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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780399579141Author Fran KrauseFormat HardbackPage Count 144Imprint Ten Speed PressPublisher Ten Speed PressWeight(grams) 463gDimensions(mm) 211mm * 173mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsShort-listed for Los Angeles Times Book Prizes 2012.Book InformationISBN 9780805242591Author Leela CormanFormat HardbackPage Count 208Imprint Schocken BooksPublisher...

Prophet against Slavery is an action-packed chronicle of a remarkable and radical individual. It is based on the award-winning biography by Marcus Rediker, which prompted the Quaker community that once disowned Lay to embrace him again after 280 years...

Anthropology originated as the study of 'primitive' cultures. But the notion of 'primitive' exposes presumptions of 'civilized' superiority and the right of the West to speak for 'less evolved' others. With the fall of Empire, anthropology became suspect...

When the Husband family realised that their son Paul was addicted to heroin, they did everything they could to help him but it seemed that every step in the right direction would be followed by another relapse as Paul lied to them, stole from them, and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781770461185Author Chester BrownFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Drawn and QuarterlyPublisher Drawn and Quarterly

It's All Chinese to Me is a fun and authentic introduction to Chinese culture that allows readers, tourists, and business travelers to experience what ultimately makes China so unique--its people. Learn about Chinese customs, proper etiquette for all...

Why do Hindus revere the cow?Must Hindus be vegetarian? Hinduism is the world's oldest religion, yet the word 'Hindu' was never used before the 18th century by Hindus to describe themselves. it is defined as polytheistic, but Gandhi declared that a Hindu...

The ongoing sequel to cult film, El Topo, from cult-favorite filmmaker Alejandro Jodorowsky. "Oh, father, I cannot kill you, but I can kill your son . . ." El Topo was a bandit without limits, a man with no moral compass, but when his journey through the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781603093668Author Nate PowellFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Top Shelf ProductionsPublisher Top Shelf ProductionsWeight(grams) 403gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781609806026Author Prum VannakFormat HardbackPage Count 176Imprint Seven Stories Press,U.S.Publisher Seven Stories Press,U.S.

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781683960140Author Trina RobbinsFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint FantagraphicsPublisher Fantagraphics

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781681371207Author E. O. PlauenFormat HardbackPage Count 312Imprint The New York Review of Books, IncPublisher The New York Review of Books,...

As its title suggests, this book captures the essence of Japanese life and culture in 100 words. From well-known concepts like zen, kawaii and anime to their lesser-known counterparts waiting to be discovered by the West, Japan in 100 Words covers it all...

Masks of Anarchy tells the extraordinary story of Shelley's "The Masque of Anarchy," its conception in Italy, its suppression in England, and how it became a rallying cry for workers across the Atlantic a century later. "Shake your chains to earth like...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781683960317Author Joe OrlandoFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint FantagraphicsPublisher Fantagraphics

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...

Follow the entire painting career of Rembrandt, one of the greatest painters and printmakers in European art history and the most important in Dutch history. This is the story about one man's artistic vocation and the work it demands, about life and...

The graphic novel tells the story of Bird's time in L.A. starting in December 1945, where Bird and Dizzy Gillespie brought frenetic sounds of bebop from the East Coast jazz underground to the West Coast for a two-month residency at Billy Berg's Hollywood...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781606997888Author Gary GrothFormat PaperbackPage Count 264Imprint FantagraphicsPublisher FantagraphicsWeight(grams) 1056g

A charming, heartwarming, and poignant story of running and self-acceptance, Mylo Choy's Middle Distance combines exertion and introspection in an exploration of the physical body's connection to the human experience. An exciting graphic addition to a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781450762557Author Marc ShapiroFormat PaperbackPage Count 26Imprint Tidalwave ProductionsPublisher Tidalwave ProductionsWeight(grams) 64gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374536749Author Dan ArielyFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Hill & WangPublisher Hill & WangWeight(grams) 408gDimensions(mm) 251mm * 175mm * 18mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781506715698Author Stephanie PhillipsFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Dark Horse Comics,U.S.Publisher Dark Horse Comics,U.S.

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...

Told through wit and humor and 100% illustrations, Hooray for Craft Beer! is an entertaining and informative journey through the history and world of craft beer. Readers will explore every aspect of beer from the ingredients and brewing process to...

Like a lot of people, Miu has had trouble learning regression analysis. But with new motivation in the form of a handsome but shy customer and the help of her brilliant caf (c) coworker Risa, she s determined to master it. Follow along with Miu and Risa...

In 1976, champion player Roger Sharpe stepped up to a pinball machine in a Manhattan courtroom. He was there to challenge the citywide ban on pinball by proving this was a game of skill, not chance. Sharpe pulled back the plunger and released, and the...

Featuring breathtaking panoramas and revelatory, unforgettable images, "Battle Lines" is an utterly original graphic history of the Civil War. A collaboration between the award-winning historian Ari Kelman and the acclaimed graphic novelist Jonathan...

A young man has a horrible motorcycle accident. He wakes up in the hospital to discover that one of his arms has been amputated. Then a portrait on the wall of his hospital room begins to speak to him. The subject of the painting introduces himself as...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780385420938Author Larry GonickFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Doubleday & Co Inc.Publisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 567gDimensions(mm) 277mm...

Serena Katt's grandfather, whom she knew as Opa, was a 'Sunday's Child', one of the lucky ones for whom everything always went right. Opa left a brief account of his childhood and teenage years, but it is opaque, a story of prizes won and boyish...

An arrestingly drawn debut graphic novel, Baddawi is the story of a young boy named Ahmad struggling to find his place in the world. It explores the childhood of the author's father from a determinedly boy's-eye view. Ahmed was raised in the refugee camp...

THE PERFECT GIFT FOR GAMERSThe first in a series of original graphic novels, starring Ninja (Tyler Blevins) - the most influential public figure in gaming today - as he embarks on exciting gaming adventures, with the fate of the world at stake.Tyler...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Coretta Scott King Author Award 2017 and Flora Stieglitz Straus Award for nonfiction 2017 and Michael L. Printz Award Winner 2017 and National Book Award for...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780375714757Author Marjane SatrapiFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 204gDimensions(mm) 224mm...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781846537585Author Ron GarneyFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint Panini BooksPublisher Panini Publishing Ltd

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781551528526Author Gord HillFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Arsenal Pulp PressPublisher Arsenal Pulp Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781551523606Author Gord HillFormat PaperbackPage Count 87Imprint Arsenal Pulp PressPublisher Arsenal Pulp PressWeight(grams) 183g