“…From indentured servants and slaves in seventeenth-century Chesapeake to high-tech workers in contemporary Silicon Valley, the book "[puts] a human face on the people, places, events, and social conditions that have shaped the evolution of organized labor", enlivened by illustrations from the celebrated comics journalist Joe Sacco (Library Journal). Now, the authors have added a wealth of fresh analysis of labor's role in American life, with new material on sex workers, disability issues, labor's relation to the global justice movement and the immigrants' rights movement, the 2005 split in the AFL-CIO and the movement civil wars that followed, and the crucial emergence of worker centers and their relationships to unions. …”

“…With a Foreword by Danny Fingeroth, former Group Editor of Marvel's Spiderman comics line. Popular culture, simply stated, is the language of a people, expressed through everything from its clothing, food choices, and religious practices to its media. …”

“…Analyzing novels, poetry, memoirs, comics, films, photography, music, social media, data, graffiti, letters, reports, eco-design, video games, archival remnants, and ethnography, the individual chapters counter dominant representations of refugees as voiceless victims. …”

“…Der Band widmet sich nicht zuletzt auch verschiedenen Genres, die sich mit Religion und Religiosität kritisch oder affirmativ auseinandersetzen, wobei sich das Feld hier über den Bereich der Schriftkultur hinaus zur Untersuchung anderer medialer Formen (etwa des Films, des Comics, der Fernsehserie oder des Computerspiels) öffnet…”

“…Ihre Beiträge befassen sich mit Gemälden, Kinderzeichnungen, Fotografien, Bilderbüchern, Comics, Spielfilmen, Werbespots, Visualisierungen und Typographie -- Contracubierta…”

“…Diversos profesionales de reconocido prestigio en el ámbito de la lectura y su promoción, así como de la crítica y de las bibliotecas, comentan los clásicos juveniles, los libros infantiles, los álbumes ilustrados, y los cómics que han marcado una época, haciendo de esta obra un libro de referencia, y un valioso material de consulta…”

“…The word “text” is used here in the broadest sense of the term: it denotes literary books, but also oral tales, speeches, newspaper articles and comics. One of the purposes of this volume is to discover what these different texts have in common. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…CIENCIAS DE LA COMUNICACIÓN 2; PÁGINA LEGAL ; CONTENIDO ; PRESENTACIÓN ; COMPETENCIAS GENÉRICAS DEL BACHILLERATO GENERAL ; COMPETENCIAS DISCIPLINARES ; BLOQUE 1 ; 1.1 PERIÓDICO Y REVISTA: ORIGEN Y DESARROLLO; 1.2 ESTRUCTURA DEL PERIÓDICO Y REVISTA; 1.3 GÉNEROS PERIODÍSTICOS; 1.4 CÓMIC O HISTORIETA; 1.5 EL CARTEL. ORIGEN Y DESARROLLO; BLOQUE 2 ; 2.1 ANTECEDENTES HISTÓRICOS DE LA RADIO; 2.2 SITUACIÓN ACTUAL DE LA RADIO; 2.3 ESTRUCTURA DE LA RADIO; 2.4 PROGRAMA RADIOFÓNICO; 2.5 GÉNEROS RADIOFÓNICOS; BLOQUE 3 ; 3.1 ANTECEDENTES DE LA TELEVISIÓN; 3.2 SITUACIÓN ACTUAL DE LA TELEVISIÓN…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Alien Overtures: Speculating about Nonhuman Experiences with Comic Book Characters / Essi Varis; 5. Playing the Nonhuman: Alien Experiences in Aliens vs. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Notes on Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Part 1 Micro-Studies of Urban Life -- 1 Beyond Paternalism: Pluralising Copperbelt Histories -- 2 Being a Child of the Mines: Youth Magazines and Comics in the Copperbelt -- 3 Divergence and Convergence on the Copperbelt: White Mineworkers in Comparative Perspective, 1911-1963 -- 4 Football on the Zambian and Katangese Copperbelts: Leisure and Fan Culture from the 1930s to the Present -- 5 Beware the Mineral Narrative: The Histories of Solwezi Town and Kansanshi Mine, North-Western Zambia, c. 1899-2020 -- Part 2 The Local Copperbelt and the Global Economy -- 6 Kingdoms and Associations: Copper's Changing Political Economy during the Nineteenth Century -- 7 Of Corporate Welfare Buildings and Private Initiative: Post-Paternalist Ruination and Renovation in a Former Zambian Mine Township -- 8 From a Colonial to a Mineral Flow Regime: The Mineral Trade and the Inertia of Global Infrastructures in the Copperbelt -- 9 Houses Built on Copper: The Environmental Impact of Current Mining Activities on 'Old' and 'New' Zambian Copperbelt Communities -- Part 3 Producing and Contesting Knowledge of Urban Societies -- 10 'The British, the French and even the Russians use these methods': Psychology, Mental Testing and (Trans)Imperial Dynamics of Expertise Production in Late-Colonial Congo -- 11 The Production of Historical Knowledge at the University of Lubumbashi (1956-2018) -- 12 The Decolonisation of Community Development in Haut-Katanga and the Zambian Copperbelt, 1945-1990 -- 13 Reimagining the Copperbelt as a Religious Space -- Select Bibliography -- Index…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- Think: the credibility of information in the digital age -- Listen carefully -- Interactive music or musician's website -- Beyond the surface -- Pattern magazine -- Color y carnaval -- The transparent cover -- Reading the urban landscape -- Comic sequence -- Senior degree project in graphic design -- Modular type -- Communication design program -- Major design project -- Graphic design with any media -- The one -- Stop global warming -- Ways of seeing (sequential image making) -- Beatrice Warde and you…”

“…La preciosa chica de al lado, Penny, se siente atraída por el dependiente de una tienda de cómics que los chicos frecuentan…”

“…En la metrópolis de San Fransokyo (cruce de San Francisco y Tokio), vive Hiro Hamada, quien aprende a sacar provecho de su capacidad gracias a su brillante hermano Tadashi y sus también brillantes amigos: la buscadora de adrenalina GoGo Tamago, el meticuloso de la limpieza Wasabi-No-Ginger, la genia de la química Honey Lemon y el fanático de los cómics Fred. Cuando tras un devastador giro de los acontecimientos, se ven envueltos en una peligrosa conspiración que tiene lugar en las calles de San Fransokyo, Hiro recurre a su amigo más íntimo: un robot llamado Baymax, y transforma al grupo en una banda de héroes de última tecnología decididos a resolver el misterio. …”

“…El Exiliado es un gran cómic, porque, cuando alguien cuenta una historia universal sobre redención, vuelta a las raíces y venganza, que quizás podría encajar en múltiples escenarios, pero al terminar de leerla percibes que todo encaja, que no le sobra ni le falta nada, te das cuenta de que te encuentras ante una obra perfecta, probablemente incluso, ante una obra maestra…”

“…Todo narrado en clave de aventura, con mucho sentido del humor y gran rigor histórico, para hacerlo accesible tanto a los jóvenes de la familia como a los mayores. Una colección de cómics completamente supervisada por un grupo de historiadores de la Universidad de las Islas Balears (UIB)…”

“…Joanna Page explores a range of texts stretching from 1875 to the present day and across a variety of media-literature, cinema, theatre, and comics-and studies the particular inflection many common discourses of science fiction (e.g., abuse of technology by authoritarian regimes, apocalyptic visions of environmental catastrophe) receive in the Argentine context. …”

“…There was always that one simple and obvious utility that was missing that would make life so much easier -- a tool to get a stock quote, show off a photograph collection, or even display a collection of favorite comics. Wicked Cool Perl Scripts is about writing those utilities quickly and easily. …”

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