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Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
They've transcended their vigilant hip-hop roots and have become a global phenomenon, the likes of which the music world has rarely seen and after their tremendous Grammy win, a young hip-hop-hopeful learns just what it takes to become the best while retracing the defining events in each of the band member's funkadelic lives. This special graphic novel edition has a bunch of extras.
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Description
Joseph R. Biden experienced one of the most challenging journeys in American politics. America's youngest senator faced an emotional rollercoaster that almost derailed his career. His life, riddled with loss, led to a determination to help the working class and a 47-year career capped by his election as the 46th president of the United States.
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Description
President Donald J. Trumps tenure focused the American electorate on politics in ways not seen in modern history. During this tumultuous four-year period, four Democrats rose from the left to challenge the rights policies.
The movers: Joe Biden has had one of the most challenging journeys in American politics, facing an emotional roller coaster to become Americas youngest Congress member and, eventually, the 46th President of the United States....
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
The longest serving independent member of Congress in American History, the unassuming senator from Vermont is a supporter of the middle class who vows to end the toxic partisan divide in Congress. A grassroots-level groundswell of support has catapulted Sanders into the national spotlight, forcing his competitors to, "Feel the Bern!"
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
With the announcement of their impending nuptials, Prince William and Kate Middleton have captured the public imagination in much the same way the William's parents did a generation ago. Now Bluewater Productions is publishing a behind-the-curtain look at the royal couple a new biography comic book.
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
In The Machine Never Blinks, the story of surveillance is presented from its earliest days, to help you more fully understand today's headlines about every-increasing, constant, and unrelenting monitoring and global data collection. It's a threat to your rights, privacy, dignity, and sanity. This book spans surveillance from the Trojan Horse, through 9/11 and to the so-called War on Terror, which enabled the exponential growth of government and corporate...
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
A new graphic novel featuring some of the biggest power players of the Republican party. Political Power, focuses on past and present American politicians. This new graphic novel features the comic book biographies of Sarah Palin, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Rush Limbaugh & Glenn Beck. Featuring a cover by famed artist Joe Phillips. The series has been featured on FOX NEWS to People Magazine!
50) Sartre
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Description
For some he was the philosopher of existentialism, for others the constant provocateur, the politically engaged author, the uncertain militant, the repenting bourgeois, the life companion of Simone de Beauvoir... From his first readings in the Luxembourg Garden to his refusal of the Nobel Prize for Literature, Jean Paul Sartre was all of this at the same time. In his biographic piece, the life and thoughts that made Sartre a known name are brought...
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
Paul McCartney: Carry that weight, takes a snapshot of the afternoon Paul McCartney made the final decision to quit the most beloved band of all time, and imagines the thoughts and feelings behind it. The comic is inspired by the famously frank press release that came with his debut solo album and confirmed the end of The Beatles, and the end of his partnership with John Lennon.
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
Bettie Pages influence is evident even today. From humble beginnings, her work exploded onto the pop culture scene, dominating magazine covers and the fetish scene until one day suddenly disappeared from public view, garnering her cult status. Read the compelling story of the Queen of the pin-up.
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Was the Soviet Union an 'Evil Empire'? Was President Ronal Reagan at the right place and right time when it collapsed? Or was he one of the shrewdest occupants of the White House? Find out how this Midwesterner-turned-actor-turned-President went from B-movies to revitalizing the Republican Party and orchestrating the end of the Cold War.
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
TidalWaves Political Power: World Leaders features biographies of leaders who shaped nations. Nelson Mandela of South Africa, a symbol of the struggle against racial and political oppression, is one of the most important figures of the last century. Britains Margaret Thatcher, in the words of her biographer, John Blundell, has been one of the most effective champions of the free-enterprise economic model which has delivered progress and prosperity...
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Description
"Donald Trump and the Average Joe." Amidst the chaos of a crowded field of hopeful Republicans, media mogul Donald J. Trump declares his candidacy for the presidency of the United States. One by one, his opponents fall to the will of the voters who see Mister Trump as the savior of a country where the American dream seems broken and unattainable. Will Trump become the Republican candidate? Can he beat the Democrat's nominee?
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
Belgium, 1940. The German army is spreading across Europe, and tiny Belgium is conquered in 18 days. During the four long years of the Nazi occupation, the women of La Louvire have to figure out some way to stay alive, to live their lives, and to keep up hope. Their world is drawn through teenage Marcelles journal: What does she do? How do her family members endure? Which women in town collaborate with the occupying forces, and which women choose...
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
"Girls, living in the country will be your chance," her parents tell her. And so Catherine Meurisse spends her childhood outdoors. Construction all around her: an old farmhouse renovated into a home, trees planted, a garden created, dreams cultivated. They dig, they graft, they plant a rosebush "adopted" from Montaigne, a fig tree from Rabelais. They observe the tumult of the outside world: new developments in industrial agriculture, the citification...
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
He was not just The Beatles quiet man who was silent in interviews or wrote iconic songs in the history of Rock under the shadow of Lennon and McCartney. George was an spiritual creator living in a material world. In this book, we explore Harrison's story from his teens from his death. We will go through his conversion ceremony to Hinduism as through the different parts of his life which represented a new brand start in his career as an artist as...
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Mitt Romney is smart, principaled and he knows how to crunch numbers which is why the Republican party sees him as the Great White Hope in the 2012 presidental election. How Mitt Romney got to frontrunner status on the political right is the subject of Bluwater Productions Political Power Mitt Romney. Smart is sexy.
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Born into a life of privilege, George W. Bush lived in the shadow of his father's political career until finally starting his own political career by running for - and winning - the governorship of the state of Texas. In a Presidency wracked by controversy from the start, George W. Bush's term was full of terrorist attacks, crashing economies, and two wars. Don't miss this revealing look at the controversial U.S. president as he recaps his two terms...
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