Magic, adventure, and triumphant battles await you in this graphic novel that plays just like a role-playing game. Choose to play as one of three brothers eager to join the Royal Order of Knights, and keep track of your hit points, abilities, and inventory on a handy adventure tracker sheet—then set off on your quest! The road to knighthood is a long one: you will journey through snowy mountains, haunted lakes, and dark forests in search of the bracelets of bravery, facing down trolls, wiz...

After years of dedicated training and adventure, you are finally a full-fledged knight! You are sent on your first official mission by Elliot, a famous merchant. Impressed by your strength and skill, Elliot entrusts you with the search for a list of precious objects, all hidden on a distant island. Can you find all the objects and bring them back? Can you even return alive from this treacherous and mysterious island? Your success depends on your choices alone, because the hero is you!...

In a medieval age of chivalry and sorcery, you’ve been training hard to become a knight. Now the king has a mission for you: carry a message of the utmost importance to the leader of a neighboring country. But traps and enemies will be numerous on your route! Forge your weapons to make them more powerful, win points collecting magical cards, be victorious in battle, and advance through the levels to become strong enough to bring your mission to a successful end.HERE’S HOW TO PLAY:

You’ve been training to be a valiant knight, and now the prince of Nekashu needs your help—the princess of the Orcs has been taken by a band of Vikings! Solve riddles, traverse mountains, and fight giants and dragons to reach the princess and bring her home safely. Your success depends on your choices alone, because the hero is you!HERE’S HOW TO PLAY:• To begin your quest, select your character.• Numbers are hidden in every panel. Decide where you want to go next, and...

In his new book, Focal Point, Shuky Gutman perfects language into a complex movement of twisting and moving, using free language, circumventing conventions, never expected. It is a curved tongue that creates the most beautiful of all, the tongue of poetic mirrors.

A gripping tale of murder, sorcery, and criminal justice in turn-of-the-century Chicago, Poisoned is the fascinating true story of a mysterious Bohemian fortune teller charged with murdering a half-dozen people by slowly poisoning them with arsenic. Poisoned details the horrific murders, and the incredible events that followed Herman Billik's conviction: last second reprieves; legal battles carried all the way to the Supreme Court; frenzied mass demonstrations; corpses secretly ex...

Since the founding of the Zionist movement until today, the question of the relationship between “church” and state in Israel remains unresolved, resulting in a continuous legal and social conflict among Israelis. The tension that arises from Judaism acting not only as a religion and culture but also as a national entity constitutionally underpinning an entire state—resulting in the “Jewish and democratic state” of Israel—manifests in major aspects of daily life for Israelis, such as marri...

Presents the origins and evolution of the systems engineering discipline and helps readers gain a personal familiarity with systems engineering experts: their experience, opinions and attitudes in this fieldThis book is based on a qualitative study that includes dozens of in-depth interviews with experts in the systems engineering field. This book is broken into three main parts. The first part is a general overview of the systems engineering field. The second part...

'What did you lose in Poland?' Shuki Gutman's new book of poems is a true discovery. With courage and honesty, he gives us something rare in Hebrew poetry: the voice of the contemporary Jewish-Israeli, who is neither a survivor nor a son of survivors, but rather is someone who is drawn by dark, magical ropes to the death camps of Poland. It is a complex poetic journey, and most delicate but also black and dangerous, a poetic journey that touches many aspects, both the victim's and the exec...

'Langa Buthelezi owns her own events company and lives in a fabulous New York-style flat in Quinn Street, Johannesburg. She is engaged to Richard, a cameraman for the SABC. One Sunday afternoon, on her way home from church, she has an embarrassing encounter with a handsome stranger – to whom she is very rude. During a major event proposal, Langa comes face to face with the very same handsome stranger – Regile Mabhena, owner of Mabhena Oil Limited, who will decide if she gets the contract. ...

Twenty years ago when Children's Cancer Association of Japan was born, the diagnosis of childhood leukemia amounted to a death sentence. Only 20% or so of children with leukemia survived more than 5 years. Since then, enormous improvements have been achieved regarding our understanding on the etiology, diagnosis, and the treatment of childhood leukemia. Now, 70% of children with leukemia survive and enter adult life. Even though the improved survival rate of children with leukemia represen...