Download or read book War Bears 3 written by Margaret Atwood and published by Dark Horse Comics (Single Issues). This book was released on 2018-12-12 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the Booker Prize-winning author of The Handmaid's Tale comes this historical fiction graphic novel tracing the Golden Age of comic books. With the triumphant arrival of VA Day, the victorious Allied Nations are filled with hope. For Al Zurkowski and Canoodle Features, the joyous event also brings a level of uncertainty. While the war is thankfully over, the small publisher finds itself a smaller fish in a massive pond, leading to a business decision that changes Al's life forever.
Download or read book War Bears written by Margaret Atwood and published by Dark Horse Comics. This book was released on 2019-04-09 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the Booker Prize-winning author of The Handmaid's Tale, comes this historical fiction graphic novel tracing the Golden Age of Canadian comic books. Collects War Bears issues #1-3. Oursonette, a fictional Nazi-fighting superheroine, is created at the peak of World War II by comic book creator Al Zurakowski who dreams of making it big in the early world of comics publishing. A story that follows the early days of comics in Toronto, a brutal war that greatly strains Al personally and professionally, and how the rise of post-war American comics puts an end to his dreams. Internationally and New York Times best-selling novelist Margaret Atwood and acclaimed artist Ken Steacy collaborate for one of the most highly anticipated comic book and literary events!
Download or read book War Bears 2 written by Margaret Atwood and published by Dark Horse Comics (Single Issues). This book was released on 2018-10-03 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the Booker Prize-winning author of The Handmaid's Tale comes this historical fiction graphic novel tracing the Golden Age of comic books. Al Zurakowski is living his dream to be a cartoonist working on his own creation, Oursonette, but the demands of his publisher starting to take a toll. Add tough news regarding his brother are fighting the war in Europe, and the weight of the world is proving difficult for Al. That said, his real-life struggles translate well to fuel his creative endeavors.
Download or read book Chicago Bears written by Lew Freedman and published by MVP Books. This book was released on 2008-09-15 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of only two remaining charter members of the National Football League, the Chicago Bears are a team steeped in history. With nine pro football championships and twenty-six hall of famers, the Bears are also among the most successful franchises in all of professional sports. Revised and updated to include the latest seasons on the gridiron, Chicago Bears: The Complete Illustrated History brings the team’s vibrant history to life. Beginning with the franchise’s 1919 origins as the Decatur Staleys, this lavishly illustrated book presents the highs and lows from more than nine decades of football. Here is the story of the first dynasty under George “Papa Bear� Halas; the “Monsters of the Midway� of the 1940s; the team’s resurgence in the late 1960s; its 1985 Super Bowl win; and the run for the title in 2006. Former Chicago Tribune sportswriter and longtime Bears aficionado Lew Freedmen highlights the legends who have donned Bears uniforms, outsize characters like Red Grange, Bronko Nagurski, Sid Luckman, Mike Ditka, Dick Butkus, Gayle Sayers, Walter Payton, Mike Singletary, Brian Urlacher, and many more. He includes the numbers behind the stories---the stats and team records---as well as pivotal plays in Bears’ history, from Halas’ T-formation to William “The Refrigerator� Perry’s touchdown runs. The book presents a key chapter of sports history and offers a fitting tribute to one of football’s most beloved teams.
Download or read book When Football Went to War written by Todd Anton and published by Triumph Books. This book was released on 2013-11-15 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than any other sport, professional football contributed fighting men to the battles of World War II, and the 22 or so players or former players that lost their lives are among the riveting stories told in this tribute to football's war heroes that spans many decades and military conflicts. The National Football League counts three Congressional Medal of Honor recipients among its honors, along with numerous Silver Stars, Distinguished Flying Crosses, and Purple Hearts. When Football Went to War offers a ground-breaking look at football—college and professional football alike—and many of the wartime heroes who came off the field of play to fight for their country. Detailed biographies of those who gave their lives are supplemented by many other stories of wartime heroism, from World War I through to Pat Tillman's tragic death in the Global War on Terrorism. Football has become the most popular sport in America and this heartfelt book honors the many sacrifices of NFL athletes over the years in service of their country.
Download or read book Wars of Position written by Timothy Brennan and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In highlighting the shift in America's intellectual culture, Brennan makes the case for seeing belief as an identity. As much as race or ethnicity, political belief, Brennan argues, is itself an identity - one that remains unrecognized and without legal protections while possessing its own distinctive culture. Brennan also champions the idea of cosmopolitanism and critiques those theorists who relegate the left to the status of postcolonial "other.""
Download or read book The Sacred Wisdom of the Native Americans written by Larry J. Zimmerman and published by Chartwell Books. This book was released on 2016-05-27 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Professor Larry J. Zimmerman explores Native American history, reverence of nature, eventual colonization, and survival against odds, and how it has created a unique identity for Native people.
Download or read book The Environmental Consequences of War written by Jay E. Austin and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2000-10-26 with total page 720 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The environmental devastation caused by military conflict has been witnessed in the wake of the Vietnam War, the Gulf War and the Kosovo conflict. This book brings together leading international lawyers, military officers, scientists and economists to examine the legal, political, economic and scientific implications of wartime damage to the natural environment and public health. The book considers issues raised by the application of humanitarian norms and legal rules designed to protect the environment, and the destructive nature of war. Contributors offer an analysis and critique of the existing law of war framework, lessons from peacetime environmental law, means of scientific assessment and economic valuation of ecological and public health damage, and proposals for future legal and institutional developments. This book provides a contemporary forum for interdisciplinary analysis of armed conflict and the environment, and explores ways to prevent and redress wartime environmental damage.
Download or read book Science and Civilisation in China written by Joseph Needham and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1991 with total page 646 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Heavenly Saint Sovereign written by Da Dao and published by Funstory. This book was released on 2020-09-09 with total page 959 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Bai Yuntian was reborn, he discovered that he was being buried. However, the person was different; he was the reincarnated Dao Child of a supreme realm. With his supreme martial will, he wanted to see how he would make up for his deficiencies in his previous life.
Download or read book Germany and the Second World War written by Horst Boog and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2001-09-13 with total page 1352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the sixth volume in the comprehensive and authoritative series, Germany and the Second World War. It deals with the extension of a European into a global war in the period from 1941 to 1943. It focuses on the politics, strategy, and operations of the belligerent powers as Germany lost the initiative to the Allies, and it represents, both in content and in composition, the climax and turning points of the war. Series description This is the sixth in the magisterial ten-volume Germany and the Second World War series. The six volumes so far published in German take the story to 1943, and have achieved international acclaim as a major contribution to historical study. Under the auspices of the Militärgeschichtliches Forschungsamt [Research Institute for Military History], a team of renowned historians has combined a full synthesis of existing material with the latest research to produce what will be the definitive history of the Second World War from the German point of view. The comprehensive analysis, based on detailed scholarly research, is underpinned by a full apparatus of maps, diagrams, and tables. Intensively researched and documented, Germany and the Second World War is an undertaking of unparalleled scope and authority. It will prove indispensable to all historians of the twentieth century.
Download or read book Understanding Margaret Atwood written by Donna M. Bickford and published by Univ of South Carolina Press. This book was released on 2023-08-31 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A timely, accessible introduction to Margaret Atwood's most recent novels and enduring themes In 2017, the Hulu adaptation of Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale introduced the acclaimed and bestselling Canadian author to a new generation and reminded Atwood's long-established readers of her uncanny prescience. Understanding Margaret Atwood provides an overview of the author's life, descriptions and analyses of the key themes present in her most recent novels, signposts to the connections and intertextual references between them, and attention to their critical reception. Following a biographical overview, author Donna M. Bickford studies The Handmaid's Tale (1985) and its sequel The Testaments (2019), retellings of The Odyssey in The Penelopiad (2005) and The Tempest in Hag Seed (2016), the MaddAddam trilogy (2003, 2009, 2013), and The Heart Goes Last (2015). Written in clear language and a style appropriate both for scholars and for new students of Atwood, Bickford locates Atwood's recent works in the literary, political, and social context. Atwood is the author of more than fifty books of fiction, essays, and poetry, which have collectively sold more than eight million copies worldwide; has received numerous awards and accolades, including multiple Booker Prizes and a PEN Center USA Lifetime Achievement Award; and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.
Download or read book Beautiful CEO s Personal Guard written by Zui MoXuan and published by Funstory. This book was released on 2020-07-14 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: He is the strongest weapons specialist in China. It was also the "Dragon Thrust" of the mercenary world. Having been born in the mysterious army, he chose to disarm and return to the city! A single military thorn had swept through the bustling world without anyone being able to defeat it. A pair of iron fists that could shatter rivers and mountains could stand proudly under the heavens! I am the King of Weapons Specialists. In the city, I am the King.
Download or read book Maieusis written by Dominic Scott and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2007-12-13 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Maieusis pays tribute to the highly influential work of Myles Burnyeat, whose contributions to the study of ancient philosophy have done much to enhance the profile of the subject around the world. What is distinctive about his work is his capacity to deepen our understanding of the relation between ancient and modern thought, and to combine the best of contemporary philosophy - its insights as well as its rigour - with a deep sensitivity to classical texts. Nineteen of the world's leading experts in the field examine a wide range of topics in ancient philosophy, with a particular focus on Plato. Topics include Socrates and the nature of philosophy, the different aspects of eros in the Symposium, Republic and Phaedrus, the Phaedo's arguments for immortality, wars and warriors in Plato, and the different aspects of the cave allegory in the Republic. .
Download or read book Decisive Battles of the U S A 1776 1918 written by J. F. C. Fuller and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2007-06-01 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Believing that our past wars have been a major factor in making this country what it is, Maj. Gen. J. F. C. Fuller (1878?1966) presents in this comprehensive study a complete roster of those crucial actions on which our national life has turned. ø A professional soldier, military writer, and historian of international repute, Fuller has written a lucid, nontechnical, and absorbing account of every decisive American battle from Revolutionary times to the outbreak of World War II, including all the historic conflicts that have become epics of American courage and strength, from Trenton and Vicksburg to San Juan Hill and Meuse-Argonne. Each battle is fully described; enlightening information is provided on the military tactics employed, and the historical consequences of each are clearly examined. The author has also provided a cogent synopsis of the years between the decisive battles.
