![]() ![]() ![]() In mid-2012, Mike Norton won the Best Digital Comic Eisner award for Battlepug.Įvery Friday, Norton released pictures of Battlepug readers and their pugs in "Friday Battlepuggage". The first year of strips was collected into a hardcover by Dark Horse Comics and released July 4, 2012. The story is narrated by Moll, who recounts the tale to her talking dogs, a Pug named Mingo and a French Bulldog named Colfax. A dark-humored, fantasy-genred revenge story, Battlepug is about the last surviving member of the Kinmundian Tribe known only as "The Warrior", his steed, the Battlepug, and their traveling companion, Scrabbly. ![]() In February 2011, Norton launched his webcomic, Battlepug. Norton created the characters for Battlepug in a rush to create a T-shirt for. Battlepug is a webcomic written and illustrated by Mike Norton, colored by Allen Passalaqua, and lettered by Chris Crank. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() McMillan Cottom serves on dozens of academic and philanthropic boards and publishes widely on issues of inequality, work, higher education and technology. ![]() She was recently named a 2020 MacArthur Fellow. The collection has been described as “essential,” and the Chicago Tribune calls her, “the author you need to read now.” Thick was the winner of the Brooklyn Public Library Literary Prize and was a finalist for the 2019 National Book Award. In 2019, McMillan Cottom released Thick: and Other Essays. In Lower Ed, she questions the fundamental narrative of American education policy. ![]() The foundation for McMillan Cottom's first book, Lower Ed: The Troubling Rise of For-Profit Colleges in the New Economy, was formed by dissertation research for her doctorate from Emory University's Laney Graduate School. 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Note: All of the book links will take you directly to The Storygraph. ![]() ![]() It wasn’t Blake who began to laugh and then suddenly went quiet – the awful, terrible silence going on and on forever… ![]() ![]() With a surge of relief Martha remembered that Blake was going to call, and she raced for the phone before Conor could answer it.Īnd it wasn’t Blake who drew a long, raspy breath… and let it out again… breathing… breathing… while her heart beat like a frantic wing in her throat. Could this be to do with the not so distant murder of the young girl, Elizabeth, whose room it was and who Martha looks rather spookily like? (Erm, yes!) ![]() Once there Martha feels an extra specially spooky coldness in her room, as if something awful happened in there, and soon enough she starts getting strange phone calls. ![]() **** Scholastic Books, paperback, 1989, fiction, 209 pages, from my own personal TBRĪs ‘Trick or Treat’ opens, our heroine (though this becomes debatable, as she is a bit of a pain in the arse – more on that later) Martha has been uprooted from her life in Chicago as her father, only two years after the death of his wife and Martha’s mother, has married (via elopement, shock horror) Sally and so now they are all moving in together, with Sally’s son Conor, to a house in the arse end of nowhere that is very creepy and resides between a wood and a cemetery. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The trio finds themselves unwittingly thrust into a deadly race against the natural perils of Minecraft, the King's forces, and the mysterious and dangerous griefer Mr. ![]() It became clear when a sharp twist of fate puts Stan, Kat, and Charlie in direct opposition to the government of Elementia's capitol city, and its tyrannical King. 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The murder serves as a lens through which to examine Garfield's life, Guiteau's peripatetic existence, the fortunes of the Republican Party, the political spoils system, the role of scientific invention, and the state of the American medical profession. In "Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine, and the Murder of a President," Candice Millard reconstructs the events leading up to and following Garfield's assassination. Whether they were prompted by insanity or simple desperation in the face of his looming, almost inevitable execution, there was element of truth in Guiteau's ravings. ![]() "I deny the killing, if your honor please," he said. Instead, Garfield died as a result of the care he received from his doctors. As part of his erratic defense, Guiteau argued that he should not be charged with murder, because the bullets he fired from his ivory-handled revolver didn't kill the president. ![]() In November 1881, Charles Guiteau, a charlatan suffering from mental illness, stood trial for the assassination of President James Garfield. ![]() ![]() ![]() Just as priests and caring professionals are deemed to have a vocation (or "calling" from God) for their work, according to the Protestant work ethic the "lowly" workman also has a noble vocation which he can fulfill through dedication to his work. In opposition to Weber, historians such as Fernand Braudel and Hugh Trevor-Roper assert that the Protestant work ethic did not create capitalism and that capitalism developed in pre-Reformation Catholic communities. ![]() It is one of the most influential and cited books in sociology, although the thesis presented has been controversial since its release. Weber asserted that Protestant ethics and values, along with the Calvinist doctrines of asceticism and predestination, enabled the rise and spread of capitalism. ![]() The phrase was initially coined in 1905 by Max Weber in his book The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism. It emphasizes that diligence, discipline, and frugality are a result of a person's subscription to the values espoused by the Protestant faith, particularly Calvinism. The Protestant work ethic, also known as the Calvinist work ethic or the Puritan work ethic, is a work ethic concept in scholarly sociology, economics, and historiography. For Weber's book, see The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism. ![]() ![]() With unprecedented access to Missy’s family and original source materials, journalist Kathryn Smith tells the “fascinating” (Publishers Weekly) and forgotten story of the intelligent, loyal, and clever woman who had a front-row seat to history in the making. She was one of his most trusted advisors, affording her a unique perspective on the president that no one else could claim, and she was deeply admired and respected by Eleanor Roosevelt. ![]() ![]() Everyone in the White House knew one truth: If you wanted access to Franklin, you had to get through Missy. Although her official title as personal secretary was relatively humble, her power and influence were unparalleled. Widely considered the first-and only-female presidential chief of staff, Marguerite “Missy” LeHand was the right-hand woman to Franklin Delano Roosevelt-both personally and professionally-for more than twenty years. The “fine biography” and “compelling personal story” (The Wall Street Journal) of arguably the most influential member of Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s administration, Marguerite “Missy” LeHand, FDR’s de facto chief of staff, who has been misrepresented, mischaracterized, and overlooked throughout history…until now. ![]() ⚠️ This book will unfortunately be removed from the service on the 14th of May. ![]() |