Richard Appignanesi
Author
Publisher
Totem Books
Pub. Date
1995.
Language
English
Description
Postmodernism seemed to promise an end to the grim Cold War era of nuclear confrontation and oppressive ideologies. The notoriously proclaimed 'end of history', the triumph of liberal democracy over Communist tyranny, proved to be an illusion, and we awoke in the anxious grip of globalization, unpredictable terrorism and unforeseen war. Has the 21st century resolved the question of postmodernism or are we more than ever ensnared in its perplexities?...
8) Othello
Author
Series
Publisher
Amulet Books
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
When Othello's fellow soldier Iago starts filling his head with rumors of his wife Desdemona's infidelity, Othello begins down the path of his own destruction. Presented in comic book format.
10) King Lear
Author
Series
Publisher
Amulet Books
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
Shakespeare's tragedy of a royal father and his daughters is presented scene by scene in comic book format.
12) Macbeth
Author
Series
Publisher
Amulet Books
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
Retells, in comic book format, Shakespeare's play about a man who kills his king after hearing the prophesies of three witches.
Author
Series
Publisher
Icon Books
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Quantum theory confronts us with bizarre paradoxes which contradict the logic of classical physics. At the subatomic level, one particle seems to know what the others are doing, and according to Heisenberg's "uncertainty principle", there is a limit on how accurately nature can be observed. And yet the theory is amazingly accurate and widely applied, explaining all of chemistry and most of physics. "Introducing Quantum Theory" takes us on a step-by-step...