Hercules, Zeus, Thor, Gilgamesh--these are the figures that leap to mind when we think of myth. But to David Leeming, myths are more than stories of deities and fantastic beings from non-Christian cultures. Myth is at once the most particular and the most universal feature of civilization, representing common concerns that each society voices in its own idiom. Whether an Egyptian story of creation or the big-bang theory of modern physics, myth is metaphor, mirroring our deepest sense of ourselves in relation to existence itself.
Superheroes!: Capes, Cowls, and the Creation of Comic Book Culture
Together again for the first time, here come the greatest comic book superheroes ever assembled between two covers: down from the heavens--Superman and the Mighty Thor--or swinging over rooftops--the Batman and Spider-Man; star-spangled, like Captain America and Wonder Woman, or clad in darkness, like the Shadow and Spawn; facing down super-villains on their own, like the Flash and the Punisher or gathered together in a team of champions, like the Avengers and the X-Men!
Terry Goodkind - The Pillars of Creation (Book 7) (Sword of Truth)
The Pillars of Creation is the seventh book in Terry Goodkind's epic fantasy series The Sword of Truth. This book revolves around several new characters in the Sword of Truth series. Jennsen, for most of her life, has been running from the assassins sent by Lord Rahl to kill her. Any ungifted child of the Lord Rahl must die. A stranger convinces her that running will do her no good for wherever she goes, Lord Rahl's soldiers will find her. It is time for her to stop fleeing and fight back. If she wants to live, she must kill Lord Rahl.
Michael Moorcock - Doctor Who: The Coming of the Terraphiles
There are dark tides running through the universe so strong they swallow light and threaten Captain Cornelius's familiar existence; if unchecked, they will absorb the whole of Creation. But for now he tracks into the solar winds, searching for the only being he acknowledges as his peer, who is known simply as "The Doctor."
OK - The Improbable Story of America's Greatest Word
OK. WHY THIS BOOK? STRANGELY ENOUGH, EVEN THOUGH
OK is by far the most successful American creation in language, as well as nearly the strangest, it hasn't had a book of its own. So here it is.
OK. WHY THIS BOOK? STRANGELY ENOUGH, EVEN THOUGH OK is by far the most successful American creation in language, as well as nearly the strangest, it hasn't had a book of its own. So here it is.
