Andy Lane Knihy

Detailní průvodce světem slavného agenta 007. Kniha obsahuje přehled románů, filmů, komiksových příběhů, v nichž je hlavní postavou James Bond.

Když Sherlock Holmes s přítelem Matty Arnattem objeví mrtvého muže s výrazem hrůzy na strnulé tváři, a vzápětí další mrtvolu se stejně děsivým úšklebkem, hádáte správně. Nic ho nezastaví, dokud záhadě nepřijde na kloub! Horkokrevný Sherlock a Matty, kluk bez domova, se vrhnou do dobrodružství bezhlavě a s odvahou mládí. Stopy je dovedou z londýnského podsvětí přes moře do Francie, bojují s najatými vrahy, uniknou ohni a v minutě dvanácté zabrání teroristickému útoku!

As Britain entered the Second World War in September 1939, so too it entered the bleakest period in the history of its motor car. The 1940s was a time of war, deprivation and austerity, and, for almost a decade, car development stood still. Wartime motorists faced petrol and tyre rationing, the hazards of the blackout and restricted areas.

Special Agent Bex arranges to meet teenage Kieron in a caf to tell him that she can't risk his life any more. She parks her car and seconds later it blows up, scattering flaming wreckage everywhere. She needs to get Kieron out of danger's way--but just as they get to the flat, it too explodes. Bex is forced to face the possibility that someone wants to kill her team, but whoever it is doesn't know about Kieron. That may be their only saving grace. But how were the explosions managed? And who wants them dead?

"One of the fundamental fantasies portrayed on screen has been the kind of physical action few of us could ever experience in real life. The image of an 'every man' engaged in hand-to-hand, mortal combat, defending his family or even the world population against an overwhelming and malevolent force, speaks to our most primal instincts and thus became a mainstay of movie entertainment. In order to translate these deep-seated fantasies to the screen, filmmakers have been developing special skills and crafts for over 100 years. It is these skills that make 'movie magic' ... Movie Stunts & Special Effects is designed to inform filmmakers on how to plan for and utilize these crafts by engaging and empowering filmmakers to better communicate with stunts and effects practitioners, and thereby enabling them to more fully realize their vision. Director/Producer Andrew Lane surveys fights, use of weapons, cars and vehicles, falls, the use of pyrotechnics, atmospheric effects, bullet hits, wounds and blood, among many other categories. Factors such as cost, time to implement, safety accommodations, and assessing the competence of those employed to plan and execute stunts and special effects are numerous and very specific. Each topic in [thic] is examined using narrative explanations, extensive interviews with world-renowned experts. Various stunts and special effects will be explored in the context of how they are best captured by a camera and then editorially constituted in the final product"--Publisher's description

Kidnapped and taken to China, young Sherlock Holmes enjoys adventure on the high seas before encountering a puzzling case of three men bitten by the same poisonous snake in different parts of Shanghai.

Following his last thrilling adventure Sherlock Holmes has been sent to live in Oxford to focus on his education. But something strange is happening in the university pathology labs. Body parts are being stolen from corpses and are being posted one by one to an address in Wales. What can these sinister goings-on mean, and what message is someone trying to send? In an attempt to find out, Sherlock travels to Wales and finds himself in an isolated manor house where strange things have been happening. Can he get to the bottom of another baffling mystery? Sherlock Holmes: think you know him? Think again.

Young Sherlock Holmes is in Ireland to solve his sixth intriguing mystery Something sinister is afoot in the house in the west of Ireland in which Sherlock is staying. There are frightened whisperings among the servants and the house's owners are clearly scared. But who - or what? - has terrified them so much that nobody will speak out? Young Sherlock must bring all his powers of deduction to unravelling his greatest mystery yet. Another fast-paced, brilliantly plotted adventure as teenage Sherlock investigates a new crime and comes up against a fresh crop of sinister, clever criminals.