Do you want to start creating beautiful objects with wood?Is the idea of working with wood something that has always appealed to you?Do you have everything you need to get started?There is something about the smell of wood that makes us want to be around it and create things from it. For thousands of years our relationship has been one that has existed on many different levels, using it for building shelters, constructing ships that explored the world, used it for h...

»Magere Wölfe kämpfen am besten« Herzog BrynFitz Chivalric hat bei der Verteidigung seines greisen Königs seine Gesundheit und beinahe auch seinen Verstand verloren. Doch König Listenreich bietet ihm keine Rache oder wenigstens Genugtuung. Schließlich war der Drahtzieher hinter Fitz' Verletzungen dessen eigener Onkel, der Sohn des Königs. Und der hat seine Pläne, um den Thron an sich zu reißen, nicht aufgegeben! Verzweifelt bemüht sich Fitz, die Intrigen des Prinze...

In this compelling collective memoir, twelve gender and/or sexual minorities share true memories of community, loss, joy, and becoming. Each is recorded in the storyteller’s own words and illustrated by queer textile artist Robin Wolfe. From the struggles of finding one’s true self in deeply religious enclaves, to surviving harsh conditions with the support of chosen family, to funny stories about finding community, these tales preserve our diverse history and prove “average people” have f...

Sie ist seine Tochter und Erbin. Doch was das wirklich bedeutet, kann sie noch gar nicht ermessen.Seit Jahrhunderten kontrollieren die Diener von Clerres die Weißen Propheten und sind durch deren Weissagungen zu großer Macht gelangt. Doch die nächste Weiße Prophetin ist Biene, die Tochter des Assassinen Fitz. Selbst Folter kann ihren Willen nicht brechen, denn sie weiß, dass ihr Vater nichts unversucht lassen wird, um sie zu finden. Und sie hat Recht. Fitz ist bere...

Von Robotern auf der Bühne, Computerspielen im Theater und Zuschauern im Netz Algorithmen werden angesichts steigender Datenmengen und künstlicher Intelligenzen auch außerhalb der Computer zunehmend sinnstiftend. Was das für das Theater heißt, erläutert der vorliegende Band, der sich freien Theaterproduktionen der letzten Jahre widmet, die mit Algorithmen, Computerspielen und sozialen Netzwerken in Theaterräumen experimentieren. Anhand ausgewählter Arbeiten von Turbo Pascal, machina eX, I...

Devon James is on the run from a killer who has been hunting her for years. When she discovers the murdered bodies of two co-workers, Devon knows it is time to run again. But before she can run, the police arrive and take her in for questioning.Jordan Salinger is a Pittsburgh homicide detective on leave after a hostage standoff left her with a bullet wound in her shoulder and an even bigger hole in her heart. When she is called in by her partner to help with an uncooperative witnes...

Now available in a trilogy box set, the first three award-winning books in the Fae Guardians romantic fantasy series.1) The Longing of Lone WolvesRush is a Fae Guardian, a wolf-shifter whose enhanced abilities have made him a ruthless protector of Elphyne. His job is to protect the realm from the human enemy. But one night of weakness resulted in a curse worse than death – exile. Now he spends his lonely time longing to be part of ...

The forgotten forest of Oldenglen, tucked in the foothills of southern Oregon, is forgotten no longer. A rogue wolf pack and its ruthless leader have claimed it as their territory, threatening forever the balance of life in the magical glen.In this third book in The Oldenglen Chronicles middle-grade fantasy series, schoolboy Jax feels the lure of the pack. The wild wolf within him—born of a nip his father received as a boy, then passed through his genes to Jax—strains to run with t...

The forgotten forest of Oldenglen, tucked in the foothills of southern Oregon, is forgotten no longer. A rogue wolf pack and its ruthless leader have claimed it as their territory, threatening forever the balance of life in the magical glen.In this third book in The Oldenglen Chronicles middle-grade fantasy series, schoolboy Jax feels the lure of the pack. The wild wolf within him—born of a nip his father received as a boy, then passed through his genes to Jax—strains to run with t...

Twelve-year-old Jax is sure his secret is safely hidden within the vast forests of Oldenglen, his new home in the remote mountains of Oregon.But that is before the school bully provokes the wild beast inside him—the savage streak of wolf the glen’s magic has awoken—and Jax lashes out, risking discovery of his strange condition and the mysteries of the glen. Now the bully and his gang have stormed Oldenglen, looking for answers—and revenge.Lone Wolf, the second in The Oldeng...

Is cancer a contagious disease? In the late nineteenth century this idea, and attending efforts to identify a cancer "germ," inspired fear and ignited controversy. Yet speculation that cancer might be contagious also contained a kernel of hope that the strategies used against infectious diseases, especially vaccination, might be able to subdue this dread disease. Today, nearly one in six cancers are thought to have an infectious cause, but the path to that understanding was twisting and tu...

The Father is the oldest and most powerful vampire in the world and he is planning something awful for an ancient creature that roamed the world before vampires even existed.When Cain Armstrong and Pearl Crow stop him by stealing a powerful jewel from him the Father sends out his assassins to kill Cain and cripple Pearl and get the jewel back but there is more to one of the assassins than Cain and Pearl first think.This leads them to travel to Germany where they must confro...