Since Mike Mignolas Hellboy" first hit the stands in 1993 it has become a cultural sensation racking up a dozen Eisner Awards & inspiring numerous spinoffs
- from a novel line to video games to feature films. Now Dark Horse is pleased to present the comics that started it all collected in deluxe hardcover editions. Sized at a generous 9 x 12 & handsomely bound to match " The Art of Hellboy" each volume contains the equivalent of two full trade paperbacks."
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The exuberant realism & virtuoso technique of Hellenistic sculpture formed the basis of much later European art. Under Alexander & his cosmopolitan successors sculptors enriched the classical Greek repertoire with a whole range of new subjects--hermaphrodites peasants boxers--and new styles-- baroque treatment genre figures individualized portraiture. Professor Smith offers a reappraisal of this entire artistic epoch as a period of innovation demonstrating the variety subtlety & complexity of its styles. Numerous illustrations reveal the skill & inventiveness of the Hellenistic masters who created works of great beauty & expressive power. 387 illus. ...

August 1942. North Africa. The desert war hangs in the balance. When the commander of the Eighth Army General Gott is killed it's clear that foul play is at work. An impenetrable Axis spy circuit is compromising any hope the Allies have of stemming the Nazi tide. Jack Tanner recovering from wounds in a Cairo hospital is astonished to receive a battlefield commission which will propel him into a very different world when he returns to action. Fit once more he finds himself facing the full onslaught of Rommel's latest offensive. In its aftermath Tanner & his trusty sidekick Sykes are recruited to work behind the Axis lines in a desperate attempt to fight back. But the murky world of deceit & murder they find themselves in is a million miles away from the certainties of the battlefield. Somehow they must discover who they can trust in the cat-&-mouse world of counter-espionage before it's too late... ...

General Adolphus knows the Monarchy crackdown is coming. Now he needs to pull together all the resources of the Hellhole colony the ever-expanding shadow-Xayan settlement & his connections with the other Deep Zone worlds. On Sonjeera Diadem Michella Duchenet has collected a huge fleet led by firebrand Commissar Escobar Hallholme son of the man who originally defeated Adolphus. Uniting themselves & pooling their minds the shadow-Xayans send a power surge along the original stringline path that links Hellhole with the Monarchy's hub on Sonjeera. All of the Diadem's battleships are currently approaching on that route & when the mental blast wipes out all the substations the battleships are effectively stranded. But now a bigger threat appears. Three large asteroids come in from the outer reaches of the Candela system. On Hellhole the awakened Xayans finally reveal information that has been hidden even from their own followers. A large group of powerful rogue telemancers split away from the main race-fanatics violent & ruthless. & now that the Xayan civilization is reawakening the rogues have come back to destroy them once & for all. They are coming for Hellhole & this time they will completely destroy it. ...

Helliconia is a planet that due to the massively eccentric orbit of its own sun around another star experiences seasons that lasts eons. Whole civilisations grow in the Spring flourish in the Summer & then die in the brutal winters. The human-like inhabitants have been profoundly changed by their experience of this harsh cycle. In orbit above the planet a terran mission struggles to observe & understand the effects on society of such a massive climatic impact. Massive thoroughly researched minutely organised full of action pulp references & deep drama this is a classic trilogy. ...

Android is a software toolkit for mobile phones created by Google & the Open Handset Alliance. Its inside millions of cell phones & other mobile devices making Android a major platform for application developers. That could be your own program running on all those devices. Getting started developing with Android is easy. You dont even need access to an Android phone just a computer where you can install the Android SDK & the phone emulator that comes with it. Within minutes Hello Android" will get you creating your first working application: Androids version of " Hello World." From there youll build up a more substantial example: an Android Sudoku game. By gradually adding features to the game youll learn about many aspects of Android programming such as creating user interfaces (including touch D-pad & keyboard input) building location-based services (including GPS & cell-tower triangulation) & working with sensors (harnessing the compass & the accelerometer). Youll also learn how to publish your applications to the Android Market. This third edition has been revised for Android 2.1 (Eclair MR1) & 2.0/2.0.1 (Eclair). It also covers Android 1.6 (Cupcake) & 1.5 (Donut). Every page & example was reviewed & updated for compatibility with the latest versions & streamlined based on reader feedback. Freshly added material covers the new multi-touch & live wallpaper programming interfaces in addition to best practices on supporting the wide variety of screen resolutions & Android versions in use today. If youd rather be coding than reading about coding this book is for you." ...

This title offers witty one-of-a-kind imaginative cupcake designs using candy & sweets from the local store. Karen Tack & Alan Richardson show how to create funny scary & sophisticated masterpieces using common sweets & snack items. With these easy-to-follow techniques even the most kitchen-challenged cooks can: raise a big-top circus cupcake tier for a childs birthday; trot out a line of confectionery pupcakes for a dog fancier; serve sausage & pepperoni pizza cupcakes for April Fools Day; & bewitch trick-or-treaters with chilly ghost chocolate cupcakes a white cupcake Christmas wreath & Easter egg cupcakes. No baking skills or fancy pastry equipment is required. Spotting the familiar items in the hundreds of brilliant photos is at least half the fun. ...

A tree stood quietly in the sunshine. A big brown bear stepped up. Hello!" he said very loudly. " Hello! Hello!" come little voices squeaky voices & deep-down voices from all over the tree. But when it begins to rain what do you think they say?" ...

Youd think twenty-seven years would be enough time to wise up to the rules of love & loss especially Rule Number 1: Do not at any time let him see how much he has hurt you. But no Izzy Keegan was probably off doing sambuca shots when that lesson was taught. So starting with public humiliation (that infamous blow-up with her Ex & his new woman.. .huge mistake) & taking in temporary insanity rebound sex & a night in a police cell along the way Izzy has to make up her own rules for coping with heartbreak. Youd think twenty-seven years would be enough time to wise up to the rules of love & loss. Make that twenty-seven & a bit... ...

14 November 2012 marks the ninetieth anniversary of the BBCs first ever broadcast & the beginning of the British love affair with radio. This fascinating book takes as its starting point those early tentative programmes broadcast from Marconi House on the Strand & follows the story of those magical radio voices through the years of economic depression war & austerity to the swinging Sixties & up to the digital era. Above all it celebrates the great the forgotten & the notorious voices of radio from the last nine decades & the programmes they made famous: Marion Cran in the 1920s who pioneered the first gardening programme; Lord Haw Haw whose sinister catchphrase Germany calling punctuated broadcasts throughout the Second World War; the Goons & Kenneth Horne comedy greats of the 1950s; John Peel Alan Freeman Kenny Everett & other heroes of Radio Caroline & the pirate stations; all the way up to Eddie Mair Fi Glover & Danny Baker the much-loved voices of today. The result is a wonderful blend of insight history & nostalgia that will appeal to radios many aficionados. ...