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HARRY DRESDEN IS BACK AND READY FOR ACTION, in the new entry in the
#1 New York Times bestselling Dresden Files.
When the Supernatural
nations of the world meet up to negotiate an end to ongoing
hostilities, Harry Dresden, Chicago's only professional wizard,
joins the White Council's security team to make sure the talks stay
civil.
But can he succeed, when dark political manipulations
threaten the very existence of Chicago - and all he holds dear?
The fate of the Cinder Spires may be decided by crossed swords in
the next exhilarating fantasy adventure in the New York Times
bestselling series of noble families, swordplay, and airships. For
centuries the Cinder Spires have safeguarded humanity, rising far
above the deadly surface world. Within their halls, aristocratic
houses rule, developing scientific marvels and building fleets of
airships for defence and trade. Now, the Spires hover on the brink
of open war. Everyone knows it's coming. The guns of the great
airship fleets that control the skies between the last bastions of
humanity will soon speak in anger, and Spire Albion stands alone
against the overwhelming might of Spire Aurora's Armada and its new
secret weapon--one capable of destroying the populations of entire
Spires. A trading summit at Spire Olympia provides an opportunity
for the Spirearch, Lord Albion, to secure alliances that will shape
the outcomes of the war, and to that end he dispatches privateer
Captain Francis Madison Grimm and the crew of the AMS Predator to
bolster the Spirearch's diplomatic agents. It will take daring,
skill, and no small amount of showmanship to convince the world to
stand with Spire Albion--assuming that it is not already too late.
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The Olympian Affair
Jim Butcher
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Tourism is no longer an innocent pleasure, but has been reinterpreted as damaging to cultures and to the environment. 'New' forms of tourism, such as ecotourism, alternative tourism, community tourism and ethical tourism, have been presented as morally superior alternatives to the package holiday. Ironically though, even advocates of the new, ethical tourism brands are increasingly subject to criticisms, not dissimilar to those that they themselves level against package holidays. Using a host of international examples from the industry, the media and non-governmental organisations, The Moralisation of Tourism examines what the advocates of 'new tourism' see as being wrong with mass tourism, looks critically at the claims made for the new alternatives and makes a case for guilt-free holidays.
The Horror Writers Association Presents
" BLOOD LITE "
...a collection of entertaining tales that puts the fun back into
dark fiction, with ironic twists and tongue-in-cheek wit to temper
the jagged edge.
Charlaine Harris reveals the dark side of going green, when a
quartet of die-hard environmentalists hosts a fundraiser with a
gory twist in "An Evening with Al Gore..".In an all-new Dresden
Files story from Jim Butcher, when it comes to tracking deadly
paranormal doings, there's no such thing as a "Day Off" for the
Chicago P.D.'s wizard detective, Harry Dresden...Sherrilyn Kenyon
turns a cubicle-dwelling MBA with no life into a demon-fighting
seraph with one hell of an afterlife in "Where Angels Fear to
Tread..".Celebrity necromancer Jaime Vegas is headlining a sold-out
seance tour, but behind the scenes, a disgruntled ghost has a bone
to pick, in Kelley Armstrong's "The Ungrateful Dead." Plus tales
guaranteed to get under your skin -- in a good way -- from
Janet Berliner Don D'Ammassa Nancy Holder Nancy KilpatrickJ. A.
Konrath and F. Paul Wilson Joe R. Lansdale Will LudwigsenSharyn
McCrumb Mark Onspaugh Mike Resnick Steven SavileD. L. Snell Eric
James Stone Jeff Strand Lucien Soulban Matt Venne Christopher Welch
So let the blood flow and laughter reign -- because when it comes
to facing our deepest, darkest fears, a little humor goes a long
way
The fate of the Cinder Spires may be decided by crossed swords in
the next exhilarating fantasy adventure in the New York Times
bestselling series of noble families, swordplay, and airships. For
centuries the Cinder Spires have safeguarded humanity, rising far
above the deadly surface world. Within their halls, aristocratic
houses rule, developing scientific marvels and building fleets of
airships for defence and trade. Now, the Spires hover on the brink
of open war. Everyone knows it's coming. The guns of the great
airship fleets that control the skies between the last bastions of
humanity will soon speak in anger, and Spire Albion stands alone
against the overwhelming might of Spire Aurora's Armada and its new
secret weapon--one capable of destroying the populations of entire
Spires. A trading summit at Spire Olympia provides an opportunity
for the Spirearch, Lord Albion, to secure alliances that will shape
the outcomes of the war, and to that end he dispatches privateer
Captain Francis Madison Grimm and the crew of the AMS Predator to
bolster the Spirearch's diplomatic agents. It will take daring,
skill, and no small amount of showmanship to convince the world to
stand with Spire Albion--assuming that it is not already too late.
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Heroic Hearts (Paperback)
Jim Butcher, Kerrie Hughes
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'The Dresden Files is my favourite series ever' Patrick Rothfuss,
author of The Name of the Wind ***THE SUNDAY TIMES AND NEW YORK
TIMES NO.1 BESTSELLING SERIES*** Meet Harry Dresden, Chicago's
first (and only) Wizard P.I. Turns out the 'everyday' world is full
of strange and magical things - and most of them don't play well
with humans. That's where Harry comes in. Harry's business as a
private investigator has been quiet lately - so when the police
bring him in to consult on a grisly double murder committed with
black magic, he's seeing dollar signs. But where there's black
magic, there's a black mage behind it. And now that mage knows
Harry's name. Magic - it can get a guy killed. The first case file
of Harry Dresden, private investigator and wizard, Storm Front is
the first novel in the Sunday Times bestselling Dresden Files
series, perfect for fans of Supernatural and urban fantasy fiction
by authors such as Benedict Jacka and Ben Aaronovitch. 'Butcher's
storytelling is satisfying on a level that's bone-deep' io9 'One of
the most reliable post-Buffy supernatural thriller series on offer'
Time Out 'Dresden has a vitality that few urban fantasy heroes can
match' SFX The Dresden Files novels begin with STORM FRONT, and
continue with FOOL MOON, GRAVE PERIL, SUMMER KNIGHT, DEATH MASKS,
BLOOD RITES, DEAD BEAT, PROVEN GUILTY, WHITE NIGHT, SMALL FAVOUR,
TURN COAT, CHANGES, GHOST STORY, COLD DAYS and SKIN GAME. For more
of Harry Dresden's adventures, check out the Dresden Files short
story collections SIDE JOBS and BRIEF CASES.
Certain types of tourism, such as volunteer tourism and student
travel, have long been associated with global citizenship. To
travel and to experience other societies and other cultures is
linked with a cosmopolitan outlook, and also with the capacity to
empathise and act ethically in relation to people in distant
countries. In turn global citizenship - being a 'citizen of the
world' - has become increasingly important both as a moral and
political identity. Encouraged by employers, validated by
universities, travel has become a marker of moral and intent for
altruistic and ambitious youth with a mind to travel and the bank
balance to facilitate it. The chapters in this volume explore the
relationship between tourism, global citizenship and
cosmopolitanism. The chapters were originally published in a
special issue of Tourism Recreation Research.
Just a generation ago the notion that holidays should be invested
with ethical and political significance would have sounded odd.
Today it is part of the lifestyle political landscape. Volunteer
tourism is indicative of the growth of lifestyle strategies
intended to exhibit care and responsibility towards others less
fortunate, strategies aligned closely with developing one's ethical
identity and sense of global responsibility. It sits alongside
telethons, pay-per-click, Fair Trade and ethical consumption
generally as a way to "make a difference". Volunteer tourism
involves a personal mission to address the political question of
development. It draws upon the private virtues of care and
responsibility and disavows political narratives beyond this.
Critics argue that this leaves the volunteers as unwitting carriers
of damaging neoliberal or postcolonial assumptions, whilst
advocates see it as offering creative and practical ways to build a
new ethical politics. By contrast, this volume analyses volunteer
tourism as indicative of a retreat from public politics into the
realm of private experience, and as an expression of diminished
political and moral agency. This thought provoking book draws on
development, political and sociological theory and is essential
reading for students, researchers and academics interested in the
phenomenon of volunteer tourism and the politics of lifestyle that
it represents.
Ecotourism has emerged over the last twenty years not just as a
market niche, but also as a strategy for combining development with
conservation in the developing world. Ecotourism, NGOs and
Development considers the basis for advocacy and argues that it is
premised upon a very limited and limiting view of the potential for
development. Jim Butcher examines the advocacy of tourism as
sustainable development in a range of NGOs and within the general
literature. The research reveals that in spite of the plethora of
critical commentaries on the operation of ecotourism projects,
there is generally an uncritical take on the ideological basis of
the projects. This book offers a timely critique of key assumptions
underlying ecotourism's status as sustainable development, arguing
that ecotourism as development strategy ties the fate of some of
the poorest people on the planet to localized environmental
imperatives.
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Urban Enemies (Paperback)
Jim Butcher, Kevin Hearne, Seanan McGuire, Kelley Armstrong, Jonathan Maberry, …
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Villains have all the fun-everyone knows that-and this anthology
takes you on a wild ride through the dark side! The top villains
from seventeen urban fantasy series get their own stories-including
the baddies of New York Times bestselling authors Jim Butcher,
Kevin Hearne, Kelley Armstrong, Seanan McGuire, and Jonathan
Maberry. For every hero trying to save the world, there's a villain
trying to tear it all down. In this can't-miss anthology edited by
Joseph Nassise (The Templar Chronicles), you get to plot world
domination with the best of the evildoers we love to hate! This
outstanding collection brings you stories told from the villains'
point of view, imparting a fresh and unique take on the evil
masterminds, wicked witches, and infernal personalities that skulk
in the pages of today's most popular series. The full anthology
features stories by Jim Butcher (the Dresden Files), Kelley
Armstrong (Cainsville), Seanan McGuire (October Daye), Kevin Hearne
(The Iron Druid Chronicles), Jonathan Maberry (Joe Ledger), Lilith
Saintcrow (Jill Kismet), Carrie Vaughn (Kitty Norville), Joseph
Nassise (Templar Chronicles), Domino Finn (Black Magic Outlaw),
Steven Savile (Glasstown), Caitlin Kittredge (Hellhound
Chronicles), Jeffrey Somers (The Ustari Cycle), Sam Witt (Pitchfork
County), Craig Schaefer (Daniel Faust), Jon F. Merz (Lawson
Vampire), Faith Hunter (Jane Yellowrock), and Diana Pharaoh Francis
(Horngate Witches).
Collecting three classic fan-favorite Spider-Man novels together for
the first time in a brand-new omnibus edition.
THE DARKEST HOURS by Jim Butcher
When Black Cat foils Spider-Man's attempts to stop the Rhino rampaging
through Times Square, she informs him the Rhino is just a distraction.
The real threat comes from a group of Ancients, members of the same
race as the being called Morlun, seeking revenge for Spider-Man
defeating them years before. Spidey must rely on Black Cat if there's
any hope of stopping them again, before they can steal his life force
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DOWN THESE MEAN STREETS by Keith R.A. DeCandido
A mysterious drug known as Triple X has been giving users super-powers
as well as rendering them mentally and physically unstable. Only by
teaming up with a police force that hates him can Spider-Man find the
source behind this lethal drug and protect people from those using it.
But one of Spider-Man's most fearsome enemies may be behind it all as
part of a greater scheme to bring down the city.
DROWNED IN THUNDER by Christopher L. Bennett
The ongoing conflict between Spider-Man and his longtime outspoken
nemesis, crusading newspaper publisher J. Jonah Jameson, reaches a
whole new level when JJJ exploits several mysterious attacks on
Manhattan island in his propaganda war against the web-slinger.
Tourism is no longer an innocent pleasure, but has been reinterpreted as damaging to cultures and to the environment. 'New' forms of tourism, such as ecotourism, alternative tourism, community tourism and ethical tourism, have been presented as morally superior alternatives to the package holiday. Ironically though, even advocates of the new, ethical tourism brands are increasingly subject to criticisms, not dissimilar to those that they themselves level against package holidays. Using a host of international examples from the industry, the media and non-governmental organisations, The Moralisation of Tourism examines what the advocates of 'new tourism' see as being wrong with mass tourism, looks critically at the claims made for the new alternatives and makes a case for guilt-free holidays.
Meet Harry Dresden, Chicago's first (and only) Wizard P.I. Turns
out the 'everyday' world is full of strange and magical things -
and most of them don't play well with humans. That's where Harry
comes in. Harry has faced some terrifying foes during his career.
Giant scorpions. Oversexed vampires. Psychotic werewolves. It comes
with the territory when you're the only wizard in town. But in all
Harry's years of supernatural sleuthing, he's never faced anything
like this: the spirit world's gone loco. All over town, ghosts are
causing trouble - and not the door-slamming, boo-shouting variety.
These ghosts are tormented, violent, and deadly. Someone is
stirring them up to wreak havoc. But why? And why do so many of the
victims have ties to Harry? If Harry doesn't figure it out soon, he
might just wind up a ghost himself. Magic - it can get a guy
killed.
Meet Harry Dresden, Chicago's first (and only) Wizard P.I. Turns
out the 'everyday' world is full of strange and magical things -
and most of them don't play well with humans. That's where Harry
comes in. Harry's had worse assignments than going undercover on
the set of an adult film. Dodging flaming monkey poo, for instance.
Or going toe-to-leaf with a plant monster. Still, there's something
troubling about this case. The Producer believes he's afflicted by
an entropy curse - but it's the women around him who are dying. And
Harry only got involved as a favour to Thomas, his flirtatious
self-absorbed vampire acquaintance. Thomas has a personal stake in
the case Harry can't work out, until his investigation leads him
straight to Thomas's oversexed relatives. Harry's about to discover
the skeleton in Thomas's family closet: a revelation that will
change Harry's life for ever. Magic - it can get a guy killed.
Power-hungry Kalare has rebelled against Alera's aging First Lord,
Gaius Sextus. Ill-equipped to face this attack, Gaius must seek
support - even from the combative High Lord of Aquitaine. Kalare
has also seized valuable hostages that could mean the difference
between victory and failure. And Amara, the First Lord's Cursor,
has been tasked with their rescue. She has earned this trust but
are her allies as worthy - or does the Lady Aquitaine see the time
as ripe for betrayal? Treachery is rife elsewhere, as young Tavi of
Calderon will find. Posted away from the war, Tavi joins a legion
anyway, under an assumed name. Then Kalare does the unthinkable -
uniting with the brutish Canim. When treason wipes out the army's
command structure, Tavi finds himself leading an inexperienced
legion against the might of the Canim horde - the very last resort
of a war-torn realm.
HARRY DRESDEN IS BACK AND READY FOR ACTION, in the new entry in the
#1 New York Times bestselling Dresden Files. When the Supernatural
nations of the world meet up to negotiate an end to ongoing
hostilities, Harry Dresden, Chicago's only professional wizard,
joins the White Council's security team to make sure the talks stay
civil. But can he succeed, when dark political manipulations
threaten the very existence of Chicago - and all he holds dear?
Could a werewolf be loose in Chicago? Common sense says no. The grisly evidence says yes. So does Harry Dresden. And with his weird connections, he should know....
'Great action scenes, a fascinating world, and characters of a sort
I've never seen before. This is everything I've come to expect from
Jim Butcher, but in a delightful new flavour' PATRICK ROTHFUSS
'Beware fellow readers, herein lies adventure that will keep you
from food or rest . . .' PATRICIA BRIGGS Jim Butcher, the number
one bestselling author of The Dresden Files, begins a new series
set in a gloriously imagined world of noble families, marvellous
technology and magic-wielding warriors. Since time immemorial
humanity has lived inside the Spires, habitats towering for miles
over the dangerous, monster-inhabited surface of the world. Captain
Grimm of the merchant airship, Predator, was dismissed from Spire
Albion's military in disgrace - now his ship and crew are all he
has, and he's fiercely loyal to both. When the Predator is severely
damaged in combat Grimm has only one choice - take on a clandestine
mission for Albion's leaders, or stay grounded for good. And even
as Grimm undertakes this perilous task, he will learn that the
conflict between the Spires is merely a premonition of things to
come. Humanity's ancient enemy, silent for more than ten thousand
years, has begun to stir once more. And death will follow in its
wake . . .
Meet Harry Dresden, Chicago's first (and only) Wizard P.I. Turns
out the 'everyday' world is full of strange and magical things -
and most of them don't play well with humans. That's where Harry
comes in. Business has been slow lately for Harry Dresden. Okay,
business has been dead. Not undead - just dead. You would think
Chicago would have a little more action for the only professional
wizard in the phone book. But lately, Harry hasn't been able to
dredge up any kind of work - magical or mundane. But just when it
looks like he can't afford his next meal, a murder comes along that
requires his particular brand of supernatural expertise. A brutally
mutilated corpse. Strange-looking paw prints. A full moon. Take
three guesses. And the first two don't count . . . Magic - it can
get a guy killed. 'The Dresden Files is my favourite series ever'
Patrick Rothfuss, author of The Name of the Wind 'Butcher's
storytelling is satisfying on a level that's bone-deep' io9 'One of
the most reliable post-Buffy supernatural thriller series on offer'
Time Out 'Dresden has a vitality that few urban fantasy heroes can
match' SFX The Dresden Files novels begin with STORM FRONT, and
continues with FOOL MOON, GRAVE PERIL, SUMMER KNIGHT, DEATH MASKS,
BLOOD RITES, DEAD BEAT, PROVEN GUILTY, WHITE NIGHT, SMALL FAVOUR,
TURN COAT, CHANGES, GHOST STORY, COLD DAYS and SKIN GAME. For more
of Harry Dresden's adventures, check out the Dresden Files short
story collections SIDE JOBS and BRIEF CASES.
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