Book Description In the Nevada desert, an experiment has gone horribly wrong. A cloud of nanoparticles—micro-robots—has escaped from the laboratory. This cloud is self-sustaining and self-reproducing. It is intelligent and learns from experience. For all practical purposes, it is alive. It has been programmed as a predator. It is evolving swiftly, becoming more deadly with e...(展开全部)

New York 2023. Nike, the hero of the Dormant Beast, has a prodigious memory, and he uses his gift to try to understand his part as a Yugoslay orphan, as well as his violent and chaotic present, where obscurantism has become a flourishing business of worldwide manipulation. A haunting and captivating work by one of the foremost graphic novel artists in the world.

New York 2023. Nike, the hero of the Dormant Beast, has a prodigious memory, and he uses his gift to try to understand his part as a Yugoslay orphan, as well as his violent and chaotic present, where obscurantism has become a flourishing business of worldwide manipulation. A haunting and captivating work by one of the foremost graphic novel artists in the world.

In a brilliant, original rendition, Monsters of the Gevaudan revisits a spellbinding French tale that has captivated imaginations for over two hundred years, and offers the definitive explanation of the strange events that underlie this timeless story. In 1764 a peasant girl was killed and partially eaten while tending a flock of sheep. Eventually, over a hundred victims fell ...(展开全部)

In a brilliant, original rendition, Monsters of the Gevaudan revisits a spellbinding French tale that has captivated imaginations for over two hundred years, and offers the definitive explanation of the strange events that underlie this timeless story. In 1764 a peasant girl was killed and partially eaten while tending a flock of sheep. Eventually, over a hundred victims fell ...(展开全部)

The great rooms caused so much poetry and history to press upon him that he needed some straying apart to feel in a proper relation with them, though this impulse was not, as happened, like the gloating of some of his companions, to be compared to the movements of a dog sniffing a cupboard. It had an issue promptly enough in a direction that was not to have been calculated.

作者： 加布丽埃勒 - 苏珊·巴尔博·德维尔纳夫（1695—1755）出生于法国巴黎。她的作品受到同时代作家的影响，特别是《灰姑娘》的作者夏尔·佩罗和首位提出“fairy tales”（神话故事）之说的奥诺伊公爵夫人。加布丽埃勒 - 苏珊一生出版了多部小说，而她最广为人知的身份是《美女与野兽》的原作者。 绘者： 米娜利马（MinaLima）是一家一流的平面设计工作室，它的创始人是米拉波拉·米娜（Miraphora Mina）和爱德华多·利马（Eduardo Lima）。他们曾为《哈利·波特》系列电影工作了十年，为该系列电影打造了一种独特的视觉图像风格。在伦敦设立工作室以后，他们继续用视觉艺术语言来讲故事，设计的领域包括书籍装帧、包装设计以及为电影创作图形道具。他们曾参与的电影有《理发师陶德》（2007 年）、《金色罗盘》（2007 年）、《模仿游戏》...(展开全部)

The great rooms caused so much poetry and history to press upon him that he needed some straying apart to feel in a proper relation with them, though this impulse was not, as happened, like the gloating of some of his companions, to be compared to the movements of a dog sniffing a cupboard. It had an issue promptly enough in a direction that was not to have been calculated.