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1) Panic
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"In the poor town of Carp, New York, a group of teens enters a high-stakes game that involves a series of secretive, possibly deadly challenges throughout the summer, with the winner receiving more than $50,000--enough money to start a new life"--
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Mother Panic volume 7
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MOTHER PANIC VOL. 2: UNDER HER SKIN is the latest chapter in the action-packed series from the acclaimed creative team of Jody Houser, John Paul Leon, Shawn Crystal and DC's Young Animal mastermind Gerard Way! Before she was Violet Paige, the wild-child toast of Gotham City's social scene…and before she was Mother Panic, the white-clad terror of its richest, most untouchable criminals… She was Seventeen, a tortured experimental subject in the...
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Mother Panic volume 1
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There's a new vigilante on the streets of Gotham City, and she's got her own brand of violent justice. Enter Mother Panic! By day, Violet Paige is a celebutante with a bad attitude and a temper to match, whom no one suspects of having anything lying beneath the surface of her outrageous exploits. But Violet isn't just another bored heiress in the upper echelons of Gotham City's elite. Motivated by her traumatic youth, Violet seeks to exact vengeance...
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Two months after Sunan, Sousuke and Kaname are in a holding pattern. He'll fire his rifle off the school roof, she'll yell at him to stop, lather, rinse, repeat. That all changes one day, when Sousuke's commanding officer Teletha "Tessa" Testarossa shows up at his apartment, trying to hide a key to a terrorist superweapon of unprecedented power. Tessa is brilliant, pretty, and the same age as Sousuke, and her presence might put a serious crimp on...
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What does archaeology student Danielle Herring discover in the shadows of her family tree? Corruption, murder, sex, and a serial killer ring. She's the only biological heir to an estate, things should be simple, right? She's accompanied by the family attorney, Stephen Briggs, on what she thinks is a quick will-reading in Truth or Consequences, New Mexico.She doesn't count on one of the conditions of the will including a hot-blooded-make that a HOT!-Veterinarian...
6) Glen Cove
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A romance writer unable to trust runs into a business owner not looking for love. When they meet, sparks fly, tensions rise, and emotions flare. Julia's literary agent arranges a weekend trip for the young writer to conduct research at a club. Not just any club, a BDSM club. Arriving early, Julia encounters shirtless business owner, Alexander, who exudes power and sex appeal from every orifice of his sculpted, hard body.When an obsessed fan discovers...
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EC Archives Panic volume 7
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Panic is back at it again! This uproarious volume collects issues #7-12 of the madcap classic in glorious re-mastered color. Collects parody and pranks from a parade of comics greats: Al Feldstein, William Gaines, Jack Mendelsohn, Jack Davis, Joe Orlando, Wally Wood, and Bill Elder! With a foreword by the legendary Sergio Aragonés.
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EC Archives Panic volume 1
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Panic is on the attack! This volume reprints the first six issues of the madcap classic in glorious remastered color and assembles satires supreme from the splendid savvy of Sirs Al Feldstein, Jack Davis, Joe Orlando, Jack Kamen, Wally Wood, Bill Elder, and Basil Wolverton!
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As a former mercenary, Sagara Sousuke's ordinary student existence in Tokyo sometimes feels unreal. One day, he's mastering airsoft guns to battle the school's survival game club. The next, he's defending a convention of adorable mascots from a horde of angry metal-head hooligans. He'd like to help his friend, Chidori Kaname, escape her days of loneliness... but he might have to make do with helping her cleaning lady escape accusations of burglary!...
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Mother Panic Gotham A.D volume 1
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After the fallout of Milk Wars, Violet Paige finds herself in a Gotham City unlike any we have seen before...a Gotham City without Batman. From DC's Young Animal, the offbeat, grassroots mature-readers imprint spearheaded by Gerard Way.
Ten years into the future, in a world without a Batman, Gotham City has been taken over by the Collective, with Gala acting as Head of Citystate. In a high-tech town with zero tolerance for caped crusaders and masked...
11) Moral Regulation
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Commentators have long debated 'the moral' in ideas about moral panic, moral regulation and moral discourse. This byte teases out some of the fundamental moral questions that continue to perplex us, about life and death, good and evil, and sex and the body. With an appraisal of the work of one of the chief architects of moral panic ideas, Jock Young, it asks whether these ideas may help or hinder our understanding of these complex issues.
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This Byte offers readers insight into some of the central debates and questions about gender and the family, examined through the lens of moral panic. It begins with an overview of the part played by moral panics, together with an appraisal of the work of Stanley Cohen, one of the chief architects of moral panic ideas. Drawing on research and practice examples from different parts of the world, it explores interconnections between gender, class, 'race'...
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Childhood and youth have often been the targets of moral panic rhetoric. This Byte explores a series of pressing concerns about young people: child abuse, child pornography, child sexual exploitation, child trafficking and the concept of childhood. With an appraisal of the work of the influential thinker, Geoffrey Pearson, who wrote on deviance and young people, it draws attention to the moralising within these discourses and asks how we might do...
14) The State
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Many of the individual and social problems that are characterised as moral panics are, in reality, illustrations of a breakdown in the legitimacy of the state. This Byte picks up a number of case-study examples - internet pornography; internet radicalisation; 'chavs;' the Tottenham riots; patient safety - and explores each through the lens of moral panic ideas, with an appraisal of the work of Stuart Hall, one of the key thinkers in moral panics.
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