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Considered one of Sweden's greatest 20th-century writers, Vilhelm Moberg created Karl Oskar and Kristina Nilsson to portray the joys and tragedies of daily life for early Swedish pioneers in America. His consistently faithful depiction of these humble people's lives is a major strength of the Emigrant Novels. Moberg's extensive research in the papers of Swedish emigrants in archival collections, including the Minnesota Historical Society, enabled...
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Edgar Rice Burrough's Tarzan volume 207
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Tarzan tales from a storytelling master!This huge archival collection-featuring several Tarzan essays and original page layouts by Joe Kubert, along with collaborations with Russ Heath and Frank Thorne-is a must-have for fans of timeless adventure tales and Kubert's undeniable intensity and skill.
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A history and analysis of the United States' involvement in the deposition of Guatemalan President Jacobo Árbenz and the consequences.
Using documents obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, recently opened archival collections, and interviews with the actual participants, Immerman provides us with a definitive, powerfully written, and tension-packed account of the United States' clandestine operations in Guatemala and their consequences...
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"Considered one of Sweden's greatest 20th-century writers, Vilhelm Moberg created Karl Oskar and Kristina Nilsson to portray the joys and tragedies of daily life for early Swedish pioneers in America. His consistently faithful depiction of these humble people's lives is a major strength of the Emigrant Novels. Moberg's extensive research in the papers of Swedish emigrants in archival collections, including the Minnesota Historical Society, enabled...
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"Considered one of Sweden's greatest 20th-century writers, Vilhelm Moberg created Karl Oskar and Kristina Nilsson to portray the joys and tragedies of daily life for early Swedish pioneers in America. His consistently faithful depiction of these humble people's lives is a major strength of the Emigrant Novels. Moberg's extensive research in the papers of Swedish emigrants in archival collections, including the Minnesota Historical Society, enabled...
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Nightbreed volume 1
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Explore horror master Clive Barker's '90s cult-classic Nightbreed series like never before in this comprehensive hardcover archive collection. Features the adaptation of Clive Barker's original screenplay; year 1 of the original '90s Nightbreed Epic comic run; and the Hellraiser/Nightbreed crossover, all remastered and collected for the first time. First appearing in the cult classic 1990 film, the Nightbreed is a tribe of monsters and outcasts who...
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In Omaha, an evening stroll can provide passage into a fascinating past. Travel from a madam's elaborate grave in North Omaha to the site of the first U.S. airmail flight in Aksarben. Chase down the echoes of a Duke Ellington performance at the Dreamland Ballroom in the Jewell Building. Stow away on a tour that treats the whole city like a museum. Colorful street murals and Gilded Age mansions stand in as exhibits alongside the more traditional offerings...
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Considered one of Sweden's greatest 20th-century writers, Vilhelm Moberg created Karl Oskar and Kristina Nilsson to portray the joys and tragedies of daily life for early Swedish pioneers in America. His consistently faithful depiction of these humble people's lives is a major strength of the Emigrant Novels.Moberg's extensive research in the papers of Swedish emigrants in archival collections, including the Minnesota Historical Society, enabled him...
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Crime Does Not Pay Archives volume 22
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Uncut and uncensored, the infamous precode Crime Does Not Pay comics are finally collected into a series of archival collections! With brutal, realistic tales focusing on vile criminals, Crime Does Not Pay was one of the most popular comics of the 1940s. The series was a favorite target of Dr. Fredric Wertham and other censors and is partially responsible for the creation of the stifling Comics Code Authority. Now revered and mythic, this collection...
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Vampirella Archives volume 104
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What terrors lurk within the final volume of the Vampirella Archives? The incomparable horror hostess offers you a guided tour of the Warren Publishing library, presenting the era's greatest anthology of horror and science fiction by such comic's luminaries as Bill DuBay, Gonzalo Mayo, Rich Margopoulos, Jose Gonzalez, Luis Bermejo, Nicola Cuti, Bruce Jones, and many more. This edition of Vampirella Archives collects Vampirella Magazine #104-112, and...
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Mary Schäffer was a photographer, writer, botanical painter, and mapmaker from Philadelphia, well known for her travels in the Canadian Rockies and Jasper at the turn of the twentieth century. In Searching for Mary Schäffer, Colleen Skidmore takes up Schäffer's own resonant themes-women and wilderness, travel and science-to ask new questions, tell new stories, and reassess the persona of Mary Schäffer imagined in more recent times. Public and...
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Creepy Archives volume 51
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Dark Horse''s award-winning Creepy Archives hardcover series roars through the 1970s with a batch of classic horror tales! Dark Horse''s latest foray into fear reprints some of Warren Publishing''s first full-color story offerings from the early seventies and features more of the unique talents that made Creepy so tantalizing and timeless. With gorgeous covers by Sanjulian and work by comic-book talents Richard Corben, Doug Moench, Budd Lewis, Tom...
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Deadworld Archives volume 5
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Before there was The Walking Dead there was Deadworld. With over 1,000,000 copies in print and over 100 comic issues and graphic novels of storytelling, Deadworld is considered by many to be the godfather of the recent zombie comic book craze. In Book Two of the nine volume series of the Deadworld Archives, collecting all the original Deadworld comic series, the teens find out that there are even greater horrors than the zombies as the grakken demon...
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Looking back over the past 75 years, there is no doubt that public transportation has played a major role in the development and maturing of Toronto and its metropolitan area. Indeed , despite the fiscal challenges facing it, the TTC today remains a transit agency with an enviable reputation. The TTC Story:The First Seventy-five Years, by Mike Filey, features over one hundred magnificent black and white images selected to illustrate the principal...
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Eerie Archives volume 1
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Slithering upon the heels of Dark Horse's archive collections of the seminal horror comics magazine Creepy comes its terror-filled cousin publication Eerie! Dark Horse Comics has taken great, gruesome care in presenting this groundbreaking material to readers who have been waiting decades to get their claws on it. Collected for fans for the first time ever, and packaged in the same amazing oversized format as its killer kin Creepy Archives, Eerie...
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Tarzan Archives The Joe Kubert Years volume 215
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A stunning, five-part adaptation of Edgar Rice Burroughs' The Return of Tarzan highlights this archival collection, which reprints Joe Kubert's Tarzan comics, issues 215 through 224. With color restoration based off of Tatjana Wood's original colors, this beautiful collection is a must-have for fans of pulse-pounding adventure tales and students of the graphic narrative. Writing, drawing, and editing a monthly Tarzan comic-book series in the...
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Creepy Archives volume 1
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Gather up your wooden stakes, your blood-covered hatchets, and all the skeletons in the darkest depths of your closet, and prepare for a horrifying adventure into the darkest corners of comics history. Dark Horse Comics further corners the market on high quality horror storytelling with one of the most anticipated releases of the decade, an archive collection of legendary Creepy Magazine. This groundbreaking material turned the world of graphic storytelling...
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Vampirella Archives volume 80
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The terror continues in the fear-fraught twelfth volume of Vampirella Archives! This collection revisits some of the finest tales of horror hostess Vampirella ever seen in the Warren Publishing library, plus a delightfully devilish selection of the era's best horror and science fiction stories. With space pirates, mermaids, bloodsuckers, and renegade wizards running amok within these pages, fearless readers will thrill to the creative talents of such...
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This compelling history of what Laura Micheletti Puaca terms "technocratic feminism" traces contemporary feminist interest in science to the World War II and early Cold War years. During a period when anxiety about America's supply of scientific personnel ran high and when open support for women's rights generated suspicion, feminist reformers routinely invoked national security rhetoric and scientific "manpower" concerns in their efforts to advance...
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Motion pictures came to Austin on October 10, 1896, debuting at the Hancock Opera House. Since then, movies have continued to enchant, entertain, and inform the citizens of the capital of Texas. And, the places-the movie houses and theaters-where people saw motion pictures played just as important a role in the moviegoing experience as the movies themselves. As the city's population grew and motion picture technology changed, so too did Austin's movie...
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