist horror story scandalized nineteenth-century readers wit[...]
Born in Hiroshima in 1943, Sadako was the star of her school's running team, until the dizzy spells started and she was forced to face the hardest race of her life-the race against time.[...]
From the #1 bestselling author of "The Fault in Our Stars"
Winner of the Edgar Award for Best Young Adult Mystery
"New York Times "bestseller
"USA Today "bestseller
"Publishers Weekly "bestseller
When Margo Roth Spiegelman beckons Quentin Jacobsen in the middle of the night--dresse[...]
Wonderfully sardonic and slyly humorous, the writings of landmark American feminist and socialist thinker Charlotte Perkins Gilman were penned in response to her frustrations with the gender-based double standard that prevailed in America as the twentieth century began. Perhaps best known for her ch[...]
Draw Like This is a fully illustrated guide to drawing that will walk you through simple prompts and challenges, helping you learn to draw from the inside out. Topics include:
- Grid drawing
- 2-point perspective
- Negative space
- Op Art
- The human face and body
- Elements[...]
Inspector Montalbano becomes embroiled in another complex case as he investigates the death of a man shot in the face at point-blank range with his pants down and finds himself dealing with two beautiful but evasive women as prime suspects, mysterious computer codes, threatening letters, and dirty c[...]
An explosive novel of high finance and underworld villainy from Ken Follett, the grand master of international action and suspense. Look out for Ken's newest book, A Column of Fire, available now. Crime, high finances, and journalism are interconnected in this early thriller by the author of On Wing[...]
Soon to be a major motion picture
The #1"New York Times"Bestseller
Winner of the Edgar Award
"Publishers Weekly"and"USA Today"Bestseller
Millions of Copies Sold
Quentin Jacobsen has spent a lifetime loving the magnificent Margo Roth Spiegelman from afar. So when she cracks open a [...]
Devastated by the abandonment of his wife, Federico de la Fe moves with his young daughter from Mexico to California, where he is unable to break free of feelings of oppression, encounters an unusual woman, and meets another heartbroken man. A first novel. Reprint.[...]