Superheroines and the Epic Journey
Superheroines and the Epic Journey

Author: Valerie Estelle Frankel

Publisher: McFarland

Published: 2017-03-23

Total Pages: 296

ISBN-13: 1476628017

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The heroine's journey echoes throughout ancient legend. Each young woman combats her dark side and emerges stronger. This quest is also a staple of American comic books. Wonder Woman with semi-divine powers gives us a new female-centered creation story. Batgirl, Batwoman and Black Widow discover their enemy is the dark mother or shadow twin, with the savagery they've rejected in themselves. Supergirl similarly struggles but keeps harmony with her sister. From Jessica Jones and Catwoman to the new superwomen of cutting-edge webcomics, each heroine must go into the dark, to become not a warrior but a savior. Women like Captain Marvel and Storm sacrifice all to join the ranks of superheroes, while their feminine powers and dazzling costumes reflect the most ancient tales.

Marvel Graphic Novels and Related Publications
Marvel Graphic Novels and Related Publications

Author: Robert G. Weiner

Publisher: McFarland

Published: 2008-09-18

Total Pages: 401

ISBN-13: 0786451157

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This work provides an extensive guide for students, fans, and collectors of Marvel Comics. Focusing on Marvel's mainstream comics, the author provides a detailed description of each comic along with a bibliographic citation listing the publication's title, writers/artists, publisher, ISBN (if available), and a plot synopsis. One appendix provides a comprehensive alphabetical index of Marvel and Marvel-related publications to 2005, while two other appendices provide selected lists of Marvel-related game books and unpublished Marvel titles.

Shadow of the Swan
Shadow of the Swan

Author: M.K. Wren

Publisher: Diversion Publishing Corp.

Published: 2013-07-09

Total Pages: 574

ISBN-13: 1626810982

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The author of Sword of the Lamb continues the Phoenix Legacy trilogy, in which a proud galactic empire struggles for supremacy. After forfeiting his identity as heir to the House of DeKoven Woolf, Lord Alexand morphs into Alex Ransom, leader of the Society of the Phoenix, sworn to bring about the evolution of the Concord in order to prevent its threatened collapse. But his birthright isn’t all Alex lost when Lord Alexand died. He gave up the extraordinary Lady Adrien Eliseer, and it was like tearing out his own heart. He realizes ultimately that as desperate as he is to bring peace to the Concord, he is equally desperate to be reunited with Adrien, especially when he learns that she is about to pay a terrible price for Lord Alexand’s death. “A new classic! Has the sweep and power of Asimov’s Foundation Trilogy.” —Jean M. Auel, author of the Earth’s Children series

Shadow Lands
Shadow Lands

Author: J.R. Colson

Publisher: Xlibris Corporation

Published: 2018-11-19

Total Pages: 125

ISBN-13: 1984567543

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Thrandr has spent most of his adult life by himself. Love means nothing to him after the death of his mother. Who can ever love a dragon who is hated by his siblings and whose father wants nothing to do with him? Thrandr’s life is wrapped up in the war of the Shadow Lands. He is sent to the human world to help keep track of Darius and to search for allies. His life is turned upside down by doe-eyed Dusana. Dusana’s world is based on science and facts until she moves to a new school and meets the mysterious Thrandr and his friends. She is drawn to the secret beauty she finds hidden within Thrandr. Everything that Dusana has ever believed in is put to test when she is catapulted into the Shadow Lands and the war that has engulfed it. Can Dusana break through the barriers that Thrandr has erected around himself and discover who he really is? Will Thrandr be able to show Dusana the magic of the Shadow Lands and gain her love? Exciting times await when Dusana decides to stay in the Shadow Lands with the man who has captured her heart and who has showed her a world that is far beyond the scientific facts that she has so long clung to.

The Shadow of Heaven
The Shadow of Heaven

Author: Jon S. Lawry

Publisher: Cornell University Press

Published: 2019-06-30

Total Pages: 437

ISBN-13: 1501744089

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In this subtle and intelligently conceived study of Milton's major poems, Professor Lawry analyzes and explicates the poems and interprets them in the context of the entire body of Milton's work. His interpretations help the reader to participate with the poet in the "enactment" of the poems, whether with Adam in the Garden of Eden or with Satan in Hell.

The Hall of Uselessness
The Hall of Uselessness

Author: Simon Leys

Publisher: New York Review of Books

Published: 2013-07-30

Total Pages: 577

ISBN-13: 1590176383

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An NYRB Classics Original Simon Leys is a Renaissance man for the era of globalization. A distinguished scholar of classical Chinese art and literature and one of the first Westerners to recognize the appalling toll of Mao’s Cultural Revolution, Leys also writes with unfailing intelligence, seriousness, and bite about European art, literature, history, and politics and is an unflinching observer of the way we live now. The Hall of Uselessness is the most extensive collection of Leys’s essays to be published to date. In it, he addresses subjects ranging from the Chinese attitude to the past to the mysteries of Belgium and Belgitude; offers portraits of André Gide and Zhou Enlai; takes on Roland Barthes and Christopher Hitchens; broods on the Cambodian genocide; reflects on the spell of the sea; and writes with keen appreciation about writers as different as Victor Hugo, Evelyn Waugh, and Georges Simenon. Throughout, The Hall of Uselessness is marked with the deep knowledge, skeptical intelligence, and passionate conviction that have made Simon Leys one of the most powerful essayists of our time.

BattleSpace of Mind
BattleSpace of Mind

Author: Michael Joseph McCarron

Publisher: TrineDay

Published: 2024-02-29

Total Pages: 615

ISBN-13: 1634244257

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The Nazi's never surrendered and planned their 4th Reich using neurocognitive weapons. Going underground their technology made it's way to S. America, the Soviet Union, the United States, among other places. We all are bound by the new rules of corporate fascism, long planned by Himmler, and his main strategy for a 4th Reich, financial control. Are we all just living in a computer-controlled information battlespace continued from World War II? This book dissects the matrix of control used by advanced military industrial powers; it breaks down the technology bit by bit so you have an understanding how technology is being used in a battle for your mind. I address these issues from a veteran's insight as a former Signal Intelligence specialist and with some background in the Intelligence Community, I bring forth countermeasures to this control, showing you how you can safeguard your mind from these attacks. Countermeasures that are not available anywhere in the commercial world, yet without them you will be easy prey for these directed targeted pulse modulated attacks first used by the Nazis.

The Probationer's Handbook
The Probationer's Handbook

Author: George T. Mortimer

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2008-12-07

Total Pages: 102

ISBN-13: 1409247163

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"Mortimer's book is grounded in that of Crowley yet he goes beyond it and I think the Master Therion would applaud. He tackles issues obviously based on experience, which have never been satisfactorily tackled before. If you have the slightest sincere interest in Magick and human evolution, you really must get hold of this book. The author's acid wit regarding New Age garbage adds spice to this excellent work. Do you really want to make Magick? If so, you must beg, borrow or steal a copy of this wonderful book." - Gerald Suster (Talking Stick - Winter 1997/98).