Marvels

Blue Note releases "I Long To See You", the profound album from Charles Lloyd & The Marvels. The album finds the iconic saxophonist and recent NEA Jazz Master in the company of a new band featuring guitarist Bill Frisell and pedal steel guitarist Greg Leisz, along with his longtime quartet members bassist Reuben Rogers and drummer Eric Harland. The album also includes two remarkable guest vocal appearances by Willie Nelson and Norah Jones. All together they have created a sumptuous collection of 10 songs that range from traditional hymns to anti-war folk protests to re-envisioned Lloyd originals from his earlier recordings.

Información de la editorial: Comienza aquí: una serie de especiales que nos muestran a los mejores personajes de Marvel desde la Edad de Oro hasta la actualidad, a través de los ojos de la gente común. Para este proyecto Kurt Busiek (Marvels, Astro City) ha reunido a un increíble conjunto de autores para brindar un total de ocho puntos de vista sobre la historia de Marvel y los héroes de Marvel. Para empezar, el escritor y guionista de televisión Alan Brennert (La Ley de Los Ángeles, La Dimensión Desconocida) y el dibujante superestrella Jerry Ordway (Superman, Crisis on Infinite Earths) cuentan una historia de Namor.

Their motto, "Peace is our Profession," belied the fact that they were in charge of weapons with the power to destroy the world many times over. With a staff of a quarter million people, the Strategic Air Command (SAC) was the key cog in America's Cold War military machine, overseeing the nation's entire nuclear arsenal from 1946 to 1992. MODERN MARVELS draws on interviews with past employees and visits to SAC sites to tell the story of this extraordinary system.

An isolated community of superhumans fight to protect themselves.

An isolated community of superhumans fight to protect themselves.

A whirlwind tour of 10 engineering feats that made our civilization possible: from the Erie Canal and Eads Bridge, to the Holland Tunnel and Hoover Dam. Find out which 10 modern marvels made the list.

An isolated community of superhumans fight to protect themselves.

All aboard the nostalgia express as we take a trip through the past to enjoy toys of our youth–the ones we can't forget and those that some of use never gave up! This is the real toy story! We take a look at five categories of boys' toys and see what relationship they have had on the development of young minds; talk with collectors of antique and specialty toys; and visit companies that make electric trains, Matchbox Cars, GI Joe action figures, and LEGO Bricks, among others.