Winner of the 2024 Golden Wizard Book PrizeWilliam’s life had been tragically altered as a youth, now his life is about to change once again.William thought that he and his little brother could now live in relative peace, using their gifts in secret while working on the ranch they stumbled upon as children. However, his existence will become jeopardized and he will have to find a way to make it through more tragedy.Zane was neglected by his father, pampered by his m...

Eugenics and propaganda are the way of the world. Each race sees themselves as superior. Anyone found deviant from the moral normality is locked away in asylums. Their status as human removed, they are called Almosts.Except for those few chosen to become Icarus contestants. These children must fight to become defined as human.Colby grew up normal, until he was discovered to be homosexual. His parents betrayed him by giving him away to an asylum. He is dehumanized and falls in...

Winner of the 2024 Golden Wizard Book PrizeWilliam, Zane, and Two-Otters found a path beyond their diversity. Forged a bond and defeated a monster. They were now happy and free to live in their homemade tribe. The only problem, Two-Otters longed for his people. He still wanted to be recognized as a warrior in the Blackfoot tribe. William and Zane agree to help their brother find them. What they did not expect was to find themselves in the middle of a building conflict between the B...

The Art of the Filmmaker: The Practical Aesthetics of the Screen explores the filmmaker's intention and method, their creation and capture of the fiction on the screen, and their formulation of the elements of the frame as a designed address to the audience. Positing 'practical aesthetics' as a resource of visual communication central to cinematic art, this book examines the concepts fundamental to the selective processes of the filmmaker and offers the reader highly informed text...

Identical twins, Lily and Damien, live in a world they feel they don't fit in.Lily doesn't want to be the typical girl in the medieval world, wearing dresses, knitting, and attending royal courts. She wants to break conventions, she longs to be a fighter, a knight.Damien was sold to a knight, becoming a squire. He wishes to do more with his life, write and experience things, not be trapped as a servant to a knight and learn to battle.Because they are identical, Lily...

William's life had been tragically altered as a youth, now his life is about to change once again.William thought that he and his little brother could now live in relative peace, using their gifts in secret while working on the ranch they stumbled upon as children. However, his existence will become jeopardized and he will have to find a way to make it through more tragedy.

A structured perspective on the crucial interface of director and screenplay, this book encompasses twenty-two seminal aspects of the approach to story and script that a director needs to understand before embarking on all other facets of the director’s craft.Drawing on seventeen years of teaching filmmaking at a graduate level and on his prior career as a director and in production at the BBC, Markham shows how the filmmaker can apply rigorous analysis of the elements of dramatic ...

2024 Golden Wizard Book Prize WinnerWilliam's life had been tragically altered as a youth, now his life is about to change once again.William thought that he and his little brother could now live in relative peace, using their gifts in secret while working on the ranch they stumbled upon as children. However, his existence will become jeopardized and he will have to find a way to make it through more tragedy.Zane was neglected by his father, pampere...

Communicating User Experience: Applying Local Strategies Researchto Digital Media Design examines how Local Strategies Research (LSR) helps investigate user experiences with digital media. This edited collection uses case studies to examine the way we communicate in the digital age whether between individuals and digital interfaces (such those installed in cars), dyads via mobile phones and online interfaces, or members of a group through a video conference. Milburn and her contributors co...

Human Resource Management in Hospitality Cases adopts a practical case-based approach to develop critical thinking and problem-solving skills in future hospitality managers. Using tried-and-tested real-life scenarios, this book thoroughly prepares hospitality students for a career in the field.Chapters are comprised of 75 short vignettes, split into nine sections that reflect and cover the primary challenges facing hospitality managers on a daily basis, including leadership credibi...

This collection of stories were written mostly with traditional seasonal themes, some more so than others, but all were written at that time of year. They are surprisingly variant and in their styles and content, both engaging and easy to read. The first to be written was as an entrant for a local library competition and was placed first, giving the author encouragement to write more short stories. Another by the second author also had similar success the following year and several others ...

What happens when the internet is absorbed into everyday life? How do we make sense of something that is invisible but still so central? A group of digital culture experts address these questions in Metaphors of Internet: Ways of Being in the Age of Ubiquity.Twenty years ago, the internet was imagined as standing apart from humans. Metaphorically it was a frontier to explore, a virtual world to experiment in, an ultra-high-speed information superhighway. M...