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The Goon: Volume 4: Virtue & the Grim Consequences Thereof (2nd edition)

Author : Eric Powell
Publisher : Dark Horse Comics
ISBN 13 : 1621152189
Total Pages : 146 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (211 download)

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Download or read book The Goon: Volume 4: Virtue & the Grim Consequences Thereof (2nd edition) written by Eric Powell and published by Dark Horse Comics. This book was released on 2006-10-24 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dark Horse's high-falutin' new editions of The Goon continue! This volume features a new cover by Eric Powell and is redesigned to match the critically acclaimed Goon Year collections! Virtue and the Grim Consequences Thereof sees the Goon join a short-lived football team, face man-eating eyeballs from another dimension, and suffer incarceration in Cade's Island penitentiary. Plus, the cast of The Goon interprets A Christmas Carol, the Unholy Bastards make their first appearance, and Powell illustrates a hilarious prose story by Thomas Lennon (Reno 911!). See why these stories helped win the Eisner Award for Best Humor Publication and Best Ongoing Series! • New cover by creator Eric Powell! • FIVE-TIME EISNER AWARD-WINNING SERIES!

The Goon Vol. 2: Bunch of Old Crap, an Omnibus

Author : Eric Powell
Publisher : Dark Horse Comics
ISBN 13 : 1506737463
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (67 download)

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Download or read book The Goon Vol. 2: Bunch of Old Crap, an Omnibus written by Eric Powell and published by Dark Horse Comics. This book was released on 2019-11-20 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From mad scientists to inter-dimensional flesh eating chickens to a heart breaking betrayal, Lonely Street comes under all manner of threats both tragic and hilarious in this second omnibus volume of The Goon. A mysterious new figure has entered the crime scene and is taking out the Goon's business operations one by one. As Goon struggles to keep the city's organized crime under his control, his mind is haunted by the memories of his darkest moments. This edition, packed full of bonus material, collects volumes 4-6 of Eric Powell's Eisner Award-winning series. Including what is considered by many to be the high water mark of the series, The Goon: Chinatown and the Mystery of Mr. Wicker.

The Goon Library Volume 2

Author : Eric Powell
Publisher : Dark Horse Comics
ISBN 13 : 1616558431
Total Pages : 417 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (165 download)

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Download or read book The Goon Library Volume 2 written by Eric Powell and published by Dark Horse Comics. This book was released on 2016-02-16 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collects The Goon trade paperback volumes 4-6 by Eric Powell, with colours by multi-Eisner winner Dave Stewart. In Volume 2, Lonely Street comes under all manner of threats both tragic and hilarious. A mysterious figure has entered the crime scene and is taking out the Goon's business operations one by one - systematically intercepting shipments, murdering contacts and alienating friends. As Goon struggles to keep the city's organised crime under his control, his mind is haunted by the memories of his darkest moments.

Blessed Thistle

Author : Steve Morris
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 92 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Blessed Thistle written by Steve Morris and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The winner of Dark Horse's 2005 New Recruits contest, Blessed Thistle heralds the debut of an unsettling new voice in graphic fiction, Steve Morris. Relentless in its questioning, unflinching in its answers, this thinking-man's thriller delves into the heart of suburbia and reveals it to be very dark indeed. Scary and surprising, unexpected and unpretentious, this original graphic novel sheds a terrifying light on a few ordinary people and the simple decisions that change their lives forever.

Virtue and the Grim Consequences Thereof

Author : Eric Powell
Publisher : Dark Horse Comics
ISBN 13 : 9781593074562
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (745 download)

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Download or read book Virtue and the Grim Consequences Thereof written by Eric Powell and published by Dark Horse Comics. This book was released on 2006 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Details the adventures of the Goon and his sidekick Franky as they battle the undead.

Rex Mundi Volume 2: the River Underground (2nd Edition)

Author : Arvid Nelson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (3 download)

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Download or read book Rex Mundi Volume 2: the River Underground (2nd Edition) written by Arvid Nelson and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The most influential clandestine society in the history of the world is uncovered, a powerful man is murdered, and a mysterious ally appears with a thousand-year-old message as Doctor Julien Sauni re continues his hunt for the Holy Grail! From a disgraced order of knights to the secrets of a neoclassic painter, Julien Sauni re follows a trail of conspiracy that extends all the way to the walls of Jerusalem during the first crusade. In a Europe where sorcerers stalk the streets and the Catholic Church reigns supreme, Julien pursues a truth that could change the world forever.

The Official Overstreet Comic Book Companion, 11th Edition

Author : Robert M. Overstreet
Publisher : Random House Digital, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 0375723080
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (757 download)

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Download or read book The Official Overstreet Comic Book Companion, 11th Edition written by Robert M. Overstreet and published by Random House Digital, Inc.. This book was released on 2010 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes and lists the values of popular collectible comics and graphic novels issued from the 1950s to today, providing tips on buying, collecting, selling, grading, and caring for comics and including a section on related toys and rings.

The Matter of Virtue

Author : Holly A. Crocker
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 0812251415
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (122 download)

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Download or read book The Matter of Virtue written by Holly A. Crocker and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2019-09-27 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If material bodies have inherent, animating powers—or virtues, in the premodern sense—then those bodies typically and most insistently associated in the premodern period with matter—namely, women—cannot be inert and therefore incapable of ethical action, Holly Crocker contends. In The Matter of Virtue, Crocker argues that one idea of what it means to be human—a conception of humanity that includes vulnerability, endurance, and openness to others—emerges when we consider virtue in relation to modes of ethical action available to premodern women. While a misogynistic tradition of virtue ethics, from antiquity to the early modern period, largely cast a skeptical or dismissive eye on women, Crocker seeks to explore what happened when poets thought about the material body not as a tool of an empowered agent whose cultural supremacy was guaranteed by prevailing social structures but rather as something fragile and open, subject but also connected to others. After an introduction that analyzes Hamlet to establish a premodern tradition of material virtue, Part I investigates how retellings of the demise of the title female character in Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde, Henryson's Testament of Cresseid, and Shakespeare's Troilus and Cressida among other texts structure a poetic debate over the potential for women's ethical action in a world dominated by masculine violence. Part II turns to narratives of female sanctity and feminine perfection, including ones by Chaucer, Bokenham, and Capgrave, to investigate grace, beauty, and intelligence as sources of women's ethical action. In Part III, Crocker examines a tension between women's virtues and household structures, paying particular attention to English Griselda- and shrew-literatures, including Shakespeare's Taming of the Shrew. She concludes by looking at Chaucer's Legend of Good Women to consider alternative forms of virtuous behavior for women as well as men.

A Patriot's History of the United States

Author : Larry Schweikart
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101217782
Total Pages : 1373 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (12 download)

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Download or read book A Patriot's History of the United States written by Larry Schweikart and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2004-12-29 with total page 1373 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the past three decades, many history professors have allowed their biases to distort the way America’s past is taught. These intellectuals have searched for instances of racism, sexism, and bigotry in our history while downplaying the greatness of America’s patriots and the achievements of “dead white men.” As a result, more emphasis is placed on Harriet Tubman than on George Washington; more about the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II than about D-Day or Iwo Jima; more on the dangers we faced from Joseph McCarthy than those we faced from Josef Stalin. A Patriot’s History of the United States corrects those doctrinaire biases. In this groundbreaking book, America’s discovery, founding, and development are reexamined with an appreciation for the elements of public virtue, personal liberty, and private property that make this nation uniquely successful. This book offers a long-overdue acknowledgment of America’s true and proud history.

Scared to Death

Author : Christopher Booker
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 0826476201
Total Pages : 509 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (264 download)

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Download or read book Scared to Death written by Christopher Booker and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2009-04-01 with total page 509 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Politics & Government.

Cycle of Lies

Author : Juliet Macur
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0062277243
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (622 download)

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Download or read book Cycle of Lies written by Juliet Macur and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2014-03-04 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The definitive account of Lance Armstrong's spectacular rise and fall. In June 2013, when Lance Armstrong fled his palatial home in Texas, downsizing in the face of multimillion-dollar lawsuits, Juliet Macur was there—talking to his girlfriend and children and listening to Armstrong's version of the truth. She was one of the few media members aside from Oprah Winfrey to be granted extended one-on-one access to the most famous pariah in sports. At the center of Cycle of Lies is Armstrong himself, revealed through face-to-face interviews. But this unfolding narrative is given depth and breadth by the firsthand accounts of more than one hundred witnesses, including family members whom Armstrong had long since turned his back on—the adoptive father who gave him the Armstrong name, a grandmother, an aunt. Perhaps most damning of all is the taped testimony of the late J.T. Neal, the most influential of Armstrong's many father figures, recorded in the final years of Neal's life as he lost his battle with cancer just as Armstrong gained fame for surviving the disease. In the end, it was Armstrong's former friends, those who had once occupied the precious space of his inner circle, who betrayed him. They were the ones who dealt Armstrong his fatal blow by breaking the code of silence that shielded the public from the grim truth about the sport of cycling—and the grim truth about its golden boy, Armstrong. Threading together the vivid and disparate voices of those with intimate knowledge of the private and public Armstrong, Macur weaves a comprehensive and unforgettably rich tapestry of one man's astonishing rise to global fame and fortune and his devastating fall from grace.

The Cost of Loyalty

Author : Tim Bakken
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1632868997
Total Pages : 401 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (328 download)

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Download or read book The Cost of Loyalty written by Tim Bakken and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2020-02-18 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Kirkus Reviews Best Book of 2020 A courageous and damning look at the destruction wrought by the arrogance, incompetence, and duplicity prevalent in the U.S. military-from the inside perspective of a West Point professor of law. Veneration for the military is a deeply embedded but fatal flaw in America's collective identity. In twenty years at West Point, whistleblower Tim Bakken has come to understand how unquestioned faith isolates the U.S. armed forces from civil society and leads to catastrophe. Pervaded by chronic deceit, the military's insular culture elevates blind loyalty above all other values. The consequences are undeniably grim: failure in every war since World War II, millions of lives lost around the globe, and trillions of dollars wasted. Bakken makes the case that the culture he has observed at West Point influences whether America starts wars and how it prosecutes them. Despite fabricated admissions data, rampant cheating, epidemics of sexual assault, archaic curriculums, and shoddy teaching, the military academies produce officers who maintain their privileges at any cost to the nation. Any dissenter is crushed. Bakken revisits all the major wars the United States has fought, from Korea to the current debacles in the Middle East, to show how the military culture produces one failure after another. The Cost of Loyalty is a powerful, multifaceted revelation about the United States and its singular source of pride. One of the few federal employees ever to win a whistleblowing case against the U.S. military, Bakken, in this brave, timely, and urgently necessary book, and at great personal risk, helps us understand why America loses wars.

Graphic Novels

Author : Michael Pawuk
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1440851360
Total Pages : 758 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (48 download)

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Download or read book Graphic Novels written by Michael Pawuk and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2017-05-30 with total page 758 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Closing of the American Mind

Author : Allan Bloom
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1439126267
Total Pages : 403 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (391 download)

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Download or read book Closing of the American Mind written by Allan Bloom and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2008-06-30 with total page 403 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The brilliant, controversial, bestselling critique of American culture that “hits with the approximate force and effect of electroshock therapy” (The New York Times)—now featuring a new afterword by Andrew Ferguson in a twenty-fifth anniversary edition. In 1987, eminent political philosopher Allan Bloom published The Closing of the American Mind, an appraisal of contemporary America that “hits with the approximate force and effect of electroshock therapy” (The New York Times) and has not only been vindicated, but has also become more urgent today. In clear, spirited prose, Bloom argues that the social and political crises of contemporary America are part of a larger intellectual crisis: the result of a dangerous narrowing of curiosity and exploration by the university elites. Now, in this twenty-fifth anniversary edition, acclaimed author and journalist Andrew Ferguson contributes a new essay that describes why Bloom’s argument caused such a furor at publication and why our culture so deeply resists its truths today.

Underland

Author : Mick Farren
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0765303213
Total Pages : 450 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (653 download)

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Download or read book Underland written by Mick Farren and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2002-11-23 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Victor Renquist, centuries-old master of a small colony of Nosferatu, has been "recruited"-forcibly-by an undercover branch of the National Security Agency, Paranormal Operations and Research. They need his help. It seems that certain members of Hitler's Third Reich escaped to a secret world below Antarctica, taking with them some very advanced technology. Human teams have failed to infiltrate the base, and Renquist is the NSA's last chance. The team is small: Renquist; his right-hand man, Lupo; an extremely unorthodox hardline NSA operative named Jack Coulson; and Thyme Bridewell, a failed NSA brain-control experiment originally intended as Renquist's lunch. What they find in Underland taxes even Renquist's supernormal powers. The quondam Nazis have some very powerful allies -- the Dhrakuh, a race of sentient reptiles from the dawn of time. Their goal is nothing less than the conquest of the entire world. To make matters worse, Renquist is hampered by some throwbacks from his own race and by the unexpected arrival of one of his own colony members, Julia, together with Philipa, a darklost whom Julia has led through the Change into Nosferatu. The future of civilization hangs in the balance.

Coercing Virtue

Author : Robert H. Bork
Publisher : Vintage Canada
ISBN 13 : 030736853X
Total Pages : 181 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (73 download)

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Download or read book Coercing Virtue written by Robert H. Bork and published by Vintage Canada. This book was released on 2010-07-07 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Judge Robert H. Bork will deliver the Barbara Frum Historical Lecture at the University of Toronto in March 2002. This annual lecture “on a subject of contemporary history in historical perspective” was established in memory of Barbara Frum and will be broadcast on the CBC Radio program Ideas. In Coercing Virtue, former US solicitor general Robert H. Bork examines judicial activism and the practice of many courts as they consider and decide matters that are not committed to their authority. In his opinion, this practice infringes on the legitimate domains of the executive and legislative branches of government and constitutes a judicialization of politics and morals. Should courts be used as a vehicle of social change even if the majority view weighs against the court’s ruling? And if we allow courts to make law, especially in a country like Canada where our Supreme Court judges aren’t even elected, then what does this mean for democratic government? “The nations of the West have long been afraid of catching the “American disease” — the seizure by judges of authority properly belonging to the people and their elected representatives. Those nations are learning, perhaps too late, that this imperialism is not an American disease; it is a judicial disease, one that knows no boundaries.” — Robert H. Bork, from Coercing Virtue

The Philosophy of Comics

Author : Henry John Pratt
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190845449
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (98 download)

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Download or read book The Philosophy of Comics written by Henry John Pratt and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2023 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How do comics produce such a striking range of vibrant stories, representations, and expressions of the sensibilities of their creators? Henry John Pratt's The Philosophy of Comics provides a ground-breaking, illustrated introduction to the study of comics and graphic novels, advancing the field of comics studies by attending to some of its most notable problems. Pratt examines the history of comics, the contrast between comics and cartoons, the tenuous place of comics in the art world, and what it is to be a comic in the first place. Comics work through extensive modes of representation and expression, including through film, non-graphic literature, and theatre. Pratt examines questions such as, why and how are so many films based on comics? Can there be a perfect adaptation from one to the other? Are some comics better than others? Why is reading comics not regarded in the same light as reading literary books? Pratt urges us to look closely at the most significant problems and puzzles that comics provoke, having to do with the very nature of comics, what composes them, how comics are related to other art forms, how they function to manage space and time in storytelling, and why they've been neglected in academic circles despite being a culturally significant art form for decades. With illustrations by Kurt F. Shaffert, The Philosophy of Comics ultimately tries to explain the true underlying value of comics as an art form.