Alchemy is dangerous, especially when your afterlife is on the line.Echo discovers that Professor Dradon has gone missing in a land beyond the living. With rumors of a strange creature consuming the souls of the deceased, the cleric will risk everything to bring her former teacher back. With the help of her best friend, the roguish halfling Finn, Echo forms a party of adventurers to find her former teacher. Complications arise when the party mistakenly traps Hale, ...

Bee Corrigan has run the Alverton weigh station since she was nineteen, and she knows every crate that crosses it by weight and by smell.When the club president is killed, the new head is Eamon Slane: high school friend, Judas, the man whose testimony put her brother behind bars. He doesn't fire her. He does something worse — he reassigns her station, calls it an upgrade, and says it in front of the whole club.She smiles through the season. She writes down every route card,...

Synopsis: Zanathar's War has left behind devastation that cannot be undone. Despite this, Zhan and Mikiel, two of the world's most renowned heroes, have worked tirelessly alongside their friends and allies in an effort to heal their damaged world. Enemies have become allies as Anastia turns toward a resolution that can bring an end to conflict and introduce peace to even those who thought it to be impossible.However, those with malice in their hearts can never be truly def...

Markus, a champion of the Guardian Knights and hero of Kadema, is a legend among the inhabitants of Anastia. He is a man of conviction, who above all things, believes in freedom and justice. He earned his renown during the Guardian War, a terrible conflict that brought about ruin and devastation to the world. Divided and at war, the two continents of Kadema and Nodis fought one bloody battle after another until a promising warrior emerged from the land of Khandra. His name was Tanor, and t...

Synopsis: "When all Shards of the Abyss unite, the Lord of Shadow will reveal his might." - Sagorn ProverbLong ago, the once mighty Civilization of Azod suffered unrepairable destruction because of the Cataclysm, an event brought upon the inhabitants of Anastia by Zanathar, a cruel, merciless being. Using his strength and cunning, the dark warrior was not only able to bring about an end to the proud civilization, but eventually its winged champions known as the Knights of ...

Handbook of Prosocial Education is the definitive theoretical, practical, and policy guide to the prosocial side of education, the necessary second side of the educational coin. Academic teaching and learning are the first side of education; however, academic success depends upon the structures and support of prosocial educational efforts from promoting positive school climate to fostering student and teacher development to civic literacy and responsible and critical citizenship participat...

Although lots of books have been published about herbal therapy, a comprehensive overview of the adverse effects of botanical medicines is not available. Yet such an overview is badly needed, because of the enormous rise in the use of herbal remedies. The book series will provide approximately 150 monographs on herbal remedies and plant-derived drugs. Each monograph will provide introductory information on Botany, Chemistry, Pharmacology and Uses, followed by an Adverse Reaction Profile su...

The spirit that founded the volume and guided its development is radically inter- and transdisciplinary. Dispatches have arrived from anthropology, communications, English, film studies (including theory, history, criticism), literary studies (including theory, history, criticism), media and screen studies, cognitive cultural studies, narratology, philosophy, poetics, politics, and political theory; and as a special aspect of the volume, theorist-filmmakers make their thoughts known as wel...

The true story of how Britain won the First World War.The popular view of the First World War remains that of BLACKADDER: incompetent generals sending brave soldiers to their deaths. Alan Clark quoted a German general's remark that the British soldiers were 'lions led by donkeys'. But he made it up.Indeed, many established 'facts' about 1914-18 turn out to be myths woven in the 1960s by young historians on the make. Gordon Corrigan's brilliant, witty histor...

In this delightful memoir, the book critic for NPR’s Fresh Air reflects on her life as a professional reader. Maureen Corrigan takes us from her unpretentious girlhood in working-class Queens, to her bemused years in an Ivy League Ph.D. program, from the whirl of falling in love and marrying (a fellow bookworm, of course), to the ordeal of adopting a baby overseas, always with a book at her side. Along the way, she reveals which books and authors have shaped her own life—from classic works...

Confessions of a Shanty Irishman is a hybrid memoir, with some fictional elements about an Irish American Catholic family in San Francisco during the mid to late 20th century. It is a coming of age story. It is also a love story.Here is an excerpt from a review: "'Michael Corrigan proves that the American Irish have their own magical way with words in his spellbinding memoir of growing up on the wrong side of Market Street in San Francisco…But the secularization of a good Irish Cat...