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by Yvan Alagbé
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2018
One of the **Globe & Mail’**s 100 Best Books of 2018
A timely collection of work about race and immigration in Paris by one of France's most revered cult comic book artists.
Yvan Alagbé is one of the most innovative and provocative artists in the world of comics. In the stories gathered...
Redefining Girly
How Parents Can Fight the Stereotyping and Sexualizing of Girlhood, from Birth to Tween
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2014
Containing practical, specific parenting advice; strategies for effecting change with educators, store managers, corporations, and more; and tips for challenging and changing the media, this essential guide gives parents the tools they need to fight back against the modern stereotyping and sexualization...
In Plain Sight
The Startling Truth behind the Elizabeth Smart Investigation
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2006
This riveting inside story of the intense search for the Salt Lake City teenager reveals never-before-told details of the largest investigation in Utah state history. The firsthand account of Tom Smart, Elizabeth's uncle and one-time suspect, reveals the details of the flawed police investigation,...
by Edith Nesbit
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2000
As a writer, E. Nesbit understood that the stories are the least part of Shakespeare, but as a mother she also understood the need for simplicity. Envisioning this simplified introduction to works such as The Winter's Tale, Romeo and Juliet, A Midsummer Night's Dream and The Taming of the Shrew --...
by Boris Strugatsky, Arkady Strugatsky, Andrew Bromfield
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2017
Sasha, a young computer programmer from Leningrad, is driving through the forests of Northwest Russia to meet up with some friends for a nature vacation. He picks up a couple of local hitchhikers, who persuade him to come work with them at the National Institute for the Technology of Witchcraft and...
Zombie Movies
The Ultimate Guide
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
Featuring chronological reviews of more than 300 zombie films—from 1932's White Zombie to the AMC series *The Walking Dead—*this thorough, uproarious guide traces the evolution of one of horror cinema’s most popular and terrifying creations. Fans will learn exactly what makes a zombie a...
by Tadao Tsuge, Ryan Holmberg
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2018
A gritty collection of graphic short stories by a Japanese manga master depicting life on the streets among punks, gangsters, and vagrants.
Tadao Tsuge is one of the pioneers of alternative manga, and one of the world’s great artists of the down-and-out. Slum Wolf is a new selection of his...
by E. O. Plauen, Elke Schulze
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2017
Father and Son is one of the most beloved comic strips ever drawn—an uproarious, timeless ode to the pleasures, pitfalls, and endless absurdity of family life.
Father and Son is a slyly heartwarming, dizzyingly inventive classic in the tradition of Calvin and Hobbes and The Simpsons. Created...
Why Is Milk White?
& 200 Other Curious Chemistry Questions
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2013
When it comes to chemistry, most kids have more questions than answers. Why do you get cavities when you eat too much sugar? How does sun block protect your skin from getting a sunburn? What makes soda so fizzy? And why do you need antifreeze in your car? Teenager Alexa Coelho quizzed her neighbor,...
Blood Plagues and Endless Raids
A Hundred Million Lives in the World of Warcraft
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2017
In 2005, the video game World of Warcraft struck the cultural landscape with tidal force. One hundred million people have played WoW in the twelve years since.
But those people did more than play. They worked, they fought, they triumphed, they held entire game servers hostage, they even married...
Crash Course for the GRE, 6th Edition
Your Last-Minute Guide to Scoring High
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2017
This eBook edition has been specially formatted for on-screen viewing with cross-linked questions, answers, and explanations.
If the big test is coming up and you haven’t started studying, then this book is the perfect last-minute solution. Designed for the student who’s running out of...
by Samir Amin
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
Renowned political economist Samir Amin, engaged in a uniquelifelong effort both to narrate and affect the human condition on aglobal scale, brings his analysis up to the present—the world of2013. The key events of our times—financial crisis, the emergingnations, globalization, financialization, political Islam, Eurozoneimplosion—are related in a coherent, historically based, account.
The Last Warlord
The Life and Legend of Dostum, the Afghan Warrior Who Led US Special Forces to Topple the Taliban Re
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
Chronicling the spectacular rise to power of General Abdul Rashid Dostum, this is an intimate profile of the one of the most powerful warlords to have dominated Afghanistan in the years since the Soviet withdrawal in the late 1980s. His rise from simple peasant villager to warrior against the repressive...
America's Education Deficit and the War on Youth
Reform Beyond Electoral Politics
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013
Americas latest war, according to renowned social critic Henry Giroux, is a war on youth. While this may seem counterintuitive in our youth-obsessed culture, Giroux lays bare the grim reality of how our educational, social, and economic institutions continually fail young people. Their systemic failure...