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  • The Global History Manifesto

    How the Global Optimism Literature Can Help Solve the Crisis of the Global History Subdiscipline

    by Martin Lund ...
    This book, in a sentence, claims that an ahistorical and ill informed doom and gloom atmosphere in Western public debate threatens to turn into a selffulfilling prophecy; that a new 'Global Optimism Literature' represented by e. g. Hans Rosling and Steven Pinker, based on vast historical sources and social scientific data fortunately intends to correct this misperception; that the also newly ... Read more

    $27.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Comics is…: Debating the Subject of Comics Studies

    Edited by Martin Lund ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    Taking the contested and contestable meaning of “comics” as its starting point, Comics is… brings together ten comics scholars from different disciplines and with different approaches to what some of us call comics, to debate and discuss the foundations of Comics Studies in a provocative and thought-provoking way.The book is built around a three-part structure: each contributor writes a sentence ... Read more

    $143.09 USD

  • Identity and History in Non-Anglophone Comics

    Series series Global Perspectives in Comics Studies
    This book explores the historical and cultural significance of comics in languages other than English, examining the geographic and linguistic spheres which these comics inhabit and their contributions to comic studies and academia.The volume brings together texts across a wide range of genres, styles, and geographic locations, including the Netherlands, Colombia, Greece, Mexico, Poland, Finland, ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • Unstable Masks

    Whiteness and American Superhero Comics

    Series series New Suns: Race, Gender, and Sexuality in the Speculative
    A CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title for 2020In Unstable Masks: Whiteness and American Superhero Comics, Sean Guynes and Martin Lund bring together a series of essays that contextualize the histories and stakes of whiteness studies, superhero comics, and superhero studies for academics, fans, and media-makers alike. The volume illustrates how the American comic book superhero is fundamentally a ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • Whiteness

    by Martin Lund ...
    Series series The MIT Press Essential Knowledge series
    The socially constructed phenomenon of whiteness: how it was created, how it changes, and how it protects and privileges people who are perceived as white.This volume in the MIT Press Essential Knowledge series examines the socially constructed phenomenon of whiteness, tracing its creation, its changing formation, and its power to privilege and protect people who are perceived as white. Whiteness, ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Re-Constructing the Man of Steel

    Superman 1938–1941, Jewish American History, and the Invention of the Jewish–Comics Connection

    by Martin Lund ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    In this book, Martin Lund challenges contemporary claims about the original Superman’s supposed Jewishness and offers a critical re-reading of the earliest Superman comics. Engaging in critical dialogue with extant writing on the subject, Lund argues that much of recent popular and scholarly writing on Superman as a Jewish character is a product of the ethnic revival, rather than critical ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • Audiobook

    A Field of Darkness

    Series Audiobook 1 - The Madeline Dare Mysteries

    Unabridged

    10 hours 59 min

    Madeline Dare, a tough-talking, shotgun-toting ex-debutante, is not your average detective. Then again, not much about her life is what she expected. Born of old money into high society, she married into a Syracuse farming family and a bottom-of-the-food-chain job writing puff pieces for the local newspaper. Her emotional barometer these days ranges from dry irony to whining exasperation.Then ... Read more

    $20.95 USD

  • Audiobook

    Him, Her, Him Again, the End of Him

    Unabridged

    7 hours 40 min

    Former Saturday Night Live writer Patricia Marx brings her clever, deadpan humor to this addictively readable novel about one woman's comic obsession with her first boyfriend.A neurotic young graduate student looking for distraction from her doomed thesis is inexplicably swept off her feet by a narcissistic philosophy professor. The obsession continues even after he has dumped her for someone even ... Read more

    $16.95 USD

  • Audiobook

    The Patrick Scott Smokin’ Mysteries

    Unabridged

    2 hours 59 min

    This exciting audio collection contains three hours of rapid-fire smokin’ mysteries and all the clues you need to solve them at breakneck speed. Scott Brick, Pat Fraley, and a full cast of twenty-six narrators voice dames, dolts, and detectives in this collection of original whodunit gems.This audiobook includes special recordings of late audiobook narrator Frank Muller, as well as a tribute to ... Read more

    $11.95 USD