One Joe was in his 97th year when he died in 2005; the other Joe died the same year at age 45. Both died before their time. This book explores the interplay between personal creativity and the craft of animation storytelling, as seen through the lives and art of two of its greatest practicioners: Joe Grant and Joe Ranft. Grant and Ranft were unique influences on storytellin...(展开全部)

They sound like Bad Guys, they look like Bad Guys . . and they even smell like Bad Guys. But Mr. Wolf, Mr. Piranha, Mr. Snake, and Mr. Shark are about to change all of that... whether you want them to or not! Buckle up for the funniest, naughtiest and coolest series you'll ever read -- it's time to meet the Bad Guys -- NOW IN FULL COLOR!.

Masters of Doom is the amazing true story of the Lennon and McCartney of video games: John Carmack and John Romero. Together, they ruled big business. They transformed popular culture. And they provoked a national controversy. More than anything, they lived a unique and rollicking American Dream, escaping the broken homes of their youth to produce the most notoriously successf...(展开全部)

Tim Madden, an unsuccessful writer with a penchant for nicotine, alcohol and blondes with money, struggles towards consciousness twenty-four days and nights after his wide has left him. He has a bad case of alcohol amnesia, a fresh and throbbing tattoo and a car drenched in blood. Just to make his hangover complete, Provincetown's Chief of Police would like a quiet word...So be...(展开全部)

诺曼·梅勒 ☉美国著名作家，国际笔会美国分会主席，美国“全国文学艺术院”院士，“美国文学艺术研究院”院士。 ☉两获普利策奖的文坛鬼才和数届诺贝尔文学奖热门候选人。 ☉上过前线，当过导演，参加过纽约市长竞选，还结过六次婚，育有九个孩子，同时也是 “硬汉文学”、非虚构写作的践行者与新新闻主义写作的创始人之一。 ☉作为一个集小说家、政客、文化名人、随笔作家、记者、文学批评家、诗人、导演、编剧、演员、社会活动家、运动迷于一身的时代偶像，梅勒毕生将写作当成一项英雄般的事业。 ☉他不仅苛求自己与同时代的同行竞争，更把自己视为托尔斯泰和陀思妥耶夫斯基式的人物，因此被称作“美国最伟大的当代作家”。一位与海明威并驾齐驱的重量级作家。 1923年生于美国新泽西州； 1943年毕业于哈佛大学； 1944年至1946年在太平洋地区服役； 1948年写出了成名作《裸者与死者》...(展开全部)

The first ever illustrated paperback of part two of Tolkien's epic masterpiece, The Lord of the Rings, featuring 16 colour paintings by Alan Lee.

Beauty is in the feet of the beholder.-Jonathan williams

William Trevor's astonishing range as a writer--his humor, subtlety, and compassionate grasp of human behavior--is fully demonstrated in these two short novels. In Reading Turgenev, a lonely country girl escapes her loveless marriage in the arms of a bookish young man. In My House in Umbria, a former madam befriends the other survivors of a terrorist bombing with surprising res...(展开全部)