A Desperate Character and Other Stories

The six tales now translated for the English reader were written by Turgenev at various dates between 1847 and 1881.
These stories demonstrate Turgenev’s matchless skill for portraying elemental aspects of Russian life: the melancholic, the nostalgic, and the darkly comic.

Portrait Drawing: A Step-by-step Art Instruction Book

Shows how to draw various types of male and female faces and includes advice on portraying the eye, mouth, nose, ear, and head from different angles.

TIME Magazine
January 28, 2008 Vol. 171 No. 4

• COVER: The Science of Romance: Why We Love - Breeding is easy, but survival requires romance too. How our brains, bodies and senses help us find it
• Why We Flirt - That smile! That glance! That rapt attention! We flirt even when we don't need to. And that can be good
• SCIENCE: A New Blueprint for Levittown - It was America's original suburb. Now it is aiming to become a model of environmental innovation
• PEOPLE: 10 Questions for Woody Allen  - He's brilliant at portraying neurotics of all kinds. But the multitalented director, whose new movie is Cassandra's Dream, swears he's actually quite normal. Woody Allen will now take your questions