them via their websites or send a SASE by snail mail.

Only as a last resort, buy books through your local bookstores or online stores like www.powellsbooks.com, www.abebooks.com, or www.amazon.com, where you can find used copies of even very rare books, as well as most anything else, but the author receives little or none of the purchase price. 
Notes

Chapter One

. Ernst Bloch, _The Principle of Hope_ (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1986). As quoted in Ronald T. Simon and Marc Estrin, _Rehearsing with Gods_ (White River Junction, VT: Chelsea Green, 2004).

. As quoted by Scott London on www.london.com/insight, 25 October 2003.

. Kenny Ausubel, _Seeds of Change_ (New York: HarperCollins, 1994).

. Among the additives typically banned are hydrogenated fat, aspartame (artificial sweetener), and monosodium glutamate (MSG) (ibid _._ ).

. Ralph Nader,Tuesday, March 26, 2013

Graphic Novel Challenge: Belladonna

I loved Pierre Alary's comic Sinbad, so Belladonna was a logical choice and I wasn't disappointed. It's a swashbuckling adventure story set in France in 1680. Marie, codename Belladonna, is part of a secret society protecting the king from all harm. But her past is going to come back to haunt her.

The art is gorgeous. I adore the composition here for example:

and the way the story is driven forwards without a single word (okay, one) here:

I had one problem, though, and that was with Maxim, leader of the Musketeers and would-be lover of Marie. He is very much the damsel in distress and Marie has to rescue him not once, but several times. The one time she doesn't, Maxim goes into full