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The Real Cost of Prisons Comix The Real Cost of Prisons Comix Lois Ahrens One out of every hundred adults in the U.S. is in prison. This book provides a crash course in what drives mass incarceration, the human and community costs, and how to stop the numbers from going ev… OL15190554W
A People’s History of American Empire A People’s History of American Empire Paul Buhle,Howard Zinn,Mike Konopacki,Paul Buhle In a comic form, this book tells the stories of America's actions in the world. It includes the events of 9/11 and then explores the cycles of US expansionism from Wounded Knee to Iraq. It also follo… OL15288124W
Housewives at Play Housewives at Play Rebecca Erotic artwork OL15679851W
The influencing machine The influencing machine Brooke Gladstone The cohost of NPR's "On the Media" narrates, in cartoon form, two millennia of history of the influence of the media on the populace, from newspapers in Caesar's Rome to the penny press of the Americ… OL16151732W
Health care reform Health care reform Jonathan Gruber "Health Care Reform: What It Is, Why It's Necessary, How It Works is a deeply informed, opinionated, immediately accessible explanation of why health care reform is essential, why the legislation Con… OL16461540W
When Jesus Wept When Jesus Wept Brock Thoene,Bodie Thoene LAZARUS—the man Jesus raised from the dead in one of the most extraordinary encounters with The Living Savior in all of Scripture. But the life of Lazarus holds interest well beyond this miraculous e… OL16814254W
Snowden Snowden Ted Rall From back cover: Edward James Snowden [worked] as a systems administrator at the National Security Agency's office in Honolulu. He had a cute house and a beautiful girlfriend. He lived in paradise. O… OL17601095W
Fun Home Fun Home Alison Bechdel A fresh and brilliantly told memoir from a cult favorite comic artist, marked by gothic twists, a family funeral home, sexual angst, and great books. This breakout book by Alison Bechdel is a dark… OL1835957W
Hip hop family tree Hip hop family tree Ed Piskor "Book 2 covers the early years of 1981-1983, when Hip Hop has made a big transition from the parks and rec rooms to downtown clubs and vinyl records. The performers make moves to separate themselves … OL19662522W
The secret loves of geek girls The secret loves of geek girls Marjorie M. Liu,Margaret Atwood,N.D. Stevenson,Hope Nicholson "The Secret Loves of Geek Girls is a non-fiction anthology mixing prose, comics, and illustrated stories on the lives and loves of an amazing cast of female creators. Featuring work by Margaret Atwoo… OL19670742W
Verax Verax Pratap Chatterjee "9/11 not only marked the worst domestic terror attack in U.S. history, but also unleashed electronic spying by the government on a massive worldwide scale. In a wholly original and engaging telling,… OL19722265W
Relish Relish Lucy Knisley "Lucy Knisley loves food. The daughter of a chef and a gourmet, this talented young cartoonist comes by her obsession honestly. In her forthright, thoughtful, and funny memoir, Lucy traces key episod… OL19964713W
War of streets and houses War of streets and houses Sophie Yanow An American artist witnesses the Quebec spring 2012 student strike on the streets of Montreal. The brutal police response and their violent tactics trigger an exploration of urban planning and its hi… OL19977846W
C.O.W.L. C.O.W.L. Kyle Higgins "The Chicago Organized Workers League once stood as a beacon of hope against an epidemic of organized crime and an unbeatable "brotherhood" of Super-Villains. Now, in 1962, the union faces a disillus… OL19988330W
Marx Marx Corinne Maier "Of the great political philosophers, few have had as profound and enduring an impact as Karl Marx. In this graphic biography by the creative super-team that brought us Freud, Maier and Simon provide… OL19992875W
Information now Information now Matt Upson Every day researchers face an onslaught of irrelevant, inaccurate, and sometimes insidious information. While new technologies provide powerful tools for accessing knowledge, not all information is c… OL20017198W
The madhouse effect The madhouse effect Tom Toles,Michael E. Mann "The Madhouse Effect portrays the intellectual pretzels into which denialists must twist logic to explain away the clear evidence that human activity has changed Earth's climate. Toles's cartoons col… OL20040781W
The abominable Mr. Seabrook The abominable Mr. Seabrook Joe Ollmann "In the early twentieth century, travel writing represented the desire for the expanding bourgeoisie to experience the exotic cultures of the world past their immediate surroundings. Journalist Willi… OL20050129W
The Vietnam War The Vietnam War Wayne Vansant,Dwight Jon Zimmerman When Senator Edward Kennedy declared, “Iraq is George Bush’s Vietnam,” everyone understood. The Vietnam War has become the touchstone for U.S. military misadventures—a war lost on the home front alth… OL3138831W
Dignifying Science Dignifying Science Jim Ottaviani Artwork by Marie Severin, Carla Speed McNeil, Jen Sorensen, Stephanie Gladden, Donna Barr, Roberta Gregory, Linda Medley, Lea Hernandez, Anne Timmons. OL64928W
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