A fun and practical new approach to wargaming that lets you complete a game in about an hour—includes rule sets and scenarios for most popular periods.One of the biggest problems facing wargamers is finding the time to actually play. Most commercially available games require several hours to set up and see to a conclusion; some can even take a whole day or weekend to complete. Apart from time, lack of space can also keep wargamers from enjoying their favorite pasti...

University professor Neil Thomas was a committed Darwinist and agnostic—until an investigation of evolutionary theory led him to a startling conclusion: "I had been conned!" As he studied the work of Darwin's defenders, he found himself encountering tactics eerily similar to the methods of political brainwashing he had studied as a scholar. Thomas felt impelled to write a book as a sort of warning call to humanity: "Beware! You have been fooled!" The result is Taking Leave of Darwin

This volume brings together contributions from a wide range of international academics and practitioners. It traces innovations within classical music practice, showing how these offer divergent visions for its future. The interdisciplinary contributions to the volume highlight the way contrasting ideas of the future can effect change in the present.A rich balance of theoretical and practical discussion brings authority to this collection, which lays the foundations for timely resp...

The Rights of My People reviews Liliuokalani's decades-long campaign for the dignity and sovereignty of Hawaii, particularly in the wake of the 1893 coup d'état, and the outright annexation in 1898.The author gives the first detailed and documented description of the seizure of the Crown lands, a quarter of the Hawaii islands, in 1893. This illegal move was contested aggressively by Liliuokalani for nearly two decades.With previously unexamined documents, court rec...

Ships of Steel is the first in a line of anthologies for the fan of Space Opera, Space Westerns and Science Fiction Adventure stories. Call it what you like, but these four novellas are filled with aliens, robots, spaceships, pirates, assassins all set on far planets or the depths of space."Rolling Stone" by M. D. Jackson introduces the space agent, Steel, and his spaceship Darling."The Hidden Heart" by G. W. Thomas features Sudana and Zaar, characters from his book Whisper...

Tinariwen of Astinda is a necromancer's apprentice who has been trapped in a glass ball for three hundred years. What do you do with all that time on your hands? You grow big. And you practice your magic. Upon his release, the apprentice faces a hostile new world, one where necromancy no longer exists. Seven feet tall, with horns and fangs, Tin quickly gets attention. Unfortunately it is the attention of the Assassin's Guild!Tin's new allies will be hard-pressed as the masterless a...

A set of simple, fast-playing rules for wargaming the conflicts that re-shaped Europe in the period 1815-78. This important, yet often-neglected period includes the Crimean War, the Italian Risorgimento, the wars of Bismarck's Prussia against Denmark, Austro-Hungary and France and the Russo-Turkish war. Tactically it saw armies struggle to adapt Napoleonic doctrines to incorporate important technological advances such as breech-loading rifles, steel breech-loading cannon and the first mach...

In the midst of the Great Depression, a furious storm struck the Florida Keys with devastating force. With winds estimated at over 225 miles per hour, it was the first recorded Category 5 hurricane to make landfall in the United States.Striking at a time before storms were named, the catastrophic tropical cyclone became known as the 1935 Labor Day Hurricane, and its aftermath was felt all the way to Washington, D.C.In the hardest hit area of the Florida Keys, three out of e...

Ever since The Origin of Species appeared in 1859, Charles Darwin's followers have co-opted him as the patron saint of materialism. In False Messiah, longtime Darwinist and agnostic Neil Thomas looks at how Darwinism triumphed, and he challenges the official story with an exploration richly informed by his expertise in rhetoric and cultural history. What of Darwinism's present status? Like Marxism—that other great materialist theory of the Victorian age—Darwinism has beco...

Ride the trail to Devil's Gulch, a Western town where strange things lie in the shadows. The Weird West was never weirder in this shared world anthology set in a town haunted by ghosts and worse. "If Music Be the Food of Love" by M. D. Jackson gets things rolling with a man seeking a lost macabre masterpiece. "Dark Raven" by T. Neil Thomas follows hanging Judge Galbraith to a haunted house where he will win (or lose?) a bet. "The Black Lake" by Jack Mackenzie has a quest for the location o...

The apostle Peter, in his second epistle, tells us that God’s Word and promises are given as we encounter the revelation of Jesus Christ. His promises are unveiled when we experience His glory and goodness. In these moments, Jesus, the divine catalyst, implants His promises in our hearts like seeds, designed to grow and produce His life within us—just as a natural seed grows in the soil to reproduce its life. As the character of Christ develops within us, the living Word works in us, washi...

With a modest two-story hotel and various small cottages, Long Key Fishing Camp offered a dramatic departure from the usual opulence of Henry Flagler’s hotels that dotted the east coast of Florida. The final resort opened during his lifetime, Long Key lacked palatial structures with manicured grounds, extravagant recreational facilities, and world-class amenities. Prospective visitors were frankly warned not to expect the same level of comfort provided at sister properties. Yet still they ...