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In its exploration of puppetry and animation as the performative media of choice for mastering the art of illusion, To Embody the Marvelous engages with early modern notions of wonder in religious, artistic, and social contexts.
From jointed, wood-carved figures of Christ, saintly marionettes that performed hagiographical dramas, experimental puppets and automata in Cervantes' Don Quixote, and the mechanical sets around which playwright Calderón...
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In Marvels of Creation these holy Dominican writes beautifully and profoundly, so that we might see the wonders that God has put in plain sight and give glory to Him for them. Here is great spiritual fruit that has nourished the greatest saints for centuries, and now will sustain you in prayerful reflection and wonder of all that God created in His perfect and awesome design.
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Deadpool Kills The Marvel Universe volume 1
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The writer and artist of the original slaughterfest reunite! Prepare for an all-new, all-different tale of death and destruction starring the Merc With A Mouth! You won't believe your eyes when Deadpool kills the entire Marvel Universe...again!
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Travel through time and space with Morgan, a young woman caught between two worlds. In a future where magic and technology are one, the social classes are sharply divided. Noble classes have access to the power of arcana. While lower classes must make do with enchanted technology. But an attack on the planet sets Morgan on a dangerous path. She finds herself questioning the very foundations of this society.
From the mythical past of King Arthur and...
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Gwendolyn Gray volume 1
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"Gwendolyn evades thought police, enters a whimsical world, befriends world-jumping explorers and ragtag airship pirates, and fights the evil threatening to erase the new world she loves and her old world that never wanted her"--
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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2014.
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"Why is glass see-through? What makes elastic stretchy? Why does a paperclip bend? Why does any material look and behave the way it does?With clarity and humor, world-leading materials scientist Mark Miodownik answers all the questions you've ever had about your pens, spoons, and razor blades, while also introducing a whole world full of materials you've never even heard of: the diamond five times the size of Earth; concrete cloth that can be molded...
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The Great Courses
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2015.
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Look around you. Great masterpieces of engineering are everywhere. As soon as you get out of bed in the morning, you are putting centuries of scientific and mechanical ingenuity to use. So familiar are these structures, inventions, and services that they are all but invisible. Yet they are just as remarkable as great works such as the Parthenon, the Eiffel Tower, and the Panama Canal. Consider for a moment the wonders of these marvels that have likely...
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Black Widow and the Marvel Girls volume 1
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She's the most efficient spy in the world and one of the world's deadliest women, but before there was ever a Black Widow, there was the Red Room, a brutal KGB training ground for assassins, undercover agents, and the most ruthless of spies. Now, tasked with removing a rogue weapon's dealer from an impregnable safe house, the Black Widow remembers her escape from the Red Room training facility, an escape only made possible with the aid of the most...
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The sequel to The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, set shortly after the events in the first book A fantastical tale of endless imagination, this story follows the adventures of a young boy named Tip, who, for as long as he can remember has been under the guardianship of a witch named Mombi in the Land of Oz. One night he plans his escape to the Emerald City, stealing Mombi's powder of life. Along the way he meets with our old friends the Scarecrow and Tin...
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"Step into the wardrobe of The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, the Golden Globe and Emmy Award-winning series from Amazon Prime Video set in the late 1950s about a young Manhattan housewife whose life taken an unexpected turn when she discovers she has a gift for stand-up comedy. Costume designer Donna Zakowska reveals her early sketches, fitting photos, and finished costumes in this survey of spectacular looks from the show's initial seasons. Explore the...
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Micah and Jordan cover perhaps the most mainstream franchise out there, the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Starting with the first phase of the MCU, they revisit these six movies and discuss their first encounters with them when they originally released, their thoughts on them today, and dig into the production and actors of each film. They discover Captain American might not be as unwatchable as they originally thought, The Avengers is still fun on a...
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How to Read Comics the Marvel Way volume 1
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Also collects Ms. Marvel (2014) #1, Ultimate Comics Spider-Man #1, Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur #1 And Spidey #1. Presenting a universal gateway into the House of Ideas! Comic books can sometimes be like a foreign language to the uninitiated - with their own unique storytelling tools, visual shorthand and narrative conventions. Many clever cartoonists and scribes have shared their theories on the grammar of comics, but it's never been done in the...
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The McCaw Podcast Universe takes on the Marvel Cinematic Universe in its fourth phase! We have director Sam Raimi for Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness! We have the Green Goblin in Spider-Man: No Way Home! The MCU introduces new characters in this phase as well, like the Eternals and Shang-Chi. Micah and Jordan have much to cover with these new characters, as well as revisit favorites that have been around since phase one, like Thor. They...
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Harbor Cove volume 1
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Forever
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2022.
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"Gabby Monroe knows that she's lucky to have such a close relationship with her sisters. As the middle sister, she feels like she's the glue that holds the three of them together. But lately, they have seemed to be drifting apart. So when Gabby asks Margaret and Emma to join her in digging through the attic of her grandmother's house, looking for their mother's wedding dress to display at her dress shop, she has an ulterior motive. But she gets more...
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When Katie's parents got divorced last year, things were tough.
Now summer vacation promises trips to the farm, new baby kittens, and treehouse sleepovers, not to mention letters from Uncle Edmond, currently in a hot air balloon race around Africa! But everything changes when Katie's dad asks her to spend a whole month at his house in Minneapolis, and her mom goes on a date!
As things unravel, Katie relies more and more on her amazing imagination...
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Penguin Press
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2021.
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"The first-ever full reckoning with Marvel Comics' interconnected, half-million-page story, a revelatory guide to the "epic of epics"--and to the past 60 years of American culture--from a beloved authority on the subject who read all 27,000+ Marvel superhero comics and lived to tell the tale. The superhero comic books that Marvel Comics has published since 1961 are, Douglas Wolk notes, the longest continuous, self-contained work of fiction ever created:...
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Collects Amazing Spider-Man (1963) #16, Annual #2-3; Strange Tales Annual #2; Avengers (1963) #11; Daredevil (1964) #16-17, 27; X-Men (1963) #35; Fantastic Four (1961) #73 and material from Amazing Spider-Man (1963) #1, 8, 14; Fantastic Four Annual #1; Tales to Astonish (1959) #57. Celebrate 80 years of Marvel Comics, decade by decade - and see how Spider-Man became an icon of the (Web) Swinging Sixties! The ever-sociable wallcrawler helped build...
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