Mesmero

Mesmero
Author: Cristi Cruceanu
Publisher: Cristi Cruceanu
Total Pages: 193
Release: 2024-10-28
Genre: Psychology
ISBN:

This piece of artwork exposes 16 key strategies used by governments, corporations, and elites to influence, control, and mislead, often without our conscious awareness. In each chapter, Cristi Cruceanu reveals how manipulation infiltrates our lives, from blatant propaganda to subtle framing techniques and the powerful sway of fear. Beyond just identifying these tactics, Mesmero empowers readers with practical tools to resist manipulation and reclaim critical thinking. It is both a wake-up call and a roadmap, urging readers to break free from passive consumption, embrace deeper scrutiny, and nurture a culture of awareness, ultimately laying the groundwork for personal and collective empowerment.

Marvel Encyclopedia New Edition

Marvel Encyclopedia New Edition
Author: Alan Cowsill
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 3456
Release: 2024-10-08
Genre: Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN: 0593960521

The best-selling, official, and definitive guide to the characters of the dynamic, ever-expanding Marvel Universe. Compiled by a team of comic book experts in close collaboration with Marvel Comics, this fully updated and expanded edition features more than 1,200 iconic Superheroes and villains, with hundreds of expanded entries detailing their adventures since the previous edition (2019). Major new characters have also been added, and the latest Marvel Universe crossover events, such as Judgment Day, Empyre, and War of the Realms, are included as in-depth features. With every character illustrated with superb artwork from the original Marvel Comics, this is the one book every Marvel fan must own. © 2023 MARVEL

X-Men Classic

X-Men Classic
Author: Chris Claremont
Publisher: Marvel Entertainment
Total Pages: 523
Release: 2018-11-28
Genre: Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN: 1302507265

Collecting Classic X-Men #1-23. In 1986, Marvel launched CLASSIC X-MEN, a series that reprinted the “All-New, All-Different X-Men” era — with a twist! All-new backup stories fleshed out the 1970s tales and delved deeper into the characters’ lives — and new story pages were even inserted into the reprints, expanding on key moments and sowing the seeds for future storylines! Now, all this newly created material has been collected together — complete with comparisons and text pieces explaining what was changed, what was added and why! Friendships are forged, allies are mourned and lives are transformed in these rare tales that dance between the raindrops of some of the most revered X-Men comics of all time! It’s the perfect companion piece to your UNCANNY X-MEN collection!

Sherlock Holmes The Corvus Conspiracy: The Complete Series

Sherlock Holmes The Corvus Conspiracy: The Complete Series
Author: Ian Shimwell
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 174
Release: 2018-11-26
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0244136394

For over four hundred years, the Corvus Brotherhood have been plotting for vengeance. As their plans near completion, the Brotherhood are somehow connected with: a spring-heeled tiger; a condemned murder suspect about to be hanged; the deathly communications of a society spiritualist and even Mycroft's sudden disappearance. The claw of the raven is about to strike...

Uncanny X-Men Masterworks Vol. 3

Uncanny X-Men Masterworks Vol. 3
Author: Chris Claremont
Publisher: Marvel Entertainment
Total Pages: 227
Release: 2014-11-19
Genre: Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN: 1302383825

Collects Uncanny X-Men #111-121. The heart of an Antarctic volcano. The steamy jungles of the hidden Savage Land. Coastal Japan in flames and the far-flung Canadian city of Calgary buried in drifts of snow. All these locales and more await our merry band of mutants in the following eleven issues- and there's no time to catch your breath! This volume reads as one long story, setting the tone for the heavy continuity approach the next two decades would take. The first issue the X-Men wake up somewhere strange and by the end of the book, they still haven't gotten home!

X-Men Epic Collection

X-Men Epic Collection
Author: Gary Friedrich
Publisher: Marvel Entertainment
Total Pages: 539
Release: 2018-11-14
Genre: Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN: 1302507133

Collecting X-Men (1963) #46-66, and material from Ka-Zar (1970) #2-3 and Marvel Tales (1966) #30. Professor X is dead! The X-Men have gone their separate ways! In the late 1960s, searching for a way to reinvigorate its poorest-selling super heroes, Marvel was trying anything and everything. With the title on the verge of cancellation, writer Roy Thomas and artist Neal Adams suddenly clicked — and the rest is history! Their epic evolution of the X-Men defines the team to this day. Adams’ lavish and dynamic visuals and Thomas’ challenging and contemporary stories combined in a book that throbbed with the pulse of the times. Their iconic stories collected here introduce Cyclops’ brother Havok, the vampiric villain Sauron, the Savage Land Mutates and X-Man-to-be Sunfire! Not to mention the Living Pharaoh, a classic team-up with Ka-Zar and don’t forget the return of Magneto!

Mr. Penguin and the Fortress of Secrets

Mr. Penguin and the Fortress of Secrets
Author: Alex T. Smith
Publisher: Holiday House
Total Pages: 199
Release: 2019-09-03
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1682631788

Dashing detective Mr. Penguin and his Adventuring gang are in for a wild ride after they crash-land on a snow-drenched mountain. From Alex T. Smith's delightfully illustrated, mystery-detective series. After escaping a plane wreckage unscathed, Mr. Penguin and his kung fu spider sidekick, discover strange noises coming from an old, ruined fortress nearby. New friends, twins Dieter and Liesel, are convinced it's related to the pets in their village going missing. When one of Mr. Penguin's pals disappears in the middle of the night, the gang leaps into action and unveils an evil hypnotist's plan to take over the world. Can Mr. Penguin foil this perilous plot and get home in time for a fish finger sandwich? Alex T. Smith's Mr. Penguin is a page-turning, illustrated middle grade series that is sure to thrill young readers looking for a good adventure and major laughs. Two color illustrations throughout.