New Titans (1984-1996) #103
Author: Marv Wolfman
Publisher: DC
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Total Pages: 28
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKCyborg fights for his very soul in cyber-space.
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Generation Multiplex
Author: Timothy Shary
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Published: 2014-03-07
Total Pages: 435
ISBN-13: 029276071X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKGeneration Multiplex (2002) was the first comprehensive study of the representation of teenagers in American cinema since David Considine’s Cinema of Adolescence in 1985. This updated and expanded edition reaffirms the idea that films about youth constitute a legitimate genre worthy of study on its own terms. Identifying four distinct subgenres—school, delinquency, horror, and romance—Timothy Shary explores hundreds of representative films while offering in-depth discussion of movies that constitute key moments in the genre, including Fast Times at Ridgemont High, A Nightmare on Elm Street, The Breakfast Club, Say Anything . . . , Boyz N the Hood, Scream, American Pie, Napoleon Dynamite, Superbad, The Twilight Saga, and The Hunger Games. Analyzing developments in teen films since 2002, Shary covers such topics as the increasing availability of movies on demand, which has given teens greater access to both popular and lesser-seen films; the recent dominance of supernatural and fantasy films as a category within the genre; and how the ongoing commodification of teen images in media affects real-life issues such as school bullying, athletic development, sexual identity, and teenage pregnancy.
1996 Comic Book Index
Author: Johnny Lauck
Publisher:
Published: 1996
Total Pages: 522
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKSoccer in a Football World
Author: David Wangerin
Publisher: Temple University Press
Published: 2008-03-15
Total Pages: 359
ISBN-13: 1592138853
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDavid Beckham’s arrival in Los Angeles represents the latest attempt to jump-start soccer in the United States where, David Wangerin says, it “remains a minority sport.” With the rest of the globe so resolutely attached to the game, why is soccer still mostly dismissed by Americans? Calling himself “a soccer fan born in the wrong country at nearly the wrong time,” Wangerin writes with wit and passion about the sport’s struggle for acceptance in Soccer in a Football World. A Wisconsin native, he traces the fragile history of the game from its early capitulation to gridiron on college campuses to the United States’ impressive performance at the 2002 World Cup. Placing soccer in the context of American sport in general, he chronicles its enduring struggle alongside the country’s more familiar pursuits and recounts the shifting attitudes toward the “foreign” game. His story is one that will enrich the perspective of anyone whose heart beats for the sport, and is curious as to where the game has been in America—and where it might be headed.
Tangled Titans
Author: David L. Shambaugh
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2013
Total Pages: 455
ISBN-13: 144221970X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Tangled Titans offers the most current and comprehensive assessment available of United States-China relations. In this definitive book, leading experts consider the past, present, and future of this complex relationship through an in-depth exploration of its historical, domestic, bilateral, regional, and global contexts. Never in modern history have two great powers been so deeply intertwined, yet so suspicious and potentially antagonistic. Readers will find Tangled Titans essential reading to understand the current dynamics and future direction of relations between the world's two most important powers."--Page 4 of cover.
The ESPN Pro Football Encyclopedia
Author: Pete Palmer
Publisher: Sterling
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 1548
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPresents the statistics of professional American football players, coaches, and teams for each season from 1920-2006.
World of Pro Football
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Published: 1987
Total Pages: 200
ISBN-13: 9781555211332
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSith, Slayers, Stargates & Cyborgs
Author: John R. Perlich
Publisher: Peter Lang
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 234
ISBN-13: 9781433100956
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe beginning of the twenty-first century has already seen its fair share of modern myths with heroes such as Spider-Man, Superman, and Harry Potter. The authors in this volume deconstruct, discuss, engage, and interrogate the mythologies of the new millennium in science fiction fantasy texts. Using literary and rhetorical criticism - paired with philosophy, cultural studies, media arts, psychology, and communication studies - they illustrate the function, value, and role of new mythologies, and show that the universal appeal of these texts is their mythic power, drawing upon archetypes of the past which resonate with individuals and throughout culture. In this way they demonstrate how mythology is timeless and eternal.
Rising Titans, Falling Giants
Author: Joshua R. Itzkowitz Shifrinson
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 2018-09-15
Total Pages: 206
ISBN-13: 1501725076
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAs a rising great power flexes its muscles on the political-military scene it must examine how to manage its relationships with states suffering from decline; and it has to do so in a careful and strategic manner. In Rising Titans, Falling Giants Joshua R. Itzkowitz Shifrinson focuses on the policies that rising states adopt toward their declining competitors in response to declining states’ policies, and what that means for the relationship between the two. Rising Titans, Falling Giants integrates disparate approaches to realism into a single theoretical framework, provides new insight into the sources of cooperation and competition in international relations, and offers a new empirical treatment of great power politics at the start and end of the Cold War. Shifrinson challenges the existing historical interpretations of diplomatic history, particularly in terms of the United States-China relationship. Whereas many analysts argue that these two nations are on a collision course, Shifrinson declares instead that rising states often avoid antagonizing those in decline, and highlights episodes that suggest the US-China relationship may prove to be far less conflict-prone than we might expect.
Twilight of the Titans
Author: Paul K. MacDonald
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 2018-04-15
Total Pages: 487
ISBN-13: 1501717111
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn Twilight of the Titans, Paul K. MacDonald and Joseph M. Parent examine great power transitions since 1870 to determine how declining powers choose to behave, identifying the strong incentives to moderate their behavior when the hierarchy of great powers is shifting. Challenging the conventional wisdom that such transitions push declining great powers to extreme measures, this book argues that intimidation, provocation, and preventive war are not the only alternatives to the loss of relative power and prestige. Using numerous case studies, MacDonald and Parent show how declining states tend to behave, the policy options they have, how rising states respond to those in decline, and what conditions reward particular strategic choices.
