Far Frontiers Ziili and Tempest

Far Frontiers Ziili and Tempest
Author: Philip Warnes
Publisher: FSpace Publications
Total Pages: 44
Release: 2017-02-28
Genre: Games & Activities
ISBN: 1877573329

Far Frontiers Ziili & Tempest is an abbreviated world supplement for you to drop into a science fiction interstellar spanning campaign setting. Tempest is a raging water world with oceans hundreds of miles deep and teaming with life for exploration. Ziili is Tempest's terraformed small moon using a high technology geodesic dome, beanstalk like towers and a marvels to excite any engineer. Ziili is both a earth-like paradise and very dense - a mining haven deep below the pleasure beaches and other resorts that dot the planet. Ziili is the perfect place to run high-tech fantasy theme park adventures, high stakes casinos, beach resorts or cyber tech neoclassical Japanese adventures. The supplement contains a system and word overview, several starship designs (including deckplans of one vessel and its small craft) and a variety of world maps of Ziili depending on you gaming mapping need. An overview of an alien race is included to add color and flavour to adventure nuggets presented for you flesh out involving these two planets. Use this supplement to add some detail to your campaign with another world that adds some colour to the travels of your adventurers through the vastness of space. Written by a long standing fan of the Traveller RICE paper concept.

Far Encounters Vanity Rose yacht

Far Encounters Vanity Rose yacht
Author: Philip Warnes
Publisher: FSpace Publications
Total Pages: 38
Release: 2019-04-01
Genre: Games & Activities
ISBN: 1877573418

A ship specifications and deck plan booklet for the Vanity Rose starship and subcraft. Supplement provides background writeup, detailed specifications for the ship with Cepheus Engine rules, 1m grid vector deckplans for each deck, FSpaceRPG overview specs and writeup, hex counters and basemap for use in starship tabletop encounters. Background information on crew of one of the vessels is provided, along with information regarding how to use it with some Far Frontiers product books and other gaming universe situations.

Demonic Grounds

Demonic Grounds
Author: Katherine McKittrick
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
Total Pages: 224
Release:
Genre:
ISBN: 145290880X

In a long overdue contribution to geography and social theory, Katherine McKittrick offers a new and powerful interpretation of black women’s geographic thought. In Canada, the Caribbean, and the United States, black women inhabit diasporic locations marked by the legacy of violence and slavery. Analyzing diverse literatures and material geographies, McKittrick reveals how human geographies are a result of racialized connections, and how spaces that are fraught with limitation are underacknowledged but meaningful sites of political opposition. Demonic Grounds moves between past and present, archives and fiction, theory and everyday, to focus on places negotiated by black women during and after the transatlantic slave trade. Specifically, the author addresses the geographic implications of slave auction blocks, Harriet Jacobs’s attic, black Canada and New France, as well as the conceptual spaces of feminism and Sylvia Wynter’s philosophies. Central to McKittrick’s argument are the ways in which black women are not passive recipients of their surroundings and how a sense of place relates to the struggle against domination. Ultimately, McKittrick argues, these complex black geographies are alterable and may provide the opportunity for social and cultural change. Katherine McKittrick is assistant professor of women’s studies at Queen’s University.

The Enemy at the Gate

The Enemy at the Gate
Author: Andrew Wheatcroft
Publisher: Random House
Total Pages: 386
Release: 2009-11-10
Genre: History
ISBN: 1409086828

In 1683, two empires - the Ottoman, based in Constantinople, and the Habsburg dynasty in Vienna - came face to face in the culmination of a 250-year power struggle: the Great Siege of Vienna. Within the city walls the choice of resistance over surrender to the largest army ever assembled by the Turks created an all-or-nothing scenario: every last survivor would be enslaved or ruthlessly slaughtered. The Turks had set their sights on taking Vienna, the city they had long called 'The Golden Apple' since their first siege of the city in 1529. Both sides remained resolute, sustained by hatred of their age-old enemy, certain that their victory would be won by the grace of God. Eastern invaders had always threatened the West: Huns, Mongols, Goths, Visigoths, Vandals and many others. The Western fears of the East were vivid and powerful and, in their new eyes, the Turks always appeared the sole aggressors. Andrew Wheatcroft's extraordinary book shows that this belief is a grievous oversimplification: during the 400 year struggle for domination, the West took the offensive just as often as the East. As modern Turkey seeks to re-orient its relationship with Europe, a new generation of politicians is exploiting the residual fears and tensions between East and West to hamper this change. The Enemy at the Gate provides a timely and masterful account of this most complex and epic of conflicts.

Empires of the Bible

Empires of the Bible
Author: Alonzo Trevier Jones
Publisher: TEACH Services, Inc.
Total Pages: 491
Release: 2004
Genre: History
ISBN: 157258288X

From the chaos of the Tower of Babel to the tragedy of the Babylonian captivity, Empires of the Bible tells the story of the ancient civilizations in the Old Testament. Using research conducted in Babylon and Egypt, this book includes many valuable and historical records inscribed in stone by the very men living in those ancient times. These records combined with Bible history of the same, are woven together in one connected story. Reprinted exactly from the 1904 original, this book also includes a series of 21 maps which trace the course of those empires. The unique design of this book will be found useful by every student, either of the Bible or history.

Assyrian Discoveries

Assyrian Discoveries
Author: George Smith
Publisher: London : Sampson Low, Marston, Low and Searle
Total Pages: 548
Release: 1875
Genre: Assyria
ISBN:

Forms and Substances in the Arts

Forms and Substances in the Arts
Author: Etienne Gilson
Publisher: Commonwealth Secretariat
Total Pages: 292
Release: 2001
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9781564782540

He takes up in turn: architecture, sculpture, painting, music, dance, poetry, and the theater, analyzing in each the basic materials afforded that artist, the possibilities of artistic form, and the means of transformation and creation."--BOOK JACKET.

Bazooka Joe and His Gang

Bazooka Joe and His Gang
Author: The Topps Company
Publisher: Abrams
Total Pages: 695
Release: 2013-05-14
Genre: Design
ISBN: 1613124716

The story behind the iconic comic characters and the bubble gum they came with—includes over 100 reproductions spanning six decades. Bazooka Joe and his Gang have been synonymous with bubble gum ever since their debut in 1953, providing an irresistible combination of cheap laughs wrapped around pink, sugary sweetness. This book celebrates the iconic mini-comics that are recognized the world over and reveals their origins in midcentury New York City. The story of Bazooka Bubble Gum is also detailed with extensive essays, including a profile of Wesley Morse, the original illustrator of Bazooka Joe. Included are reproductions of more than 100 classic comics spanning six decades—including the complete first series, reprinted in its entirety for the first time—as well as jokes, fortunes, and tiny ads for mail-order merchandise. Like Bazooka Bubble Gum itself, the book is pure nostalgia and a treat for kids and adults alike.