Tintin membuat semua orang kagum karena tahan banting. Meskipun menghadapi rintangan berat dari para musuh dan penghalang, reporter yang cerdas ini terbukti tak terkalahkan dan dapat dianggap tidak bisa mati. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle tidak bisa membunuh pahlawannya, Sherlock Holmes, demikian pula Herge tidak bisa menghentikan langkah Tintin---meskipun sang reporter terjebak bahaya besar dalam gam…
Banyak ilmuwan gila atau jahat dalam dunia sastra. Saat ilmu pengetahuan menjadi mengemuka dalam dunia modern, peran para ilmuwan jadi terasa semakin penting. Tapi mereka sering digambarkan penuh kecurigaan atau bahkan kejahatan, sebagai orang-orang eksentrik yang mengancam kestabilan, bukan mendatangkan kemajuan bagi masyarakat. Herge sendiri, yang tertarik pada semua jenis ilmuwan, menciptaka…
In this favorite, whimsical rhyming riddles help Lloyd the baby llama guess what kind of animal everyone's mama really is. But it's his friend Lyn the llama that finally leads Lloyd to the answer he most longs to hear.
Typography the design of letters is at the heart of visual communication and graphic design. No design is successful without successful typography. * An artful craft since the days of moveable type, today's digital designers have an unimaginable array of possibilities when it comes to choosing typefaces. Whether on paper, screen or in e-ink, legibility and expression are paramount. * Where do…
What makes Nina mad? Lots of thing - little, ordinary, everyday kinds of things. Maybe just the things that make you mad, too.
Dear Ms. Brandt, This is my report on my favorite artist, Claude Money. Did you know he hardly ever liked his own paintings? He tore lots of them up. He even threw some in the river! I hope you like what i have written!
John Chapman--better known as Johny Appleseed--had wilderness adventures that bacame larger-than-life legends. Pioneering west from Massachusetts after the American Revolution, John cleared land and planted orchards for the settlers who followed, leaving apple trees and tall tales in his wake in this glorious picture book retelling, Steven KEllogg brings one of America's favorite heroes--and th…
Freakononomics. It's at the heart of everything we do and the things that affect us daily, from sex to crime, parenting to politics, fat to cheating, fear to traffic jams. And it's all about using information about the world around us to get to the heart of what's really happening under the surface of everyday life. Now updated with the authors' New York Times columns and blog etries, this cul…