A girl on Earth has made a terrible wish. And it's one that could hurt her best friend. Now Vivica, Starling Academy's mean girl, is on her way to help grant it. The Star Darlings must stop her--otherwise Rancora's evil power will be restored. But will they be able to change the wisher's bitter heart?

A 4–colour, illustrated best–of–the–best of the comic book world – with writers/creators who launched an industry (Jack Kirby, Stan Lee), amazing graphic novels (Preacher, The Watcher), legendary artists (Jim Lee) and characters as wide–ranging as Archie, The Gay Ghost, Batman, Blue Devil and the Fantastic Four. Never before has there been a single volume of superheroes, graphic novels, strange comic icons, legendary writers and artists of the comic world. Comic Book Encyclopedia is the multiverse of comic legend and lore for every comic–book fan, and for everyone who wants to understand the characters, history, and universal appeal of this world. Collected into a single volume, this is the best–of–the–best of comics. From the 1930s to today, it includes everything a young, budding comic reader – or an experienced pro – needs to know and/or read.

This sampler was designed for art specialists and art museum educators with a basic understanding of teaching discipline-based art education content. The introduction offers a brief history of the Sampler and explains its intended purpose and use. Then 8 unit models with differing methodologies for relating art objectives to the four disciplines: aesthetics, art criticism, art history, and art production, are presented. The sampler consists of two elementary units, two units for middle school, two units intended for required high school art, one high school studio ceramic unit, and a brief unit for art teachers and art museum educators that focuses on visits to art museums. Learning activities, resource material, and learning strategies are given for the units along with a sequence of lessons organized on a theme.

Updated, with new research and over 100 revisions Ten years later, they're still talking about the weather! Kate Fox, the social anthropologist who put the quirks and hidden conditions of the English under a microscope, is back with more biting insights about the nature of Englishness. This updated and revised edition of Watching the English - which over the last decade has become the unofficial guidebook to the English national character - features new and fresh insights on the unwritten rules and foibles of "squaddies," bikers, horse-riders, and more. Fox revisits a strange and fascinating culture, governed by complex sets of unspoken rules and bizarre codes of behavior. She demystifies the peculiar cultural rules that baffle us: the rules of weather-speak. The ironic-gnome rule. The reflex apology rule. The paranoid pantomime rule. Class anxiety tests. The roots of English self-mockery and many more. An international bestseller, Watching the English is a biting, affectionate, insightful and often hilarious look at the English and their society.

This is the true history of a material found in Africa that acts like vibranium from the movie Black Panther. In 2017 the rain poured down from the tears of ancestral gods upon the shoulders of an 8 year-old boy as he reached into the dirty pit which covered his feet with a layer of thick mud. That day, he was not in school. In fact, it had been two years since he had even considered spending a day in school. Now, he had to do other work. Shoveling mud into a bag, he threw it upon his back. The weight of the bag was heavier than 8 milk jugs, and buckled his legs as he made his way across the slimy brown pit. But he wasn''t allowed to move slowly. He had to sprint with the bag on his back as though time was running out, and his legs strained and back throbbed in pain from the herniated disc which had developed from carrying such heavy loads. After 12 hours of this backbreaking work, the 8 year-old boy took a moment to go and gather his younger sister and brother from the other side of the filthy pit. They were just five and six years old and had been spending an equally long 12 hour day methodically sifting through the mud in a tray to pluck out the black colored vibranium ore. It was not healthy to breathe or to expose one''s skin to vibranium, and was only safe when it was refined into a technologically advanced machine. In fact, they had already lost their father, who spent years in vibranium mines, to a vibranium induced cancerous tumor in his neck. Before they lost him, his neck had swollen to the size of a large melon. But their memories of him we''re far from the nightmares that shook them from their sleep every single night. They remembered him as one of their smiling ancestors who always had an infectious laugh regardless of the situation. However, today he had joined the other deities and he was shedding his tears, through the ancestral water mirror, onto the muddy pit where his children worked. It was as though he was trying to send them a message that this was a futile exercise and that they should stop. But there were no other options in Africa''s Democratic Republic of the Congo, they were forced to work, and all of this work collectively brought in three dollars for the day. Seven thousand miles away, a corporate executive landed in his private jet on a sun baked runway. Its modern vibranium clad engines omitted the commonly heard screaming sound which echoed against the pavement on the runway. It was reminiscent of the Congolese children''s screams when they awoke from their nightmares. However, this man had far bigger concerns than a few unknown children halfway across the globe. He was an honored man, one of the most notable alive. If one were to count the wealthiest men on one hand, he was one of the richest men on the planet, but he was also an environmentally conscience middle aged man who was excited to see the hundreds of thousands of gallons of vibranium induced fuel burned up in a few moments time by the launch of his new rocket into space. He made his way with his driver to one of his newly developed electric vehicles. Its vibranium infused electronics ranked it as the most advanced car on the planet. Allowing the self-driving computer system along with his driver to take charge of the ride, the fully electric vehicle meandered across Florida, and he pulled out his newly minted mobile phone and checked his email. The battery life remaining on the phone read 98% and to his surprise, since morning, he had lost much less battery life than he would''ve lost on his previous smartphone. Indeed, this was because the new phone battery was almost entirely made from vibranium. As he scrolled through his email, he was frustrated. Too many of his workers had been forced to seek medical treatment for accidents, and they were scanned at the hospital by vibranium infused MRI scanners. So what is the real vibranium of Africa?This history book tells the true story of the real vibranium of Africa in our technological devices.

When the popularity of Milton Berle's television show began to slip, Berle quipped, "At least I'm losing my ratings to God!" He was referring to the popularity of "Life Is Worth Living" and its host, Bishop Fulton J. Sheen. The show aired from 1952 to 1957, and Sheen won an Emmy, beating competition that included Lucille Ball, Jimmy Durante, and Edward R. Murrow. What was the secret to Sheen's on-air success? Christopher Lynch examines how he reached a diverse audience by using television to synthesize traditional American Protestantism with a reassuring vision of Catholicism as patriotic and traditional. Sheen provided his viewers with a sense of stability by sentimentalizing the medieval world and holding it out as a model for contemporary society. Offering clear-cut moral direction in order to eliminate the anxiety of cultural change, he discussed topics ranging from the role of women to the perils of Communism. Sheen's rhetoric united both Protestant and Catholic audiences, reflecting—and forming—a vision of mainstream, postwar America. Lynch argues that Sheen's persuasive television presentations helped Catholics gain social acceptance and paved the way for religious ecumenism in America. Yet, Sheen's work also sowed the seeds for the crisis of competing ideologies in the modern American Catholic Church.

This is the first book to provide a comprehensive and systematic account of the phenomenon of cinematic remaking. Drawing upon recent theories of genre and intertextuality, Film Remakes describes remaking as both an elastic concept and a complex situation, one enabled and limited by the interrelated roles and practices of industry, critics, and audiences. This approach to remaking is developed across three broad sections: the first deals with issues of production, including commerce and authors; the second considers genre, plots, and structures; and the third investigates issues of reception, including audiences and institutions.