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You need some Wonder Woman in your life! Fighting for our rights! Through the years Wonder Woman has shown us to be proud of who we truly are. To stand joyfully for principles that form our very hearts and who we want to be. To take a moment before using violence to solve a problem, and instead come up with a healing, win-win solution. Now let lifelong WW fan Carol Strickland show you how she came to do that: how the character was concocted, how she was presented as a full-blown feminist in a comics world that was very much not so. Discover: - That spectacular Wonder costume and how it's changed - Is there really a need for perma-boyfriend Steve Trevor? - WW's younger sister, Donna Troy - Her most overused (yawn) villain - Does eighty-year-old Wondie still hold a place in the 21st century? Smash the patriarchy! Wonder Woman will save the world! Join her in her cause and buy now! "An exuberant manifesto about the Amazon's meaning and depiction." -BookLife Reviews
A crash course in the history of architecture.
Famed for her stirring "Leda and the Swan" performance in the Imperial Palaces, a beautiful dancer changes the course of history. The soldier and the swan dancer join on a treacherous path to power that leads all the way to the throne. The events that ensue, amid the struggles and politics of a society in flux, leave a city in ruins.
Presents the history of art from prehistoric times to the present day, describes major artists and movements, and details the influence of art on society through the ages.
Like music, art is a universal language. Although looking at works of art is a pleasurable enough experience, to appreciate them fully requires certain skills and knowledge." --Carol Strickland, from the introduction to The Annotated Mona Lisa: A Crash Course in Art History from Prehistoric to Post-Modern * This heavily illustrated crash course in art history is revised and updated. This second edition of Carol Strickland's The Annotated Mona Lisa: A Crash Course in Art History from Prehistoric to Post-Modern offers an illustrated tutorial of prehistoric to post-modern art from cave paintings to video art installations to digital and Internet media. * Featuring succinct page-length essays, instructive sidebars, and more than 300 photographs, The Annotated Mona Lisa: A Crash Course in Art History from Prehistoric to Post-Modern takes art history out of the realm of dreary textbooks, demystifies jargon and theory, and makes art accessible-even at a cursory reading. * From Stonehenge to the Guggenheim and from Holbein to Warhol, more than 25,000 years of art is distilled into five sections covering a little more than 200 pages.
Professors, students, and anyone who loves to read will want this fascinating and attractive volume. Beginning with great works from Antiquity to the Middle Ages, this literary timeline gallops from Mesopotamian pictograms and Julius Caesar’s Commentaries on the Gallic to Renaissance and Baroque masterworks by Machiavelli and Moli�re, and on to modernism. Along the way, it presents the birth of the novel, Gothic chills, Thomas Paine’s rabble-rousing, as well as landmark French and Russian authors, Emerson’s essays, and the first detective story by Poe. Victoriana, the Aesthetic Movement, Utopian Literature, and Naturalism make their appearance, all the way up to today’s Tom Stoppard and Tony Kushner. There’s a detailed introduction, plus color-coding to show whether a work is poetry, fiction, non-fiction, or drama.
Kidnapped to the far side of galactic nowhere! One day Tam is waitressing at a neighborhood tavern and taking community college classes in firefighting. The next… Well, months later when she finally gets her sight and hearing back, after waking up in a hospital… She’s living on a county-sized space station, one of the few humans in a community made up of giant, sapient lizards and birds. Her next-door neighbor is a MUTANT giant, sapient lizard. Her new Station Safeties supervisor doesn’t think a mere mammal can handle the job. And her boyfriend wants her to help with illegal drug running. What’s a girl to do? Except keep her new eyes and ears open to find the bastard who stranded her here and knows the way home…
Mind Control: The preferred weapon of the powerful Yanist-Glory Empire. There’s never been a tactic to counter it… until now. Psychic Lina Starhart, new bride of famous interstellar paraheroes Valiant and Neutrino, has devised the solution. Now she must find a way to teach the secret to the Affiliated Systems before the Empire can stop her. Can Lina, her husbands, and the celebrated AffSys Megaforce Legion they belong to survive grisly attacks long enough to spread the desperately needed information?
A crash course in the history of architecture.
A comprehensive, student-centered reading and study guide instructors and students can use in a college success course.