This second edition of Lessons in Play reorganizes the presentation of the popular original text in combinatorial game theory to make it even more widely accessible. Starting with a focus on the essential concepts and applications, it then moves on to more technical material. Still written in a textbook style with supporting evidence and proofs, the authors add many more exercises and examples and implement a two-step approach for some aspects of the material invo...

Nuclear armageddon is on the ballot.The candidate seems unstoppable. But he has a secret agenda. He is certain God has chosen him to bring on The Rapture. And on the first day of his presidency, Simon Abraham Swarthout White intends to yield to a Higher Authority. Three people are all that stand between him and the end of the world. A journalist whose pregnant wife is being held hostage to buy his silence. A military programming genius who discovers that t...

It takes a killer to catch a killer.Charlie Novak's arrangement with his partner Owen is elegant in its simplicity: Owen marries young women, insures them, and when he's away on business, Charlie stages fatal accidents. But when Owen's latest wife is murdered by someone else, an investigation he didn't count on ensues. Now the one murder he didn't commit could unravel all the ones he did. In this twisted psychological noir, the hunter may already be the hu...

Searching for connection with a radio scanner.Nick Claybourne is a wounded soul. A guilt-ridden single father, a man who lost his wife in an accident for which he has never forgiven himself. His only connection to the outside world is a radio scanner. He fills notebooks with what he hears. His life turns hopeful when he meets Samantha, a woman he's listened to for two years. But when three women in Nick's notebooks turn up murdered, he's the prime suspect....

Art Kassel, copywriter, dreamer, idealist, rule-breaker, has three seemingly unreachable life goals: to find and win the heart of some woman somewhere who shares his love for all things intellectual, cultural and culinary; to win accolades and awards for creativity in advertising; and to escape the iffy morality of his career by launching the big honking novel he's been slogging away at forever. Imagine how thrilled he is when all his goals suddenly seem within his grasp.First he f...

Seven is a rich and complex collection of poetry by noted US poet, David Wolf. The title refers to the seven voicings or personas that make up the collection. Remarkably, the different voicings of the poems are conspicuously distinct and treat of different experiences and perspectives, but the seven sections unite to create a unified work.Wolf's poetry is intriguing and challenging, but not obscure; deeply personal and intense, but also veined with humor and sympathy. The poetry is...

Ooooh, Werewolf! is about werewolf's evening adventure told through the imagination of a young boy.

Is she in love with a murderer?Seventeen-year-old Margot McClain used to be witty, talented and popular until a boy she toyed with tried to hang himself. Now she knows about wounds that won't heal — and she's spent two years using her sharp tongue to keep everyone at a safe distance.When a lost-looking new kid enrolls at her school, Margot mocks his fake-sounding name. Then she learns "John Smith" is the name the authorities gave him. He can't remember his own — or anything ...

The beauty bible for a new generation: in this invaluable natural guide, illustrated with black-and-white drawings and thirty-two pages of color photos, internationally acclaimed nutrition and natural beauty expert David Wolfe offers proven strategies designed to improve appearance, vitality, and health from the inside out.Each year, women absorb five pounds of toxins using common beauty products. Wolfe, one of America’s foremost nutrition experts, argues that you shouldn’t have to...

A powerless witch. An alpha werewolf. And a snowstorm that changes everything.At Widdershins Academy, magical bloodlines are everything and mixing with werewolves is strictly forbidden. Caden is a pureblood witch born without a spark of magic, an outcast in a world obsessed with power. Atlas is the star of the wrestling team, an alpha werewolf whose entire life is built on perfect, unbreakable control. They are supposed to stay far away from each other.But ...

A cursed Beastkin. A witch born of fire. A bond neither of them expected… and a love too dangerous to ignore.Karrick:Beastkin aren’t meant to fall in love with witches. That’s what the world tells me. My kind carries a curse—once human, now creatures of claw and fang, feared for a past drenched in war and betrayal. At Widdershins Academy, I’m the monster they all pretend not to watch.Except for him.Phoenix Emberwood—the boy ...

A sheltered witch. A reckless Fae. And a magical accident that binds them together.At Widdershins Academy, Wild is a reckless Fae who never plays by the rules and never keeps a heart. He can charm anyone into his bed—except Elias Thorne. Sweet, obedient, and infuriatingly immune to his advances, the sheltered pureblood witch is the one temptation Wild can't ignore.Elias has spent his entire life hiding behind spellbooks to meet his coven’s strict expectatio...