Grab your sword and get ready to level up.The only way out is through.Unbeknownst to him, Ray is about to partake on an adventure filled with magical beasts, warring factions, and a leveling-up system out of this world. He'll encounter filthy bandits, musty crypts, and friendly werewolves. Oh, you heard us right.If only he wasn't given negative charisma points around women, he might have a chance, but you can't win them all.When the only way...

The easy part was getting in. The hard part will be surviving until the end.Ray thought he was through the worst the game had to offer. I mean, lich kings, vampires, and the dark one himself? Boy was he wrong.Potential new enemies are about to storm the gates. Lands need exploring and evil cultists' heads need chopping.Because when the horn bellows for a hero, people like you and Ray answer. Hone that imagination, grab your dice, and get ready, this...

Teaching is an essential skill in becoming a faculty member in any institution of higher education. Yet how is that skill actually acquired by graduate students? Teaching as if Learning Matters collects first-person narratives from graduate students and new PhDs that explore how the skills required to teach at a college level are developed. It examines the key issues that graduate students face as they learn to teach effectively when in fact they are still learning and being taugh...

Everyone Knows Humans Get Transported to Other Worlds, But Now Dogs Do Too?!Takumi is a wage slave who works overtime all the time. Only his little Maltese, Leo, can brighten his day. One day, however, he wakes up to find himself deep in an unknown forest. At his side is his pampered pup…who's now a giant mythical wolf!With his silver fenrir companion and his mysterious new "Herb Cultivation" power, he'll finally have the laid-back life he's always dreamed ...

Ho ho... oh hell!Is that sleigh bells ringing in your ears or a few rounds from an M60?You wanted the jolly fat man to bring Yuletide joy, but the season has gifted you with a heart breaker and a life taker — Badass Santa.Grab your eggnog and camouflage candy canes, strap on your bulletproof holiday stockings, and prepare for thrills and kills.From blood-stained rebellion at the north pole to a black ops raid on a distant planet, these eighteen action-packed...

“There are at least two kinds of games,” states James P. Carse as he begins this extraordinary book. “One could be called finite; the other infinite. A finite game is played for the purpose of winning, an infinite game for the purpose of continuing the play.”Finite games are the familiar contests of everyday life; they are played in order to be won, which is when they end. But infinite games are more mysterious. Their object is not winning, but ensuring the continu...

THE SUDAY TIMES BESTSELLERThe laugh-out-loud funny memoir and book of anecdotes about his life and loves from the nation’s favourite ‘Big Dog’ celebrity Traitor!*Why is catalogue shopping responsible for Jonathan Ross's inimitable sense of style?Why does Jonathan wince every time he sees a Hoover?And why did he fall in love with a deep-sea diver?*Why? Because this is Jonathan Ross. And nothing is out of bounds when it comes to talkin...

The Coloured community of South Africa came into being after 1652, when the Dutch and, later, the British seeped into southern Africa's arid west, forming an uneasy alliance with the indigenous people. In the first unions between settlers and indigenous peoples, the Coloured people of the Cape flicker to life. Fast-forward to 1910, the Union of South Africa, which sees the Coloured people lose what little parliamentary representation they had under the British.In Our Own Skins is the extra...

Improve your personal and professional relationships instantly with this timeless guide to communication, listening skills, body language, and conflict resolution.Maybe a wall of silent resentment has shut you off from someone you love. Maybe you listen to an argument in which neither party seems to hear the other. Or maybe your mind drifts to other matters when people talk to you. People Skills is a communication skills handbook that can help you eliminat...

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER“One of the most important books in years.” - #1 NYT Bestselling Author Peter Schweizer“Code Red is a must-read.” – Sen. Marsha Blackburn, TIME’s 100 Most Influential People in AI“Illuminating…alarming…essential.” – Michael Shellenberger, Award-Winning Investigative JournalistYou don't get to opt out of the AI revolution. The decision has ...

National bestselling author of APOCALYPSE NEVER skewers progressives for the mishandling of America’s faltering cities.Progressives claimed they knew how to solve homelessness, inequality, and crime. But in cities they control, progressives made those problems worse.Michael Shellenberger has lived in the San Francisco Bay Area for thirty years. During that time, he advocated for the decriminalization of drugs, affordable housing, and alternatives to jail an...

Professor Litefoot and Henry Gordon Jago are accustomed to the murky fog of Victorian London and the palatable pints of half and half at the Red Tavern. They are not used to travelling through time and space with their old friend the Doctor.And now they find themselves whisked off to the planet Venus in the distant future, at a time when warrior women rule from a floating city in the clouds. There’s a mystery here, one that the Grand Empress Vulpina intends to keep secret. Even if ...