MINISERIES PREMIERE From SEAN LEWIS (KING SPAWN) comes a blood-splattered story of conquest. Bears. Pirates. Vikings. And Queens—all battling for their claim to determine what the world will become. Rendered in stunning watercolor by artist JONATHAN MARKS BARRAVECCHIA, it's a gorgeous story of the blood spilled to make countries. And what's cooler than bears, pirates, vikings, and queens??? With 72 stunning pages, it's sure to be one of the most beautiful and thought-provoking books of the...

Issue Nº17: Winter 2022 featuresA curated collection of short fiction including stories by Edgar and ITW Thriller Award nominee Laura Benedict, Margaret Randall, Lee Matthew Goldberg, Bob Chikos, Caroline Taylor, Mark Jonathan Harris, Scott Cumming, and Dana King.Interviews and Reviews by Joe R. Lansdale, J. B. Stevens, and Jeffrey A. Lockwood.Art and Photography by Wiesje Peels, Trijntje Keijser, and Dimitar Karanikolov.This issue also features a preview of...

The groundbreaking three-issue miniseries is collected in its entirety. A tale of the sea, of Pirates, Vikings, Queens, and bears, we follow each as they war with each other and try to assert dominance over the past and future of our world. Written by bestselling creator SEAN LEWIS KING SPAWN , ABOVE SNAKES ), and with mind-blowing hand-painted art by newcomer JONATHAN MARKS BARRAVECCHIA, the book is unlike anything you've read. Beautiful, poignant, and daring—a fever dream unlike any comi...

The Viking has taken control of the boat, and through the tempest, he heads to England. It's a land he has ancient history with, and a land whose queen is dressing for war with him. With the Bear, he stalks its streets destroying British soldiers. Until he finds a home—and a whole other story to take out on the British flag.

MINISERIES FINALE **THE END OF THE ROAD. ** The incredible and formdefining miniseries comes to a close. As the Viking and Queen finally go to war, the Bear's true purpose emerges.

This book presents the proceedings of the Third IMA Conference on Mathematics of Robotics, held in Manchester in September 2025. It brings together a diverse collection of contributions that reflect the increasing role of mathematics in addressing fundamental problems in robotics.This book covers a wide range of methods including algebraic geometry, control theory, numerical optimisation, and topological data analysis, applied to topics such as kinematics, motion planning, soft rob...

No two people are the same, and no two groups of people are the same. But what kinds of differences are there, and what do they mean? What does our DNA say about race, gender, equality, or ancestry? Drawing on the latest discoveries in anthropology and human genetics, Understanding Human Diversity looks at scientific realities and pseudoscientific myths about the patterns of diversity in our species, challenging common misconceptions about genetics, race, and evolution and their role in sh...

Every arena of science has its own flash-point issues—chemistry and poison gas, physics and the atom bomb—and genetics has had a troubled history with race. As Jonathan Marks reveals, this dangerous relationship rumbles on to this day, still leaving plenty of leeway for a belief in the basic natural inequality of races.The eugenic science of the early twentieth century and the commodified genomic science of today are unified by the mistaken belief that human races are naturalistic ...

The evidence for the ancestry of the human species among the apes is overwhelming. But the facts are never “just” facts. Human evolution has always been a value-laden scientific theory and, as anthropology makes clear, the ancestors are always sacred. They may be ghosts, or corpses, or fossils, or a naked couple in a garden, but the idea that you are part of a lineage is a powerful and universal one. Meaning and morals are at play, which most certainly transcend science and its quest for m...

A conservative college professor's compelling defense of liberal educationNot so long ago, conservative intellectuals such as William F. Buckley Jr. believed universities were worth fighting for. Today, conservatives seem more inclined to burn them down. In Let's Be Reasonable, conservative political theorist and professor Jonathan Marks finds in liberal education an antidote to this despair, arguing that the true purpose of college is to encourage people ...

Celebrated sex expert and bestselling author Dr. Ruth Westheimer bridges the gap between sex and religion in this provocative exploration of intimacy in the Jewish faithIn this light-hearted, lively tour of Jewish sexuality, Dr. Ruth K. Westheimer and Jonathan Mark team up to reveal how the Jewish tradition is much more progressive than popular wisdom might lead one to believe.Applying Dr. Ruth’s acclaimed brand of couples therapy to such Biblical relations...

What do we think about when we think about human evolution? With his characteristic wit and wisdom, anthropologist Jonathan Marks explores our scientific narrative of human origins—the study of evolution—and examines its cultural elements and theoretical foundations. In the process, he situates human evolution within a general anthropological framework and presents it as a special case of kinship and mythology.Tales of the Ex-Apes argues that human evolution has incorporat...