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The Things I lied About. Life is a Story - story.one

By: Alex Severin

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The Things I lied About. Life is a Story - story.one

By: Alex Severin

What is life if not a tragedy? "The Things I Lied About" takes you into a place of dark, thought-provoking psychological poetry that lingers with you even after you have put the book down. With its short- to mid-length poetry, The Things I Lied About is focused on different aspects of life and emotions that are with us through the journey. Loosely inspired by Greek tragedies, it attempts to reduce humans to nothing more than their roots and forces them to accept the carnage that each and every one of them is capable of. Would you still be the person you are now if it weren't for this society?

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Paper Mache Crown. Life is a Story - story.one

By: Alex Severin

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Paper Mache Crown. Life is a Story - story.one

By: Alex Severin

Paper Mache Crown introduces the reader to a collection of poetry and prose about darkness and the undeniable fault in all of humanity. It follows the story of predator and prey and how they hunt each other from the house of butterflies over the eerie streets at night, to the slaughterhouse and way beyond. It explores their motivations and shows how each of them is more than capable of switching roles. As long as the prey perceives the predator for what it is, it is safe; but, as soon as the predator acknowledges that the prey is nothing more than prey, the predator's advantage is gone. It prompts humans to realise that something as frickle as the touch of rain can become their own enemy. Paper Mache Crowns intends to push them off their throne, into the mud.

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Keanu Reeves: Most Triumphant

The Movies and Meaning of an Irrepressible Icon

By: Alex Pappademas

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Keanu Reeves: Most Triumphant

The Movies and Meaning of an Irrepressible Icon

By: Alex Pappademas

A tribute to and exploration of the magic behind one of Hollywood's most legendary and unknowable stars, Keanu Reeves, and the profound lessons we can learn from his success There can be no doubt: Keanu Reeves is a phenomenon. He’s at once a badass action star, a hunky dreamboat who People magazine has called “the Internet’s boyfriend,” a vintage motorcycle enthusiast, a niche art book publisher, a living meme, and a legend. He seems to upend every rule governing celebrity in the 21st century. But how? In Keanu Reeves: Most Triumphant, cultural critic Alex Pappademas attempts to address Keanu’s unmatched eternality and the other big questions raised by his career arc. Sharp, funny, deeply researched, and fully celebratory of the enigmatic actor, this is the first book to take Keanu’s whole deal as seriously as it deserves. Yes, even Johnny Mnemonic, where Keanu mind melds with a dolphin. Along the way, Pappademas reveals the lessons we can learn from Keanu about Hollywood, our broader culture, and even life itself.

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Abrams

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1647001994

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Understanding Superhero Comic Books

A History of Key Elements, Creators, Events and Controversies

By: Alex Grand

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Understanding Superhero Comic Books

A History of Key Elements, Creators, Events and Controversies

By: Alex Grand

This work dissects the origin and growth of superhero comic books, their major influences, and the creators behind them. It demonstrates how Batman, Wonder Woman, Captain America and many more stand as time capsules of their eras, rising and falling with societal changes, and reflecting an amalgam of influences. The book covers in detail the iconic superhero comic book creators and their unique contributions in their quest for realism, including Julius Schwartz and the science-fiction origins of superheroes; the collaborative design of the Marvel Universe by Jack Kirby, Stan Lee, and Steve Ditko; Jim Starlin's incorporation of the death of superheroes in comic books; John Byrne and the revitalization of superheroes in the modern age; and Alan Moore's deconstruction of superheroes.

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McFarland

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1476648611

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Hired Gun

A Political Odyssey

By: Alex Ray

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Hired Gun

A Political Odyssey

By: Alex Ray

While much is known about the frontline of politics, little is revealed about the professionals who labor in secret to make the system work. Hired Gun: A Political Odyssey examines how political parties function and how elections are won or lost. This book follows the adventures of one man's behind-the-scenes political consulting career from local, to state, to national politics. As a political practice, the democratic system remains the most successful form of government in the history of civilization. However, as a profession, politics is still in its youth and riddled with flaws. By offering readers an insider's perspective, Alex Ray challenges us to draw our own conclusion as to whether or not this country's method of selecting leaders is current or fair. In today's political campaigns few decisions are ever as simple as black and white. Hired Gun is an exclusive look at what goes on in the grey.

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Breed Predispositions to Disease in Dogs and Cats

By: Alex Gough,Alison Thomas,Dan O'Neill

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Breed Predispositions to Disease in Dogs and Cats

By: Alex Gough,Alison Thomas,Dan O'Neill

Breed Predispositions to Disease in Dogs and Cats, Third Edition provides a comprehensive exploration of current knowledge of breed predispositions based on rigorous examination of primary research. Incorporates the latest research, new testing methods, and newly-discovered predispositions and diseases Provides expanded information on genetics, epidemiology, and longevity Includes key characteristics of diseases, including pathogenesis, genetics, risks, and common presentations Indexes dogs and cats by breed, with listings of common inherited and predisposed disorders organized by body system Includes absolute and relative frequency/occurrence data for conditions, along with references to further information

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John Wiley & Sons

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1119225558

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Advertising Design and Typography

By: Alex W. White

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Advertising Design and Typography

By: Alex W. White

This comprehensive overview of advertising design strategies helps students and professionals understand how to create ads that cut through the clutter. Design principles such as unity, contrast, hierarchy, dominance, scale, abstraction, and type-image relationships are thoroughly discussed. Chapters also cover: •Researching your client and your audience •What makes an ad successful •Getting the audience’s attention in a crowded marketplace •Researching your client and your audience •The importance of consistent branding and identity •The difference between print advertising, billboards, the web, television, and radio •Advertising design versus editorial design Also included is an extensive section on typography with essential information on how type is perceived by readers, typographic history, principles, and practice. Complete with over fifteen hundred examples and illustrations of outstanding advertising design from around the world, Advertising Design and Typography will change the way you develop visual ideas and train you to see in a more critical and accurate way that gets messages across more effectively. Allworth Press, an imprint of Skyhorse Publishing, publishes a broad range of books on the visual and performing arts, with emphasis on the business of art. Our titles cover subjects such as graphic design, theater, branding, fine art, photography, interior design, writing, acting, film, how to start careers, business and legal forms, business practices, and more. While we don't aspire to publish a New York Times bestseller or a national bestseller, we are deeply committed to quality books that help creative professionals succeed and thrive. We often publish in areas overlooked by other publishers and welcome the author whose expertise can help our audience of readers.

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Simon and Schuster

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162153491X

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The Making of Mămăligă

Transimperial Recipes for a Romanian National Dish

By: Alex Drace-Francis

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The Making of Mămăligă

Transimperial Recipes for a Romanian National Dish

By: Alex Drace-Francis

Mămăligă, maize porridge or polenta, is a universally consumed dish in Romania and a prominent national symbol. But its unusual history has rarely been told. Alex Drace-Francis surveys the arrival and spread of maize cultivation in Romanian lands from Ottoman times to the eve of the First World War, and also the image of mămăligă in art and popular culture. Drawing on a rich array of sources and with many new findings, Drace-Francis shows how the making of mămăligă has been shaped by global economic forces and overlapping imperial systems of war and trade. The story of maize and mămăligă provides an accessible way to revisit many key questions of Romanian and broader regional history. More generally, the book links the history of production, consumption, and representation. Analyses of recipes, literary and popular depictions, and key vocabulary complete the work.

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9633865840

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Assessment in Medical Education and Training

A Practical Guide

By: Neil Jackson,Alex Jamieson,Anwar Khan

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Assessment in Medical Education and Training

A Practical Guide

By: Neil Jackson,Alex Jamieson,Anwar Khan

This work contains a foreword by Dame Lesley Southgate, President, Royal Free and University College Medical School, London. Assessment is a key method of improving standards as well as establishing competency. However, despite major developments in the assessment of clinical competence in the last two decades, there is still more bad practice and ignorance of significant issues in this area than any other aspect of medical higher education. This book comprehensively covers all aspects of assessment. It considers current and future policy and practice, including the Modernising Medical Careers training programme; it promotes a system incorporating more meaningful assessments, rather than just 'tests' of knowledge and skill. "Assessment in Medical Education and Training" will be useful to everyone involved in healthcare education, including tutors, trainers, clinical supervisors and assessors in both primary and secondary care. It will also be important reading for consultants and general practitioners with responsibility for registrars, and healthcare education policy makers and shapers. 'Acquisition of knowledge and skills is not sufficient alone; we need to be able to apply the knowledge, skills and strategies learnt, and in turn these can be the appropriate targets of assessment. There is a movement away from traditional, multiple-choice tests to assessments that include a wide variety of methods and so provide for more meaningful assessments which can better capture significant outcomes in order to assure their future success.' - Neil Jackson, Alex Jamieson and Anwar Khan, in the Introduction. 'This thoughtful, provocative and eclectic book is published at a time of enormous change in the content, structure and quality assurance of postgraduate medical education in the United Kingdom. The reader will be challenged and stimulated by the variety of views and emphases. Essential.' - Dame Lesley Southgate, in the Foreword.

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1000621812

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The Strategy Legacy

How to Future-Proof a Business and Leave Your Mark

By: Alex Brueckmann

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The Strategy Legacy

How to Future-Proof a Business and Leave Your Mark

By: Alex Brueckmann

A ground-breaking book at the intersection of strategy and leadership! This insightful guide provides a proven process for strategy design combined with The Nine Elements of Organizational Identity framework to align action for success. Whether you're a seasoned executive or a budding entrepreneur, this book is packed with valuable resources, practical illustrations, and humorous cartoons. The Strategy Legacy is a must-read to future-proof your organization and become a strategic leader.

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A Mortuary of Books

The Rescue of Jewish Culture after the Holocaust

By: Elisabeth Gallas,Alex Skinner

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A Mortuary of Books

The Rescue of Jewish Culture after the Holocaust

By: Elisabeth Gallas,Alex Skinner

Winner, 2020 JDC-Herbert Katzki Award for Writing Based on Archival Material, given by the Jewish Book Council The astonishing story of the efforts of scholars and activists to rescue Jewish cultural treasures after the Holocaust In March 1946 the American Military Government for Germany established the Offenbach Archival Depot near Frankfurt to store, identify, and restore the huge quantities of Nazi-looted books, archival material, and ritual objects that Army members had found hidden in German caches. These items bore testimony to the cultural genocide that accompanied the Nazis’ systematic acts of mass murder. The depot built a short-lived lieu de memoire—a “mortuary of books,” as the later renowned historian Lucy Dawidowicz called it—with over three million books of Jewish origin coming from nineteen different European countries awaiting restitution. A Mortuary of Books tells the miraculous story of the many Jewish organizations and individuals who, after the war, sought to recover this looted cultural property and return the millions of treasured objects to their rightful owners. Some of the most outstanding Jewish intellectuals of the twentieth century, including Dawidowicz, Hannah Arendt, Salo W. Baron, and Gershom Scholem, were involved in this herculean effort. This led to the creation of Jewish Cultural Reconstruction Inc., an international body that acted as the Jewish trustee for heirless property in the American Zone and transferred hundreds of thousands of objects from the Depot to the new centers of Jewish life after the Holocaust. The commitment of these individuals to the restitution of cultural property revealed the importance of cultural objects as symbols of the enduring legacy of those who could not be saved. It also fostered Jewish culture and scholarly life in the postwar world.

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147980987X

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The Making of Modern Romanian Culture

Literacy and the Development of National Identity

By: Alex Drace-Francis

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The Making of Modern Romanian Culture

Literacy and the Development of National Identity

By: Alex Drace-Francis

How do literacy and the development of literary culture promote the development of a national identity? This well-researched and readable book explores the rise of Romanian-language literary, educational and printing institutions in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, bringing out a story that has not been fully explored in English. In twenty concise yet scholarly chapters, Alex Drace-Francis builds on and engages with current knowledge about print culture, modernization, national identity and state formation, to make an original contribution to ongoing debates in these areas.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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0857714570

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The Candidate

Jeremy Corbyn’s Improbable Path to Power (2nd Edition)

By: Alex Nunns

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The Candidate

Jeremy Corbyn’s Improbable Path to Power (2nd Edition)

By: Alex Nunns

Drawing on first-hand interviews with those involved in the campaign, including its most senior figures, Nunns traces the origins of Jeremy Corbyn’s remarkable ascent in British politics.

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1682191052

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Marvel Comics 1

80Th Anniversary Edition

By: Carl Burgos,Paul Gustavson,Bill Everett,Al Anders,Art Pinajian,Ben Thompson,Roy Thomas,Alex Ross,Steve Darnall

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Marvel Comics 1

80Th Anniversary Edition

By: Carl Burgos,Paul Gustavson,Bill Everett,Al Anders,Art Pinajian,Ben Thompson,Roy Thomas,Alex Ross,Steve Darnall

Collects Marvel Comics #1, Saga of the Original Human Torch #1, Marvels #0 and Marvel Comics #1 70th Anniversary Edition. The book that kicked off the Marvel Universe back in 1939 - presented in glorious hardcover, with an extensive array of special features! MARVEL COMICS #1 promised action, mystery and adventure - and it delivered! The original android Human Torch blazed his way into readers' hearts, and Namor the Sub-Mariner made a big splash! Golden Age pulp star Ka-Zar swung into comics, and costumed detective the Angel made his debut! Plus: Western adventures with the Masked Raider - and terror in the jungle! And from this one issue, published 80 years ago, grew the entire Marvel Universe! Now, MARVEL COMICS #1 is collected along with retrospective stories, bonus artwork, insightful essays and more!

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1302514539

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The Traditions of Invention

Romanian Ethnic and Social Stereotypes in Historical Context

By: Alex Drace-Francis

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The Traditions of Invention

Romanian Ethnic and Social Stereotypes in Historical Context

By: Alex Drace-Francis

Based on hundreds of primary sources in a wide range of languages, this book offers a reevaluation of Romanian images of self and other, as well as of foreign images of the country and people. A nuanced and historically-grounded contribution to the lively debates over Balkanism, Orientalism and identities in Romania and in Europe as a whole.

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BRILL

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9004252630

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The Art of Painted Comics

By: Chris Lawrence,Alex Ross

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The Art of Painted Comics

By: Chris Lawrence,Alex Ross

The history of painters in comics goes back to the dawn of pulp magazine covers. From "The Shadow" and "The Spider" to "The Black Bat" and so many other characters, painter's works have graced the covers of comics and pulps, which have influenced many artists over the decades. This deluxe coffeetable art book, edited and overseen by Alex Ross — one of the comic industry's most recognized painters, whose expertise has helped guide and define its contents — is the most important, most comprehensive prestige hardcover retrospective of the history of painters in comics, of all time.

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Dynamite

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1606903535

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The Boy at the Door

By: Alex Dahl

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The Boy at the Door

By: Alex Dahl

Set against a stunning Scandinavian backdrop, a gritty novel of psychological suspense that asks the question how far would you go to hold onto what you have? Cecilia Wilborg has it all--a loving husband, two beautiful daughters and a gorgeous home in the affluent Norwegian town of Sandefjord. And she works hard to keep it all together. Too hard. Because one mistake from her past could bring it all crashing down around her. Annika Lucasson lives a dark life with her abusive, drug-dealing boyfriend. She's lost everything one too many times and now she's got one last chance to save herself, thanks to Cecilia. Annika knows her secret--and just how much she's willing to do to make it all go away... When someone forgets to pick up their little boy at the local pool, Cecilia agrees to take him home, only to find an abandoned, empty house. It's the first step in the unraveling of her meticulously crafted life, as her and Annika's worlds collide...

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Penguin

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0451491793

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The Politics Of Pain

Torturers And Their Masters

By: Ronald D Crelinsten,Alex Schmid

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The Politics Of Pain

Torturers And Their Masters

By: Ronald D Crelinsten,Alex Schmid

Although a wave of democratization appears to be sweeping the globe, torture persists in more than seventy-five nations. Despite widespread condemnation of torture and the efforts of international and nongovernmental organizations to end it, the "politics of pain" continues in a broad range of social and political systems. This book is one of the first to systematically examine the psychological, cultural, and social origins of torture. It provides profiles of torturers and of those who direct them in their brutal activities. The contributors provide case studies from the past and present, including Somoza's National Guard in Nicaragua and regimes in the Southern Cone of Latin America and in Greece.

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Routledge

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1000304787

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English Unlimited Intermediate B Combo with DVD-ROMs (2)

By: David Rea,Theresa Clementson,Alex Tilbury,Leslie Anne Hendra,Maggie Baigent,Nick Robinson

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English Unlimited Intermediate B Combo with DVD-ROMs (2)

By: David Rea,Theresa Clementson,Alex Tilbury,Leslie Anne Hendra,Maggie Baigent,Nick Robinson

English Unlimited is a six-level (A1 to C1) goals-based course for adults. Centred on purposeful, real-life objectives, it prepares learners to use English independently for global communication. Through universal topics and activities, and a focus on intercultural competence as a 'fifth skill', this international coursebook helps learners become more sensitive, more effective communicators. Teaching natural, dependable language, and with CEFR goals at its core, it brings real life into the classroom and gives learners the skills and strategies to communicate confidently outside it. The 'Explore' sections provide the extra ingredients for enhancing communicative ability, from further development of speaking skills to independent learning strategies. The English Unlimited Intermediate B Combo with DVD-ROM includes Coursebook Units 8 to 14 as well as the e-Portfolio and Self-Study DVD-ROM.

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Cambridge University Press

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1107667437

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Modern Principles of Economics

By: Tyler Cowen,Alex Tabarrok

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Modern Principles of Economics

By: Tyler Cowen,Alex Tabarrok

From the authors:See the Invisible Hand. Understand Your World. That's the tagline of Modern Principles and our teaching philosophy. Nobel laureate Vernon Smith put it this way: At the heart of economics is a scientific mystery… a scientific mystery as deep, fundamental and inspiring as that of the expanding universe or the forces that bind matter… How is order produced from freedom of choice? We want students to be inspired by this mystery and by how economists have begun to solve it. Thus, we show how markets interconnect and respond in surprising ways to changes in resources and preferences. Consider, for example, how markets respond to a reduction in the supply of oil. Of course, the price of oil increases giving consumers an incentive to use less and suppliers an incentive to discover more. But an increase in the price of oil also encourages Brazilian sugar cane farmers to devote more of their production to ethanol and less to sugar thereby driving up the price of sugar. An increase in the price of sugar means a reduction in the quantity of candy demanded. So one way the market responds to a reduction in the supply of oil is by encouraging consumers to eat less candy! In analyses like this, we teach students to see the invisible hand and in so doing to understand their world. Similarly, we offer a unique and simple proof of the amazing invisible hand theorem that without any central direction competitive markets allocate production across firms in a way that minimizes aggregate costs! To understand their world students must understand when self-interest promotes the social interest and when it does not. Thus, Modern Principles has in-depth analyses of externalities, public goods, and ethical issues with market incomes and trade. Moreover, we always discuss economic theory in the context of real world problems such as the decline of the ocean fisheries, climate change, and the shortage of human organs for transplant.

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Macmillan

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1429202270

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A Corner in the Marais

Memoir of a Paris Neighborhood

By: Alex Karmel

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A Corner in the Marais

Memoir of a Paris Neighborhood

By: Alex Karmel

In a knowledgeable, conversational style that conveys (and makes contagious) Karmel's love of his subject, A Corner in the Marais traces the architectural and social development of the City of Lights, from its origins as a Roman settlement, through major redevelopments brought about by Henri IV and Baron Haussmann, to the present renovation of old neighborhoods. Illustrated throughout with photographs and period engravings, A Corner in the Marais is ideal reading for anyone who loves exploring the hidden byways of vieux Paris and experiencing history from a very personal viewpoint.

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1567921981

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Setting the Standard

Comics by Alex Toth 1952–1954

By: Alex Toth

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Setting the Standard

Comics by Alex Toth 1952–1954

By: Alex Toth

Toth’s influence on the art of comic books is incalculable. As his generation was the first to grow up with the new 10-cent full-color pamphlets, he came to the medium with a fresh eye, and enough talent and discipline to graphically strip it down its to its bare essentials. His efforts reached fruition at Standard Comics, creating an entire school of imitators and establishing Toth as the “comic book artist’s artist.” Setting the Standard collects this highly influential body of work in one substantial volume. Toth began his professional career at fifteen in 1945 for Heroic Comics, but quickly advanced to superhero work for DC. Responding to the endless criticism of editor Sheldon Mayer and production chief Sol Harrison, the young artist strove toward a technique free of “showoff surface tricks, clutter, and distracting picture elements.” Simply put, he learned “how to tell a story, to the exclusion of all else.” After falling out with DC in 1952, Toth moved west. He freelanced almost exclusively for Standard over the next two years, contributing classic work for its crime, horror, science fiction, and war titles. But perhaps most revelatory to the reader will be the romance collaborations with writer Kim Ammodt, Toth’s personal favorites. “I came to prefer them for the quieter, more credible, natural human equations they dealt with ― emotions, subtleties of gesture, expression, attitude.”

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Fantagraphics Books

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1606994085

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Comics Values Annual, 1998

The Comic Books Price Guide

By: Alex G. Malloy

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Comics Values Annual, 1998

The Comic Books Price Guide

By: Alex G. Malloy

With more than 30,000 updated prices and over 650 photos and illustrations, "Comics Values Annual" provides an indispensable reference for dealers and collectors of all types of comics. Malloy offers reader-friendly grading and pricing charts, arranged by publisher, plus regional market reports from the nation's top experts and interviews with comics illustrators and writers.

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Antique Trader

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0930625854

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9780930625856

Comics Values Annual 2003

By: Alex G. Malloy

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Comics Values Annual 2003

By: Alex G. Malloy

Comics book collectors turn to this valuable resource every year for the most comprehensive information available. This updated edition gives collectors everything they've come to expect and more. Packed with more than 100,000 listings and more than 1,000 illustrations of classic and contemporary comics.

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Comics Values Annual, 1999

The Comic Books Price Guide

By: Alex G. Malloy

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Comics Values Annual, 1999

The Comic Books Price Guide

By: Alex G. Malloy

Featuring more than 35,000 updated prices, this easy-to-use guide covers all the new titles in the rapidly expanding comics market. 600 illustrations.

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0930625153

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Comics Values Annual 2002

By: Alex G. Malloy

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Comics Values Annual 2002

By: Alex G. Malloy

Attract comic book collectors like a magnet Packed with nearly 100,000 classic and contemporary comics and more than 1,000 illustrations, collectors will find updated listings and prices for Acclaim, Classics Illustrated, Dark Horse, D.C., Marvel and much more. Special sections are devoted to the highly collectible Golden Age, Color Comics, Black & White Comics, and Underground Comics. Each listing is cross-referenced and includes issue number, title, date, artist and current collector value in US dollars. Collectors can accurately evaluate and value their collections with the grading guide, current market report and tips for buying, selling, and preserving comic books.

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0873493931

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Standard Guide to Golden Age Comics

By: Alex G. Malloy,Stuart W. Wells

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Standard Guide to Golden Age Comics

By: Alex G. Malloy,Stuart W. Wells

Ultimate comic book heroes like Superman, Batman and Captain Marvel take center stage in this comprehensive guide to Golden Age comics. Collectors and dealers are sure to seek out a reference devoted to the era that began in 1938 with Superman and concluded in 1956 with the debut of Barry Allen as The Flash.This companion reference to Comic Book Checklist and Price Guide offers collectors an affordable and portable resource for use at conventions and within their own library. A collection of 1,000 comic book covers of hundreds of Golden Age comics featured in this resource, which also includes an easy-to-use tab reference for identifying and pricing. This is the one Golden Age guide collectors will look to again and again!· 1,000 photos assist with quick identification· Contains pricing and information on comic book legends like Superman and Batman· Updated values help collectors accurately assess issues

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KP Books

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ISBN 10

089689181X

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9780896891814

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