Hercules Unbound
Author : Gerry Conway
Publisher :
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 39,21 MB
Release : 2020-12-08
Category :
ISBN : 9781779506641
Crisis On Infinite Earths
Author : Marv Wolfman
Publisher : DC Comics
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 12,7 MB
Release : 2000-12-26
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 1401242146
Book Description
This is the story that changed the DC Universe forever. A mysterious being known as the Anti-Monitor has begun a crusade across time to bring about the end of all existence. As alternate Earths are systematically destroyed, the Monitor quickly assembles a team of superheroes from across time and space to battle his counterpart and stop the destruction. DC’s greatest heroes, including Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, Green Lantern and Aquaman assemble to stop the menace, but as they watch both The Flash and Supergirl die in battle, they begin to wonder if even all of the heroes in the world can stop this destructive force. Collects CRISIS ON INFINITE EARTHS #1-12.
Descended from Hercules
Author : Robert A. Rushing
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 26,84 MB
Release : 2016-10-15
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0253022584
Book Description
Muscles, six-pack abs, skin, and sweat fill the screen in the tawdry and tantalizing peplum films associated with epic Italian cinema of the 1950s and 1960s. Using techniques like slow motion and stopped time, these films instill the hero's vitality with timeless admiration and immerse the hero's body in a world that is lavishly eroticized but without sexual desire. These "sword and sandal" films represent a century-long cinematic biopolitical intervention that offers the spectator an imagined form of the male body—one free of illness, degeneracy, and the burdens of poverty—that defends goodness with brute strength and perseverance, and serves as a model of ideal citizenry. Robert A. Rushing traces these epic heroes from Maciste in Cabiria in the early silent era to contemporary transnational figures like Arnold Schwarzenegger in Conan the Barbarian, and to films such as Zach Snyder's 300. Rushing explores how the very tactile modes of representation cement the genre's ideological grip on the viewer.
Hercules
Author : Fred Van Lente
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 155 pages
File Size : 50,62 MB
Release : 2013-11-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1782006079
Book Description
Hercules battled gods, men and monsters in a lifetime of violence and destruction. Today, Hercules is best known for his 'twelve labours', a series of near-impossible tasks assigned to him as punishment for the killing of his wife and children. During those tasks, he slew the multi-headed hydra, wrestled with Cerberus, hound of the underworld, and stole the girdle of Hippolyta, queen of the Amazons. Yet even when his labours were done, his adventures continued. Hercules led armies, sacked cities, fought against the gods, and then joined forces with the gods in the great war known as 'The Gigantomachy'. This book tells the complete story of this legendary warrior, including information on the classical sources, his deification and cult, and his continuing popularity as a character in film, television and comic books.
Un/Sacred #1
Author : Mirka Andolfo
Publisher : Ablaze Publishing
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 20,52 MB
Release : 2019-11-13
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN :
Book Description
Angelina, a voluptuous angel, and Damiano, a mischievous devil, are madly in love. But, while she does not intend to give in to temptation, he would very much like to... This is the tale of their bizarre and spicy daily life! The extraordinary talent of Mirka Andolfo (Unnatural, DC Bombshells) brings to life a Heaven (and a Hell) filled with humor and lovable characters! A sex-positive—and incredibly funny—slice of life...full of angels, devils and gags!
The First X-Men
Author : Christos Gage
Publisher : Panini
Page : 114 pages
File Size : 39,24 MB
Release : 2013-02-01
Category : Science fiction comic books, strips, etc
ISBN : 9781846535222
Book Description
X-Men legend Neal Adams returns to Marvel's mutants, to reveal the secret history of the X-Men...before Xavier's team! What terrifying threat led the solitary secret agent nicknamed Wolverine to form a mutant strike force, decades in the past? As the government solidifies its plan for the new subspecies known as mutants, Wolverine and his ally Sabretooth recruit a certain Master of Magnetism and Prince of Atlantis to their cause. And as the terrifying new villain Virus attacks Wolverine's team, the curtain is pulled back on the beginning of the Sentinel program!
Lovers' Legends
Author : Andrew Calimach
Publisher : Haiduk Press
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 35,25 MB
Release : 2002
Category : History
ISBN : 0971468605
Book Description
Lovers' Legends is a collection of homoerotic Greek myths restored from their primary sources. The collection also includes a new rendition of Lucian's Erotes. The volume is illustrated with ancient art.
Prometheus Unbound
Author : Percy Bysshe Shelley
Publisher :
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 48,4 MB
Release : 1898
Category : English drama
ISBN :
Book Description
Miracle Brew
Author : Pete Brown
Publisher : Unbound Publishing
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 10,95 MB
Release : 2017-06-01
Category : Cooking
ISBN : 1783523360
Book Description
Beer is the most popular alcoholic drink on the planet, but few who enjoy it know much about how its four ingredients – hops, malted barley, water and yeast – miraculously combine. From the birth of brewing in the Middle East, through the surreal madness of drink-sodden hop-blessings in the Czech Republic and the stunning recreation of the first ever modern beer, Miracle Brew is an extraordinary journey through the nature and science of the world's greatest beverage. Along the way, we’ll meet and drink with a cast of characters who reveal the magic of beer and celebrate the joy of drinking it.
The Worldwide Forager
Author : Roger Phillips
Publisher :
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 44,24 MB
Release : 2020-04
Category : Cooking (Fruit)
ISBN : 9781783528820
Book Description
Roger Phillips, the godfather of foraging and bestselling author of Wild Food, returns with a look at how edible plants from all over the world have ended up in our back gardens
