This fantasy manga series for mature readers is perfect for fans of Monster Girl Encyclopedia. An unflinching, darkly funny, and deeply moving story of a boy, his seriously ill mother, and an unexpected monstrous visitor. At seven minutes past midnight, thirteen-year-old Conor wakes to find a monster outside his bedroom window. The monster in his backyard is different. And wild. And it wants something from Conor. Something terrible and dangerous.
It wants the truth. From the final idea of award-winning author Siobhan Dowd-- whose premature death from cancer prevented her from writing it herself-- Patrick Ness has spun a haunting and darkly funny novel of mischief, loss, and monsters both real and imagined.
Fans of the genre-defining series, Monster Musume, can now display their favorites using this creative book of paper crafts. Never before released anywhere in the world, Monster Musume: Monster Girl Papercraft contains a dozen different designs ready to be cut out and built.
The cute designs and simple instructions make this a collectible for Monster Musume fans and casual crafters alike. Featuring monster girls competing in the squared circle, a young half-Cerberus named Tirol dreams of becoming a pro monster wrestler herself! But will she ever debut in the big leagues when she's had fifteen straight losses? An essay about Horrible Histories explores television, genre, and the way history is coded. Other contributions explore how teaching literature to reluctant readers can be effective through multimodal texts and how Harry Potter has played a role in the popularity of young adult literature for adult readers.
This two-volume set provides a comprehensive guide to the vast array of feminine divine figures found throughout the world. A fascinating exploration of the relationship between American culture and music as defined by musicians, scholars, and critics from around the world. This new edition of the most comprehensive A-Z e-guide to DC's pantheon of Super Heroes and Super-Villains includes the latest earth-shaking developments in the DC Multiverse, with profiles of more than 1, characters.
Created in full collaboration with DC, the encyclopedia features characters and art from every key crossover event, including Dark Nights: Metal and its sequel Dark Nights: Death Metal. With a foreword by DC legend Jim Lee, a brand-new cover design, and thrilling comic artwork, the fun and excitement of more than 80 years of comics history explodes off every page.
Entertainment Inc. Monsters figure prominently in classic works of literature as well as in films and stories intended for a wide audience. Since Darwin's time, most of these imaginary beasts have taken the form of natural creatures, rather than supernatural ones.
This volume explores both literary and cinematic texts that are especially explicit in their depiction of beasts in Darwinian terms, though these same monsters retain an archaic mythological aspect.
The myth of Leviathan and Behemoth, for instance, is at the heart of Jaws as much as it is central to Moby-Dick; indeed, Jaws inherits the myth directly from Moby-Dick, as does King Kong. These and other monster tales keep the myth alive by retelling it in the context of biological and cultural evolution.
There is a pattern of alternating bestialization and anthropomorphism in many monster tales, suggesting that these images are being displayed in repeated attempts to define who we are in relation to animals. As fables of identity, these tales dramatize our anxieties and fears concerning our own animal nature and help us come to terms with our own evolution. The first edition of ELL , Ron Asher, Editor was hailed as "the field's standard reference work for a generation".
Now the all-new second edition matches ELL's comprehensiveness and high quality, expanded for a new generation, while being the first encyclopedia to really exploit the multimedia potential of linguistics. For more information, pricing options and availability visit www.
The most authoritative, up-to-date, comprehensive, and international reference source in its field. An annotated world theatre bibliography documenting significant theatre materials published world wide since , plus an index to key names throughout the six volumes of the series. Spanning the decades from the s onward it examines the work of producers and directors as varied as George A. The central aim of this encyclopedia is to give the reader a comparative perspective on issues involving conceptions of gender, gender differences, gender roles, relationships between the genders, and sexuality.
The encyclopedia is divided into two volumes: Topics and Cultures. The combination of topical overviews and varying cultural portraits is what makes this encyclopedia a unique reference work for students, researchers and teachers interested in gender studies and cross-cultural variation in sex and gender. It deserves a place in the library of every university and every social science and health department. Contents:- Glossary. Cultural Conceptions of Gender.
Gender Roles, Status, and Institutions. Sexuality and Male-Female Interaction. Sex and Gender in the World's Cultures. Culture Name Index. Subject Index. With more gold albums than any other American band, they were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in
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