Doggybags - Death of a nation

Doggybags - Death of a nation
Author: Run
Publisher: ANKAMA
Total Pages: 143
Release: 2019-02-21T00:00:00+01:00
Genre: Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN:

Come one, come all to Patriot Park: a place where you can relive the great battles that forged America! But here, your enemies are no longer Mexicans or Indians: ever since the zombie epidemic of 2018, when the Romero Law revoked American citizenship to anyone infected by the virus, cannon fodder doesn’t cost much, so the entire family can come have fun, emptying their guns in the impressive historical reconstitutions in this extraordinary amusement park.

FREAKS SQUEELE - Tome 1

FREAKS SQUEELE - Tome 1
Author: Florent Maudoux
Publisher: ANKAMA
Total Pages: 137
Release: 2019-02-21T00:00:00+01:00
Genre: Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN:

At the Faculty of Education for Apprentice Heroes, Chance, Xiong Mao, and Shadow undertake studies that will allow them to become super heroes capable of saving the world (and its immediate vicinity). At least, they hope so! These three new recruits are about to discover the joys of university life, merciless competition between students, sadistic professors, and the stress of exams. A university that teaches how to manage one’s media image and obtain one’s super hero license: what a concept! Fresh, original, and funny: Freaks’Squeele adopts the codes of the superhero comic book, then uncompromisingly and confidently turns them upside down. A breath of fresh air in the stereotypical universe of skin-tight pandex and colored capes!

Picturing the Beast

Picturing the Beast
Author: Steve Baker
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Total Pages: 284
Release: 2001
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780252070303

Explores how human beings use animals and images of animals to define themselves--and how those depictions interfere with our abilities to understand the true nature of animals.

Shadows in the Jungle

Shadows in the Jungle
Author: Larry Alexander
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 370
Release: 2009
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780451225931

Drawing on personal interviews with and recollections by veterans, the author of Biggest Brother chronicles the exploits of the Alamo Scouts, members of an elite Army reconnaissance unit during World War II, a group that spent weeks behind enemy lines to gather much needed intelligence for Allied forces in the Pacific.

Written as I Remember It

Written as I Remember It
Author: Elsie Paul
Publisher: UBC Press
Total Pages: 489
Release: 2014-04-15
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0774827130

Long before vacationers discovered BC’s Sunshine Coast, the Sliammon, a Coast Salish people, called the region home. In this remarkable book, Sliammon elder Elsie Paul collaborates with a scholar, Paige Raibmon, and her granddaughter, Harmony Johnson, to tell her life story and the history of her people, in her own words and storytelling style. Raised by her grandparents who took her on their seasonal travels, Paul spent most of her childhood learning Sliammon ways, teachings, and stories and is one of the last surviving mother-tongue speakers of the Sliammon language. She shares this traditional knowledge with future generations in Written as I Remember It.

Linguistics For Dummies

Linguistics For Dummies
Author: Rose-Marie Dechaine
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 384
Release: 2012-02-08
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1118101596

The fascinating, fun, and friendly way to understand the science behind human language Linguistics is the scientific study of human language. Linguistics students study how languages are constructed, how they function, how they affect society, and how humans learn language. From understanding other languages to teaching computers to communicate, linguistics plays a vital role in society. Linguistics For Dummies tracks to a typical college-level introductory linguistics course and arms you with the confidence, knowledge, and know-how to score your highest. Understand the science behind human language Grasp how language is constructed Score your highest in college-level linguistics If you're enrolled in an introductory linguistics course or simply have a love of human language, Linguistics For Dummies is your one-stop resource for unlocking the science of the spoken word.

Dusk, Night, Dawn

Dusk, Night, Dawn
Author: Anne Lamott
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 224
Release: 2021-03-02
Genre: Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN: 0593189701

“Anne Lamott is my Oprah.” -Chicago Tribune From the bestselling author of Help, Thanks, Wow comes an inspiring guide to restoring hope and joy in our lives. In Dusk, Night, Dawn, Anne Lamott explores the tough questions that many of us grapple with. How can we recapture the confidence we once had as we stumble through the dark times that seem increasingly bleak? As bad newspiles up—from climate crises to daily assaults on civility—how can we cope? Where, she asks, “do we start to get our world and joy and hope and our faith in life itself back . . . with our sore feet, hearing loss, stiff fingers, poor digestion, stunned minds, broken hearts?” We begin, Lamott says, by accepting our flaws and embracing our humanity. Drawing from her own experiences, Lamott shows us the intimate and human ways we can adopt to move through life’s dark places and toward the light of hope that still burns ahead for all of us. As she does in Help, Thanks, Wow and her other bestselling books, Lamott explores the thorny issues of life and faith by breaking them down into manageable, human-sized questions for readers to ponder, in the process showing us how we can amplify life's small moments of joy by staying open to love and connection. As Lamott notes in Dusk, Night, Dawn, “I got Medicare three days before I got hitched, which sounds like something an old person might do, which does not describe adorably ageless me.” Marrying for the first time with a grown son and a grandson, Lamott explains that finding happiness with a partner isn't a function of age or beauty but of outlook and perspective. Full of the honesty, humor, and humanity that have made Lamott beloved by millions of readers, Dusk, Night, Dawn is classic Anne Lamott—thoughtful and comic, warm and wise—and further proof that Lamott truly speaks to the better angels in all of us.

Doggybags - Wintekowa

Doggybags - Wintekowa
Author: Hasteda
Publisher: ANKAMA
Total Pages: 32
Release: 2019-02-21T00:00:00+01:00
Genre: Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN:

Hemoglobin lovers and thrill-seekers, Wintekowa offers you an expedition into the mountains of Ontario, where you can hunt down legendary creatures. Enjoy your trip!

Global Inequality

Global Inequality
Author: Branko Milanovic
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Total Pages: 312
Release: 2016-04-11
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 067473713X

Winner of the Bruno Kreisky Prize, Karl Renner Institut A Financial Times Best Economics Book of the Year An Economist Best Book of the Year A Livemint Best Book of the Year One of the world’s leading economists of inequality, Branko Milanovic presents a bold new account of the dynamics that drive inequality on a global scale. Drawing on vast data sets and cutting-edge research, he explains the benign and malign forces that make inequality rise and fall within and among nations. He also reveals who has been helped the most by globalization, who has been held back, and what policies might tilt the balance toward economic justice. “The data [Milanovic] provides offer a clearer picture of great economic puzzles, and his bold theorizing chips away at tired economic orthodoxies.” —The Economist “Milanovic has written an outstanding book...Informative, wide-ranging, scholarly, imaginative and commendably brief. As you would expect from one of the world’s leading experts on this topic, Milanovic has added significantly to important recent works by Thomas Piketty, Anthony Atkinson and François Bourguignon...Ever-rising inequality looks a highly unlikely combination with any genuine democracy. It is to the credit of Milanovic’s book that it brings out these dangers so clearly, along with the important global successes of the past few decades. —Martin Wolf, Financial Times