Looking Through Windows

The magic and mastery of anime springs to life in this gorgeous celebration of the genre that features more than one hundred and fifty full-color frames. A uniquely powerful form of artistic expression, anime has embraced complex and provocative ideas since its inception in the mid twentieth century. This dynamic and wide-ranging book explores eighty key themes of the genre, from wars to natural disasters, nature to ecology, childhood to magic, dystopias to fables. It looks at more than one hundred masterpieces of Japanese animation, including Akira, Ghost in the Shell, One Piece, Princess Mononoke, Grave of the Fireflies and Howl's Moving Castle, to show how practitioners consistently balance tradition with modernity and how anime's distinct style has influenced other forms of media such as video games, comic books and live-action films. Covering an enormous range of talent--from Isao Takahata, Katsuhiro Ôtomo, and Makoto Shinkai to Studio Ghibli and Mamoru Oshii--it demonstrates how

A bestseller on first publication, and never since out of print, Alice's fans included Oscar Wilde and Queen Victoria Alice's Adventures in Wonderland has been translated into over 50 languages, alth

′It′s a poor sort of memory that only works backward.′In Carroll′s sequel to Alice′s Adventures in Wonderland, Alice once again finds herself in a bizarre and nonsensical place when she passes through

Celebrate Christmas in true Wonderland style with this special festive edition of Through the Looking-glass and What Alice Found There.With a foiled festive cover and a Christmas letter from Lewis Carroll as a foreword, this limited edition gift book is the perfect gift for Alice fans, and a must-have for every collector's bookshelf.In a collectable, keepsake size, ideal as a stocking-filler, this unique edition contains Lewis Carroll's complete, original text and iconic illustrations from Sir John Tenniel throughout. Alice's extraordinary adventures are brought to life as caught up in the great looking-glass chess game, she sets off to claim her crown, meeting unforgettable characters along the way, such as Tweedledee and Tweedledum, and Humpty Dumpty.Published by Macmillan Children's Books, the original Alice publisher.

Few writers have captured the flavor of the American Southwest better than Aimee and David Thurlo, in both mysteries and romantic suspense.Looking Through Darkness is the latest in their Trading Post

In Looking Through Water, William McKay finds himself reliving his past to help his troubled grandson, Kyle, deal with the present. The old man desperately wants to discover what is troubling the broo

Few writers have captured the flavor of the American Southwest better than Aimee and David Thurlo, in both mysteries and romantic suspense.Looking Through Darkness is the latest in their Trading Post

Anthropologists have long sought to extricate their work from the policies and agendas of those who dominate—and often oppress—their native subjects. Looking through Taiwan is an uncompromising look a