Steampunk ​Style Jewelry A ​Maker's Collection of Victorian, Fantasy, and Mechanical Designs

Jeff VanderMeer - S. J. Chambers - The ​Steampunk Bible
The ​Steampunk Bible is the first book of its kind: a fully illustrated compendium that traces the roots and history of this subculture, from the work of its godfathers—Jules Verne and H. G. Wells—to the key figures who first coined the word that would spawn a literary genre and the vast community of craftsmen and artists who have translated that spark into a lifestyle with clothing and accessories. This ultimate manual, filled with scores of illustrations and photographs, will capture a world seen through aviator goggles, including the history, literature, film, art, crafts, television, comics, and fashion created by Steampunks the world over. In these pages you’ll find a do-it-yourself project from Steampunk Workshop founder Jake von Slatt and interviews with Scott Westerfeld, author of Leviathan, and Sean Orlando, creator of the Raygun Gothic Rocketship. Steampunk fashion photographer Libby Bulloff captures different styles for sporting spats, cravats, corsets, and goggles, while Difference Engine co-author Bruce Sterling pens a user’s guide to the subculture.

Ismeretlen szerző - 7000 ​years of Jewelry
The ​most comprehensive and beautifully illustrated history of jewelry. The previous edition of this exhaustive survey was published to critical acclaim by the British Museum Press. Since publication, the museum has expanded its collection, with major acquisitions of pieces from Europe and Asia. The new edition includes a complete revision of the section on Europe after 1700, plus revisions to the sections on Celtic Europe, Roman Britain, cameos and finger rings. The book explores the varied styles, techniques and materials used to make jewelry in many civilizations throughout the world and across the millennia. Egyptian necklaces, Celtic torcs, South American gold masks, Renaissance pendants and Art Nouveau buckles are examples of the range of the masterpieces described and illustrated with 400 superb photographs. 7000 Years of Jewelry takes readers on an impressive tour that includes, among other times and places: The Middle East: 5000-2000 BC Egypt: 1500-900 BC Phoenician, Greek, Etruscan and Persian Lands: 850-325 BC China, Celtic Europe, Mexico and Peru: 600 BC-AD 600 The Mediterranean, India, Egypt, Roman Britain and Byzantium: 325 BC-AD 600 Europe, China, Korea and Japan: 300-1000 Mayan Central America: 600-1000 Central and South America: 500-1500 Europe, Islam, China, Korea and Java: 1000-1500 China, India, Tibet and Mongolia: 1500-1850 West Africa: 1500-1800 Europe: 1500-1950. More comprehensive than before, this reference remains the finest and most beautifully illustrated history of jewelry ever published.

Neil Gaiman - Óceán ​az út végén
AMIKOR ​EGY EMLÉK FELENGED, A MÚLT SZIVÁROG KI BELŐLE Mit tehet egy hétéves fiú, ha az addig nyugodt, vidéki életet megzavarja valami, ami nagyobb nemcsak nála, de az általa ismert felnőtteknél, sőt az általa ismert világnál is? Ami a világon túlról jött? Hirtelen elszakad a saját családjától, és egyetlen hely van ahová mehet, egy ház a földút végén. Ebben a házban három nő lakik, három nemzedék, nagymama, anya és lánya, akik sokat láttak és még többet tudnak. Ismerik a titkos utakat és lebegő járatokat, értik a halk szavakat és a néma igéket, jártak a földeken innen és a vizeken túl. Ők segíthetnek, csakhogy mint mindennek, a segítségnek ára van. Neil Gaiman új regénye a gyermekkor varázslatát mutatja a felnőttlét karcos szemüvegén át, az ártatlanság elvesztését a tapasztalat párás tükrében, hírnevéhez méltóan egy olyan történetben, amely semmihez sem hasonlít.

Cherie Priest - Boneshaker
In ​the early days of the Civil War, rumors of gold in the frozen Klondike brought hordes of newcomers to the Pacific Northwest. Anxious to compete, Russian prospectors commissioned inventor Leviticus Blue to create a great machine that could mine through Alaska’s ice. Thus was Dr. Blue’s Incredible Bone-Shaking Drill Engine born. But on its first test run the Boneshaker went terribly awry, destroying several blocks of downtown Seattle and unearthing a subterranean vein of blight gas that turned anyone who breathed it into the living dead. Now it is sixteen years later, and a wall has been built to enclose the devastated and toxic city. Just beyond it lives Blue’s widow, Briar Wilkes. Life is hard with a ruined reputation and a teenaged boy to support, but she and Ezekiel are managing. Until Ezekiel undertakes a secret crusade to rewrite history. His quest will take him under the wall and into a city teeming with ravenous undead, air pirates, criminal overlords, and heavily armed refugees. And only Briar can bring him out alive.

Ismeretlen szerző - Steampunk
What ​is steampunk? Welcome to impossibly fantastic adventures you will never forget. The unrepentant sons of the Confederate rebellion are tempted by a miraculous zeppelin. The courageous Captain Cowperthwait is obliged to save the Queen, because God knows nothing of whoring. The ladies of the Selene Gardening Society, planning beautification of the Moon, may instead rid their fair city of a most unsightly issue. Steampunk is Victorian elegance and modern technology: steam-driven robots, souped-up stagecoaches, and space-faring dirigibles fueled by gaslight romance, mad scientists, and very trim waistcoats. From the editors of The Thackery T. Lambshead Pocket Guide to Eccentric and Discredited Diseases and The New Weird, this is steampunk. Hang on tight.

Neil Gaiman - Coraline ​(angol)
Coraline ​lives with her preoccupied parents in part of a huge old house--a house so huge that other people live in it, too... round, old former actresses Miss Spink and Miss Forcible and their aging Highland terriers ("We trod the boards, luvvy") and the mustachioed old man under the roof ("'The reason you cannot see the mouse circus,' said the man upstairs, 'is that the mice are not yet ready and rehearsed.'") Coraline contents herself for weeks with exploring the vast garden and grounds. But with a little rain she becomes bored--so bored that she begins to count everything blue (153), the windows (21), and the doors (14). And it is the 14th door that--sometimes blocked with a wall of bricks--opens up for Coraline into an entirely alternate universe. Now, if you're thinking fondly of The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe or Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, you're on the wrong track. Neil Gaiman's Coraline is far darker, far stranger, playing on our deepest fears. And, like Roald Dahl's work, it is delicious.

Neil Gaiman - American ​Gods
Shadow ​is a man with a past and wants nothing more now than to live a quiet life with his wife. When his wife is killed in a terrible accident, Shadow flies home for the funeral. As a raging storm rocks the plane, the strange man in the seat next to Shadow introduces himself as Mr. Wednesday. He knows more about Shadow than is possible--and he warns Shadow an even bigger storm is coming.

Neil Gaiman - Fragile ​Things
Let ​me tell you a story. No, wait, one's not enough. I'll begin again... Let me tell you stories of the months of the year, of ghosts and heartbreak, of dread and desire. Of after-hours drinking and unanswered phones, of good deeds and bad days, of trusting wolves and how to talk to girls. There are stories within stories, whispered in the quiet of the night, shouted above the roar of the day, and played out between lovers and enemies, strangers and friends. But all, all are fragile things made of just 26 letters arranged and rearranged to form tales and imaginings which will dazzle your senses, haunt your imagination and move you to the very depths of your soul.

Scott Westerfeld - Behemót
Egy ​ellopott hadihajó. Egy titkos küldetés. Egy világraszóló kaland. A behemót a brit tengerészet legádázabb teremtménye, mely egy falással egész hadihajókat tüntet el. A darwinisták fel akarják használni a barkácsok ellen, még ha ezért azt az árat is kell fizetniük, hogy az Oszmán Birodalom is belép a háborúba. Deryn, a brit légierő fiúruhában szolgáló kadétja és Sándor, az álruhás osztrák–magyar trónörökös a Leviatán fedélzetén utaznak Isztambul felé. A léghajó küldetését azonban katasztrófa fenyegeti, és a két fiatal hamarosan idegen földön találja magát – magányosan, üldözőkkel a nyomukban. Sándornak és Derynnek minden ügyességükre, ravaszságukra és szövetségesükre szükségük lesz, hogy megbirkózzanak a veszedelmekkel.

Neil Gaiman - The ​Ocean at the End of the Lane
The ​Ocean At The End of the Lane is a novel about memory and magic and survival, about the power of stories and the darkness inside each of us. It began for our narrator forty years ago when he was seven: the lodger stole the family's car and committed suicide in it, stirring up ancient powers best left undisturbed. Creatures from beyond the world are on the loose, and it will take everything our narrator has just to stay alive: there is primal horror here, and a menace unleashed -- within his family, and from the forces that have gathered to destroy it. His only defense is three women, on a ramshackle farm at the end of the lane. The youngest of them claims that her duckpond is an ocean. The oldest can remember the Big Bang. The Ocean at the End of the Lane is a fable that reshapes modern fantasy: moving, terrifying and elegiac -- as pure as a dream, as delicate as a butterfly's wing, as dangerous as a knife in the dark.

Ismeretlen szerző - Steampunk!
Imagine ​an altrnate universe where romance and technology reign. Where tinkerers and dreamers craft and re-craft a world of automatons, clockworks, calculating machines, and other marvels that never were. Where scientists and schoolgirls, fair folk and Romans, intergalactic bandits, utopian revolutionaries, and intrepid orphans solve crimes, escape from monstrous predicaments, consult oracles, and hover over volcanoes in steam-powered airships. Here, fourteen masters of speculative fiction, including two graphic storytellers, embrace the genre's established themes and refashion them in surprising ways and settings as diverse as Appalachia, Ancient Rome, future Australia, and alternate California. Visionaries Kelly Link and Gavin J. Grant have invited all-new explorations and expansions, taking a genre already rich, strange, and inventive in the extreme and challenging contributors to remake it from the ground up. The result is an anthology that defies the genre even as it defines it. With fantastically strange stories by: M. T. Anderson Holly Black Libba Bray Shawn Cheng Cassandra Clare Cory Doctorow Dylan Horrocks Kathleen Jennings Elizabeth Knox Kelly Link Garth Nix Christopher Rowe Delia Sherman Ysabeau S. Wilce

Mike Mignola - Brian Augustyn - Batman ​- Gotham by Gaslight
Presenting ​a new edition of the title collecting the adventures of the Victorian era Batman. This volume includes the breakthrough Elseworlds epics GOTHAM BY GASLIGHT and MASTER OF THE FUTURE, which pit the Dark Knight against Jack the Ripper and a death-dealer from the skies over Gotham. This title features artwork by Mike Mignola (HELLBOY) and P. Craig Russell (THE SANDMAN).

Scott Westerfeld - Leviatán
Ezerkilencszáztizennégyet ​írunk. Az Osztrák-Magyar Monarchia trónörökösét, Ferenc Ferdinánd főherceget meggyilkolták, és egész Európa a háború küszöbére sodródik. Két tábor áll szemben egymással összebékíthetetlenül: a gépimádó barkácsok és a darwinisták, akik sosem látott fajzatokat tenyésztenek háborús célokra. Ferenc Ferdinánd fia, Sándor herceg az egymásnak feszülő nagyhatalmak figyelmének középpontjába kerül, és menekülni kénytelen szülei gyilkosai elől. Útja keresztezi Deryn Sharpét, a skót lányét, aki fiúnak öltözve szolgál a brit légierőnél. Az egyikük barkács – a másik darwinista, és mindketten súlyos titkokat őriznek. Harcok, veszedelmek és intrika szegélyezik útjukat, a nyomukban pedig ott liheg a háború.

Alan Moore - The ​League of Extraordinary Gentlemen
Comics ​scriptwriting supremo Alan Moore's incredible, reinvention of classic heroes and villains - now available in an eagerly-anticipated paperback. What if some of the best loved literary characters in history were to band together to fight crime? What if Captain Nemo, Allan Quatermain, Dr Henry Jekyll (together with his brutish alter ego Edward Hyde) and The Invisible Man were brought together by a Miss Mina Harker (who once had a dalliance with a certain Count from Transylvania), to fight the menace of Fu Manchu? Enter the extraordinary world of Alan Moore with this fantastic collection to find out!

Gena Showalter - Alice ​in Zombieland
She ​won’t resist until she’s sent every walking corpse back to its grave. Forever. Had anyone told Alice Bell that her entire life would change course between one heartbeat and the next, she would have laughed. From blissful to tragic, innocent to ruined? Please. But that’s all it took. One heartbeat. A blink, a breath, a second, and everything she knew and loved was gone. Her father was right. The monsters are real…. To avenge her family, Ali must learn to fight the undead. To survive, she must learn to trust the baddest of the bad boys, Cole Holland. But Cole has secrets of his own, and if Ali isn’t careful, those secrets might just prove to be more dangerous than the zombies…. I wish I could go back and do a thousand things differently. I'd tell my sister no. I'd never beg my mother to talk to my dad. I'd zip my lips and swallow those hateful words. Or, barring all of that, I'd hug my sister, my mom and my dad one last time. I'd tell them I love them. I wish... Yeah, I wish.

George Mann - The ​Affinity Bridge
Welcome ​to the bizarre and dangerous world of Victorian London, a city teetering on the edge of revolution. Its people are ushering in a new era of technology, dazzled each day by new inventions. Airships soar in the skies over the city, whilst ground trains rumble through the streets and clockwork automatons are programmed to carry out menial tasks in the offices of lawyers, policemen and journalists. But beneath this shiny veneer of progress lurks a sinister side. For this is also a world where lycanthropy is a rampant disease that plagues the dirty whorehouses of Whitechapel, where poltergeist infestations create havoc in old country seats, where cadavers can rise from the dead and where nobody ever goes near the Natural History Museum.

Neil Gaiman - MirrorMask
Helena ​is about to embark on a most amazing journey. Raised in a family of circus performers, she's always dreamed of leading a more ordinary life. But when haunting music draws her into a strange and magical realm, one where anything can happen, her real life is stolen by a runaway from the other side. Helena must rescue the realm from chaos in order to win back her own not-so-ordinary life. MirrorMask is a breathtaking film written by bestselling author Neil Gaiman and brought to life through the vision of acclaimed artist and director Dave McKean. This original novella is Helena's tale in her own voice, written by master storyteller Neil Gaiman and accompanied by original art by Dave McKean and images from the film; it is a stunning and magical journey.

Ekaterina Sedia - The ​Alchemy of Stone
Mattie, ​an intelligent automaton skilled in the use of alchemy, finds herself caught in the middle of a conflict between gargoyles, the Mechanics, and the Alchemists. With the old order quickly giving way to the new, Mattie discovers powerful and dangerous secrets - secrets that can completely alter the balance of power in the city of Ayona. However, this doesn't sit well with Loharri, the Mechanic who created Mattie and still has the key to her heart - literally! A steampunk novel of romance, political intrigue, and alchemy, _The Alchemy of Stone_ represents a new and intriguing direction by the author of the critically-acclaimed _The Secret History of Moscow._

Philip Pullman - Once ​Upon a Time in the North
Another ​mesmerizing episode from the universe of His Dark Materials, including the very first meeting of those two legends and friends Lee Scoresby, the Texan balloonist, and Iorek Byrnison, the armored bear. Set in the far frozen Arctic, _Once_ _Upon_ _a_ _Time_ _in_ _the_ _North_ contains other teasingly authentic memorabilia and clues, together with a thrilling board game, Peril of the Pole - complete with spinner, game board, and pieces - all beautifully illustrated and rendered by master engraver John Lawrence.

Neil Gaiman - Neverwhere
Under ​the streets of London there's a place most people could never even dream of. A city of monsters and saints, murderers and angels, knights in armour and pale girls in black velvet. This is the city of the people who have fallen between the cracks. Richard Mayhew, a young businessman, is going to find out more than enough about this other London. A single act of kindness catapults him out of his workday existence and into a world that is at once eerily familiar and utterly bizarre. And a strange destiny awaits him down here, beneath his native city: neverwhere.