Author: Glen Weldon
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1476756732
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
"Since his debut in Detective Comics #27, Batman has been many things: a two-fisted detective; a planet-hopping gadabout; a campy Pop Art sensation; a pointy-eared master spy; and a grim ninja of the urban night. Yet, despite these endless transformations, he remains one of our most revered cultural icons. [In this book, Weldon provides a] look at the cultural history of Batman and his fandom"--Amazon.com.
The Caped Crusade
Author: Glen Weldon
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1476756732
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
"Since his debut in Detective Comics #27, Batman has been many things: a two-fisted detective; a planet-hopping gadabout; a campy Pop Art sensation; a pointy-eared master spy; and a grim ninja of the urban night. Yet, despite these endless transformations, he remains one of our most revered cultural icons. [In this book, Weldon provides a] look at the cultural history of Batman and his fandom"--Amazon.com.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1476756732
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
"Since his debut in Detective Comics #27, Batman has been many things: a two-fisted detective; a planet-hopping gadabout; a campy Pop Art sensation; a pointy-eared master spy; and a grim ninja of the urban night. Yet, despite these endless transformations, he remains one of our most revered cultural icons. [In this book, Weldon provides a] look at the cultural history of Batman and his fandom"--Amazon.com.
The Cape Crusaders
Author: Julian Walker
Publisher: Grosvenor House Publishing
ISBN: 1781482454
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 177
Book Description
In 1987, seven people embarked on a three month charity expedition to drive an old red Dennis fire engine from the northern tip of Europe to the southernmost point of Africa. After almost five months, 37,000km, 21 countries, and a journey through rainforest, bush veldt, deserts and urban developments, the author was one of five who completed their odyssey. The Cape Crusaders is his engaging account of the at times hazardous trip, including being mugged, arrested, having two near fatal accidents and a severe case of cerebral malaria. A must for any armchair adventure traveller.
Publisher: Grosvenor House Publishing
ISBN: 1781482454
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 177
Book Description
In 1987, seven people embarked on a three month charity expedition to drive an old red Dennis fire engine from the northern tip of Europe to the southernmost point of Africa. After almost five months, 37,000km, 21 countries, and a journey through rainforest, bush veldt, deserts and urban developments, the author was one of five who completed their odyssey. The Cape Crusaders is his engaging account of the at times hazardous trip, including being mugged, arrested, having two near fatal accidents and a severe case of cerebral malaria. A must for any armchair adventure traveller.
A History of the Crusades, Volume 2
Author: Robert Lee Wolff
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 1512819565
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 890
Book Description
This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire century, the Anniversary Collection offers peer-reviewed scholarship in a wide range of subject areas.
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 1512819565
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 890
Book Description
This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire century, the Anniversary Collection offers peer-reviewed scholarship in a wide range of subject areas.
Batman: the Caped Crusader Vol. 6
Author: Various
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781779508003
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
"A new collection featuring the legendary 1980s Batman epics "Ten Nights of the Beast" and "A Death in the Family", never before collected! This new collection of 1980s Batman tales includes the legendary story "A Death in the Family," in which the Joker ends up killing the secon Robin, Jason Todd. It all begins with the story "Ten Nights of the Beast," which introduced the deadly post-Soviet villain known as the KGBeast. Following that, a series of stories concerning organized crime in the streets of Gotham City leads into "A Death in the Family," in which Robin follows a trail to find his birth mother, who is in cahoots with the Joker."--
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781779508003
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
"A new collection featuring the legendary 1980s Batman epics "Ten Nights of the Beast" and "A Death in the Family", never before collected! This new collection of 1980s Batman tales includes the legendary story "A Death in the Family," in which the Joker ends up killing the secon Robin, Jason Todd. It all begins with the story "Ten Nights of the Beast," which introduced the deadly post-Soviet villain known as the KGBeast. Following that, a series of stories concerning organized crime in the streets of Gotham City leads into "A Death in the Family," in which Robin follows a trail to find his birth mother, who is in cahoots with the Joker."--
Kindness Crusader
Author: Kim Richardson
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781732907324
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 318
Book Description
Are you ready to change the world? Join us as we inspire people all over the world to be kind and loving to one another. Kindness Crusader has weekly stories from authors around the world to inspire your inner crusader. With fifty-two stories and twelve months of kindness calendars, you are sure to never run out of inspiration. This book is great to inspire you alone, as a family, or as a community. It makes a great gift, too! Together, let's raise the vibration of the world in love and all be Kindness Crusaders. This is a great book for yourself or the entire family. Start a Kindness Crusader in your community today!
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781732907324
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 318
Book Description
Are you ready to change the world? Join us as we inspire people all over the world to be kind and loving to one another. Kindness Crusader has weekly stories from authors around the world to inspire your inner crusader. With fifty-two stories and twelve months of kindness calendars, you are sure to never run out of inspiration. This book is great to inspire you alone, as a family, or as a community. It makes a great gift, too! Together, let's raise the vibration of the world in love and all be Kindness Crusaders. This is a great book for yourself or the entire family. Start a Kindness Crusader in your community today!
Batdriven West
Author: Karen Whitfield
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780464568179
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
The Never Before Told Story of "Batdriven West" is about the fascinating life of Karen Whitfield when she met Burt Ward in 1977 and traveled as the Detective Comics Batgirl with Burt, Adam West, and the Caped Crusaders from 1978 to 1984. She was just twenty years old and moved from North Carolina to California. She tells her story of what it was like to get to know the Dynamic Duo in and out of their Superhero identities. She lived a fairy tale life with Superheroes, Actors, and Actresses. She finally had the heart's desire to tell about the fascinating and incredible journey that helped create who she is today but yet why she hung up her cape and cowl until thirty-five years later.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780464568179
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
The Never Before Told Story of "Batdriven West" is about the fascinating life of Karen Whitfield when she met Burt Ward in 1977 and traveled as the Detective Comics Batgirl with Burt, Adam West, and the Caped Crusaders from 1978 to 1984. She was just twenty years old and moved from North Carolina to California. She tells her story of what it was like to get to know the Dynamic Duo in and out of their Superhero identities. She lived a fairy tale life with Superheroes, Actors, and Actresses. She finally had the heart's desire to tell about the fascinating and incredible journey that helped create who she is today but yet why she hung up her cape and cowl until thirty-five years later.
Caped
Author: Darius Brasher
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781539418511
Category : Superheroes
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Theo soon finds that even just a potential superhero gets an archenemy. The problem is Theos doesnt want to just defeat him.
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781539418511
Category : Superheroes
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Theo soon finds that even just a potential superhero gets an archenemy. The problem is Theos doesnt want to just defeat him.
God's War
Author: Christopher Tyerman
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 0141904313
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 1040
Book Description
'Wonderfully written and characteristically brilliant' Peter Frankopan, author of The Silk Roads 'Elegant, readable ... an impressive synthesis ... Not many historians could have done it' - Jonathan Sumption, Spectator 'Tyerman's book is fascinating not just for what it has to tell us about the Crusades, but for the mirror it holds up to today's religious extremism' - Tom Holland, Spectator Thousands left their homelands in the Middle Ages to fight wars abroad. But how did the Crusades actually happen? From recruitment propaganda to raising money, ships to siege engines, medicine to the power of prayer, this vivid, surprising history shows holy war - and medieval society - in a new light.
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 0141904313
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 1040
Book Description
'Wonderfully written and characteristically brilliant' Peter Frankopan, author of The Silk Roads 'Elegant, readable ... an impressive synthesis ... Not many historians could have done it' - Jonathan Sumption, Spectator 'Tyerman's book is fascinating not just for what it has to tell us about the Crusades, but for the mirror it holds up to today's religious extremism' - Tom Holland, Spectator Thousands left their homelands in the Middle Ages to fight wars abroad. But how did the Crusades actually happen? From recruitment propaganda to raising money, ships to siege engines, medicine to the power of prayer, this vivid, surprising history shows holy war - and medieval society - in a new light.
Reconquest and Crusade in Medieval Spain
Author: Joseph F. O'Callaghan
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 0812203062
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 343
Book Description
Drawing from both Christian and Islamic sources, Reconquest and Crusade in Medieval Spain demonstrates that the clash of arms between Christians and Muslims in the Iberian peninsula that began in the early eighth century was transformed into a crusade by the papacy during the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. Successive popes accorded to Christian warriors willing to participate in the peninsular wars against Islam the same crusading benefits offered to those going to the Holy Land. Joseph F. O'Callaghan clearly demonstrates that any study of the history of the crusades must take a broader view of the Mediterranean to include medieval Spain. Following a chronological overview of crusading in the Iberian peninsula from the late eleventh to the middle of the thirteenth century, O'Callaghan proceeds to the study of warfare, military finance, and the liturgy of reconquest and crusading. He concludes his book with a consideration of the later stages of reconquest and crusade up to and including the fall of Granada in 1492, while noting that the spiritual benefits of crusading bulls were still offered to the Spanish until the Second Vatican Council of 1963. Although the conflict described in this book occurred more than eight hundred years ago, recent events remind the world that the intensity of belief, rhetoric, and action that gave birth to crusade, holy war, and jihad remains a powerful force in the twenty-first century.
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 0812203062
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 343
Book Description
Drawing from both Christian and Islamic sources, Reconquest and Crusade in Medieval Spain demonstrates that the clash of arms between Christians and Muslims in the Iberian peninsula that began in the early eighth century was transformed into a crusade by the papacy during the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. Successive popes accorded to Christian warriors willing to participate in the peninsular wars against Islam the same crusading benefits offered to those going to the Holy Land. Joseph F. O'Callaghan clearly demonstrates that any study of the history of the crusades must take a broader view of the Mediterranean to include medieval Spain. Following a chronological overview of crusading in the Iberian peninsula from the late eleventh to the middle of the thirteenth century, O'Callaghan proceeds to the study of warfare, military finance, and the liturgy of reconquest and crusading. He concludes his book with a consideration of the later stages of reconquest and crusade up to and including the fall of Granada in 1492, while noting that the spiritual benefits of crusading bulls were still offered to the Spanish until the Second Vatican Council of 1963. Although the conflict described in this book occurred more than eight hundred years ago, recent events remind the world that the intensity of belief, rhetoric, and action that gave birth to crusade, holy war, and jihad remains a powerful force in the twenty-first century.
Merchant Crusaders in the Aegean, 1291-1352
Author: Mike Carr
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
ISBN: 1843839903
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
An examination of the changing nature of crusade and its participants in the late medieval Mediterranean.
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
ISBN: 1843839903
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
An examination of the changing nature of crusade and its participants in the late medieval Mediterranean.