Best Selling Books by Brian Wood

"Conan the Barbarian stars in epic tales by comics veteran Kurt Busiek--including classics adapted from the works of original author Robert E. Howard! Whether he's warring with the violent Vanir or meeting a Frost Giant's daughter, Conan's savage sword is always close at hand and ready for battle!"--Back cover, volume 1

Build valuable graphic art skills and create digital artwork using Adobe Illustrator Adobe Illustrator Classroom in a Book (2023 release) uses real-world, project-based learning to cover the basics and beyond, providing countless tips and techniques to help you become more productive with the program. For beginners and experienced users alike, you can follow the book from start to finish or choose only those lessons that interest you. Learn to: Create artwork, from precise drawings to stylistic paintings Make logos, illustrations, posters, podcast covers, flyers, and more Explore selections, shapes, and color Progress to freeform gradients and layers Work with dynamic symbols, artistic brushes, and creative effects Efficiently export assets for the web, print, and more Classroom in a Book®, the best-selling series of hands-on software training workbooks, offers what no other book or training program does—an official training series from Adobe, developed with the support of Adobe product experts. Purchasing this book includes valuable online extras. Follow the instructions in the book's "Getting Started" section to unlock access to: Downloadable lesson files you need to work through the projects in the book Web Edition containing the complete text of the book, interactive quizzes, and videos that walk you through the lessons step by step What you need to use this book: Adobe Illustrator (2023 release) software, for either Windows or macOS. (Software not included.) Note: Classroom in a Book does not replace the documentation, support, updates, or any other benefits of being a registered owner of Adobe Illustrator software. This book covers Illustrator on desktop only. It does not address Illustrator on the iPad.

This Web Edition is available for free with the purchase of the Adobe Illustrator CC Classroom in a Book (2015 release) print book or eBook. A Web Edition is an electronic version of the book that can be accessed with any Internet connection from your account on www.peachpit.com. This Web Edition includes over 10 hours of step-by-step video tutorials and interactive review questions. As Adobe releases new features for Creative Cloud customers, the content of the Web Edition will be updated to accommodate the changes. Note: Web Editions cannot be viewed on an eReader. To view this book on an eReader, please purchase an eBook. Creative professionals who seek the fastest, easiest, most comprehensive way to learn Adobe Illustrator CC (2015 release) choose this Classroom in a Book® from the best-selling series of hands-on software training workbooks. This series offers what no other book or training program does—an official training series from Adobe Systems Incorporated, developed with the support of Adobe product experts. Adobe Illustrator CC Classroom in a Book (2015 release) contains 15 lessons that cover the basics and beyond, providing countless tips and techniques to help you become more productive with the program. You can follow the book from start to finish or choose only those lessons that interest you. As with all Classroom in a Book products, online companion files include all the necessary assets you need to complete the projects featured in each lesson. Build a strong foundation for working with Adobe Illustrator CC, by following hands-on projects for creating logos, illustrations, and posters. Learn how to use the Shaper tool and Live Shapes along with dynamic symbols to streamline graphics creation. Create website assets and export them in SVG format to support modern responsive web designs. From exacting illustration to more free-form painting, you’ll gain vital Illustrator skills as you progress through the lessons. What you need to use this book: Adobe Illustrator CC (2015 release) software, for either Windows or Mac OS. (Software not included.)

The fastest, easiest, most comprehensive way to learn. The best-selling series of hands-on software training workbooks, offers what no other book or training program does—an official training series from Adobe, developed with the support of Adobe product experts. Contains 16 lessons that cover the basics and beyond, providing countless tips and techniques to help you become more productive with the program. You can follow the book from start to finish or choose only those lessons that interest you. Build a strong foundation by following hands-on projects for creating logos, illustrations, and posters. Learn how to use the Shaper tool and Live Shapes along with dynamic symbols to streamline graphics creation. Create website assets and export them in multiple formats to support modern responsive web designs. From exacting illustration to more free-form painting, you’ll gain vital skills as you progress through the lessons. The online companion files include all the necessary assets for readers to complete the projects featured in each chapter. All buyers of the book get full access to the Web Edition: A Web-based version of the complete ebook enhanced with video and multiple-choice quizzes.

In way over his head, Sam brings Dean in to help with this seriously weird village and an Emma who is just not herself. By day this is a rugged yet undeniably beautiful community. At night, its horrors are almost beyond description!

‘Season Two' begins with a new creative team - and a blackout! When the city is thrust into darkness by a strange new threat, Moon Knight must use all of his weapons, (and personalities), to defeat a very different foe! Then, it's a hostage situation in a high-rise, and Moon Knight comes to the rescue. But in this cellphone camera society, he's doing it on the world stage! And as Moon Knight's psychiatrist digs deeper into the hero's complicated psyche, Mr. Knight learns that the doctor isn't what she seems! Plus: Moon Knight must break into the United Nations building but why? And can he deal with the consequences? When Mr. Knight finds himself a fugitive hunted by the NYPD, everything comes crashing down! Brian Wood (X-MEN, DMZ) takes the writing reins, so buckle up! Collecting Moon Knight (2014) #7-12.

Meet Supergirl. She's got the unpredictable behavior of a teenager, the same powers as Superman--and none of his affection for the people of Earth. So don't piss her off!

It's Wolverine versus Kid Omega for dominance of the Jean Grey School. Wolverine will discover that the hardest prison to escape can be his own mind. COLLECTING: WOLVERINE AND THE X-MEN: ALPHA & OMEGA 1-5

Sven, an exiled Viking prince who's been living the decadent high life in Constantinople, returns to the desolate lands of his birth in the frigid islands of the North Sea to reclaim his vast inheritance. Intending only to take his money and run, he finds more than he bargained for as his former family and friends are enslaved at the hands of Gorm, his ruthless uncle.

Graphic Novel. On an academic break while at Stanford, Sam Winchester visits the United Kingdom on what is meant to be a sleepy trip. His first day he meets the alluring 'Emma of the Isles', and his visit begins to get exciting.

Cedric Zhang can never escape his past. He and Little Brother's street gang take to the streets to rescue the victims of Sivan's underground fighting ring only to find out things are far, far worse than they could have imagined. Cedric must face himself and his past before he can take down Sivan. The fight continues…

The fastest, easiest, most comprehensive way to learn Adobe Illustrator Adobe Illustrator Classroom in a Book 2025 Release contains 17 lessons that use real-world, project-based learning to cover the basics and beyond, providing countless tips and techniques to help you become more productive with the program. For beginners and experienced users alike, you can follow the book from start to finish or choose only those lessons that interest you. Learn to: Dive into 17 real-world projects, from precise drawings to expressive paintings, logos, illustrations, social ads, posters, and more Gain hands-on experience with a quick overview before diving into selections, shapes, color, and editing As you progress, you'll explore freeform gradients, layers, artistic brushes, creative effects, asset export, and more These step-by-step projects will help you develop essential graphic design skills at every stage Classroom in a Book®, the best-selling series of hands-on software training workbooks, offers what no other book or training program does – an official training series from Adobe, developed with the support of Adobe product experts. Purchasing this book includes valuable online extras. Follow the instructions in the book’s “Getting Started” section to unlock access to: Downloadable lesson files you need to work through the projects in the book Web Edition containing the complete text of the book, interactive quizzes, and videos that walk you through the lessons step by step What you need to use this book: Adobe Illustrator 2025 Release software, for either Windows or macOS. (Software not included.)

Before they can return to the States, Sam must once again say goodbye to the hauntingly beautiful 'Emma of the Isles,' leaving a shell-shocked village to come to grips with the legacy they were harboring.

Gearing of Lathes for Screwcutting is aimed specifically at the engineer for use in the workshop. It is intended to take away as much as possible of the mathematics and mystique from calculating gear ratios, so that the more enjoyable work of using your lathe to make things becomes as easy as possible. Topics covered in this latest addition to the Crowood Metalworking Guides include Myford and other types of lathes; approximations and alternatives; errors and their significance and the non-gearbox mini-lathe. Fully illustrated with 102 colour photographs.

When a mysterious box arrives containing a plane ticket to Scotland, a cellphone and a gun, Sam doesn't waste any time catching the first flight out. But in a rural village, where's Emma? Why are the locals a little...off? Can Sam handle this mission without his brother?

New York Times best-selling comics writer Brian Wood gives us a gripping story of strength against all odds in the face of the most frightening monster in deep space. Joined by artists Tristan Jones, Tony Brescini, Stephen Thompson, Eduardo Francisco and Riccardo Burchielli, Defiance brings the nightmare into stark relief. An AWOL Colonial Marine battles Aliens and her fears in the deepest corners of space to protect humanity from the Xenomorph threat. Colonial Marine Private First Class Zula Hendricks is in for the fight of her life. After a frightening discovery in deep space, Zula goes on an AWOL mission to undermine the nefarious Weyland-Yutani Synthetics Corporation. Battling for her life against aliens, space pirates, and her very own painful demons, Zula must prove that her own strength and loyalty are enough to save humanity.

The peace of the temple is shattered when Little Brother, looking to impress Cedric, ventures out one night and goes too far, getting beaten up in the process. But the crucial information he gathers is enough to send Cedric to the depths of North Brooklyn only to uncover some disturbing, and all-too-familiar, side effects of the underground fighting circuit he's been involved with. What was just a simple quest to locate his lost girlfriend has become a fight to save lives.

Love, war, family and the best hummus recipe in New York City Scooter enthusiast and spoiled brat, Olive Yassin, delivers food for her parents' award-winning Middle Eastern restaurant, Couscous Express. She hates it. It's boring. She would much rather be hanging out with her courier-mercenary boyfriend, Moustafa. But when the local branch of the stylish and dangerous Turkish Scooter Mafia make a move against the restaurant, she knows she has to do something, anything, to protect her family. Couscous Express combines delicious food, automatic weapons fire, and scooter culture into a hectic, adrenaline-fueled story of love, family, war, and the best hummus recipe in New York City.

Matty Roth reluctantly lands an interview for Liberty News with an enlisted U.S. solider who's found guilty of a massacre within the DMZ. What follows is a look at how the DMZ came to be, from the perspective of a kid who came from the Midwest and walked right into a nightmare.

Welcome to America's Second Civil War...Matty Roth, a naive young man and aspiring photojournalist, lands a dream gig following a veteran war journalist into the heart of the DMZ. Things soon go terribly wrong and Matty finds himself lost and alone in a world he's only seen on television. There, he is faced with a choice: try to find a way off the island, or make his career with an assignment most journalists would kill for. But can he survive in a war zone long enough to report the truth?

As Gem Antonelli (aka Copycat) is debriefed in a holding cell, the story of how eight troubled teenagers were briefly gods of a prehistorical world unfolds against the backdrop of a cataclysmic disaster.

Every day, somewhere in the world, children face arrest, detention, torture and political murder. Some are held as political prisoners by governments, cut off from family and outside support, tortured and even killed. Some suffer physical or mental torture to force family members to give themselves up. Some 'disappear', never to be seen again. This book outlines the fundamental civil and political rights of children, and some of the suffering inflicted on the world's children by their governments.

At Soap City's annual Country and Western Barbecue, Lucien tries to avoid being tormented and humiliated yet again by his evil twin Wayne.

Brian Wood's epic and acclaimed adaptation of Robert E. Howard's "Queen of the Black Coast" reaches its heart-retching conclusion! When Conan and Bêlit intercept an invaluable religious artifact, ruthless zealots hunt them across a treacherous landscape! Then, when the couple seeks their fortune on the cursed banks of Zarkheba, they encounter a dark power that will shape their fate! This thrilling volume collects issues #19--25 of the Dark Horse Comics series Conan the Barbarian.