Meet Jessica Jones. Once upon a time, she was a costumed super hero...but not a very good one. Her powers were unremarkable compared to the amazing abilities of the costumed icons that populate the Marvel Universe. In a city of Marvels, Jessica Jones never found her niche. Now a chain-smoking, self-destructive alcoholic with a mean inferiority complex, Jones is the owner and sole employee of Alias

In Boston, there\'s a killer on the loose. A killer who targets lone women, who breaks into their apartments and performs terrifying ritualistic acts of torture on them before finishing them off. His surgical skills lead police to suspect he is a physician - a physician who, instead of saving lives, takes them. But as homicide detective Thomas Moore and his partner Jane Rizzoli begin their investigation,

\"The New York Trilogy\" is an astonishing and original book: three cleverly interconnected novels that exploit the elements of standard detective fiction and achieve a new genre that is all the more gripping for its starkness. In each story the search for clues leads to remarkable coincidences in the universe as the simple act of trailing a man ultimately becomes a startling investigation of what

A wonderful idea, gloriously put into practice. Greg Jenner as is witty as he is knowledgeable\' - Tom Holland Who invented beds? When did we start cleaning our teeth? How old are wine and beer? Which came first: the toilet seat or toilet paper? What was the first clock? Every day, from the moment our alarm clock wakes us in the morning until our head hits our pillow at night, we all take part in rituals

Learning Chinese is notoriously difficult and has long put off even the most linguistically savvy Westerners until now. ShaoLan has used her entrepreneurial and software background to unpick Chinese characters and create a simple system for quickly understanding the basic building blocks of the written language. Working with renowned illustrator Noma Bar, she has developed a unique set of illustrations

Fate sends two star-crossed lovers, Sasha and Volodenka, on two separate journeys across space and time. Sasha finds herself as a young woman in a time not far from the present day. Volodenka finds himself as a young soldier in a horrific conflict at the turn of the twentieth century. Yet, despite their cosmic schism, their letters still reach one another; as he helps her to come to terms with life

Flying cars, impossibly-shaped homes, ultrasonic travel - imagining the future has always fascinated creative people and explains why futuristic themes are often at the heart of style and fashion. This book demonstrates and comprehensively illustrates how designers and architects of today imagine and create tomorrow\'s world.

Book 2 in the hugely popular illustrated children\'s science fiction series, Warhammer Adventures, Warped Galaxies. Kids - get ready for some monsters! \"I read this book with my friends and we all loved it\" - Alice (age 9) Brave champions and the forces of the Imperium battle alien beasts and mechanical tyrants across the gulf of space. Having crash landed on a remote ice planet, Zelia Lor and her

From the USA Today bestselling author of The Story of Us and Fisher\'s Light comes a new, standalone novel - a heartwrenching story about second chances that will make you fall in love all over again. Five years. I would\'ve stayed away longer if I hadn\'t received the letter. Not a day has gone by that I haven\'t thought about her, haven\'t missed her smile, haven\'t wished that things were different.

Mikami\'s middle age hasn\'t gone as he planned: He never found a girlfriend, he got stuck in a dead-end job, and he was abruptly stabbed to death in the street at 37. So when he wakes up in a new world straight out of a fantasy RPG, he s disappointed but not exactly surprised to find that he s not a knight or a wizard but a blind slime demon. But there are chances for even a slime to become a her

Set in the aftermath of Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, this action-packed prequel to the hotly anticipated videogame Battlefront II introduces the Empire\'s elite force: Inferno Squad. After the humiliating theft of the Death Star plans and the destruction of the battle station, the Empire is on the defensive. But not for long. In retaliation, the elite Imperial soldiers of Inferno Squad have been called

William Shakespeare: Complete Plays collects all thirty-seven of the immortal Bard\'s comedies, tragedies and historical plays. In this volume all of Shakespeare\'s memorable characters - star-crossed lovers, majestic monarchs, wise fools, lovable rog ues, treacherous villains, conflicted heroes, cagey heroines and creatures magical and mythic - strut and fret their hour upon the stage. These characters

In every of the new compact design books are about 25 to 30 projects shown to the particular theme. As far as available, projects are presented with detailed plans.

This brutal, shattering glimpse of the fate of millions of Russians under Stalin shook Russia and shocked the world when it first appeared. Discover the importance of a piece of bread or an extra bowl of soup, the incredible luxury of a book, the ingenious possibilities of a nail, a piece of string or a single match in a world where survival is all. Here safety, warmth and food are the first objectives.

?\'«Voina i mir?\'» - roman-epopeia Lva Tolstogo, odno iz krupneishikh proizvedenii mirovoi literatury, opisyvaiushchee zhizn russkogo obshchestva v epokhu Napoleonovskikh voin. ?\'«Voina i mir?\'» - eto masshtabnaia kartina zhizni Rossii, vziataia vo vsekh ee sotcialnykh sloiakh (ot krestian do imperatora Aleksandra I)... eto i i detalnoe opisanie khoda voennykh deistvii, i osmyslenie povedeniia

Cinema has been a fortunate art form. It had the immense good fortune to seduce Orson Welles and Marcel Pagnol away from theatre, Pasolini and Jean Cocteau away from poetry, and Stanley Kubrick away from chess. It was a comparable stroke of luck that Luis Bu&241&894uel, one of the most brilliant representatives of the surrealist movement, chose to make films and was able to make them with unflagging

Nick Hornby\'s internationally bestselling first novel, available as a Penguin Essential for the first time. Do you know your desert-island, all-time, top five most memorable split-ups? Rob does. He keeps a list, in fact. But Laura isn\'t on it - even though she\'s just become his latest ex. He\'s got his life back, you see. He can just do what he wants when he wants: like listen to whatever music

Lonely Planet: The world\'s leading travel guide publisher Discover the freedom of open roads with Lonely Planet Provence & Southeast France Road Trips, your passport to uniquely encountering this region by car. Featuring four amazing road trips, plus up-to-date advice on the destinations you\'ll visit along the way, explore the Mediterranean south\'s shimmering coast and rustic heart with your trusted