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Product Description: As monsters in popular media have evolved and grown more complex, so have those who take on the job of stalking and staking them. This book examines the evolution of the contemporary monster hunter from Bram Stoker's Abraham Van Helsing to today's non-traditional monster hunters such as Blade, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and Watchmen...read more
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9780786434060 | McFarland & Co Inc Pub, October 30, 2008, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: As monsters in popular media have evolved and grown more complex, so have those who take on the job of stalking and staking them.

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Product Description: Encounter every kind of movie monster in this comprehensive, one-of-a-kind book that features over 100 monsters.
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9781592580880 | Hylas Pub, October 1, 2004, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Encounter every kind of movie monster in this comprehensive, one-of-a-kind book that features over 100 monsters.

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Product Description: Children choose their heroes more carefully than we think. From Pokémon to the rapper Eminem, pop-culture icons are not simply commercial pied pipers who practice mass hypnosis on our youth. Indeed, argues the author of this lively and persuasive paean to the power of popular culture, even violent and trashy entertainment gives children something they need, something that can help both boys and girls develop in a healthy way...read more
By Gerard Jones and Ponton (foreword by)
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9780756778637 | Diane Pub Co, April 2, 2004, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: Children choose their heroes more carefully than we think.
9780465036950 | Basic Books, April 1, 2002, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: An apologist for comic book and video game violence argues that both are essential for young people as they seek to develop a powerful sense of self in the modern era.

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9780465036967 | Basic Books, May 5, 2003, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: An apologist for comic book and video game violence argues that both are essential for young people as they seek to develop a powerful sense of self in the modern era.

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An official guide to Buffy the Vampire Slayer describes the mythology and influences behind the monsters, ghouls, and characters through interviews with the creators and details of the episodes.
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9780671042592, titled "The Monster Book" | Simon Spotlight Entertainment, August 1, 2000, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: An official guide to Buffy the Vampire Slayer describes the mythology and influences behind the monsters, ghouls, and characters through interviews with the creators and details of the episodes.

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9780613633222 | Turtleback Books, December 1, 2003, cover price $29.40 | About this edition: An official guide to Buffy the Vampire Slayer describes the mythology and influences behind the monsters, ghouls, and characters through interviews with the creators and details of the episodes.

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Product Description: Anyone who watches the evening news is all too familiar with how the word "monster" is used to describe acts of violence. In this book, Edward Ingebretsen sets out to discover what is really at stake when we turn someone into a "monster...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9780226380063 | Univ of Chicago Pr, November 14, 2001, cover price $55.00 | About this edition: Anyone who reads the papers or watches the evening news is all too familiar with how variations of the word monster are used to describe unthinkable acts of violence.

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9780226380070 | Univ of Chicago Pr, October 30, 2003, cover price $30.00 | About this edition: Anyone who watches the evening news is all too familiar with how the word "monster" is used to describe acts of violence.

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Text and photographs survey the various creatures from other planets that have confronted and fought with earthlings in films, television shows, and books
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9780397317653 | Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, September 1, 2001, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: Discusses some of the more prominent books, movies, and TV shows which have featured monsters and outer space settings.

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Surveys creatures with strange powers, including those mysteriously transformed humans, that have appeared in books, movies, and television.
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9780397319336 | Harpercollins, April 1, 1981, cover price $9.89 | About this edition: A survey of characters with strange powers includes characters from such films and books as 'The Invisible Man,' 'Dr Jeckyll and Mr.

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