Michael Alan Nelson, tvůrce cenami ověnčených komiksových sérií, je známý svým pronikavým pohledem na temné síly a nebezpečné světy. Jeho práce často zkoumá hranice lidskosti a objevuje napětí mezi dobrem a zlem. Nelson mistrovsky buduje napínavé zápletky a nezapomenutelné postavy, které čtenáře vtahují do strhujících dobrodružství. Jeho styl se vyznačuje dynamickým vyprávěním a schopností vytvářet komplexní, atmosférické příběhy.
Michael Nelson accentuates the discrimination prevalent in the colonial period of Africa, Asia, and America. She highlights how black people suffered under colonization. They were deprived of rights, no fair play, no justice. She regrets on the concept of racism which deprives equality to black people. There was a difference between the white and black community under which the Negroes were victimized.
Adoption is a wonderful opportunity to give a child a loving parental relationship to grow up in the comfort of a home and family. One hears or sees TV programmes of how successful adoption can be! A Boy Named Tigger tells the story of a little boy torn away from a loving family environment to be adopted at the age of four by a couple struggling to get back on their feet after the second world war.He went to a mother who had a split personality and tried to control every aspect of Tigger’s life subjecting him to mental torture at times. Growing up he managed to tear himself away from his mother and start a new life, gradually clearing his mind from the unhappiness of his childhood and embarking on several successful careers. The writing of this book was the therapy he needed to eventually clear his mind.
Offers a timely, comprehensive, scholarly, and engagingly written account of the 2020 elections. The book features essays by an all-star team of political scientists in the immediate aftermath of the 2020 general election, chronicling every stage of the presidential race as well as the coterminous congressional elections.
Collecting the entire Hexed saga about a teenage thief for hire who steals from the criminal underworld and combats the supernatural monsters sent after her. Luci Jennifer Inacio Das Neves (most people just call her “Lucifer”) is a supernatural thief for hire, stealing wondrous objects from the dark denizens of the netherworld for her mentor/mother figure, Val Brisendine. From possessed teddy bears to haunted paintings to ancient otherworldly demons, Lucifer will need to use every trick up her sleeve to protect her surrogate family and combat the monsters of her seedy city. Written by lauded horror author Michael Alan Nelson (Day Men, 28 Days Later), Hexed is a lyrical horror adventure series featuring the debut American comics work by superstar illustrators Emma Rios (Pretty Deadly) and Dan Mora (Klaus). This definitive volume collects all 16 issues of the original Hexed limited series and its sequel series Hexed: The Harlot and the Thief.
Donald Trump took office in January 2017 under mostly favourable conditions. He inherited neither a war nor an economic depression, and his party controlled both houses of Congress. In Trump's First Year, Michael Nelson provides a thorough account and scholarly assessment of Donald Trump's first year as president, starting with his election and transition in 2016.
"At sunrise, the Day Men go forth to do the bidding of their sleeping benefactors--a secret network of vampire covens stretching back to the dawn of time. But when war breaks out between the two most powerful factions on the eastern seaboard, the fate of the Virgo family's matriarch Azalea rests in the hands of David Reid, a human orphan enlisted to protect the family but never to become a part of it."--Provided by publisher.
The French Riviera: A History ranges from the Terra Amata in Nice, occupied from 380,000 years ago and one of the oldest inhabited prehistoric sites in the world, through to settlement by Greeks, Romans, Franks, Ostrogoths and Visigoths, wars and revolutions, to the establishment of the Silicon Valley of France in Sophia-Antipolis in 1974.
Collects Supergirl numbered 21-25, Action Comics numbered 23.1: Cyborg Superman.
The Children of the Night have found a way to use the sun to their advantage...They are the Day Men.
In the aftermath of H'EL on Earth, Supergirl's world has been shattered in every way possible. Kara Zor-El searches the stars for a new home, but in doing so, encounters one of Superman's deadliest enemies in his New 52 debut: Cyborg Superman.