Design a silly face...or a scary one, or a fairy one, or anything else you can dream up! The world-renowned authors of Extreme Face Painting are taking it back to the basics, with some innovative twists. All ages and all skill levels will learn the secrets to creating awesome face art with easy-to-find materials, friendly instruction for beginners, and fresh inspiration for more seasoned face painters. 40 all-new, step-by-step projects. Award-winning expert...

Why fear the things that go bump in the night when you can become one?World-renowned special effects artists Brian and Nick Wolfe will teach you how to transform everyday faces into an army of ghastly personas--from raging fire demons and disfigured zombies, to blood-spattered vampires and otherworldly aliens--with simple face-painting techniques. Learn the secrets to creating believable, creepy costume makeup with readily availabl...

Design a silly face...or a scary one, or a fairy one, or anything else you can dream up!The world-renowned authors of Extreme Face Painting are taking it back to the basics, with some innovative twists. All ages and all skill levels will learn the secrets to creating awesome face art with easy-to-find materials, friendly instruction for beginners, and fresh inspiration for more seasoned face painters.• 40 all-new, step-by-step projects.• Awa...

Put a new face on fun!No matter what your experience level, you can turn everyday faces into sweet, funny or frightening works of art that move, laugh, grow and always make people smile! The first half of this book features fun, friendly transitions, such as birds and butterflies, puppies and princesses, knights and night skies. Part Two crosses over to the dark side with strikingly horrible, downright unnerving personas, including vampires, zombies, gargoyles and ...

"Fear takes many forms. And within these pages, you will encounter them all."This is a disturbing collection of short stories, crafted for minds unafraid to peer into the abyss of fear. Throughfast-paced, intense tales, this book will plunge you into the darkest corners of the human mind and the inexplicable nature of its behaviors.A horror story isn't merely a tale about someone discovering an extraterrestrial being in the garden of...

This book is written in praise of the criminal; a unique kind of criminal, who is motivated not by personal gain, but ethical altruism. Deviant heroes are those individuals who violate unjust norms and laws, facing the repercussions of social control, effecting positive social change in the process. Using a method that examines how the biographies of individual deviants intersected with history, it probes how criminals and deviants have been on the leading edge of important, positive socia...

Lost Lake was once a safe and fun place for Jippsy and his friends until:“We interrupt this program for a special news bulletin.” Jippsy and his mom stopped what they were doing to listen to the report. “The notorious gangster, Dutch Shultz, and his associate, Otto Berman, escaped the custody of federal agents in upstate New York while en route to their hearing for tax evasion. They are said to be armed and dangerous and were last seen headed toward the Canadian border in a black 1...

The Origins of the Criminal Justice System: Historical Explorations by the Justice-Involved provides an introduction to the historical roots of modern-day Western systems of justice. The text addresses different aspects of criminal justice, including chapters on police, courts, corrections, and trends in crime and punishment, as well as chapters that examine the relationship between justice practices and select communities defined by gender, age, class, and race. Each chapter begi...

Thank God, the guns!A continuation of the comprehensive history of the operations conducted by Canadian artillery units in Afghanistan, from 2007 to 2009. Based on hundreds of interviews and primary source documents, there is no other book that provides as accurate a picture of the invaluable contribution made by the artillery.

Tor Essentials presents new editions of science fiction and fantasy titles of proven merit and lasting value, each volume introduced by an appropriate literary figure.Far from Earth, two sister planets, Saint Anne and Saint Croix, circle each other in an eternal dance. It is said a race of shapeshifters once lived here, only to perish when men came. But one man believes they can still be found, somewhere in back of the beyond.In The Fifth Head ...

In April of 1997, Tristan Broder makes a pilgrimage of sorts from San Francisco to the prickly desert and scalped mountains around Tucson, Arizona, the place where he helped bury his partner Joe five years before. Guided by a comet that crossed the spring sky that year, he wanders toward renewal and resurrection, memory and mystery, deadly secrets and dark intentions.There are plenty of people in the desert who still love Tristan as much as they did Joe. There’s Maria, Joe’s wild s...

The heated national conversation about gender equality and women in the workforce is something that women in academia have been concerned with and writing about for at least a decade. Overall, the conversation has focused on identifying how women in general and mothers in particular fair in the academy as a whole, as well as offering tips on how to maximize success. Aside from a long-standing field-specific debate in anthropology, rare are the volumes focusing on the particulars of motherh...