Read and Download eBook Full
Author: J. P. Lefèvre-Garros
Publisher: 9th Cinebook
Published: 2011
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781849181006
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPresents a graphic novel account of the Wright brothers' invention of the modern airplane in 1903, documenting their early lives, their drive to create a flying machine, and their success at inventing controls to make fixed-wing flight possible.
Author: Vincent Brugeas
Publisher: Cinebook
Published: 2019-12-19T00:00:00+01:00
Total Pages: 66
ISBN-13: 1849186189
DOWNLOAD EBOOK1941. Almost all of Europe is under the Nazi heel. Great Britain still holds out, but the situation worsens with every passing day. And in North Africa, gateway to the Middle East and its immense oil reserves, Rommel now threatens Egypt, keystone of British defences. In those desperate times, three men (David Stirling, Blair Mayne and ‘Jock’ Lewes), three unconventional officers, band together to create a small, elite unit that will become a military legend: the SAS.
Author: J. Rideau
Publisher: 9th Cinebook
Published: 2010-11
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781849180566
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn 1982, conflict erupts between Great Britain and Argentina, putting important forces into play. Argentina decides to seize the Falkland Islands, which have been occupied by the United Kingdom since the beginning of the 19th century. On April 2, an island landing of Argentine forces succeeds, taking Margaret Thatcher's government by surprise - and 10 Downing Street prepares a large-scale operation to regain control.
Author: Gerry Canavan
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2018-12-31
Total Pages:
ISBN-13: 1316733017
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe first science fiction course in the American academy was held in the early 1950s. In the sixty years since, science fiction has become a recognized and established literary genre with a significant and growing body of scholarship. The Cambridge History of Science Fiction is a landmark volume as the first authoritative history of the genre. Over forty contributors with diverse and complementary specialties present a history of science fiction across national and genre boundaries, and trace its intellectual and creative roots in the philosophical and fantastic narratives of the ancient past. Science fiction as a literary genre is the central focus of the volume, but fundamental to its story is its non-literary cultural manifestations and influence. Coverage thus includes transmedia manifestations as an integral part of the genre's history, including not only short stories and novels, but also film, art, architecture, music, comics, and interactive media.
Author: André-Paul Duchâteau
Publisher: Cinebook
Published: 2013-01-22T00:00:00+01:00
Total Pages: 106
ISBN-13: 1849189757
DOWNLOAD EBOOKParis, 1793. Marie Crossholz manages the wax museum set up by her father. In exchange for bribes, some executioners allow her to mould the faces of guillotined aristocrats... After the French Revolution, Marie Crossholz becomes Mrs Tussaud. Disappointed by the marriage, she leaves for London with the ambition to create a wax museum there. New fights and other tumultuous adventures await her... Thirty years later, in 1835, she inaugurates the famous Tussaud Museum of Baker Street in London, which today continues to grow with new celebrities and attracts millions of visitors!
Author:
Publisher:
Published: 2021
Total Pages: 296
ISBN-13: 9782875622594
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSnoopy and Charlie Brown, Calvin and Hobbes, Tintin and Snowy? comics are home to many memorable child and animal figures. Many cultural productions, especially children?s literature and cartoons, stress the similarities between children and animals, similarities that have their limits and often place the child, as human, above the animal. Still, these fictional situations offer opportunities for thinking of child-animal relationships in diverse ways through, for instance, considering the possibilities of privileged contact between children and animals or of animals that are more knowledgeable and powerful than children and even adults.0Despite the prevalence and success of child-animal tandems in comics and culture, we know very little about these relationships. What makes them so popular? How do they work? How much do they vary across time and cultures? What do they tell us about the place of animals and children in comics and in the real world?0'Strong Bonds: Child-animal Relationships in Comics' takes a first, important step in this direction. Bringing together scholars with a diverse range of comics expertise, the volume?s chapters combine contextualized readings of comics with relevant theories for interrogating childhood and animalhood, their overlaps and divergences. The strong bonds between children and animals mapped out here point towards alternative modes of conceptualizing family and identity and, ultimately, alternative means of reading, interpreting and imagining.0With chapters on early comics (the Italian children?s magazine 'Corriere dei Piccoli' during WWI, Harold Gray?s 'Little Orphan Annie') international and regional classics ('Tintin', the Flemish 'Jommeke') and contemporary graphic novels (Bryan Talbot?s 'A Tale of One Bad Rat', Brecht Even?s 'Panther'), this critical anthology sheds light on a vast array of child-animal relationships in comics from Europe and North America.000.
Author: Ginger Wadsworth
Publisher: Lerner Publications
Published: 2003-07-01
Total Pages: 54
ISBN-13: 9780822501992
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA biography of the two inventors whose 1903 powered, controlled flight of an airplane at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, made history.
Author: Monica Rausch
Publisher: Gareth Stevens
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 25
ISBN-13: 0836875028
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDescribes the impact of the first flight of a fixed-wing, heavier-than-air aircraft, and recounts the life and career of its inventors, Orville and Wilbur Wright.
Author: David McCullough
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2015-05-05
Total Pages: 336
ISBN-13: 1476728763
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe #1 New York Times bestseller from David McCullough, two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize—the dramatic story-behind-the-story about the courageous brothers who taught the world how to fly—Wilbur and Orville Wright. On a winter day in 1903, in the Outer Banks of North Carolina, two brothers—bicycle mechanics from Dayton, Ohio—changed history. But it would take the world some time to believe that the age of flight had begun, with the first powered machine carrying a pilot. Orville and Wilbur Wright were men of exceptional courage and determination, and of far-ranging intellectual interests and ceaseless curiosity. When they worked together, no problem seemed to be insurmountable. Wilbur was unquestionably a genius. Orville had such mechanical ingenuity as few had ever seen. That they had no more than a public high school education and little money never stopped them in their mission to take to the air. Nothing did, not even the self-evident reality that every time they took off, they risked being killed. In this “enjoyable, fast-paced tale” (The Economist), master historian David McCullough “shows as never before how two Ohio boys from a remarkable family taught the world to fly” (The Washington Post) and “captures the marvel of what the Wrights accomplished” (The Wall Street Journal). He draws on the extensive Wright family papers to profile not only the brothers but their sister, Katharine, without whom things might well have gone differently for them. Essential reading, this is “a story of timeless importance, told with uncommon empathy and fluency…about what might be the most astonishing feat mankind has ever accomplished…The Wright Brothers soars” (The New York Times Book Review).
