Lets you discover how to create cartoons in a wide range of styles & media, from comic-book line art to digital manga. This title features more than 100 step-by-step sequences that demonstrate the skills you may need, from sketching basic body shapes using pencil & paint to computer rendering techniques. ...

In peacetime cartoonists are a diverse collection of individuals with their own styles & projects, but when the trumpets of war blow it is like unleashing the dogs of war. Hitler, Stalin, Churchill, Roosevelt & Mussolini were a gift for them &, as this collection shows, one they weren't about to turn down. This book shows that humour was one of the key weapons of war, with countries using cartoons to demoralise their opponents & maintain morale. Each country had its own style: the British liked understatement, showing people drinking cups of tea while bombs fell, whilst the Germans chose Churchill serving up a cocktail of blood, sweat & tears to an emaciated & sickly British lion. Showcasing the very best cartoons from Britain, the USA, Germany, Russia plus the work of all of WWII's greatest cartoonists, including Bill Mauldin, Fougasse, Emett, David Low & Graham Laidler (Pont), this book is guaranteed to make you laugh. ...

A low-key treatment in semi-documentary style about the true story of Allied spy violette Szabo (played by Virginia Mc Kenna), who parachuted into Nazi-occupied Europe during World War II. Betrayed, she was captured, tortured & eventually executed by firing squad in Ravensbruck, France. ...

This guide to creating facial expressions in woodcarving shows step-by-step work from the b&-sawn block. It uses models of both sexes, covering a variety of ages & a variety of emotions such as sadness, anger, pride & determination. For both beginners & experienced woodcarvers. ...

Helps you discover the step-by-step process of carving a modern bust using the traditional & famous system of the Tyrolean carvers. This book is packed with full-color photographs demonstrating precise cuts & also

Includes:: a gallery of different contemporary finishes for the completed bust.

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A collection of Cary Grant films. In ' Bringing Up Baby' (1938) eccentric heiress Susan Vance (Katharine Hepburn) steals a dinosaur bone from absent-minded paleontologist David Huxley (Grant), forcing him to track her down to her Connecticut farm. Along th ...

Englishwoman Caroline Seller met a handsome Sicilian named Marcello Manzo during a chance encounter at a costume party. Although she spoke little Italian & he practically no English, both were undeniably smitten. After only a few more meetings, Seller was invited to stay with Manzo's family in the beautiful town of Mazaro del Vallo, Sicily. ...

Tracing the history of faith from the Palaeolithic Age to the present, this title shows that meaning of words such as 'belief', 'faith', & 'mystery' has been entirely altered, so that atheists & theists alike think & speak about God
- &, indeed, reason itself
- in a way that our ancestors would have found astonishing.

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Cambridge is sweltering, during an unusually hot summer. Jackson Brodie, former police inspector turned private investigator, has never felt at home in Cambridge, & has a failed marriage to prove it. Surrounded by death, intrigue & misfortune, he attempts to unravel three case histories & begins to realise that everything is connected. ...

Who was William Smith? & why was Mavis Jones so horrified to see him? For seven years William had worked as a woodcarver for the local toyshop, ignorant of his true identity. The war had robbed him of his memory, & no one expected him to ever find the answer. So when he took his work to Evesleys Ltd, why was his life instantly in danger? ...