Jessica Priest alias She-Spawn und der Redeemer verbünden sich mit Freak gegen Mandarin Spawn. Zur selben Zeit schickt Gaia die gefürchteten Planetenfresser, um ihre eigene Schöpfung auszulöschen. Und ausgerechnet zu diesem Zeitpunkt beginnt das Team um She-Spawn auseinanderzubrechen ... Der neueste Ableger von Todd McFarlanes Comic-Kosmos geht in die dritte Runde.

Do you have a favorite hero?! Better change it. they're DEAD! If you ever wondered who the strongest hero is, THIS BOOK ANSWERS IT! It's SPAWN' he kills EVERY HERO!

Reprints Spawn issues 113-125 (13 issues). Oversized HC format with bonus material. Contains the stories and artwork that helped cement the Spawn legacy. Featuring hyper-detailed art by Angel Medina (The Incredible Hulk, Sensational Spider-Man), and stories by legendary Spawn scribe Brian Holguin with Todd McFarlane. Expect old favorites and new villains to collide in this exciting hardcover collection with unique Spawn vs Villain wraparound digitally painted cover art by Clayton Crain. Updated Creator bio(s): Angel Medina (The Incredible Hulk, Sensational Spider-Man)

It seems odd that today, as the nations of Eastern Europe restore diplomatic ties to Israel, the Vatican still refuses to have normal relations with it. But, as Sergio Minerbi writes in this fascinating account, the Papacy has been consistently hostile to Zionism since before the First World War. Drawing on many unpublished documents from diplomatic archives, Minerbi brings to light the little-known role of the Vatican in relation both to the Great Powers and the Zionists in the early years of the twentieth century. Engaged in a complex balancing act involving the Ottoman rulers of Palestine, rival Christian churches (both Eastern Orthodox and Protestant), and the conflicting claims of Catholic countries with regard to the Protectorate over the Holy Places, the Vatican looked with dismay on the possibility of a Protestant British mandate--especially after the 1917 Balfour Declaration, which declared Whitehall's sympathy with Zionist aspirations. To the Vatican, a British mandate was disturbing, but a Jewish state was anathema. Vatican opposition to the formation of a Jewish homeland stemmed largely from traditional Christian anti-Semitism, which in modern times took the form of an equation of Zionism with Bolshevism, and ancient theological doctrines regarding Judaism. In 1904, the Zionist leader Theodor Herzl obtained an audience with Pope Pius X in the hope of persuading the pontiff to support the establishment of a Jewish homeland in Palestine. Herzl's hopes were dashed: the Pope's response to his requests was "Non possumus"--"We cannot." In 1917 Pius X's successor, Pope Benedict XV, received a later Zionist leader, Nahum Sokolow, with more courtesy, but displayed an equally sturdy refusal to support a Jewish state. The Zionists, who had pronounced themselves ready to respect the sanctity of the Holy Places, mistakenly believed that the Vatican would be satisfied with control over individual sites, rather than territory. The Vatican's bid for control over the territory encompassing the Holy Places ultimately failed. The international commission on the Holy Places it had hoped for was never formed, and it was not invited to attend the 1920 Sanremo conference, which decided the fate of Palestine. The Vatican, acting on the same fundamental policy, still refuses to establish diplomatic relations with the state of Israel. Intensively researched and trenchantly argued, The Vatican and Zionism sheds important new light on a critical but neglected episode in the history of Zionism and the Roman Catholic Church.

A history of the near-simultaneous emergence of moving pictures in several countries in the mid-1890s and a thorough reevaluation of the development of the technology.CHOICE Outstanding Academic Book 1999