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'A personal, impassioned account of a crime committed against the Lebanese people' - New York Review of Books In August 2020, Lebanon was in the midst of the global pandemic and a devastating economic crisis. People protested in the streets, calling...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781683961901Author Jess RuliffsonFormat HardbackPage Count 178Imprint FantagraphicsPublisher Fantagraphics

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.About the AuthorKaz Rowe is a Chicago-based cartoonist, illustrator, and YouTuber, and was formerly located in Los Angeles.Book InformationISBN 9781947440074Author Kaz RoweFormat...

In The Red Baron, graphic artist and author Wayne Vansant illustrates the incredible story of Manfred von Richthofen, whose unparalleled piloting prowess as a member of the Imperial German Army Air Service made him a World War I celebrity, both in the...

In October 1958, a young German journalist arrives in Havana, Cuba, and sets out to meet and interview Fidel Castro on behalf of a German newspaper. He finds himself in a country plunged into revolution. From the viewpoint of this young journalist,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsShort-listed for Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction 2022 and Kirkus Prize for Non-Fiction 2021. Long-listed for PEN/Jean Stein Book Award 2022. Nominated...

In Night of the Devil, take a hallucinatory trip through the oppressive heat of the Burmese jungle along with British soldiers engaged in desperate skirmishes with the enemy. In Bayonet Jungle, Private Jack Green's presence is seen as an omen of bad luck...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781945509032Author Ben PassmoreFormat PaperbackPage Count 11Imprint Silver SprocketPublisher Silver Sprocket

Founded in 1956, the French psychiatric clinic La Chesnaie is an open and welcoming facility that houses about one hundred people of all ages. It provides traditional forms of care for people with serious mental illness, but it does so in a uniquely...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781906122508Author David OverlandFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Merlin Unwin BooksPublisher Merlin Unwin BooksWeight(grams) 333g

Hysteria is a graphic novel account of the first steps, errors and frustrations of Sigmund Freud's career, which would lead to the foundation of a revolutionary new clinical therapy: psychoanalysis. The book traces Freud's early training in...

Ireland, Sixteenth Century. A time of strife, invasion and adventure ... From Ireland's wild west coast, a true leader emerges - Granuaile, the pirate queen ... mother, lover, seafarer and chieftain. A true story of bravery on the high seas, of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781780260822Author Paul Fitzgerald (aka Polyp)Format PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint New Internationalist Publications LtdPublisher New Internationalist...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781604863406Author Prole InfoFormat PaperbackPage Count 90Imprint PM PressPublisher PM PressWeight(grams) 129g

Philosophy like you've never seen it before. The latest in the celebrated Cartoon Introduction series, The Cartoon Introduction to Philosophy is an authoritative and engaging guide to the fundamental questions about our existence. In this indispensable...

Since 2010, Martin Rowson has been documenting the highs and lows - mainly the lows - of the Tory-Lib Dem coalition week after week in The Guardian, as well as in The Morning Star, Tribune and many other publications. This book collects Rowson's best,...

Amusing, well researched, and surprisingly sophisticated, Leon Trotsky: An Illustrated Introduction is the perfect primer on the life and thought of the great leader and chronicler of the Russian Revolution. With sympathy and humour, Tariq Ali and Phil...

Statistics help us create Internet technologies, develop medicines, win elections, invest in stocks, predict the weather, and much more. But the methods that produce important numbers remain beyond many of us. How do we determine the proper size of a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781623170912Author Sean Michael WilsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint North Atlantic Books,U.S.Publisher North Atlantic Books,U.S.Weight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Oregon Book Awards (Graphic Novel) 2012.Book InformationISBN 9780805092776Author Joe SaccoFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint Metropolitan Books (imprint of...

Like the Halls of Montezuma and the Shores of Tripoli, Guadalcanal will forever be a part of United States Marine Corps history and lore. On this rustic South Pacific island, Marines made the first invasion of lands seized by the Japanese in their...

Cartoonist Sina Grace returns to his slice-of-life roots with the most personal and intimate work he's done since 2012's Not My Bag. Taking over a decade's worth of rarely-seen strips, essays, and new material, readers will get an uncompromising look...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781771134200Author Graphic History CollectiveFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint Between the LinesPublisher Between the LinesWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780809016495Author Harvey PekarFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Hill & WangPublisher Hill & WangWeight(grams) 331gDimensions(mm) 210mm * 136mm * 13mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143118152Author Tetsu SaiwaiFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam Inc

In 1787, After 116 days of heated debates and bitter arguments, the United States Constitution was created. This imperfect document set forth America's guiding principles, but it would also introduce some of today's most contentious political issues-from...

Paul Perry is an ideal candidate for the Democratic Party. He's a young Black man with an Ivy League education and a compelling life story who is running on a platform of affordable healthcare and better salaries for teachers. But he finds that it takes...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780814255483Author Wilfred SantiagoFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Ohio State University PressPublisher Ohio State University PressWeight(grams)...

"Man + Doctor" is Nicholas Wadley's wordless story of encounters with doctors, from the patient's attempts to avoid the scalpel, to, once surgery becomes inevitable, watching himself learn to cope with days and weeks spent in hospital beds.About the...

From Gary Larson's The Far Side to George Herriman's Krazy Kat, comic strips have two obvious defining features. They are visual narratives, using both words and pictures to tell stories, and they use word balloons to represent the speech and thought of...

Andre Roussimoff is known as both the lovable giant in The Princess Bride and a heroic pro-wrestling figure. He was a normal guy who'd been dealt an extraordinary hand in life. At his peak, he weighed 500 pounds and stood nearly seven and a half feet...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781683901730Author Bob McLainFormat PaperbackPage Count 322Imprint Pulp Hero PressPublisher Pulp Hero PressWeight(grams) 372gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm *...

Bestselling 'overeducated cartoonist' Larry Gonick has delighted readers for years with sharp, digestible, and funny accounts of everything from the history of the universe to the intricacies of calculus. Now Gonick teams up with psychologist and scholar...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781606997116Author Wilfred SantiagoFormat HardbackPage Count 200Imprint FantagraphicsPublisher FantagraphicsWeight(grams) 532g

On December 9, 2014, the Senate Intelligence Committee released a 576-page report that strongly condemned the CIA for its secret and brutal use of torture in the treatment of prisoners during the George W. Bush Administration after 9/11. This deeply...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781606998106Author Lucy KnisleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 168Imprint FantagraphicsPublisher FantagraphicsWeight(grams) 287g

A work of historical fiction set in Germany in 1977, this title follows four young men who were to become the voice of their generation. This is the epic journey of art noise band One Model Nation, the final dark days of the Baader-Meinhof Gang, and the...

Flemish painter Jan Van Eyck is one of Belgium's most significant artists, famous for his early contributions to the Northern Renaissance movement of the 15th century. His polyptych classic, the Ghent Altarpiece (or The Adoration of the Mystic Lamb), is...

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...

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...