After a mutiny on board their ship, British noble couple Lord and Lady Greystoke are marooned by the crew on a desolate African beach with their newborn son, John Clayton. Not long after, the founding boy is an orphan, his mother dead of natural causes and his father at the hands of a vicious ape.
This book, originally published in 2013 and richly illustrated with photographs and artwork , was the first to connect all the threads of influence on Tolkien that infused his creation of Middle-earth-from the languages, poetry, and mythology of medieval Europe and ancient Greece and Rome to the halls of Oxford and the battlefields of World War I.
This collection of 20 essays analyzes the psychology behind Wonder Woman, the powerful superhero created by William Moulton Marston. The book includes studies of Marston's role in the history of forensic psychology and the ways in which differences in culture and gender can contribute to alienation, but also to personal empowerment.