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  Gratitiude - The Adventures of...

  Magdalena Gruca

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  Do you know what a Gratitude List is? Fenek’s grandma will be happy to explain everything about it not just to her grandson, but to all the readers!Thanks to this book, your child will:learn the meaning of another emotion – gratitude;realise that there are many things s/he should be happy about and grateful for;understand that s/he should not complain so much, as there are people in the world who lack the things they need to live, and we can help these people. The Adventures of Fenek - Books for younger children 
  Thematic series that respond to the needs of pre-school and kindergarten teachers, parents, and psychologists. 20-page brochures are published in series of four books each, and they are all thematically related.

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  Superman Is Jewish? - How Comic...

  Harry Brod

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  Zeddy Lawrence once said, "It may not be true in all cases, but it's a pretty good rule of thumb. If the word 'man' appears at the end of someone's name you can draw one of two conclusions: a) they're Jewish, as in Goldman, Feldman, or Lipman; or b) they're a superhero, as in Superman, Batman, or Spider-Man."In Superman Is Jewish? Harry Brod reveals the links between Jews and superheroes in a penetrating investigation of iconic comic book figures. He describes how the role of each hero reflects the evolution of the Jewish place in American culture—an alien in a foreign land, like Superman; a figure plagued by guilt for not having saved his family, like Spider-Man; outsiders persecuted for being different (X-Men); a nice, smart guy afraid people won't like him when he's angry (the Hulk). Brod blends humor and sharp observation as he considers these well-known figures' overtly and discreetly Jewish characteristics and talks about how their creators—including Jerry Siegel, Joe Shuster, Stan Lee, and Jack Kirby—integrated their Jewish identities and their creativity. His lively guided tour takes us from the Passover Haggadah's exciting action scenes of Moses's superpowers to acclaimed Pulitzer Prize winners and overseas animators.Brod has written and lectured extensively on this fun and provocative topic and through his expertise explores the deeper story of how one immigrant group can influence the larger culture through entertainment and, in the process, see itself in new, more empowering ways. Not just for comic book fans, Superman Is Jewish? is a story of America, and is as poignant as it is fascinating.

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  Introducing Stephen Hawking - A...

  J.P. McEvoy

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  'An ideal introduction [to Stephen Hawking]' - Independent
  'Astonishingly comprehensive - clearer than Hawking himself' - Focus
  
  Stephen Hawking was a world-famous physicist with a cameo in The Simpsons on his CV, but outside of his academic field his work was little understood. To the public he was a tragic figure - a brilliant scientist and author of the 9 million-copy-selling A Brief History of Time, and yet spent the majority of his life confined to a wheelchair and almost completely paralysed.
  
  Hawking's major contribution to science was to integrate the two great theories of 20th-century physics: Einstein's General Theory of Relativity and Quantum Mechanics.
  
  J.P. McEvoy and Oscar Zarate's brilliant graphic guide explores Hawking's life, the evolution of his work from his days as a student, and his breathtaking discoveries about where these fundamental laws break down or overlap, such as on the edge of a Black Hole or at the origin of the Universe itself.

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  Political Gumbo

  Walt Handelsman

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  A sharp-witted, wide-ranging collection from Walt Handelsman, two-time Pulitzer Prize winner for Editorial Cartooning. Walt Handelsman’s nationally syndicated editorial cartoons have touched on international issues, nationwide events, and a few points of local interest to Louisiana, and this gallery of his work is both pointed and poignant. He has covered world dramas from Somalia to the Gulf War to Bosnia to Tiananmen Square with incredible depth in a single frame, and his humor shines through his commentary on presidential administrations and a seemingly unending supply of topics, like health care, race relations, tax reform, term limits, and, of course, campaigns. And his caricatures of Louisiana notables like Governor Edwin Edwards and the ever-controversial David Duke have made it to op-ed pages far beyond the state.  This collection showcases the insightful comic sensibility and style that have earned him, in addition to his Pulitzers, two Headliner’s Club Awards, a Society of Professional Journalist’s Award, and a Scripps Howard National Journalism Award.

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  Hellboy: The Lost Army

  Christopher Golden

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  In 525 B.C., the Persian king Cambyses sent fifty-thousand soldiers across the conquered Egyptian desert to take an oasis city not far from where the Libyan border stands today. 
  
  According to Greek history, a hurricane-force sandstorm struck near the end of their six-hundred-mile trek. The army—all fifty thousand men—vanished without a single trace. Fast forward to 1986. A British archaeological team, sent to the edge of the Great Sand Sea to exhume evidence of the incident, has also gone missing. So the Bureau for Paranormal Research and Defense is sending the world's greatest paranormal investigator, Hellboy, to find the missing Brits and to discover what became of The Lost Army.

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  How About Never—Is Never Good...

  Bob Mankoff

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  New York Times Bestseller: “A memoir [and] an enormous window into the mystery and alchemy behind the creation and selection of New Yorker cartoons.” —The Washington Post 
   
  Hi, this is me, Bob Mankoff. And this is my memoir. In it I’ll usher you into the hallowed halls of the New Yorker (Shhh! Quiet, you’ll upset the fact checkers) to show you the soup-to-nuts process of cartoon creation, giving you a detailed look not only at my own work, but that of the artists who keep you laughing every week, except, of course, when they don’t, puzzling you with a cartoon that you “don’t get” and then you shoot me an email asking me to explain it. Well, you can stop the shooting. You’re holding the solution to those cartoon puzzlers in your hands (it’s in chapter nine). 
   
  What else? Oh goodness, self-effacing, humble me has left out the personal part, the essential me-ness part, forged in 1950s Queens, New York, where I became a wisecracking Jewish kid who mimicked Jerry Lewis, did funny drawings, and turned my mother’s Yiddishisms into American humor, leading straight to a career as a successful cartoonist and cartoon editor of the New Yorker. Nah, that’s not the way it happened. You’ll need to read the book to find out how it really went down. 
   
  “Fascinating, forthright, and funny . . . Mankoff also writes with first-hand knowledge about the topic of laughter itself. He dares to ask the question, ‘What makes something funny?’, and answers it with intelligence, originality, and, of course, humor.” —Roz Chast, #1 New York Times–bestselling author of Can’t We Talk About Something More Pleasant? 
   
  “Not just a charming memoir but also a charming grab bag of cartoon history, cartoon theory (nothing too woolly), and shop talk.” —The New York Times Book Review 
   
  “Serves up not only a mini-collection of great cartoons but also a look at the shift in styles through the editorships of legendary William Shawn, Tina Brown, and current editor David Remnick. Mankoff also provides a very funny and insightful look at how to win the New Yorker caption contest.” —Publishers Weekly

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