Reading modern architecture and urbanism in socialist and capitalist cities, this work challenges the twentieth-century divide between East and West in favour of a shared and contested history that plays out on the peripheries of the world's cities.
The ninth volume in the bestselling Invader ZIM comic series based on the hit Nickelodeon TV show. Future servants of ZIM! The newest collection of Invader ZIM comics includes tales of wonder, folly, and darkness. An exciting two-part story explores what happens when Dib and ZIM are forced to compete for the admiration of an alien race! While a very special one-shot reveals the secret origins of L'il Meat Man! Not enough meat for you? Join the Membranes as they ski Meat Mountain, the hottest—or, uh, coldest—resort just outside of town! And a one-shot from writer/artist Drew Rausch features a never-before-seen character: Dib's living skeleton! Collects issues #41-45.
The eighth volume in the bestselling Invader ZIM comic series based on the hit Nickelodeon TV series. When Dib wakes up one cold, depressing morning to find that ZIM is actually his brother, could things get any worse? The answer, as always, is yes, as told in these five amazing standalone Invader ZIM stories collected in trade for the first time! What happens when GIR gets hit by a falling girder in the presence of a full human audience? Who’s telling the truth when an alien kidnaps Dib, Gaz, ZIM, and GIR to find out who destroyed his prize robot? And why does ZIM think it’s perfectly normal to give out raw steaks on Halloween? The answer, as always, is yes!
We’re back at it to prove once and for all that good things can also come in big packages. This collection featuring issues #41-50 of the critically acclaimed Invader ZIM comic has been genetically enlarged for your reading pleasure—no straining necessary! Includes the secret origins of Lil’ Meat Man, the four-part Battle Void storyline, and, of course, the grand finale of the fabled Chammy Wamboo's ploy to make Zim and Dib best friends, written by control brain Jhonen Vasquez himself.
Issue #32 of OCHO: A Journal of Queer Arts, featuring art by Kim Leutwyler, Zachari Logan, Bobby Lucy, Christopher Sousa, and Truong Tran; and poetry by Derrick Austin, Linda Benninghoff, Steven Cordova, Jim Elledge, Carlton Fisher, Jane Eaton Hamilton, Alyse Knorr, Chip Livingston, M. Mack, Tommy Pico, and Valerie Wetlaufer.
The perfect gift for any Invader ZIM fan, this volume collects four of the best Gaz stories from the original comic book series! Future servants of ZIM! The stories in this collection based on the Nickelodeon TV series are about ... not Zim! This Best of Gaz collection includes stories about, well, Gaz, Dib's darkly demented younger sister. See stories about alternate realities, body swaps, alien invasion, and ski trips on Meat Mountain, all (reluctantly) involving Gaz...just don't take her pizza. Collects issues #5, 21, 39, and 44
Collects Wastelanders: Wolverine, Hawkeye, Star-Lord, Doom and Black Widow. Return to the dystopian future world where the villains won! Get ready for shocking new stories from a disturbing world, taking their cue from the breakout podcast inspired by the original OLD MAN LOGAN saga! For Logan, saving the day looks very different with a baby Hulk in his arms - and protecting the child may be his downfall! Learn how a blind Hawkeye trained with the man once known as Daredevil! The mysterious Black Widow infiltrates the deadly land of the Lizard King! A guilt-ridden Peter Quill visits the site where he lost his great love! And as he rules over his domain in the Wastelands, a greater destiny calls to Doom!
A “compulsively readable” account of the fugitive who betrayed John Brown after the bloody abolitionist raid on Harper’s Ferry (Booklist, starred review). John Brown’s Spy tells the nearly unknown story of John E. Cook, the person John Brown trusted most with the details of his plans to capture the Harper’s Ferry armory in 1859. Cook was a poet, a marksman, a boaster, a dandy, a fighter, and a womanizer—as well as a spy. In a life of only thirty years, he studied law in Connecticut, fought border ruffians in Kansas, served as an abolitionist mole in Virginia, took white hostages during the Harper’s Ferry raid, and almost escaped to freedom. For ten days after the infamous raid, he was the most hunted man in America with a staggering one-thousand dollar bounty on his head. Tracking down the unexplored circumstances of John Cook’s life and disastrous end, Steven Lubet is the first to uncover the full extent of Cook’s contributions to Brown’s scheme. Without Cook’s participation, the author contends, Brown might never have been able to launch the insurrection that foreshadowed the Civil War. Had Cook remained true to the cause, history would have remembered him as a hero. Instead, when Cook was captured and brought to trial, he betrayed John Brown and named fellow abolitionists in a full confession that earned him a place in history’s tragic pantheon of disgraced turncoats. “Lubet is especially effective at capturing the courtroom drama . . . A crisply told tale fleshing out one of American history’s more intriguing footnotes.” —Kirkus Reviews “Take[s] readers on a ride through the frantic days surrounding Brown’s raid that will make them ‘feel’ the moment as much as understand it.” —Library Journal (starred review)
Isiah Daniels, an intelligent, articulate, athletic black man, from the projects, was recruited to play basketball at the University of Miami by their largest booster, Donovan Taylor, a white entrepreneur who eventually became the Speaker of the House of Representatives for the State of Florida. Isiah, after obtaining his MBA, was hired by Donovan to eventually run his publically held company. Isiah, with Donovan’s bigoted consent, also married Donovan’s eldest daughter, Sophie Taylor, an attorney at one of the largest and most prestigious law firms in Miami. Both of those events were fulfilled for Taylor’s political ambition to become the Governor of the State. Isiah, over Donovan’s objections, began to hire many blacks to work for Donovan’s company. Some of whom were eventually promoted over many better qualified white employees who had more seniority. Isiah’s wife believed that she became aware of a scheme, by employees and customers, to embezzle funds from her father’s Company. She believes that her husband, Isiah, may be one of the perpetrators. Before Sophie had the opportunity to communicate the scheme to the authorities, she was murdered by a hired black old friend of Isiah. That individual, without authorization, contracted out Sophie’s murder to a low life white criminal who bungled the murder dreadfully. That event caused the original black man hired to kill Sophie, to be murdered. This book takes the reader into the world of a racist reprisal by the Taylor family against their black son-in-law and the other persons involved in a multi-country scheme to embezzle funds from the billion dollar Company. The book sets forth the mystery of who committed both murders as well as who were involved in the complicated scheme of embezzlement. The greed of the Donovan’s family and the Daniels’ family and their friends, intensifies the mystery as to whom may have committed the murders and embezzled hundreds of millions of dollars.
Duncan Squires died in the emergency room of a local hospital in April, 2020, at the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic. Duncan Squires, who was the retired CEO and Chairman of the Board of a Fortune 500 company was rushed to the local hospital from his home in Fort Myers, Florida, where he was ignored while the understaffed medical personnel took care of those who were infected with the virus. The CEO was 85 years old with a history of heart problems. He died without any examination, but his death certificate, signed by one of the doctors on call, stated the cause of death as a heart attack. Squires had two ex-wives, was currently married, and had 5 children between the three wives, multiple grandchildren and several illegitimate children and grandchildren. He was buried the next day after his death by his current wife with only her present at the funeral. His estate was worth over $600 million. Squires had stopped supporting one of the woman with whom he had a weekend fling 20 years prior to his death. in Miami, while at a conference. That affair produced an illegitimate daughter, Alexia Weston, who at the age of 19 came to Fort Myers to confront her father about him stopping her mother’s monthly support. While in Fort Myers, Alexia Weston was raped and murdered by a man whose DNA was a familial match to a member of the Squires family. She was murdered 4 days before Duncan Squires died, for reasons unknown to the Squires’ family and the police authorities due to the fact that the Squires’ family was unaware of Alexia’s existence. The investigation into Alexia Weston’s murder, discovered that Duncan Squires was also murdered causing a Judge to approve an Order for the exhumation of Squires’ body. This book takes the reader into Duncan Squires’ rise to his position of CEO and Chairman of his company, the narrative of his wives, children and affairs and the accumulation of his wealth. It sets forth the mystery, of not only who committed the two murders, but also the betrayals among family members, legitimate and illegitimate, as to whom was entitled to the CEO’s large estate. It combines the significance of the interaction between all three wives, their children, grandchildren and their attorneys as to why a large portion of Squires’ estate was allocated to his illegitimate children and grandchildren. The betrayals as between the Squires’ family members intensifies the mystery as to whom may have committed the murders.
From the stages of Berlin to anti-Nazi efforts and silver-screen stardom, Steven Bach reveals the fascinating woman behind the myth surrounding Marlene Dietrich in a biography that will stand as the ultimate authority on a singular star. Based on six years of research and hundreds of interviews—including conversations with Dietrich—this is the life story of one of the century’s greatest movie actresses and performers, an icon who embodied glamour and sophistication for audiences around the globe.
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