Cinder despises humans. That's not uncommon among dragons.But someone is killing the dragons. Why? How? Cinder doesn't know, and she saw her parents slain.Now Cinder, the wizard Tig, his apprentice Alex, along with willing and unwilling allies, must find a wayto save dragon-kind.And Cinder has to become a human girl to do it.

The narratives in this book span a broad range of human behavior, including ignorance, greed, revenge, death, murder, deceit, adultery, erotica, fantasy, innocence, serendipity, humor, love, and possibly a bit of the absurd.Will Wright lives, works, and plays in the Green Mountains of Vermont.

What happens to species when climate disruption causes suitable habitat within one country to move or vanish? In Borders of Biodiversity, Will Wright examines the histories of transnational conservation efforts to address the tension between a warming world in which living things are on the move and an increasingly walled world in which their movements are constrained. Focusing on the histories of three border-crossing species—gray wolves, monarch butterflies, and giant sequoias—f...

The Gathering has a crisis. A plague is killing millions. If there'd been a Weem on the planet, it never would have gotten out of hand. But all the Weems live on Trope along with a race of brutal warriors the Gathering has used to subject many planets. Unfortunately, these Tropan brutes see Weems as their personal medical corps and won't let any leave the planet. Now it's up to Elan, a Xin fighter pilot and her flight group to get a Weem off Trope.If only the humans didn't keep gett...

Centerless Center explores the author's decades-long search for enlightenment, what finally brought it to an end, and reflections on what he discovered.

Salt for the Journey includes:Fall of Brother MoonTwo moons once orbited the earth-–till one dreamed of greatness.ShingebissFrom an Ojibwa tale. The North Wind bullies everyone. But a brown duck isn't afraid.NobleMyra and her squadron just try to help. Will they save a murderous brute?The Sleeper KingEduardo worked hard sorting the mail. Till he took a nap that lasted 10,000 years.

Bottle comes from a world where science is powered by magic. He travels to a world where science is powered by electricity. People are still people however, and even with electricity, some magic always endures.

Without a Tear includes:Rama and the CamelYoung Rama needs a present for her father's birthday. Maybe a genie can help.The Isle of FiggamarooA cabin boy on his first voyage to the land of Trifoggles and Furboggles.Splashing Far From HomeYoung pebbles love to skip. But how will they find their way home?Sam's Last GameSamantha can't stand baseball. Now everyone is depending on her!

'Men's evil manners live in brass, their virtues We write in water.' Henry VIII or All is True is Shakespeare's retelling of one of the defining periods in English history: the marriage and divorce of Henry VIII and Katherine of Aragon. Written in the wake of the sudden death of Henry Stuart, King James I and VI's oldest son and heir, Shakespeare's most 'contemporary' history play offers provocative parallels between the Tudor past and Stuart present. The...

The dust had yet to settle on the global financial crisis in 2009 when an unlikely Wharton grad set in motion a fraud of unprecedented gall and magnitude--one that would come to symbolize the next great threat to the global financial system. The nuts and bolts of the scheme were shockingly simple: A young, big-talking, huckster persuaded the Prime Minister of Malaysia to create an investment fund that he would direct from the shadows, raised more than ten billion dollars from global invest...

The proliferation of non-state armed groups and non-international armed conflicts since the end of the Second World War has challenged the legal frameworks which govern conduct in armed conflict. While aspects of international humanitarian law apply to such conflicts, international law can only go part of the way to explaining behaviour by armed groups. This book seeks to refocus discussion on the limits to armed conflict in such settings by examining the norms that underpin international ...

While the Western was dying a slow death across the cultural landscape, it was blazing back to life as a video game in the early twenty-first century. Rockstar Games' Red Dead franchise, beginning with Red Dead Revolver in 2004, has grown into one of the most critically acclaimed video game franchises of the twenty-first century. Red Dead Redemption: History, Myth, and Violence in the Video Game West offers a critical, interdisciplinary look at this cultural phen...