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1000 tulosta hakusanalla Jim Goodwin
The Mysterious Adventures of Arlen Monroe
Jim Goodwin
Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
2014
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"Twisted Tales Vol. 2" is the second collection of short stories. Most are of a gently humorous nature covering Seasonal topics, community farming, winning ways, and a sailing adventure. But like its companion volume the tales should provoke a smile, if occasionally, a wry one. Easy to pick up and quick to read, it's a useful friend on your commute or on a relaxing evening.
On his way from Chicago to start a doctoral program at Imperial College in London, Nick Hudson, at his mother's insistence, takes a detour to spend Christmas with his estranged Uncle Joshua at the bleak Mereton Grange deep in the English countryside. The cheerless house is forbidding and the outlook is made worse by the dark, wet winter weather. Escaping from the dreary house to the local pub, The Hanged Man, only adds to his sense of foreboding as the locals reveal tales of a dark past at the Grange with rumors of it being haunted. During the days around Christmas, Nick discovers the rumors to be true.
Marvel Masterworks: Dazzler Vol. 4
Archie Goodwin; Ann Nocenti; Jim Shooter
MARVEL COMICS
2023
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Dazzler, that's a wrap The icon of the '80s finishes her tour with the Marvel Masterworks, and her original series, in this volume. Dazzler took her last solo bow in 1986; when Madonna was notching #1 singles, she was getting chased through the sewers by super villains. Being the hardest working mutant in show business isn't as glamorous as you'd think And with a prejudiced world now fully aware of her mutant status, Dazzler's singing career is at a standstill. She desperately tries to find her place, as she faces the cosmic Beyonder, battles her future X-Men teammates, romances the Beast and tries her hand at...roller derby? ? Hey, it was the '80s Featuring early work from indie legend Paul Chadwick COLLECTING: Dazzler (1981) 35-42, Beauty and the Beast (1984) 1-4, Secret Wars II (1985) 4, material from Marvel Fanfare (1982) 38
Spectacular Spider-man Omnibus Vol. 1
Gerry Conway; Jim Shooter; Archie Goodwin
MARVEL COMICS
2022
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In honor of 60 years of Spider-Man, the web-slinger's second solo series gets the Omnibus treatment SPECTACULAR SPIDER-MAN not only increased the opportunities for Spidey action, it provided a platform to expand upon and explore the world of Peter Parker and his incomparable cast -- J. Jonah Jameson, Mary Jane Watson, Flash Thompson and the gang Of course, there was no shortage of villains, including the Vulture, the Lizard, Doc Ock and more SPECTACULAR was also home to Frank Miller's first Daredevil artwork, part of a sprawling saga featuring Carrion, the mysterious rotting horror with hidden ties to Peter Parker's past -- and a violent desire to punish him for the death of Gwen Stacy Painstakingly restored, this is an Omnibus for the ages COLLECTING: Spectacular Spider-Man (1976) 1-42, Spectacular Spider-Man Annual (1979) 1, Amazing Spider-Man Annual (1964) 13, Fantastic Four (1961) 218
A White Liberal College President in the Jim Crow South
Sandra E. Godwin
Mercer University Press
2021
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A White Liberal College President in the Jim Crow South is a historical narrative that explores the inner turmoil of a college president who positioned himself between two opposing political ideologies. The Young Women's Christian Association represented one side and governors, state board members, judges, and other powerful anti-black groups represented the other. Guy Herbert Wells, president of Georgia State College for (white) Women, learned to manage the tension between holding true to his own values, which more closely resembled those of students in the YWCA, while working for a state system that upheld white supremacy. A 1935 YWCA interracial event became the catalyst for his first lesson on how to manage this tension. Most studies of higher education during the Civil Rights era focus on students of the 1960s. In contrast, this study features a president of the 1930s and 40s. Using archival data from Georgia College (formerly Georgia State College for Women) and the YWCA, Godwin tracks Wells's positioning and identifies the motivation of his political movements right and left. The activism of YWCA members and the efforts to silence them all influenced Wells's maneuvering. Godwin argues that his emotional unrest was a consequence of a ""dual tradition of dissent"" among white liberal administrators in higher education during the Jim Crow era. Godwin concludes with a comparison of Wells's experience with Georgia College President Dorothy Leland's (2004 to 2011) who faced similar challenges. Godwin examines the costs associated with playing the middle and asserts that Wells's moderate leadership ultimately strengthened Georgia College's white supremacist foundation.
The origins and influence of Jim, Mark Twain’s beloved yet polarizing literary figure “Astute. . . . Sheds new light on a much-studied character.”—Publishers Weekly Mark Twain’s Jim, introduced in Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885), is a shrewd, self-aware, and enormously admirable enslaved man, one of the first fully drawn Black fathers in American fiction. Haunted by the family he has left behind, Jim acts as father figure to Huck, the white boy who is his companion as they raft the Mississippi toward freedom. Jim is also a highly polarizing figure: he is viewed as an emblem both of Twain’s alleged racism and of his opposition to racism; a diminished character inflected by minstrelsy and a powerful challenge to minstrel stereotypes; a reason for banning Huckleberry Finn and a reason for teaching it; an embarrassment and a source of pride for Black readers. Eminent Twain scholar Shelley Fisher Fishkin probes these controversies, exploring who Jim was, how Twain portrayed him, and how the world has responded to him. Fishkin also follows Jim’s many afterlives: in film, from Hollywood to the Soviet Union; in translation around the world; and in American high school classrooms today. The result is Jim as we have never seen him before—a fresh and compelling portrait of one of the most memorable Black characters in American fiction.
Jim
YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS
2026
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