A biography of the businessman and politician, Cecil Rhodes.

On a quiet, uneventful night, four kids are sitting around a campfire. One of them wants to play a game to liven things up. The night turns into a crazy adventure! A king and queen need them to find a missing princess. They team up with a brave knight and a mighty wizard. The kids do have one unique skill. The power to change anything at any time. The journey starts with wild dogs. Then they cross a giant. Followed by a battle with pirates. They scuffle with a bunch of moles. Next, they me...

THE OFFICIAL, DEFINITIVE GUIDE TO BARSOOMFully IllustratedCOME TO BARSOOM... AND ENJOY THE WONDERS OF ERB'S MARSWhen Edgar Rice Burroughs (1875-1950) wrote "Dejah Thoris, A Princess of Mars," in 1911, he had no idea that he was opening a new era in the science fiction field. His account of fifteen-foot green men, eight-legged beasts, oviparous females, and swordswinging red men was an immediate success.And the public clamored for more.Over a period o...

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.In a city where history bites back, murder is just the beginning.Detective Eliza “Bish” Barnaby thought she’d left her home behind—along with its plague outbreaks, random time-shifts, and tendency to accidentally host people from the 1600s during breakfast.But when a dangerous practitioner escapes custody in London, Bish is forced back to Norwich, a city where ancient maps hide deadly shortcuts, angry ...

遊戲編劇必須像創世者，讓玩家深深黏著，激發熱血、欲罷不能！！全球發行量最大遊戲編劇大師 弗林‧迪勒 Flint Dille × 《精靈寶可夢》 創意總監 約翰‧祖爾‧普拉騰 John Zuur Platten美國遊戲設計翹楚、《驅魔神探：康士坦丁》遊戲敘事設計雙人組 塑造遊戲 敘事 × 角色 × 關卡破表魅力，實戰經驗傳授遊戲腳本設計是為遊戲發生的世界設定一個具有內在邏輯的敘事，搭配遊戲玩法的規則，賦予玩家沉浸與前進的動力。厲害的遊戲編劇無不絞盡腦汁整合故事發展與玩法規則，使遊戲仿若真實世界，卻又是別有開創的虛構世界，以回應玩家對嶄新體驗的渴望。既得顧及遊戲文本的一切細節，還需具備遊戲技術面的知識以及對產業、市場的了解，涉及層面可謂既廣且深。本書作者迪勒和普拉騰是美國電玩遊戲產業編劇權威。前者為美國編劇協會WGA認定全球發行量最大的遊戲編劇家，擁有超過14款黃金和白金遊戲；後者是地表瘋玩的《精靈寶可夢》（Pokémon Go）創意開發者，兩人打造出許多膾炙人口的遊戲經典，如《超世紀戰警：殺出屠夫灣》、《脫獄潛龍...

The Flint Hills stretch across eighty-two thousand square miles of American history in a long, rocked-up, grassed-up finger pointing from the Oklahoma border all the way to Nebraska. This history winds though the mythos of the cowboy, climbing among families built on fierce independence, respect for the land and the water, and stubborn refusal to sacrifice a way of life to enforced economic change. These stories tell the hard truths of hard people whose traditional values have carried them...

A spellbinding blend of history and magic from award-winning author John Crowley, hailed as "generous, obsessed, fascinating, gripping" by Peter Straub.In Flint and Mirror, ancient Irish clans fight to preserve their lands and way of life as the Queen and her generals strive to tame the wild land and make it English. Hugh O'Neill, lord of the North and newly dubbed Earl of Tyrone by the Queen, finds himself a divided man. The Queen bestows upon Hugh her lo...

In this informative memoir, the author recounts his 28 years at a Gunflint Lake cabin. But the prognosis for the future is grave, he warns, as a new lifestyle of affluence reshapes the landscape into Suburbia North. It is time that an old cabin owner chronicle these cabin days, hoping that an older reader might say, ''oh, yeah, I remember that,'' or a younger reader longing for a simpler, less stressful lifestyle may say, ''Hey, cool.''

From award-winning author John Crowley comes a novel that masterfully blends history and magic.In an island nation divided against itself, governed by a larger island to the east whose monarch is Elizabeth the Great, there have been decades of war. As ancient Irish clans fought to preserve their lands and their way of life, the Queen and her generals fought to tame the wild land and make it English.Hugh O'Neill, lord of the North, dubbed Earl of Tyrone by t...

This edition is dedicated to the trailblazers of science fiction, the visionary dreamers whose stories and heroes have captured our imaginations for generations. Their works stand as timeless examples of excellence, wonder, dread, and exhilaration, firmly embedded in our collective memory. The anthology captures the extraordinary evolution of the genre, showcasing a diverse array of literary styles from intergalactic voyage and fantastical adventure to dystopian critique of the society. It...

Includes:•Charles River Editors original biography of Daniel Boone•Daniel Boones autobiography•Daniel Boone the Pioneer of Kentucky by John S.C. Abbott•Life and Times of Colonel Daniel Boone by Cecil B. Hartley•The First White Man of the West by Timothy Flint"Many heroic actions and chivalrous adventures are related of me which exist only in the regions of fancy. With me the world has taken great liberties, and yet I have been but a common man." Daniel BooneThe Wild West and the frontier hav...

Issue 16 has a variety of tales. It's really quite interesting.