Product Description: This award-winning graphic biography of Pablo Picasso (1881–1973) captures the prolific and eventful life of one of the world’s best-loved artists. Pablo explores Picasso’s early life among the bohemians of Montmartre, his turbulent relationship with artist/model Fernande Olivier, and how his art developed through friendshipswith poets Max Jacob and Guillaume Apollinaire, the painter Georges Braque, and his great rival Henri Matisse...read more

Fourth Edition now available!"One of the major benefits of the PCI specification is that it is defined with many engineering disciplines in mind: architecture, protocol, components, board layout, and software. Mindshare's PCI System Architecture is an excellent resource for understanding all these aspects and their interrelationships." -Todd Koelling, Applications Engineer, Intel Corporation; member of the PCI development teamPCI System Architecture describes revision 2.1 of the Peripheral Component Interconnect (PCI) bus specification, providing a clear, concise explanation of PCI's relationship to the rest of the system. This book has been updated and revised to include in-depth treatment of PCI to PCI bridges, the PCI BIOS, the 66MHz PCI bus, and more. PCI experts Tom Shanley and Don Anderson provide a comprehensive treatment of the bus including: * reflected-wave switching * shared resource acquisition * signal groups 64-bit extension * bus arbitration * add-in cards and connectors * command set * configuration * read and write transfers * expansion ROMs * premature transaction termination * cacheable memory support This book also examines the VLSI Technology VL82C59x chipset to illustrate an example PCI bus implementation. If you design or test hardware or software that involves the PCI bus, PCI System Architecture is an essential, time-saving tool. The PC System Architecture Series is a crisply written and comprehensive set of guides to the most important PC hardware standards. Each title explains from a programmer's perspective the architecture, features, and operations of systems built using one particular type of chip or hardware specification. 0201409933B04062001

Nine essays on such topics as Robert Southwell, Ben Jonson, Jonathan Swift, and T.H. Green probe the meaning, form, and language of poetry

Product Description: Segunda parte de las aventuras de Aya, habitante de la ciudad de Yopougon, en Costa de Marfil. La autora es Marguerite Abouet, nacida en Abiyán. Un valioso y divertido retrato de la vida cotidiana en Africa con estupendos dibujos de Clément Oubrerie.

Product Description: Aya has captured the hearts of North American readers of all ages for the rare portrait it paints of a vibrant, happy, bourgeois Ivory Coast in the 1970s, based upon Marguerite Abouet's youth in Yop City. Not only is Aya complemented with Clément Oubrerie's gorgeous artwork, but the volumes also offer a slice-of-life peek into African culture: complete with recipes, glossaries, and wardrobe instructions for turning one's pagne (brightly colored fabric) into a skirt, head wrap, or baby carrier...read more

Product Description: Yopougon está en Africa, en Costa de Marfil, pero las aventuras de Aya harán las delicias del público latino ahora que se publican en español.

The Ivory Coast in 1978 forms the backdrop for the fictional memoir of Aya, the studious, nineteen-year-old heroine, her easy-going friends Adjoua and Bintou, and their meddling neighbors and relatives, all caught up in the simple pleasures of everyday life in Yop City.

Feeling neglected by her parents, Miranda finds herself taken over by a monstrous, misbehaving alter ego, a mean green girl who says terrible things.

A collection of playful poems about dogs, and their distinctive ears, fur, and tails

Witty, observant verses about various unusual pets and their loving owners are accompanied by off-beat portrayals of the eccentric creatures, in illustrations that pay homage to some great artists. By the author of Turtle in July.

When her grandmother's Doberman pinscher, Kooken, destroys her cello through his mischievousness, Johanna decides to play the dog at her upcoming concert at Carnegie Hall.