Xena, The Warrior Princess and Gabrielle are back in a series of all-new adventures - collected here for the very first time! Xena and her well-loved cast of friends and villains find themselves in-between a feud that reaches all the way up to the heavens as they fight in the "Contest of Pantheons"! This all-new collection from Dynamite, reprinting Xena issues #1-4, features the work of writer John Layman, the debut of artist Fabiano Neves (Marvel Zombies Vs. The Army of Darkness), as well as a complete cover gallery featuring art by Billy Tan, Adriano Batista, and Neves, plus a series of Xena photo covers!

The first four issues of DYNAMITE'S all new XENA comic book series - the Contest of Pantheons - are presented here in the very first DYNAMITE XENA TRADE PAPERBACK COLLECTION! Writer John Layman and artist Fabiano Neves have brought back the Warrior Princess to great acclaim and now you can see what everyone else it talking about! Xena and her well-loved cast of friends and villains get in between a feud that reaches all the way up to the heavens as they fight in the "Contest of Pantheons" featuring Xena, Gabrielle, Joxer, Autolycus and the return of Callisto! This new TBP Collection features: * Reprints 1-4 of all-new Xena series * Includes complete cover gallery

The blockbuster SCI FI series now comes to the comics in Dynamite Entertainment's all new Battlestar Galactica series! Writer Greg Pak and artist Nigel Raynor take us on an unseen adventure that perfectly complements the vision and scope of the hit new series. Collected here is the opening arc, featuring the Galactica and crew and their escape from the Cylons. Also includes a comics cover gallery.

The first study in English to offer a systematic introduction to the Chinese pantheon of divinities. It challenges received wisdom about Chinese popular religion, which, until now, presented all Chinese deities as mere functionaries and bureaucrats. The essays in this volume eloquently document the existence of other metaphors that allowed Chinese gods to challenge the traditional power structures and traditional mores of Chinese society. The authors draw on a variety of disciplines and methodologies to throw light on various aspects of the Chinese supernatural. The gallery of gods and goddesses surveyed demonstrates that these deities did not reflect China's socio-political order but rather expressed and negotiated tensions within it. In addition to reflecting the existing order, Chinese gods shaped it, transformed it, and compensated for it, and, as such, their work offers fresh perspectives on the relations between divinity and society in China.

Contains the complete collection of the Xena 1999-2000 comic book adventures originally published by Dark Horse Comics. Stories take place during seasons 5 and 6 of the television show.

The moving story of Ulysses S. Grant's final battle, and the definitive account of the national memorial honoring him as one of America's most enduring heroes The final resting place of Ulysses S. Grant, the victorious general in the Civil War and the eighteenth president of the United States, is a colossal neoclassical tomb located in the most dynamic city in the country. It is larger than the final resting place of any other president or any other person in America. Since its creation, the popularity and condition of this monument, built to honor the man and what he represented to a grateful nation at the time of his death, a mere twenty years after the end of the Civil War, have reflected not only Grant's legacy in the public mind but also the state of New York City and of the Union. In this fascinating, deeply researched book, presidential historian Louis L. Picone recounts the full story. He begins with Grant's heroic final battle during the last year of his life, to complete his memoirs in order to secure his family's financial future while contending with painful, incurable cancer. Grant accomplished this just days before his death, and his memoirs, published by Mark Twain, became a bestseller. Accompanying his account with numerous period photographs, Picone narrates the national response to Grant's passing and how his tomb came to be: the intense competition to be the resting place for Grant's remains, the origins of the memorial and its design, the struggle to finance and build it over the course of twelve years, and the vicissitudes of its afterlife in the history of the nation up to recent times.