Daring scoundrels open up a trade route to the haunted deathlands beyond the city's lightning walls. This industrial fantasy Noir is an epic that explores the interior lives of bold criminals, the city they inhabit, and the wasteland beyond. Follow their exploits as they recruit, set up operations, secure clients, and learn the hard way about the threats within and beyond the boundaries of civilization. "Sleet Rising" is set in the world of the tabletop role playing game Blades in the Dark...

Uppercut and Scarecrow handle espionage and haunting as they race a crew of thieves to steal a mystical treasure. The heist draws them into a shadowy conflict between ancient ghosts and enigmatic occultists. The scoundrels must outwit a spy, decipher tattoos, and unravel secrets to stay alive.

A heist goes wrong, somebody important gets stabbed, and crime in Silkshore loses its balance. As a gang war looms, two criminal crews maneuver through the haunted and corrupt city of Doskvol, using crime and diplomacy to survive and get paid. Based in the setting of John Harper's tabletop role playing game Blades in the Dark.

The River Stallions plot to dominate the criminal underworld in North Port, a newly reclaimed ruin in the Deathlands. Then Lord Malicoat hires the crew of scoundrels to track down a dangerous secret--while they make their move to organize crime. Can they handle corrupt cops, ancient secrets, powerful cults, insane patrons, hardened criminals, and the Spirit Wardens all at once?

Chalice was once the center of a trade empire, but now it is crumbling. Three stories unfurl in the shadows of the cobbled streets. Spies, problem solvers, thieves, and occultists get tangled in various deadly mysteries. Red-headed twins help a student trapped in a duel with larger political implications. A spy returns from exile, racing his murderous shadow to find a lost woman. An occult scholar was nearly destroyed by reading a book, so he hid it--but a powerful noble found it, and thre...

Daring thieves steal from one of the most important aristocrats in Doskvol, and a blood curse is awakened. As the city's elite focus on retribution, the scoundrels try to steal their lives back.

Although running is becoming one of the most popular sports, learning to run properly can take time, energy and consistency.You need to do it regularly to become good at it and until you have achieved a certain level of competence, it is unlikely that you will enjoy it very much, or for very long. For many runners physical and mental barriers can stop progress.This book’s ultimate aim is to help you enjoy to run – to enjoy the feeling of movement, to overcome inertia, to re...

This is the complete biography of the third James Stewart, who was unfortunate from his birth. The slander that he was not really the son of James II. and Mary of Modena persisted long after its absolute falsity had been proved. William of Orange, whose hopes of succeeding quietly to the throne for which he had long intrigued were blasted by the event, and all the enemies of the rightful king did their utmost for years to keep it alive. Sent with his mother to France before his father was ...

This book examines the role of hook-up apps in the lives of gay, bi, trans, and queer immigrants and refugees, and how the online culture of these platforms promotes belonging or exclusion. Within the context of the so-called European refugee crisis, this research focuses on the experiences of immigrants from especially Muslim-majority countries to the greater Copenhagen area, a region known for both its progressive ideologies and its anti-immigrant practices*.* Grindr and similar platform...

This landmark collection of essays by one of the world's greatest living authors makes Durs Grünbein's wide-ranging and multifaceted prose available in English for the first time, and is a welcome complement to Ashes for Breakfast, his first book-length collection of poetry in English.Covering two decades, The Bars of Atlantis unfurls the entire breadth and depth of Grünbein's essayistic genius. Memoiristic and autobiographical pieces that introdu...

This book focuses on the latter half of the twentieth century, when much of northwest Europe grew increasingly multicultural with the arrival of foreign workers and (post-)colonial migrants, whilst simultaneously experiencing a boom in feminist and sexual liberation activism. Using multilingual newspapers, foreign worker organizations’ archives, and interviews, this book shows that immigrants in the Netherlands and Denmark held a variety of viewpoints about European gender and sexual cultu...

It is now widely recognized that there is a need for long-term secure and suitable sustainable forms of energy. Renewable energy from the marine environment, in particular renewable energy from tidal currents, wave and wind, can help achieve a sustainable energy future. Our understanding of environmental impacts and suitable mitigation methods associated with extracting renewable energy from the marine environment is improving all the time and it is essential that we be able to distinguish...