Comic book superheroes, fantasy kingdoms, and futuristic starships have become inescapable features of today's pop-culture landscape, and the people we used to deride as "e;nerds"e; or "e;geeks"e; have ridden their popularity and visibility to mainstream recognition.
Placing the era firmly within the American experience, this reference illuminates what daily life was really like in the 1950s, including for people from the "e;Other America"e;-those outside the prosperous, white middle class.
When Cacofonix the bard is taken to Rome as a present for Julius Caesar, Asterix and Obelix set out to rescue him, sailing with master salesman Ekonomikrisis, the Phoenician merchant.
Plus de 600 ouvrages ont paru à ce jour sur Hergé et Tintin, ce qui fait de la création du dessinateur belge l’une des mieux représentées à la BNF malgré l’étroitesse du corpus, si bien qu’on peut se demander s’il y a encore quelque chose à dire sur cette œuvre que le philosophe Michel Serres qualifiait « d’inusable » !
An introduction to issues of sexual consent, covering key strands of feminist thought, how sexual consent is negotiated in practice, the influence of popular culture, and more.
Contributions by Jose Alaniz, Ian Blechschmidt, Paul Fisher Davies, Zanne Domoney-Lyttle, David Huxley, Lynn Marie Kutch, Julian Lawrence, Liliana Milkova, Stiliana Milkova, Kim A.
In a world where the sugar trade is at its breaking point leaving the world ravaged by hunger, obesity and lack of nutrition, only one human has the recipes and skills to wipe out processed sugar once and for all.
Cartoonist SINA GRACE returns with another chapter in his growing library of reflective memoirs, producing his strongest and most compelling tale to date.
Eight centuries in the future, a group of cybernetic deities the IXth Generation have awakened to find themselves in charge of a world kneeling at their feet and faced with an ancient evil known as the Darkness.
The riotous world of the classroom, captured by the cartoonists at The New Yorker The New Yorker Book of Teacher Cartoons, Second Edition is a hilarious compilation of cartoons that capture the joy, terror, excitement, anxiety, fun, and bedlam that teachers experience every day, as seen through the eyes of The New Yorker's best-loved cartoonists.
From entertainment to citizenship reveals how the young use shows like X-factor to comment on how power ought to be used, and how they respond to those pop stars - like Bono and Bob Geldof - who claim to represent them.
The New York Times-bestselling comic strip collection that proves "e;how Doonesbury predicted Donald Trump's presidential run twenty-nine years ago"e; (The Washington Post).
For boys and girls who love Minecraft, three graphic novel adventures in one big book that use over 2200 images to transport young readers into the world of the game they love most.
Greatly expanding on his blockbuster 1421, distinguished historian Gavin Menzies uncovers the complete untold history of how mankind came to the Americas—offering new revelations and a radical rethinking of the accepted historical record in Who Discovered America?
Studies in Ephemera: Text and Image in Eighteenth-Century Print bringstogether established and emerging scholars of early modern print culture to explore the dynamic relationships between words and illustrations in awide variety of popular cheap print from the seventeenth to the early nineteenth century.
