Simon and Schuster
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Hot Springs
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Simon and Schuster
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Автор: Hunter Stephen
Издательство: Simon & Schuster, 2011
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DjVu, 576 страниц, 23.04 МБ
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The undisputed master of the tough thriller, New York Times bestselling author Stephen Hunter delivers a masterpiece of crime fiction set in 1940s Arkansas, where law and corruption ricochet like slugs from a 45 automatic. Earl Swagger is tough as hell. But even tough guys have their secrets. Plagued by the memory of his abusive father, apprehensive about his own impending parenthood, Earl is a decorated ex-Marine of absolute integrity — and overwhelming melancholy. Now he's about to face his biggest, bloodiest challenge yet. It is the summer of 1946, organized crime's garish golden age, when American justice seems to have gone to seed for good. Nowhere is this more true than in Hot Springs, Arkansas, the reigning capital of corruption. When the district attorney vows to bring down the mob, Earl is recruited to run the show. As casino raids erupt into nerve-shattering combat amid screaming prostitutes and fleeing johns, the body count mounts — along with the suspense.
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 nergon
14 апреля 2015
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A Good Yarn
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Simon and Schuster
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Автор: Macomber Debbie
Издательство: Simon & Schuster, 2010
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PDF, 380 страниц, 11.40 МБ
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From America's favorite storyteller comes the highly anticipated sequel to her New York Times bestseller, The Shop on Blossom Street. Once again, a disparate group of women find friendship and comfort as they learn the age-old craft of knitting.
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admin
25 мая 2013
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Warhammer 40,000: Gaunt's Ghosts: Salvation's Reach
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Simon and Schuster
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Автор: Abnett Dan
Издательство: Simon & Schuster
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DOC, 416 страниц, 1.00 МБ
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The Tanith First-And-Only embark on a desperate mission that could decide the fate of the Sabbat Worlds Crusade in the thirteenth book of this popular Imperial Guard series. The Ghosts of the Tanith First-and-Only have been away from the front line for too long. Listless, and hungry for action, they are offered a mission that perfectly suits their talents. The objective: the mysterious Salvation’s Reach, a remote and impenetrable stronghold concealing secrets that could change the course of the Sabbat Worlds campaign. But the proposed raid is so hazardous, it’s regarded as a suicide mission, and the Ghosts may have been in reserve for so long they’ve lost their edge. Haunted by spectres from the past and stalked by the Archenemy, Colonel-Commissar Gaunt and his Ghosts embark upon what could be their finest hour… or their final mission.
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delovar
16 февраля 2009
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The Oil Kings: How the U. S. , Iran, and Saudi Arabia Changed the Balance of Power in the Middle East
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Simon and Schuster
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Автор: Andrew Scott Cooper
Издательство: Simon & Schuster, 2012
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PDF, 530 страниц, 15.90 МБ
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«While America struggles with a recess ion, oil prices soar, revolution rocks the Middle East, European nations risk defaulting on their loans, and the world teeters on the brink of a possible global financial crisis. This is not a description of the present, however, but the 1970s. In The Oil Kings, Andrew Cooper tells the story of how oil came to dominate U.S. domestic and foreign policy. Drawing on newly declassified documents and interviews with some of the key figures of the time, Cooper follows the political posturing and backroom maneuvering that led the U.S. to switch to OPEC as its main supplier of oil from the Shah of Iran, a loyal ally and leading customer for American weapons. The subsequent loss of U.S. income destabilized the Iranian economy, while the U.S. embarked on a long relationship with the autocratic Saudi kingdom that continues to this day. Brilliantly reported and filled with astonishing revelations — including how close the U.S. came to sending troops into the Persian Gulf to break the Arab oil embargo and how U.S. officials offered to sell nuclear power and nuclear fuel to the Shah — «The Oil Kings» is the history of an era that we thought we knew, an era whose momentous reverberations still influence events at home and abroad today.»
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1924
admin
21 октрября 2015
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The Pirate's Dilemma: How Youth Culture Is Reinventing Capitalism
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Simon and Schuster
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Автор: Mason Matt
Издательство: Simon & Schuster, 2009
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PDF, 288 страниц, 8.64 МБ
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«It started with punk. Hip-hop, rave, graffiti, and gaming took it to another level, and now modern technology has made the ideas and innovations of youth culture increasingly intimate and increasingly global at the same time. In «The Pirate's Dilemma,» «VICE» magazine's Matt Mason — poised to become the Malcolm Gladwell of the iPod Generation — brings the exuberance of a passionate music fan and the technological savvy of an IT wizard to the task of sorting through the changes brought about by the interface of pop culture and innovation. He charts the rise of various youth movements — from pirate radio to remix culture — and tracks their ripple effect throughout larger society. Mason brings a passion and a breadth of intelligence to questions such as the following: How did a male model who messed with disco records in the 1970s influence the way Boeing designs airplanes? Who was the nun who invented dance music, and how is her influence undermining capitalism as we know it? Did three high school kids who remixed Nazis into Smurfs in the 1980s change the future of the video game industry? Can hip-hop really bring about world peace? Each chapter crystallizes the idea behind one of these fringe movements and shows how it combined with technology to subvert old hierarchies and empower the individual. With great wit and insight — and a cast of characters that includes such icons as the Ramones, Andy Warhol, Madonna, Russell Simmons, and 50 Cent — Mason uncovers the trends that have transformed countercultural scenes into burgeoning global industries and movements, ultimately changing our way of life.»
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1044
vitalysev
14 сентября 2014
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The Storm of the Century
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Simon and Schuster
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Автор: King Stephen
Издательство: Simon & Schuster, 1999
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DjVu, 352 страницы, 14.08 МБ
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For the first time in Stephen King's remarkable publishing history, the master storyteller presents an all-new, original tale written expressly for the television screen. They're calling it the Storm of the Century, and it's coming hard. The residents of Little Tall Island have seen their share of nasty Maine Nor'easters, but this one is different. Not only is it packing hurricane-force winds and up to five feet of snow, it's bringing something worse. Something even the islanders have never seen before. Something no one wants to see. Just as the first flakes begin to fall, Martha Clarendon, one of Little Tall Island's oldest residents, suffers an unspeakably violent death. While her blood dries, Andre Linoge, the man responsible sits calmly in Martha's easy chair holding his cane topped with a silver wolf's head... waiting. Linoge knows the townsfolk will come to arrest him. He will let them. For he has come to the island for one reason. And when he meets Constable Mike Anderson, his beautiful wife and child, and the rest of Little Tall's tight-knit community, this stranger will make one simple proposition to them all: If you give me what I want, I'll go away.
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1269
anarho
22 апреля 2009
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Zombo: You Smell of Crime and I'm the Deodorant!
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Simon and Schuster
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Автор: Ewing Al
Издательство: Simon & Schuster, 2013
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PDF, 128 страниц, 3.84 МБ
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More hilarious and gory adventures of the government-funded zombie super-agent. When the Government's latest crime deterrent, Obmoz goes completely off the rails and starts to destroy everything from the underfunded super team Planetronix to the president himself, who ya gonna call? Not Zombo, because he's dead and not in a zombie-type of dead way, but in a brain-melted-by-laser kinda way! Now the only thing standing between mankind and total annihilation is a male stripper and a well padded pair of underpants! I don't think we're going to make it...
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464
liego55
21 июля 2014
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The Complete Bad Company
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Simon and Schuster
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Автор: Milligan Peter
Издательство: Simon & Schuster, 2011
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PDF, 320 страниц, 9.60 МБ
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Danny Franks knew that the war against the Krool would be hell. They kill without compassion, taking prisoners for torture and experimentation; their armies are infinite; their weapons are horrifying. But Danny had no idea that the real horrors would be his comrades — he's in Bad Company!
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1161
admin
19 февраля 2013
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The Museum of Extraordinary Things
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Simon and Schuster
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Автор: Hoffman Alice
Издательство: Simon & Schuster, 2015
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PDF, 384 страницы, 11.52 МБ
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From the bestselling author of The Dovekeepers comes a spectacularly imaginative and moving new novel in the vein of The Night Circus that has been acclaimed by Jodi Picoult as 'truly stunning: part love story, part mystery, part history, and all beauy'. New York City, 1911. Meet Coralie Sardie, circus girl, web-fingered mermaid, shy only daughter of Professor Sardie and raised in the bizarre surroundings of his Museum of Extraordinary Things. And meet Eddie Cohen, a handsome young immigrant who has run away from his painful past and his Orthodox family to become a photographer, documenting life on the teeming city streets. One night by the freezing waters of the Hudson River, Coralie stumbles across Eddie, who has become enmeshed in the case of a missing girl, and the fates of these two hopeful outcasts collide as they search for truth, beauty, love and freedom in tumultuous times.
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1396
yury-m
15 июля 2016
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Field of Prey
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Simon and Schuster
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Автор: Sandford John
Издательство: Simon & Schuster, 2015
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PDF, 400 страниц, 12.00 МБ
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The night after the fourth of July, Layton Carlson Jr., of Red Wing, Minnesota, finally got lucky. And unlucky. He'd picked the perfect spot to lose his virginity to his girlfriend, an abandoned farmyard in the middle of cornfields: nice, private, and quiet. The only problem was... something smelled bad — like, really bad. He mentioned it to a county deputy he knew, and when the cop took a look, he found a body stuffed down a cistern. And then another, and another. By the time Lucas Davenport was called in, the police were up to fifteen bodies and counting. And as if that wasn't bad enough, when Lucas began to investigate, he made some disturbing discoveries of his own. The victims had been killed over a great many years, one every summer, regular as clockwork. How could this have happened without anybody noticing? Because one thing was for sure: the killer had to live close by. He was probably even someone they saw every day...
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1454
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17 сентября 2020
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The Son
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Simon and Schuster
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Автор: Meyer Philipp
Издательство: Simon & Schuster, 2014
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PDF, 608 страниц, 18.24 МБ
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Part epic of Texas, part classic coming-of-age story, part unflinching portrait of the bloody price of power, The Son is an utterly transporting novel that maps the legacy of violence in the American West through the lives of the McCulloughs, an ambitious family as resilient and dangerous as the land they claim. Love, honour, children are sacrificed in the name of ambition, as the family becomes one of the richest powers in Texas, a dynasty of unsurpassed wealth and privilege. Yet, like all empires, the McCulloughs must eventually face the consequences of their choices.
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2209
cool10den
06 мая 2017
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The Farm
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Simon and Schuster
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Автор: Tom Rob Smith
Издательство: Simon & Schuster, 2015
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PDF, 384 страницы, 11.52 МБ
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If you refuse to believe me, I will no longer consider you my son... Daniel believed that his parents were enjoying a peaceful retirement on a remote farm in Sweden, the country of his mother's birth. But with a single phone call, everything changes. Your mother... she's not well, his father tells him. She's been imagining things — terrible, terrible things. In fact, she has been committed to a mental hospital. Before Daniel can board a plane to Sweden, his mother calls: Everything that man has told you is a lie. I'm not mad... I need the police... Meet me at Heathrow. Daniel is immediately caught between his parents — whom to believe, whom to trust? He becomes his mother's unwilling judge and jury. Presented with a horrific crime, a conspiracy that implicates his own father, Daniel must examine the evidence and decide for himself: who is telling the truth? And he has secrets of his own that for too long he has kept hidden...
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1396
yury-m
15 июля 2016
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1965: The Year Modern Britain Was Born
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Simon and Schuster
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Автор: Bray Christopher
Издательство: Simon & Schuster, 2015
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PDF, 336 страниц, 10.08 МБ
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There is Britain before 1965 and Britain after 1965 — and they are not the same thing. 1965 was the year Britain democratised education, it was the year pop culture began to be taken as seriously as high art, the time when comedians and television shows imported the methods of modernism into their work. It was when communications across the Atlantic became instantaneous, the year when, for the first time in a century, British artists took American gallery-goers by storm. In 1965 the Beatles proved that rock and roll could be art, it was when we went car crazy, and craziness was held to be the only sane reaction to an insane society. It was the year feminism went mainstream, the year, did she but know it, that the Thatcher revolution began, the year taboos were talked up — and trashed. It was when racial discrimination was outlawed and the death penalty abolished; it marked the appointment of Roy Jenkins as Home Secretary, who became chief architect in legislating homosexuality, divorce, abortion and censorship. It was the moment that our culture, reeling from what are still the most shocking killings of the century, realised it was a less innocent, less spiritual place than it had been kidding itself. It was the year of consumerist relativism that gave us the country we live in today and the year the idea of a home full of cultural artefacts — books, records, magazines — was born. It was the year when everything changed — and the year that everyone knew it.
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1221
phoenix7
19 февраля 2017
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Child 44
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Simon and Schuster
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Автор: Tom Rob Smith
Издательство: Simon & Schuster, 2015
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DOC, 512 страниц, 1.00 МБ
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MGB officer Leo is a man who never questions the Party Line. He arrests whomever he is told to arrest. He dismisses the horrific death of a young boy because he is told to, because he believes the Party stance that there can be no murder in Communist Russia. Leo is the perfect soldier of the regime. But suddenly his confidence that everything he does serves a great good is shaken. He is forced to watch a man he knows to be innocent be brutally tortured. And then he is told to arrest his own wife. Leo understands how the State works: Trust and check, but check particularly on those we trust. He faces a stark choice: his wife or his life. And still the killings of children continue...
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1861
nniikk
19 марта 2018
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Consent to Kill
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Simon and Schuster
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Автор: Flynn Vince
Издательство: Simon & Schuster, 2008
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PDF, 624 страницы, 18.72 МБ
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For years, Mitch Rapp's bold actions have saved the lives of thousands. He has killed with impunity, tortured to avert disaster, and shown he will do whatever it takes to win the War on Terror. He has become a hero to many — and an enemy to countless more. Now, the powerful father of a dead terrorist demands vengeance in its simplest form: an eye for an eye. He wants Rapp dead — and his hate-filled plea has found sympathetic ears. In the tangled world of espionage, there are those, even among America's allies, who feel Rapp has grown too effective. They've been looking for a chance to eliminate America's No 1 counterterrorism operative — and now their time has come. Rapp must use all his skill and ruthless determination to save himself before he can turn his fury on those who have dared betray him.
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2261
metroteam
19 апреля 2012
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Color and Light: A Guide for the Realist Painter
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Simon and Schuster
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Автор: Gurney James
Издательство: Simon & Schuster, 2010
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PDF, 224 страницы, 6.72 МБ
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A researched study on two of art's most fundamental themes, Color and Light bridges the gap between abstract theory and practical knowledge. Beginning with a survey of underappreciated masters who perfected the use of color and light, the book examines how light reveals form, the properties of color and pigments, and the wide variety of atmospheric effects. Gurney cuts though the confusing and contradictory dogma about color, testing it in the light of science and observation. A glossary, pigment index, and bibliography complete what will ultimately become an indispensable tool for any artist. This book is the second in a series based on his blog, gurneyjourney.com. His first in the series, Imaginative Realism, was widely acclaimed in the fantastical art world, and was ranked the #1 Bestseller on the Amazon list for art instruction.
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812
allkonekt
11 октрября 2013
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Dredd: The Illustrated Movie Script and Visuals
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Simon and Schuster
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Автор: Garland Alex
Издательство: Simon & Schuster, 2014
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PDF, 240 страниц, 7.20 МБ
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PRE-PRODUCTION SCREENPLAY, COMPLETE GRAPHIC NOVEL ADAPTATION AND CONCEPT VISUALS BEHIND THE #1 FILM. This amazing book also includes an introduction and notes from concept and comics artist Jock and an exclusive introduction from screenwriter Alex Garland: Part of [Jock's] huge contribution was a full-length comic book version of the script, that we distributed to everyone from financiers to crew. His paintings and sketches were one of the quickest and most effective way of conveying the look and tone of the project. When — a very long time later — the picture was locked, I could see his input had pervaded the film at all levels. This is the never-before-seen complete comics adaptation from the movie pre-production and is markedly different from the finished film, it also includes the full pre-production screenplay and accompanying concept art. Available in a beautifully designed edition, produced in conjunction with Jock, this will be sought after by fans the world over.
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872
admin
23 декабря 2016
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Selp-Helf
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Simon and Schuster
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Автор: Sings Miranda
Издательство: Simon & Schuster, 2015
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PDF, 240 страниц, 7.20 МБ
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In this decidedly unhelpful, candid, hilarious how-to guide, YouTube personality Miranda Sings offers life lessons and tutorials with her signature sassy attitude. Over six million social media fans can't be wrong: Miranda Sings is one of the funniest faces on YouTube. As a bumbling, ironically talentless, self-absorbed personality (a young Gilda Radner, if you will), she offers up a vlog of helpful advice every week on her widely popular YouTube channel. For the first time ever, Miranda is putting her advice to paper in this easy-to-follow guide, illustrated by Miranda herself. In it, you'll find instructions on everything: how to get a boyfriend (wear all black and carry a fishing net), to dressing for a date (sequins and an orange tutu), to performing magic (Magic is Lying), and much, much more! Miranda-isms abound in these self-declared lifesaving pages, and if you don't like it... well, as Miranda would say... Haters, back off!
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872
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23 октрября 2018
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