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Iron Man or Captain America? Which one is superior-as a hero, as a role model, or as a personification of American virtue? Philosophers who take ...

''Deliciously dark and utterly addictive - my favourite Ruth Ware yet'' Lucy FoleyEveryone wanted her lifeSomeone wanted her dead It was Hannah wh...

For the better part of three decades romance comics were an American institution. Nearly 6000 titles were published between 1947 and 1977, and f...

Filiu and David B. draw striking parallels between ancient and contemporary political history in this look at the US-Middle East conflict.  The rea...

The Penguin Classics Marvel Collection presents the origin stories, seminal tales, and characters of the Marvel Universe to explore Marvel's transf...

The Penguin Classics Marvel Collection presents the origin stories, seminal tales, and characters of the Marvel Universe to explore Marvel's transf...

It is impossible to imagine American popular culture without Marvel Comics. For decades, Marvel has published groundbreaking visual narratives that...

The Penguin Classics Marvel Collection presents the origin stories, seminal tales, and characters of the Marvel Universe to explore Marvel's transf...

''To a great mind, nothing is little'' Sherlock HolmesSherlock Holmes has become such an iconic figure that he''s almost real. He''s on our TV scre...

The first look at the philosophy behind the Captain America comics and movies, publishing in advance of the movie release of Captain America: The W...

In the last hundred years between the invention of the microphone and the computer music has undergone a profound revolution. No longer confined ...

Daniel Smith looks behind what we think we know about the well-known sleuth and reveals little-known facts of which every Sherlock aficionado shoul...

The Discworld, as everyone knows, is a flat world balanced on the backs of four elephants which, in turn, stand on the shell of the giant star turt...