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Origin Story

Author : David Christian
Publisher : Little, Brown Spark
ISBN 13 : 0316392022
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (163 download)

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Download or read book Origin Story written by David Christian and published by Little, Brown Spark. This book was released on 2018-05-22 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This New York Times bestseller "elegantly weaves evidence and insights . . . into a single, accessible historical narrative" (Bill Gates) and presents a captivating history of the universe -- from the Big Bang to dinosaurs to mass globalization and beyond. Most historians study the smallest slivers of time, emphasizing specific dates, individuals, and documents. But what would it look like to study the whole of history, from the big bang through the present day -- and even into the remote future? How would looking at the full span of time change the way we perceive the universe, the earth, and our very existence? These were the questions David Christian set out to answer when he created the field of "Big History," the most exciting new approach to understanding where we have been, where we are, and where we are going. In Origin Story, Christian takes readers on a wild ride through the entire 13.8 billion years we've come to know as "history." By focusing on defining events (thresholds), major trends, and profound questions about our origins, Christian exposes the hidden threads that tie everything together -- from the creation of the planet to the advent of agriculture, nuclear war, and beyond. With stunning insights into the origin of the universe, the beginning of life, the emergence of humans, and what the future might bring, Origin Story boldly reframes our place in the cosmos.

Iron Man

Author : Marvel Press
Publisher : Disney Electronic Content
ISBN 13 : 1423199162
Total Pages : 48 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (231 download)

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Download or read book Iron Man written by Marvel Press and published by Disney Electronic Content. This book was released on 2013-04-02 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inventions are only as good as the men who make them. Billionaire inventor Tony Stark had always put himself first...until one fateful day when his inventions were used for evil. But when Tony tried to set things right, his inventions were turned against him. In order to survive, Tony built himself a high-tech suit of armor and promised to use this technology to help those in need as the Invincible Iron Man

Comic Books Origin Stories

Author : Publications International, Ltd
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781680225082
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (25 download)

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Download or read book Comic Books Origin Stories written by Publications International, Ltd and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book captures the fun and excitement that have made comic books popular since the early 1930s. Fabulous covers, complete interior pages and dramatic panel enlargements help to tell the story of this vibrant, exciting publishing phenomenon from superheroes to femme fatales to satire comics. Illuminating essays add insight into notable creative figures, characters and unusual comics.

Pinocchio

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781592701919
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (19 download)

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Download or read book Pinocchio written by and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Told as a story of cosmic beginnings, this version of Pinocchio is about the formative energy and magic that reside in the wood that becomes the boy. This version is also about life on the molecular level and what it means to think about our composition as human beings from the point of view of energy and cosmic matter. Born in 1975, Alessandro Sanna is one of Italy's leading contemporary illustrators. He has earned wide recognition for his work, which has appeared in the New York Times Book Review and the New Yorker. He is a prolific and popular author and has received many awards. He lives and works in Mantua, Italy.

On the Origin of Stories

Author : Brian Boyd
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674053591
Total Pages : 560 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book On the Origin of Stories written by Brian Boyd and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2009-05-30 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brian Boyd explains why we tell stories and how our minds are shaped to understand them. After considering art as adaptation, Boyd examines Homer's Odyssey and Dr. Seuss's Horton Hears a Who! demonstrating how an evolutionary lens can offer new understanding and appreciation of specific works. Published for the bicentenary of Darwin's birth and the 150th anniversary of the publication of Origin of Species, Boyd's study embraces a Darwinian view of human nature and art, and offers a credo for a new humanism.

Origins of a Story

Author : Jake Grogan
Publisher : Cider Mill Press
ISBN 13 : 1604337516
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (43 download)

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Download or read book Origins of a Story written by Jake Grogan and published by Cider Mill Press. This book was released on 2017-10-17 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “If you’ve wondered how your favorite masterpieces got their starts, the itch can now be scratched.”—Foreword Review’s Matt Sutherland “Grogan’s research is meticulous and empirical…a lively peek into literary genius.”—Kirkus For readers and writers alike, Origins of a Story is the inspiring collection of 202 amazing true stories behind the inspiration for the world’s greatest literature! Did you know Lennie from Of Mice and Men was based on a real person? Or how about that Charlotte’s Web was based on an actual spider and her egg that E. B. White would carry from Maine to New York on business trips? Origins of a Story profiles 202 famous literary masterpieces and explores how each story got its start. Spanning works from the nineteenth century to the twenty-first, this book is the first of its kind. Get glimpses of the reality behind these fictional stories, and learn about the individual creative process for each writer. Origins of a Story will not only leave you with a different perspective into your favorite works of fiction, but it will also have you inspired to take your everyday life and craft it into a literary masterpiece!

The Incredible Hulk: An Origin Story Narrated by Stan Lee

Author : Richard Thomas
Publisher : Disney Electronic Content
ISBN 13 : 1423166892
Total Pages : 48 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (231 download)

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Download or read book The Incredible Hulk: An Origin Story Narrated by Stan Lee written by Richard Thomas and published by Disney Electronic Content. This book was released on 2012-04-03 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With word-for-word narration by Stan Lee, this picture book retells the classic origin of the Incredible Hulk! Dr. Bruce Banner was always a quiet, shy boy. When he got older, Bruce became a scientist and went to work for the Army. But when an experiment went wrong, Bruce found himself caught in a blast of dangerous gamma radiation. Now, in times of stress or anxiety, Bruce Banner transforms into the rampaging, green-skinned monster known as the Incredible Hulk!

The 1619 Project

Author : Nikole Hannah-Jones
Publisher : One World
ISBN 13 : 0593230590
Total Pages : 625 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (932 download)

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Download or read book The 1619 Project written by Nikole Hannah-Jones and published by One World. This book was released on 2024-06-04 with total page 625 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NAACP IMAGE AWARD WINNER • A dramatic expansion of a groundbreaking work of journalism, The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story offers a profoundly revealing vision of the American past and present. “[A] groundbreaking compendium . . . bracing and urgent . . . This collection is an extraordinary update to an ongoing project of vital truth-telling.”—Esquire NOW AN EMMY-NOMINATED HULU ORIGINAL DOCUSERIES • FINALIST FOR THE KIRKUS PRIZE • ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The Washington Post, NPR, Esquire, Marie Claire, Electric Lit, Ms. magazine, Kirkus Reviews, Booklist In late August 1619, a ship arrived in the British colony of Virginia bearing a cargo of twenty to thirty enslaved people from Africa. Their arrival led to the barbaric and unprecedented system of American chattel slavery that would last for the next 250 years. This is sometimes referred to as the country’s original sin, but it is more than that: It is the source of so much that still defines the United States. The New York Times Magazine’s award-winning 1619 Project issue reframed our understanding of American history by placing slavery and its continuing legacy at the center of our national narrative. This book substantially expands on that work, weaving together eighteen essays that explore the legacy of slavery in present-day America with thirty-six poems and works of fiction that illuminate key moments of oppression, struggle, and resistance. The essays show how the inheritance of 1619 reaches into every part of contemporary American society, from politics, music, diet, traffic, and citizenship to capitalism, religion, and our democracy itself. This book that speaks directly to our current moment, contextualizing the systems of race and caste within which we operate today. It reveals long-glossed-over truths around our nation’s founding and construction—and the way that the legacy of slavery did not end with emancipation, but continues to shape contemporary American life. Featuring contributions from: Leslie Alexander • Michelle Alexander • Carol Anderson • Joshua Bennett • Reginald Dwayne Betts • Jamelle Bouie • Anthea Butler • Matthew Desmond • Rita Dove • Camille T. Dungy • Cornelius Eady • Eve L. Ewing • Nikky Finney • Vievee Francis • Yaa Gyasi • Forrest Hamer • Terrance Hayes • Kimberly Annece Henderson • Jeneen Interlandi • Honorée Fanonne Jeffers • Barry Jenkins • Tyehimba Jess • Martha S. Jones • Robert Jones, Jr. • A. Van Jordan • Ibram X. Kendi • Eddie Kendricks • Yusef Komunyakaa • Kevin M. Kruse • Kiese Laymon • Trymaine Lee • Jasmine Mans • Terry McMillan • Tiya Miles • Wesley Morris • Khalil Gibran Muhammad • Lynn Nottage • ZZ Packer • Gregory Pardlo • Darryl Pinckney • Claudia Rankine • Jason Reynolds • Dorothy Roberts • Sonia Sanchez • Tim Seibles • Evie Shockley • Clint Smith • Danez Smith • Patricia Smith • Tracy K. Smith • Bryan Stevenson • Nafissa Thompson-Spires • Natasha Trethewey • Linda Villarosa • Jesmyn Ward

The Superhero Reader

Author : Charles Hatfield
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 1617038032
Total Pages : 319 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book The Superhero Reader written by Charles Hatfield and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2013-06-14 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite their commercial appeal and cross-media reach, superheroes are only recently starting to attract sustained scholarly attention. This groundbreaking collection brings together essays and book excerpts by major writers on comics and popular culture. While superhero comics are a distinct and sometimes disdained branch of comics creation, they are integral to the development of the North American comic book and the history of the medium. For the past half-century they have also been the one overwhelmingly dominant market genre. The sheer volume of superhero comics that have been published over the years is staggering. Major superhero universes constitute one of the most expansive storytelling canvases ever fashioned. Moreover, characters inhabiting these fictional universes are immensely influential, having achieved iconic recognition around the globe. Their images and adventures have shaped many other media, such as film, videogames, and even prose fiction. The primary aim of this reader is twofold: first, to collect in a single volume a sampling of the most sophisticated commentary on superheroes, and second, to bring into sharper focus the ways in which superheroes connect with larger social, cultural, literary, aesthetic, and historical themes that are of interest to a great many readers both in the academy and beyond.

The Amazing Spider-Man

Author : Marvel Staff
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781742837277
Total Pages : 48 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (372 download)

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Download or read book The Amazing Spider-Man written by Marvel Staff and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With great power comes great responsibility. When Peter Parker is bitten by a radioactive spider he becomes super agile and amazingly strong. He makes a disguise and calls himself Spider-Man. It's not long before Spider-Man realises that New York City needs a superhero.

Batman: An Origin Story

Author : John Sazaklis
Publisher : Capstone
ISBN 13 : 1496521862
Total Pages : 54 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (965 download)

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Download or read book Batman: An Origin Story written by John Sazaklis and published by Capstone. This book was released on 2015-03-01 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: He's known by many names. The World's Greatest Detective. The Caped Crusader. The Dark Knight. But how did young Bruce Wayne grow up to become Batman? Follow young Bruce's incredible transformation in this action-packed chapter book for early readers, filled with colorful comic art by DC Comics artists.

Wonder Woman: An Origin Story

Author : John Sazaklis
Publisher : Capstone
ISBN 13 : 1496521889
Total Pages : 47 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (965 download)

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Download or read book Wonder Woman: An Origin Story written by John Sazaklis and published by Capstone. This book was released on 2015-03-01 with total page 47 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: She was once a young princess on the secret island inhabited by warrior women known as the Amazons...but she left her homeland--and her royal birthright--behind to become a protector for the entire planet of Earth: Wonder Woman! Follow young Diana's incredible transformation from princess to super hero in this action-packed chapter book for early readers featuring colorful illustrations by DC Comics artists.

Supergirl

Author : Steve Brezenoff
Publisher : Stone Arch Books
ISBN 13 : 1515878104
Total Pages : 49 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (158 download)

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Download or read book Supergirl written by Steve Brezenoff and published by Stone Arch Books. This book was released on 2020 with total page 49 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How did Supergirl become one of the Earth's greatest super heroes? Discover the story behind Kara Danvers' journey from Superman's kid cousin to full-fledged Justice League member, including the source of her out-of-this-world superpowers. With action-packed illustrations and easy-to-follow text, these early reader books are perfect for young super hero fans.

The Mighty Avengers: An Origin Story

Author : Richard Thomas
Publisher : Disney Electronic Content
ISBN 13 : 142317447X
Total Pages : 48 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (231 download)

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Download or read book The Mighty Avengers: An Origin Story written by Richard Thomas and published by Disney Electronic Content. This book was released on 2012-04-03 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Earth is overwhelmed with Super-Villains, time traveling conquerors, alien invaders, mythical beasts and robots bent on the total destruction of humanity... the world calls upon its Mightiest Heroes: THE MIGHTY AVENGERS! Iron Man, Captain America, Thor, the Hulk, Ant Man, and the Wasp assemble into the ultimate force for good!

Enter the Superheroes

Author : Alex S. Romagnoli
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
ISBN 13 : 0810891727
Total Pages : 247 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (18 download)

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Download or read book Enter the Superheroes written by Alex S. Romagnoli and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2013-06-20 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ever since the first appearances of Superman and Batman in comic books of the late 1930s, superheroes have been a staple of the popular culture landscape. Though initially created for younger audiences, superhero characters have evolved over the years, becoming complex figures that appeal to more sophisticated readers. While superhero stories have grown ever more popular within broader society, however, comics and graphic novels have been largely ignored by the world of academia. In Enter the Superheroes:American Values, Culture, and the Canon of Superhero Literature, Alex S. Romagnoli and Gian S. Pagnucci arguethat superheroes merit serious study, both within the academy and beyond. By examining the kinds of graphic novels that are embraced by the academy, this book explains how superhero stories are just as significant. Structured around key themes within superhero literature, the book delves into the features that make superhero stories a unique genre. The book also draws upon examples in comics and other media to illustrate the sociohistorical importance of superheroes—from the interplay of fans and creators to unique narrative elements that are brought to their richest fulfillment within the world of superheroes. A list of noteworthy superhero texts that readers can look to for future study is also provided. In addition to exploring the important roles that superheroes play in children’s learning, the book also offers an excellent starting point for discussions of how literature is evolving and why it is necessary to expand the traditional realms of literary study. Enter the Superheroes will be of particular interest to English and composition teachers but also to scholars of popular culture and fans of superhero and comic book literature.

Uncanny X-Men: An Origin Story

Author : Rich Thomas
Publisher : Marvel Picture Books
ISBN 13 : 9781614790129
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Uncanny X-Men: An Origin Story written by Rich Thomas and published by Marvel Picture Books. This book was released on 2012-09 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published: New York: Marvel, c2012.

Origins

Author : Lewis Dartnell
Publisher : Basic Books
ISBN 13 : 1541617894
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (416 download)

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Download or read book Origins written by Lewis Dartnell and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 2019-05-14 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A New York Times-bestselling author explains how the physical world shaped the history of our species When we talk about human history, we often focus on great leaders, population forces, and decisive wars. But how has the earth itself determined our destiny? Our planet wobbles, driving changes in climate that forced the transition from nomadism to farming. Mountainous terrain led to the development of democracy in Greece. Atmospheric circulation patterns later on shaped the progression of global exploration, colonization, and trade. Even today, voting behavior in the south-east United States ultimately follows the underlying pattern of 75 million-year-old sediments from an ancient sea. Everywhere is the deep imprint of the planetary on the human. From the cultivation of the first crops to the founding of modern states, Origins reveals the breathtaking impact of the earth beneath our feet on the shape of our human civilizations.