Schism

After a mutant-triggered international incident, anti-mutant hatred hits new heights. Now, when the X-Men need one another more than ever, a split among their ranks threatens to tear the mutant team in two. Teammates will become enemies in SCHISM!

After a mutant-triggered international incident, anti-mutant hatred hits new heights. Now, when the X-Men need one another more than ever, a split among their ranks threatens to tear the mutant team in two. Teammates will become enemies in SCHISM!

John Byrne returns with the final chapter of his Romulan saga that started with and in a three-part telling of the breakdown of the Romulan-Klingon Alliance, from IDW Publishing. And since this is a story about Romulans and Klingons, the fun is in trying to untangle the web that Byrne weaves. Byrne has settled comfortably with his material and it shows, in both his story and his artwork. For this second issue, the Federation has sent the crew of the USS Yorktown to the Neutral Zone with a surprise additional technology to confront the Romulan fleet...

The X-Men event of the decade is right here! It's never been a more dangerous time to be a mutant. Even with their numbers at a record low, the world refuses to trust mutantkind. And after a mutant-triggered international incident, anti-mutant hatred hits new heights. Of course it's at this moment, when the mutant race most needs to stand together, that a split begins that will tear apart the very foundation of the X-Men. From superstar writer and Marvel Architect Jason Aaron and a full roster of comics' top artists, this is an X-tale that will reverberate for years to come! When the dust settles, the X-Men landscape will be irreparably changed. Collecting X-MEN: SCHISM #1-5, GENERATION HOPE #10-11 and X-MEN: REGENESIS.

John Byrne returns with the final chapter of his Romulan saga that started with and in , the first of a three-part telling of the breakdown of the Romulan-Klingon Alliance, from IDW Publishing. And since this is a story about Romulans and Klingons, the fun is in trying to untangle the web that Byrne weaves. Byrne has settled comfortably with his material and it shows, in both his story and his artwork. For this first issue you have politics and complex plot threads at the beginning, then a great space encounter featuring Klingons at the middle, leading to the cliffhanger at the end.

Steve Runciman's book on the Eastern Schism has become something of a classic since its first publication nearly 50 years ago. Runciman's telling of this bitter tale - and it is a tale that spans not only the 11th and 12th centuries, but has roots going back far deeper - is both concise and lucid. Runciman clearly details this narrative that has proved debilitating to Christianity ever since - not only between the East and the West, but also between the umpteen gazillion Protestant churches and the Roman Catholic church.

Riven by Lust explores the tale of a man accused of causing the fundamental schism in early Indian Buddhism, but not before he has sex with his mother and kills his father. In tracing this Indian Buddhist Oedipal tale, Jonathan Silk follows it through texts in all of the major canonical languages of Buddhism, Sanskrit, Pali, Tibetan, Chinese, and Japanese, along the way noting parallels and contrasts with classical and medieval European stories such as the legend of the Oedipal Judas. Simultaneously, he investigates the psychological and anthropological understandings of the tale of mother-son incest in light of contemporary psychological and anthropological understandings of incest, with special attention to the question of why we consider it among the worst of crimes.

On the planet Darracia, an ever-widening social gap between its inhabitants is causing turmoil that is fracturing a once peaceful world.