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The Middle Ages

Eleanor Janega
The Middle Ages Book PDF

Author : Eleanor Janega
Publisher : Icon Books
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2021-06-03
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 9781785785924

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The Middle Ages by Eleanor Janega Pdf

A unique, illustrated book that will change the way you see medieval history The Middle Ages: A Graphic History busts the myth of the 'Dark Ages', shedding light on the medieval period's present-day relevance in a unique illustrated style. This history takes us through the rise and fall of empires, papacies, caliphates and kingdoms; through the violence and death of the Crusades, Viking raids, the Hundred Years War and the Plague; to the curious practices of monks, martyrs and iconoclasts. We'll see how the foundations of the modern West were established, influencing our art, cultures, religious practices and ways of thinking. And we'll explore the lives of those seen as 'Other' - women, Jews, homosexuals, lepers, sex workers and heretics. Join historian Eleanor Janega and illustrator Neil Max Emmanuel on a romp across continents and kingdoms as we discover the Middle Ages to be a time of huge change, inquiry and development - not unlike our own.

Sapiens: A Graphic History, Volume 1

Yuval Noah Harari
Sapiens A Graphic History Volume 1 Book PDF

Author : Yuval Noah Harari
Publisher : Signal
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2020-10-27
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 9780771038754

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Sapiens: A Graphic History, Volume 1 by Yuval Noah Harari Pdf

Volume one of the epic, beautifully illustrated graphic history of humankind, based on Yuval Noah Harari's internationally bestselling phenomenon In a world deluged by irrelevant information, clarity is power. How can we see the big picture without getting caught up in an infinity of little details? One way is to step back, to look at the really big picture: the entire history of the human species. Sapiens: A Graphic History, The Birth of Humankind is the story of how an insignificant ape became the ruler of planet Earth, capable of splitting the atom, flying to the Moon, and manipulating the genetic code of life. With Yuval Noah Harari as your guide, and accompanied by characters like Prehistoric Bill, Dr. Fiction, and Detective Lopez, you are invited to take a ride on the wild side of history. The graphic format offers readers a new intellectual and artistic exploration of the past. Human evolution is reimagined as a tacky reality TV show. The first encounter between Sapiens and Neanderthals is explored through the master-pieces of modern art. The extinction of the mammoths and saber-toothed tigers is retold as a "whodunit" movie. Sapiens: A Graphic History is a radical, and radically fun, retelling of the story of humankind, bursting with wit, humor, and colorful characters. If you want to know why we are all trapped inside the dreams of dead people—read this book.

Sapiens: A Graphic History, Volume 2

Yuval Noah Harari
Sapiens A Graphic History Volume 2 Book PDF

Author : Yuval Noah Harari
Publisher : Signal
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2021-11-02
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 9780771000263

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Sapiens: A Graphic History, Volume 2 by Yuval Noah Harari Pdf

Volume two of Sapiens: A Graphic History: the epic, beautifully illustrated graphic history of humankind, based on Yuval Noah Harari's internationally bestselling phenomenon. Twelve thousand years ago, we humans fell into a trap. Volume II of Sapiens: A Graphic History tells the story of how we took over the world; how an unlikely marriage between a god and a bureaucrat created the first empires; and how war, famine, disease, and inequality became a part of the human condition. Sound sombre? Not with this cast of entertaining characters, returning from Volume I to explore the Agricultural Revolution. Yuval, Zoe, Prof. Saraswati, Cindy and Bill (turned farmers), Detective Lopez, and Dr. Fiction – are all back to travel the length and breadth of human history. The cunning Mephisto shows them how to entrap humans, King Hammurabi lays down the law, and Confucius explains harmonious society. With guest appearances by Thomas Jefferson, Scarlet O’Hara and Ruth Bader Ginsburg. And there’s plenty more genre-bending to enjoy in this book. The origins of modern farming are introduced through Elizabethan tragedy, the changing fortunes of domesticated plants and animals are tracked in the columns of the Daily Business News, the story of urbanization is told as a travel brochure offering discount journeys to ancient Babylon and China, while the history of inequality is scouted out in a superhero detective story.

Queer: A Graphic History

Meg-John Barker
Queer A Graphic History Book PDF

Author : Meg-John Barker
Publisher : Icon Books
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2016-09-08
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 9781785780721

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Queer: A Graphic History by Meg-John Barker Pdf

'Queer: A Graphic History Could Totally Change the Way You Think About Sex and Gender' Vice Activist-academic Meg-John Barker and cartoonist Jules Scheele illuminate the histories of queer thought and LGBTQ+ action in this groundbreaking non-fiction graphic novel. From identity politics and gender roles to privilege and exclusion, Queer explores how we came to view sex, gender and sexuality in the ways that we do; how these ideas get tangled up with our culture and our understanding of biology, psychology and sexology; and how these views have been disputed and challenged. Along the way we look at key landmarks which shift our perspective of what's 'normal' - Alfred Kinsey's view of sexuality as a spectrum, Judith Butler's view of gendered behaviour as a performance, the play Wicked, or moments in Casino Royale when we're invited to view James Bond with the kind of desiring gaze usually directed at female bodies in mainstream media. Presented in a brilliantly engaging and witty style, this is a unique portrait of the universe of queer thinking.

A Graphic History of Sport

Andrew Janik
A Graphic History of Sport Book PDF

Author : Andrew Janik
Publisher : Clarkson Potter
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2017-02-28
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781101907009

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A Graphic History of Sport by Andrew Janik Pdf

Every sport has its legends . . . THE RUMBLE IN THE JUNGLE THE BATTLE OF THE SEXES THE PINE TAR INCIDENT THE STEEL CURTAIN PHI SLAMA JAMA A Graphic History of Sport presents artist Andrew Janik’s survey of the weird and wonderful world of athletic competition. The unforgettable plays and over-the-top personalities, the heated rivalries and storied dynasties— all come to vivid life in a series of illustrations filled with subtle wit and a modern design aesthetic. Each illustration is paired with a detailed historic overview as well as surprising stats and trivia, capturing a true sports fan’s delight in the games we love to love and the players we love to hate.

Pinball

Jon Chad
Pinball Book PDF

Author : Jon Chad
Publisher : First Second Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2022-04-05
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 9781250249210

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Pinball by Jon Chad Pdf

In 1976, champion player Roger Sharpe stepped up to a pinball machine in a Manhattan courtroom. He was there to challenge the citywide ban on pinball by proving this was a game of skill, not chance. Sharpe pulled back the plunger and released, and the fate of this industry and artform hung in the balance.0Thus opens Jon Chad's comprehensive graphic guide to the history of the captivating, capricious-and at times infuriating!-game of pinball. Tracing pinball's roots back to the Court of King Louis XIV and right up to the present day, Chad captures not just the history of the game but also the artistry, cultural significance, and even the physics.

1919

Graphic History Collective
1919 Book PDF

Author : Graphic History Collective
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 1771134208

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1919 by Graphic History Collective Pdf

"In May and June 1919, more than 30,000 workers walked off the job in Winnipeg, Manitoba. They struck for a variety of reasons-higher wages, collective bargaining rights, and more power for working people. The strikers made national and international headlines, and they inspired workers to mount sympathy strikes in many other Canadian cities. Although the strike lasted for six weeks, it ultimately ended in defeat. The strike was violently crushed by police, in collusion with state officials and Winnipeg's business elites. One hundred years later, the Winnipeg General Strike remains one of the most significant events in Canadian history. This comic book revisits the strike to introduce new generations to its many lessons, including the power of class struggle and solidarity and the brutal tactics that governments and bosses use to crush workers' movements. The Winnipeg General Strike is a stark reminder that the working class and the employing class have nothing in common, and the state is not afraid to bloody its hands to protect the interests of capital. In response, working people must rely on each other and work together to create a new, more just world in the shell of the old."--Site web de l'éditeur.

Drawn to Change

Paul Buhle,Graphic History Collective
Drawn to Change Book PDF

Author : Paul Buhle,Graphic History Collective
Publisher : Between Lines
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Labor movement
ISBN : 1771132574

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Drawn to Change by Paul Buhle,Graphic History Collective Pdf

Canadian labour history and working-class struggles are brought to life in this anthology of nine short comics, each one accompanied by an informative preface. Each comic showcases the inspiring efforts and determination of working people who banded together with others to fight to change the world. The history of working-class struggle is a fascinating story of conflict and coercion, of resistance and triumph. It has the drama of defeat mixed with the thrill of victory, though not always in equal measure. But, working-class history is not just interesting and exciting; it also contains important lessons for labour and social justice activists today. Illustrate! Educate! Organize! Contributors include Jo SiMalaya Alcampo, Althea Balmes, Christine Balmes, Sam Bradd, Paul Buhle, Nicole Marie Burton, David Camfield, Sean Carleton, Conely de Leon, Robin Folvik, Ethan Heitner, Greg Kealey, Orion Keresztesi, Mark Leier, David Lester, Andrée Lévesque, Zenee May Maceda, Dale McCartney, Doug Nesbitt, Bryan Palmer, Andrew Parnaby, Joan Sangster, Kara Sievewright, Julia Smith, Ron Verzuh, Tania Willard (Secwepemc Nation).

Incubators

Paige V. Polinsky
Incubators Book PDF

Author : Paige V. Polinsky
Publisher : Graphic Universe TM
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2022-08-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781728465258

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Incubators by Paige V. Polinsky Pdf

Audisee® eBooks with Audio combine professional narration and sentence highlighting for an engaging read aloud experience! When babies are born early, they often have trouble surviving. But special containers called incubators help babies grow by keeping them warm and protected. At first, people in the medical world were skeptical about incubators. But some trailblazing doctors believed in the technology—and put it on display across Europe and the United States. "Incubator exhibits" showed the public how incubators saved lives. The controversial displays led people to accept this medical innovation. Meet the doctors who invented the incubator, and follow the incubator's fascinating rise with this graphic history.

Medicine

Jean-Noël Fabiani
Medicine Book PDF

Author : Jean-Noël Fabiani
Publisher : SelfMadeHero
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Medicine
ISBN : 1910593796

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Stitches together the most significant and intriguing episodes from the history of medicine, from chance breakthroughs to hard-fought scientific discoveries. Spanning centuries and crossing continents, the graphic novel guides us through one of the most wondrous strands of human history, covering everything from bloodletting to organ donation, X-rays, and prosthetics

Trinity: A Graphic History of the First Atomic Bomb

Jonathan Fetter-Vorm
Trinity A Graphic History of the First Atomic Bomb Book PDF

Author : Jonathan Fetter-Vorm
Publisher : Hill and Wang
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2023-11-14
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 9780374615246

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Trinity: A Graphic History of the First Atomic Bomb by Jonathan Fetter-Vorm Pdf

Trinity, the debut graphic book by Jonathan Fetter-Vorm, depicts the dramatic history of the race to build and the decision to drop the first atomic bomb in World War Two—with a focus on the brilliant, enigmatic scientist, J. Robert Oppenheimer. "Succeeds as both a graphic primer and a philosophical meditation." —Kirkus Reviews (starred review) This sweeping historical narrative traces the spark of invention from the laboratories of nineteenth-century Europe to the massive industrial and scientific efforts of the Manhattan Project, and even transports the reader into a nuclear reaction—into the splitting atoms themselves. The power of the atom was harnessed in a top-secret government compound in Los Alamos, New Mexico, by a group of brilliant scientists led by the enigmatic wunderkind J. Robert Oppenheimer. Focused from the start on the monumentally difficult task of building an atomic weapon, these men and women soon began to wrestle with the moral implications of actually succeeding. When they detonated the first bomb at a test site code-named Trinity, they recognized that they had irreversibly thrust the world into a new and terrifying age. With powerful renderings of WWII's catastrophic events at Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Fetter-Vorm unflinchingly chronicles the far-reaching political, environmental, and psychological effects of this new invention. Informative and thought-provoking, Trinity is the ideal introduction to one of the most significant events in history.

Direct Action Gets the Goods

Graphic History Collective
Direct Action Gets the Goods Book PDF

Author : Graphic History Collective
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 1771134178

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Direct Action Gets the Goods by Graphic History Collective Pdf

Art has always played a significant role in the history of the labour movement. Songs, stories, poems, pamphlets, and comics, have inspired workers to take action against greedy bosses and helped shape ideas of a more equal world. They also help fan the flames of discontent. Radical social change doesn't come without radical art. It would be impossible to think about labour unrest without its iconic songs like "Solidarity Forever" or its cartoons like Ernest Riebe's creation, Mr. Block. In this vein, The Graphic History Collective has created an illustrated chronicle of the strike--the organized withdrawal of labour power--in Canada. For centuries, workers in Canada--Indigenous and non-Indigenous, union and non-union, men and women--have used the strike as a powerful tool, not just for better wages, but also for growing working-class power. This lively comic book will inspire new generations to learn more about labour and working-class history and the power of solidarity.

Graphic History

Richard Iadonisi
Graphic History Book PDF

Author : Richard Iadonisi
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2012-11-30
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 9781443843584

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Graphic History by Richard Iadonisi Pdf

When it comes to recounting history, issues arise as to whose stories are told and how reliable is the telling. This collection of fourteen essays explores the unique ways in which graphic novels can aid us in addressing those issues while shedding new light on a variety of texts, including those by canonical North American and European writers Art Spiegelman (Maus, In the Shadow of No Towers), Alan Moore (From Hell, The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen), Frank Miller (The Dark Knight Returns), Chris Ware (Jimmy Corrigan), Chester Brown (Louis Riel), and Harvey Pekar. Recognizing the global appeal of graphic novels, this collection also provides a fresh look at history seen through the eyes of canonical non-Western writers Marjane Starapi (Persepolis) and Yoshihiro Tatsumi (A Drifting Life) and the highly vexed relationship of the West and the Middle East. The array of contributors (from the fields of art, literature, history, and cultural studies) is matched by the array of theoretical perspectives and by the depth and breadth of subjects, ranging from the sixteenth century voyages of Sebastian Cabot to Jack the Ripper, from the Chicago World’s Columbian Exposition of 1893 to lynching in the early twentieth-century American South, and from post-war Japan to the fall of the Shah in Iran.

May Day

Robin Folvik,Mark Leier,Sean Carleton
May Day Book PDF

Author : Robin Folvik,Mark Leier,Sean Carleton
Publisher : Between the Lines
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2012-05-01
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 9781926662916

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May Day by Robin Folvik,Mark Leier,Sean Carleton Pdf

May Day: A Graphic History of Protest traces the development of International Workers’ Day, May 1st, against the ever-changing economic and political backdrop in Canada. Recognizing the importance of work and the historical struggles of workers to improve their lives, with a particular focus on the struggles of May 1st, the comic includes the reader as part of this history, and the story concludes that “We are all part of this historical struggle; it’s our history and our future.”

Through Their Eyes

Matthew Barrett,Robert C. Engen
Through Their Eyes Book PDF

Author : Matthew Barrett,Robert C. Engen
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 347 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2022-08-09
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 9780228012481

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Through Their Eyes by Matthew Barrett,Robert C. Engen Pdf

By the summer of 1917, Canadian troops had captured Vimy Ridge, but Allied offensives had stalled across many fronts of the Great War. To help break the stalemate of trench warfare, the Canadian Corps commander, Lieutenant-General Arthur Currie, was tasked with capturing Hill 70, a German stronghold near the French town of Lens. After securing the hill on 15 August, Canadian soldiers endured days of shelling, machine-gun fire, and poison gas as they repelled relentless enemy counterattacks. Through Their Eyes depicts this remarkable but costly victory in a unique way. With full-colour graphic artwork and detailed illustration, Matthew Barrett and Robert Engen picture the battle from different perspectives – Currie’s strategic view at high command, a junior officer’s experience at the platoon level, and the vantage points of many lesser-known Canadian soldiers who made the ultimate sacrifice. This innovative graphic history invites readers to reimagine the First World War through the eyes of those who lived it and to think more deeply about how we visualize and remember the past. Combining outstanding original art and thought-provoking commentary, Through Their Eyes uncovers the fascinating stories behind this battle while creatively expanding the ways that history is shared and represented.