Modeling Marvels

Modeling Marvels
Author: Errol G. Lewars
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 287
Release: 2008-12-05
Genre: Science
ISBN: 1402069731

The aim of this highly original book is to survey a number of chemical compounds that some chemists, theoretical and experimental, find fascinating. This is the first book to feature compounds/classes of compounds of theoretical interest that have been studied theoretically but have defied synthesis. It is hoped that this collection of idiosyncratic molecules will appeal to chemists who find the study of chemical oddities interesting and, on occasion, even rewarding.

Models, Inc.

Models, Inc.
Author: Paul Tobin
Publisher: Marvel Entertainment
Total Pages: 177
Release: 2018-12-06
Genre: Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN: 1302507540

Fashion Week is always a hectic time for models, and this year is no exception. Between escaped wolves, robbery attempts, and overly friendly police officers, Mary Jane Watson, Patsy Walker, Jill Jerold, Chili Storm, and Millicent (Millie the Model) Collins are testing the limits of their endurance. But when a brilliant young set designer is found murdered with three bullet holes in his back, and Millie proves to be the prime suspect, the models are forced to play detective in order to save one of their own! Collects Models, Inc. #1-4.

Marvel Heroes Built for Battle

Marvel Heroes Built for Battle
Author: Marvel
Publisher: Studio Fun International
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2011-03-22
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 9780794421250

Build your own Marvel Heroes figures with this action-packed storybook and build-it models. Kids can build three of their own dimensional, action models of their favorite Marvel Heroes using the colorful, shaped foam pieces that accompany this book. When Spider-Man, Iron Man, and Wolverine suddenly become rampaging villains working for the Puppet Master, it’s up to Thor and Captain America to put an end to the plot and save their friends. Marvel fans can be part of the action, too, thanks to the deluxe, action models that come with this book. When readers open up the pocket in the book’s inside front cover, they will find a sheet containing die-cut foam pieces that Marvel fans can use to construct their own collectible models of Spider-Man, Iron Man, and Wolverine.

CASE '95

CASE '95
Author: Hausi A. Müller
Publisher:
Total Pages: 434
Release: 1995
Genre: Computers
ISBN:

Presents a broad perspective of the technical issues facing the CASE field. Session topics include CASE adoption, tool integration strategies, software reuse, frameworks and environments, meta-CASE environments, domain modeling, software evolution, tool practice, and CASE support for requirements en

Keywords for Comics Studies

Keywords for Comics Studies
Author: Ramzi Fawaz
Publisher: NYU Press
Total Pages: 280
Release: 2021-06-08
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1479831964

"Across more than fifty essays, Keywords for Comics Studies provides a rich, interdisciplinary vocabulary for comics and sequential art, and identifies new avenues of research into one of the most popular and diverse visual media of the twentieth and twenty-first century. In an original twist on the NYU Keywords mission, the terms in this volume combine attention to the unique aesthetic practices of a distinct medium, comics, with some of the most fundamental concepts of the humanities broadly. Readers will see how scholars, cultural critics, and comics artists from a range of fields-including media and film studies, queer and feminist theory, and critical race and transgender studies among others-take up sequential art as both an object of analysis and a medium for developing new theories about embodiment, identity, literacy, audience reception, genre, cultural politics and more. To do so, Keywords for Comics Studies presents an array of original and inventive analyses of terms central to the study of comics and sequential art, but traditionally siloed in distinct lexicons: these include creative or aesthetic terms like Ink, Creator, Border, and Panel; conceptual terms like trans*, disability, universe, and fantasy; genre terms, like Zine, Pornography, Superhero, and Manga; and canonical terms like X-Men, Archie, Watchmen and Love and Rockets. Written as much for students and lay readers as professors and experts in the field, Keywords for Comics Studies revivifies the fantasy and magic of reading comics in its kaleidoscopic view of the field's most compelling and imaginative ideas."--

Time

Time
Author: Joel Burges
Publisher: NYU Press
Total Pages: 382
Release: 2016-08-02
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1479821705

The critical condition and historical motivation behind Time Studies The concept of time in the post-millennial age is undergoing a radical rethinking within the humanities. Time: A Vocabulary of the Present newly theorizes our experiences of time in relation to developments in post-1945 cultural theory and arts practices. Wide ranging and theoretically provocative, the volume introduces readers to cutting-edge temporal conceptualizations and investigates what exactly constitutes the scope of time studies. Featuring twenty essays that reveal what we talk about when we talk about time today, especially in the areas of history, measurement, and culture, each essay pairs two keywords to explore the tension and nuances between them, from “past/future” and “anticipation/unexpected” to “extinction/adaptation” and “serial/simultaneous.” Moving beyond the truisms of postmodernism, the collection newly theorizes the meanings of temporality in relationship to aesthetic, cultural, technological, and economic developments in the postwar period. This book thus assumes that time—not space, as the postmoderns had it—is central to the contemporary period, and that through it we can come to terms with what contemporaneity can be for human beings caught up in the historical present. In the end, Time reveals that the present is a cultural matrix in which overlapping temporalities condition and compete for our attention. Thus each pair of terms presents two temporalities, yielding a generative account of the time, or times, in which we live.

Creating Comics as Journalism, Memoir and Nonfiction

Creating Comics as Journalism, Memoir and Nonfiction
Author: Randy Duncan
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 404
Release: 2015-10-08
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1317913183

This book provides student journalists, artists, designers, creative writers and web producers with the tools and techniques they need to tell nonfiction stories visually and graphically. Weaving together history, theory, and practical advice, seasoned nonfiction comics professors and scholars Randy Duncan, Michael Ray Taylor and David Stoddard present a hands-on approach to teach readers from a range of backgrounds how to develop and create a graphic nonfiction story from start to finish. The book offers guidance on: -how to find stories and make use of appropriate facts and visuals; -nonfiction narrative techniques; -artist's tools and techniques; -print, digital, and multimedia production; -legal and ethical considerations. Interviews with well-known nonfiction comics creators and editors discuss best practices and offer readers inspiration to begin creating their own work, and exercises at the end of each chapter encourage students to hone their skills.

Ms. Marvel's America

Ms. Marvel's America
Author: Jessica Baldanzi
Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
Total Pages: 258
Release: 2020-02-28
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1496827031

Contributions by José Alaniz, Jessica Baldanzi, Eric Berlatsky, Peter E. Carlson, Sika A. Dagbovie-Mullins, Antero Garcia, Aaron Kashtan, Winona Landis, A. David Lewis, Martin Lund, Shabana Mir, Kristin M. Peterson, Nicholaus Pumphrey, Hussein Rashid, and J. Richard Stevens Mainstream superheroes are becoming more and more diverse, with new identities for Spider-Man, Captain America, Thor, and Iron Man. Though the Marvel-verse is becoming much more racially, ethnically, and gender diverse, many of these comics remain shy about religion. The new Ms. Marvel, Kamala Khan, is a notable exception, not only because she is written and conceived by two women, Sana Amanat and G. Willow Wilson, but also because both of these women bring their own experiences as Muslim Americans to the character. This distinct collection brings together scholars from a range of disciplines including literature, cultural studies, religious studies, pedagogy, and communications to engage with a single character, exploring Khan’s significance for a broad readership. While acknowledged as the first Muslim superhero to headline her own series, her character appears well developed and multifaceted in many other ways. She is the first character to take over an established superhero persona, Ms. Marvel, without a reboot of the series or death of the original character. The teenager is also a second-generation immigrant, born to parents who arrived in New Jersey from Pakistan. With essays from and about diverse voices on an array of topics from fashion to immigration history to fandom, this volume includes an exclusive interview with Ms. Marvel author and cocreator G. Willow Wilson by gender studies scholar Shabana Mir.

Marvel's Avengers

Marvel's Avengers
Author: Eleni Roussos
Publisher: Marvel Entertainment
Total Pages: 288
Release: 2019-11-20
Genre: Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN: 1302517007

Thanos has won. Half of all life in the universe has crumbled to dust. Now, the Avengers must fight the most important battle of their lives. It all comes down to this! Featuring concept art and exclusive interviews, The Art of Marvel Studios’ Avengers: Endgame showcases the work behind one of the biggest blockbusters in movie history and the culmination of 22 interconnected films. Explore page after page of script secrets and production designs that highlight the creativity of Marvel’s talented filmmakers. With intricate concept art, full-color photography from the set and finished film and commentary from the filmmakers, this collectible will delight new and old fans alike. Go behind the scenes of the endgame with this gorgeous collection!