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View Rights PortalThis 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.
With some $200 million sunk into a real estate development on Kauai, the investment partners have a lot to lose if Peter Roosevelt succeeds in stopping the project for the sake of preserving Hawaii's rich and exotic environment. When Roosevelt is found dead in his home, his neighbor, Wayne Takei, is quickly arrested―and becomes the latest, and possibly the most difficult, challenge for Honolulu's top criminal defense attorney, Pancho McMartin.The obstacles to proving Takei's innocence are daunting. His gun was the murder weapon. He has no alibi. And his affair with Roosevelt's wife provides ample motive. Lies and deception quickly plague the proceedings as Pancho and his team wade through a slew of suspicious characters, all of whom have alibis. Suspense is high as time is running out for Pancho to save his client from a lifetime in prison.This is David Myles Robinson's fourth novel in the increasingly popular Pancho McMartin legal thriller series.
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.
Seit dem Erscheinen seines ebenso brillanten wie erschütternden Romans »Flughunde« im Jahr 1995 gilt Marcel Beyer als »einer der besten jungen Romanciers der Gegenwart« (The New Yorker). »Flughunde«, mittlerweile in 14 Sprachen übersetzt, erzählt vom Ende des Zweiten Weltkriegs aus der Perspektive eines fanatischen Akustikers im Dienste der Nazis und aus der Sicht einer der Töchter Goebbels’, erzählt von der Instrumentalisierung der Sprache durch die Propaganda und von Experimenten mit menschlichen Stimmen. Ulli Lust, eine der bedeutendsten deutschsprachigen Comic-Künstler und erst kürzlich mit dem Comic-Oscar, dem Prix Révélation, ausgezeichnet, legt hier Marcel Beyers verstörendes Meisterwerk als Graphic Novel vor.
Nicolas Mahlers kleine Comic-Geschichte der Philosophie von Platon bis Foucault Philosophie ist unverständlich, langweilig und witzlos? Denkste! Das kann nur der behaupten, der noch nicht Nicolas Mahlers ebenso kluge wie subtil komische Comic-Geschichte der Philosophie kennt. Hier erzählt er bislang unbekannte Szenen aus dem Leben der 22 berühmtesten Philosophinnen und Philosophen: Wir erleben Partyspaß mit Kant, besuchen mit Hegel eine Kunstausstellung, sind mit Marx im Supermarkt und mit Nietzsche im Pfadfinderlager, gehen mit Deleuze ins Kino und feiern Traumhochzeit mit Simone de Beauvoir … Und auch wenn sich nichts so zugetragen hat, haben wir mehr über das Leben, Denken und Fühlen des jeweiligen Philosophen erfahren als je zuvor – und wie selten über die Absurdität unserer menschlichen Existenz gelacht.
Jeder kennt die Abenteuer des Huckleberry Finn. Olivia Viewegs Comic-Adaption ermöglicht jetzt eine Wiederbegegnung mit diesem unvergesslichen Rebellen – allerdings eine Wiederbegegnung der besonderen Art, denn bei ihr spielt Hucks Geschichte im Hier und Jetzt, in der deutschen Gegenwart, und zwar in Halle an der Saale. Dort lebt Finn ein wildes Leben mit seinen Kumpels, doch abends muss er immer zurück zu seiner Pflegemutter, einer Witwe, die es gut mit ihm meint und versucht, ihn zu »zivilisieren«. Doch Finn verfolgt andere Ziele, für ihn ist klar, dass er dort nicht mehr lange bleiben wird, zu sehr lockt die Freiheit … Olivia Vieweg, eine der vielversprechendsten jungen Comic-Künstler, legt hier eine eigenständige und moderne Adaption eines der großen Klassiker der Weltliteratur vor: frisch, wild, überraschend.
Jeder kennt die Abenteuer des Huckleberry Finn. Olivia Viewegs Comic-Adaption ermöglicht jetzt eine Wiederbegegnung mit diesem unvergesslichen Rebellen – allerdings eine Wiederbegegnung der besonderen Art, denn bei ihr spielt Hucks Geschichte im Hier und Jetzt, in der deutschen Gegenwart, und zwar in Halle an der Saale. Dort lebt Finn ein wildes Leben mit seinen Kumpels, doch abends muss er immer zurück zu seiner Pflegemutter, einer Witwe, die es gut mit ihm meint und versucht, ihn zu »zivilisieren«. Doch Finn verfolgt andere Ziele, für ihn ist klar, dass er dort nicht mehr lange bleiben wird, zu sehr lockt die Freiheit … Olivia Vieweg, eine der vielversprechendsten jungen Comic-Künstler, legt hier eine eigenständige und moderne Adaption eines der großen Klassiker der Weltliteratur vor: frisch, wild, überraschend.
Are Jim Carrey, Robin Williams, and Eddie Murphy the celluloid compatriots of Ronald Reagan, Margaret Thatcher and Tony Blair? This book argues that the rubber faces of '80s and '90s comedy films, helped to transform us into the flexible, self-managing citizens beloved of the new right—and its successors. Through its sustained look at the box-office comedies of the last two decades, Comic Politics provides a critical introduction to key approaches to comedy. It tests the usefulness and limits of psychoanalytics, Bakhtinian and postmodernist theory against comedians and comedies from Woody Allen to Wayne's World. The book includes a look at animation and computer enhanced comedies.
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.
»Dieses war der erste Streich und der nächste folgt sogleich«: Seine Bildergeschichten sind Allgemeingut, seine Reime sprichwörtlich geworden. Wilhelm Busch hat seine Mitmenschen mit Sympathie, aber unbestechlich und ohne ein Blatt vor den Mund zu nehmen, gezeichnet und beschrieben: ihre Gesinnung, die Habgier, die Frivolität und Rücksichtslosigkeit. Als »ernsthafter Maler« blieb ihm größere Anerkennung und Ansehen versagt, als Autor und Grafiker wurde er zu einem der meistgelesenen Künstler Deutschlands, avancierte schon bald zum Klassiker der komischen Literatur. Bedeutende Zeichner, Autoren und Comic-Künstler haben ihn als ihr Vorbild bezeichnet. Der vorliegende Band bietet ein kleines ABC seiner berühmten Sentenzen aus Max und Moritz oder der Frommen Helene, aus Maler Klecksel und Balduin Bählamm, ergänzt mit seinen bekanntesten Gedichten und Aphorismen. Den Band rundet ein Auszug aus seiner autobiografischen Skizze Von mir über mich ab: »Das Reden tut dem Menschen gut, wenn man es nämlich selber tut.«
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.
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.
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.
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.
Can You Believe Your Eyes? Dorian has been living on the streets since running away from home, and has always managed to fend for himself pretty well. But when he wakes up one morning beside a dead homeless man who has evidently been murdered, Dorian panics – he can’t remember anything of what happened the previous night. Is he responsible for the man’s murder? Then a stranger appears with an unexpected offer of help, and Dorian seizes the opportunity with both hands – this is his chance to hide from the police. The stranger works with young people in need, and he takes Dorian to a villa where he is given food, new clothes and even schooling.But Dorian soon learns that you get nothing for free in this life. In return for being looked after at the villa, Dorian is expected to distribute mysterious free gifts – gifts which are very carefully sealed. And when an unexpected turn of events results in him keeping one of the gifts, he finds himself being hunted by merciless pursuers. After the international YA-bestseller Erebos, Saeculum and The Eleria-Trilogy Ursula Poznanski now presents her new thriller: Layers Awarded with the Hans-Jörg-Martin Prize 2016 for the best YA-Thriller! More information also available under: www.layers-buch.de
Changeling is a rebellious novel about creativity, youth and the raging intensity of teenage emotional life. The gripping story plunges the reader into the depths of a mystical town, a haunting and haunted place, where boundaries between the real and the otherworldly become dangerously blurred. A strange and electrifying tale of teenage disenchantment, Changeling is a work of stunning emotional force that captures the twisted complexities of family relationships and friendships, first love, and the quest for self-definition. Guided by short introductions to Baltic mythology, readers will find themselves in an urban landscape steeped in pagan and post-Soviet history.
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.
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.