New Releases by Mark Morales

150 ANNI PRIMA DELLA CADUTA DEL FARO STARLIGHT! Jedha. La Luna del pellegrino. Il Cuore di Kyber. Le tensioni nella città sacra per la Forza stanno aumentando e all’orizzonte si vedono arrivare giorni bui. Il Jedi Vildar Mac arriva su Jedha proprio mentre la fragile pace inizia a sgretolarsi, nel Consesso che riunisce tutte le credenze della Forza. Basterà l’aiuto della Padawan Matthea Cathley a scoprire chi sia l’autore di tutti i furti di reliquie sacre che si stanno moltiplicando nella città sacra? E perché tutte le strade portano al Tempio dei Whill? [CONTIENE: STAR WARS: THE HIGH REPUBLIC (2022) #1-5]

Mentre la galassia si prepara per celebrare la Fiera della Repubblica su Valo, una battaglia cruenta si sta combattendo nello Spazio Selvaggio e i Jedi del Faro Starlight devono unire le forze con il clan criminale degli Hutt facendo fronte comune contro l''inarrestabile orda dei Drengir. E mentre Avar Kriss e i suoi nuovi infidi alleati affrontano queste creature da incubo su un aspro mondo vulcanico, la giovane Jedi Keeve Trennis dovrà rischiare il tutto per tutto per salvare il suo ex maestro dall''oscurità che lo sta inghiottendo. [CONTIENE: STAR WARS: THE HIGH REPUBLIC (2021) #6-10.]

A collection of poems reflecting on growing up as a NuyoRican in Brooklyn, NY during the 90s. An exploration of my childhood, mental health, relationships, social issues and struggles with personal demons, "Under The Tilted Cap" examines issues that men do not address regularly. It challenges the ideals of The Alpha Male, Machismo and Stigma, relating them through the generations of a family that evolved through the Puerto Rican diaspora from the 1940s and through the 1970s. Aimed at enlightening, empowering and educating, "Under The Tilted Cap" is a poetic chronicle of experiences that seeks to shed light on things such as divorce, colorism & privilege, mental health and emotional expression, issues that were long discouraged from being spoken about in communities of color.

Rencontre décisive entre les Avengers et Ultron. Dans le passé et le présent, les Avengers affrontent Ultron, le robot tueur. Cet ennemi d’acier est prêt à passer à l’étape supérieure d’une évolution qui semble sans limites. Après des années d’aventures, le choc générationnel entre Ultron, son concepteur Hank Pym et son androïde la Vision atteint son paroxysme. Découvrez un récit spectaculaire et inédit signé Rick Remender (Captain America, Avengers & X-Men : Axix), et dessiné par Jerome Opena (Uncanny X-Force, Avngers) et Pepe Larraz (Fear itself : The Home Front, Web of Spider-Man).

I Walk Through The Valley Of The Shadow of Death... Is the Shadow of Death a metaphor or could it actually be a real place? Three separate paranormal incidents over the last century, in a valley near modern day Iraq, seem to give credence to these claims. But when satellite photos taken over the area hint at a dangerous new energy source, the U.S. decides to send in a Special-Ops team to locate and extract it before it can fall into enemy hands. Led by John Raines, a deadly soldier who has been rotting in Guantanamo accused of allegedly killing his entire platoon after entering the very same Valley years prior, they head into dangerous territory to battle a roster of demonic creatures with little chance of survival. Armed with with two arcane artifacts as their guide and protector - they will find out once and for all if the road to Hell has just opened up on Earth. Written by Mark Waid (Daredevil, Kingdom Come) from a story by Waid, Max Brooks (World War Z) and Legendary producer, Thomas Tull, this high-quality graphic novel is designed and penciled by Shane Davis (Superman: Earth One), inked by Mark Morales (Siege) and colored by Morry Hollowell. (Wolve rine: Old Man Logan) From the Hardcover edition.

Iron Man and the Guardians of the Galaxy are on a mission to stop the invasion of Earth.

Over the past 40 years, corporations, associations, and other organizations have built a vast institutional field designed to shape public policy and amplify their influence in government. Occupying a central position within this social structure are lobbyists, who help sustain the system by which policy is enacted through the creation and maintenance of long-term, mutually reciprocated relationships with government officials. Throughout the history of the United States, as lobbyists have become increasingly more organized, the number of lobbyists has grown significantly along with the amount of money spent on lobbying. Many scholars suggest that lobbying is now the dominant form of political participation used by organizations. However, prior research on the political activities of corporations has focused primarily on political action committees and campaign contributions rather than lobbying. Prior studies that directly address lobbying tend to rely on data from surveys or lobbying disclosure forms and lack any direct observations of lobbyists themselves. In addition, these studies generally subscribe to the notion, adopted from the field of economics, that lobbying inherently involves a form of economic, or commodity, exchange between lobbyists and officials. In other words, lobbyists buy votes or access. However, after a multitude of studies over several decades, the findings regarding the validity of the commodity exchange model remain inconsistent. Some studies find support for this notion while others do not. Furthermore, this description of lobbying activity contrasts sharply with the few in-depth accounts of lobbyists written by ethnographers and investigative journalists. These authors found that lobbyists are embedded in networks of connections bound together by mutual obligation. Rather than exchanging favors quid pro quo, lobbyists and officials give each other a wide variety of gifts within the context of ongoing social relationships. This portrayal of lobbyists differs significantly from models of commodity exchange and suggests that gift exchange may be a more appropriate framework with which to discuss policymaking. Anthropologists have long differentiated between the exchange of commodities, denoted by their economic value, and the exchange of gifts, which counteract forces for social differentiation and reinforce social cohesion. To determine what lobbyists actually do and whether their involvement in policymaking is better understood as commodity exchange or gift exchange, I undertook a comparative ethnographic study, spending a total of six months engaged in participant observation at two of the top lobbying firms in Washington, DC. Using the data collected, I describe the daily work of lobbyists and the nature of their relationships with clients and government officials. I then compare these relationships with the primary features of commodity and gift exchange. My findings suggest that while the client-lobbyist relationship can generally be described as a commodity exchange, the lobbyist-official relationship involves a system of gift-giving that is better understood as gift exchange. The results of this dissertation have implications for theoretical models of exchange, the role of lobbyists, and the nature of policymaking.