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Book Shadowline  Revised and Expanded

Download or read book Shadowline Revised and Expanded written by Iain McCaig and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2021-11-16 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A stunning collection from renowned artist Iain McCaig, now expanded with sixteen pages of bonus content from this expert craftsman and storyteller. "What is Shadowline? It is the place where things meet: light and shadows, hope and despair, good and evil. It is, to me, the most interesting place to hunt for stories." So begins this stunningly realized and beautifully rendered retrospective showcasing work from master storyteller and artist Iain McCaig. McCaig is best known for his work as a principal designer on the three Star Wars prequels, including the iconic characters Queen Amidala and Darth Maul, as well as his work on many major motion pictures, television, and video games. His touch can be seen in such acclaimed films as Terminator 2, Hook, Francis Ford Coppola's Dracula, Interview with a Vampire, and Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. Shadowline presents a stunning portfolio of more than two decades of McCaig's masterful concept designs and storyboards, cover art and illustrations, as well as his private sketchbooks and personal paintings, all woven together within the confines of an engrossing, otherworldly journey to his creative realm: Shadowline. . ICONIC CHARACTERS: Discover visionary designs for Queen Amidala, Darth Maul, and other beloved characters across film and pop culture PRIVATE SKETCHBOOKS: More than a retrospective of McCaig’s film work, Shadowline contains dozens of images from the artist’s personal archive CREATIVE PROCESS: At the heart of Shadowline is a supernatural story that gives readers insight into the artist’s creative process LEARN TO DRAW: Features instruction in how to draw and make art REVISED AND EXPANDED: Includes bonus content featuring pieces from McCaig’s work on Guardians of the Galaxy, The Avengers, and more.

Book The Shadowline

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  • Author : Joseph Conrad
  • Publisher : Livraria Press
  • Release : 2024-05-09
  • ISBN : 398988882X
  • Pages : 95 pages

Download or read book The Shadowline written by Joseph Conrad and published by Livraria Press. This book was released on 2024-05-09 with total page 95 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new edition of Joseph Conrad's classic existential novel The Shadowline from Livraria Press with an extensive Afterword and expanded reference materials including including a timeline, character list and discussion questions. The Shadow Line, Joseph Conrad’s 1917 novel, returns in a new edition that will captivate readers and challenge them to explore the human experience. The story follows a young captain’s journey on a merchant ship as he attempts to take control of his own destiny in the face of an unforgiving sea. Conrad invites readers to consider the power of inner resolve, morality, and the consequence of fate. Conrad's last masterpiece is filled with insight and psychological complexity.

Book The Shadow Lines

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  • Author : Amitav Ghosh
  • Publisher : Penguin Books India
  • Release : 2010-01-26
  • ISBN : 0143066560
  • Pages : 288 pages

Download or read book The Shadow Lines written by Amitav Ghosh and published by Penguin Books India. This book was released on 2010-01-26 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Opening in Calcutta in the 1960s, Amitav Ghosh's radiant second novel follows two families -- one English, one Bengali -- as their lives intertwine in tragic and comic ways. The narrator, Indian born and English educated, traces events back and forth in time, from the outbreak of World War II to the late twentieth century, through years of Bengali partition and violence, observing the ways in which political events invade private lives.

Book The Shadow Line

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  • Author : Joseph Conrad
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1918
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 226 pages

Download or read book The Shadow Line written by Joseph Conrad and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Shadowline

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  • Author : Glen Cook
  • Publisher : Start Publishing LLC
  • Release : 2010-01-01
  • ISBN : 1597803790
  • Pages : 394 pages

Download or read book Shadowline written by Glen Cook and published by Start Publishing LLC. This book was released on 2010-01-01 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The vendetta in space had started centuries before "Mouse" Storm was born with his grandfather's raid on the planet Prefactlas, the blood bath that freed the human slaves from their Sangaree masters. But one Sangaree survived—the young Norborn heir, the man who swore vengeance on the Storm family and their soldiers, in a carefully mapped plot that would take generations to fulfill. Now Mouse's father Gneaus must fight for an El Dorado of wealth on the burning half of the planet Blackworld. As the great private armies of all space clash on the narrow Shadowline that divides inferno from life-sheltering shade, Gneaus' half-brother Michael plays his traitorous games, and a man called Death pulls the deadly strings that threaten to entrap them all—as the Starfishers Trilogy begins.

Book The Shadow Line

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  • Author : Joseph Conrad
  • Publisher : Cambridge University Press
  • Release : 2013-10-10
  • ISBN : 1107512174
  • Pages : 465 pages

Download or read book The Shadow Line written by Joseph Conrad and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-10-10 with total page 465 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Joseph Conrad's short novel The Shadow-Line: A Confession (1917) is one of the key works of early twentieth-century fiction. This edition, established through modern textual scholarship, and published as part of the Cambridge Edition of the Works of Joseph Conrad, presents Conrad's only major work written during the First World War and its 1920 preface in forms more authoritative than any so far printed. Correspondence reveals that the part- and chapter-divisions present in the historical editions lack authorial sanction, and this edition of The Shadow-Line offers a continuous text for the first time, restoring to the narrative a fluency and dramatic intensity not hitherto found in any printing. An Introduction and Explanatory Notes, as well as maps and illustrations, enrich this volume. The Appendices publish materials relevant to Conrad's maritime career and to the publishing of the American serial, and the Apparatus allows the reader to follow the creative process.

Book Conrad s Shadow

Download or read book Conrad s Shadow written by Nidesh Lawtoo and published by MSU Press. This book was released on 2016-09-01 with total page 391 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Western thought has often dismissed shadows as fictional, but what if fictions reveal original truths? Drawing on an anti-Platonic tradition in critical theory, Lawtoo adopts ethical, anthropological, and philosophical lenses to offer new readings of Joseph Conrad’s novels and the postcolonial and cinematic works that respond to his oeuvre. He argues that Conrad’s fascination with doubles urges readers to reflect on the two sides of mimesis: one side is dark and pathological, and involves the escalation of violence, contagious epidemics, and catastrophic storms; the other side is luminous and therapeutic, and promotes communal survival, postcolonial reconciliation, and plastic adaptations to changing environments. Once joined, the two sides reveal Conrad as an author whose Janus-faced fictions are powerfully relevant to our contemporary world of global violence and environmental crisis.

Book Savage

Download or read book Savage written by Jeff Frank and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Peter is a shoe salesman desperate for a life transformation. Sam is a hunter of things that would scare the hell out of lesser men. These two collide in the middle of an epic battle between vicious werewolves and the legendary Bigfoot! And that's just the beginning... Co-plotted by 30 Day of Night horror master Steve Niles, this book collects all four critically acclaimed issues of Savage, complete with bonus features.

Book The Shadow Line

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  • Author : Ian McDermid Gomme
  • Publisher : Thomson Nelson
  • Release : 2007
  • ISBN : 9780176416478
  • Pages : 414 pages

Download or read book The Shadow Line written by Ian McDermid Gomme and published by Thomson Nelson. This book was released on 2007 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Engagingly written and incorporating up-to-date statistics and numerous Canadian examples, The Shadow Line, fourth edition offers a unique and challenging view of deviant and criminal behaviour in Canada. This text makes complicated questions and issues accessible by adopting a straightforward and animated style and by using concrete examples to facilitate comprehension and understanding. To promote learning and retention, chapters are structured similarly and include special-interest topics and illustrations in clearly defined boxes. Each chapter begins with a detailed set of learning objectives and ends with a comprehensive summary and a list of review questions. To encourage students to think independently and to read on their own, each chapter includes discussion questions and a list of recommended readings.

Book The Border Keeper

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  • Author : Kerstin Hall
  • Publisher : Tordotcom
  • Release : 2019-07-16
  • ISBN : 1250209420
  • Pages : 176 pages

Download or read book The Border Keeper written by Kerstin Hall and published by Tordotcom. This book was released on 2019-07-16 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A 2020 Nommo Award Finalist A Book Bub Best SFF Books of the Summer Pick "A phantasmagorical picaresque through a lushly realised underworld, populated by a grotesque bestiary of fantastical creatures. . . . This twisty example of the new weird genre examines love, loss and loyalty, packing skilful world-building and a powerful emotional punch into a little over 200 pages."—The Guardian She lived where the railway tracks met the saltpan, on the Ahri side of the shadowline. In the old days, when people still talked about her, she was known as the end-of-the-line woman. Vasethe, a man with a troubled past, comes to seek a favor from a woman who is not what she seems, and must enter the nine hundred and ninety-nine realms of Mkalis, the world of spirits, where gods and demons wage endless war. The Border Keeper spins wonders both epic—the Byzantine bureaucracy of hundreds of demon realms, impossible oceans, hidden fortresses—and devastatingly personal—a spear flung straight, the profound terror and power of motherhood. What Vasethe discovers in Mkalis threatens to bring his own secrets into light and throw both worlds into chaos. Praise for The Border Keeper "Beautifully and vividly imagined. Eerie, lovely, and surreal."—Ann Leckie “A labyrinth of demons, dead gods, cranky psychopomps, and broken all-too-human lives. Hall is by turns wry and lush, genuine and venomous. So can I have the next one already?”—Max Gladstone At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Book Curtains of Light

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  • Author : George Toles
  • Publisher : State University of New York Press
  • Release : 2021-07-01
  • ISBN : 1438484232
  • Pages : 405 pages

Download or read book Curtains of Light written by George Toles and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2021-07-01 with total page 405 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: George Toles's Curtains of Light explores the ways in which various kinds of theatrical space in film engage with the film reality adjacent to them, and alter our understanding of the cinematic real. Film art is a dialogue between the world created for a film narrative and theatre spaces that confront it across the shadowline. This book provides a new way of thinking about film's relation to theatre, and challenges old conceptions of how cinema needs to escape the theatrical, or rise above it. Toles offers elegantly written and jargon-free readings of a rich variety of films, spanning the distance from D.W. Griffith's True Heart Susie up to David Lynch's Mulholland Dr. and Ang Lee's Lust, Caution. The methodology is predominantly aesthetic, but informed by Toles's decades of experience as a professional theatre director. Among the many topics covered are audition scenes, stage deaths on film, the close up and theatrical aloneness in film, eloquent objects, and characters who alternate between directing and playacting for each other, with tragic consequences. Curtains of Light would be an extremely useful introductory text for university students studying the relationship of cinema to theatre.

Book Wonderland

    Book Details:
  • Author : Stacey D'Erasmo
  • Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • Release : 2014
  • ISBN : 0544074815
  • Pages : 259 pages

Download or read book Wonderland written by Stacey D'Erasmo and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2014 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This breakout novel from a brilliant stylist--dropping us into the life a female rock star--centers on that moment when we decide whether to go all-in or give up our dreams

Book The Terror

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  • Author : Dan Simmons
  • Publisher : Little, Brown
  • Release : 2007-03-08
  • ISBN : 0316003883
  • Pages : 798 pages

Download or read book The Terror written by Dan Simmons and published by Little, Brown. This book was released on 2007-03-08 with total page 798 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The "masterfully chilling" novel that inspired the hit AMC series (Entertainment Weekly). The men on board the HMS Terror — part of the 1845 Franklin Expedition, the first steam-powered vessels ever to search for the legendary Northwest Passage — are entering a second summer in the Arctic Circle without a thaw, stranded in a nightmarish landscape of encroaching ice and darkness. Endlessly cold, they struggle to survive with poisonous rations, a dwindling coal supply, and ships buckling in the grip of crushing ice. But their real enemy is even more terrifying. There is something out there in the frigid darkness: an unseen predator stalking their ship, a monstrous terror clawing to get in. “The best and most unusual historical novel I have read in years.” —Katherine A. Powers, Boston Globe

Book Sea Stories

    Book Details:
  • Author : Joseph Conrad
  • Publisher : Wordsworth Editions
  • Release : 1998
  • ISBN : 9781853267437
  • Pages : 308 pages

Download or read book Sea Stories written by Joseph Conrad and published by Wordsworth Editions. This book was released on 1998 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes three stories where characters are tested by dramatic events 'that show in the light of day the inner worth of a man, the edge of his temper, and the fibre of his stuff; that reveal the quality of his resistance and the secret stuff of his pretences, not only to others but also to himself'.

Book Molly and Poo

Download or read book Molly and Poo written by and published by Abstract Studio Incorporated. This book was released on 2005 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chronicles the relationship between three friends--Katchoo, Francine, and David--and the people they fall in and out of love with, in a story of dark pasts, hopeful futures, double-crosses, and true friendship.

Book Handbook of Plastics Testing and Failure Analysis

Download or read book Handbook of Plastics Testing and Failure Analysis written by Vishu Shah and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2020-11-23 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written in easy-to-read and -use format, this book provides a strong training resource and reference for product designers using plastics in their products – helping them identify, quantify, and confirm whether problems are related to product design or process. • Updates coverage of data analysis techniques and examples and expands coverage of failure analysis, key because of increased litigation related to product liability • Overviews plastic testing methods and the framework to investigate causes of plastic part failure • Provides a strong training resource and reference for product designers using plastics in their products • Features a video tour of a plastics testing labroatory on a companion website and has a separate manual of problems and solutions that are appropriate for college professors using the book as a class textbook

Book Conrad s Decentered Fiction

Download or read book Conrad s Decentered Fiction written by Johan Adam Warodell and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2022-03-17 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What are the fingerprints of Joseph Conrad's fiction? This richly illustrated book argues that Conrad's vibrant details set him apart as a writer and brings them from the margins to the center for study. With recently discovered primary sources - including drawings and maps in Conrad's own hand - this book travels widely across Conrad's fiction and explores its interest in marginal voices, characters and details. It produces a new picture of Conrad as a writer, and the first picture of Conrad as an amateur sketch artist. Introducing new critical vocabulary and applying new names from art history to Conrad studies, the book ranges across cartography, fashion, analytic philosophy, manuscript studies, and animal studies to discover Conrad as an artist operating across and between different media. Offered as a complement to the abstract approaches of much literary theory, this detail-driven and margin-focused monograph mirrors the characteristic granular nature of Conrad's fiction.