This is the second title in this number one, bestselling spin-off series from \"Percy Jackson\" creator, Rick Riordan. This crazy messed up world of gods and monsters is \"Percy Jackson\'s\" reality, which pretty much sucks for him. Percy Jackson, son of Poseidon, God of the Sea, has woken from a very deep sleep and come face to face with two snake-haired ladies who refuse to die. But they\'re the

The noise between Patch and Nora has gone. They\'ve overcome the secrets riddled in Patch\'s dark past, bridged two irreconcilable worlds and faced heart-wrenching tests of betrayal, loyalty and trust...and all for a love that will transcend the boundary between heaven and earth. Armed with nothing but their absolute faith in one another, Patch and Nora enter a desperate fight to stop a villain who

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

It is the twenty-fourth of December. Mean old Ebenezer Scrooge sits in his freezing cold office shouting \'Bah! Humbug!\' at anyone who dares wish him a Merry Christmas. But that night the miser has a terrifying visitor. Marley, his dead business partner who must wander the earth for ever to pay for his sins, comes with a warning. Scrooge will be haunted by three more spirits. The ghosts of Christmas

Based on the true story of conjoined Russian twins, Masha and Dasha Krivoshlyapova, The Less You Know the Sounder You Sleep is a tale of survival and self-determination, innocence and lies. `We\'re waiting. I squeeze my eyes shut and dig my fingers into Masha\'s neck where I\'m holding her. She digs hers into mine. The curtains slowly open. I can\'t see anything because the spotlight is on us, bright

A disparate group of human protagonists from Dark Horse\'s past thirty years of Predator are set on a collision course with their most hated enemy--rendered in frenetic, violent detail by artist Francisco Ruiz Velasco! Since time immemorial, the aliens known as Predators have come to Earth to hunt us. Now a group of survivors of those visits have begun a hunt of their own. This is the year that humanity

The classic story of social justice and outrageous cunning. Robin Hood, champion of the poor and oppressed, stands against the cruel power of Prince John and the brutal Sheriff of Nottingham. Taking refuge in the vast Sherwood Forest with his band of men

Las aventuras de Tron

From Louise Bourgeois, Andreas Gursky, Zaha Hadid, and Shirin Neshat, to David Lynch, Omar Sharif, Sting, and Naguib Mahfouz: many artists and other celebrities from the worlds of film, music, and literature have posed for the camera of Egyptian photographer Youssef Nabil (*1972 in Cairo). His first portraits were of friends, taken after he finished studying literature in the early nineties before

The final volume of the Neuromancer\" trilogy set in a near-future world, which once again takes the reader into a world of high-tech computers and cybernetics.\"

Originally published in France between 1876 and 1888, Auguste Racinet\'s Le Costume historique was the most wide-ranging and intelligent study of clothing ever published. Covering the world history of costume, dress, and style from antiquity through the end of the 19th century, the great work—\"consolidated\" in 1888 into 6 volumes containing nearly 500 plates—remains, to this day, completely unique

Die legendäre Geschichte des unbekannten Jünglings Caspar Hauser, der 1828 völlig verwahrlost in Nürnberg auftaucht und sich später als legitimer Erbprinz des badischen Fürstenhauses erweist, hat damals in ganz Europa für Aufsehen gesorgt und ist seither vielfach bearbeitet worden. Die berühmteste Gestaltung, die sich eng an historische Tatsachen hält, hat Jakob Wassermann geschaffen. Caspar Hauser,

The world is full of organizational cynics. Look around. Heck, look in the mirror. We sit in our cubes, adjust our chairs, sharpen our pencils and stare at our computer screens with the sense that we\'re immersed in dysfunction. We could, we\'re sure, do a far better job of running things if we were given the chance. But we know we won\'t get the chance and so sink into doubt, distrust, and pessimism.

Now that computer games have come to stay, tin toys have become obsolete for today\'s children. For those of us who remember them from times past, these tin toys can transport us back to our childhoods&894 they call up a vision of a time we thought we had already forgotten. They also bear witness to history&894 they have survived wars and crises, and tell us something of the fashions, colors and tendencies

Out of extreme poverty Jean Valjean steals a loaf of bread and then spends many years trying to escape his reputation as a criminal. In later years he rises socially and is a respectable member of society; but policeman Javert will not allow him to forget his past and is determined to expose him.

From the very first mouthful, \'Lunch with the FT\' was destined to become a permanent fixture in the Financial Times. One thousand lunches later, the FT\'s weekly interview has become an institution. From film stars to politicians, tycoons to writers, dissidents to lifestyle gurus, the list reads like an international Who\'s Who of our times. Lunch with the FT is a selection of the best: 52 classic

Cousin Bette (1846) is considered to be Balzac\'s last great novel, and a key work in his Human Comedy. Set in the Paris of the 1830s and 1840s, it is a complex tale of the devastating effect of violent jealousy and sexual passion.Against a meticulously detailed backdrop of a post-Napoleonic France struggling with massive industrial and economic change, Balzac\'s characters span many classes of society,

Eine verhängnisvolle Abenteuerlust treibt den englischen Kaufmannssohn Robinson Crusoe zur See. Bei einem Sturm erleidet sein Schiff vor der amerikanischen Küste Schiffbruch, er kann sich als Einziger auf eine unbewohnte Felseninsel retten. Mühsam richtet er sich das Leben ein mit dem, was er auf dem Schiffswrack und auf der Insel findet. Eines Tages entdeckt Robinson, der sich allein auf der Insel

It is a society that is, officially, a paradise. Superior to the decadent West, Stalin\'s Soviet Union is a haven for its citizens, providing for all of their needs: education, health care, security. In exchange, all that is required is their hard work, and their loyalty and faith to the Soviet State.Leo Demidov knows this better than most. A rising, prominent oficer in the State Security force, Leo