Manuel Garcia
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Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
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This open access book examines perceptions and dialogues between China and Europe by analysing strategic geopolitical sites which fostered commerce, consumption and socioeconomic networks between China and Europe through a particular case study: Macau, connecting with South China, and Marseille in Mediterranean Europe from 1680 to 1800. How did foreign merchant networks and trans‐national communities of Macau and Marseille operate during the eighteenth...
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Noble volume 10
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English
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David Powell has regained all his missing memories and reunited with his wife, Astrid, and their young son, Elijah. With the family back together, a new journey starts for David as he embarks on fully embracing his "Noble" persona, while Astrid's past begins to creep back into their lives in the form of a sinister new enemy. Meanwhile, David has to face a new foe of his own that challenges what it means to be "noble." Think being a superhero is hard?...
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Noble volume 12
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English
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David Powell continues to be tested as Noble, as strange disasters continue to pop up around the area, putting countless lives in danger. A mysterious new figure is playing puppet master from behind the curtain, and David is determined to find out who, or what, is causing the mayhem. Meanwhile, Astrid has to face a true monster from her and Lorena's past with the help of surprising new allies.
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Noble volume 11
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English
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David Powell has fully adopted his identity as the superhero Noble. Stopping bombs, saving lives, David continues to be both an inspiration to many and a potential threat to others. Astrid goes on her own, much more covert, mission to find Simon Simms and Jameela, two enhanced individuals who worked for Doctor Mayes. For both of them, their missions aren't so simple as "superhero" and "location." A new threat arises that directly challenges Noble's...
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Noble volume 14
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English
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All eyes are on Astrid Powell as she and her reconnaissance team home in on the ruthless and murderous Esparza. Now that he is within striking distance and the hammer is about to drop, Astrid must decide what to do with the unrepentant killer. Astrid's husband, a.k.a. Noble, has vowed to stay out of her way and let Astrid seal the fate of the man who nearly ruined her, but even vigilante violence seems too good for the seemingly inhuman man who has...
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X-Men Days of Future Past volume 1
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English
Description
Return to the future in a tale that reveals the events leading up to the timeless classic! In a world where mutants are more than simply hated and feared but not yet slain and apprehended, Senator Kelly's assassination comes to pass - bringing with it the Mutant Control Act and Sentinels on every corner. But with mutantkind on their back foot, what lengths will Kate Pryde, Wolverine, Colossus, Storm, Banshee, Angel, Cyclops, Professor X and the rest...
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Noble volume 16
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English
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David and Astrid Powell have dealt with more external, circumstantial drama than most couples could ever imagine, from Astrid's CIA-level job stress to David unexpectedly becoming a superhero while on a mission that nearly took his life. What they haven't had is any time to decompress and reconnect in the aftermath, and now that they're making time to see a counselor, it's not what they expected. It turns out they're not the only ones listening to...
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Noble volume 15
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English
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Meet David Powell-the bookish young kid from Houston's Fourth Ward. Obsessed with space, books, and trying a little too hard to please the older kids in his neighborhood, David is a young man searching for his footing in a world where kids who look like him often fall. Long before he became an astronaut-much less a superhero-tragedy struck David's life and set him on the path that will someday lead him to becoming Noble. Past, present, and fate collide-with...
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Noble volume 17
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English
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When the xenophobic new director of the FBI's Branch Seven sets his sites on David Powell, he sees nothing but opportunity-an opportunity to rein in any possible threat from the so-called "enhanced" individuals with super-human powers while publicly destroying the most powerful of all of them-the hero known as Noble. Now framed for a devastating false flag terrorist attack and running for their lives from the real perpetrators of that crime, David...
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English
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Former astronaut David Powell is coming to grips with his incredible and increasingly powerful superhuman abilities, and the world around him is reacting to seeing a Black man wielding such enormous power-but not everyone is a fan. As tensions rise among some factions of society and Noble endeavors to do whatever it takes to continue the life-saving work he is committed to, Astrid focuses her attention on the reemergence of a savage adversary. Foresight...
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Planet Hulk Worldbreaker volume 1
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English
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Return to Planet Hulk! A thousand years from now on Planet Sakaar, a high priestess fills a stone starship prison with small, green children - and a young woman with emerald skin searches for the legendary Green Scar to help save her brother from a group of apocalyptic cultists. But which Hulk will she find? And after all these centuries, is he truly the Sakaarson, who will save us all - or the Worldbreaker, who will destroy us? On a world broken...
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Noble volume 13
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English
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An encounter with the mysterious Orwell leaves David unable to control his powers, and the city turns against Noble, as the final pieces of Orwell's plan fall into place. Meanwhile, Astrid faces new threats in her pursuit of Esparza, and the trail of bodies he leaves behind him continues to grow.
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Bloodshot volume 4
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English
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You were born, raised, maybe even loved. And at some point, some evil bastards filled your head with dozens of false memories to motivate you, restrain you, control you. And oh, what they made you do in the name of national security... But what if one of those memories wasn't false? What if you had a real wife and a child somewhere in the world who thought you were dead? Wouldn't you go through seven kinds of violent hell to find them? Congrats. Your...
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Bloodshot volume 8
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English
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CHAINSAW EAT BLOODSHOT!
Bloodshot may be the best, but he wasn't the first. Bloodshot is taking his revenge on Project Rising Spirit-the secret quasi-government experimental division that created him - one body at a time. But nothing could have prepared him for what's waiting for him inside the Nursery. Deep underground, get ready to go to war with the band of misfit killers that Bloodshot used to call brothers-in-arms. Cleaner. Recon. Point. Gunner....
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Bloodshot volume 5
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English
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ALL-NEW ARC! Bloodshot is finally free of the memories that have haunted him since his awakening - but now even greater mysteries remain. Who was he before he was transformed into a walking weapon of mass destruction? And does he have a real family out there somewhere? Unfortunately, the only man with the answers is the former mastermind of Project Rising Spirit, Dr. Emmanuel Kuretich - and he's just struck a devil's bargain with Bloodshot. "Destroy...
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Bloodshot volume 9
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English
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There's no turning back now.
The man with a past he can't remember has to make one of the most difficult decisions of his life. Should he play the role of savior and unleash a force that could possibly destabilize the world? Or should he settle into the role he knows best - killer - and wipe the slate clean, once and for all? Full of shocks, heart-stopping action and more backstabbing than a dozen productions of Julius Caesar, Bloodshot has his finger...
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Bloodshot volume 6
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English
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What dark secret connects Project Rising Spirit and Toyo Harada's Harbinger Foundation?
Bloodshot is the creation of Project Rising Spirit, and for years they've loaned him out to the U.S. government for the kinds of insane, blood-splattered missions that only a nanite-enhanced commando could possibly survive. But those will be nothing compared to the horrors that await him inside the heavily fortified walls of PRS itself, whose subterranean levels...
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Armorclads volume 2
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English
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Looking for answers about what happened with Sgt. Troy, the Major and his Armorclads remove the Ironclads from Outpost 12, taking Peris in for questioning and reassigning the others. But with the remaining Ironclads en route to a new outpost, the deadly Legionnaires strike, leaving Lela and her friends caught in the crossfire.
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Armorclads volume 1
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English
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Explore a brand new corner of the Valiant Universe!
In a distant solar system, advanced mechs known as Armorclads are used to fight wars and build worlds. On Xeru, genetically engineered workers live out their short lives mining a valuable mineral called The Pure in construction-class mechs known as Ironclads. When one of their own is killed, the Ironclads' world is turned upside down and they defy their oppressors. Along the way, they'll discover...
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Bloodshot volume 3
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English
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Heroes aren't born. They're built.
You have no name, just a project designation. They call you Bloodshot, but the voices inside your head call you "daddy, "sir," "commander," "comrade" - whatever it takes to motivate you to get the job done. But after so many missions and so many lives, you're finally ready to confront your handlers at Project Rising Spirit and find out who you really are. You'd better move quickly though, because your former masters...