John Hill
Author
Publisher
Firefly Books
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"45 skyscrapers are examined for their pioneering technology, sustainability, and other characteristics that set them apart. Each building is presented with a large photograph with cross-section drawings plus fact boxes listing location, year of completion, height, stories, primary functions, owner/developer, architect, structural engineer, and construction firm. The buildings examined are distributed over the world's most developed regions of North...
Author
Publisher
History Press
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
This book contains details about what Richard III did in his last five months, what happened to his body, and how his DNA was found in Canada. This book explores these events from the standpoint of Richard himself and his contemporaries. By deliberately avoiding the hindsight knowledge that he will lose the Battle of Bosworth Field, this book presents a new Richard - no passive victim, awaiting defeat and death, but a king actively pursuing his own...
Author
Publisher
Prestel
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"This architectural survey presents an iconic building built each year from 1916 to 2015, as selected by John Hill, founder of the blog A Daily Dose of Architecture. Starting with H. P. Berlage's Holland House in London and closing with Diller Scofidio + Renfro's newly completed Broad museum in Los Angeles, each building included can be seen, approached, or explored by the average person, per Hill's criteria. Each two-page spread includes one to two...
Author
Publisher
Amberley Pub Plc
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"From the moment it became public news, the validity of Edward's marriage to Elizabeth Widville, the beautiful widow of a Lancastrian knight, was repeatedly called in to question. This alarmed Elizabeth Widville and led her into political killings. She was terrified that she would lose her crown and that her children by the king would never succeed to the throne. But after Edward's death a bishop publicly announced that he had previously married the...
Author
Series
Crossover (Graphic novels) volume 1
Publisher
Image Comics
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"The first act of a new reality-shattering adventure! Imagine everything you thought was fantasy...was real. And now join us, in a world where reality is dead..and anything is possible. After THE EVENT alters the world as we know it, Ellie, Otto, and Ava embark on a four-color odyssey, through magical Colorado. Mysterious (and familiar?) superheroes join our intrepid team of heroes searching for a way to shatter the dome and expose the truth!"--Page...
Author
Publisher
Image Comics
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"The Nailbiter's secrets turned a fun game from High School into a deadly war between serial killers! His daughter, Sheriff Crane and Agent Finch must return to the destroyed Buckaroo to find the horrific Mastermind behind the bloodshed before it spreads!" --
10) Vanish: Vol. 1
Author
Series
Vanish volume 1
Publisher
Image Comics
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Oliver Harrison was a mythical hero who slayed the greatest threat to his realm before even hitting puberty. But that was then. As an adult, Oliver leads an average cookie-cutter suburban life-aside from the fact that he's mentally unstable, massively paranoid, smokes like a chimney, and gets blackout drunk every night to hide from his horrific nightmares. Will the arrival of a superhero team called the Prestige prove the madness isn't all in Oliver's...
Author
Publisher
DC Comics
Pub. Date
©2016.
Language
English
Description
"At long last, it's Harley Quinn and The Joker, face-to-face! Harley's got an endangered friend to save, but there's just one problem: she's got to get through Arkham Asylum first! Unsurprisingly, Harley's not eager to set foot in the site of some of her darkest hours...and she definitely isn't ready to face a certain someone who's laughing at the end of a dark hallway. The life of Harley's new love, Mason Macabre, is in the Joker's hands...but can...
Author
Publisher
DC Comics
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Harley Quinn has been transformed, and she wants the world to know! She's ready to shake things up once more - and this time, the gloves are off! Harley Quinn has avoided Gotham City ever since she broke up with The Joker - she found a home, and a kind of family, in Coney Island. But when she gets an offer she can't refuse, she has no choice but to slip back into the city as quietly and quickly as she can, before anyone - especially her ex - learns...
14) Vanish: Vol.2
Author
Series
Vanish volume 2
Publisher
Image Comics
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Members of superhero group, The Prestige, continue to attack Oliver Harrison as his sanity and sobriety hang in the balance. While Oliver's power grows and he holds his ground, we gain vital insight into the mystic realm of Everkeep and evil Baron Vanish's past... and future?
Author
Publisher
DC Comics
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
The first rule of Skate Club is...you do not mess with the Mistress of Mayhem! Harley stumbles across an underground fight club where big money winds with a body count. She's in, and she's making Sy Borgman her agent for the fights. And what would happen if the demented Clown Princess of Crime visited the most popular comic con out there? Find out when Harley Quinn invades Comic-Con!!
Author
Publisher
DC Comics
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Harley Quinn is on a mission to make the world a better place ... and get paid for it at the same time! Quinn and her Gang of Harleys are taking on do-gooding missions for a price, but sometimes that means they're biting off more than even a gang of semi-sane butt-kickers can chew. So when a simple search-and-rescue mission turns into a battle royal against an invulnerable alien-empowered sea captain ... that means it's time for a vacation! But no...
Author
Series
Crossover (Graphic novels) volume 2
Publisher
Image Comics
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Five years ago the realm of comic book fiction collapsed into our very real world. And now, amidst the chaos, a new threat has risen. Someone, or something, is killing comic book writers and artists all over the country. Watch as the mystery of this serialized killer explodes into four color carnage as we are joined by the wildest creator-owned character reveals yet! Scott Snyder! Brian K. Vaughan! Chuck Zdarsky! Robert Kirkman! Brian Michael Bendis!!...
Publisher
DC Comics
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"In Harley Quinn: Black + White + Red, 14 tales of Gotham City's craziest clown princess are presented in nothing but black, white, and bold splashes of red. See how Harley's story unfolds in worlds beyond the DC Universe, in the alternate timelines of Batman: White Knight, Harleen, and the Harley Quinn animated series! Witness her darkest hours and her happiest moments! Wait, did she just...win an underground rap battle?! An incredible array of award-winning...
Series
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
©2015.
Language
English
Description
"Science fiction and fantasy enjoy a long literary tradition, stretching from Mary Shelley, H. G. Wells, and Jules Verne to Ray Bradbury, Ursula K. Le Guin, and William Gibson. In The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy award-winning editor John Joseph Adams delivers a diverse and vibrant collection of stories published in the previous year. Featuring writers with deep science fiction and fantasy backgrounds, along with those who are infusing...
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