As the use of the Internet increases, so does the influence of electronic media on print design. This showcase celebrates the stylistic melding of these two mediums, presenting designers, students and creative professionals with more than 200 provocative examples. Each design is featured in a large, full-color layout which includes details on the designer, client, purpose, stylistic analysis and specs. Roger Walton is currently Art Director of Duncan Baird Publishers and lectures on design at several major art colleges. He is also the editor of Typographics 1, 2 and 3, Sight for Sound: Design and Music Mixes, Cool Sites and Alphabook: Typeface Design and Application. He lives in London, England.

A practical guide for improving communication within relationships, helping both sexes get what they want from love and friendship. The author encourages readers to accept the other genders particular way of expressing love and helps men and women accept each others emotional needs.

The life of Agatha Christie as told by herself. It covers her childhood, her first marriage, the birth of her daughter Rosalind, her second marriage to archaeologist Max Mallowan, and an account of her legendary career as a novelist and playwright.

Set in Leningrad in 1941 against Hitlers invasion of Russia, this story tells of the impossible love between a Russian girl, Tatiana, and a young officer named Alexander. It is a love that could tear Tatianas family apart and it carries a secret that could mean death for anyone who hears it.

«Clarissa, the wife of a Foreign Office diplomat, is given to daydreaming. «Supposing I were to come down one morning and find a dead body in the library, what should I do?» she muses. She has the chance to find out when she discovers a body — in her drawing-room! Desperate to dispose of it, she persuades her guests to help her, all the time knowing that one of them must also be the killer. Now, supposing a police inspector were to arrive...? Adapted as a novel by Charles Osborne.»

First published in 1941, this crime story finds Tommy and Tuppence Beresford in a prim seaside boarding house, frequented by genteel old ladies and retired army officers. But one of them is a spy, leader of the fifth column of highly placed traitors.

«These conversational style interviews with Paul Coehlo, conducted by journalist Juan Arias, cover a wide range of topics including: Pauls being institutionalized as a young man for his artistic leanings; his kidnapping and torture by paramilitaries; his experiences with Black Magic and drugs; his epiphany at Dauchau, and vision of his own death; his views on the nature of writing and the spiritual quest. Presented in the same form at as his fictionhis book should have appeal to all those fascinated by «The Alchemist» and «Veronika Decides to Die».»

Theres a serial killer on the loose, bent on working his way through the alphabet. And as a macabre calling card he leaves beside each victims corpe the ABC Railway Guide open at the name of the town where the murder has taken place. Having begun with Andover, Bexhill and then Chuton, there seems little chance of the murderer being caught — until he makes the crucial and vain mistake of challenging Hercule Poirot to frustrate his plans.

Among the towering red cliffs of Petra, like some monstrous swollen Buddha, sat the corpse of Mrs. Boynton. A tiny puncture mark on her wrist was the only sign of the fatal injection that had killed her. With only 24 hours available to solve the mystery, Hercule Poirot recalled a chance remark hed overheard back in Jerusalem: You see, dont you, that shes got to be killed? Mrs. Boynton was, indeed, the most detestable woman hed ever met.

Poirot had been present when Jane bragged of her plan to get rid of her estranged husband. Now the monstrous man was dead. And yet the great Belgian detective couldnt help feeling that he was being taken for a ride. After all, how could Jane have stabbed Lord Edgware to death in his library at exactly the same time she was seen dining with friends? And what could be her motive now that the aristocrat had finally granted her a divorce?

The combined forces of Scotland Yard and the French Surete can do no better than go in circles — until the final murder at Chimneys, the great country estate that yields up an amazing secret. This new signature edition is the first to feature Superintendent Battle and Bundle Brent.

This is the sequel to The Secret of Chimneys, the second novel to feature Superintendent Battle and Bundle Brent. As a prank, eight alarm clocks are set to wake up champion sleeper, Gerry Wade. But when morning arrives, one clock is missing and the prank backfires, with tragic consequences.

«While playing an erratic round of golf, Bobby Jones slices a ball over the edge of a cliff. His ball is lost, but on the rocks below he finds the crumpled body of a dying man. With his final breath the man opens his eyes and says: «Why didn't they ask Evans»?»

«When Mr. Gruber takes Paddington to Buckingham Palace to watch the Changing of the Guard, there are so many people in the way he can't see a thing. But a mysterious someone «on high» comes to his rescue and Paddington has a very good idea who it might be.»

«Tommy and Tuppence Beresford have just become the owners of an old English house. Along with the property they have inherited a collection of antique books. When looking through «The Black Arrow», Tuppence comes upon a series of apparently random underlinings which spell out a disturbing message.»

Tommy and Tuppence Beresford were restless for adventure, so when they were asked to take over Blunts International Detective Agency, they leapt at the chance. After their triumphant recovery of a pink pearl, intriguing cases kept on coming their way.

«An archaeologist's wife is murdered on the shores of the River Tigris in Iraq... It was clear to Amy Leatheran that something sinister was going on at the Hassanieh dig in Iraq; something associated with the presence of «Lovely Louise», wife of celebrated archaeologist Dr. Leidner. In a few days' time Hercule Poirot was due to drop in at the excavation site. But with Louise suffering from terrifying hallucinations, and tension within the group becoming almost unbearable, Poirot might just be too late!»

An urgent cry for help brings Poirot to France. But he arrives too late to save his client, whose brutally stabbed body now lies face downwards in a shallow grave on a golf course. But why is the dead man wearing his sons overcoat? And who was the impassioned love-letter in the pocket for? Before Poirot can answer these questions, the case is turned upside down by the discovery of a second, identicallurdered corpse.

Agatha Christie's ingenious murder mystery, reissued with a striking new cover designed to appeal to the latest generation of Agatha Christie fans and book lovers. Nick Buckley was an unusual name for a pretty young woman. But then she had led an unusual life. First, on a treacherous Cornish hillside, the brakes on her car failed. Then, on a coastal path, a falling boulder missed her by inches. Later, an oil painting fell and almost crushed her in bed. Upon discovering a bullet-hole in Nick's sun hat, Hercule Poirot decides the girl needs his protection. At the same time, he begins to unravel the mystery of a murder that hasn't been committed. Yet.

Just after midnight, a snowdrift stopped the Orient Express in its tracks. The luxurious train was surprisingly full for the time of the year. But by the morning there was one passengerwer. An American lay dead in his compartment, stabbed a dozen times, his door locked from the inside. With tension mounting, detective Hercule Poirot comes up with not one, but two solutions to the crime.