![]() ![]() ![]() Jon Irwin savors the anticipation of waiting for a new Mario game,.Gabe Durham on how Zelda's fandom influenced the official Zelda timeline,.Perry about her beloved Resident Evil novels, Salvatore Pane on the fan projects that have kept the Mega Man series alive,.Alex Kane interviews the man behind Star Wars Battlefront II's use of motion capture technology,.Alyse Knorr on how Princess Peach’s story draws on 2000 years of women in peril,.Alexa Ray Corriea on the characters and themes in Kingdom Hearts III,.Craddock on how Shovel Knight's developers collaborated with speedrunners, ![]() In this anthology you’ll delve into lost chapters and timely essays in which Boss Fight authors return to the games and series that inspired their full-length titles. Boss Fight’s authors have done so much great writing you won’t find in their books, so we decided to put together our very own B-sides & rarities compilation: Nightmare Mode. So you've managed to best our most fearsome books? Well gear up, brave adventurer: It's time for some DLC. ![]()
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I picked up Scrap Metal by Harper Fox because it was free. When there’s death in a book, I’m out.īut when it comes to these sorts of “I never read this”, there’s nothing more satisfying to me than being wrong wrong wrong. When reviews say how the author captured the setting and the beauty of it, snooze. While I certainly have loved some of them (LaVyrle Spencer comes to mind) most of the time I end up bored. Whenever I hear a book is a slow burn, I run in the opposite direction. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In the title essay of the volume, Duffy tells the harrowing story of the Elizabethan regime's savage suppression of the last Catholic rebellion against the Reformation, the Rising of the Northern Earls in 1569. The first part of A People's Tragedy examines the two most important of these the rise and fall of pilgrimage to the cathedral shrines of England, and the destruction of the monasteries under Henry VIII, as exemplified by the dissolution of the ancient Anglo-Saxon monastery of Ely. In his revisionist masterpiece The Stripping of the Altars, Duffy opened up new areas of research and entirely fresh perspectives on the origin and progress of the English Reformation.ĭuffy's focus has always been on the practices and institutions through which ordinary people lived and experienced their religion, but which the Protestant reformers abolished as idolatry and superstition. As an authority on the religion of medieval and early modern England, Eamon Duffy is preeminent. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Katie Mack has been contemplating these questions since she was eighteen, when her astronomy professor first informed her the universe could end at any moment, setting her on the path toward theoretical astrophysics. ![]() What might such a cataclysm look like? And what does it mean for us?ĭr. But what happens at the end of the story? In billions of years, humanity could still exist in some unrecognizable form, venturing out to distant space, finding new homes and building new civilizations. With the Big Bang, it went from a state of unimaginable density to an all-encompassing cosmic fireball to a simmering fluid of matter and energy, laying down the seeds for everything from dark matter to black holes to one rocky planet orbiting a star near the edge of a spiral galaxy that happened to develop life. ![]() From one of the most dynamic rising stars in astrophysics, an accessible and eye-opening look-in the bestselling tradition of Sean Carroll and Carlo Rovelli-at the five different ways the universe could end, and the mind-blowing lessons each scenario reveals about the most important concepts in physics. ![]() ![]() ![]() Those who appear to be adversaries may turn out to be allies-and those who pretend friendship may be enemies. Her fortune, her future, and her very life are at stake. It would be best for everyone if he could send this misfit heiress on her way as soon as possible.ĭrawn into a whirlwind of intrigue, shifting alliances, and ambitions, Lady Blythe must be careful whom she trusts. He has his own problems-a volatile brother with dangerous political leanings, an estate to manage, and a very young brother in need of comfort and direction in the wake of losing his father. No sooner has Everard Hume lost his father, Lord Wedderburn, than Lady Hedley arrives with the clothes on her back and her mistress in tow. ![]() With her meticulous eye for detail and her knack for creating living, breathing characters, Frantz continues to enchant historical fiction readers who long to feel they are a part of the story. But in a house with seven sons and numerous servants, her presence soon becomes known. Historical romance favorite Laura Frantz is back with a suspenseful story of love, betrayal, and new beginnings. Secreted to the tower of Wedderburn Castle in Scotland, Lady Blythe awaits who will ultimately be crowned king. In 1715, Lady Blythe Hedley's father is declared an enemy of the British crown because of his Jacobite sympathies, forcing her to flee her home in northern England. ![]() ![]() ![]() It has been collated with the manuscript, and the previous two editions, as well as with Charlotte Bront"'e's letters, and thus offers fuller information about the process of composition than any previous edition.ĪBOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. This edition is based on the Third Edition of 1857, revised by Gaskell. Through an often difficult and demanding process, Gaskell created a vital sense of a life hidden from the world. She wrote from a vivid accumulation of letters, interviews, and observation, establishing the details of Charlotte's life and recreating her background. She contacted those who had known Charlotte and travelled extensively in England and Belgium to gather material. Gaskell was a friend of Charlotte Brontë, and, having been invited to write the offical life, determined both to tell the truth and to honour her friend. ![]() 'It is in every way worthy of what one great woman should have written of another.' Patrick BrontëĮlizabeth Gaskell's The Life of Charlotte Brontë (1857) is a pioneering biography of one great Victorian woman novelist by another. ![]() Oxford Research Encyclopedias: Global Public Health.The European Society of Cardiology Series.Oxford Commentaries on International Law. ![]() ![]() ![]() To make things worse, Mogget is asleep basically the entire time, so we don’t get any reprieve from Sam’s winey ways. Garth Nix has been a full-time writer sincebut has also worked as a literary agent, marketing consultant, book editor, book publicist, book sales representative, bookseller, and as a part-time soldier in the Australian Army Reserve. I like good YA fantasy and the first in this series was certainly that. By using this site, you agree to the Terms of Use and Privacy Policy. Winner of the Ditmar Award.īut then in the next chapter, slate wiped clean – nullified all consequences to what had happened. ![]() In this sequel to Sabriel, New York Times bestselling author Garth Nix weaves a spellbinding tale of discovery, destiny, and danger. ![]() In this sequel to the critically acclaimed Sabriel, Garth Nix draws. New York Times bestseller Lirael is perfect for fans of epic fantasy like Game of Thrones. ![]() ![]() ![]() LeBron James was born into an identity crisis. ![]() And I’m still, every time, left wondering whether this is as important as I think it is, and then utterly convinced that it is. Whenever I try to unravel the Homeric epic of LeBron James (humble beginnings burden of expectation killer biceps purpose-driven departure grand quest home, home, home, home, home daddy issues failure of pride etc.), I find myself invariably, involuntarily, incessantly tracing a line backward through personal chronology and geography (his and mine), and then conversely forward, toward the potential infinity of those same territories. And also tonight, June 5, 2012, LeBron James will play an ostensibly meaningful basketball play-off game with the word HEAT lettered across his torso. On the very afternoon I write these words, the second planet is about to pass directly in front of the sun, an event called the Transit of Venus, which, in silhouette, looks (though it cannot be viewed without appropriate eye protection) like a pea passing in front of a Hollywood searchlight, a minor epic of the cosmos that occurs just once every 105 years, which seems like a very long time until you remind yourself that this is Venus and the sun we’re talking about. The following is from David Giffels’s The Hard Way on Purpose: Essays and Dispatches from the Rust Belt: ![]() ![]() ![]() Mary Curzon, Countess of Dorset, takes the fashions perhaps even further in her portrait (Fig. The décolletage is masked by fine linen.” (24) As Valerie Cumming remarks in her Visual History of Costume: The Seventeenth Century (1984): “The false hanging sleeves extend the shoulder line, and the small waist is emphasized by the wide oval neckline and tip-tilted fullness of the farthingale both bodice and skirt are made from Italian brocaded silk. Here her lace cuffs are made more visible by the contrasting carnation color beneath them she has an enormous red velvet rosette tied to her left upper arm and carries a dramatic red and black ostrich feather fan. Similar fashions can be seen on Anne of Denmark, Queen Consort of England, in a portrait circa 1611-14 (Fig. Her dress continues trends of the previous decade. ![]() The skirt has shortened such that her shoes are visible. The drum shape of her skirt is created by the French farthingale she wears below it, the top edge of the now tilted cage is softened by an elaborately pinned ruffled top. 1) shows the standard fashion of 1610 in her portrait: long narrow dress bodice with tight cylindrical sleeves and vestigial hanging sleeves behind, a low rounded neckline and lace standing collar. ![]() ![]() ![]() In 1833 Thoreau went to Harvard University studying mathematics, philosophy and the classics. Though he wrote a good deal of poetry, it is his essays and longer works that have survived and prospered over the years, revised and adapted to suit each generations hopes and desires. ![]() ![]() In his earl life, Thoreau thought of himself as a poet but was largely discouraged by those around him and finally came to see it as far too constrictive for the ideas he wanted to explore. His interests were many and varied and his best known literary works, Walden and Civil Disobedience, have had a strong influence on many political and social leaders since they were written over 150 years ago. He is undoubtedly one of the most famous Americans of the 19th century, an ardent philosopher, abolitionist, and historian. Author and poet Henry David Thoreau was born into an unremarkable New England family in Massachusetts in 1817. ![]() |