Battle Royale Slam Book

Author: Various Haikasoru
Publisher: VIZ Media LLC
ISBN: 1421577011
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 146

Book Description
Koushun Takami’s Battle Royale is an international best seller, the basis of the cult film, and the inspiration for a popular manga. And fifteen years after its initial release, Battle Royale remains a controversial pop culture phenomenon. Join New York Times best-selling author John Skipp, Batman screenwriter Sam Hamm, Philip K. Dick Award-nominated novelist Toh EnJoe, and an array of writers, scholars, and fans in discussing girl power, firepower, professional wrestling, bad movies, the survival chances of Hollywood’s leading teen icons in a battle royale, and so much more! -- VIZ Media

Battle Royale

Author: Kōshun Takami
Publisher: Viz Media
ISBN: 9781569317785
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 628

Book Description
This classic yet controversial Japanese novel is available for the first time in English--a high-octane thriller about senseless youth violence that is a potent allegory of what it means to be young and survive in today's dog-eat-dog world.

Erased, Vol. 2

Author: Kei Sanbe
Publisher: Yen Press LLC
ISBN: 0316468495
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 196

Book Description
After his mother's death triggers his Revival ability, Satoru finds himself 18 years in the past! While he's relieved to see his mother and his old friends again, his thoughts are focused on future kidnapping and murder victim Hinazuki Kayo. Putting his plan to save her in motion, he starts a conversation with her. However, he finds himself at a loss for words when Kayo asks him a shocking question... "Would you kill for me?"

The Spitz Master

Author: Gregory Clark
Publisher: Getty Publications
ISBN: 0892367121
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 106

Book Description
Clark examines the book of hours in the context of medieval culture, the book trade in Paris, and the role of Paris as an international center of illumination. 64 illustrations, 40 in color.

Battle Royale: The Novel

Author: Koushun Takami
Publisher: Haikasoru
ISBN: 9781421527727
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
In an alternative future Japan, junior high students are forced to fight to the death! L to R (Western Style). Koushun Takami's notorious high-octane thriller is based on an irresistible premise: a class of junior high school students is taken to a deserted island where, as part of a ruthless authoritarian program, they are provided arms and forced to kill one another until only one survivor is left standing. Criticized as violent exploitation when first published in Japan--where it then proceeded to become a runaway bestseller--Battle Royale is a Lord of the Fliesfor the 21st century, a potent allegory of what it means to be young and (barely) alive in a dog-eat-dog world. Made into a controversial hit movie of the same name, Battle Royale is already a contemporary Japanese pulp classic, now available for the first time in the English language. A group of high school students are taken to small isolated island and forced to fight each other until only one remains alive! If they break the rules a special collar blows their heads off. Koushun Takami's brutal, high-octane thriller is told in breathless. blow-by-blow fashion. Battle Royale is a contemporary Japanese pulp classic now available for the first time in English.

An Historical and Moral View of the Origin and Progress of the French Revolution

Author: Mary Wollstonecraft
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : France
Languages : en
Pages : 550

Book Description

Luxury Arts of the Renaissance

Author: Marina Belozerskaya
Publisher: Getty Publications
ISBN: 0892367857
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 292

Book Description
Today we associate the Renaissance with painting, sculpture, and architecture—the “major” arts. Yet contemporaries often held the “minor” arts—gem-studded goldwork, richly embellished armor, splendid tapestries and embroideries, music, and ephemeral multi-media spectacles—in much higher esteem. Isabella d’Este, Marchesa of Mantua, was typical of the Italian nobility: she bequeathed to her children precious stone vases mounted in gold, engraved gems, ivories, and antique bronzes and marbles; her favorite ladies-in-waiting, by contrast, received mere paintings. Renaissance patrons and observers extolled finely wrought luxury artifacts for their exquisite craftsmanship and the symbolic capital of their components; paintings and sculptures in modest materials, although discussed by some literati, were of lesser consequence. This book endeavors to return to the mainstream material long marginalized as a result of historical and ideological biases of the intervening centuries. The author analyzes how luxury arts went from being lofty markers of ascendancy and discernment in the Renaissance to being dismissed as “decorative” or “minor” arts—extravagant trinkets of the rich unworthy of the status of Art. Then, by re-examining the objects themselves and their uses in their day, she shows how sumptuous creations constructed the world and taste of Renaissance women and men.

Battle Royale Ultimate Edition

Author: Koushun Takami
Publisher: TokyoPop
ISBN: 9781427807533
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 632

Book Description
"Parental advisory explicit content" -- p. [1] of cover.

Mapping the Ottomans

Author: Palmira Brummett
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107090776
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 385

Book Description
This book examines how Ottomans were mapped in the narrative and visual imagination of early modern Europe's Christian kingdoms.

The Royale

Author: Marco Ramirez
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1783198575
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 158

Book Description
‘Ain’t about bein’ no Heavyweight Champion of the White World. It’s about bein’ Champion, period.’ Jay ‘The Sport’ Jackson dreams of being the undisputed heavyweight champion of the world. But it’s 1905 and, in the racially segregated world of boxing, his chances are as good as knocked out. When a boxing promoter hatches a plan for the ‘Fight of theCentury’, The Sport might land a place in the ring with the reigning white heavyweight champion, but at what cost? It’s not just a retired champ he’s facing, it’s ‘The Great White Hope’. In daring to realise his dream, is Jay responsible for putting African American lives in the danger zone? Told in six rounds and set in a boxing ring, The Royale is inspired by the often overlooked story of Jack Johnson, a boxer who – at the height of the Jim Crow era – became the most famous and the most notorious black man on Earth.