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Y: The Last Man, Vol. 10: Whys and Wherefores

23 reviews
Brian Vaughan

Vertigo, 2008

Wow
I used to think that Brian Vaughan was possibly one of the best comic book writers ever. Now I know he IS the best. Y has been an incredible ride, but often great journeys can make for disappointing endings. Not here. Everything that had been building in the previous 9 volumes pays off here. It's beautiful, sad, human, joyous and completely satisfying. Pia Guerra's art never looked better. It ...

Lady Cottington's Pressed Fairies

2 reviews
Terry Jones, 1998

Awesome
The watercolors in this book are beautiful and the story is great as well.

HYPNOTISM - The Whys and Wherefores of This Fascinating Science, from Its Ancient Origins to Its Modern ...

1 review
Walter B. Gibson

Castle Books, 1970

Good Basic Overview Concerning The Use & Abuse of Hypnotism in the Western World
While the black dust jacket with the kohl-lined eyes staring out of the murk evokes a crystal ball reader's room decorated in Early Gypsy Charlatan, the content of the book is a serious examination of various forms of hypnotism as it has existed throughout human history, with one of the early forms of hypnosis being the self-induced ecstatic states of primitive religious practitioners such as the ...

The 5 W's: Why?: An Omnium-Gatherum of World Wars & World Series, Superstitions & Psychoses, the Tooth Fairy ...
Erin McHugh

Sterling, 2005

Why do mosquitos love to bites us so much? Why does baseball have a seven-inning stretch? And why do some countries drive on the left of the road? Get the details and data needed to answer an incredible range of questions, from everyday queries to philosophical conundrums.

The Life and Opinions of Marcus Aurelius Wherefore

2 reviews
L. D. Clark

1st Books Library, 2000

Universality in a Regional Novel
L.D.Clark has written in Marcus Aurelius Wherefore a modern masterpiece in which a retired professor with a writer's block forces himself to pursue the writing of "the great American novel" on a computer with a cursor that becomes his muse, notes collected over a lifetime of teaching in a large Western University--all in disarray but containing a story of the quarrels and struggles of an English ...

Gardner's Whys & Wherefores

2 reviews
Martin Gardner

University Of Chicago Press, 1989

Lively treastise on math and science down through the ages.
Martin Gardner's best essays on math and science puzzles are compiled in Whys & Wherefores, a title which includes articles on the literary puzzles of other writers. His survey of other writers' science fiction concepts and other ideas of scientific change and wonders through the ages makes for a lively treatise.