The Leading eBooks Store Online
for Kindle Fire, Apple, Android, Nook, Kobo, PC, Mac, Sony Reader...
Most popular at the top
Hitchhiker's Guide
Oldcastle Books 2005; US$ 6.99Pocket Essentials is a dynamic series of books that are concise, lively, and easy to read. Packed with facts as well as expert opinions, each book has all the key information you need to know about such popular topics as film, television, cult fiction, history, and more. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is a unique phenomenon which started... more...
Text and Intertext in Medieval Arthurian Literature
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 95.00Theoretical essays and practical analyses focus on the intertextual links between an Arthurian composition and works belonging other genres of kinds of literature. Translations are provided for excerpts from the original Latin, Old French, Middle Dutch, Italian, and Middle English. The 14 essays were presented at a 1993 conference in Bonn. more...
The Manga Guide to Electricity
No Starch Press 2009; US$ 15.95The Manga Guide to Electricity teaches electricity in an innovative and refreshing way by combining authentic Japanese-style manga cartoons with practical educational content. The book's story revolves around Rereko, a girl struggling to pass her exams in Electopia, the Land of Electricity. Graduate student Hikaru decides to help Rereko after she's... more...
Sexuality, Sociality, and Cosmology in Medieval Literary Texts
Palgrave Macmillan 2013; US$ 85.00This edited volume contains nine articles exploring medieval sexuality and its relation to cosmological and social ordering. All of our authors analyze literary texts, both religious and secular, using a variety of critical methodologies. These include discourse theory, psychoanalytic criticism, queer theory, masculinity studies, and new historicist... more...
The Role of Swine Symbolism in Medieval Literature Blanc Sanglier
The Edwin Mellen Press 1991; US$ 159.95The pig has probably evoked more unexplained extremes of human emotions than any other animal. What are the possible origins of the symbolism attached to this animal? Has it ever been viewed differently? In a light tone, with alliteration and bantering humor, many original theories are presented to show how our western heritage subconscious associations... more...
The Arrival
Bloomsbury Publishing 2013; US$ 10.99A moment of kindness in a sea of unfamiliarity... A long, hard day at work... A lively party... A nostalgic lullaby... The story begins in Nigeria where the character of Dele plays a last game of football with his friends and says goodbye to his son Chidi, telling him he will send for him. He then embarks on a voyage where he meets strangers along... more...
Castration and Culture in the Middle Ages
Boydell & Brewer 2013; US$ 99.00Castration and castrati have always been facets of western culture, from myth and legend to law and theology, from eunuchs guarding harems to the seventeenth- and eighteenth-century castrati singers. Metaphoric castration pervades a number of medieval literary genres, particularly the Old French fabliaux - exchanges of power predicated upon the exchange... more...
Studies in Medievalism XXII
Boydell & Brewer 2013; US$ 90.00In the wake of the many passionate responses to its predecessor, Studies in Medievalism 22 also addresses the role of corporations in medievalism, with subjects ranging from the Woolworth Company to Google and the Lord Mayor's Show, London. The essays offer close, thorough studies of traditional media and materials, and also engage with concerns... more...
Superheroes and Philosophy
Open Court 2001; US$ 19.95The comic book superheroes ? Superman, Batman, the Incredible Hulk, the Fantastic Four, X-Men, and many others ? have proved to be a powerful and enduring thread in popular culture, a rich source of ideas for moviemakers, novelists, and philosophers. Superheroes and Philosophy brings together 16 leading philosophers and some of the most creative... more...
Is Diss a System?
NYU Press 2010; US$ 35.00Milt Gross (1895-1953), a Bronx-born cartoonist and animator, first found fame in the late 1920s, writing comic strips and newspaper columns in the unmistakable accent of Jewish immigrants. By the end of the 1920s, Gross had become one of the most famous humorists in the United States, his work drawing praise from writers like H. L. Mencken and Constance... more...









