The Bible is full of amazing lessons and stories, but for anyone interested in learning about what they mean and how they fit together, it can be difficult with a traditional Bible. Idiot's Guides: The Bible brings every Old Testament and New Testament book to life. This full-color book includes helpful summaries, vital statistics, key quotes and passages, and clear maps and timelines.

A deadly daywalking vampire, a super-sized serial killer, and a deceptive director all dog Agent Mendoza’s steps. Can he unravel the conspiracy behind the murderous rampage, before death comes knocking at his door?Agent Tony Mendoza has a sleeping problem… every time he falls asleep, he dreams of her.But it’s not any cozy, cuddly encounter his subconscious conjures, nor some kinky, carnal congress.Instead, Tony’s nights are haunt...

Crusades covers seven hundred years from the First Crusade (1095-1102) to the fall of Malta (1798) and draws together scholars working on theatres of war, their home fronts and settlements from the Baltic to Africa and from Spain to the Near East and on theology, law, literature, art, numismatics and economic, social, political and military history. Routledge publishes this journal for The Society for the Study of the Crusades and the Latin East. Particular attention is given to the public...

A comprehensive guide to visual storytelling from Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD), one of the world's leaders in sequential arts instruction. Storyboarding is the process of graphically organizing a project--a motion picture, animation, motion graphic, or interactive media sequence--in order to translate artists' ideas from story to screen. Whether you're a filmmaker, animator, ad director, writer, or video-game artist--storyboarding is a skill that is absolutely critical. Storyb...

Tauchen Sie ein in die düstere Welt von H. P. Lovecraft, dem Meister des kosmischen Horrors. In seiner Kurzgeschichte "Dagon" erzählt er von einem Schiffbrüchigen, der auf einer seltsamen Insel strandet und dort auf ein grauenvolles Geheimnis stößt. Was hat es mit dem riesigen Fischwesen auf sich, das er in einem Tempel anbetet? Und welche Rolle spielt der Gott Dagon, der aus den Tiefen des Meeres kommt? Lassen Sie sich von Schauspieler Benjamin Werner in eine Atmosphäre des Schreckens und...

What's your favourite food? Who's your best friend? Have you tried to grow a rock? Aren't beards weird? Did you ever move house and miss where you used to live? Didn't a lot change when the pandemic started?My Sneezes Are Perfect is a collection of poems in the voice of a small boy who wants to tell you about all the things he's learning, all the time. During the book, he moves from the Netherlands to America and has to adjust to his new life there. Then Covid-19 hits and ...

Since the end of the nineteenth century, the division between nature and culture has been fundamental to Western thought. In this groundbreaking work, renowned anthropologist Philippe Descola seeks to break down this divide, arguing for a departure from the anthropocentric model and its rigid dualistic conception of nature and culture as distinct phenomena. In its stead, Descola proposes a radical new worldview, in which beings and objects, human and nonhuman, are understood through the co...

In 2015, suffering from a dreadful case of writer's block, novelist and short story writer Jan Carson set herself the challenge of spending an entire year writing short pieces of microfiction on postcards and mailing these to friends around the world. When 2016 ended, she found it impossible to stop writing postcard stories. The stories in this collection represent the best of some five hundred postcard stories Jan has written since.

Harness the power of Python objects and data structures to implement algorithms for analyzing your data and efficiently extracting informationKey FeaturesTurn your designs into working software by learning the Python syntaxWrite robust code with a solid understanding of Python data structuresUnderstand when to use the functional or the OOP approachBook DescriptionThis Learning Path helps you get comfortab...

Each day of 2015 Jan Carson wrote a short story on the back of a postcard and mailed it to a friend. Each of these tiny stories was inspired by an event, an overheard conversation, a piece of art or just a fleeting glance of something worth thinking about further. In this collection of highlights, Carson presents a panoramic view of contemporary Belfast – its streets, coffee shops, museums and airports – through a series of small but perfectly formed snapshots of her home.

Now in one convenient volume, Atlas of Amputations and Limb Deficiencies: Surgical, Prosthetic, and Rehabilitation Principles, Fifth Edition, remains the definitive reference on the surgical and prosthetic management of acquired and congenital limb loss. Developed in partnership with the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons (AAOS) and edited by Joseph Ivan Krajbich, MD, FRCS(C), Michael S. Pinzur, MD, FAAOS, COL Benjamin K. Potter, MD, FAAOS, FACS, and Phillip M. Stevens, MEd, CPO, FAA...

"The writing is concise yet powerfully descriptive. . . A moving story appropriate for a younger audience. This is an essential purchase." —School Library Journal (starred review)From an eminent storyteller, this powerful, simply told, beautifully illustrated picture book recounts a rare story of survival during the Holocaust.One day, a Hungarian-French Jew and his father were rounded up by Nazis and brought to a prison camp. One d...