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How to Draw Manga: Next Generation features exclusively created art, step-by-step guides, designs, and comments from the hottest rising stars of manga. Don't miss out on this chance to learn invaluable lessons that will catapult you to stardom.

The classic adventure from the author of The Count of Monte Cristo and The Man in the Iron Mask. In this swashbuckling epic, d'Artagnan, not yet twenty, sets off for Paris in hopes of joining the Musketeers, that legion of heroes highly favored by King Louis XIII and feared by evil Cardinal Richelieu. By fighting alongside Athos, Porthos, and Aramis as they battle their enemies, d'Artagnan proves he has the heart of a Musketeer and earns himse...

After several years of a failed campaign to make Las Vegas family-friendly, Sin City has finally abandoned all pretense, and wholly embraced its hard-earned reputation as the modern day Sodom and Gommorah. Jack Sheehan is the ultimate Las Vegas insider. As a respected journalist and longtime Vegas resident, Sheehan is the perfect writer to uncover the dark underbelly of the Vegas sex industry. Through in-depth interviews and hours of observati...

Why, then the world's mine oyster."-The Merry Wives of Windsor Eminent Shakespearean scholars Jonathan Bate and Eric Rasmussen provide a fresh new edition of this popular comedy of love, laughter, and merriment-along with more than a hundred pages of exclusive features, including • an original Introduction to The Merry Wives of Windsor• incisive scene-by-scene synopsis and analysis with vital facts about the work• commentary on past and curren...

Examining how the literary understandings of Edgar Allan Poe and Margaret Fuller directly and indirectly draw from representations of animal magnetism, somnambulism, or hypnosis rendered in newspaper accounts, literary and medical journals, pamphlets, and books, this book moves more deeply into what might be termed the canon of mesmeric study.

A corporate mole's-eye view of the society in which we all live and toil, creating one of the most entertaining, thought provoking, and just plain funny bodies of work in contemporary letters. Stanley Bing knows whereof he speaks. He has lived the last two decades working inside a gigantic multinational corporation, kicking and screaming all the way up the ladder. He has seen it all -- mergers, acquisitions, layoffs, the death of the three-mar...

Now in paperback comes the story of the intersection of the Irish and African-American experiences in the crucible of 19th-century New York--a story of race and hatred, love and war, of risk and dauntless courage.

A literary tour de force, a magnificent chronicle of a remarkable era and a place of dreams" In a stunning work of imagination and memory, author Kevin Baker brings to mesmerizing life a vibrant, colorful, thrilling, and dangerous New York City in the earliest years of the twentieth century. A novel breathtaking in its scope and ambition, it is the epic saga of newcomers drawn to the promise of America--gangsters and laborers, hucksters and po...

What could be weirder than a mad science teacher who invents a car that runs on potatoes and wants to take over the world? How about a bus driver who can't even "find" the weirdest school on the planet? Illustrations.

Built around the author's time-tested S.C.O.R.E. Performance System, this book shows readers how to apply the five principles to their everyday lives. It includes exercises, a reference check sheet, review chart and quizzes to track progress.

From the award-winning author of "Under a War-Torn Sky" comes a gripping Civil War novel with a pleasing dose of romance and a compelling view of both sides of the conflict.

First published in 1942 at the height of her popularity, Dust Tracks on a Road is Zora Neale Hurston's candid, funny, bold, and poignant autobiography, an imaginative and exuberant account of her rise from childhood poverty in the rural South to a prominent place among the leading artists and intellectuals of the Harlem Renaissance. As compelling as her acclaimed fiction, Hurston's very personal literary self-portrait offers a revealing, often...

The spellbinding sequel to "The Archer's Tale"--the second in Cornwell's acclaimed Grail Quest series--is a rousing epic of vengeance, blood, honor, and love.

The first installment of Bernard Cornwell’s bestselling series chronicling the epic saga of the making of England, “like Game of Thrones, but real” (The Observer, London)—the basis for The Last Kingdom, the hit BBC America television series.This is the exciting—yet little known—story of the making of England in the 9th and 10th centuries, the years in which King Alfred the Great, his son and grandson defeated the Danish Vikings who had invaded...

Serious matchmaker" Spindel offers proven strategies for women of any age looking for a committed and loving relationship.

Lisa St Aubin de Teran's "Swallowing Stones" is a fictionalized account of the extraordinary life of one Oswaldo Barreto Miliani, code-named Otto -- adviser to Castro, confidant of Salvador Allende, and sharp thorn in the sides of both the CIA and the KGB. In the riveting and remarkable invented memoirs of the legendary seventy-year-old revolutionary scholar, the explosive history of twentieth-century Latin America unfolds before us -- viewed ...

Using fly fishing as a metaphor for the struggle to understand and come to grips with life, here is a unique study of Raines' life, politics, gender, as a son, father, husband and journalist, and his attitudes toward aging and mortality. Its part sporting autobiography, part guidebook to life's middle passage.

In this bestselling book, the cofounder of Hewlett-Packard, one of the world's leading technology corporations, tells the story of the creation and phenomenal success of his company and explains the innovative management techniques that made it happen. For entrepreneurs and managers alike, the wisdom found in these pages offers the hard-won and battle-tested practical experience of a proven and respected leader. Illustrations.

General George S. Patton. His tongue was as sharp as the cavalry saber he once wielded, and his fury as explosive as the shells he'd ordered launched from his tank divisions. Despite his profane, posturing manner, and the sheer enthusiasm for conflict that made both his peers and the public uncomfortable, Patton's very presence commanded respect. Had his superiors given him free rein, the U.S. Army could have claimed victory in Berlin as early...

A girl is terrified of her older sister's dual personality. A boy adjusts to his life with two mothers. A father visits his son on death row. These are stories of today's families as they really are.Noted anthologist Michael Cart has asked celebrated young adult authors the question "What does 'family' mean today?" The ten resulting stories provide illuminating -- and surprising -- answers. Here family is defined by the connections between all...