Blade of the Immortal returns in deluxe hardcover editions, collecting Hiroaki Samura's epic series for the first time in its original 7x10 serialized format. A cursed, seemingly immortal warrior aids a young girl in her quest for revenge, as the students of a brutal new sword school tear a bloody path across Japan. Hiroaki Samura's massive manga series spawned two anime adaptations, a spinoff novel, an art book, and a live-action film! Samura's storytelling tour-de-force also won Japan's Media Arts Award, several British Eagle Awards, and an Eisner Award, among other international accolades. Intense and audacious, Blade takes period samurai action and deftly combines it with a modernist street idiom to create a style and mood like no other work of graphic fiction. Collects Blade of the Immortal volumes 1 to 3 in the original 7x10 serialized format, in a faux-leather hardcover treatment, and with a bookmark ribbon.

This unique and meticulously edited collection of Stephen Crane's greatest works includes: Novels and Novellas:_x000D_ The Red Badge of Courage_x000D_ Maggie: A Girl of the Streets_x000D_ George's Mother_x000D_ The Third Violet_x000D_ Active Service_x000D_ The Monster_x000D_ The O'Ruddy_x000D_ Short Stories:_x000D_ The Little Regiment and Other Episodes from the American Civil War:_x000D_ The Little Regiment_x000D_ Three Miraculous Soldiers_x000D_ A Mystery of Heroism_x000D_ An Indiana Campaign_x000D_ A Grey Sleeve_x000D_ The Veteran_x000D_ The Open Boat and Other Stories:_x000D_ The Open Boat_x000D_ A Man and Some Others_x000D_ The Bride comes to Yellow Sky_x000D_ The Wise Men_x000D_ The Five White Mice_x000D_ Flanagan and His Short_x000D_ Filibustering Adventure_x000D_ Horses_x000D_ Death and the Child_x000D_ An Experiment in Misery_x000D_ The Men in the Storm_x000D_ The Dual that was not Fought_x000D_ An Ominous Baby_x000D_ A Great Mistake_x000D_ An Eloquence of Grief_x000D_ The Auction_x000D_ The Pace of Youth_x000D_ A Detail_x000D_ Blue Hotel_x000D_ His New Mittens_x000D_ Whilomville Stories:_x000D_ The Angel Child_x000D_ Lynx-Hunting_x000D_ The Lover and the Telltale_x000D_ "Showin' Off"_x000D_ Making an Orator_x000D_ Shame_x000D_ The Carriage-Lamps_x000D_ The Knife_x000D_ The Stove_x000D_ The Trial, Execution, and Burial of Homer Phelps_x000D_ The Fight_x000D_ The City Urchin and the Chaste Villagers_x000D_ A Little Pilgrimage_x000D_ Wounds in the Rain – War Stories:_x000D_ The Price of the Harness_x000D_ The Lone Charge of William B. Perkins_x000D_ The Clan of No-Name_x000D_ God Rest Ye, Merry Gentlemen_x000D_ The Revenge of the Adolphus_x000D_ The Sergeant's Private Madhouse_x000D_ Virtue in War_x000D_ Marines Signalling under Fire at Guantanamo_x000D_ This Majestic Lie_x000D_ War Memories_x000D_ The Second Generation_x000D_ Great Battles of the World:_x000D_ Vittoria_x000D_ The Siege of Plevna_x000D_ The Storming of Burkersdorf Heights_x000D_ A Swede's Campaign in Germany_x000D_ The Storming of Badajoz_x000D_ The Brief Campaign Against New Orleans_x000D_ The Battle of Solferino_x000D_ The Battle of Bunker Hill_x000D_ Last Words:_x000D_ The Reluctant Voyagers_x000D_ Spitzbergen Tales_x000D_ Wyoming Valley Tales_x000D_ London Impressions_x000D_ New York Sketches_x000D_ The Assassins in Modern Battles_x000D_ Irish Notes_x000D_ Sullivan County Sketches_x000D_ Miscellaneous_x000D_ Other Short Stories_x000D_ Poetry:_x000D_ The Black Riders and Other Lines_x000D_ War is Kind

In announcing that he had stopped serving the fattened livers of force-fed ducks and geese at his world-renowned restaurant, influential chef Charlie Trotter heaved a grenade into a simmering food fight, and the Foie Gras Wars erupted. He said his morally minded menu revision was meant merely to raise consciousness, but what was he thinking when he also suggested -- to Chicago Tribune reporter Mark Caro -- that a rival four-star chef 's liver be eaten as "a little treat"? The reaction to Caro's subsequent front-page story was explosive, as Trotter's sizable hometown moved to ban the ancient delicacy known as foie gras while an international array of activists, farmers, chefs and politicians clashed forcefully and sometimes violently over whether fattening birds for the sake of scrumptious livers amounts to ethical agriculture or torture. "Take a dish with a funny French name, add ducks, top it all off with celebrity chefs eating each other's livers, and that's entertainment," Caro writes. Yet as absurd as battling over bloated waterfowl organs might seem, the controversy struck a serious chord even among those who had never tasted the stuff. Reporting from the front lines of this passionate dining debate, Caro explores the questions we too often avoid: What is an acceptable amount of suffering for an animal that winds up on our plate? Is a duck that lives comfortably for twelve weeks before enduring a few weeks of periodic force-feedings worse off than a supermarket broiler chicken that never sees the light of day over its six to seven weeks on earth? Why is the animal-rights movement picking on such a rarefied dish when so many more chickens, pigs and cows are being processed on factory farms? Then again, how could the treatment of other animals possibly justify the practice of feeding a duck through a metal tube down its throat? In his relentless yet good-humored pursuit of clarity, Caro takes us to the streets where activists use bullhorns, spray paint, Superglue and/or lawsuits as their weapons; the government chambers where politicians weigh the ducks' interests against their own; the restaurants and outlaw dining clubs where haute cuisine preparations coexist with Foie-lipops; and the U.S. and French farms whose operators maintain that they are honoring tradition, not abusing animals. Can foie gras survive after 5,000 years? Are we on the verge of a more enlightened era of eating? Can both answers be yes? Our appetites hang in the balance.