New Releases by Alan Robert

The creator of the best-selling coloring book series The Beauty of Horror, Alan Robert, intricately illustrates the most recognizable and beloved scenes of the ghost with the most from Tim Burton’s renowned 1988 film in Beetlejuice: The Official Coloring Book! The mischievous world of Beetlejuice™ comes to life in Beetlejuice: The Official Coloring Book, ready to be colored! Alan Robert, renowned illustrator of The Beauty of Horror coloring book series, hand-draws rich, detailed illustrations that evoke the haunting spirit of the infamous bio-exorcist as he tempts the Maitlands, terrorizes Lydia Deetz and her family, counters Otho’s over-the-top hijinks, and highlights all the frights and sights revealed in the afterlife. With more than 60 pages of captivating illustrations from the cult classic film, fans can chant Beetlejuice... Beetlejuice...Beetlejuice: The Official Coloring Book to conjure up hours of strange and unusual fun among the recently deceased. 60+ COLORING PAGES: Beetlejuice: The Official Coloring Book is full of more than 60 pages of custom art, full of details ready to color! ICONIC SCENES: Color in Barbara and Adam’s adventures in the underworld, the Maitland’s exorcism, the Deetz’s Day-O dinner party, all of Betelgeuse’s haunting attractions, and more BEWITCHING ILLUSTRATIONS: Tim Burton’s afterlife scenes captured the audience’s imagination upon release in 1988, and now fans can color and explore those unforgettable settings! OFFICIAL COLORING BOOK: Created in collaboration with Warner Bros. COMPLETE YOUR COLLECTION: Complete your horror coloring book collection with It: The Official Coloring Book, Chucky: The Official Coloring Book, and Universal Monsters: The Official Coloring Book, also available

The best-selling coloring book series brings you an all-new hair-raising tale of Ghouliana and her undead pals! In the latest horrific endeavor from visionary creator Alan Robert, The Beauty of Horror: Ghouliana's Sanctuary for Monsters presents the same bone-chilling artwork with a brand-new twist: This coloring book tells a story! Follow Ghouliana as she befriends Agatha, an 18th-century witch who has sworn to protect the world's most feared monsters from the evils of mankind. When Agatha unexpectedly falls ill, Ghouliana must rise to the occasion and fill her shoes. But does Ghouliana have what it takes to lead the legion of monsters to safety? Find out the answer while adding your colors and creativity to over 80 pages of intricate illustrations from top horror artist Alan Robert.

Ghouliana and pals pay homage to pop culture greats with a twisted and terrifying Haunt of Fame in the newest edition of the bestselling coloring book series! Everybody who was anybody is here! From The Godfather of Soul to The Fab Four to many members of the 27 Club, icons from across the entertainment arts are resurrected in all their ghastly glory! Ghouliana and her undead friends pay tribute to their favorite celebrities in their very own Haunt of Fame, featuring Harry Houdini, Edgar Allan Poe, Einstein, Marilyn, and more! Join her merrily-macabre squad of walking horrors as they spend their 15 minutes with the most famous faces to ever brighten our cultural landscape. While coloring over 80 pages of detailed, hand-drawn designs, be sure to help Ghouliana find all the ghastly memorabilia and easter eggs hidden throughout. The Beauty of Horror 5: Haunt of Fame features the original size (10" x 10") and double-sided format that fans love!

May of Teck, only daughter of a noble family fallen from grace, has been selected to marry the troublesome Prince Eddy, heir to the British throne. Submitting to the wishes of Queen Victoria and under pressure from her family, young May agrees. But just as a spark of love and devotion arises between the young couple, Prince Eddy dies of influenza. To her horror, May discovers she is to be married to the brother, Georgie, instead, a cold and domineering man. But what can she do? From the author of The Prince of Mirrors comes this gripping account of the life of Queen Mary, one of the most formidable queens of Britain.

They say there is nothing more frightening than the blank page... and up until now, they'd probably be right! The Beauty of Horror: Haunt This Journal will give you nightmares for days. Follow ghastly fan favorite Ghouliana on a macabre descent into madness as she prompts and pokes your every move! Abide her direction or else she may seek her revenge! So get in the spirit to rip up, tear out, and unleash your creativity in ways you've never dreamed of. While this guided journal may be considered a companion to the hit adult coloring book series The Beauty of Horror, this time around, bestselling creator Alan Robert encourages you to color outside the lines!

A philosophical discussion and argument for leading a realistic and harmonious life filled with appreciation over pride - featuring a few hundred quotes and several hundred questions that readers can answer about their own behavior.

The bigger, the scarier! The scarier, the better! The popular horror coloring book series expands with this lithograph set of twelve oversized illustrations suitable for framing. It's a terribly attractive addition to the bestselling Beauty of Horror series by creator Alan Robert. Each MONSTER-sized print allows for an even more fun coloring experience with its large spaces and one-sided, deluxe coloring format. This GOREgeous print collection includes fan favorites from The Beauty of Horror Volume One, Volume Two: Ghouliana's Creepatorium, and Volume Three: Haunted Playgrounds, and also features three, brand-new Alan Robert exclusives!

Ghouliana takes Mischief Night to a whole new level with this special Halloween edition of the hit coloring book series! Expect more tricks than treats from bestselling artist Alan Robert as you color each of these GOREgeously drawn macabre masterpieces. While you fill your jack 'o lantern to the brim with delicious delights, keep an eye out for all of Ghouliana's contaminated candies before you take a fatal bite. She has already dismantled Christmas with The Beauty of Horror: Ghosts of Christmas coloring book, now it's time to turn Hallow's Eve on its head with these brand-new FANGtastic designs. Trick Or Treaters beware! These 7" x 7", one-sided, perforated pages allow you to decorate your haunt with your horrific creations for everyone to see!

"Two young men with expectations. One predicted to succeed, the other to fail. Prince Albert Victor is heir presumptive to the British throne at its late Victorian zenith. Handsome and good-hearted, he is regarded as disastrously inadequate to be the king. By contrast, Jem Stephen is a golden boy worshipped by all - a renowned intellectual and the Keeper and outstanding player of the famous Eton Wall Game. He is appointed as Prince Albert's tutor at Cambridge - the relationship that will change both of their lives. Set mostly in London and Norfolk from the 1860s to the 1890s, The Prince Of Mirrors is, behind its splendid royal facade, a story about the sense of duty and selflessness of love, that have a power to show someone who they really are. Blending historical facts with plausible imagination, it is a moving portrait of Britain's lost king, the great-uncle of Queen Elizabeth II."--Provided by publisher.

Get that red crayon ready! Rock-star-turned-comics-creator Alan Robert has created a follow-up to his smash-hit, horror-themed adult coloring book! The color-crazed carnage continues! Follow everyone's favorite undead girl, Ghouliana, as she mischievously attempts to trick budding colorists into unleashing a deadly spell. Try and find the ingredients she's sprinkled throughout Robert's intricate pen and ink illustrations before it's too late!

This text provides a comparative investigation of the affinities and differences of two of the most dynamic currents in World Buddhism: Zen Buddhism and the Thai Forest Movement. Defying differences in denomination, culture, and historical epochs, these schools revived an unfettered quest for enlightenment and proceeded to independently forge like practices and doctrines. The author examines the teaching gambits and tactics, the methods of practice, the place and story line of teacher biography, and the nature and role of the awakening experience, revealing similar forms deriving from an uncompromising pursuit of awaking, the insistence on self-cultivation, and the preeminent role of the charismatic master. Offering a pertinent review of their encounters with modernism, the book provides a new coherence to these seemingly disparate movements, opening up new avenues for scholars and possibilities for practitioners.

Get that red crayon ready! With this coloring book for adults channeling The Walking Dead meets The Secret Garden, comics creator/rock star Alan Robert (Crawl to Me, Killogy, Wire Hangers) invites fans of horror to discover their inner-colorist. Through intricate pen and ink illustrations to complete, color, and embellish, readers will meet an onslaught of severed heads, monsters, deadly weapons, and skeletal remains. Visit burial grounds, the zombie apocalypse, serial killer lairs, and gruesome torture chambers. Horror fans and newcomers alike will welcome this GOREgeous and creative journey into a blood-soaked new world.

The Salome Ensemble probes the entangled lives, works, and passions of a political activist, a novelist, a screenwriter, and a movie actress who collaborated in 1920s New York City. Together they created the shape-shifting, genre-crossing Salome of the Tenements, first a popular novel and then a Hollywood movie. The title character was a combination Cinderella and Salome like the women who conceived her. Rose Pastor Stokes was the role model. Anzia Yezierska wrote the novel. Sonya Levien wrote the screenplay. Jetta Goudal played her on the silver screen. Ginsberg considers the women individually and collectively, exploring how they shaped and reflected their cultural landscape. These European Jewish immigrants pursued their own versions of the American dream, escaped the squalor of sweatshops, knew romance and heartache, and achieved prominence in politics, fashion, journalism, literature, and film.

The Volcano Is Our Home When Alan Akana realized he had missed the gift of hearing many of his family's stories, his search for his history became a gift to all his readers. The Volcano is Our Home introduces us in a very personal way to the influences that shaped Hawaii from an isolated group of islands inhabited by remarkable people with a unique and beautiful culture into the tourist mecca known today by travelers from all over the world. The author takes you to the real Hawaii, so that you may walk these islands with new understanding of the lost way of life of those who have gone before. You will journey over 250 years with a Hawaiian family, guided by their connection to the land, each other and a rich spiritual realm. You will join them on the slopes of Kilauea Volcano as they confront the arrival of each new wave of change--from Captain Cook to the missionaries, to the overthrow of the kingdom, to the 50th State, to the 21st century. Alan Akana is one of the current generation of Hawaiians who has perfected the art of "talking story." --Gail Larsen, Founder of Real Speaking and Author of Transformational Speaking: If You Want to Change the World, Tell a Better Story An Excerpt from the Book: "My ancestors simply could not ignore the goddess who lived among them and continued to appear in their midst. As the culture changed dramatically, Pele was a constant presence from generation to generation. While villages disappeared, species became extinct, churches were established, and governments were stolen, the relationship between the people who lived on the slopes of Kilauea and Pele remained firm as ever; and the people continued to make sacrifices and prayers to her in the same way as their ancestors did centuries before them."

What do you get when you throw three murderers into one prison cell together? Well, when those characters happen to be based on the likenesses of celebrities Frank Vincent (Goodfellas, Raging Bull, The Sopranos), Marky Ramone (formerly of The Ramones) and Brea Grant (Heroes, Dexter), you can bet that the outcome will be anything but ordinary. From the creator of IDW’s hit series Crawl to Me (now in development to become a feature film), comes Alan Robert’s Killogy, an off-the-wall, genre-busting mash-up of crime, dark comedy, and horror.

When a wave of abductions plagues New York City, no one is safe. It's not a question of if, but of when you'll be taken. The Suicide King Killer is out there, preying on the weak. Will you live in fear, or stand up and fight? Pill-popping detectives, corrupt secret agents, and a mysterious, disfigured homeless man are all inter-connected in this horrific tale of revenge and redemption.

First published in 1976, the Dictionary of Philosophy has established itself as the best available text of its kind, explaining often unfamiliar, complicated and diverse terminology. Thoroughly revised and expanded, this fourth edition provides authoritative and rigorous definitions of a broad range of philosophical concepts. Concentrating on the Western philosophical tradition, The Routledge Dictionary of Philosophy offers an illuminating and informed introduction to the central issues, ideas and perspectives in core fields such as metaphysics, epistemology, and logic. It includes concise biographical entries for more than one hundred major philosophers, from Plato and Aristotle through to contemporary figures such as Dummett, McDowell, Parfit and Singer. All major entries are followed by helpful suggestions for further reading, including web links, and contain extensive cross-referencing to aid access and comprehension. This edition also features a brand new guide to the most useful philosophy sites on the internet. The Routledge Dictionary of Philosophy is an invaluable and up-to-date resource for all students of philosophy.

Simon Franklin is orphaned at the age of 14 and goes to live with his uncle in Cornwall. Together with his two nephews, they find some medallions that allow them to find and then to venture through the Mystic Gateway, where more adventures occur.

Ce guide, désormais un grand classique, présente les minéraux, les roches et les fossiles du monde entier, en trois parties distinctes. Pour chacune d'elles, une introduction expose les caractéristiques physiques, chimiques et géologiques, ainsi que les traits d'identification caractéristiques (pour les minéraux et les roches : système cristallin, dureté, structure, texture, type de gisement... ; pour les fossiles : origine biologique, aspect, ancienneté...). 600 spécimens sont ensuite décrits dans le détail et illustrés de photographies couleurs, croquis et schémas qui permettent une identification sans erreur. Le Guide des minéraux, roches et fossiles indique également les lieux et techniques de récolte et de conservation des spécimens géologiques.

This traces Alan's first 54 years. It is autobiographical and updates the 1990 version.It tells of his fight to retain the love of the Lord Jesus throughout adversity, pain, and self recognition.

Pink Hopscotch is very much an autobiographicalwork by Alan Robert Ward, tracing as it does, thefirst 53 years of his life. It covers the dilemma of being a committed Christian in an increasing secular society, growing up in the heart of the industrial midlands of the United Kingdom, and coping with the fact that he is gay.The struggle that he faces trying to deal with both factors really brings this book alive, and sets out to prove that you can be both a Christian and gay at the same time.Many people today suffer the same conflict within their lives and this book sets out how one person overcame them.Alan now lives in Cyprus with his boyfriend.

According to a reader's report, this is "one of the finest studies on (any kind of) Chinese music to emerge in recent years." Based on extensive fieldwork and a thorough knowledge of the scholarly literature, the author examines the theoretical underpinnings of the 'silk and bamboo' instrumental ensemble traditions of the Chaozhou, Hakka and Cantonese peoples of South China. Stepping back far into history, the book opens with a penetrating examination of Confucian theory, the ancient corpus of behavioral doctrine which promoted music as a means of achieving social harmony and which, together with Daoist belief, exercised unusually strong influence over common-practice music and aesthetics. This is followed by a rigorous analysis of the music itself, focusing upon linear and modal structures and performance styles which reflect a fascinating mix of ancient ideologies and more recent influences.

Predictive musculoskeletal models have the potential to positively influence the orthopaedic management of movement pathologies such as those for children with cerebral palsy. Quantitative measurement of movement and muscle activity is routinely used in various rehabilitation centres to gain insight into the origins of case-specific dynamic movement pathologies, yet these analyses are subjectively interpreted by a clinical team to assist in musculotendon and skeletal surgery decision-making. Predictive musculoskeletal models need to be capable of "virtually testing" particular surgical interventions through the use of computer software and thus decrease the subjectivity of the current approach. Such musculoskeletal models will need to be scaled to the anatomical dimensions of individual subjects, be able to predict gross movements from physiological signals of muscle recruitment, and be able to predict the alteration of such physiological signals due to orthopaedic interventions. This thesis is directed at the development of a preliminary scalable, modifiable electromyographically-driven musculoskeletal model. To realize the model, various components have been investigated and performance of a subset of the model has been evaluated using acquired subject data. A scalable geometric model of musculotendon actuators covering the lower-body was defined from and adult database. A new phenomenological Hill-type EMG-driven dynamic computational muscle model has been developed and validated against published and new experimental data, and compared to the existing best model. Furthermore a complete lower-body simulation model was constructed incorporating skeletal joint definitions, musculotendon actuators, passive joint dynamics and ground reactions forces. An EMG-driven inverse-kinetic simulation model of dynamometer knee flexion-extension contraction incorporating thirteen muscles was developed and evaluated using dynamometric data from tests covering a wide-range of contraction modes (isokinetic, isotonic, eccentric, and isometric) and speeds for five able-bodied adult male subjects. Both shape and transfer function-based Hill-type muscle models were evaluated. For the transfer function-based model, across all subjects the average correlations ranged between r = 0.61-0.77 and average RMS error = 21-29%. For the shape function-based model, the average correlations ranged between r = 0.76-0.92 and an average RMS error = 25-31%.

A detailed and extensively illustrated handbook. The colors, shapes and properties of minerals vary from the bland to the magnificent. Guide to Minerals, Rocks and Fossils is a practical and authoritative handbook that is both comprehensive and easy to use. Each of the 600 specimens is shown in full color, sometimes in two or more forms. There are also drawings that show the structure of the crystalline specimens. It covers the basics like granite, as well as oddities like meteorites and tektites. Fossils include sponges, corals, arthropods, brachiopods, and fossil land plants. Each is described in detail, with notes on: color and transparency grain size hardness structure occurrence mineralogy distinguishing features habit cleavage texture alteration luster Mineral names, chemical formulae and structural data accord to international standards. This is a very complete, but attractive and useful volume in a respected series.

Find out about birds and how they live. Get to know them by their colours, their feathers, their beaks, their feet, their nests and their eggs.

The Chinese instrumentarium is unquestionably the largest and most diverse of any civilization, ancient or modern. Inscriptions on tortoise shells and cow bones from more than 3000 years ago recorded various instruments including drums, stone chimes, and panpipes. In this volume, Alan R. Thrasher discusses the evolution of Chinese musical instruments, detailing their construction, regional variations, and role in musical accompaniment.

This text describes and provides ready access to the literature for all known occurrences of alkaline igneous rocks and carbonatites of Africa. Over 1000 occurrences are described from 40 countries. The descriptions include geographical co-ordinates and information of structure, general geology, rock types, petrography, mineralogy, ages, economic aspects and principal references. There are 348 geological and distribution maps and a locality index.