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Journal articles on the topic "Action-adventure books"

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Tough, Alistair. "Papers of Frederick R. Burnham (1861-1947) in the Hoover Institution Archives." History in Africa 12 (1985): 385–87. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/3171734.

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Indian fighter, explorer, scout, soldier and hero: during Frederick Burnham's life he filled all of these roles. Consequently a myth grew up around him cultivated by various “real-life adventure story books” in which he featured, and his own autobiography in which he stressed the more adventurous aspects of his life. The adventurous aspects of his career are, indeed, not without significance. For example, it was Burnham who killed the Mlimo during the Ndebele War of 1897 and this action may well have had an important effect on the morale of Ndebele fighters. Nevertheless, Burnham's career as a
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Ellermann, Marissa. "Book Review: ’80s Action Movies on the Cheap: 284 Low Budget, High Impact Pictures." Reference & User Services Quarterly 57, no. 4 (2018): 300. http://dx.doi.org/10.5860/rusq.57.4.6711.

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’80s Action Movies on the Cheap: 284 Low Budget, High Impact Pictures is a work that sets out to examine the evolution of action movies from their cheesy low-budget origins and how they influenced the development of the action film genre. The author states that his interest in exploring the topic stems from his belief that the 1980s was the birth of the modern-day action film (1). There are 284 entries arranged chronologically that examine the films’ plots and their influencers. The entries have an informal tone, but they are well researched and use examples from other film genres to make conn
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Crossley, Laura. "An Absence of Modesty: The Male/Female Dichotomy inModesty Blaise." Journal of British Cinema and Television 15, no. 3 (2018): 357–74. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/jbctv.2018.0427.

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This article examines the figure of Modesty Blaise as an action heroine in the canon of British espionage texts. It argues that the character and her stories offer multiple, liminal spaces for investigating and challenging ideas about gender, nation and class. It also addresses the current landscape of action-adventure films at a time when there are increased calls for more female-centric vehicles and gender-blind casting. While the gender politics of the Modesty Blaise franchise make for fascinating analysis, they are also played out against a backdrop of global politics. This can be seen in
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Fawcett, Christina, and Steven Kohm. "Carceral violence at the intersection of madness and crime in Batman: Arkham Asylum and Batman: Arkham City." Crime, Media, Culture: An International Journal 16, no. 2 (2019): 265–85. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1741659019865298.

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The action-adventure video games Batman: Arkham Asylum (2009) and Batman: Arkham City (2011) draw on familiar comic book narratives, themes and characters to situate players in a world of participatory violence, crime and madness. In the first game, the player-as-Batman is situated in Arkham Asylum, a high-security facility for the criminally insane and supervillains that also temporarily houses a general population of prisoners from Blackgate Penitentiary. The elision of criminality and mental illness becomes amplified in the second game with the establishment of Arkham City, a combined facil
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Hewson, Claire, Eileen Jones, John Davis, Viv Hampshire, Martin Bailey, and Claire Hewson. "ReviewsThe Burp that saved the World By Mark Griffiths and Maxine Lee Simon and Schuster ISBN: 978-1471124792 Cost: £6.99 Feelings can be friends Written and illustrated by Gail Maisel Panoma Press ISBN: 978-1-9079623262 Cost: £5.99 Descriptosaurus (Ghost Stories/Action and Adventure) By Alison WilcoxDavid Fulton/Francis Taylor Books ISBN: 978-1138858732 Cost: £18.99 Alfie Outdoors By Shirley Hughes Bodley Head ISBN: 978-178230031 Cost: £11.99 (hardback) App of the month: Time Daydream Education £2.99 For Apple devices or can be purchased as part of its Maths Tutor platform which contains all its Numeracy apps Ten Spooky Skeletons: a peek-through picture book By Garry Parsons Caterpillar Books, Little Tiger Press, 2015 ISBN: 978-1848574519 Cost: £10.99 (hardback)." Primary Teacher Update 2015, no. 51 (2015): 56–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.12968/prtu.2015.51.56.

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BCR, Jayda. "Maximum Ride Book 1: The Angel Experiment by J. Patterson." Deakin Review of Children's Literature 6, no. 2 (2016). http://dx.doi.org/10.20361/g2hk6f.

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Patterson, James. Maximum Ride Book 1: The Angel Experiment. New York: Little Brown, 2005. Print. This book has all of my favorite things to read about. Action, adventure and people who can fly. I also like books with people who have powers too.Max and her family are experiments. They are 98% human and they can fly. There are other experiments too! There called Erasers and they're part human and part wolf but all predator.I would change nothing. Nothing. And nothing about this book. I would rate it at five! IT’S THE BEST! If there was a choice of 100, that’s what I would choose. Highly recomme
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BCR, Tyrone. "Bone: 2 by J. Smith & S. Hamaker." Deakin Review of Children's Literature 6, no. 2 (2016). http://dx.doi.org/10.20361/g2r31w.

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Smith, Jeff, and Steve Hamaker. Bone: 2. New York, NY: Graphix-Scholastic, 2005. Print.The book I chose was Bone the Great Cow Race. The book was written by Jeff Smith and published by Scholastic Inc in 2005.The book is about Fone Bone and his cousins trying to return home but his cousins Phoney and Smiley get caught trying to win a race. I liked the action and adventure in the story as well as the illustrations. The story was easy to follow and easy to read, as well as entertaining.I didn't like how some of the sentences were longer than others, because it made them hard to follow. The longer
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Quaiattini, Andrea. "Rocky Mountain 123s by J. Asnong." Deakin Review of Children's Literature 7, no. 2 (2017). http://dx.doi.org/10.20361/g21q2z.

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Asnong, Jocey. Rocky Mountain 123s. Rocky Mountain Books, 2017.Though ultimately a basic counting book, Rocky Mountain 123s is a wholly whimsical and entertaining board book. Jocey Asnong, inspired by the beautiful surroundings of her home in Canmore, Alberta, takes readers on a numerical romp through the Rocky Mountains. Rocky Mountain 123s perfectly accompanies Asnong’s 2016 board book Rocky Mountain ABCs, with both books using the action and adventure of the great outdoors to teach the most foundational lessons to children.Though there is no overarching narrative, a page is a little story u
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Holwerda, Leslie. "The Grave Robber’s Apprentice by A. Stratton." Deakin Review of Children's Literature 2, no. 3 (2012). http://dx.doi.org/10.20361/g2rp58.

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Stratton, Allan. The Grave Robber’s Apprentice. Toronto: Harper Collins Publishers Limited, 2012. Print. The Grave Robber’s Apprentice is a dark tale of the vilest sorcerer and the most sinister Archduke who constantly orchestrate unsettling dangers that protagonists Hans and Angela must endure to save themselves and their families. In this beautifully crafted literary tale, Stratton offers first a found child tossed into the sea in a box emblazoned with a strange crest and jewels, the child bears an eagle birthmark on his shoulder. We next meet Knobbe the Bent, a grave robber, who finds the b
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Roche, Matilda. "The Enchantress by S. Michael." Deakin Review of Children's Literature 2, no. 4 (2013). http://dx.doi.org/10.20361/g29k56.

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Scott, Michael. The Enchantress, New York : Delacourte Press , 2012. Print. Michael Scott's sixth, and final, book in his Nicholas Flamel series crashes to its conclusion with The Enchantress. Credit is due to Scott for colourfully evoking and drawing together many of the very interesting figures and cultural artifacts from history and mythology but in conception his books can be overtaxing. Reading the glib dialogue between Shakespeare and Prometheus as their saucer-shaped air craft, a Vimāna, is piloted into the side of the Yggdrasil tree doesn't strain credulity - this is a fantasy adventur
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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Action-adventure books"

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Nováková, Jolana. "Podpora čtenářství u chlapců." Master's thesis, 2014. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-340488.

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in English Diploma thesis deals with the reading of boys. Specifies the needs of children in reading, especially the needs of boys. It characterizes dispositions of the reader and the influences that act on them. It summarizes the current situation of children's reading at home and abroad. Thesis mentions the reasons why focus just on reading of boys. It shows aspects that are important for boys in reading and further specifies them. Thesis recommends on how best work with boys and the texts in lessons. Based on research in MK in PRAGUE and interviews with boys lists the titles of the current
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Books on the topic "Action-adventure books"

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Abaddon books: Exteme action! excessive adventure! aggressive excitement! Abaddon Books, 2006.

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How to create action, fantasy, and adventure comics. North Light, 1996.

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Baltazar, Art. Aw yeah comics!: Action Cat & Adventure Bug. Dark Horse Comics, 2016.

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Ice. Mandarin, 1989.

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Johnstone, William W. A Texas Hill country Christmas. Thorndike Press Large Print, 2016.

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Waghorn, Terry. The system: A story of intrigue and market domination. Perseus Pub., 2002.

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MacLean, Alistair. Bear Island. HarperCollins, 2009.

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Vengeance at sundown. Berkley Books, 2014.

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Beware the Conqueror. Mills & Boon, 1985.

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ill, Almon Claire, ed. Everybody's favorite book. Imprint, 2018.

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Book chapters on the topic "Action-adventure books"

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Gaine, Vincent M. "‘Not now that strength’: Embodiment and Globalisation in Post-9/11 James Bond." In American Cinema in the Shadow of 9/11. Edinburgh University Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9781474413817.003.0007.

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Chapter Six, Vincent M. Gaine's analysis of perhaps the defining action-adventure series of the era (or of any era), the iconic figure of Ian Fleming’s James Bond in ‘"Not now that strength" Embodiment and Globalisation in Post 9/11 James Bond.’ In a dynamic investigation of Daniel Craig's four films as James Bond, from his first appearance in Casino Royale (2006) to his fourth film Spectre (2015), Gaine explores the thematic and stylistic variations undertaken in the Daniel Craig era. Craig's Bond, as Gaine astutely reveals, is as intrinsically connected to the post-9/11 decades as the first incarnation of the character played by Sean Connery was to the Cold War era in which the original books and films were written and set. In this chapter Gaine proposes that the Bond franchise, more than any other, given its longevity, is uniquely placed to observe changing cultural and socio-political trends. The Craig Bond emerges as a much more complicated figure than his predecessors, both emphatically masculine and yet at the same time distinctly fallible, but a resolutely more human figure because of it. Daniel Craig’s interpretation of the character, as Gaine observes, is a Bond who bleeds and one who is traumatised rather than a figure who glides almost effortlessly through his adventures hardly with a scratch, as he once did in the eras of Connery, Moore and Brosnan.
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