This book examines the recent expansion of Ireland's literary tradition to include home-grown crime fiction. It surveys the wave of books that use genre structures to explore specifically Irish issues such as the Troubles and the rise and fall of the Celtic Tiger, as well as Irish experiences of human trafficking, the supernatural, abortion, and civic corruption. These novels are as likely to address the national regulation of sexuality through institutions like the Magdalen Laundries as t...

Since the 1980s, Ireland has gone through a profound social, demographic, and religious disruption, the impact of which has been seen across recent fiction from Irish writers. Companion to the Contemporary Irish Novel traces this cultural shift and its impact by examining how modern novels have reckoned with a new conception of Irishness.Despite the heady mix of cultural and social destabilization, reform, and economic successes and challenges, this period of relentless di...

Finally, the entire Eisner Award-winning epic in one complete volume, featuring a new cover from co-creator CLIFF CHIANG! Four twelve-year-old newspaper delivery girls from the year 1988 uncover the most important story of all time. Suburban drama and otherworldly mysteries collide in this critically acclaimed series about nostalgia, first jobs, and the last days of childhood. Collects PAPER GIRLS #1-30

Network Science, A Decade Later--the result of NSF-funded research that looked at the experiences of a set of science projects which use the Internet--offers an understanding of how the Internet can be used effectively by science teachers and students to support inquiry-based teaching and learning. The book emphasizes theoretical and critical perspectives and is intended to raise questions about the goals of education and the ways that technology helps reach those goals and ways t...

The Cliffs of New Alexandria, PA is a photographic record of some of the towns early settlers who carved their names in stone as they passed this way. Along with them is a brief biography of some of these people and a short history of the town they helped to build. New Alexandria is a small town in a rural setting, one of those that changes very little over the years, and progress seems to go around it for now, helping to preserve its old time appeal.

This book contains 10 hilarious episodes of Playable Characters Podcast completely transcribed all with accompanying original, beautiful art. There are a few other extras in the book, like a never before released episode in print, forewords by famous people and video game characters, and Wed/Bed/Dead results that you too can play at home.

From BRIAN K. VAUGHAN, New York Times bestselling writer of SAGA, and CLIFF CHIANG, legendary artist of Wonder Woman, this gorgeous oversized deluxe hardcover is the perfect way to experience the first two storylines of the smash-hit series that The Chicago Tribune named one of the "Best Books of the Year." In the early hours after Halloween of 1988, four 12-year-old newspaper delivery girls uncover the most important story of all time. Suburban drama and otherworldly mysteries collide in ...

Krieg der Götter Wonder Woman und ihre Gefährten versuchen, das Kind der Sterblichen Zola zu beschützen, das einer alten Prophezeiung nach eines Tages den Thron des Olymps besteigen soll. Ihr Kampf gegen die Götter führt die Amazonenprinzessin und ihre Getreuen sogar bis nach New Genesis, dem futuristischen Heim der New Gods, bevor sich Wonder Woman schließlich ihrem grausamen Halbbruder, dem Erstgeborenen, in einem Duell stellt, dessen Ausgang für sie alles verändern wird… Die von Kritike...

The inside story of how one president forever altered the most powerful legal institution in the country—with consequences that endure todayBy the summer of 1941, in the ninth year of his presidency, Franklin Roosevelt had molded his Court. He had appointed seven of the nine justices—the most by any president except George Washington—and handpicked the chief justice.But the wartime Roosevelt Court had two faces. One was bold and progressive, the other supin...

A candid memoir by Brian Barraclough (1933-2025), whose life was divided between New Zealand and the UK and who is best known for his research on psychiatric and social aspects of suicide. Brian grew up on Auckland's North Shore. His ambition to become a doctor resulted from being treated for tuberculosis when he was 17. After graduating from the University of Otago he practised medicine in Christchurch Hospital and psychiatry in Dunedin Hospital, then sailed to England as a ship's surgeon...

Die Götterwelt ist in Aufruhr. Göttervater Zeus ist spurlos verschwunden, doch er ließ eine Reihe Bastarde zurück – und einer von denen ist Wonder Woman, wie diese unlängst erfuhr. Sein jüngstes uneheliches Kind, das Baby der Menschenfrau Zola, soll einer alten Prophezeiung nach einen Gott töten und dessen Thron besteigen, und darum wurde das Neugeborene von dem Gott Hermes entführt. Wonder Woman zieht erneut in den Kampf, um Zolas Baby zu retten und es seiner Mutter zurückzubringen. Doch ...

Wonder Woman, die Göttin des Krieges, tritt an zur entscheidenden Schlacht gegen den grausamen Erstgeborenen des Zeus! Das große Finale der gefeierten Saga.