After narrowly escaping a deadly blast, Adam Strange finds himself spiraling through the timestream, forced to relive the past and helpless to watch as his future unravels before his very eyes. Will he be able to pull himself together to rejoin the events in RANN/THANAGAR: HOLY WAR?

Reprinting the adventures of Rann's champion from MYSTERY IN SPACE issues#66-80 (1961-62), this volume continues the adventures of one of DC's mostbeloved Silver Age icons, currently seen in 52! Plus, an introduction by BatmanBegins producer Michael Uslan.

Heroic adventurer Adam Strange was ready to abandonEarth and join his wife and daughter on his adopted homeworld of Rann forever,but the newly perfected Zeta Beam that was to transport him there never came.Now he's trapped on Earth, desperate with worry that something terrible may havehappened to his world and his family. But the truth is far worse than even hisdarkest imaginings. Something terrible is coming. And an ordinary Earth man maybe the only thing that stands in the way of universal Armageddon! Written byAndy Diggle (GREEN ARROW: YEAR ONE) with art by Pascal Ferry (ACTION COMICS),ADAM STRANGE: PLANET HEIST is a precursor to the smash-hit collection THERANN-THANAGAR WAR!

Written by Jim Starlin Art by Ron Lim, Rick Leonardi and others Cover by Jim Starlin DC's cosmic heroes soar into action again as the nefarious Lady Styx continues her galactic quest to add every being in the universe to her congregation! It's up to Adam Strange, Hawkman, Captain Comet and others to stop her plans in this volume collecting RANN/THANAGAR: HOLY WAR #5-8 and ADAM STRANGE SPECIAL #1. Advance-solicited; on sale December 2 o 168 pg, FC, $19.99 US

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A candid and moving memoir of how one woman’s pregnancy forced her to confront her definition of how to live a successful life “Slyly ironic, frequently hilarious, [Martha] Beck’s memoir charts the journey from being smart to becoming wise.”—Time This edition includes a new afterword about Adam. From the moment Martha and her husband, John, accidentally conceived their second child, all hell broke loose. They were a couple obsessed with success. After years of matching IQs and test scores with less driven peers, they had two Harvard degrees apiece and were gunning for more. They’d plotted out a future in the most vaunted ivory tower of academe. But when their unborn son, Adam, was diagnosed with Down syndrome, doctors, advisers, and friends in the Harvard community warned them that if they decided to keep the baby, they would lose all hope of achieving their carefully crafted goals. Fortunately, that’s exactly what happened. By the time Adam was born, Martha and John were propelled into a world in which they were forced to redefine everything of value to them, put all their faith in miracles, and trust that they could fly without a net. And it worked. Expecting Adam captures the abject terror and exhilarating freedom of facing impending parenthood, being forced to question one’s deepest beliefs, and rewriting life’s rules.

Cut from a different cloth, these rip-roaring heroes always come down on the side of right when protecting the innocent and oppressed. But now every member of the Justice Society of America is faced with an impossible choice.

In the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, scientists reconstructed the immensely long history of the earth—and the relatively recent arrival of human life. The geologists of the period, many of whom were devout believers, agreed about this vast timescale. But despite this apparent harmony between geology and Genesis, these scientists still debated a great many questions: Had the earth cooled from its origin as a fiery ball in space, or had it always been the same kind of place as it is now? Was prehuman life marked by mass extinctions, or had fauna and flora changed slowly over time? The first detailed account of the reconstruction of prehuman geohistory, Martin J. S. Rudwick’s Worlds Before Adam picks up where his celebrated Bursting the Limits of Time leaves off. Here, Rudwick takes readers from the post-Napoleonic Restoration in Europe to the early years of Britain’s Victorian age, chronicling the staggering discoveries geologists made during the period: the unearthing of the first dinosaur fossils, the glacial theory of the last ice age, and the meaning of igneous rocks, among others. Ultimately, Rudwick reveals geology to be the first of the sciences to investigate the historical dimension of nature, a model that Charles Darwin used in developing his evolutionary theory. Featuring an international cast of colorful characters, with Georges Cuvier and Charles Lyell playing major roles and Darwin appearing as a young geologist, Worlds Before Adam is a worthy successor to Rudwick’s magisterial first volume. Completing the highly readable narrative of one of the most momentous changes in human understanding of our place in the natural world, Worlds Before Adam is a capstone to the career of one of the world’s leading historians of science.