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Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Eisner Awards 2016 and Harvey Award 2016.Book InformationISBN 9781603094009Author John LewisFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Top Shelf ProductionsPublisher Top...

How an Economy Grows and Why it Crashes uses illustration, humor, and accessible storytelling to explain complex topics of economic growth and monetary systems. In it, economic expert and bestselling author of Crash Proof, Peter Schiff teams up with his...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.AwardsCommended for Oregon Book Awards (Graphic Novel) 2014.Book InformationISBN 9780805097931Author Joe SaccoFormat PaperbackPage Count 191Imprint Metropolitan BooksPublisher...

An internationally-renowned cartoonist and reluctant war vet details Japan's involvement in World War II. Showa 1939-1944: A History of Japan continues Eisner award-winning author Shigeru Mizuki's historical and autobiographical account of Japanese life...

#1 New York Times bestselling author and Eisner-nominated cartoonist Tom Hart has written a poignant and instructive guide for all aspiring graphic memoirists detailing the tenets of artistry and story-telling inherent in the medium. Hart examines what...

Evie Wyld was a girl obsessed with sharks. Spending summers in the brutal heat of coastal New South Wales, she fell for the creatures. Their teeth, their skin, their eyes; their hunters and their victims. Everything is Teeth is a delicate and intimate...

Steve Bell's If. cartoon strip in the Guardian attracted generations of loyal readers. If. Stands Up is his hilarious commentary on the past six years of political madness.Unmissable highlights include a Jubilee fly-past over Buckingham Palace by Boris...

More than just a Japan travel guide, Manabeshima Island Japan paints a colorful and entertaining picture of a particular place and time in Japan.Japan is made up of thousands of sacred islands, artificial islands, industrial islands, resort islands, wild...

Sophie Bangs was a just an ordinary college student in a weirdly futuristic New York when a simple assignment changed her life forever. While researching Promethea, a mythical warrior woman, Sophie receives a cryptic warning to cease her investigations...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781681122410Author Eddy SimonFormat HardbackPage Count 112Imprint NBM Publishing CompanyPublisher NBM Publishing Company

INTRODUCING guide to the pioneering child psychoanalyst. Born in Vienna in 1882, Melanie Klein became a pioneer in child psychoanalysis and developed several ground-breaking concepts about the nature and crucial importance of the early stages of...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262549332Author David GraeberFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdWeight(grams) 369g

Spoilt. Weirdo. Fussy. Hypochondriac. Chatterbox.Eliza spent her childhood being told she was all of these until her autism diagnosis as an adult revealed why she had experienced the world so differently. But what does it mean to grow up knowing you are...

Wise, often funny, sometimes heart-breaking, Persepolis tells the story of Marjane Satrapi's life in Tehran from the ages of six to fourteen, growing up during the Iranian Revolution.The intelligent and outspoken child of radical Marxists, and the...

The final year of the apocalypse begins! Armies rage! Nations at War! A family fights to be reunited. Collects EAST OF WEST #30-34.Book InformationISBN 9781534302143Author Jonathan HickmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Image ComicsPublisher...

Essential illustrated guide to key ideas of political thought. Philosophers have always asked fundamental and disturbing questions about politics. Plato and Aristotle debated the merits of democracy. The origins of society, the state and government...

'I know for sure that I have an instinct for colour, and painting is in the very marrow of my bones' The life of Van Gogh has gone down in legend as the archetypal artist's existence. He was irascible and short-tempered, hugely passionate and emotional,...

From daily routines and art-making, to dealing with depression, and living among porn performers in Las Vegas, Eisner Award winning cartoonist Brandon Graham (King City, Rain like Hammers, Prophet, Moonray) takes readers through his full-color diary...

A superlative, fascinating graphic account of Albert Einstein's strange world and how his legacy has been built upon since. It is now more than a century since Einstein's theories of Special and General Relativity began to revolutionise our view of the...

Ohio's Heavy Metal Heroes Beartooth Partner With Writer Tony Lee and Artist Omar Francia For 'The Journey BelowThe story behind the myths of Beartooth's album 'Below' is brought to life as Barry awakens corporate drone Lita's memory of how alive the...

Guy Delisle expertly lays the groundwork for a cultural road map of contemporary Jerusalem, utilizing the classic stranger-in-a-strange-land point of view that made his other books, Pyongyang, Shenzhen, and Burma Chronicles, required reading for...

The book that brought pre-eminent Manga-ka Shigeru Mizuki to the English-speaking world. Kokopo, 1943. A platoon of soldiers is ordered into battle. The objective is death. The alternative is certain execution as a consequence of survival. Inspired by...

Steve Martin has never written about his career in the movies before. In Number One is Walking, he shares anecdotes from the sets of his beloved films - from Father of the Bride to Roxanne, The Jerk to Three Amigos, and many more, bringing readers...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781906814090Author William ShakespeareFormat PaperbackPage Count 48Imprint Classic Comic Store LtdPublisher Classic Comic Store LtdSeries Classics...

"Introducing Semiotics" outlines the development of sign study from its classical precursors to contemporary post-structuralism. Through Paul Cobley's incisive text and Litza Jansz's brilliant illustrations, it identifies the key semioticians and their...

When should you adopt an aggressive business strategy? How do we make decisions when we don't have all the information? What makes international environmental cooperation possible?Game theory is the study of how we make a decision when the outcome of our...

Mine Okubo was one of over one hundred thousand people of Japanese descent - nearly two-thirds of whom were American citizens - who were forced into "protective custody" shortly after Pearl Harbor. Citizen 13660, Okubo's graphic memoir of life in...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781970047332Author Eduardo BenatarFormat PaperbackPage Count 36Imprint Fantoons LLCPublisher Fantoons LLC

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781984862266Author Tom ScioliFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Ten Speed PressPublisher Potter/Ten Speed/Harmony/Rodale

The 14th Dalai Lama, renowned as a moral leader and spiritual teacher worldwide, is famous as a peacemaker yet stands as an unwavering fighter for the freedom of the Tibetan people, and above all, for their spiritual and physical culture. This new...

Islam is one of the world's great monotheistic religions. Islamic culture, spanning 1,500 years, has produced some of the finest achievements of humanity. Yet the religion followed by a fifth of humankind is too often seen in the West in terms of...

The German bestseller - a powerful and deeply affecting graphic memoir that explores identity, guilt and the meaning of home Winner of Moira Gemmill Illustrator of the YearWinner of Book Illustration prize at the V&A Illustration Awards Winner of the...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807012680Author Paul Peart-SmithFormat HardbackPage Count 110Imprint Beacon PressPublisher Beacon Press

An expansive, moving and captivating graphic memoir from the author of Fun Home.Alison Bechdel's Fun Home was a literary phenomenon. While Fun Home explored Bechdel's relationship with her father, a closeted homosexual, this memoir is about her mother -...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781683961710Author Gary GrothFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint FantagraphicsPublisher Fantagraphics

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781606996904Author Ed PiskorFormat HardbackPage Count 114Imprint FantagraphicsPublisher FantagraphicsWeight(grams) 532g

Year of the Rabbit tells the true story of one family s desperate struggle to survive the murderous reign of the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia. In 1975, the Khmer Rouge seizes power in the capital city of Phnom Penh. Immediately after declaring victory in the...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781906814212Author Charles NordhoffFormat PaperbackPage Count 48Imprint Classic Comic Store LtdPublisher Classic Comic Store LtdSeries Classics...

Two stories of soaring combat as the master of Euro comics, Hugo Pratt, meets the classic comic book air ace who's as skilled a fighter on land as he is in his Spitfire!Reprinted in graphic novel form for the first time, these two fast-paced Battler...

Modernism is usually thought of as a shock wave of innovations hitting art, architecture, music, cinema and literature - the work of Picasso, Joyce, Schoenberg, movements like Futurism and Dada, the architecture of Le Corbusier, T.S. Eliot's The...