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The Odyssey of Sergeant Jack Brennan
\"This graphic novel uses an ancient story of conflict, displacement, and longing for home to draw attention to the plight of the modern soldier eve of returning home after a grueling tour in Afghanistan, Sgt. Jack Brennan gathers his troops together for one final chat. But instead of a simple farewell, Brennan tells his soldiers the story of Homeras \"Odyssey\" connecting their experiences to the ancient epic. For instance, post-conflict drug addiction is related to Odysseusas menas reluctance to leave the land of the lotus eaters, and erratic, stimulus-seeking behavior by soldiers suffering from PTSD is compared Elpinoras death by misadventure on the island of Circe.\"--Provided by publisher.
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Lawrence of Arabia in the Comics
[...]it shows Lawrence having destroyed one Turkish biplane with a flare gun and destroying a second plane by throwing a knife into its motor. [...]the author of this strange and kinky comic fails to explain Lawrence's personality development according to any coherent idea or logic, looking instead for every opportunity to graphically portray an invented sexual or sadistic scene however improbable. [...]once again, Lawrence's face as represented in this comic is not at all reminiscent of the face of the historical Lawrence. [...]the author tries to show how the apparently asexual Lawrence- who in this comic also holds high-minded views about equality between men and women and abhors slavery-becomes progressively less liberal, less virginal, and more sadistic as his role in Arabia deepens. (All the weaponry in this comic, incidentally, seems to be of the World War II or American Civil War but never World War I variety.) Deraa is not mentioned but what follows is obviously an imaginative interpretation of that incident.
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The dreamer. Vol.1, The battle of Brooklyn
17-year-old Bea Whaley begins having vivid dreams about a brave and handsome soldier named Alan Warren, who is a member of an elite group known as Knowlton's Rangers. Before long, Bea questions whether her dreams are just dreams or something more.
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Fast Tracks to Narrative Empathy: Anthropomorphism and Dehumanization in Graphic Narratives
[...]the depiction of facial expressions and bodily postures to convey emotional states (that may or may not be glossed verbally) calls upon readers' neural systems for recognition of basic emotions.7 Visual artists working in graphic narrative media adopt the culturally familiar versions of these human facial expressions and bodily postures in their anthropomorphized animal characters. All four make up a family that must stick together if they are to survive their trek across the hostile terrain of the invaded city. Because of the emphasis on the characters' weaknesses, the generic register owes as much to the picaresque mode of The Incredible Journey (1963), in which lost pets traverse the wilderness to be reunited with their human owners, as to the conventions of animal release narratives such as Born Free (1966) and Free Willy (1993), in which captive animals heroically (instinctively!) adapt to life in the wild. According to Paul Ekman's extension of Charles Darwin's The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals (1872), core universal emotions (anger, sadness, fear, surprise, disgust, contempt, and happiness) are observable from fleeting facial expressions.15 The art of the comic book can freeze these expressions in close-up frames that arrest time and enhance recognition of the subject's feelings (McCloud 130). Baseline dispositional empathy of subjects could be ascertained by administering the standard instrument for assessing subjects' empathy, Mark Davis's Interpersonal Reactivity Index (IRI), with special attention to the fantasy empathy scale. [...]experiments are carried out, with the cooperation of developmental psychologists expert in the relation of emotional responsiveness to moral development, literary scholars should make an effort to document as well as theorize the impact of emotionally evocative representations in graphic narratives and comics.
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The 'Stan
The 'Stan is a collection of short comics about America's longest war. Individual stories highlight different perspectives--including a Taliban ambassador and Afghan and U.S. Army soldiers--but every account highlights the human element of war. The tales in this book--based on reporting by David Axe and Kevin Knodell and drawn by artist Blue Delliquanti--are all true and took place in roughly the first decade of the U.S. military intervention in Afghanistan. While the stories are from the recent past, The 'Stan is still very much about Afghanistan's and America's present--and likely their future
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Improving Care to Prevent Suicide Among People with Serious Mental Illness
Suicide prevention initiatives are part of much broader systems connected to activities such as the diagnosis of mental illness, the recognition of clinical risk, improving access to care, and coordinating with a broad range of outside agencies and entities around both prevention and public health efforts. Yet suicide is also an intensely personal issue that continues to be surrounded by stigma.
On September 11-12, 2018, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine held a workshop in Washington, DC, to discuss preventing suicide among people with serious mental illness. The workshop was designed to illustrate and discuss what is known, what is currently being done, and what needs to be done to identify and reduce suicide risk. Improving Care to Prevent Suicide Among People with Serious Mental Illness summarizes presentations and discussions of the workshop.
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Tales of honor. Volume 2, Bred to kill
An amazing new entry in the Honorverse mythos, Interesting...stylistically sound. The first ever original comic book tale set in David Weber's Honorverse! Following the success of Tales of Honor vol 1, which explored the origins of Weber's military heroine, the eponymous Honor Harrington, this second volume finds Honor is a never-before-seen adventure. On the leisure station Eros, naval commander Honor Harrington's roguish uncle has gone missing...under very mysterious circumstances. In the absence of actual shore leave, it's up to Honor and her crewmen, officers Horace Harkness and Scotty Tremaine, with the help of her pet Treecat, Nimitz, to infiltrate Eros and uncover a mystery of galactic proportions! But what they find will extend far beyond a simple kidnapping, and will push Honor and her crew to their absolute limits...and then some. Written by Matt Hawkins and Dan Wickline, with art from rising star Linda Sejic, this is one series that Scifi-fans - familiar with the Honorverse or not - won't want to miss. It collects Tales of Honor: Bred to Kill numbered 0-4.
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Truth Made Visible: Crises of Cultural Expression in \Truth: Red, White, and Black\
Robert Morales and Kyle Baker's 2004 graphic novel Truth: Red, White, and Black incorporates the visual vocabularies of social realism and a grotesque cartoon style in order to represent the devastating experiences of African Americans during World War II. The book's revisionist version of the Captain America mythology depicts a black Captain, Isaiah Bradley, as not only the successful product of an experiment with super-soldier serum but also a would-be savior of Jewish concentration-camp inmates. The story both reveals the subversive potential of the Captain America story and challenges the traditions in which characters of color have been excluded from superheroic accounts of American culture by invoking some of the many real-world histories that shape accurate wartime accounts. Morales and Baker depict such histories through moments of cultural crisis, when racial identities visually oversignify the graphic boundaries that attempt to contain them, highlighting the interracial foundation of contemporary American literature.
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Squire
From two incredible rising talents comes the fantasy graphic novel Molly Knox Ostertag calls \"instantly compelling.\" Aiza has always dreamt of becoming a Knight. It's the highest military honor in the once-great Bayt-Sajji Empire, and as a member of the subjugated Ornu people, Knighthood is her only path to full citizenship. Ravaged by famine and mounting tensions, Bayt-Sajji finds itself on the brink of war once again, so Aiza can finally enlist in the competitive Squire training program. It's not how she imagined it, though. Aiza must navigate new friendships, rivalries, and rigorous training under the unyielding General Hende, all while hiding her Ornu background. As the pressure mounts, Aiza realizes that the \"greater good\" that Bayt-Sajji's military promises might not include her, and that the recruits might be in greater danger than she ever imagined. In this breathtaking and timely story, Aiza will have to choose, once and for all: loyalty to her heart and heritage, or loyalty to the Empire.
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