Author: Michael Vassallo
Publisher: Naval Institute Press
ISBN: 1682475298
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 273

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Atlas at War! collects fifty hard-hitting stories from Atlas Comics, the company that became Marvel Comics and published more war titles than anyone in the industry between the years 1951 and 1960. Comics historian Dr. Michael J. Vassallo has chosen the best of the best, many of which are coming back into print for the first time, from sixteen different Atlas war titles and featuring the artwork of twenty different artists--giants of the genre, including Russ Heath, John Severin, Bernie Krigstein, Joe Maneely, Jerry Robinson, Steve Ditko, and Jack Kirby. Each page has been meticulously restored from its first printing by comic art restorer Allan Harvey. Atlas at War! covers the brutal pre-code period where graphic depictions of war action were rendered by artists who were World War II veterans themselves, as well as the post-code period, where code restrictions forced creators to tell stories without graphic violence but produced some of the most beautiful comic art of the genre. In addition to the artists, stories cover all aspects of war--from famous campaigns, weaponry, and personal soldier stories to political topics, Nazi atrocities, and even one story tinged with pre-code horror! Often overlooked in favor of its competitors, Atlas at War! will finally show that Atlas' war titles were second to no one.

Author: Dean Papajohn
Publisher: University of Michigan Press ELT
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 316

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The new edition of Toward Speaking Excellence addresses the recent changes to the Test of Spoken English (TSE(R)). The text introduces readers to the format of the new TSE(R), typical questions, and scoring criteria. The second edition of Toward Speaking Excellence includes actual student responses that are used or modified to highlight specific characteristics of effective communication. Two complete sample TSE(R)-like tests are included for further practice. Also provided are practice with some of the skills that, while no longer tested on the TSE(R), are key to sounding more native-like and fluent. Toward Speaking Excellence may be used as an individual study tool or as a course text. While the material is directed toward the TSE(R) and SPEAK(R) tests, the communication strategies presented will prepare students for other types of oral exams (including the TAST(R), interviews, and performance tests. Toward Speaking Excellence is a course book but may also be used for individual test-preparation/self-study. Dean Papajohn is a Specialist in Education at the Center for Teaching Excellence, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign..

Author: Bruce Tinsley
Publisher: Andrews McMeel Pub
ISBN: 9780836207781
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 96

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Mallard Fillmore lampoons everything from political correctness to Phil, Oprah, and Geraldo to our government's insatiable appetite for spending our money. His marvelous supporting cast includes wickedly wonderful cariacatures of everyone who's anyone, from Hollywood to D.C. to Arkansas.

Author: Yoshiyuki Sankai
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 4431541594
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 338

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Cybernics plays a significant role in coping with an aging society using state-of-the-art technologies from engineering, clinical medicine and humanities. This new interdisciplinary field studies technologies that enhance, strengthen, and support physical and cognitive functions of human beings, based on the fusion of human, machine, and information systems. The design of a seamless interface for interaction between the interior and exterior of the human body is described in this book from diverse aspects such as the physical, neurophysiological, and cognitive levels. It is the first book to cover the many aspects of cybernics, allowing readers to understand the life support robotics technology for the elderly, including remote, in-home, hospital, institutional, community medical welfare, and vital-sensing systems. Serving as a valuable resource, this volume will interest not only graduate students, scientists, and engineers but also newcomers to the field of cybernics.

Author: E. D. N. WHITE
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781520656434
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 169

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Thirty-three-year-old journalist, Steve Cooper returns from an assignment in The Philippines when informed of his mother's death. He and his twin sisters, Marilyn and Melanie, decide to search for the father they have not seen in nearly thirty years. They want to know him and love him. A secret government agency is also looking for him. They want to kill him. This is the background for a fast paced thriller that takes place in the Boston area with added venues in New Hampshire, Vermont, and a fish camp in the Quebec wilderness.Characters in this book include Donald, a one-armed hitman, who loves Cheetos. Chuck, an aging Intelligence Director, hanging on for this last mission. Barbara, his assistant, a strikingly beautiful woman of Apache heritage, who, "In another time and place, would have been a Chiricahua warrior." Jimmy, an undocumented young Hispanic surveillance expert. The Martin brothers, IRA "soldiers" from Southie. Moreover, the quarry, Jack Vincent, a member of an elite government supported killing team, has decided to reveal his secret mission to the public.As Steve and the twins struggle to understand the strange events that have invaded their lives, the clues begin to add up, as does their jeopardy. Whom do they trust, where do they go? Their previously happy world is turned upside down with the threats they do not fully understand.This story explores the possibility of government involvement at a time of unprecedented concern for our national security. What is the role of truth?Dialogue drives a suspenseful narrative that combines with offsetting humor to tell this story. It follows Steve Cooper from The Philippine jungles, to his fitness club, to the Irish pubs of South Boston. The smart, sassy twins have encounters with the hitman, Donald, adding to the mystery as they are caught in this web of intrigue.The result--retribution. However, the question remains, who is right, who are the winners?

Author: Anonymous
Publisher: Mariner Books
ISBN: 035821677X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 239

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One of the New York Times' 20 Books to Read in 2020 "A tonic . . . Splendid . . . A respite . . . A summer cocktail of a book."--Washington Post "Unforgettable . . . Behind her brilliantly witty and uplifting message is a remarkable vulnerability and candor that reminds us that we are not alone in our struggles--and that we can, against all odds, get through them."--Lori Gottlieb, New York Times best-selling author of Maybe You Should Talk to Someone Part memoir and part joyful romp through the fields of imagination, the story behind a beloved pseudonymous Twitter account reveals how a writer deep in grief rebuilt a life worth living. Becoming Duchess Goldblatt is two stories: that of the reclusive real-life writer who created a fictional character out of loneliness and thin air, and that of the magical Duchess Goldblatt herself, a bright light in the darkness of social media. Fans around the world are drawn to Her Grace's voice, her wit, her life-affirming love for all humanity, and the fun and friendship of the community that's sprung up around her. @DuchessGoldblat (81 year-old literary icon, author of An Axe to Grind) brought people together in her name: in bookstores, museums, concerts, and coffee shops, and along the way, brought real friends home--foremost among them, Lyle Lovett. "The only way to be reliably sure that the hero gets the girl at the end of the story is to be both the hero and the girl yourself." -- Duchess Goldblatt

Author: United States. Congress
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781976150753
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 100

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Oversight of the Department of Justice : hearing before the Committee on the Judiciary, House of Representatives, One Hundred Fourteenth Congress, second session, July 12, 2016.

Author: Leslie Brody
Publisher: Seal Press
ISBN: 1580057705
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 282

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In this inspiring biography, discover the true story of Harriet the Spy author Louise Fitzhugh -- and learn about the woman behind one of literature's most beloved heroines. Harriet the Spy, first published in 1964, has mesmerized generations of readers and launched a million diarists. Its beloved antiheroine, Harriet, is erratic, unsentimental, and endearing -- very much like the woman who created her, Louise Fitzhugh. Born in 1928, Fitzhugh was raised in segregated Memphis, but she soon escaped her cloistered world and headed for New York, where her expanded milieu stretched from the lesbian bars of Greenwich Village to the art world of postwar Europe, and her circle of friends included members of the avant-garde like Maurice Sendak and Lorraine Hansberry. Fitzhugh's novels, written in an era of political defiance, are full of resistance: to authority, to conformity, and even -- radically, for a children's author -- to make-believe. As a children's author and a lesbian, Fitzhugh was often pressured to disguise her true nature. Sometimes You Have to Lie tells the story of her hidden life and of the creation of her masterpiece, which remains long after her death as a testament to the complicated relationship between truth, secrecy, and individualism.

Author: Justin Kaplan
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 9780060535117
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 468

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Whitman's genius, passions, poetry, and androgynous sensibility entwined to create an exuberant life amid the turbulent American mid-nineteenth century. In vivid detail, Kaplan examines the mysterious selves of the enigmatic man who celebrated the freedom and dignity of the individual and sang the praises of democracy and the brotherhood of man.

Author: Charles Todd
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 0063048566
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 176

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“Bess is among the most compassionate and intelligent characters.” –The Sun-Sentinel From the New York Times bestselling author of the Bess Crawford mystery series, a short story that unravels dark secrets from her close friend Simon Brandon’s past. Years before the Great War summoned Bess Crawford to serve as a battlefield nurse, the indomitable heroine spent her childhood in India under the watchful eye of her friend and confidant, the young soldier Simon Brandon. The two formed an inseparable bond on the dangerous Northwest Frontier where her father’s Regiment held the Khyber Pass against all intruders. It was Simon who taught Bess to ride and shoot, escorted her to the bazaars and the Maharani’s Palace, and did his best to keep her out of trouble, after the Crawford family took an interest in the tall, angry boy with a mysterious past. But the Crawfords have long guarded secrets for Simon and he owes them a debt that runs deeper than Bess could ever know. Told through the eyes of Melinda, Richard, Clarissa, and Bess, A Hanging at Dawn pieces together a mystery at the center of Bess’s family that will irrevocably change the course of her future.