Anne Powers

Outsold only by the Bible and Shakespeare, the works of Agatha Christie stand as some of the most celebrated crime fiction of our era. This book takes ten of her most famous works and shows their relationship to ten of crime history's most famous and sensational cases--cases whose notoriety still resounds to this day. Addressing both novels and short stories, the author illuminates the relationship between Christie's Murder on the Orient Express and the sensational Lindbergh Kidnapping Case of 1932; the connections between Christie's Mrs. McGinty's Dead and the horrific true case of England's most loathed wife-killer, the American Dr. Hawley Harvey Crippen--and eight more engrossing pairings of Christie's ingenious mystery puzzles with vintage true crime's most sensational events.

True Crime Parallels to the Mysteries of Agatha Christie

Presents a collection of projects that teaches the techniques and concepts of Cinema 4D.

The Artist's Project Sourcebook

Cinema 4D

Make the creative leap to 3D. Realize your artistic vision with this treasure chest of instructional projects. Get the essential concepts and techniques without drowning in the technical complexities. This new edition is an artist's sourcebook for the visionary in you that wants to master 3D-and have fun in the process. It serves as a complete guide for the creative use of CINEMA 4D R10 and all of its modules. This new edition features an engaging full-color presentation of short, playful projects show you how to put this powerful toolset to work. You will master R10's improved workflow, scene management, enhanced animation timeline and searchable object manager, as well as its: * MOCCA 3 system, including Joints, Skin Objects, the Weight Tool, the Morph Tool, Visual Selector and Clothilde * MoGraph module for motion graphics, type manipulation and the animation of multiple forms * Bodypaint 3D for applying 2D drawing and painting skills to 3D models * Advanced modeling tools such as the Brush tool * Interface with third-party applications including Z-Brush, and Adobe's Creative Suite You also get inventive quick starts for other modules including Hair, Sketch and Toon, Advanced Render, Dynamics and Thinking Particles. The companion DVD is bursting to the brim with project source files, extra projects, tutorial movies, guest artist tutorials, inspirational galleries and unique C4D Teacher Files (C4D scenes with embedded step-by-step instruction).

CINEMA 4D

A cousin to Caesar, whose imperial ambitions lead him into dangerous intrigue against the young Caligula, finds that he can defy dictatorship only through love.

No King But Caesar

Agatha Christie

The Mysterious Affair at Styles and "The Mysterious Affair at Rugeley"! This edition of THE MYSTERIOUS AFFAIR AT STYLES celebrates 100 years since the 1916 inception of a mystery masterpiece. It contains the complete, classic detective novel by AGATHA CHRISTIE, enhanced by a handful of annotations designed to bridge smoothly the gap of a century of history. The novel is accompanied by an intriguing and engrossing original account of "THE MYSTERIOUS AFFAIR AT RUGELEY": the unbelievable true-crime story of the infamous DR WILLIAM PALMER, whose 1856 trial for the murder by strychnine-poisoning of JOHN PARSONS COOK doubtless served as an inspiration, over a half-century later, for Agatha Christie's first mystery novel.

And the Mysterious Affair at Rugeley

The Mysterious Affair at Styles

Queen's Ransom

It's the 1950s. Picture Blackshale, Tennessee, with its home fires, small town ways, and postwar innocence - the perfect place for a girl to grow up. From her earliest days, an artistic spark has been smoldering in Anna Grace Tollett, and when the mountain turns dark and unnerving, creativity is all she has to weather the hard times. As an adult, she describes her art: It is about the rituals of our lives, we who live in the tribes of Appalachia, and the spook in the hollow, the voodoo of the mountains. In Smoke from Small Fires, happily off-tilt characters, bizarre events, and the gamut of human emotions stack up like a collage layered thick with compelling details. Rendered in visually rich prose, courageous Anna Grace and her quirky band of kin and friends rise above poignant trials that will color your mind's eye for a long time.

Smoke from Small Fires

Based on the lives of Marguerite d'Anjou, Elizabeth Woodville, Anne Neville and Elizabeth Plantagenet.

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