Chris Turner

Indoctrinated into a pirate cabal notorious on the high seas, a conniving outlaw indebted with a magic talisman struggles for his life against sea raiders...locked in ship-to-ship battles against Arnin, Prince of northern Bindar.He and his two battle-hardened comrades must use every trick to survive and fight hand-in-hand in one of the fiercest ship-to-ship battles the coast has ever seen...

From the casinos of the wild west frontier-town Tylas to the dark reaches of the Muridon Belt, space rebel Jet Rusco and his misfit crew find trouble around every corner. Gangster Sharki is on their tail. Old enemies from Rusco's past have finally caught up with him. The discovery of an ancient treasure sparks the beginnings of an all-out war in the Vala System. Can Rusco outwit his enemies and make peace with the tumultuous past? The fate of the solar system may hinge on the part he plays... A gritty odyssey to faraway worlds... Other books in the Starship Rogue series: Star RunawayStar WandererThetis 3StarhustlerStarvenger Starship Rogue Box Set: innersky.ca/starship

Contract law is a core element of every law degree in England and Wales. Now in its 5th edition, Unlocking Contract Law will help you grasp the main concepts of the subject with ease.Clear learning outcomes at the beginning of each chapter set out the skills and knowledge you will need to get to grips with the subject;Key facts summaries throughout each chapter allow you to progressively build and consolidate your understanding;End-of-chapter summaries provide a useful check-list for each topic;Cases and judgments are highlighted to help you find them and add them to your notes quickly;Frequent activities and self-test questions, plus sample essay and problem questions are included so you can put your knowledge into practice and prepare you for assessment;A brand new ‘critiquing the law’ feature is designed to foster essential critical thinking skills.Containing accessible explanations in a clear and logical structure, the following features support learning, helping you to advance with confidence. This 5th edition has been fully updated throughout to reflect recent developments and changes in the law, including the growing focus on consumer protection within contract law as well as the influence of technology on contracts, including email signatures and online transactions. Unlocking Contract Law is essential reading for all students studying contract law for the first time.

Contract law is a core element of every law degree in England and Wales. Now in its 5th edition, Unlocking Contract Law will help you grasp the main concepts of the subject with ease.Clear learning outcomes at the beginning of each chapter set out the skills and knowledge you will need to get to grips with the subject;Key facts summaries throughout each chapter allow you to progressively build and consolidate your understanding;End-of-chapter summaries provide a useful check-list for each topic;Cases and judgments are highlighted to help you find them and add them to your notes quickly;Frequent activities and self-test questions, plus sample essay and problem questions are included so you can put your knowledge into practice and prepare you for assessment;A brand new ‘critiquing the law’ feature is designed to foster essential critical thinking skills.Containing accessible explanations in a clear and logical structure, the following features support learning, helping you to advance with confidence. This 5th edition has been fully updated throughout to reflect recent developments and changes in the law, including the growing focus on consumer protection within contract law as well as the influence of technology on contracts, including email signatures and online transactions. Unlocking Contract Law is essential reading for all students studying contract law for the first time.

"Dragons and kings, wizards and rings, who needs them?" So says sword-for-hire Vetravincus as he prowls the market looking for coin to pay for his next meal. Little does he know the trouble to come getting mixed up with an upstart apprentice and a gambling rogue. The apprentice wants revenge on the Mages who stripped him of his powers. The gambler is out for spoils should they succeed in disrupting the Order of Mages and securing the fabled Flame of Eros. But such simple missions are things of fantasy. The gods have something else planned... From the mesmeric love traps of a sorceress to the clutches of the Ravenclaw outlaws, Vetra and his friends must save their skins and prevent their homeland from falling to a sorceress's tyrannical rule... The SWORDS AND SKULLS Series: Flame of ErosDragon LordsValley of the GodsLand of Maja

Channel your inner MC with this quick-fire word game designed to test your rhyme skills against family and friends, settling once and for all who is the greatest rapper. Fast, furious, hilariously funny, and endlessly playable, Rap Battles is the essential card game for any aspiring MCs, wordsmiths and hip-hop fans, playable with up to 6 individuals or groups. The challenge: to come up with that killer burn, pun or rhyme to leave your opponent without a come back, in stitches, or both.It's brilliant fun for anyone who loves to rap along in the car or fancies themselves as the next hip-hop superstar. So pass the mic and get ready; things are about to get wild with Rap Battles.

Mad Libs meets Method Man, Missy Elliot, and more with this hilarious word game to test rhyme skills, pun abilities and quick wits. It's the perfect gift for all hip-hop fans, aspiring MCs and street poets. Channel your inner MC with this quick-fire word game designed to test your rhyme skills against family and friends, settling once and for all who is the greatest rapper. Fast, furious, hilariously funny, and endlessly playable, Rap Battles is the essential card game for any aspiring MCs, wordsmiths and hip-hop fans, playable with up to 6 individuals or groups. The challenge: to come up with that killer burn, pun or rhyme to leave your opponent without a come back, in stitches, or both. It's brilliant fun for anyone who loves to rap along in the car or fancies themselves as the next hip-hop superstar. So pass the mic and get ready; things are about to get wild with Rap Battles.

A major collection of essays and interviews from an iconic 20th-century philosopher in five volumes, now all available together in paperback. Roland Barthes was a restless, protean thinker. A constant innovator—often as a daring smuggler of ideas from one discipline to another—he first gained an audience with his pithy essays on mass culture and then went on to produce some of the most suggestive and stimulating cultural criticism of the late twentieth century, including Empire of Signs, The Pleasure of the Text, and Camera Lucida. In 1976, this one-time structuralist outsider was elected to a chair at France’s preeminent Collège de France, where he chose to style himself as a professor of literary semiology until his death in 1980. The greater part of Barthes’s published writings has been available to a French audience since 2002, but now, translator Chris Turner presents a collection of essays, interviews, prefaces, book reviews, and other journalistic material for the first time in English and divided into five themed volumes. Volume two, The “Scandal” of Marxism, contains a wide range of his more overtly political writings, with an emphasis on his early work and the serious national turbulence in the French 1950s.

A major collection of essays and interviews from an iconic 20th-century philosopher in five volumes, now all available together in paperback. Roland Barthes was a restless, protean thinker. A constant innovator—often as a daring smuggler of ideas from one discipline to another—he first gained an audience with his pithy essays on mass culture and then went on to produce some of the most suggestive and stimulating cultural criticism of the late twentieth century, including Empire of Signs, The Pleasure of the Text, and Camera Lucida. In 1976, this one-time structuralist outsider was elected to a chair at France’s preeminent Collège de France, where he chose to style himself as a professor of literary semiology until his death in 1980. The greater part of Barthes’s published writings has been available to a French audience since 2002, but now, translator Chris Turner presents a collection of essays, interviews, prefaces, book reviews, and other journalistic material for the first time in English and divided into five themed volumes. In volume one, A Very Fine Gift, Barthes attempts to frame his lifelong curiosities in theoretical form, from his early musings on the sociology of literature through his high period of structuralism to his later reflections on Derrida.

A major collection of essays and interviews from an iconic 20th-century philosopher in five volumes, now all available together in paperback. Roland Barthes was a restless, protean thinker. A constant innovator—often as a daring smuggler of ideas from one discipline to another—he first gained an audience with his pithy essays on mass culture and then went on to produce some of the most suggestive and stimulating cultural criticism of the late twentieth century, including Empire of Signs, The Pleasure of the Text, and Camera Lucida. In 1976, this one-time structuralist outsider was elected to a chair at France’s preeminent Collège de France, where he chose to style himself as a professor of literary semiology until his death in 1980. The greater part of Barthes’s published writings has been available to a French audience since 2002, but now, translator Chris Turner presents a collection of essays, interviews, prefaces, book reviews, and other journalistic material for the first time in English and divided into five themed volumes. Volume four, Signs and Images, gathers pieces related to his central concerns—semiotics, visual culture, art, cinema, and photography—and features essays on Marthe Arnould, Lucien Clergue, Daniel Boudinet, Richard Avedon, Bernard Faucon, and many more.

A major collection of essays and interviews from an iconic 20th-century philosopher in five volumes, now all available together in paperback. Roland Barthes was a restless, protean thinker. A constant innovator—often as a daring smuggler of ideas from one discipline to another—he first gained an audience with his pithy essays on mass culture and then went on to produce some of the most suggestive and stimulating cultural criticism of the late twentieth century, including Empire of Signs, The Pleasure of the Text, and Camera Lucida. In 1976, this one-time structuralist outsider was elected to a chair at France’s preeminent Collège de France, where he chose to style himself as a professor of literary semiology until his death in 1980. The greater part of Barthes’s published writings has been available to a French audience since 2002, but now, translator Chris Turner presents a collection of essays, interviews, prefaces, book reviews, and other journalistic material for the first time in English and divided into five themed volumes. Volume three, Masculine, Feminine, Neuter, consists of his writing on literature, covering his peers and influences, writers in French and other languages, contemporary and historical writers, and world literature.

This first book in a three-volume collection of Georges Bataille’s essays introduces English readers to his philosophical and critical writings. In the aftermath of the Second World War, French thinker and writer Georges Bataille forged a singular path through the moral and political impasses of his age. In 1946, animated by “a need to live events in an increasingly conscious way,” and to reject any compartmentalization of intellectual life, Bataille founded the journal Critique. Adopting the format of the review essay, he surveyed the post-war cultural landscape while advancing his reflections on excess, non-knowledge, and the general economy. Focusing on literature as a mode of sovereign uselessness, he tackled prominent and divisive figures such as Henry Miller and Albert Camus. In keeping with Critique’s mission to explore the totality of human knowledge, Bataille’s articles did not just focus on the literary but featured important reflections on the science of sexuality, the Chinese Revolution, and historical accounts of drunkenness, among other matters. Throughout, he was attuned to how humanity would deal with the excessive forces of production and destruction it had unleashed, his aim being a way of thinking and living that would inhabit that excess. This is the first of three volumes collecting Bataille’s post-war essays. Beginning with an article on Nietzsche and fascism written shortly after the liberation of Paris and running to the end of 1948, these texts make available for the first time in English the systematic diversity of Bataille’s post-war thought.

A novel of intersecting historical threads.The Tears is, at one level, a novel about the turbulent lives of twins, the sons of Charlemagne’s daughter Bertha. The studious and scholarly Nithard succeeds his father Angilbert as lay abbot of the Abbey of Saint Riquier in Normandy and accompanies his cousin the emperor Charles the Bald on his military campaigns. His twin brother Hartnid strikes out boldly for more exotic parts—including, eventually, Baghdad—in a seemingly deranged quest to track down the elusive female face that haunts his dreams. Yet this novel of intersecting historical threads and patches of poetic reimagining is crisscrossed by a host of other themes: the enigmatic joys afforded by nature, the intimate relation between living creatures which literature has since earliest times depicted, and the mysterious power of contingent events that have shaped entire cultures—including the birth of the French language itself. This heady brew of medieval chronicle, miraculous folktale, and speculative reconstruction of history further strengthens Pascal Quignard’s status as one of France’s most imaginative contemporary writers.

In this book, environmentally conscious writers, poets, and artists exert their opinions about energy transition. How can we envision the future? What actual options are already there? How should society adapt? Is this an opportunity for change regarding equity and reconciliation? What are problems and challenges? What are the cultural changes? To envision and be inspired, Eveline Kolijn, editor and curator of the project, connected the artists and writers with a network of experts, thinkers, and influencers from the Canadian Energy Futures Lab, together with members from towns, rural communities, and First Nations. The covered topic is universally shared around the world. Alberta is Canada's oil province and serves as a microcosm of all the challenges and opportunities that the world faces in decarbonizing society, with its current energy needs and consumer lifestyles, a fact which makes the Alberta Story a Global Story. To reflect the theme of the book on its manufacture, the paper, binding, and inks used will be from sustainable and compostable sources and have a low carbon impact. Writers and Poets are: Emma Gammans, Rosemary Griebel, Maggie Hanna, Richard Harrison, Mark Hopkins, Barb Howard, Larry Kapustka, Shannon Kernaghan, Alexis Kienlen, Monica Kidd, Michael Leeb, Kathryn Gwun-Yeen Lennon, Alice Major, Kim Mannix, Natalie Meisner, Mar'ce Merrell, Peter Midgley, Uchechukwu Peter Umezurike, Donna Williams. Artists are: Sylvia Arthur, Kate Baillies, Carole Bondaroff, Katie Bruce, Hannah Gelderman, Jamie-Lee Girodat, Jill Ho-You, Jaqueline Huskisson, Liz Ingram, Mary Kavanagh, Eveline Kolijn, Kasia Koralewska, Tara Manyfingers, Nadia Perna, Stan Phelps, Jessica Semenoff, Jared Tailfeathers, Alex Thompson, Heather Urness.

WINNER OF THE SHAUGHNESSY COHEN PRIZE FOR POLITICAL WRITING From the National Business Book Award winner and GG finalist, a very different book about facing the climate crisis, and what awaits us on the other side. Chris Turner has reported from the places where the sustainable future first emerged--from green islands in Denmark and green office parks in southern India, to solar panel factories in California and idealistic intentional communities from Scotland to New Mexico. Here, he condenses the first quarter century of the global energy transition into bite-sized chunks of optimistic reflection and reportage, telling a story of a planet in peril and a global effort already beginning to save it. This is a book that moves past the despair and futile anger over ecological collapse and harnesses that passion toward the project of building a twenty-first century quality of life that surpasses the twentieth-century version in every way. How to Be a Climate Optimist overflows with possibility in a moment of great panic, upheaval and uncertainty over a world on fire.

Sword and Sorcery bonanza 730 pages of adventure. "Another great sword and sorcery novel by author Chris Turner. Lizard Men, giant snake, and a fast paced story that will leave you trying to catch your breath. Strong characters and monsters aplenty. A must read for fans of Robert E. Howard."- kindle reviewer ★★★★★ For all Conan enthusiasts: the dark exploration which picks up where the film "Conan the Barbarian" left off. The larger-than-life Cimmerian hero and Subotai the Hyrkanian archer engage in a daring adventure. Saeth. A word barely kept lingering on the tongue of even the bravest warrior. The name of an age darkest to humankind. An age of sorcerers and far-flung magic. After the death of the sorcerer Thulsa Doom, Conan and Subotai flee north through the Ophirean highlands. In the shadowy land of Darfala, refuge is scarce, terrors many. A cave carved into the side of the mountain . . . a respite from a wicked storm? No, a sight to chill the blood. It will take everything the warriors have to survive the secrets of the mountain...and the ultimate menace, a far darker, older terror brewed by the lizard-men of lost Xatu. Heroic adventure in the tradition of Conan and Jurassic Park. A multi-book swordfest. Novellas contained in this collection: THE DRAGON OF SKARDRAGON LORDSTHE HUNTRESS OF CAERLINENCHANTRESS OF RURNEAHRION'S MINIONSBEASTSLAYER: RISE OF THE RGNADONCURSE OF THE KRAKEN "Our seers translated the ancient tablets from forgotten tongues-and they spoke in hushed whispers of a time before man, when a great flood rose flashing through the valleys, a cataclysm, some hundred thousand years ago. The rain sloughed from the heavens. The great glaciers cracked and shivered before bolts of lightning. Tempestuous gales blew around a globe on fire. "Hear me, O valiant people of Xatu, that when I say the ice splintered, slid, melted in massive shards, the waters rose "The animals, stripped of their habitat, swarmed to Vharad, the only standing island in a sea of azure stretching as far as the eye could see. Some beasts burrowed into the ancient mountain and founded the tunnels below. Others fought for resources, scarce on a windy, water-cursed world-but only the reptiles survived-to evolve into creatures of nightmare, a horrendous brood, relying on strength and size to survive..." -Legend of the Flood, the mountain king Excerpt from Beastslayer: Rise of the Rgnadon

In the underground world of crime, Jet Rusco clashes with gangsters and space thugs. He's a man who lives on the edge, turned to hustling to survive. A heist gone bad centering on alien tech leads him on a dodgy adventure, forces him to find allies. Who can he trust? Rough-boy Marty, headstrong Deidra, the tech-savvy TK, the kickbutt Wren? Wracked with self doubts and with bounty hunters on his tail, he finds his choices bringing him face to face with a mystical despot who if left unchecked, will subjugate the human-populated free colonies. The question is, can Rusco outwit his enemies? Can he rise up, become an avenger in a world gone dark? A gritty thriller full of cons, space battles, twists and danger. Books contained in this box set: THETIS 3STARHUSTLERSTARVENGER Contains violence and coarse language.

Aliens, heroes, anti-heroes. A high-intensity space thriller A handful of mercenaries are caught in the middle of an alien conspiracy to enslave the human-populated planets on the frontier. Regers, in a hijacked ship hunting down his crewmate, Yul, stranded on an alien planet. Miko, a burnt-out ex-recon man with powers of invisibility, stalked by an alien Zikri with lustful intentions. Cloye, a sexy, martial-artist spy. Star, a young street hustler and crew member. Fenli, an ace dogfight-pilot with wavering loyalties. All unlikely heroes. Terror brews in the far reaches of space...The Dim Zone...a region rife with the insectoid Mentera and squid-like Zikri. Can the mercs stop the allied alien invasion? In these dark times of the future, violent space battles, twists and perils abound. If you enjoy dystopian SF raw-edged and hardcore, then this is the read for you. The Road Warrior in Space...Predator meets Mad Max. Contains gritty content, macabre tech, epic betrayals... Other books in the Alien Alliance series: THE DIM ZONETHE TIMELOSTAUDRA