Books by Publisher: Back Stage Books,U.S.
Bonehunters
By Steven Erikson
The Crippled God has been granted a place in the pantheon, a schism threatens, sides must be chosen but whatever each god decides, the rules have changed - and the first blood spilled will be in the mortal world: a world in which a host of characters, familiar and new,...
Present
By Spencer Johnson
This Present, according to the old man, is 'the best present a person can receive.' Later, when the young boy becomes a young man, disillusioned with his work and his life, he returns to ask the old man, once again, to help him find The Present.
Lighting and the Dramatic Portrait: The Art of Celebrity Editorial Photography
By Michael Grecco
One of the best-known celebrity photographers in the world shares the secrets of great portraits with photographers at every level. Sections on cameras, illumination, film and digital, lighting set-ups with diagrams, plus intriguing case studies make this book a resource photographers will use repeatedly.
Creating Characters With Personality
By Tom Bancroft
From Snow White to Shrek, it is the design that communicates a character's personality, before a single word of dialogue is spoken. This book explains the design concepts, character hierarchy, and on how to work with script, how to maximize a pose, and how to finish a character that sparkles....
Gweilo: Memories Of A Hong Kong Childhood
By Martin Booth
Shadowed by the unhappiness of his warring parents, a broad-minded mother who, like her son, was keen to embrace all things Chinese, and a bigoted father who was enraged by his family's interest in 'going native', Martin Booth's compelling memoir is a journey into Chinese culture and an extinct colonial...
Midnight Tides
By Steven Erikson
The fifth awesome tale in Erikson's epic Malazan Book of the Fallen fantasy sequenceAfter decades of warfare, the tribes of the Tiste Edur have at last united under the rule of the Warlock King.
Princess
By Jean Sasson
She tells of her own life, from her turbulent childhood to her arranged marriage - a happy one, until her husband decided to take a second wife - and of the lives of her sisters, her friends and her servants.
Learning To See Creatively
By Brian Peterson
Almost everyone can "see" in the conventional sense, but developing photographic vision takes practice. This work helps photographers visualize their work, and the world, in a whole new light. Using inventive photographs from his own portfolio, the author deconstructs creativity for photographers.
How To Paint Like The Old Masters
By Joseph Sheppard
Covers the techniques perfected by 16th and 17th century masters, studying portraits by Titian, Caravaggio, Reubens and Rembrandt and many more. This book shows demonstrations the variety of oil painting techniques perfected by the old masters.
Boudica: Dreaming The Eagle
By Manda Scott
In AD 60, Boudica, war leader of the Eceni, led her people in a final bloody revolt against the occupying armies of Rome. In the company of a supreme storyteller, the reader is plunged into the unforgettable world of tribal Britain in the years before the Romans came: a twilight...