Uma maneira original e divertida de desenhar personagens, desenvolvida para inspirar confiança e criatividade, seja você principiante ou fera nos desenhos. Baseado em métodos testados e comprovados, desenvolvidos ao longo de muitos anos, o livro ensina a desenhar personagens, começando pela construção de figuras básicas e descobrindo aos poucos como representar expressões, contar histórias e desenhar animais. Inclui experiências com uma variedade de técnicas executadas com pincel, lápis e ...

This book is contemporary, topical and global in its approach, and provides an essential, comprehensive treatise on bovine tuberculosis and the bacterium that causes it, Mycobacterium bovis. Bovine tuberculosis remains a major cause of economic loss in cattle industries worldwide, exacerbated in some countries by the presence of a substantial wildlife reservoir. It is a major zoonosis, causing human infection through consumption of unpasteurised milk or by close contact with infected anima...

Two years ago, OACET Agent Rachel Peng helped a serial murderer escape from police custody. This morning, he appeared in her backyard, wearing the face of a dead friend from her days in the Army. Within minutes of his arrival, Rachel learns that the head of OACET's wife has been kidnapped . . . along with Rachel's niece.Rachel can't deny that Marshall Wyatt has helped her and the other members of the Office of Adaptive and Complementary Technologies before, but that was on his term...

Rachel Peng misses the Army. Her old life in Criminal Investigation Command hadn't been easy, but she had enjoyed it. Now, as the first cyborg liaison to the Washington D.C. Metropolitan Police, Rachel is usually either bored senseless or is fighting off harassment from her coworkers. When she and her partner, Detective Raul Santino, stumble into a murder investigation with ties to Rachel and the other cyborgs, she realizes their many enemies will not allow them to quietly pick up the piec...

Conspiracies, political cover-ups, acts of terrorism… As one of the first cyborgs employed by the federal government, Agent Rachel Peng thought she had already lived through it all. Then, without warning, fourteen blocks of downtown Washington, D.C. are gone, blown apart by bombs unlike anything Rachel has ever seen. The evidence is even more troubling, with each new clue suggesting their own people might be behind the attack.Rachel and her partner, Detective Raul Santino, might no...

Nearly a year has passed since the Office of Adaptive and Complementary Enhancement Technologies went public. Agent Rachel Peng has adapted to her new life as the cyborg liaison to the Washington D.C. Metropolitan Police, but for Peng and her team, murder is usually just the beginning. This time, the body is found in the unlikeliest of places, and the race to recover a stolen piece of antiquity will put Rachel and her team against one of the country's most powerful political figures.

USA TODAY AND LA TIMES BESTSELLERFinalist for the LA Times Book Prize!“The Cartographers is one of those brilliant books you have to read twice.” — Washington Post“There are echoes of Borges and Bradbury, Pynchon and Finian’s Rainbow, but Ms. Shepherd’s exhilarating and enjoyable work casts a magical glow all its own.” — Wall Street JournalFrom the critically acclaimed author of The ...

Rachel Peng is reinventing disaster tourism from the ground up. Her boss sent her to New Orleans to check on one of OACET's cyborg assassins, but the assassin's girlfriend is too sexy to resist, and her boss's wife won't stop burning down historic landmarks. Small problems for Rachel, really, but then she kicked a nest of domestic terrorists. Now she's got to save her best friend from a fate worse than death without blowing OACET's last big secret. Oh, and somehow she's acquired a dog....

'Exquisitely written ... Be prepared to be swept away on an incredible journey' Brad Thor, #1 bestselling author of Black Ice'A story about magical maps that lead to your heart's desire [and] the people who would do anything to find them ... A vastly rich experience' Charles Soule, author of The Oracle Year*Some places you won't find on any maps. Others, are only on maps . . .Nell ...

La vita di Nell Young ruota da sempre intorno alle mappe. Suo padre, il dottor David Young, è stato uno dei cartografi più rispettati al mondo: almeno fino a quando non viene trovato morto – o assassinato? – nel suo ufficio all’interno della New York Public Library. Lei e suo padre non parlavano da anni – da quando lui l’aveva licenziata dopo un’accesa discussione su una mappa stradale apparentemente senza valore: la stessa che Nell trova nascosta nella scrivania dell’uomo. Nell non può fa...

The silliest penguin and the chattiest cat are back to defeat one very bad pig in this action-packed graphic novel for fans of Dog Man.'Super funny!' Jim Smith'Absolutely ridiculous (in a good way!)' BookTrust'Deliriously daft!' National Book TokensJoin your new favourite superheroes, Peng and Spanners, in a story full of . . . JET PACKS! TRICKY PIGS! ROBOTIC SAUSAGE DOGS! AND CACTUS PLANTS! Starring Peng, the sarcastic penguin, and S...

Set in a dangerous near future world, The Book of M tells the captivating story of ordinary people caught in an extraordinary catastrophe, risking everything to save the ones they love.In the middle of a market in India, a man’s shadow disappears. This mysterious phenomenon spreads like a plague, and while those afflicted gain a strange new power, it comes at a horrible price: the loss of all their memories.Two years later, Ory and Max have escaped...