Author : Matthew Pointon
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 43,61 MB
Release : 2018-07-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0244940711
The third volume of Matthew E. Pointon's short stories covering the years 2011 to 2014. This varied collection of tales, arranged in the order in which they were written, has something to capture the imagination of every reader.
Author : Shamneko
Publisher : TokyoPop
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 11,64 MB
Release : 2006-08-08
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 9781598164886
Goddess Pandora has been sent to Earth to collect 'gifts' that were spread among humans. Sure she has a nice body that can tempt anyone, but when she uses her powers, she shrink's to a young girl's body.
Author : Louis L'Amour
Publisher : Bantam
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,3 MB
Release : 2014-04-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0553392263
Louis L’Amour is recognized the world over as one of the most prolific and popular American authors. While every one of his eighty-nine novels is still in print, a lesser known fact is that L’Amour is also one of the all-time bestselling authors of short fiction. Compared by The Wall Street Journal to Jack London and Robert Louis Stevenson, L’Amour’s Collected Short Stories are now presented for the first time in paperback. The Collected Short Stories of Louis L’Amour, Volume 1, features thirty-five action-packed Frontier Stories. It kicks off a series of nine paperbacks, including a two-part volume of Adventure Stories and a two-part volume of Crime Stories, which brings all of L’Amour’s short fiction to his millions of readers around the world.
Author : Eduardo Mayo
Publisher : Small Beer Press
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 41,40 MB
Release : 2012-02-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1931520372
A radical combination of emerging and established Mexican authors of original tales of the fantastic.
Author : Lee Child
Publisher : Corvus
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 11,40 MB
Release : 2011-02
Category : Suspense fiction, American
ISBN : 9781848876927
New York Times bestselling author Lee Child has teamed up with the International Thriller Writers for First Thrills, a showcase of many of the organization's bestselling authors as well as rising stars in the genre.
Author : Jennifer Egan
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 389 pages
File Size : 36,63 MB
Release : 2014
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0547819226
Presents twenty of the best works of short fiction of the past year from a variety of acclaimed sources.
Author : Elise Klein
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 17,51 MB
Release : 2019-03-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0429959982
Postdevelopment in Practice critically engages with recent trends in postdevelopment and critical development studies that have destabilised the concept of development, challenging its assumptions and exposing areas where it has failed in its objectives, whilst also pushing beyond theory to uncover alternatives in practice. This book reflects a rich and diverse range of experience in postdevelopment work, bringing together emerging and established contributors from across Latin America, South Asia, Europe, Australia and elsewhere, and it brings to light the multiple and innovative examples of postdevelopment practice already underway. The complexity of postdevelopment alternatives are revealed throughout the chapters, encompassing research on economy and care, art and design, pluriversality and buen vivir, the state and social movements, among others. Drawing on feminisms and political economy, postcolonial theory and critical design studies, the ‘diverse economies’ and ‘world of the third’ approaches and discussions on ontology and interdisciplinary fields such as science and technology studies, the chapters reveal how the practice of postdevelopment is already being carried out by actors in and out of development. Students, scholars and practitioners in critical development studies and those seeking to engage with postdevelopment will find this book an important guide to applying theory to practice.
Author : Jan Young
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 39,20 MB
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ISBN : 1105302180
Author : Maaheen Ahmed
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 26,70 MB
Release : 2019-11-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1496825306
Monsters seem inevitably linked to humans and not always as mere opposites. Maaheen Ahmed examines good monsters in comics to show how Romantic themes from the eighteenth and the nineteenth centuries persist in today’s popular culture. Comics monsters, questioning the distinction between human and monster, self and other, are valuable conduits of Romantic inclinations. Engaging with Romanticism and the many monsters created by Romantic writers and artists such as Mary Shelley, Victor Hugo, and Goya, Ahmed maps the heritage, functions, and effects of monsters in contemporary comics and graphic novels. She highlights the persistence of recurrent Romantic features through monstrous protagonists in English- and French-language comics and draws out their implications. Aspects covered include the dark Romantic predilection for ruins and the sordid, the solitary protagonist and his quest, nostalgia, the prominence of the spectacle as well as excessive emotions, and above all, the monster’s ambiguity and rebelliousness. Ahmed highlights each Romantic theme through close readings of well-known but often overlooked comics, including Enki Bilal's Monstre tetralogy, Jim O'Barr's The Crow, and Emil Ferris’s My Favorite Thing Is Monsters, as well as the iconic comics series Alan Moore's Swamp Thing and Mike Mignola's Hellboy. In blurring the otherness of the monster, these protagonists retain the exaggeration and uncontrollability of all monsters while incorporating Romantic characteristics.
Author : Michael Pawuk
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 758 pages
File Size : 46,98 MB
Release : 2017-05-30
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1440851360
Covering genres from adventure and fantasy to horror, science fiction, and superheroes, this guide maps the vast terrain of graphic novels, describing and organizing titles to help librarians balance their graphic novel collections and direct patrons to read-alikes. New subgenres, new authors, new artists, and new titles appear daily in the comic book and manga world, joining thousands of existing titles—some of which are very popular and well-known to the enthusiastic readers of books in this genre. How do you determine which graphic novels to purchase, and which to recommend to teen and adult readers? This updated guide is intended to help you start, update, or maintain a graphic novel collection and advise readers about the genre. Containing mostly new information as compared to the previous edition, the book covers iconic super-hero comics and other classic and contemporary crime fighter-based comics; action and adventure comics, including prehistoric, heroic, explorer, and Far East adventure as well as Western adventure; science fiction titles that encompass space opera/fantasy, aliens, post-apocalyptic themes, and comics with storylines revolving around computers, robots, and artificial intelligence. There are also chapters dedicated to fantasy titles; horror titles, such as comics about vampires, werewolves, monsters, ghosts, and the occult; crime and mystery titles regarding detectives, police officers, junior sleuths, and true crime; comics on contemporary life, covering romance, coming-of-age stories, sports, and social and political issues; humorous titles; and various nonfiction graphic novels.
