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History of the Marvel Universe volume 1
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English
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It's the greatest tale ever told - and you've never seen it like this! Writer Mark Waid and artist Javier Rodríguez weave together a sprawling, interconnected web of stories into one seamless narrative that takes you from the dawn of the Marvel Universe all the way to its end! Far more than a collection of moments you may already know, this is a new tale featuring previously unknown secrets and shocking revelations, connecting dozens of threads from...
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This is a children's fantasy story about a mosquito named Marvin. It is an attempt to point out some of the scientific facts about the life of a mosquito. He was just tired of being identified as a pest! People hated him. They were always trying to swat to kill him.
One day, he watches a bee drawing nectar from a flower. He comes up with a plan. He wants to change his behavior to cause people to start loving each other and not hate or harm each other....
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Legendary journalist and beloved TV host Alistair Cooke shares his life-long passion for golf in this stunning collection of his best writing on the sport he loved most. On a fateful day in 1964, Alistair Cooke was dragged into Van Cortland Park in New York City to play his first game of golf. He was immediately hooked, and golf became his greatest passion, even though he called it "a method of self-torture, disguised as a game." No one has written...
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(Lyman Frank),Oz volume 2
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Marvel Worldwide, Inc
Pub. Date
2010
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English
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What can you learn from the world's most successful companies? The Marvel Studios Story will help you understand and adopt the competitive strategies, workplace culture, and daily business practices that enabled a struggling comic book publisher to parlay the power of myth and storytelling to become one of history's most successful movie studios.
Marvel characters have been shaping pop culture for decades and when comic books were no longer keeping...
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In its exploration of puppetry and animation as the performative media of choice for mastering the art of illusion, To Embody the Marvelous engages with early modern notions of wonder in religious, artistic, and social contexts.
From jointed, wood-carved figures of Christ, saintly marionettes that performed hagiographical dramas, experimental puppets and automata in Cervantes' Don Quixote, and the mechanical sets around which playwright Calderón...
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Tales Through The Marvel Universe volume 1
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Take a tour through the decades with Marvel tales past and present! In the 1940s, learn the untold tale of Namor and the atom bomb! In the 1950s, Reed Richards and Victor Von Doom enter the space race! In the 1960s, Captain America takes a stand for civil rights! In the 1970s, Spider-Man experiences the new age of blockbuster cinema! In the 1980s, Nightcrawler witnesses the fall of the Berlin Wall! In the 1990s, Deadpool enters the collectible market!...
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Deadpool vs. The Marvel Universe volume 43
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Deadpool has titanic team-ups with Wolverine, Captain America, Dr. Strange, Brother Voodoo, Ka-Zar and the Fantastic Eight?! Plus, the dreaded Venom Symbiote has multiplied, and made some new friends of the prehistoric variety, giving the Merc with a Mouth his final opportunity to prove himself the ultimate hero or the ultimate villain!
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In Marvels of Creation these holy Dominican writes beautifully and profoundly, so that we might see the wonders that God has put in plain sight and give glory to Him for them. Here is great spiritual fruit that has nourished the greatest saints for centuries, and now will sustain you in prayerful reflection and wonder of all that God created in His perfect and awesome design.
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With the great Renaissance voyages to the New World came the popularity of Wunderkammern, or cabinets of wonders, in which newly discovered monsters and marvels could be displayed. Like such a cabinet, this collection of essays surveys the monstrous and the marvelous-as transmuted in the alembic of Rikki Ducornet's open-hearted vision-in literature, art and film. For her, excess anomaly, and heterodoxy entice the imagining mind to embrace "otherness,"...
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Ancient Egypt truly left wonders for the world including the Pyramids of Giza and the glittering burial goods of Tutankhamun. But its achievements extend far beyond these wonders. Its inventions range from hieroglyphics and papyrus sheets to makeup, toothpaste, and breath mints. This enchanting volume will enthrall readers as they discover the marvels and achievements of ancient Egypt. Meticulously researched content addresses important social studies...
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A funny, quirky, brand-new story based on E.A. Wyke-Smith's classic, the inspiration for J.R.R. Tolkien's The Hobbit, featuring wonderful illustrations from Melissa Castrillón.
At the Sunny Bay Home for Superfluous and Accidentally Parentless Children, Pip and Flora were never good at following the rules. When Flora is kidnapped, they find themselves in the Marvelous Land of Snergs, a magical place of cinnamon bears and scrumptious feasts, vegan...
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Marvel Worldwide, Inc
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[2020]
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English
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"Kamala Khan is Jersey City's own friendly neighborhood super hero, and she's making a huge impression across the Marvel Universe - whether sharing an adventure with Wolverine or a Ms. Marvel Team-Up with Spider-Man! Kamala discovers her Inhuman legacy with Medusa and the oversized hound Lockjaw, enjoys spy games with S.H.I.E.L.D., and comes face-to-face at last with her idol Captain Marvel - just in time for the end of the world! Witness Kamala's...
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Travel through time and space with Morgan, a young woman caught between two worlds. In a future where magic and technology are one, the social classes are sharply divided. Noble classes have access to the power of arcana. While lower classes must make do with enchanted technology. But an attack on the planet sets Morgan on a dangerous path. She finds herself questioning the very foundations of this society.
From the mythical past of King Arthur and...
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Deadpool Kills The Marvel Universe volume 1
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The writer and artist of the original slaughterfest reunite! Prepare for an all-new, all-different tale of death and destruction starring the Merc With A Mouth! You won't believe your eyes when Deadpool kills the entire Marvel Universe...again!
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Black Widow and the Marvel Girls volume 1
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She's the most efficient spy in the world and one of the world's deadliest women, but before there was ever a Black Widow, there was the Red Room, a brutal KGB training ground for assassins, undercover agents, and the most ruthless of spies. Now, tasked with removing a rogue weapon's dealer from an impregnable safe house, the Black Widow remembers her escape from the Red Room training facility, an escape only made possible with the aid of the most...
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In this lyrical STEM gem, follow 12 bird species as their babies begin their first migration down the majestic flyway
An educational picture book in which lyrical text and impressionistic-style illustrations follow the life cycles of twelve migrating birds, representing the species who use the Mississippi flyway route. Back matter includes additional facts about flyways, migration, and each of the featured birds
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