Rockefeller was likely the most controversial businessman in our nation's history. Branded "the Octopus" by legions of muckrakers, the trust refined and marketed nearly 90 percent of the oil produced in America. A landmark publication full of startling revelations, the book will indelibly alter our image of this most enigmatic capitalist.īorn the son of a flamboyant, bigamous snake-oil salesman and a pious, straitlaced mother, Rockefeller rose from rustic origins to become the world's richest man by creating America's most powerful and feared monopoly, Standard Oil. Titan is the first full-length biography based on unrestricted access to Rockefeller's exceptionally rich trove of papers. as detailed, balanced, and psychologically insightful a portrait of the tycoon as we may ever have" (Kirkus Reviews). Now Ron Chernow, the National Book Award-winning biographer of the Morgan and Warburg banking families, gives us a history of the mogul "etched with uncommon objectivity and literary grace. Rockefeller, Sr.-history's first billionaire and the patriarch of America's most famous dynasty-is an icon whose true nature has eluded three generations of historians.
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A ragtag repair crew escape aboard the damaged ship, and the dire situation forces them to work together despite their differences. Two months later, the SC-37 is intercepted by the space station L-5, which subsequently is destroyed by a malfunctioning neutron reactor. The astronauts conduct experiments on the crystal and the alien, and are soon killed when their air supply is shut off. While the astronauts are away, the egg hatches, releasing a crystal and a slimy alien creature. In 2032, a crewed expedition to Mars discovers a mysterious egg buried under the planet's surface and brings it to their ship, the SC-37. Juston Campbell and Faye Bolt as a pair of astronauts who must survive against a mysterious alien lifeform seeking to kill them, while also facing dwindling supplies aboard their damaged shuttlecraft. Star Crystal is a 1986 science fiction film directed by Lance Lindsay. Marvel, of course, would not pay for those unused pages.Īnother issue is how much plot that the artist is given. The biggest drawback in this method is that if the artist didn't do a good enough of a job on the pages, the editor (in the case of Marvel, the editor was also the scripter of the issue) would have the artist redo pages until the story was "right." Joe Orlando once famously noted that he would often have to draw 25-30 pages to get the 20 pages for the story. After the pages are drawn, the scripter then adds dialogue to the drawn pages. The plot is typically derived via a story conference between the scripter and the artist. The Marvel Method, on the other hand, leaves the layout of the pages to the discretion of the artists, who are working from a more general plot. The artist then draws the pages based on the script. Likely the most common one (and, ironically enough, is the way that most Marvel Comics are written nowadays) is that the writer writes a script that explains what is going on on each page, along with the dialogue. Let us take a look!Īs a refresher, let's recap what we mean when we refer to the "Marvel Method." There are two notable ways to write a comic book. After first showing up in an the first Amazing Spider-Man Annual, the 19 annuals had a series of back-up stories in four different annuals that depicted the "Marvel Method" in action. However, the biggest time that the topic was addressed was in back-ups in Marvel Annuals in the 1960s. The boy graduates from the small fishing boat to work on a freighter where he proves himself by an act of valor while at sea where he risks his life in a storm. The father prohibits her from seeing the lower-class boy. Of course it’s understood that the daughter will marry one of the few other upper-class boys on the island. He falls in love with the newly arrived beautiful daughter of the wealthiest man on the island who owns a large freighter. The main character’s father died in WW II, so his work as a fisherman is the main support of his mother and young brother, although his mother is a diver. The island women are famous for their endurance diving to collect buckets of abalones, hopefully with an occasional pearl inside. Most of the men are fishermen going out daily in small 2-3-man boats. It’s a coming-of-age story of a young man on a small Japanese island. So imagine my surprise to find I’m reading a book about first love with a happy ending! (We know this from the blurbs on the cover, so I’m not really giving away plot.) The author himself headed up a ritualistic right-wing group and ended up committing ritual suicide. All have been dark, focused on planning secret rebellions, a planned murder, ritual suicide, death and reincarnation. I’ve read a half-dozen novels by this Japanese author. Sierra has just started summer break from school and she’s working on a mural in her neighborhood. I could have listened to everyone in this story talking to each other for about 500 more pages. But it’s also got a huge portion of my catnip because it includes so many different cultures so fluently, and because so many characters in the story were individuals, with unique voices, and there was plenty of dialogue for them. It’s a bit outside my reading tastes because it’s urban fantasy and it’s for teen readers, a vein of YA I haven’t read much of. Shadowshaper is a freaking incredible novel. NB: It’s Flashback Friday! Given Sarah’s recent love of Labyrinth Lost, it seemed fitting to resurrect another YA, urban fantasy with a diverse heroine that she happened to enjoy. This review was originally published July 15, 2015. Genre: Science Fiction/Fantasy, Young Adult There Titus meets home-schooled Violet, who thinks for herself, searches out news and asserts that "Everything we've grown up with-the stories on the feed, the games, all of that-it's all streamlining our personalities so we're easier to sell to." Without exposition, Anderson deftly combines elements of today's teen scene, including parties and shopping malls, with imaginative and disturbing fantasy twists. But everything changes when he and his pals travel to the moon for spring break. Teen narrator Titus never questions his world, in which parents select their babies' attributes in the conceptionarium, corporations dominate the information stream, and kids learn to employ the feed more efficiently in School™. In this chilling novel, Anderson ( Burger Wuss Thirsty) imagines a society dominated by the feed-a next-generation Internet/television hybrid that is directly hardwired into the brain. It may be targeted to YA readers, but you don't have to be a young adult to get absorbed in the fantastic world-building or the excellent illustrations, and Alek and Deryn as a duo are just way too good together to ignore. It's a series that started out good but disjointed, but has since become a rip-roaring adventure that's utterly difficult to book down. My Rating: ExcellentThis was an utterly enjoyable conclusion on so many different levels. The tension thickens as the Leviathan steams toward New York City with a homicidal lunatic onboard: secrets suddenly unravel, characters reappear, and nothing is at it seems in this thunderous conclusion to Scott Westerfeld’s brilliant trilogy. (She has to pose as a boy in order to serve in the British Airforce.) And if they weren’t technically enemies. And the love thing would be a lot easier if Alek knew Deryn was a girl. The first two objectives are complicated by the fact that their ship, the Leviathan, continues to detour farther away from the heart of the war (and crown). The premise: ganked from BN.com: Alek and Deryn are on the last leg of their round-the-world quest to end World War I, reclaim Alek’s throne as Prince of Austria, and finally fall in love. Please keep our original packing box until the damage claim has been cleared. You can always contact us for any return question at inspect your order upon reception and contact us immediately if the item is defective, damaged or if you receive the wrong item, so that we can evaluate the issue and make it right. Walt's Comic Shop cannot be made responsible for an eventual loss of the returned item. The buyer is responsible for careful packaging, shipping costs and insurance for the return shipping. Items sent back to us without first requesting a return will not be accepted. To start a return, please contact us first at If your return is accepted, we’ll give you instructions on how and where to send your package. For example, if the comic book was sealed, you must return it in sealed condition, if it was in a special case or box it must be returned in its original packaging, etc. To be eligible for a return, your item must be in the same condition that you received it. We have a 14-day return policy, which means you have 14 days after receiving your item to request a return. Sobel's training is universally praised in retrospect, but it was all the other things that made Sobel a hated man where Shames wasn't around to witness. Shames could not resent Sobel the same way that others did who lived through his pettiness. Shames started working at the battalion level after his battlefield commission, so he would have only ever known Sobel as a logistics officer. In this same interview, Shames said that Captain Sobel "was probably one of the better officers in the entire regiment" and criticizes Ambrose for vilifying Sobel. Shames ends up having some contrary opinions on other officers as well, but at the very least those could be rationalized through his point of view: I like Winters (for obvious reasons) and have enjoyed Shames' book, so in a perfect world I would like to think that this is all a "matter of perspective" instead of Winters actually being anti-Semitic or that Shames is off his rocker. I came across this 2014 interview with Ed Shames on YouTube and at ~55:49 he straight up accuses Winters of being an anti-Semite.which is disconcerting. In "The Mormon People, "religious historian Matthew Bowman peels back the curtain on more than 180 years of Mormon history and doctrine. One of the nascent faith's early initiates was a twenty-three-year-old Ohio farmer named Parley Pratt, the distant grandfather of Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney. In 1830, a young seer and sometime treasure hunter named Joseph Smith began organizing adherents into a new religious community that would come to be called the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (and known informally as the Mormons). With Mormonism on the verge of an unprecedented cultural and political breakthrough, an eminent scholar of American evangelicalism explores the history and reflects on the future of this native-born American faith and its connection to the life of the nation. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. Title: Mormon People: The Making of an American FaithĬlean, unmarked copy with some edge wear. |