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Ever since the very public dissolution of Jesse's marriage to Sandra Bullock first hit the news, fans have been clamouring to hear his side of the story. When he appeared on Nightline for his first interview after the scandal, the show saw huge overnight ratings, averaging more than 6 million total viewers. A staple on celebrity blogs and in the tabloids, Jesse's personal life remains the subject of endless speculation...until now. American paints a portrait of a self-made man who has known his fair share of triumph and regret along his path to fame. Born and raised in Long Beach, California, Jesse James was a teenage football star turned professional bodyguard who worked for many A-list rock bands, including Soundgarden, Danzig, and Slayer, and travelled the globe with them. After an injury sustained at a show, Jesse decided to set off on his own to pursue his childhood love: motorcycles. In 1992, Jesse began West Coast Choppers in a corner of a friend's garage. He built it from the ground up, transforming the tiny operation into a multi-million dollar business that caters to a host of celebrity clientele and has been the subject of Discovery Channel's hugely successful series Monster Garage and the documentaries Motorcycle Mania and Motorcycle Mania 2.

As sophomores at Ocean High, Winter and her best friend, Sloane, make a pact to do whatever it takes to make it to the top of the social pyramid. But once Sloane gets a taste of what it's like to fit in with the cool girls, she all but slams that door in Winter's face. Left without her best-friend-since-forever, Winter decides to take revenge the good old fashioned way: By airing Sloane's dirty secrets on an anonymous blog. But is her retaliation worth the consequences? And is the price for popularity one that Winter is willing to pay? Alyson Noel once again navigates the tricky waters of the high school social scene with the heart and humour her readers have come to love.

The subject is Japanese photographer Araki, a man who talks about life through photographs. His powerful oeuvre, decades' worth of images, has been pared down to 540 pages of photographs which tell the story of Araki and comprise the ultimate retrospective collection of his work. Known best for his intimate, snapshot-style images of women often tied up with ropes (kinbaku, Japanese rope-tying art) and of colorful, sensual flowers, Araki is an artist who reacts strongly to his emotions and uses photography to experience them more fully. Obsessed with women, Araki seeks to come closer to them through photography, using ropes like an embrace and the click of the shutter like a kiss. His work is at once shocking and mysteriously tender; a deeply personal artist, Araki is not afraid of his emotions nor of showing them to the world.

Boka presenterer arbeidene til over 60 arkitekter, bl.a. Tadao Ando, Neil M. Denari, Rick Joy, Rem Koolhaas og Wesley Wei. Har stedsregister.

For over twenty years, "The Years Best Science Fiction" has been recognized as the best collection of short science fiction writing in universe and an essential resource for every science fiction fan. In 2005, the original "Best of the Best" collected the finest short stories from that series and became a benchmark in the SF field. Now for the first time ever, Hugo Award-winning editor Gardner Dozois sifts through hundreds of stories and dozens of authors, who have gone on to become some of the most esteemed practitioners of the form to bring readers the ultimate anthology of short science fiction novels from his legendary series. With such notable authors as Ursula K. LeGuin, Michael Swanwick, Joe Haldeman, Frederick Pohl, Greg Egan, Robert Silverberg, Alastair Reynolds, and many more, the "Best of the Best Volume 2" will be the most significant science fiction short novel anthology ever published.

This title deals with the art of likeness. It focuses on the spectrum of today's portraiture, from caricature to realism. The field of illustration has flourished over the last decade, with professionals working both by computer and by hand. In illustration, the single most challenging and captivating subject has been the portrait, frequently used in editorials, advertising, products, and most recently, being the subject of major exhibitions. The book gathers together the exclusive (and frequently unpublished) portrait work of over 80 illustrators from all over the world, many of whom were featured in "Illustration Now!", including Aaron Jasinski, Alex Gross, Andre Carrilho, Andrea Wicklund, and Anita Kunz.

What's your sign? This title presents the diverse logos from around the world. Everybody knows that the logo is a key branding element. A good one can glamorize just about anything, so it comes as no surprise that logo design is a crucial step in the development of a product or service. Each volume in the "Logo Design" series brings together diverse logos from around the world, organized into chapters by theme, such as creative industry, events, fashion, media, music, retailers, and service. A full index lists each logo's company, designer, and designer's website. Also included is a case study section, concentrating on logo application and development. Anyone who's interested in design will appreciate this diverse compendium of visual ideas, and creative professionals will covet Taschen's Logo Design books. As scientist Linus Pauling once said, 'In order to come up with one good idea, you must have lots of ideas.' Volume 3 features include: an interview with H5, the makers of 2010 Oscar winner Logorama, Neville Brody's Research Studios on the redesign of Music for Youth, Sasha Vidakovic on the new identity for Victoria Beckham, leading Canadian design studio Concrete on the launch of SUPER cosmetics, British studio KentLyons on Jarman film award, HB Design from Argentina on the country's 200th anniversary logo, and Helmut Langer on universal identities.

This is an optical opulence. This is an eye-popping book spectacle. Eyeglass designer Moss Lipow trawled eBay, auction houses, garage sales, and flea markets worldwide to amass glasses and photographs for his massive eyewear collection. This book, which traces eyewear's journey over the past millennium, features the best examples from Lipow's collection as well as models from other world class collections. Considering the wealth of examples included herein-such as prehistoric whalebone eye guards used by Eskimos, 13th century wooden rivet spectacles for Italian clergy, Medieval strap-on leather goggles, lorgnettes worn by 19th century dandies, pince-nez and monocles, early 20th century aviator sunglasses, and Godard's mod plastic frames-it's abundantly clear that eyewear has experienced a surprising and fascinating evolution; what was once a purely practical apparatus has grown into a multi-billion dollar global industry catering to both the visually impaired and the fashionably inclined. Accompanying the wealth of images in this wide-ranging volume are insightful texts informed by a wide variety of sources including ancient texts, old catalogues, vintage magazines, and out-of-print publications of every kind.

Den økte interessen for fotografen Julius Shulman har ført til at man har gjenoppdaget byggverk som man hadde glemt. Boken presenterer nesten 300 arkitektoniske mesterverk. Har litteraturliste og register.

The devil you know . . . With the help of charming and devious Damon Salvatore, Elena Gilbert rescued her vampire love, Stefan Salvatore, from the Dark Dimension. But neither brother returned unscathed. Stefan is weak from his imprisonment and needs more blood than Elena can give him, while a strange magic has turned Damon into a human. Desperate, Damon will do anything to become a vampire again--no matter the cost.When dangerous spirits take hold of Fell's Church--forces that the Salvatore brothers can no longer fight--Matt and Meredith must battle an evil that is darker, and closer, than they ever could have imagined. . . .

This is the story of the friendships that defined one of America's most beloved Presidents. Chris Matthews, who has been following and studying the Kennedys most of his life, has interviewed President Kennedy's closest confidants - family, friends, and those who served with him--to create a moving portrait of a man many loved but few really understood. These friends were with Jack Kennedy as he took surprising risks, struggled with chronic illness, and repeatedly confronted "the thin membrane between life and death." As Matthews describes it, Jack Kennedy was a rebel, an adventurer, and a great enjoyer of life precisely because he understood its fragility. Being with Jack Kennedy was great fun for his friends. Now readers will share in that experience.

"Waddle!", like its predecessors "Gallop!" and "Swing!", uses 'scanimation' technology to simulate movement by the simple turning of a page. Unlike the previous two books, though, "Waddle!" also introduces colour into the text and illustrations, so children are learning two key preschool concepts at once: colours and motion. Leaping green frogs, flapping red hummingbirds, slithering yellow snakes, these animals are truly amazing to see.

Over half a century since The Spy Who came in from the Cold made John le Carre a worldwide, bestselling sensation, David Cornwell, the man behind the pseudonym, remains an enigma. He has consistently quarried his life for his writing, and his novels seem to offer tantalizing glimpses of their author - but in the narrative of his life fact and fiction have become intertwined, and little is really known of one of the world's most successful writers. In Cornwell's lonely childhood Adam Sisman uncovers the origins of the themes of love and abandonment which have dominated le Carre's fiction: the departure of his mother when he was five, followed by 'sixteen hugless years' in the dubious care of his father, a man of energy and charm, a serial seducer and conman who hid the Bentleys in the trees when the bailiffs came calling - a 'totally incomprehensible father' who could 'put a hand on your shoulder and the other in your pocket, both gestures equally sincere'. And in Cornwell's adult life - from recruitment by both MI5 and MI6, through marriage and family life, to his emergence as the master of the spy novel - Sisman explores the idea of espionage and its significance in human terms; the extent to which betrayal is acceptable in exchange for love; and the endless need for forgiveness, especially from oneself. Written with exclusive access to David Cornwell himself, to his private archive and to the most important people in his life - family, friends, enemies, intelligence ex-colleagues and ex-lovers - and featuring a wealth of previously unseen photographic material, Adam Sisman's extraordinarily insightful and constantly revealing biography brings in from the cold a man whose own life has been as complex and confounding and filled with treachery as any of his novels. 'I'm a liar,' Cornwell has written. 'Born to lying, bred to it, trained to it by an industry that lies for a living, practised in it as a novelist.' This is the definitive biography of a major writer, described by Ian McEwan as 'perhaps the most significant novelist of the second half of the twentieth century in Britain'.

Megan Collier blir kidnappet av en gal og morderisk psykiater som er ute etter å få hevn over faren hennes. Hun kjemper for å berge livet, samtidig som foreldrene forsøker å redde henne.

From the bestselling author of the Bone Collector novels, soon to be an NBC seriesRune is an aspiring filmmaker with more ambition than political savvy, paying her dues as an assistant cameraperson for the local news. But she's got her eyes on the prize, the network's hot newsmagazine, Current Events-and she's got the story she knows will get her there. Poking around in the video archives, Rune spots a taped interview with Randy Boggs, who's doing hard time in Attica for a murder he claims he didn't commit. Rune can't say exactly why, but she's sure he's innocent. If she can prove it, Current Events won't merely report the news, it'll make news-and Rune's career. But what she could be writing is Randy Boggs's epitaph-and her own. Rune's newly discovered witness soon turns up dead. A hit man from Miami is on Rune's trail, and Boggs is finding prison even more dangerous than before. Someone wants this story killed, and it could be the girl with the camera who ends up on the cutting room floor.

Forfatteren forteller om hvordan han på 1990-tallet på dagtid jobbet i et reklamebyrå mens han på kveldstid jobbet som drag-queen, samtidig som han forsøkte å etablere et stabilt og kjærlig parforhold.

The '60s were the golden age of high-style flying. In this memoir, you'll find the true story of what flying the friendly skies was really like, written bye two audaciously outspoken young ladies who lived, and loved, the stewardess life. From the captain who's as subtle as a 747 when he's on the make to the passenger who mistakes the overhead luggage rack for an upper berth; from the names of celebrities who are a pleasure to serve (and some notables on the "bad guy" list) to the origins of some naughty stereotypes - Spaniards are the best lovers, actors the most foul-mouthed. This jet-age journal offers anecdotes from the aerial and amorous lives of those busty, lusty, adventuresome young "stews" of the swinging '60s.

This is the story of the family- proud landowner Asgeir Gunnarsson and his family. A small Norse settlement struggles for survival through increasingly harsh weather, famine, and witchcraft in fourteenth-century Greenland. While each year, the winter comes earlier and life gets a little harder, Asgeir has to deal with the feud between his own family and one of the neighbours.

Coy is a suspended sailor without a ship. At an auction in Barcelona, he meets a beautiful woman obsessed with the Dei Gloria, a Jesuit ship sunk by pirates in the seventeenth century. Tánger uses her considerable skills with men and her expertise with atlases and nautical maps to search for the ship's lost treasure. Coy is quickly drawn in to her search and finds himself falling in love as they search their fortune together - or do they?

Leigh Kendall er på vei opp på fjellet i en forrykende storm. Hennes mann har en overraskelse som hun bare må se. Men plutselig forsvinner veien under henne, og da hun våkner befinner hun seg på et sykehus. Hun får vite at mannen hennes er sporløst forsvunnet, og Leigh blir utpekt som hovedmistenkt. Nå må hun selv finne svarene for å renvaske seg. Og jo mer hun avslører av ektemannens bakgrunn, desto tydeligere blir det at hun ikke kjente han. Leigh graver stadig etter svar, men hun skjønner at sannheten kan være det mest fryktelige våpen av dem alle.

Park Ranger Anna Pigeon returns to face her most duplicitous foe—human nature—in Nevada Barr's New York Times bestseller, Hunting Season. The quiet beauty of autumn on Mississippi's Natchez Trace is swiftly shattered when Anna answers a call to Mt. Locust, once a working plantation and inn, now a tourist spot. But the man Anna finds in an old bedroom is no tourist in distress. He's nearly naked, and very dead—his body bearing marks consistent with sex games gone awry. On a writing table nearby is an open Bible with ominous passages circled in red. There are secrets that prominent men in this God-fearing country wish to keep under wraps—and Anna has stumbled into a nest of them.

Bob Swagger er en tidligere marinesoldat. En dag blir han beskutt mens han er ute og rir sammen med kona og dattera, og han vet at han må beskytte dem mot den ene skytteren i verden som er like god som han selv.

Taking us from smoggy Los Angeles to the woods of Idaho, from Hawaii at the turn of the twentieth century to the post-Civil War frontier, these riveting stories trace the perils and occasional triumphs of lawmen and women who put themselves in harm's way to face down the bad guys. Some of them even walk the edge of becoming bad guys themselves. In T. Jefferson Parker's "Skinhead Central," an ex-cop and his wife find unexpected menace in the idyllic setting they have chosen for their retirement. In Alafair Burke's "Winning," a female officer who is attacked in the line of duty must protect her own husband from his worst impulses. In Michael Connelly's "Father's Day", Harry Bosch faces one of his most emotionally trying cases, investigating a young boy's death. These are hard-hitting, thrilling, and utterly unforgettable stories, from some of the best writers in the mystery world.

The treasury presents ghost stories, horror stories, detective stories; stories of suspense, terror, fantasy and the plain macabre, written by authors as Rick Moody, Stephen King, Michael Crichton and Nick Hornby.

Barcelona, 1945—just after the war, a great world city lies in shadow, nursing its wounds, and a boy named Daniel awakes on his eleventh birthday to find that he can no longer remember his mother's face. To console his only child, Daniel's widowed father, an antiquarian book dealer, initiates him into the secret of the Cemetery of Forgotten Books, a library tended by Barcelona's guild of rare-book dealers as a repository for books forgotten by the world, waiting for someone who will care about them again. Daniel's father coaxes him to choose a volume from the spiraling labyrinth of shelves, one that, it is said, will have a special meaning for him. And Daniel so loves the novel he selects, The Shadow of the Wind by one Julian Carax, that he sets out to find the rest of Carax's work. To his shock, he discovers that someone has been systematically destroying every copy of every book this author has written. In fact, he may have the last one in existence. Before Daniel knows it his seemingly innocent quest has opened a door into one of Barcelona's darkest secrets, an epic story of murder, magic, madness and doomed love. And before long he realizes that if he doesn't find out the truth about Julian Carax, he and those closest to him will suffer horribly.As with all astounding novels, The Shadow of the Wind sends the mind groping for comparisons —The Crimson Petal and the White? The novels of Arturo Pérez-Reverte? Of Victor Hugo? Love in the Time of Cholera?—but in the end, as with all astounding novels, no comparison can suffice. As one leading Spanish reviewer wrote, "The originality of Ruiz Zafón's voice is bombproof and displays a diabolical talent. The Shadow of the Wind announces a phenomenon in Spanish literature.” An uncannily absorbing historical mystery, a heart-piercing romance, and a moving homage to the mystical power of books, The Shadow of the Wind is a triumph of the storyteller's art.

In a pub called the Grave Maurice, Melrose Plant overhears the intriguing story of fifteen-year-old Nell Ryder, granddaughter of the owner of Ryder Stud Farm in Cambridgeshire, the heart of Britain's racing world. The girl was abducted nearly two years before and has never been heard from since. The tale is especially fascinating to Melrose Plant because the girl's father is Richard Jury's surgeon. Recuperating from gunshot wounds, Jury's in dire need of something to occupy his time, even if the case is as cold as a case can get, until another murder heats it up again.

The town of Potshot, Arizona, is under siege from a band of murderous marauders, and the law is helpless to stop them. But now there's anew gun in town, Boston P.I. Spenser, and he has gathered a posse of the best and baddest to back him up.

Flavia di Stefano blir sendt for å etterforske mordet på et medlem i den berømte titianske etterforskningskomiteen. Hun kontakter kunsthistorikeren Jonathan Argyll for å få hjelp, men hver gang Flavia nærmer seg ei løsning på saka, myrdes et annet medlem av komiteen.

London opplever ei hetebølge og rike menn blir drept og likene deres funnet med ei sølvskje i munnen der tunga skulle ha vært. Etterforskeren Red Metcalfe er kjent for sine evner til å komme under huden på de morderne han jakter på, men etter hvert begynner fortida hans å plage han, og byen er ikke trygg for noen.

Etter to måneders sjukemelding hadde Mike Croft håpet på ei enkel sak for å komme inn i ting igjen. I steden får han ei sak med en voldtektsmann som går løs i Norwichs gater og overfaller unge, blonde kvinner. Det virker som om det er tilfeldig hvem han angriper, men når obuksjonsrapportene er ferdige må Mike innse at det er et grusomt scenario han står overfor.