Combined here are "Maus I: A Survivor's Tale" and "Maus II" - the complete story of Vladek Spiegelman and his wife, living and surviving in Hitler's Europe. By addressing the Holocaust through cartoons the author captures the everyday reality of fear and the sensation of survival.
The second volume of an epic, beautifully illustrated graphic history of humankind, based on Yuval Noah Harari''s internationally bestselling phenomenon When nomadic Homo sapiens settled to live in one place, they started working harder and harder. But why didn''t they get a better life in return? In The Pillars of Civilisation , Yuval Noah Harari and his companions including Prof. Saraswati and Dr. Fiction travel the length and breadth of human history to investigate how the Agricultural Revolution changed society forever. Discover how wheat took over the world, how war, famine, disease and inequality became a part of the human condition, and why we might only have ourselves to blame. The origins of modern farming are told through Elizabethan tragedy, the changing fortunes of domesticated plants and animals are tracked in the columns of the Daily Business News, and the history of inequality is revealed in a superhero detective story. A radical, witty and colourful retelling of the story of humankind, adapted from Yuval Noah Harari''s Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind , Volume 2 can be read as a standalone or as a follow-up to Volume 1, The Birth of Humankind .
Bad Island est un roman graphique sans mots illustré de 80 planches en lithographie de l'artiste Stanley Donwood, connu principalement pour sa collaboration artistique durable avec le groupe Radiohead. Planche par planche le lecteur est imergé dans une parabole qui rend d'abord hommage à la nature primaire d'une île déserte pour ensuite raconter l'industrialisation et la ruine de cet univers parfait. La thématique environnementale est centrale dans cette oeuvre qui témoigne des préoccupations de son artiste.
The brilliant graphic memoir of growing up in Iran during and after the Islamic revolution.
The intelligent and outspoken child of radical Marxists, and the great-grandaughter of Iran''s last emperor, Satrapi bears witness to a childhood uniquely entwined with the history of her country. Persepolis paints an unforgettable portrait of daily life in Iran and of the bewildering contradictions between home life and public life. This is a beautiful and intimate story full of tragedy and humour - raw, honest and incredibly illuminating.
Includes The Story of a Childhood and The Story of a Return
George Orwell (Author) Eric Arthur Blair (1903-1950), better known by his pen-name, George Orwell, was born in India, where his father worked for the Civil Service. An author and journalist, Orwell was one of the most prominent and influential figures in twentieth-century literature. His unique political allegory Animal Farm was published in 1945, and it was this novel, together with the dystopia of Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949), which brought him world-wide fame. His novels and non-fiction include Burmese Days, Down and Out in Paris and London, The Road to Wigan Pier and Homage to Catalonia . Odyr (Illustrator) Odyr was born in 1967 in Brazil. He is a comics artist and painter, whose books include Copacabana and Guadalupe . His work has been included in several anthologies and his short stories and illustrations have been published in many Brazilian magazines and newspapers.
