Download or read book Tyler Cross Angola written by Fabien Nury and published by Titan Comics. This book was released on 2019-03-13 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If Tyler Cross ever gets out, it won’t be for good behavior, Angola is not a prison. Its purpose is not to lock up criminals, let alone to rehabilitate them. Angola exists only to make money. It is a business… and business in booming. What seemed like a risk-free gig that should have made him some easy cash turns into a fast-track to Hell for Tyler Cross. A hell called “Angola”, the biggest high-security prison in the United States, surrounded by swamps and crushed by sweltering Louisiana heat. And just to put the cherry on the cake, the Mafia have put a price on his head, and there are a whole load of Sicilians in Angola… From the award-winning writer of the hit graphic novel, The Death of Stalin.

Download or read book Tyler Cross 2 Angola written by Fabien Nury and published by Carlsen. This book was released on 2016-11-29 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Im zweiten Band wird Tyler Cross Opfer eines Komplotts und findet sich plötzlich in einem Staatsgefängnis in den Sümpfen von Louisana wieder. Um dort zu überleben, muss man nicht nur ein Auge auf die Mitgegefangenen haben, sondern vor allem auch auf die Wärter. Nury und Brüno setzen ihre actionreiche Story fulminant fort.

Download or read book Tyler Cross Black Rock written by Fabien Nury and published by Titan Comics. This book was released on 2018-09-12 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Some day, Tyler Cross will pay for his crimes. Until then, crime is his payday. When Tyler Cross went down south for this job he didn’t realize the whole job was about to go south… It’s 1950. Tyler Cross has just stolen 17 kilos of pure heroin from the Mafia. He’s on foot, alone, in deepest, darkest Texas with just his Colt for company. He’s heading for Black Rock, a down-and-out southern town under the thumb of an oil magnate and his sons. The hillbillies of Black Rock won’t be forgetting this gangster’s visit any time soon…

Download or read book Njinga of Angola written by Linda M. Heywood and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2019-01-25 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of history’s most multifaceted rulers but little known in the West, Queen Njinga rivaled Elizabeth I and Catherine the Great in political cunning and military prowess. Today, she is revered in Angola as a heroine and honored in folk religions. Her complex legacy forms a crucial part of the collective memory of the Afro-Atlantic world.

Download or read book The Cross written by Robin M. Jensen and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2017-04-17 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The cross stirs intense feelings among Christians as well as non-Christians. Robin Jensen takes readers on an intellectual and spiritual journey through the two-thousand-year evolution of the cross as an idea and an artifact, illuminating the controversies—along with the forms of devotion—this central symbol of Christianity inspires. Jesus’s death on the cross posed a dilemma for Saint Paul and the early Church fathers. Crucifixion was a humiliating form of execution reserved for slaves and criminals. How could their messiah and savior have been subjected to such an ignominious death? Wrestling with this paradox, they reimagined the cross as a triumphant expression of Christ’s sacrificial love and miraculous resurrection. Over time, the symbol’s transformation raised myriad doctrinal questions, particularly about the crucifix—the cross with the figure of Christ—and whether it should emphasize Jesus’s suffering or his glorification. How should Jesus’s body be depicted: alive or dead, naked or dressed? Should it be shown at all? Jensen’s wide-ranging study focuses on the cross in painting and literature, the quest for the “true cross” in Jerusalem, and the symbol’s role in conflicts from the Crusades to wars of colonial conquest. The Cross also reveals how Jews and Muslims viewed the most sacred of all Christian emblems and explains its role in public life in the West today.

Download or read book Incognegro Renaissance written by Mat Johnson and published by Dark Horse Comics. This book was released on 2018-10-23 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A page-turning thriller of racial divide, Incognegro: Renaissance explores segregation, secrets and self-image as our race-bending protagonist penetrates a world where he feels stranger than ever before. When a black writer is found dead at a scandalous interracial party in 1920s' New York, Harlem's cub reporter Zane Pinchback is the only one determined to solve the murder. Zane must go "Incognegro" for the first time, using his light appearance to pass as a white man to find the true killer, in this prequel miniseries to the critically acclaimed Vertigo graphic novel, now available in a special new 10th Anniversary Edition. With a cryptic manuscript as his only clue, and a mysterious and beautiful woman as the murder's only witness, Zane finds himself on the hunt through the dark and dangerous streets of "roaring twenties" Harlem in search for justice. In a time when looks could kill . . . Zane's skin is the only thing keeping him alive.

Download or read book The Cross Border Connection written by Roger Waldinger and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2015-01-05 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: International migration presents the human face of globalization, with consequences that make headlines throughout the world. The Cross-Border Connection addresses a paradox at the core of this phenomenon: emigrants departing one society become immigrants in another, tying those two societies together in a variety of ways. In nontechnical language, Roger Waldinger explains how interconnections between place of origin and destination are built and maintained and why they eventually fall apart. “When are immigrants ‘us’? When are they ‘them’? Waldinger implores readers to reframe the debate from a before-after dichotomy to a new transnational approach, revealing migrants to be here, there, and in-between at all stages of their migration tenure...The book’s real strength is in the elegance of the author’s argument, supported by evidence that transnationalism itself is not static but an ongoing dialectic.” —R. A. Harper, Choice “The Cross-Border Connection is to be commended for putting substance into the black box of transnationalism, offering scholars a dynamic model to account for the ebb and flow of transnationalism in the real world and yielding testable propositions about the circumstances under which cross-border connections can be expected to expand or contract.” —Douglas S. Massey, American Journal of Sociology

Download or read book The Man Who Shot Chris Kyle An American Legend Graphic Novel written by Fabien Nury and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2022-03-22 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A poignant graphic novel that explores the life and death of American hero Chris Kyle. Discover the story of Chris Kyle, a Navy SEAL sniper who earned several awards for his service, for the first time in graphic novel form. He published his autobiography only a year before he was murdered, and has since been lauded as an American hero. This tragic tale adapts part of his memoir and also continues exploring the consequences and fate of those left behind after he was killed.

Download or read book Angola written by and published by . This book was released on 2015-08-28 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: La chance tourne. Ce qui devait être un coup sans risque, garanti sur facture, se transforme en descente aux enfers pour Tyler Cross. Un enfer qui porte le doux nom d'« Angola », la plus grande prison de haute sécurité des États-Unis, entourée de marécages et écrasée par le soleil torride de Louisiane. Cerise sur le gâteau : le clan Scarfo a mis un contrat sur sa tête, et les Siciliens sont nombreux parmi les détenus... Si Tyler sort un jour de cet enfer carcéral, ce ne sera pas pour bonne conduite.

Download or read book The Death of Stalin written by Fabien Nury and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2018-03-06 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The graphic novel which inspired the hotly tipped and highly controversial new movie directed by Armando Iannucci, due in theatres in March, and starring a host of high profile actors, including Michael Palin, Steve Buscemi and Jason Isaacs. Fear, corruption and treachery abound in this political satire set in the aftermath of Stalin's death in the Soviet Union in 1953. When the leader of the Soviet Union, Joseph Stalin, has a stroke - the political gears begin to turn, plunging the super-state into darkness, uncertainty and near civil war. The struggle for supreme power will determine the fate of the nation and of the world. And it all really happened.

Download or read book The Big Hoax written by Carlos Trillo and published by Titan Comics. This book was released on 2020-07-29 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set in the early 20th century banana republic of La Colonia, a young woman’s ‘virginity’ becomes the center of a disturbing mystery. Love, lies, and mortal danger surround her relationship with the man hired to protect her, and they soon find themselves at the mercy of a terrifying hitman called The Iguana, who will stop at nothing to conceal the truth and prevent an insurrection.

Download or read book Forgotten Saints written by Sahar Bazzaz and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1894 a Muslim mystic named Muḥammad al-Kattānī abandoned his life of asceticism to preach Islamic revival and jihad against the French. Ten years later, he mobilized a Moroccan resistance against French colonization. This book narrates the story of al-Kattānī and his virtual disappearance from accounts of modern Moroccan history.

Download or read book Evangelicals Incorporated written by Daniel Vaca and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2019-12-03 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new history explores the commercial heart of evangelical Christianity. American evangelicalism is big business. For decades, the world’s largest media conglomerates have sought out evangelical consumers, and evangelical books have regularly become international best sellers. In the early 2000s, Rick Warren’s The Purpose Driven Life spent ninety weeks on the New York Times Best Sellers list and sold more than thirty million copies. But why have evangelicals achieved such remarkable commercial success? According to Daniel Vaca, evangelicalism depends upon commercialism. Tracing the once-humble evangelical book industry’s emergence as a lucrative center of the US book trade, Vaca argues that evangelical Christianity became religiously and politically prominent through business activity. Through areas of commerce such as branding, retailing, marketing, and finance, for-profit media companies have capitalized on the expansive potential of evangelicalism for more than a century. Rather than treat evangelicalism as a type of conservative Protestantism that market forces have commodified and corrupted, Vaca argues that evangelicalism is an expressly commercial religion. Although religious traditions seem to incorporate people who embrace distinct theological ideas and beliefs, Vaca shows, members of contemporary consumer society often participate in religious cultures by engaging commercial products and corporations. By examining the history of companies and corporate conglomerates that have produced and distributed best-selling religious books, bibles, and more, Vaca not only illustrates how evangelical ideas, identities, and alliances have developed through commercial activity but also reveals how the production of evangelical identity became a component of modern capitalism.

Download or read book Empress Charlotte Volume 2 The Empire written by Fabien Nury and published by Europe Comics. This book was released on 2021-05-26T02:00:00+02:00 with total page 77 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ever since marrying Maximilian of Austria, Charlotte's life has been a series of disenchantments. Her life with Max reduced to nothing, she now puts all her stakes in the Mexican crown. Upon the couple's arrival in Veracruz, they are faced with an anemic, worn-out country, far from pacified by the French troops. They must come head-to-head with the defiant local elites, who have decided to take advantage of Max's weaknesses in order to preserve their own interests.

Download or read book Seven Last Words written by Andrew McGowan and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2021-03-25 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The cross is regarded as Jesus Christ’s great work of salvation. But is it also a work of creation? Excitingly plumbing Scripture and Christian tradition, Andrew McGowan shows that it is. “Each of Jesus’s seven words from the cross can be understood as a creative act, as a new divine work,” he writes. From the cross, Jesus works forgiveness, bestows Paradise, enacts human relationship, identifies completely with humanity, fulfills Scripture, and reenacts Sabbath. From early days, Christians—for good reason—linked the original seven days of creation with creation and re-creation at the apex of salvation. Seven Last Words recovers this linkage in all its power and perennial freshness. But that is not all. In addition to surveying the seven last words Jesus spoke, McGowan insists that at the cross “the eternal Word not only speaks, but listens.” And so he turns to the “conversations” spoken not only from but to the cross. Here he opens new vistas on the words of Judas, Dismas (the criminal crucified beside Jesus), Mary, God the Father, Longinus (the centurion), and Nicodemus, and ruminates fascinatingly on the accompanying silence of the angels. Profound and endlessly edifying, Seven Last Words will richly repay reading and rereading.

Download or read book No Five Fingers are Alike written by Joseph C. Berland and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1982 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Snake charmers, bards, acrobats, magicians, trainers of performing animals, and other nomadic artisans and entertainers have been a colorful and enduring element in societies throughout the world. Their flexible social system, based on highly specialized individual skills and spatial mobility, contrasts sharply with the more rigid social system of sedentary peasants and traditional urban dwellers. Joseph Berland brings into focus the ethnographic and psychological differences between nomadic and sedentary groups by examining how the experiences of South Asian gypsies and their urban counterparts contribute to basic perceptual habits and skills. No Five Fingers Are Alike, based on three years of participant research among rural Pakistani groups, provides the first detailed description in print of Asian gypsies. By applying methods of anthropological observation as well as psychological experimentation, Berland develops a theory about the relationship between social experience and mental growth. He suggests that there are certain social conditions under which mental growth can be accelerated. His work promises to stand as an important contribution to the cross-cultural literature on cognitive development.

Download or read book Once Upon a Time in France written by Fabien Nury and published by Naval Institute Press. This book was released on 2019-09-15 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on a true story, Once Upon a Time in France follows the life of Joseph Joanovici, a Romanian Jew who immigrated to France in the 1920s and became one of the richest men in Europe as a scrap-metal magnate. For some, he was a villain. For others, a hero. As Germany occupies France, Mr. Joseph thinks his influence can keep his family safe, but he soon finds that the only way to stay one step ahead of the Nazis is to keep his friends close and his enemies closer. Though he plays both sides of the fence as a Nazi collaborator and French resistant, a tangled web of interests forms around him that proves it will take a lot more than money to pay for the survival of his family. An international bestseller with over 1 million copies sold, the French series Once Upon a Time in France, collected here in one omnibus edition, has won the BDGest’Arts Best Scenario Award, BDGest’Arts Album of the Year, and Angoulême International Comics Festival Best Series Award, among many others.