Download or read book Hybrid Bastards written by and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It was only a matter of time before Zeus' infidelities came back to bite him. Years ago, his wife's vengeful spell made him fall in lust with every inanimate object in sight, and today, the king of the gods' hybrid bastards wander the world. Outrageously embarrassed, he dispatches goons to 'take care' of these problem children, but a handful manages to escape. Now through schemes both ingenious and idiotic, they will try to force their negligent father to recognize them.
Download or read book Hybrid Bastards written by Tom Pinchuk and published by Archaia. This book was released on 2010-07-13 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Zeus is a god with a reputation for lechery, and it's been driving his wife Hera nuts for years. Reaching her limit one night, she puts together an epic practical joke: she places a spell on Zeus that makes him fall in lust with every inanimate object in sight! It was a night Zeus doesn't remember, but his godly seed took root nevertheless. Now, eighteen years later, his unnatural hybrid bastards wander the world. And because Zeus has a reputation to protect, these embarrassing freaks have got to go! But this motley crew refuses to go quietly. Through schemes both ingenious and idiotic — Cotton, a smarmy cloth patchwork; Carmine, a timid automobile; Corey, a self-loathing apple; Walter, a belligerent stack of bricks; and Panos, their gallant would-be leader — will force their negligent father to acknowledge them — that is, if their own squabbling doesn't defeat them first! Collecting the mini-series that takes Greek mythology in a decidedly different direction, the Hybrid Bastards! hardcover includes a bonus story and pin-ups by talented guests.
Download or read book Krymsin Nocturnes written by Joseph Armstead and published by By Light Unseen Media. This book was released on 2010-04-15 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Montgomery Quinn, an ancient metahuman, wars with a power-mad cabal of vampires, mages and rogue government mercenaries in Borrego Bay. Quinn and his allies are pitted against two magic-workers seeking a source of ultimate power, which Quinn has been secretly entrusted to protect. Their deadly conflict is complicated by other players, few of whom are what they appear to be on the surface.
Download or read book Shakespeare and National Identity written by Christopher Ivic and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2017-01-12 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Arden Shakespeare Dictionary on Shakespeare and National Identity makes a timely and valuable contribution to the discipline. National identity in the early modern period is a central topic of scholarly investigation; it is also a dominant topic in classroom instruction and discussion. More than any other early modern playwright, Shakespeare (especially his history plays) is at the heart of recent critical investigations into a host of relevant topics: borders, history, identity, land, memory, nation, place and space. This Dictionary works through Shakespeare's plays and the cultural moment in which they were produced to provide a rich and informative account of such topics. An ideal reference work for upper level students and scholars and an essential resource for any literary library.
Download or read book New Remedies written by Frederick Albert Castle and published by . This book was released on 1879 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "An illustrated monthly trade journal of materia medica, pharmacy and therapeutics" (varies).
Download or read book The Bixby Series written by Michelle Bryan and published by Harris Publishing. This book was released on 2018-12-12 with total page 686 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: They arrived without warning. Killed without remorse. Decimated us almost to the point of extinction. It's time we take back our world. Join the resistance. One set, three full-length books. Get the entire, action-packed series at once. Book One (Strain of Resistance) I was twelve years old when the world ended. For eight years I've survived in this hell once known as earth. Fighting the alien parasite that mutated most of the population into blood-thirsty freaks, while the rest of us became the lunch special on their alien menu. Now things are changing and not for the better. The parasite is evolving. Becoming smarter, stronger, and deadlier. They've already stolen everything from me. My childhood. My family. Even the man I loved. No more. It's time for this to end once and for all. My name is Bixby, and I'm the resistance. **************************************************** Book Two (Strain of Defiance) My name is Bixby. I'm a survivor. After eight years of fighting the alien invaders and gangs of ravagers that destroyed our world, we thought we had lived through the worst of it. We were wrong. The invaders have evolved, creating a human-leech hybrid. There may be a way for us to eradicate this new threat. But that entails a perilous journey over three hundred miles of infested territory. Three hundred miles of leeches, ravagers, and hybrids all on the hunt for blood. What could possibly go wrong? *************************************************** Book Three (Strain of Vengeance) We had one assignment-destroy the new alien threat. We thought we had done just that. What should have been a joyous return home after a grueling mission has now turned into a race against time to save those we love. Our safe haven has been invaded. Our people either dead or taken. Left heartbroken, our nightmare never seems to end. But I refuse to let the invaders win. None of us are willing to give up until we have everyone we love back safe. But can our people trust us to come to their rescue when we can't even trust each other? Luke and Sam. Sam and Luke. So many lies. So many cover ups. So much pain. One will be my salvation. The other my downfall. Warning: Recommended for mature young adults
Download or read book Strain of Resistance written by Michelle Bryan and published by Harris Publishing. This book was released on 2016-03-12 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I was twelve years old when the world ended. For eight years I’ve survived this hellhole of a planet, fighting the parasites that mutated most of earth’s population into blood-thirsty freaks, while the rest of us became the lunch special on their human-filled menu. And that’s only one of our problems as we try to survive everyday life in this new reality. Enough food and water? If we’re lucky. Leaving the safety of our high walls? Only if we want to face the vicious cannibals and leeches haunting the streets searching for prey. Living any sort of normalcy? Yeah, right. If it wasn’t for my fellow hunters and Luke, I would have given up long ago. Luke. My friend. My leader. My rock. The man whose arms held me as my world shattered when the invaders took everything I had left. And he wants more. More time. More... commitment. But these walls I’ve built up are the only thing keeping me together. If I let him in, if I let myself love him, it’ll only hurt worse when the inevitable happens. Because in our world, no one is safe, since the only end to this suffering is death. And our war is just beginning. They’ve already stolen so much from me. It’s time for things to change. My name is Bixby and I’m the resistance. Mature themes and explicit language. 17+ Rating.
Download or read book The Solid Stone written by L.P. McCleod and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2012-09-17 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Stone doesn't bend; it doesn't feel pain or pity. It maintains its crashing course; forever changing the land in its path. Rhea Stone HAD to be the Stone that started rolling, didn't she? In her defense, it wasn't exactly like she had a whole heck of a lot of choice in the matter. The secrets and sins of her missing Father could claim that blame. It certainly wasn't her fault that events had been set in motion before she was born that sealed her fate. Just like it certainly wasn't her fault that she suddenly had monsters literally crawling out of her woodwork...and out of her bloodline. If Rhea hoped to emerge from a war that had been sparked by betrayal and fueled by hate, she would have to dig deep inside of herself and discover a heritage she never knew she had...and could be the death of her.
Download or read book Bachelors Bastards and Nomadic Masculinity written by Robert Fagley and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2014-11-19 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bachelors, Bastards, and Nomadic Masculinity is, firstly, a thematic exploration of bachelor figures and male bastards in literary works by Guy de Maupassant and André Gide. The coupling of Maupassant and Gide is appropriate for such an analysis, not only because of their mutual treatment of illegitimacy, but also because each writer represents varieties of bachelors and bastards from disparate social classes and subcultures, each writing during contiguous moments of socio-legal changes particularly related to divorce law and women’s rights, which consequently have great influence on the legal destiny of illegitimate or “natural” children. Napoleon’s Civil Code of 1804 provides the legal (patriarchal) framework for the period of this study of illegitimacy, from about 1870 to 1925. The Civil Code saw numerous changes during this period. The Naquet Law of 1884, which reestablished limited legal divorce, represents the central socio-legal event of the turn of the century in matters of legitimacy, whereas the Franco-Prussian War of 1870 and the First World War furnish chronological bookends for this book. Besides through history, law, and sociology, this book treats illegitimacy through the lens of various branches of gender and sexual theory, particularly the study of masculinities, and a handful of other important critical theories, most importantly those of Michel Foucault, Eve Sedgwick, Todd Reeser, Charles Stivale, and Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari. Bachelors and bastards are two principal players in the representation of illegitimacy in Maupassant and Gide, but this study considers the theme of illegitimacy as extended beyond simple questions of legitimate versus illegitimate children. The male bastard is only one of the "Counterfeit" characters examined in these authors' fictional texts. This book is divided into three parts which consider specific thematic elements of their "bastard narratives". Part One frames the representation in fiction of bachelor figures and how they contribute to, or the roles they play in, instances of illegitimacy. Part Two springs from and develops the metaphor of the "counterfeit coin," whether represented by a bastard son, an affected schoolboy, a false priest, or a pretentious littérateur. Part Three explains the concept of "nomadic masculine" practices; such practices include nomadic styles of masculinity development as well as the bastard's nomadism.
Download or read book Son of Classics and Comics written by George Kovacs and published by Classical Presences. This book was released on 2016 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wonder Woman. Asterix the Gaul. Watchmen. These popular comics, and many others, use classical sources, narrative patterns, and references to enrich their imaginative worlds and deepen the stories they present. This volume explores that rich interaction. Son of Classics and Comics presents thirteen original studies of representations of the ancient world in the medium of comics. Building on the foundation established by their groundbreaking Classics and Comics (2011), George Kovacs and C. W. Marshall have gathered a wide range of essays with a new, global perspective. Chapters are helpfully grouped to facilitate classroom use, with sections on receptions of Homer, on manga, on Asterix, and on the sense of a classic in the modern world. All Greek and Latin passages are translated. Lavishly illustrated, the volume significantly widens the range of available studies on the reception of the Greek and Roman worlds in comics, and deepens our understanding of comics as a literary medium. Son of Classics and Comics will appeal to students and scholars of classical reception as well as comics fans.
Download or read book The Routledge Companion to Religion and Popular Culture written by John C. Lyden and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-03-27 with total page 788 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Religion and popular culture is a fast-growing field that spans a variety of disciplines. This volume offers the first real survey of the field to date and provides a guide for the work of future scholars. It explores: key issues of definition and of methodology religious encounters with popular culture across media, material culture and space, ranging from videogames and social networks to cooking and kitsch, architecture and national monuments representations of religious traditions in the media and popular culture, including important non-Western spheres such as Bollywood This Companion will serve as an enjoyable and informative resource for students and a stimulus to future scholarly work.
Download or read book Exile and Creativity written by Susan Rubin Suleiman and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essays that range chronologically from the Renaissance to the 1990s, geographically from the Danube to the Andes, and historically from the Inquisition to the Holocaust, examine the complexities and tensions of exile, focusing particularly on whether exile tends to block, or to enhance, artistic creativity. 16 photos.
Download or read book Word as Bond in English Literature from the Middle Ages to the Restoration written by J. Douglas Canfield and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2016-11-11 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For centuries, the transmission of power in feudal European society depended on a code of fidelity, of political allegiance, and truth to one's word. The word as bond extended to include not only the pledge of allegiance between subject and king, but the troth-plight between lovers, the vow of friendship, and the judicial oath. Society was ultimately based upon a gentleman's or gentlewoman's word that was itself underwritten by the Word of God. J. Douglas Canfield argues that English literature of the feudal epoch placed this master trope of word as bond at the center of conflict. The trope does not passively reflect social reality; rather, it helps to define, to constitute the society and its values. Both society and literature were preoccupied by the contest between fidelity on the one hand and its antithesis, betrayal (with the political and sexual anarchy that it threatened) on the other. In literature, the conflict was usually resolved through supernatural aid, the intervention of the Logos, which guaranteed the validity of the word. Canfield analyzes over 25 representative works, focusing on Chaucer, Shakespeare, and Dryden, in the five dominant modes of aristocratic literature-romance, comedy, lyric, tragedy, and satire. In each chapter, he offers three examples, one from the Middle Ages, one from the Renaissance, and one from the Restoration. Canfield's study proceeds synchronically, attempting to show that the trope is always under stress. The language of heroic romance coexists with the language of subversive comedy and absurdist satire. In an Afterword, he suggests why the trope disappears—not from the discourse, where it remains to this day, but from the center of conflict in English literature after 1688.
Download or read book The Graphic Canon Vol 3 written by Russ Kick and published by Seven Stories Press. This book was released on 2019-06-18 with total page 578 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NOW A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER! Publisher's Weekly "Best Summer Books of 2013" The Daily Beast's "Brainy Summer Beach Reads" The classic literary canon meets the comics artists, illustrators, and other artists who have remade reading in Russ Kick's magisterial, three-volume, full-color The Graphic Canon, volumes 1, 2, and 3. Volume 3 brings to life the literature of the end of the 20th century and the start of the 21st, including a Sherlock Holmes mystery, an H.G. Wells story, an illustrated guide to the Beat writers, a one-act play from Zora Neale Hurston, a disturbing meditation on Naked Lunch, Rilke's soul-stirring Letters to a Young Poet, Anaïs Nin's diaries, the visions of Black Elk, the heroin classic The Man With the Golden Arm (published four years before William Burroughs' Junky), and the postmodernism of Thomas Pynchon, David Foster Wallace, Kathy Acker, Raymond Carver, and Donald Barthelme. The towering works of modernism are here--T.S. Eliot's "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" and "The Waste Land," Yeats's "The Second Coming" done as a magazine spread, Heart of Darkness, stories from Kafka, The Voyage Out by Virginia Woolf, James Joyce's masterpiece, Ulysses, and his short story "Araby" from Dubliners, rare early work from Faulkner and Hemingway (by artists who have drawn for Marvel), and poems by Gertrude Stein and Edna St. Vincent Millay. You'll also find original comic versions of short stories by W. Somerset Maugham, Flannery O'Connor, and Saki (manga style), plus adaptations of Lolita (and everyone said it couldn't be done!), The Age of Innocence, Siddhartha and Steppenwolf by Hermann Hesse, "The Negro Speaks of Rivers" by Langston Hughes, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Last Exit to Brooklyn, J.G. Ballard's Crash, and photo-dioramas for Animal Farm and The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. Feast your eyes on new full-page illustrations for 1984, Brave New World, Waiting for Godot, One Hundred Years of Solitude,The Bell Jar, On the Road, Lord of the Flies, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, and three Borges stories. Robert Crumb's rarely seen adaptation of Nausea captures Sartre's existential dread. Dame Darcy illustrates Cormac McCarthy's masterpiece, Blood Meridian, universally considered one of the most brutal novels ever written and long regarded as unfilmable by Hollywood. Tara Seibel, the only female artist involved with the Harvey Pekar Project, turns in an exquisite series of illustrations for The Great Gatsby. And then there's the moment we've been waiting for: the first graphic adaptation from Kurt Vonnegut's masterwork, Slaughterhouse-Five. Among many other gems.
Download or read book Destined Prey written by Bailey Bradford and published by Totally Entwined Group (USA+CAD). This book was released on 2021-03-02 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: FROM BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF LGBTQ+ ROMANCE BAILEY BRADFORD Book one in the Wild Ones series &– a newly edited version! The call of the wild has never been so hot. All Jack Tucker wanted was to come home for a little while and try to figure out where his life had gone wrong. Moving from Wyoming to New York didn't turn out the way he'd thought it would, and a bad breakup has left him bruised—emotionally and otherwise. He doesn't expect to be glad he's back on the Double T Ranch with his brother, Rhett, and he sure doesn't expect to find the place crawling with coywolves, wolves and coyotes. There seems to be some kind of animal warfare going on, and he and Rhett are caught in the middle of it. Coywolves—the hybrid of wolves and coyotes, hated by both, and more predatory than either. Add in the fact that all the battling species are shifters, and there's bound to be trouble. Ben Akers is part of his brother's pack. The only coywolf shifters in existence, they find themselves under constant attack from wolf and coyote packs determined to make the Akers pack extinct. But coywolves don't die out so easy, and when Ben's life takes a surprising turn in the form of one sexy human named Jack Tucker, they're both in for surprises, danger and the chance at the kind of love most people—and shifters—can only dream of...
Download or read book Prey written by Ken Goddard and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1993-08-15 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Harry Lightstone - undercover cop - fish and wildlife - meets a bloody band of industrialists, financiers, bent on destroying the environment.
Download or read book The Complete Guide to Self Publishing Comics written by Comfort Love and published by Watson-Guptill. This book was released on 2015-05-19 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Take Control of Your Comics-Making Destiny Creating your own comic is easier than ever before. With advances in technology, the increased connectivity of social media, and the ever-increasing popularity of the comics medium, successful DIY comics publishing is within your reach. With The Complete Guide to Self-Publishing Comics, creators/instructors Comfort Love and Adam Withers provide a step-by-step breakdown of the comics-making process, perfect for any aspiring comics creator. This unprecedented, in-depth coverage gives you expert analysis on each step—writing, drawing, coloring, lettering, publishing, and marketing. Along the way, luminaries in the fields of comics, manga, and webcomics—like Mark Waid, Adam Warren, Scott Kurtz, and Jill Thompson—lend a hand, providing “Pro Tips” on essential topics for achieving your comics-making dreams. With the insights and expertise contained within these pages, you’ll have everything you need and no excuses left: It’s time to make your comics!
