| Author | : Alan Gibbons |
| Publisher | : Longman Publishing Group |
| Total Pages | : 272 |
| Release | : 2004-01 |
| Genre | : Adventure stories |
| ISBN | : 9780582848696 |
Phoenix is a death-defying hero of the Greek myths, battling the snake-haired Medusa and the invincible Minotaur...but only when he's not being bullied at the school that he hates. For Phoenix leads two lives - 'real life' and his adventures in side the virtual reality game The Legendeer.
| Author | : J. E. Bright |
| Publisher | : Random House Books for Young Readers |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2013 |
| Genre | : Fairies |
| ISBN | : 9780449817759 |
When Bloom and her Winx Club companions return for their second year at Alfea College, they encounter a new threat a dark lord and welcome a new member to the club.
| Author | : R J Patterson |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 280 |
| Release | : 2021-03-27 |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : |
Buckle up for this pulse-pounding thriller from award-winning and best selling author R.J. Patterson in a new series debut! Former black ops agent Brady Hawk is enjoying his new life with his growing family on a ranch in Montana. Then the former head of the CIA pays Hawk a visit to discuss a dangerous assignment: extracting one of Hawk's Navy SEAL friends stuck in Siberian Russia. Unwilling to leave his pal behind enemy lines, Hawk agrees to accept the mission. But when he arrives in Russia, he finds that everything isn't as it seems while uncovering a secret that could have far-reaching implications on the country's national security. Desperate to complete his mission and return home, Hawk must overcome unforgiving terrain while being hunted by Russia's intelligence agency to not only save his country but also save his life. Fans of Brad Thor, Brad Taylor, Vince Flynn, and Robert Ludlum are sure to enjoy this exciting new thriller from R.J. Patterson.
| Author | : Tom Taylor |
| Publisher | : Marvel Entertainment |
| Total Pages | : 173 |
| Release | : 2018-09-05 |
| Genre | : Comics & Graphic Novels |
| ISBN | : 1302505831 |
Collecting X-Men Red #1-5 and Annual #1. Jean Grey is back and recruiting her own team of X-Men! Reborn into a world very different than she remembers, Jean gathers allies including Nightcrawler, Namor and the All-New Wolverine to combat a growing anti-mutant movement that threatens to tear down Xaviers dream! Jean has a vision and a plan but first her Red squad must infiltrate a top-secret compound to save a mysterious new mutant. Avoiding guards with high-tech weapons, protestors with burning hate and gigantic mutant-killing Sentinel robots is all in a days work for the X-Men! But Jeans newest recruit will be the key to the whole teams survival as battles break out across India! Gambit finds himself caught up in the intensifying global frenzy of mutant hate as well but could one of Jeans oldest friends become a deadly foe?
| Author | : Mercedes Lackey |
| Publisher | : Tor Books |
| Total Pages | : 399 |
| Release | : 2007-10-16 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1429921900 |
New York Times and USA Today bestselling authors Mercedes Lackey and James Mallory teamed up to write The Obsidian Trilogy, set in a wondrous world filled with magical beings, competing magic systems, and a titanic struggle between good and evil. That world proved so popular with the creators and readers alike that Lackey and Mallory have returned to it with The Phoenix Unchained, Book One of The Enduring Flame, the opening volume of a new epic fantasy trilogy. After a thousand years of peace, much Magick has faded from the world. The Elves live far from humankind. There are no High Mages, and Wild Mages are seen only rarely. Bisochim, a powerful Wild Mage, is determined to reintroduce Darkness to the world, believing that it is out of Balance. Tiercel, a young Armethalian nobleman, is convinced that High Magic is not just philosophy. He attempts a spell—and draws the unwelcome attention of Bisochim. Tiercel survives Bisochim's attack and begins trying to turn himself into a High Mage. Next in line to be Harbormaster of Armethalieh, Harrier instead finds himself regularly saving Tyr's life and meeting magickal people and creatures. To Harrier's dismay, it seems that he must become a hero. In The Phoenix Unchained, Harrier and Tiercel begin a marvelous journey to uncover their destinies. Along the way, they meet a charming female centaur, several snooty Elves, and the most powerful dragon their world has ever known. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
| Author | : Davarian L Baldwin |
| Publisher | : Bold Type Books |
| Total Pages | : 288 |
| Release | : 2021-03-30 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 1568588917 |
Across America, universities have become big businesses—and our cities their company towns. But there is a cost to those who live in their shadow. Urban universities play an outsized role in America’s cities. They bring diverse ideas and people together and they generate new innovations. But they also gentrify neighborhoods and exacerbate housing inequality in an effort to enrich their campuses and attract students. They maintain private police forces that target the Black and Latinx neighborhoods nearby. They become the primary employers, dictating labor practices and suppressing wages. In the Shadow of the Ivory Tower takes readers from Hartford to Chicago and from Phoenix to Manhattan, revealing the increasingly parasitic relationship between universities and our cities. Through eye-opening conversations with city leaders, low-wage workers tending to students’ needs, and local activists fighting encroachment, scholar Davarian L. Baldwin makes clear who benefits from unchecked university power—and who is made vulnerable. In the Shadow of the Ivory Tower is a wake-up call to the reality that higher education is no longer the ubiquitous public good it was once thought to be. But as Baldwin shows, there is an alternative vision for urban life, one that necessitates a more equitable relationship between our cities and our universities.
| Author | : J. Meejin Yoon |
| Publisher | : Princeton Architectural Press |
| Total Pages | : 216 |
| Release | : 2009-07-14 |
| Genre | : Architecture |
| ISBN | : 9781568988665 |
Rising stars in Boston's design scene, architects Eric Howeler and J. Meejin Yoon have in a single decade developed a reputation for radical experiments in architectural form. Their design methodology--what they call an "expanded practice"--combines intense research with interdisciplinary experimentation. Howeler and Yoon's sensational, competition-winning lighting entry for the 2004 Athens Olympics exemplifies their fearless approach: without any prior experience in public space interactive design, the firm constructed a luminous, interactive soundscape installation at the base of the Acropolis. White Noise White Light featured a field of semiflexible fiber-optic strands that emitted white light and white noise in response to the movement of pedestrians. The project, an enormous success, enchanted a multitude of visitors who moved amidst the cilia of light. Expanded Practice presents twenty-nine recent projects by this young firm encompassing a broad range of scales and media. The projects, divided into distinct but often overlapping research themes, include a museum courtyard program inspired by the Voronoi cell-packing algorithm (PS1 Loop); an outdoor light installation featuring hovering cones that capture and interact with solar energy, rainwater, and sound (Hover); a garment designed to turn inside out as it unravels (Mobius Dress); and a landscape design that weaves technology and texture into an integrated and interactive landscape (Tripanel). Packed with drawings, diagrams, and photographs of each project's design process, Expanded Practice provides an inspirational look into one of the most exciting young firms working in architecture today.
| Author | : Sally Pomme Clayton |
| Publisher | : Tiny Owl Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 32 |
| Release | : 2019-05-02 |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : 9781910328439 |
In a bustling marketplace in Iran, a traditional storyteller regales her audience with the tale of Prince Zal and the Simorgh. High up on the Mountain of Gems lives the Simorgh, a wise phoenix whose flapping wings disperse the seeds of life across the world. When King Sam commands that his long-awaited newborn son Zal be abandoned because of his white hair, the Simorgh adopts the baby and raises him alongside her own chicks and teaches him everything she knows. But when the king comes to regret his actions, Prince Zal will learn that the most important lesson of all is forgiveness. In this special edition, the story has been set to music, with each instrument representing a different character. You can download music composed by Amir Eslami (ney), Nilufar Habibian (qanun), Saeid Kord Mafi (santur), and Arash Moradi (tanbur). The music accompanies Sally Pomme Clayton's stunning narration of this classic tale from the Shahnameh.
| Author | : J. J. Phoenix |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 244 |
| Release | : 2020-10-04 |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : |
Surreal worlds of Magical Minds with an awakening for Sam , Ava, Anna and Jack as their minds evolve and enhance through an epic Journey. A story which twists and turns , pulls back and launches forward. From modern day to 1800's London. Solar minds is full of history and symbolism, throwing in an intriguing thought or two of where London's most mysterious figure could have resided for the years he was being hunted without success. Read with an open mind as this story will open to you a new way of thinking.
