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Published in 1978, Will Eisner's revolutionary literary work A Contract With God marked the invention of the modern graphic novel. A mesmerising fictional chronicle of a universal American experience, it inspired a generation of sequential artists...

The Mexican border state of Chihuahua and its city Juarez have become internationally notorious for violence, as drug cartel battles and official corruption have colluded to produce more murders annually than in war-torn Afghanistan. Ninety-seven percent...

The story of Jim Larkin and the lockout of Dublin workers in 1913 led by William Martin Murphy, told in graphic novel form. On August 26th 1913, the trams of Dublin stopped. The Great Dublin Lockout had begun. Over the next four months, James Larkin...

What makes philosophy on the continent of Europe so different and exciting? And why does it have such a reputation for being 'difficult'?Continental philosophy was initiated amid the revolutionary ferment of the 18th century, philosophers such as Kant...

A story that brings tears to your eyes, in more ways than one. It touches you so much you it makes you want to cross your legs in sympathy - Nev Fountain, writer at Dead Ringers, author of PainkillerRob Wells has spent much of his adult life coping with...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781771135597Author Hugh D a GoldringFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Between the LinesPublisher Between the LinesWeight(grams) 249gDimensions(mm) 236mm...

Psychology is the study of our behaviour, of the ways our minds make sense of the world around us. It is a serious endeavour because we value scientific knowledge, for what it tells us about the world but also for what it reveals about our place in the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781949028645Author Garth EnnisFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Aftershock ComicsPublisher Aftershock ComicsWeight(grams) 386g

Over the course of Hunter S. Thompson's extraordinary life he was publically branded a bum, a vandal, a thief, a liar, an addict, a freak and a psychopath. Some of these epithets were true. Yet, even when compared to the most significant figures of the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780399589720Author Lauren RednissFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher Random House USA Inc

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781683901815Author Bob McLainFormat PaperbackPage Count 292Imprint Pulp Hero PressPublisher Pulp Hero PressWeight(grams) 340gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781906587116Author Jean-Luc IstinFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint DalenPublisher Dalen (Llyfrau) CyfWeight(grams) 356g

A historical novel touching on prejudice, assimilation, and anti-Semitism, this sweeping saga takes us from New York in the eighteenth century to Vienna before World War I, and finally to America during the depression and World War II.About the...

The raucous and literal fishes-out-of-water graphic novel from prolific comic artist and writer Kat Leyh, creator of the acclaimed Snapdragon and coauthor of the Eisner and GLAAD Award-winning series Lumberjanes.Fresh out of shipwreck wine, three tipsy...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781629638355Author Koni BensonFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint PM PressPublisher PM Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Jury Prize, European Design Awards 2018.Book InformationISBN 9781912408122Author Olivier KuglerFormat HardbackPage Count 80Imprint Myriad EditionsPublisher Myriad...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781551527338Author Gord HillFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Arsenal Pulp PressPublisher Arsenal Pulp Press

In the British Comic Award-winning The Motherless Oven, Scarper Lee asked: "Who the hell is Vera Pike?" In the second part of Rob Davis' trilogy, we get a chance to find out. This is Vera's story. Grave Acre is a cruel world of opportunity and control...

The Algerian War of Independence (1954-62), also known as the Algerian Revolution, was a messy and vicious conflict between France and the Algerian National Liberation Front. Waged primarily in Algeria, it severely traumatized citizens on both sides of...

First you march, then you run. From the #1 bestselling, award-winning team behind March comes the first book in their new, groundbreaking graphic novel series, Run: Book One "Run recounts the lost history of what too often follows dramatic change-the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Broken Frontier Awards: Best Graphic Nonfiction 2019.Book InformationISBN 9781912408221Author Darryl CunninghamFormat PaperbackPage Count 264Imprint Myriad...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781906814793Author John M. BurnsFormat PaperbackPage Count 48Imprint Classic Comic Store LtdPublisher Classic Comic Store Ltd

The first-ever graphic biography of Paul Robeson, Ballad of an American, charts Robeson's career as a singer, actor, scholar, athlete, and activist who achieved global fame. Through his films, concerts, and records, he became a potent symbol representing...

Typography confronts us everywhere: in books and newspapers, on road signs, product packaging and political leaflets. It is ubiquitous to the point of mundanity. But while the typeface might be secondary to the message, it remains crucial to the way we...

Bertrand Russell changed Western philosophy forever. He tackled many puzzles--how our minds work, how we experience the world, and what the true nature of meaning is. In "Introducing Bertrand Russell "we meet a passionate eccentric, active in world...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783955751821Author Gunther BuskiesFormat HardbackPage Count 128Imprint Ventil VerlagPublisher Ventil Verlag

An acerbic graphic takedown of capitalism. In Hyper-Capitalism, cartoonist Larry Gonick and psychologist Tim Kasser offer a vivid and an accessible new way to understand how global, privatising, market-worshipping hyper-capitalism is threatening...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781780265155Author Benjamin DixFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint New Internationalist Publications LtdPublisher New Internationalist Publications Ltd

What is beauty, and what is truth? These are some of the questions which aesthetics tries to answer. In our everyday life, we talk about the 'aesthetics' of an artwork or a piece of design. But aesthetics goes beyond the simple experience of art. It is...

In 1859, Charles Darwin shocked the world with a radical theory - evolution by natural selection. One hundred and fifty years later, his theory still challenges some of our most precious beliefs.Introducing Evolution provides a step-by-step guide to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781606997918Author Ed PiskorFormat HardbackPage Count 224Imprint FantagraphicsPublisher FantagraphicsWeight(grams) 1546g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781681372402Author Edward GauvinFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint The New York Review of Books, IncPublisher The New York Review of Books,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781635571882Author Ken KrimsteinFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint Bloomsbury Publishing USAPublisher Bloomsbury Publishing USAWeight(grams) 728g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781606996560Author Peter BaggeFormat HardbackPage Count 154Imprint FantagraphicsPublisher FantagraphicsWeight(grams) 682g

For his newest project, R. Sikoryak tackles the monstrously and infamously dense legal document, iTunes Terms and Conditions, the contract everyone agrees to but no one reads. In a word for word 94-page adaptation, Sikoryak hilariously turns the...

A biographical tale that follows Hollywood revolutionary Rod Serling's rise to fame in the Golden Age of Television, and his descent into his own personal Twilight Zone. We recognise him as our sharply dressed, cigarette-smoking tour guide of The...

When Shihab runs afoul of a loan shark, all avenues of salvation in Mubarak's corrupt, oppressive Egypt are closed to him but one: robbing a bank. Things go wrong: In their blow against their crumbling society, Shihab and his friend Mustafa happen on...

The critically-acclaimed biography chronicling the tumultuous personal and professional life of horror icon Bela Lugosi. "Poignant.... Shadmi smoothly blends characterization with chiaroscuro to perfectly spotlight Lugosi's uncanny magnetism. On the...

Who founded China? Are Chinese people religious? What is Chinese culture and how has it changed over time? The Understanding China Through Comics series answers these questions and more.Division to Unification in Imperial China is series volume two. It...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780981534916Author J BallmannFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Totalmojo Productions, IncorporatedPublisher Totalmojo Productions,...