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A Critical Companion to Wes Craven

by Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns, Taksala Abeyguawardena, Kat Albrecht, Jacob Babb, Ezra Brain, Eric Brinkman, Stephanie Chang, Daniel P. Compora, Joshua W. Katz, Brian Keiper0, Joel Kirk1, Todd G. Morrison2, Natalie O'Reilly3, Sony Jalarajan Raj4, Andrew Smith5, Brenan R. R. Smith6, Michael Stock7, Adith K. Suresh8, Eduardo Veteri9, Olivia Wood0, Emiliano Aguilar1, John Darowski2, Will Dodson4, Dr Reece Goodall5 ...

Series series Critical Perspectives on Contemporary Directors
In A Critical Companion to Wes Craven, contributors use a variety of theoretical frameworks to analyze distinct areas of Craven’s work, including ecology, auteurism, philosophy, queer studies, and trauma. This book covers both the successes and failures contained in Craven’s extensive filmography, ultimately revealing a variegated portrait of his career. Scholars of film studies, horror, and ... Read more

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In A Critical Companion to Wes Craven, contributors use a variety of theoretical frameworks to analyze distinct areas of Craven’s work, including ecology, auteurism, philosophy, queer studies, and trauma. This book covers both the successes and failures contained in Craven’s extensive filmography, ultimately revealing a variegated portrait of his career. Scholars of film studies, horror, and
... Read more
Batman’s Villains and Villainesses

Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Arkham’s Souls

by Marco Favaro, Jason DeHart, Daniel Goff, Nicholas James, Jesus Jimenez-Varea, James Taylor, Christina Knopf, Damien Picariello, Eduardo Veteri, Carl Wilson0, Justin F. Martin2, Ian J. Drake3, Matthew B. Llyod4, Francisco Miguel Ortiz Delgado5, Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns6, Sean C. Hadley7, Anthony P. Spanakos8, Tosha R. Taylor9, Matthew William Brake0, John Darowski1, Nathan Miczo2, Sean Travers3 ...

While much of the scholarship on superhero narratives has focused on the heroes themselves, Batman’s Villains and Villainesses: Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Arkham’s Souls takes into view the depiction of the villains and their lives, arguing that they often function as proxies for larger societal and philosophical themes. Approaching Gotham’s villains from a number of disciplinary ... Read more

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While much of the scholarship on superhero narratives has focused on the heroes themselves, Batman’s Villains and Villainesses: Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Arkham’s Souls takes into view the depiction of the villains and their lives, arguing that they often function as proxies for larger societal and philosophical themes. Approaching Gotham’s villains from a number of disciplinary
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A Selection of Satirical and Licentious Verse of John Wilmot 2nd Earl of Rochester

by John Wilmot 2nd Earl of Rochester, Neil Azevedo ...

Series Book 7 - The Reader's Library
A thoroughly representative selection of the poetry of John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester. Rochester (1647–1680) was among the worst (best?) of the Restoration rakes, and also one of the period’s best satirists employing a direct language rife with plenty of four-letter words and an obsessive indulgence of the most vulgar vernacular used on behalf of satirical shredding, scatological humor, and ... Read more

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A thoroughly representative selection of the poetry of John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester. Rochester (1647–1680) was among the worst (best?) of the Restoration rakes, and also one of the period’s best satirists employing a direct language rife with plenty of four-letter words and an obsessive indulgence of the most vulgar vernacular used on behalf of satirical shredding, scatological humor, and
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Adapting Superman

Essays on the Transmedia Man of Steel

Edited by John Darowski ...

Almost immediately after his first appearance in comic books in June 1938, Superman began to be adapted to other media. The subsequent decades have brought even more adaptations of the Man of Steel, his friends, family, and enemies in film, television, comic strip, radio, novels, video games, and even a musical. The rapid adaptation of the Man of Steel occurred before the character and storyworld ... Read more

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Almost immediately after his first appearance in comic books in June 1938, Superman began to be adapted to other media. The subsequent decades have brought even more adaptations of the Man of Steel, his friends, family, and enemies in film, television, comic strip, radio, novels, video games, and even a musical. The rapid adaptation of the Man of Steel occurred before the character and storyworld
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CASE OF THE MISSING TOOTH A Martino Family History, THE: From Italian Roots to Connecticut Legacy

by Michael Ditter ...

Narrated by Digital Voice Narrator E, Digital Voice John Martino Sr E, Digital Voice John Ditter E, Digital Voice Narrator 2 E, Digital Voice Rick Martino E ...

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4 hours 53 min

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.Embark on a sweeping journey through time and tradition in this meticulously crafted family saga. The Case of the Missing Tooth chronicles the remarkable odyssey of the Martino family, tracing their humble beginnings in the rugged landscapes of southern Italy to their enduring legacy in Connecticut. Blending rigorous historical research with evocative ... Read more

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This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.Embark on a sweeping journey through time and tradition in this meticulously crafted family saga. The Case of the Missing Tooth chronicles the remarkable odyssey of the Martino family, tracing their humble beginnings in the rugged landscapes of southern Italy to their enduring legacy in Connecticut. Blending rigorous historical research with evocative
... Read more
Critical Approaches to Horror Comic Books

Red Ink in the Gutter

Edited by John Darowski, Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns ...

Series series Routledge Advances in Comics Studies
This volume explores how horror comic books have negotiated with the social and cultural anxieties framing a specific era and geographical space.Paying attention to academic gaps in comics’ scholarship, these chapters engage with the study of comics from varying interdisciplinary perspectives, such as Marxism; posthumanism; and theories of adaptation, sociology, existentialism, and psychology. ... Read more

$57.99 USD

This volume explores how horror comic books have negotiated with the social and cultural anxieties framing a specific era and geographical space.Paying attention to academic gaps in comics’ scholarship, these chapters engage with the study of comics from varying interdisciplinary perspectives, such as Marxism; posthumanism; and theories of adaptation, sociology, existentialism, and psychology.
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Watt's Special Purpose

by John Murphy ...

This book was written to encourage children. So many children today judge themselves according to their peers or what they see on television. They struggle with who they are and often don't realize how important and special they are. This book I hope will help them learn for themselves the wonderful things they have to offer and help them become all that they can be. I also hope it will teach ... Read more

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This book was written to encourage children. So many children today judge themselves according to their peers or what they see on television. They struggle with who they are and often don't realize how important and special they are. This book I hope will help them learn for themselves the wonderful things they have to offer and help them become all that they can be. I also hope it will teach
... Read more
Syntactic Theory and First Language Acquisition

Cross-linguistic Perspectives -- Volume 1: Heads, Projections, and Learnability -- Volume 2: Binding, Dependencies, and Learnability

Edited by (Vol.1)Barbara Lust, Margarita Su¤er, John Whitman, (Vol.2)Barbara Lust, Gabriella Hermon ...

Universal Grammar (UG) is a theory of both the fundamental principles for all possible languages and the language faculty in the "initial state" of the human organism. These two volumes approach the study of UG by joint, tightly linked studies of both linguistic theory and human competence for language acquisition. In particular, the volumes collect comparable studies across a number of different ... Read more

$73.99 USD

Universal Grammar (UG) is a theory of both the fundamental principles for all possible languages and the language faculty in the "initial state" of the human organism. These two volumes approach the study of UG by joint, tightly linked studies of both linguistic theory and human competence for language acquisition. In particular, the volumes collect comparable studies across a number of different
... Read more
In One Hour - The Imminent Future of America

by New email [email protected] John Freemantle ...

You are going to read one of the most important research studies of the 21st century. There will be events happening very soon that will change every single aspect of everyone's daily life forever, nationally as well as internationally. What we are going to encounter in America will transform the world as we know it. No event in world history ever had or will have a greater impact on society since ... Read more

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You are going to read one of the most important research studies of the 21st century. There will be events happening very soon that will change every single aspect of everyone's daily life forever, nationally as well as internationally. What we are going to encounter in America will transform the world as we know it. No event in world history ever had or will have a greater impact on society since
... Read more

Substance Abuse Six Pack - Six Addiction Classics

by Thomas De Quincey, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Mark Twain ...

Intoxication has long been a questionable source of creativity for vice-loving artists, from hasheesh-smoking cave painters, mushroom-munching monks illuminating Medieval manuscripts with their hallucinatory visions, the narcotic memoirs of William S. Burroughs, the booze-fueled work of Hemingway to the anything goes spirit of post-World War II literature and beyond when it became more unusual for ... Read more

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Intoxication has long been a questionable source of creativity for vice-loving artists, from hasheesh-smoking cave painters, mushroom-munching monks illuminating Medieval manuscripts with their hallucinatory visions, the narcotic memoirs of William S. Burroughs, the booze-fueled work of Hemingway to the anything goes spirit of post-World War II literature and beyond when it became more unusual for
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Collected Poems of William Wordsworth

by William Wordsworth, Neil Azevedo ...

Series Book 14 - The Reader's Library
William Wordsworth, 1770 – 1850, was an English poet most commonly associated with being, along with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, one of the early figures of British romanticism. Their publication of the volume LYRICAL BALLADS in 1798 often serves as a marker of sorts for when that movement publicly began. As a young artist—already showing signs of being a gifted writer and thinker at St. John’s ... Read more

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William Wordsworth, 1770 – 1850, was an English poet most commonly associated with being, along with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, one of the early figures of British romanticism. Their publication of the volume LYRICAL BALLADS in 1798 often serves as a marker of sorts for when that movement publicly began. As a young artist—already showing signs of being a gifted writer and thinker at St. John’s
... Read more
Substance Abuse Six Pack 2

by Fitz Hugh Ludlow, Rudyard Kipling, Charles Baudelaire ...

"My head expanded wider and wider, revolving with inconceivable rapidity, and enlarging in space with every revolution. It filled the room - the house - the city; it became a world, peopled with the shapes of men and monsters. I spun away into its great vortex, and wandered about its expanses as about a universe. I lost all perception of time and space, and knew no distinction between the ... Read more

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"My head expanded wider and wider, revolving with inconceivable rapidity, and enlarging in space with every revolution. It filled the room - the house - the city; it became a world, peopled with the shapes of men and monsters. I spun away into its great vortex, and wandered about its expanses as about a universe. I lost all perception of time and space, and knew no distinction between the
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