The Sky Pharaoh Hakotep I has risen and launched an attack against the city of Wati with his infamous flying pyramid. The heroes return to Wati to defend the city against this menace, only to discover that the attack is just the preface to a larger invasion of Osirion, controlled from Hakotep’s own flying tomb. Will the heroes call down the flying pyramid of the Sky Pharaoh from the sky, or will their bones join the thousands of skeletons that lie within the slave trenches of Hakotep? A 13th-level Pathfinder adventure, The Slave Trenches of Hakotep continues the Mummy's Mask Adventure Path.
The kings and queens of Korvosa have long ruled under the shadow of the Curse of the Crimson Throne—an infamous superstition claiming that no monarch of the city of Korvosa shall ever die of old age or produce an heir. Whether or not there is any truth to the legend of the curse, Korvosa's current king is but the latest victim to succumb to this foul legacy. Now, the metropolis teeters on the edge of anarchy, and it falls to a band of new heroes to save Korvosa from the greatest threat it has ever known! This softcover compilation presents the fan-favorite campaign for use with the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game First Edition, including new and revised content and nearly 500 pages packed with mayhem, excitement, and adventure! The Curse of the Crimson Throne Pocket Edition contains: • All six chapters of the original Adventure Path, expanded and updated for use with the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game First Edition. • An in-depth gazetteer of the city of Korvosa as it exists under the rule of its new queen. • An array of new rules options for characters, ranging from campaign traits to spells to magic items. • An expansive appendix with statistics, descriptions, backgrounds, and rules support for the 12 most important NPCs in the campaign. • A bestiary featuring nine monsters from the original Adventure Path. • Dozens of new illustrations, never-before-seen characters, location maps, extensive new encounter locations, and more!
L. Ron Hubbard; S.M. Stirling; Nancy Kress; Gregory Benford; Bob Eggleton; Stephannie Tallent; Michael Kortes; John Eric Schleicher; Chloe Murphy; Christopher Moran; James Davies
Spine-tingling Breathtaking Mind-blowing Experience these powerful new voices?vivid, visceral, and visionary?as they explore uncharted worlds and reveal unlimited possibilities. Twelve captivating tales from the best new writers of the year as selected by Writers of the Future Contest judges accompanied by three more from L. Ron Hubbard, Nancy Kress, S.M. Stirling. Each story has a full-color illustration. Plus Bonus Art and Writing Tips from Gregory Benford, Bob Eggleton, L. Ron Hubbard, Dean Wesley Smith ?When her owner goes missing, a digital housecat must become more than simulation to find her dearest companion through the virtual world. The Edge of Where My Light Is Cast? by Sky McKinnon, art by Carina Zhang No one came to his brother's funeral. Not even the spirits. tienne knew it was his fault. Son, Spirit, Snake? by Jack Nash, art by Pedro N. Man overboard is a nightmare scenario for any sailor, but Lieutenant Susan Guidry is also running out of air?and the nearest help is light years away. Nonzero? by Tom Vandermolen, art by Jennifer Mellen Mac wanted to invent a cocktail to burn itself upon the pages of history?but this one had some unexpected side effects. The Last Drop? by L. Ron Hubbard and L. Sprague de Camp, art by Chris Arias Dementia has landed Dan Kennedy in Graydon Manor, and what's left of his life ahead seems dismal, but a pair of impossible visitors bring unexpected hope. The Imagalisk? by Galen Westlake, art by Arthur Haywood When a teenage swamp witch fears her mama will be killed, she utilizes her wits and the magic of the bayou?no matter the cost to her own soul. Life and Death and Love in the Bayou? by Stephannie Tallent, art by Ashley Cassaday Our exodus family awoke on the new world?a paradise inexplicably teeming with Earth life, the Promise fulfilled. But 154 of us are missing. Five Days Until Sunset? by Lance Robinson, art by Steve Bentley Spirits were supposed to lurk beneath the Lake of Death, hungry and patient and hostile to all life. Shaman Dreams? by S.M. Stirling, art by Dan dos Santos A new app lets users see through the eyes of any human in history, but it's not long before the secrets of the past catch up with the present. The Wall Isn't a Circle? by Rosalyn Robilliard, art by Guelly Rivera In the shadows of Teddy Roosevelt's wendigo hunt, a Native American boy resolves to turn the tables on his captors, setting his sights on the ultimate prey?America's Great Chief. Da-ko-ta? by Amir Agoora, art by Connor Chamberlain When squids from outer space take over, a punk-rock P.I. must crawl out of her own miserable existence to find her client's daughter?and maybe a way out. Squiddy? by John Eric Schleicher, art by Tyler Vail Another outbreak? This time it's a virus with an eighty percent infection rate that affects personality changes ? permanently. Halo? by Nancy Kress, art by Lucas Durham Planet K2-18b is almost dead, humanity is enslaved, and it's Rickard's fault. Now in his twilight years, he?d give an arm and a leg for redemption. Literally. Ashes to Ashes, Blood to Carbonfiber? by James Davies, art by May Zheng What if magic could undo the unthinkable, and undo Death itself? Would you use it no matter the cost? What would you sacrifice for love Summer of Thirty Years? by Lisa Silverthorne, art by Gigi Hooper Joe is a prospector tasked with exploring the cosmos on behalf of an all-powerful government. Breadna is a toaster. There have been weirder love stories, but that's unlikely. Butter Side Down? by Kal M, art by Selena Meraki 24 Award-winning Authors and Illustrators 16-page color gallery of artwork
Called the most important British filmmaker of his generation, Terence Davies made his reputation with modern classics like Distant Voices, Still Lives and The Long Day Closes, personal works exploring his fractured childhood in Liverpool. His idiosyncratic and unorthodox narrative films defy easy categorization, as their seeming existence within realism and personal memory cinema is undermined by an abstractness that makes the way he lays bare personal pain come across as distant, even alien. Film critic Michael Koresky explores the unique emotional tenor of Davies's work by focusing on four paradoxes within the director's oeuvre: films that are autobiographical yet fictional; melancholy yet elating; conservative in tone and theme yet radically constructed; and obsessed with the passing of time yet frozen in time and space. Through these contradictions, the films' intricate designs reveal a cumulative, deeply personal meditation on the self. Koresky also analyzes how Davies's ongoing negotiation of--and struggle with--questions of identity related to his past and his homosexuality imbue the details and jarring juxtapositions in his films with a queer sensibility, which is too often overlooked due to the complexity of Davies's work and his unfashionable ambivalence toward his own sexual orientation.
Called the most important British filmmaker of his generation, Terence Davies made his reputation with modern classics like Distant Voices, Still Lives and The Long Day Closes, personal works exploring his fractured childhood in Liverpool. His idiosyncratic and unorthodox narrative films defy easy categorization, as their seeming existence within realism and personal memory cinema is undermined by an abstractness that makes the way he lays bare personal pain come across as distant, even alien. Film critic Michael Koresky explores the unique emotional tenor of Davies's work by focusing on four paradoxes within the director's oeuvre: films that are autobiographical yet fictional; melancholy yet elating; conservative in tone and theme yet radically constructed; and obsessed with the passing of time yet frozen in time and space. Through these contradictions, the films' intricate designs reveal a cumulative, deeply personal meditation on the self. Koresky also analyzes how Davies's ongoing negotiation of--and struggle with--questions of identity related to his past and his homosexuality imbue the details and jarring juxtapositions in his films with a queer sensibility, which is too often overlooked due to the complexity of Davies's work and his unfashionable ambivalence toward his own sexual orientation.
A blazingly original history celebrating the persistence of queerness onscreen, behind the camera, and between the lines during the dark days of the Hollywood Production Code. From the 1930s to the 1960s, the Motion Picture Production Code severely restricted what Hollywood cinema could depict. This included "any inference" of the lives of homosexuals. In a landmark 1981 book, gay activist Vito Russo famously condemned Hollywood's censorship regime, lambasting many midcentury films as the bigoted products of a "celluloid closet." But there is more to these movies than meets the eye. In this insightful, wildly entertaining book, cinema historian Michael Koresky finds new meaning in "problematic" classics of the Code era like Hitchcock's Rope, Minnelli's Tea and Sympathy, and-bookending the period and anchoring Koresky's narrative-William Wyler's two adaptations of The Children's Hour, Lillian Hellman's provocative hit play about a pair of schoolteachers accused of lesbianism. Lifting up the underappreciated queer filmmakers, writers, and actors of the era, Koresky finds artists who are long overdue for reevaluation. Through his brilliant inquiry, Sick and Dirty reveals the "bad seeds" of queer cinema to be surprisingly, even gleefully subversive, reminding us, in an age of book bans and gag laws, that nothing makes queerness speak louder than its opponents' bids to silence it.
Konflikten mellem Israel og Palæstina er en af de bitreste i historien, og den har omfattende globale konsekvenser. I denne bog beskriver mellemøsteksperten Michael Scott-Baumann konfliktens oprindelse og udvikling helt op til nutiden. Bogen undersøger blandt andet briternes rolle i optakten til etablering af staten Israel i 1948, Uafhængighedskrigen 1948-49, Seksdageskrigen i 1967, Osloaftalerne, de to Intifadaer, Trumps fredsplan fra 2020 og den krig, der brød ud mellem Israel og Hamas i 2023. Hvert kapitel kortlægger de politiske forhold, præsenterer forskellige fortolkninger og slutter med personlige vidnesbyrd fra israelere og palæstinensere, hvis tilværelse er blevet formørket af vold.
Carmen and the Staging of Spain explores the Belle Époque fascination with Spanish entertainment that refashioned Bizet's opera and gave rise to an international "Carmen industry." Authors Michael Christoforidis and Elizabeth Kertesz challenge the notion of Carmen as an unchanging exotic construct, tracing the ways in which performers and productions responded to evolving fashions for Spanish style from its 1875 premiere to 1915. Focusing on selected realizations of the opera in Paris, London and New York, Christoforidis and Kertesz explore the cycles of influence between the opera and its parodies; adaptations in spoken drama, ballet and film; and the panorama of flamenco, Spanish dance, and musical entertainments. Their findings also uncover Carmen's dynamic interaction with issues of Hispanic identity against the backdrop of Spain's changing international fortunes. The Spanish response to this now most-Spanish of operas is illuminated by its early reception in Madrid and Barcelona, adaptations to local theatrical genres, and impact on Spanish composers of the time. A series of Spanish Carmens, from opera singers Elena Sanz and Maria Gay to the infamous music-hall star La Belle Otero, had a crucial influence on the interpretation of the title role. Their stories provide a fresh context for the book's reappraisal of leading Carmens of the era, including Emma Calvé and Geraldine Farrar.
Seminar paper from the year 2008 in the subject English - Pedagogy, Didactics, Literature Studies, grade: 2,0, University of Regensburg (Anglistik ), course: Seminar: Fachwissenschaftliche Inhalte f r den Englischunterricht der gymnasialen Oberstufe, language: English, abstract: Die Behandlung von Musikvideos im Englischunterricht bietet vielfache M glichkeiten, die Sprachkompetenz der Sch ler zu f rdern. Musikvideos geh ren zu den audiovisuellen Medien und verkn pfen somit Bild und Ton. Dies f hrt zu einem leichteren Verst ndnis, da die Sch ler Mimik und Gestik der S nger verfolgen k nnen. Au erdem wird dadurch ein situativer Kontext erzeugt. Durch den Einsatz von Musikvideos wird ein wichtiger Beitrag zur Medienerziehung geleistet, da die Sch ler lernen, kritisch mit Medien umzugehen. Im Alltag dienen Musikvideoclips meist nur zur Unterhaltung. Dabei lernen die Sch ler aber nicht, die Botschaft dieses Mediums zu hinterfragen. Sie sollen folglich zur bewussten Rezeption von Musikvideoclips erzogen werden. Ferner eignen sich Musikvideos gut zur Vermittlung landeskundlicher Informationen und interkultureller Gesichtspunkte. Sie stellen die Kultur des jeweiligen Landes oft in authentischer Weise dar, wodurch die Sch ler einen guten Einblick in die englischsprachige Welt erhalten.
Kayla is a 17 year-old girl who has a unique best friend. He has helped Kayla through many rough times. He was there when she lost a very important person in her life and when a friend of hers got into some serious trouble. What makes this best friend so unique? He's an angel. An Archangel to be exact. Archangel Michael (St. Michael): Chief of the Army of God and Patron Saint of police officers and soldiers. He's also Kayla's protector and best friend.
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He's God's deadliest weapon. His firstborn son. And still he failed.Blessed with the ultimate power of Heaven, Michael shouldn't have needed his brothers to rescue him. A reality that gnaws at his very soul. And to make matters worse, they weren't the only ones to witness his defeat. But surely fate wouldn't be so cruel as to introduce him to his intended mate on the day of his greatest failure, would it?Greyson, Prince of the Fae, knew the instant he met Michael that the archangel was his true soul. And yet, months later, Grey's still waiting for the man to acknowledge the truth. To quiet the unrelenting need that burns beneath Grey's flesh. But how can he convince a warrior that love and duty don't have to be exclusive?Left with few options, Grey asks Michael to give him one night. No expectations. No promises. Just the two of them. Together. A moment Grey knows will have to last a lifetime-until his life is threatened.Michael might not be ready to acknowledge Greyson's his mate, but he'll be damned if he fails the only man he'll ever love. He won't let Greyson down, even if it means his only course of action is a fall from grace.
E. F. Benson's "Michael" offers a fascinating glimpse into the intricacies of 20th-century English social life. This compelling work of psychological fiction delves into the complexities of human relationships and the subtle nuances of social customs prevalent in Great Britain. A meticulously prepared republication of a historical text, "Michael" explores themes relevant to family life through a literary lens, capturing a specific moment in time with enduring resonance. Readers interested in the social dynamics of early 20th-century England will find this novel a captivating study of character and societal expectations.This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
