Manling Williams was born in 1979 as Manling Tsang. She tended to go by the nickname "Ling" while growing up. As a child, she was diagnosed with various learning disabilities and experienced many challenges academically while in school. Williams was the result of an unwanted pregnancy between her two parents, and she was nearly aborted. Ultimately, she was born into a family that didn't want her, and they treated her as such throughout her childhood with copious amounts of verbal and physi...

The Cruel and Reparative Possibilities of Failure brings together a variety of scholars and research across disciplines, with an emphasis on communication and gender studies, to work toward reimagining the idea of failure. Contributors consider failure as both a space for growth and repair and as a space from which hope can emerge. The collection is divided into five parts, investigating failure as consumption; failure as media; failure as pedagogy; failure as narrative; and final...

Va-Va-Voom!For decades, fans have known the secret identities and powers of the beautiful women found in the comic book universe. Now you can savor the visual delights of the 100 Sexiest Women of Comics. From Aspen and Catwoman to Sue Storm and Zatanna, we rank 'em-and tell you a bit about their comics careers in this eye-popping and revealing book.Face it, tiger-you just hit the j...

The #1 New York Times bestselling authors of Mindhunter revisit eight of the most infamous true crime cases of all time—from Jack the Ripper and the Zodiac Killer to JonBenet Ramsey—in this updated 25th anniversary edition exploring unsolved murders, FBI criminal profiling, and forensic science.Violent. Provocative. Shocking. Call them what you want…but don’t call them open and shut.Did Lizzie Borden murder her own father and stepmother? W...

Did Lizzie really do it? If so, why? With all the evidence pointing to her, how did she get off? This short account retells the Lizzie Borden murder story from a social and political perspective that will help you to not only understand her motive for murder but how she was acquitted.

AN ORDINARY GIRL… IN AN ORDINARY WORLD.Nikki Tyler knows exactly what she is—and where she belongs. She's a Tyler—and that means Masterson County.When the most sought-after producer in Hollywood wants to make a documentary about her family, Nikki reluctantly agrees to help. But...she hadn't counted on Hunter Clark.HE IS MORE THAN JUST AN ACTOR.Hunter is considered the hottest action star in Hollywood, but he wants t...

Each week about fifty New Yorker cartoonists submit ten ideas, yielding five hundred cartoons for no more than twenty spots in the magazine. Arguably the most brilliant single-panel-gag cartoonists in the world create a bunch of cartoons every week that never see the light of day.These rejects were piling up in the dusty corners of studios all over the country. Sam Gross, who has been contributing since 1962, has more than 12,000 rejected cartoons. (Seriously. He's been nu...

Trivia-on-Book: Bared to You by Sylvia DayTake the fan-challenge yourself and share it with family and friends!Romantic, insightful, and well written, Bared to You is a part of New York Times best-selling author, Sylvia Day's, Crossfire series. The novel, first published in 2012, was one of the most commercially successful novels of the year. The plot revolves around a couple in their twenties who had both been abused in their past. A story that begins with primal ...

Each week The New Yorker receives more than five hundred submissions from its regular cartoonists, who are all vying for one of the twenty coveted spots in the magazine. So what happens to the 75 percent of cartoons that don't make the cut? Some go back in a drawer, others go up on the refrigerator or into the filing cabinet...but the very best of all the rejects can be found right here in these pages.The Rejection Collection Vol. 2: The Cream of the Crap is the u...

Walking Dead is the television and written world phenomenon that has come from the work of Robert Kirkman and his Image Comics series. Inside this book you'll find trivia and many interesting facts about the walkers, the characters and the actors, cast and crew that bring them to life on the hugely successful television series. This book is a must have for any fan who wants a little help traversing the post apocalyptic world of the Walking Dead.

Trivia-on-Book: Missing You by Harlan CobenTake the challenge and share it with friends and family for a time of fun!You may have read the book, but not have liked it.You may have liked the book, but not be a fan.You may call yourself a fan, but few truly are. Are you a fan?Trivia-on-Books is an independently curated trivia quiz on the book for readers...

In 1969 an off campus newspaper at the University of Florida-Gainesville published nude photos of a woman standing and seated in the university's research library. The controversial publication was the second instance of nudity causing a stir in Gainesville in the previous three years. In 1966 Pamme Brewer, a female U of F student, had been expelled for photos she posed for completely naked. The Florida controversies are just several of the incidents explored in my ebook on the subject of ...