For the first time in Italy, Contrasto offers to the public an exclusive book, from the book collection In Parole, that merges Jack London incredible and well-known literature with his yet unpublished photographs, creating a dialogue between the visual and literary arts and building up towards the completion of the Jack London artist.

An oversized, full-color hardcover art book containing concept art and commentary from the development of DOOM Eternal, the next entry in the iconic first-person shooter series. The newest chapter in the quintessential game franchise from id Software is here. Witness DOOM Eternal! This epic volume explores the art and development of the hotly anticipated sequel to the 2016 Game Award-winner for Best

\'To Kill a Mockingbird for the 21st Century\' Real Reader Review When a newborn baby dies after a routine hospital procedure, there is no doubt about who will be held responsible: the nurse who had been banned from looking after him by his father. What the nurse, her lawyer and the father of the child cannot know is how this death will irrevocably change all of their lives, in ways both expected and

Tom Stoppard\'s screenplay of the film \"Shakespeare in Love\", strongly tipped to win an Oscar in 1999. It is 1593 and Will Shakespeare - rising young light of the Elizabethan stage - struggles with writer\'s block.

Owning your own swimming pool is a dream that is coming true for more and more people. The first section concentrates on outdoor swimming pools and pool houses, the garden and surrounding landscape, while part two is devoted to indoor pools. The third section deals with spaces that have increasingly become a natural extension of the (indoor) swimming pool in our modern lifestyle culture, such as bathing

This book is filled with some of the glittering highlights of modern domestic architecture from around the globe. The most versatile, practical and beautiful of all the materials at architects\' disposal, glass has the power to re-energize tired and dismal buildings and to breathe life into the designs of the most spectacular new ones From practical solutions to the growing desire for indoor-outdoor

Go behind the scenes of The Umbrella Academy, one of Netflix\'s most watched shows with a second season debuting July 31st 2020! Dive into the development and production of the first season of the Netflix original series, The Umbrella Academy, with a collection that features hundreds of behind-the-scenes images and exclusive commentary from the creative team. Discover how Netflix\'s live-action adaption

From bestselling authors Jason Hazeley and Joel Morris - a nugget of wisdom in the phenomenal Ladybirds for Grown Ups series. This delightful book is the latest in the series of Ladybird books which have been specially planned to help grown-ups with the world about them. The large clear script, the careful choice of words, the frequent repetition and the thoughtful matching of text with pictures all

Precocious and shocking when first published in 1956, Chocolates for Breakfast is a candid coming-of-age story of a young girl\'s sudden awakening to love and desire written by 18-year-old Pamela Moore. Disaffected, sexually precocious 15-year-old Courtney Farrell splits her time between her parents\' homes in New York and Los Angeles. When a crush on a female teacher in boarding school ends badly,

At the heart of this epic saga, set just before the Opium Wars, is an old slaving-ship, The Ibis. Its destiny is a tumultuous voyage across the Indian Ocean, its crew a motley array of sailors and stowaways, coolies and convicts. In a time of colonial upheaval, fate has thrown together a truly diverse cast of Indians and Westerners, from a bankrupt Raja to a widowed villager, from an evangelical English

Bei einer Expedition auf dem Mars gerät der Astronaut Mark Watney in einen Sandsturm und wird bewusstlos. Als er aus seiner Ohnmacht erwacht, ist er allein. Auf dem Mars. Ohne Nahrung. Ohne Ausrüstung. Und ohne Crew, denn die ist bereits auf dem Weg zurück zur Erde. Für Mark Watney beginnt ein spektakulärer Überlebenskampf ...

Au village des Bastides Blanches, on hait ceux de Crespin. C\'est pourquoi lorsque Jean Cadoret, le Bossu, s\'installe la ferme des Romarins, on ne lui parle pas de la source cachée. Ce qui facilite les manuvres des Soubevran, le Papet et son neveu Ugolin. qui veulent lui racheter son domaine bas prix... Jean de Florette (1962), premier volume de L\'Eau des collines, marque, trente ans aprs Pirouettes,

Un jeune homme veut mourir. Il entre par hasard chez un antiquaire et ce dernier lui fait cadeau d\'une peau de chagrin couverte de signes mystérieux. Attention, la peau réalise tous les désirs, mais la réalisation de chacun d\'eux la fait se rétrécir et raccourcit d\'autant la vie de son possesseur. Ce jeune homme va tre comblé de richesses et d\'amour, seulement, il prendra peur de tous ses désirs

Nobody writes about money like Balzac, and his classic chronicle of a young man from the provinces clawing his way to success in 19th century Paris, even as an older man is victimized by the same milieu, shrewdly captures the financial dimension of so much that goes on between people. The boarding house in which the two protagonists live is a microcosm of their world, and Goriot\'s treatment by his

The Spark is Kristine Barnett\'s remarkable memoir about being mother to a genius. Kristine Barnett\'s son Jacob has an IQ higher than Einstein\'s, a photographic memory, and he taught himself calculus in two weeks. At nine he started working on an original theory in astrophysics that experts believe may someday put him in line for a Nobel Prize, and at age twelve he became a paid researcher in quantum

Walden is Thoreau\'s classic autobiographical account of his experiment in solitary living, his refusal to play by the rules of hard work and the accumulation of wealth, and above all the freedom it gave him to adapt his living to the natural world around him. This new edition traces the sources of Thoreau\'s reading and thinking and considers the author in the context of his birthplace and sense of

Wind/Pinball includes Haruki Murakami\'s first two novels, published back-to-back, available for the first time in English outside Japan. With a new introduction by the author. Published as a reversible hardback \'If you\'re the sort of guy who raids the refrigerators of silent kitchens at three o\'clock in the morning, you can only write accordingly. That\'s who I am.\' Hear the Wind Sing and Pinball,

It\'s hard to sit still when your client is scheduled to die in 15 hours!. As he makes an 11th hour plea for mercy, lawyer Alex Sedaka is resigned to the fact that Clayton Burrows will be executed. Charged with the rape and murder of 18-year-old classmate

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