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March 2022Lin Handa Chinese History Stories (Comic version)·The Spring and Autumn Period
by Lin Handa
The comic illustrated series of “Lin Handa Chinese History Stories” is the original unabridged comic illustrated version of “Lin Handa Chinese History Stories”. There are five sets, divided into: the Spring and Autumn Period, the Warring States Period, Western Han, Eastern Han and Three Kingdoms. This set of 8 volumes has 1 knowledge booklet, suitable for children from the third grade and above. Author Lin Handa is a famous educator and linguist. He has edited the “Lin Handa Chinese History Stories” and this series sell best for more than 50 years. This is a classic book of Chinese history for children.
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A Civil Code Comic Book that Children Can Understand
by Du Zili, Du Chang'en
This book presents a selection of articles in the Civil Code that are relevant to teenagers, and it explains the Civil Code in a question-and-answer format through comic and specific cases. The combination of fun and knowledge in the format prevents readers from becoming intimidated by the legal language. Each case is closely related to social hot topics, and each issue is professionally explained by legal scholars to provide legal countermeasures, which not only facilitates teenagers' learning and understanding, but also makes it easy for them to apply their knowledge to solve legal problems in their lives. Through the youth-friendly ways to promote legal education, to help them better understand and use the law as a tool.
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October 2021Miyayu: The Mischievous Cat
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by Bosa, Subi
Miyayu: The Mischievous Cat is a new children's comic book series by Subi Bosa, which centres around the cat Miyayu and his mischievous adventures. Meet Miyayu as the beloved central character of the series; a wild cat living in the big city. Miyayu has a big heart and huge ideas, but his plans never quite seem to turn out right... for him or anybody else. The comic series includes hilarious characters, such as Miyayu, Sebastian's Cat, Tendo, Mami Wota, Miko, Chi-chi, and so many more! The current annual 32-page children's comic book is made up of multiple comic strip stories.
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The ArtsJanuary 2019The secret life of romantic comedy
by Celestino Deleyto
The secret life of romantic comedy offers a new approach to one of the most popular and resilient genres in the history of Hollywood. Steering away from the rigidity and ideological determinism of traditional accounts of the genre, this book advocates a more flexible theory, which allows the student to explore the presence of the genre in unexpected places, extending the concept to encompass films that are not usually considered romantic comedies. Combining theory with detailed analyses of a selection of films, including To Be or Not to Be (1942), Rear Window (1954), Kiss Me Stupid (1964), Crimes and Misdemeanors (1989) and Before Sunset (2004), the book aims to provide a practical framework for the exploration of a key area of contemporary experience - intimate matters - through one of its most powerful filmic representations: the genre of romantic comedy. Original and entertaining, The secret life of romantic comedy is perfect for students and academics of film and film genre.
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Literature & Literary StudiesOctober 2022Comic Spenser
by Victoria Coldham-Fussell, Joshua Samuel Reid
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Health & Personal DevelopmentKizere Wets The Bed
by Safari Jean Marie Vianney
Many children wet the bed. This comic storybook takes us on the journey of Kizere trying to overcome it. Gladly, with the help from parents and friends, she overcame it.
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2013A Collection of Comic Books of China's Four Great Classical Novels
by Xie Pengchen Chen Anming et al.
A Collection of Comic Books of China's Four Great Classical Novels: Journey to the West, Romance of Three Kingdoms, Dreams of Red Mansions, and Water Margins (A Set of 4 Volumes) displays china's four great classical novels in the form of comic strips. 24 fascicles are included in one set, 6 fascicles in each novel, and a total of 24 fascicles for the 4 novels.
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The ArtsSeptember 2019Queer Objects
by Chris Brickell, Judith Collard
Queer lives give rise to a vast array of objects: the things we fill our houses with, the gifts we share with our friends, the commodities we consume at work and at play, the clothes and accessories we wear, and the analogue and digital technologies we use to communicate with one another. But what makes an object queer? The sixty-three chapters in Queer Objects consider this question in relation to lesbian, gay and transgender communities across time, cultures and space. In this unique international collaboration, well-known and newer writers traverse world history to write about items ranging from ancient Egyptian tomb paintings and Roman artefacts to political placards, snapshots, sex toys and the smartphone. Fabulous, captivating, transgressive.
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Literature & Literary StudiesJanuary 2020The Shakespearean comic and tragicomic
by Richard Hillman
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Children's & YALa sopa más rica y otros cuentos (The most delicious soup and other stories)
by Mariana Ruiz Johnson
The most delicious soup and other stories brings together five stories that take place in the village of Villa Verde, the place where all the characters live and interact. The stories are apparently very simple, yet they offer readers a delicate literary experience woven from references, ways of naming the world, images, and experiences typical of young children. This book, moreover, shares many elements with comics. In fact, we could see it as a comic for very young children, where the author, Mariana Ruiz Johnson, has used nib and Indian ink and digital color to provide readers with images in warm colors and a very rich illustration work with thousands of details for the delight of readers.
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2017Everyone Can Draw Comics
by Jia Cejin
Everyone can Draw Comics and Create Comic Characters: Starting with the creation of comic characters, it's not only helpful for learners to understand the methods of creating comic characters, but also an effective comic course for teaching. We try to provide some tips for character creation, try to let comic learners find an effective comic character creation method by analyzing excellent Chinese and foreign comic characters. Everyone can Draw Comics and Create Comic Stories: Starting with the creation of comic scripts, it's not only helpful for learners to master the principles of comic story creation, but also an effective comic course for teaching. This book provides detailed interpretation in two aspects of comic characters and comic stories, uses excellent comics as a reference to teach comic learners to create comics based on their creations, which are cleverly integrated into the studying of comics skills and all kinds of practices.
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FictionMay 2020The Guys of Rangoon 1930
by Khet Zaw
The Guys of Rangoon , 1930 is a record breaking bestseller book from Myanmar . It sold 16000 copies within one day during the pre order period. More than one hundred thousand copies have been sold so far. Film rights, several merchandise rights, comic rights already sold.It was based in Yangon , Myanmar during the colonial period. The main character is Pho Thoke who was a gangster and managed a lot of business by himself and his gang. He is very close with politicians as well and he is involved in several dirty political movements in Myanmar . This story is based on real characters and events.
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Humanities & Social SciencesFebruary 2013Comedy, caricature and the social order, 1820–50
by Brian Maidment
Offering an overview of the marketplace for comic images between 1820 and 1850, this book makes a case for the interest and importance of a largely neglected area of visual culture. It considers the impact on the development of print culture of the emergent, but soon widespread, use of lithography and wood engraving, both capable of integrating texts and images cheaply and imaginatively on the printed page. Drawing on a wide range of commercially produced print genres, including song books, play-texts, comic annuals and magazines as well as single plate and series of caricatures, this book traces the ways in which Regency and early Victorian visual humour both sustains some of the characteristics of an earlier caricature tradition while also beginning to develop new ways of analyzing and coping with social change through comic forms and genres. ;
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2019Picture books of classical chinese stories
by Ren Shuaiying Wang Shuihui Tang Sulan
This series selects a total of nine comic strip books with colored illustrations, including the famous Chinese painting character painter Ren Shuaiying's Legend of theWhite Snake, The Peach Blossom Fan, The Butterfly Cup, The Autumn River, Lady Zhaojun Going Out of the Frontier, Yue Yun, Harmonized General & Premier Team, and the famous Chinese female painter Wang Shuhui’s Romance of the West Chamber and He Bo Marrying a Wife. This series is to re-edit Chinese outstanding classic art and culture works based on the current context and the reading habits of young people, to highlight nationality, knowledge, artistry and fun. Through Chinese and English texts and voice assistance, it allows young readers to feel the oriental aesthetics visually and audibly. In warm family reading, young readers have more understanding of Chinese stories, culture, folklore and language, thereby contributing to cultural exchanges.
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Literature & Literary StudiesOctober 2018Clive Barker
Dark imaginer
by Sorcha Ní Fhlainn
Clive Barker: Dark imaginer explores the diverse literary, film and visionary creations of the polymathic and influential British artist Clive Barker. In this necessary and timely collection, innovative essays by leading scholars in the fields of literature, film and popular culture explore Barker's contribution to gothic, fantasy and horror studies, interrogating his creative legacy. The volume consists of an extensive introduction and twelve groundbreaking essays that critically reevaluate Barker's oeuvre. These include in-depth analyses of his celebrated and lesser known novels, short stories, theme park designs, screen and comic book adaptations, film direction and production, sketches and book illustrations, as well as responses to his material from critics and fan communities. Clive Barker: Dark imaginer reveals the breadth and depth of Barker's distinctive dark vision, which continues to fascinate and flourish.
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Humanities & Social SciencesMarch 2022Comic empires
Imperialism in cartoons, caricature, and satirical art
by Richard Scully, Alan Lester, Andrekos Varnava
Comic empires is a unique collection of new research exploring the relationship between imperialism and political cartoons, caricature, and satirical art. Edited by leading scholars across both fields (and with contributions from contexts as diverse as Egypt, Australia, the United States, and China, as well as Europe) the volume provides new perspectives on well-known events, and illuminates little-known players in the 'great game' of empire in modern times. Some of the finest comic art of the period is deployed as evidence, and examined seriously, in its own right, for the first time. Accessible to students of history at all levels, Comic empires is a major addition to the world-leading 'Studies in Imperialism' series, as well as standing alone as an innovative and significant contribution to the ever-growing international field of comics studies.
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Children's & YASiberian haiku
by Jurga Vile, Lina Itagaki
This graphic novel tells a story of a Lithuanian boy Algiukas, who in 1941 together with his family was deported to Siberia. His aunt Petronella brings along a book of the Japanese haiku poems. In exile, she inspires the deportees not to succumb to the despair and to see the beautiful side of life. AWARDS Main Prize in Book Art Contest 2017 Best Book of the Year by IBBY Lithuania 2017 Best Illustrations for a Children’s Book by IBBY Lithuania 2017 White Raven 2017 The Aloysius Petrikas Literary Prize for Children’s Book of the Year 2018 Children’s Book of the Year 2018 (Lithuania) IBBY Honor List 2020 Nomination at the Angoulême International Comics Festival 2020 Selection for Children’s Book Jury in Latvia 2020 International Jānis Baltvilks Award in Latvia 2020 Nomination for Bologna Ragazzi Award 2020 in Italia Latvian edition of “Sibīrijas haiku” was included in the Latvian PEN list of the most important books published in Latvia in 2020 Nomination at the International Book Contest “Reading St. Petersburg,” 2021 (Russia) Nomination for Latvian Literature Prize 2020 Nomination for the Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis 2021 in the young adult book category
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The ArtsMarch 2021Queer exceptions
Solo performance in neoliberal times
by Stephen Greer
Queer exceptions is a study of contemporary solo performance in the UK and Western Europe that explores the contentious relationship between identity, individuality and neoliberalism. With diverse case studies featuring the work of La Ribot, David Hoyle, Oreet Ashery, Bridget Christie, Tanja Ostojic, Adrian Howells and Nassim Soleimanpour, the book examines the role of singular or 'exceptional' subjects in constructing and challenging assumed notions of communal sociability and togetherness, while drawing fresh insight from the fields of sociology, gender studies and political philosophy to reconsider theatre's attachment to singular lives and experiences. Framed by a detailed exploration of arts festivals as encapsulating the material, entrepreneurial circumstances of contemporary performance-making, this is the first major critical study of solo work since the millennium.
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Humanities & Social SciencesNovember 2021De-centering queer theory
Communist sexuality in the flow during and after the Cold War
by Bogdan Popa, Gurminder Bhambra
De-centering queer theory seeks to reorient queer theory to a different conception of bodies and sexuality derived from Eastern European Marxism. The book articulates a contrast between the concept of the productive body, which draws its epistemology from Soviet and avant-garde theorists, and Cold War gender, which is defined as the social construction of the body. The first part of the book concentrates on the theoretical and visual production of Eastern European Marxism, which proposed an alternative version of sexuality to that of western liberalism. In doing so it offers a historical angle to understand the emergence not only of an alternative epistemology, but also of queer theory's vocabulary. The second part of the book provides a Marxist, anti-capitalist archive for queer studies, which often neglects to engage critically with its liberal and Cold War underpinnings.
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Literary studies: plays & playwrightsMay 2017An Humorous Day's Mirth
by George Chapman
by Edited by Charles Edelman. Series edited by David Bevington, Richard Dutton, Alison Findlay, Helen Ostovich
George Chapman is known today as a translator of Homer and as the author of dark tragedies such as Bussy D'Ambois. An Humorous Day's Mirth was one of the most popular plays of the Elizabethan era. Not only was it the Rose Theatre's greatest box-office success of 1597, it also presented an entirely new type of comedy, one that has profoundly influenced comic writing up to the present day. This play is the English theatre's first 'comedy of humours', in which the attitudes, behaviour, and social pretensions of contemporary men and women are satirised. Charles Edelman's is the first fully annotated, modern spelling edition of this long-neglected play. In his extensive introduction and commentary, Edelman discusses the intellectual, philosophical and theatrical background, and shows that the play would delight the readers and audiences of today as much as those in 1597.
