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The Game Master's Book of Magic & Mayhem for Kids

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Locations, NPCs, traps, dungeons, magic items, monsters and more for young tabletop players

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The Game Masters Book of Magic and Mayhem is the perfect companion for young gamers aged 10-14, packed with everything they need to create unforgettable adventures for their tabletop role-playing games. Inspired by the bestselling Game Master series, this book is a treasure trove of ideas for young game masters and players alike.

Inside, readers will find detailed descriptions of epic locations like ancient temples, mysterious taverns, and hidden lairs, each filled with fascinating lore and opportunities for exciting quests. Need a trap to foil an adventuring party? A monster to test their mettle. Or a puzzle to challenge their wits? The Book of Magic and Mayhem has them covered with creative, ready-to-use ideas for both! Plus, non-player characters (NPCs) with unique personalities and backstories that will help bring any game to life, whether theyre helping or hindering the players.

The book also features a ton of random tablesperfect for quick inspiration when the story takes an unexpected turn. From treasure and magic items to random encounters and environmental hazards, these tables help game masters come up with new ideas on the fly.

Designed to spark creativity and enhance every gaming session, the Book of Magic and Mayhem is a must-have resource for any young Game Master eager to craft amazing worlds and unforgettable adventures with their friends.

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Jeff Ashworth, Chris Seaman, Phillip Sexton, Alexander Lefort, Derek Eby, James Ellis, Tim Baker, Ben Egloff

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The problem with being in the audience is you aren't supposed to interact with the actors.
Darcy Hudson loves theatre. Or maybe love is too strong a word, but he certainly appreciates the drama unfolding outside his apartment building. He and his best friend take turns bringing the popcorn to the curb performance.
Theodore Galanis, his hot neighbor, has an ongoing conflict with their equally hot, but evil, landlord. The entertainment value is high, but most of all, Darcy wants to rescue Theodore from the Greek tragedy he's trapped in and claim Theodore for himself. And maybe he will, after the next bowl of popcorn.

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Jeke is from a simple farm village, on a trip with several other families to see the big city. Along the way, they're ambushed by outlaws, and Jeke and another boy named Willard are the only survivors. A party of elves saves the two wounded humans, taking them back to their village to recover.
Life amongst the elves is tough. The one bright spot for Jeke is an elf named Imbryl, who looks about Jeke's age. He isn't, and coldly informs Jeke of this when Jeke tries to make friends. But there is clear attraction between them, in spite of the tension and the fact that Imbryl would be disowned were anything to happen between them.
Yet a relationship begins to form as they come to terms with their differences and prejudices. Soon it will be time for Jeke and Willard to return to their own people. Will Jeke ever see Imbryl again? Do they dare take any steps down a path from which it would be tough to return?

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Essays Dedicated to Wil van der Aalst on the Occasion of His 60th Birthday

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This Festschrift is dedicated to Wil van der Aalst, a leading pioneer in the disciplines of Business Process Management and Process Mining.
Wil van der Aalst received an M.Sc. and a Ph.D. at Eindhoven University of Technology during the 1980s. Among other current roles he is a full professor at RWTH Aachen University, leading the Process and Data Science (PADS) group, and he is Chief Scientist at Celonis. His research interests include process mining, data science, Petri nets, process management, workflow management, process modeling, and process analysis. He has over 1000 journal articles and conference papers, he is among the most highly cited computer scientists in the world, and his ideas have influenced researchers, software developers, and standardization committees. Among his achievements and awards Prof. van der Aalst has received honorary degrees from the Moscow Higher School of Economics, Tsinghua University, and Hasselt University. He is an IFIP Fellow, IEEE Fellow, and ACM Fellow, and an elected member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Royal Holland Society of Sciences and Humanities, Academia Europaea, the North Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Sciences, Humanities and the Arts, and the German Academy of Science and Engineering.
Throughout his career Prof. van der Aalst has collaborated with hundreds of researchers, students, and practitioners, their successes are reflected in the papers contributed to this volume.

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Sixyearold Timmy loves Saturdays at Grandma's house-yummy lunches, homemade cookies, and plenty of time to play outside.

But every week, even after Grandma warns him, Timmy slams the front door and tips over her bird bath...just because he can.

One day, Grandma quietly changes the rules. No more scolding, no more chasing after him-just a simple choice: if Timmy keeps slamming the door and dumping the bird bath, there will be no more cookies.

Suddenly, mischief isn't so fun anymore, and Timmy has to decide what matters more: doing whatever he wants, or keeping Grandma happy (and enjoying those delicious treats!).

Warm, playful, and relatable, Bird Bath is a charming picture book about:

Actions and consequences in a gentle, childfriendly way

Respecting grandparents, home, and nature

Learning selfcontrol and making better choices

The special bond between a little boy and his grandma

Perfect for shared reading at home or in the classroom, this story opens up natural conversations about behaviour, manners, and responsibility.

Young readers will see themselves in Timmy-and cheer as he discovers that listening, kindness, and respect can turn an ordinary day into something to be proud of.

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Ten-year-old Cracker Willie, an American-born Lebanese boy, has spent his young life trying-and failing-to find acceptance among white society. Isolated and aching for belonging, he turns toward the only community that seems willing to open its doors: the African-American streets of Liberty City.

But acceptance comes with a price. Before he can be considered one of them, Willie must survive the brutal initiation of neighborhood life-fistfights he cannot win, violence he cannot escape, and tragedies no child should witness. Against all odds, he endures.

Ignoring his father's warnings to "stay with his own kind," Willie chooses to live in Pork 'n Beans, Miami's most dangerous square mile, where he blends in so completely he begins to believe he has finally found his identity.

Yet harmony is fragile. As the years pass, Willie fails to see the subtle shift around him-until the community that once embraced him begins to view him as an outsider, an intruder, a threat. And then disaster strikes, in a way he never imagined.

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I knocked three times. There was no answer at the door, so I knocked three more times... Still no answer.

I turn and head to my vehicle, grab the key she lent me, and head back to the front door. I knock another three times... Still silent. She's home, she called me to come over thirty minutes earlier. Odd enough the front porch light was flickering? We fixed that yesterday.

I put the key in the hole and open the door to her zore-that's been trashed? Every light that is on is flickering. The bookshelves, cabinets and other shelves have been tossed around along with the stuff on them.

The items on the mantle are in a different room strolled across the floor. The flat screen has almost been split in two, lying on the floor in front of the fireplace. Glass from the TV, glasses, plates, and other glass items are broken and all over the floor.

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Welcome to this 28 Day Challenge for writers struggling with character development.

By working through the daily lessons and writing exercises around story structure, you can bring your plot ideas onto the page as bright and shiny as you always imagined it to be.

Aside from the physical act of writing, this challenge has a second purpose. One that is even more important. It is designed to inspire and motivate you and, most importantly, increase your belief in yourself as an artist. If you don't already consider yourself a "writer" or an "artist", then I have news for you: the fact that you are either considering this challenge - or have already signed up for it - proves that you are a writer because you are aiming to improve on your craft. That in itself shows that you consider yourself, and your artistic merits to be worthy.

In the Story Structure Challenge, you will receive a daily lesson focusing on a different aspect of structuring your novel's storyline:

The Beginning, The Middle, and The End and the 15 Beats within them

Creating conflict to prevent a "saggy middle"

Making sure every chapter is necessary

Making sure every chapter has a strong beginning and ending

World building tips and techniques

Looking at what makes a great synopsis

and getting excited, and staying excited, about your work-in-progress

Each daily practice contains simple, bite-sized snippets and exercises that you can either ponder on for the day and make some notes before bed, or just do in a few minutes over your morning coffee, so that even those of us who can't find time to write can still get something out of it. At the end of the 28 days, even if you only spent ten minutes per day on a challenge, you will end up with four and a half hours of writing time that you wouldn't have completed ordinarily. If you only manage a hundred words a day, by the end of the challenge you'll be 2,800 words down! That's basically a chapter a month if you keep it up.

These daily lessons and exercises are taken from my book: The Excited Writer. Once this challenge is complete, you are invited to purchase the full book for even more lessons and exercises, take up another 28 Day Challenge in a specific area, or even opt to work with me one-on-one via an assessment or mentorship.

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Still reeling from an imploded engagement, a woman takes in a shady figure to help with the rent. One night soon after, she gets abducted to witness her new roommate play in a high-stakes game. A trans-noir novella about loneliness, dysphoria, starring in each other's dreams, and cutting the past off.

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Stories from the international club scene, odes to the best party cities in the world, and love poems to the night.

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Re: Letter of Resignation From a Wannabe Club Kid

To all the eyes that have watched me dance from those of the moon to the boy in the corner at House of Yes:

Thank you for the wild nights and the water washing over me. Thank you for the moonlight and the laughter. I loved the lights of Paris and watching the sunrise in Brooklyn. Berlin, you were the night to me. I am leaving Earth now. I am moving to Orbit City. Maybe, I will be back sometime. But to be honest, I doubt it. The memories will sustain me. I will think of you in that little time between sleep and awake, in the space between the stars. You will be in my dreams. Your thumping music, your chaos, the feeling of euphoria. Goodnight to the clubs, to the beaches, to the full moon parties. Goodnight to the rooftops, to the jets, to the boats. Goodnight to the raves and the discos. I am off in my flying car to the future.

Stay ferocious,

Retired Wannabe Club Kid

Retired Wannabe Club Kid features an expansive collection of poems spanning decades and continents, all celebrating the power of music, parties, and the night.

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This is a story about community - about how a single place can become a gathering place and a second home, shaping friendships, love stories, and memories that last a lifetime.

Beginning in 1960s Brooklyn, when 'travel' meant visiting the next neighborhood and your community was your whole world, the Palms Shore Club in Sheepshead Bay became both a hub and a symbol of its time.

By day, families swam, played cards, and lingered over Mahjong in the sun. By night, the doors opened to dinner dances, casino nights, disco, and live entertainment. Politicians, performers, and neighborhood regulars mingled together. Think The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel meets Dirty Dancing with a hint of Goodfellas.

The Palms reflected the changing times around it. Yet across four decades, one thing remained constant: from Memorial Day to Labor Day, the Palms was a summer home to the middle-class Jewish and Italian families who returned year after year.

Danielle Berfond was just eleven when her grandparents, Bob and Gloria Berfond, closed the gates on this Brooklyn institution they had built. Twenty-five years later, she returns to reclaim its story, capturing the voices, the history, and the unforgettable characters who made the Palms Shore Club an irreplaceable Brooklyn landmark.

Part family legacy, part oral history, and wholly alive with nostalgia and heart, this is the story of a place that shaped a generation.

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A Library Journal Top Mystery Read for 2003!

Busy, busy, busy . . . A house full of actors, Saturnalia coming up, the Guilds to outmaneuver, creditors on her back and, ahem, a slight cash-flow problem to deal with; a mother-in-law straining her nerves to breaking point and a certain security policeman, well, disturbing her senses . . . and Claudia doesn't even know about the murderer lurking in her house. Nevertheless, self-interest and a certain weakness for her aristocratic policeman lure her into lending some unasked-for help to his investigation into the Saturnalia Rapist, a mysterious and brutal figure terrorizing Rome at this most festive season. Will she manage to unmask him, or will she just get herself into a whole lot of trouble?

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What is this book about?

The history of medicine and psychiatry has witnessed many times the untoward consequences of medicine's profound professional ignorance without recognizing our error until generations later. Whether through the bloodletting of leeches, the prophylactic removal of every large intestine in the community in the hope of treating depression produced by occult sources of infection, or to the more recent ice pick rampages of thousands of frontal lobe scramblings (including the hapless Rose Kennedy) on the part of Doctor Walter Freeman as he travelled the country in his "lobotomobile" ice picking brains at every stop with the joy of an ice cream salesman.

But these people - for all the primitive harm that they produced - were actually trying to help these patients, despite the profound suffering that was the actual product of their dysfunctional medical treatments. This is in direct contrast to modern psychiatry that knows and understands the simple science of statistics and the results of comparing ketamine to all or any of psychiatrists SSRI's or SNRI's.

The statistics and understanding of these relationships are quite simple.

Where the antidepressant measure of SSRIs amount to a fraction of placebo, ketamine's great boast, that we refer to as the Holy Grail of Depression, asserts that 70% of depression sufferers treated with the KISSD process will see 100 days of freedom from depression. No other medicine in the history of modern pharmacy has come close to this figure in achieving anti-depressant effectiveness.

To deny depression sufferers this KISSD process and it's 100 days of freedom from depression, arguably the worst single disease known to Humankind, is to impose the most profound of antihuman sufferings available on to the most vulnerable members of our society.

And further - to make perhaps the darkest of these antimedical points excruciatingly clear - this foisting of pain and suffering onto their very own patients, psychiatrists do with an arm around the patient, looking deeply into her eyes, and whispering to them most lovingly the most despicable of medically false promises.

The truth of medical healing here is that psychiatry should be doing my job. Every psychiatry clinic should have access to ketamine and curing the depression that they can barely at the moment even touch.

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RISE Body Trust, Movement, & Mindful Strength

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Living a Rooted, Intentional, Strong, and Energized Life Through Embodied Strength & Trust Volume 2

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What if strength wasn't something you forced - but something you returned to?

This book redefines movement, posture, core stability, and functional fitness through a trauma-informed, whole-being lens. Rather than focusing on appearance, performance, or intensity, it invites readers into partnership with their bodies - building strength that supports real life.

Inside, readers will explore:

Loving movement instead of punishing exercise

Posture as nervous system language, not discipline

Bone and joint health as long-term freedom

Core stability and pelvic floor awareness without shame

Functional fitness that prepares the body for daily living

Redefining strength and beauty through participation, not performance

Blending practical insight with embodied awareness, this book shifts the conversation from "fixing" the body to cooperating with it. It offers a sustainable approach to movement rooted in respect, responsiveness, and long-term resilience.

This is not a quick-fix fitness guide.

It is an invitation to live in a capable body - with steadiness, dignity, and freedom.

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Princess Ediline was born eight minutes after her twin brother, labeling her forever the cursed ninthborn. To her father, she is good for nothing-until a mysterious young man named Javras warns her kingdom of a looming threat. The Ender is coming to enforce peace, wielding the traitor god's fabled bloodsword.

Ediline must charm Javras and pretend to be the eighth born to do it. As she gets to know him, the lies become heavy on her heart. She wishes she could tell him the truth, but that would be digging her own grave.

As the dreaded arrival draws near, Ediline is alone. Pressed into a corner, in a situation with no way out, she resolves to do the most selfless thing she can think of-to steal the bloodsword for herself.

It might just get her killed, or it might just save the entire continent.

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Das Buch Praktiken reflexiven Entwerfens bietet einen aufschlussreichen und vor allem impulsgebenden Einblick in die Spannweiten forschenden Entwerfens und entwerfenden Forschens in der Architektur und Landschaftsarchitektur und zeigt, welche Zielsetzungen damit verbunden sein konnen.Ahnlichkeiten, aber auch Unterschiede sowie der Gewinn, der aus diesen Beobachtungsperspektiven entspringt, werden erkenn- und vergleichbar. In zahlreichen Beitragen wird ein Spektrum reflexiver Praktiken zur Generierung von Wissen und Gestaltung vorgestellt, das den gesamten Zyklus von Analysieren und Synthetisieren, von Erdenken, Erfinden, Prazisieren, Umsetzen und Kommunizieren einschliet und damit Relationen von Denken, Wissen und Handeln vielseitig erhellt.

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This book provides a detailed account of morphological conversion-also known by various other names, including zero-derivation- a process whereby a word is turned into a distinct but semantically and/or grammatically related word without any change of form. Following an introductory chapter that offers an overview of morphological conversion and the main questions of interest, the volume is divided into two parts. In the first, contributors consider a range of issues relating to conversion, such as word classes, inflection, figurative language, and directionality. The chapters in the second part explore specific typological aspects of the process of conversion in a wide range of language families, including Austronesian, Dravidian, Indo-European, and Tupian. The volume offers new perspectives on conversion, moving beyond traditional Anglocentric approaches that have dominated the field to date.

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Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring

Why are some countries rich, and some poor? Does this status persist throughout time, and if so, why? How can a country escape poverty?

In this Very Short Introduction, Robert C. Allen explores the interplay of geography, globalization, technological change, economic policy, and institutions, to show how they have determined the wealth and poverty of nations around the world. Using historical examples to analyse the factors that have influenced growth, he exposes what has caused the unequal world we live in today, focusing on recent changes in equality and world economic disruption. 

ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable.

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A history of philosophy without any gaps, Volume 8

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In this latest volume of A History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps, Peter Adamson presents a lively and accessible introduction to European philosophy during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries.

Philosophy in the Reformation focuses on the parallel and intertwining emergence of humanism and of religious reform, as figures like Erasmus, Luther, and Calvin remade the intellectual and spiritual life of Europe. In the first three parts of the book, philosophical developments in central Europe, France, and Britain are examined. A wide range of topics and controversies are discussed, from debates over free will to the legitimacy of tyrannicide. This was also the time of the Northern Renaissance, which saw a resurgence of ancient concepts like skepticism and atomist theories of matter. The volume's final section charts the Catholic reaction to these epochal events in the Counter-Reformation, and especially the ideas of Spanish thinkers like Molina and Suarez. Quite a few familiar figures are discussed, such as Montaigne and Copernicus. But as always in this series, Adamson lavishes attention on fascinating figures who are often ignored in the history of philosophy, like John Dee, Robert Fludd, and Oliva Sabuco (who is just one of numerous women intellectuals covered). Another feature of the book is its attention to literature and the arts: the reader will learn how the achievements of Durer, Michelangelo, Shakespeare, and Cervantes relate to philosophical currents of the time. The eighth volume in the A History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps series takes us to the threshold of the early modern era and sets the stage for the developments that unfolded during the Enlightenment.