After Steven George met and mastered his dragon, he and Madam Selah Welinska traveled together for seven years as he continued to trade Once Upon a Time stories with those he met. Now the King has summoned Steven and Selah has declined to accompany him. The Principality of Rich Reach has been beset by a Terror! No one knows what it is or where it is located, so the King has summoned Steven to find and master his terror as he did his dragon. What is Steven to do, but what he has always done...

Following the award-winning bestseller They Called Us Enemy, George Takei’s new full-color graphic memoir reveals his most personal story of all—told in full for the first time anywhere! George Takei has shown the world many faces: actor, author, outspoken activist, helmsman of the starship Enterprise, living witness to the internment of Japanese Americans, and king of social media. But until October 27, 2005, there was always one piece missing—one face he did not show the world. There was...

George Takei has captured hearts and minds worldwide with his captivating stage presence and outspoken commitment to equal rights. But long before he braved new frontiers in Star Trek, he woke up as a four-year-old boy to find his own birth country at war with his father’s—and their entire family forced from their home into an uncertain future. In a stunning graphic memoir, Takei revisits his haunting childhood in American concentration camps, as one of over 100,000 Japanese Americans impr...

George Eliot publiceerde al in 1871 een van de mooiste en ontroerendste romans aller tijden over de Engelse middenklasse. In Middlemarch vertelt ze de verhalen van haar romanfiguren in een (niet-bestaande) provinciestad met zoveel liefde voor details dat elk van hen werkelijk tot leven komt. We leren ze allemaal van dichtbij kennen, met hun eigenaardigheden en idealen en verwachtingen. Hun individualiteit komt tot uiting in hun persoonlijke taalgebruik en beeldspraak. Zo ontstaat er een li...

Unceded is a compelling history of the BC government’s relationship with Indigenous peoples, from early "land question" disputes to current reconciliation efforts. Treaty commissioner George M. Abbott combines archival research with a former cabinet minister’s insider perspective on government to chronicle over 150 years of BC-Indigenous relations. He details how early government officials refused to negotiate treaties, instead coercing First Nations onto small reserves. Despite s...

ONE OF THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER'S 100 GREATEST FILM BOOKS OF ALL TIME • A rich companion volume to George Stevens, Jr.’s much admired book of American Film Institute seminars with the pioneering moviemakers of Hollywood's Golden Age, this time with a focus on filmmakers of the 1950s to present day.The Next Generation brings together conversations with moviemakers at work from the 1950s—during the studios’ decline—to today’s Hollywood. Directors, pro...

In "A Lecture On Heads," George Alexander Stevens employs a unique blend of wit, satire, and social commentary to dissect the human condition through the lens of caricature. This alluring work, first published in the 18th century, presents an innovative examination of societal norms and foibles through the art of portraiture and exaggerated representations. Written in an engaging and conversational style, Stevens uses humor to challenge contemporary attitudes toward class, morality, and pe...

Animal Farm is an allegorical novella by George Orwell, first published in England on 17 August 1945. The book tells the story of a group of farm animals who rebel against their human farmer, hoping to create a society where the animals can be equal, free, and happy.Ultimately, however, the rebellion is betrayed, and the farm ends up in a state as bad as it was before, under the dictatorship of a pig named Napoleon.According to Orwell, the fable reflects events leading up t...

"American Hardcore sets the record straight about the last great American subculture"-Paper magazineSteven Blush's "definitive treatment of Hardcore Punk" (Los Angeles Times) changed the way we look at Punk Rock. The Sony Picture Classicsdistributed documentary American Hardcore premiered at the 2006 Sundance Film Festival. This revised and expanded second edition contains hundreds of new bands, thirty new interviews, flyers, a new chapter ("Des...

The book prescribes the risks and importance of trust in any relationship - be it at workplaces, business, organizations, families or even mere incidental interactions between people. It provides guidelines on how to get over trust issues and how to build trust again in cases of broken trust situations. It explores mechanics of trust, trigger motives and telltale signs that someone is or not keeping his or her word. The book shares in details a bulletproof plan on how to let go of the past...

How do we learn to see God at work in our lives today?Sometimes it starts with learning to recognize what some call God-Incidences - those moments, both miraculous and mundane, where providence quietly makes itself known.As anxiety around family planning continues to rise, the dreams of young couples can feel both costly and fragile. The longing for a child is one of the most intimate hopes a person can carry - and one of the most painful to surrender. In h...

ONE OF THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER'S 100 GREATEST FILM BOOKS OF ALL TIME • The first book to bring together interviews of master moviemakers from the American Film Institute’s renowned seminars, Conversations with the Great Moviemakers, offers an unmatched history of American cinema in the words of its greatest practitioners.Here are the incomparable directors Frank Capra, Elia Kazan, King Vidor, David Lean, Fritz Lang (“I learned only from bad films”)...