Eben Adams is a young painter in Depression-era New York just looking to make a living. His work has thus far left influential art dealers unimpressed. Then Eben happens upon a young schoolgirl named Jennie in Central Park. Intrigued by her mystical quality and her knowledge of things that happened well before her time, Eben begins to sketch a portrait of the young girl. The drawing turns out to be the most emotional piece Eben has ever done, and he finally gets the boost in his career he'...

Our NARRATOR is a middle-aged bachelor who leads a simple but contented life. He enjoys his long summers spent on Cape Cod. Having long since abandoned the “deeper feelings” of youth, his solitary life is altered when JOHANNA, a lonely teenage girl, is sent to care for him during a sudden illness. Johanna is a timid and utterly lonely orphan, sent to live with her relatives on a temporary basis. She blossoms under the tutelage of our narrator, learning for the first time about friendship, ...

It’s post World War II, and nineteen-year-old LOUISA and her younger brother JERI have fled from Eastern Europe after their parents were killed. They now live in an old boat, beached on Cape Cod, thanks to the generosity of a local couple, the BAGHOTS. A frustrated local college professor RICHARD SMITH purchases a boat to escape his lonely and unfulfilled life. He, instead, crashes it onto the beach not far from Louisa and Jeri. Romantic feelings between Richard and Louisa begin to develop...

For some, our media-saturated culture points to the decline of Western civilization; for others, it points to the dawn of a bright future. For Nathan Roberts, the mediated landscape is a place to thoughtfully engage with these tensions. This unique memoir, meditative and philosophical, chronicles Nathan's absorption in the vital, inspiring, and often maddening power of media and entertainment. With wry self-effacement and raw honesty, he calls us to conceive of media not only as an abstrac...

A look into the paranormal legends, lore, mythology, and monsters featured on the hit television show Supernatural.From angels to demons, The Mythology of Supernatural explores the religious roots and the ancient folklore of the otherworldly entities that brothers Sam and Dean Winchester face on the hit television show Supernatural—and that have inhabited the shadows of human imagination across countless cultures and centuries.

GET INSIDE GRIMM.NBC’s hit television series Grimm pits modern detective Nick Burkhardt of the Portland Police against a cast of terrifying villains—lifted directly from the pages of classic fairytales. In the world of the show, the classic stories are actually a document of real events, and Nick himself is descended from a long line of guardians, or Grimms, charged with defending humanity from the mythological creatures of the world.From ...

Jason has a problem. He doesn't remember anything before waking up on a school bus holding hands with a girl. Apparently she's his girlfriend Piper, his best friend is a kid named Leo, and they're all students in the Wilderness School, a boarding school for "bad kids." What he did to end up here, Jason has no idea--except that everything seems very wrong. Piper has a secret. Her father has been missing for three days, and her vivid nightmares reveal that he's in terrible danger. Now her bo...

Multiple killings by serial or spree killers and the mass violence seen in war crimes and other atrocities have typically been understood as discrete category types, which can foster the view that there are fundamentally different kinds of human beings, including "deviants" who are born evil and innately given to sadism or a callous lack of empathy. In contrast, this book considers the violence of these "deviants" in terms of larger questions about human violence. Therefore, in addition to...

This second edition of Business Ethics and Ethical Business has all the virtues of the first edition as well as additions and revisions throughout, and three new chapters—one on AI and two on environmental ethics and sustainability.It explores the place of business in society, describes ethics in management, recognizes the challenges of environmental preservation, and explores challenges of international business. It introduces the major standards of business ethics and pr...

It 's here: the third massive paperback collection of the greatest comic in the universe. Witness the conclusion of Mark Grayson's epic adventures, from "THE DEATH OF EVERYONE" to "THE END OF ALL THINGS." Collects INVINCIBLE #97-144

Mark has returned from the past...to a very different future. Now he has to pick up the pieces of his life and try to put them back together. INVINCIBLE co-creator CORY WALKER returns to the book to set the stage for the next chapter of Invincible 's life! Collects INVINCIBLE #127-132

"THE END OF ALL THINGS" mega-story begins, and it will touch every corner of the INVINCIBLE Universe, and when it's over...IT'S OVER. Invincible must accept that Thragg can 't be defeated without him, and for the good of the universe, he's going to have to risk his life to stop him! Every single story for the past 13 years has been leading up to this! Collects INVINCIBLE #133-138