Graphic novels aren’t just for superheroes! Anne Frank has been plucked from history books and her life and accomplishments have been depicted in informative nonfiction graphic novels. The subject's birth, childhood, education, and holocaust experience have been skillfully told with detailed art. Further reading lists, timelines, glossaries, and indexes make these titles useful in classroom discussion.

Young readers will travel back in time and be there for famous world events! History comes alive with these nonfiction graphic novels and will help readers imagine what it was like when these world-changing events took place. Perfect for reluctant readers

'Äú50 Westerns 'Äì The Best Cowboy Adventures, Rider Trails, Stories of Outlaws & Battles with Indians'Äù is a compelling anthology that captures the vast landscape of the American frontier with remarkable diversity and depth. This collection traverses the dusty trails and tumultuous histories that define the Western genre, featuring tales of courage, resilience, and the complex interactions between settlers and Indigenous cultures. The anthology's breadth is underscored by standout storie...

Learning to program in assembly language is an excellent hands-on introduction to computer architecture. However, assembly language has a bad reputation of being difficult to learn. Through the use of complete program examples, flow diagrams, and color codes, Assembly Language Coding in Color helps students and computer enthusiasts start on a solid path to understanding computer architecture.This tutorial introduces the novice to the basics of the ARM and NEON archit...

Values are inescapable. They pervade and shape our psychology, our agency, and our lives as reflective and self-knowing subjects. This book explores the crucial ways in which values figure within reflection and thereby shape our theoretical and practical lives, against the backdrop of an expressivist moral psychology that is sensitive to the vicissitudes of valuing. Combining a discussion of the role that values play within reflection with a critique of a range of influential contemporary ...

In 2011, prize-winning fiction writer Robert Dunn read a review of a new Fuji single-lens-reflex camera, and something clicked. Later that day, although the then-new Fuji X100 was as hard to get as the latest iPhone, he’d tracked one down. The next day he went out shooting photos for the first time since a brief dalliance with a cheap Nikon decades earlier.Little did Dunn know his life had changed. He’d always loved photography, and now he took his new camera with him everywhere he...

50 WESTERNS (Vol. 2) surveys the western as a capacious literary terrain where frontier adventure, romance, detective intrigue, humor, historical reconstruction, and speculative invention converge. Its selections range from terse tales of pursuit and violence to expansive narratives of settlement, cattle-country labor, outlawry, and contested belonging. By placing canonical frontier mythmaking beside popular fiction and less frequently foregrounded perspectives, the volume reveals the West...

Maureen Johnson, the somewhat irregular mother of Lazarus Long, wakes up in bed with a man and a cat. The cat is Pixel, well-known to fans of the New York Times bestseller The Cat Who Walks through Walls. The man is a stranger to her, and besides that, he is dead.So begins Robert A. Heinlein’s To Sail beyond the Sunset. Filled with the master’s most beloved characters, this compelling work broadens and enriches his epic vision of time and space, life and ...

Embark on a literary journey with "50 WESTERNS (Vol. 2)," a captivating anthology that traverses the multifaceted landscapes of the American frontier through an eclectic array of narratives. Assembled with a rich variety of literary styles, from the iconic cowboy tales to the introspective narratives of the wilderness, this collection captures the mythos and realities of the Wild West. The anthology presents a dazzling tapestry of adventure, frontier justice, and the timeless struggle betw...

The Mysteries of Light is an original literary meditation on the significance and meaning of photobooks. Written by a photographer and novelist, the book brings a strong new light to the photobook phenomenon.It’s a mix of personal stories and examinations of such great artists as Robert Frank, Daido Moriyama, Saul Leiter, Alec Soth, Masahisa Fukase, and Christer Strömholm, as well as newcomers Daisuke Yokota, Laura El-Tantawy, and Jason Eskenazi.The Mysteries of Light is pe...

After the Japanese attack on our fleet at Pearl Harbor, troops, guns and planes are strategically placed and many anti-aircraft installations are camouflaged along our West Coast. Jim Tong and his ten-man Long Beach Vice Squad face a much friendlier invasion. One aircraft carrier can bring over a thousand sailors into port. Many find their way to the saloons and rides along the Pike. Most are looking for a good time and maybe a brief romance.

Other than dealing with lingering anger from clients who lost money in ill-conceived real estate ventures, investment advisor Joe Harper is leading a reasonably quite life. Everything changes when the accountant of a murdered real estate promoter drops a load of cash and a key to a safety deposit box onto his conference room table.When a beautiful, Newport Beach attorney arranges a mixed doubles tennis match with him at the tennis club he can't believe his good luck. Waking in the middle of t...