Pdf: Agents Of Artifice

After losing control of the Infinite Consortium--an interplanar cabal--to psychic sorcerer Jace Beleren, planeswalker Tezzeret must turn to a former enemy, ...

Once upon a time, the plane of Alara was shattered into five planes, each distinctly populated with relative mono-magical culture that reflects each of the ...

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The first major study to propose an analytical approach to Purcell's music beginning from contemporary compositional aims and techniques. ...

Awarded a 2014 Science Fiction and Technoculture Studies Prize Honourable Mention. This book explores the creation and use of artificially made humanoid se ...

In Zendikar, a land of danger and adventure, Nissa Revane, a planeswalker and proud elf warrior, and Sorin Markov, an ancient vampire planeswalker, must jo ...

Is it possible to trace the footprints of the historical Sokrates in Athens? Was there really an individual named Romulus, and if so, when did he found Rom ...

Cognition Beyond the Brain challenges neurocentrism by advocating a systemic view of cognition based on investigating how action shapes the experience of t ...

How the nature illustrations of a Renaissance polymath reflect his turbulent age This pathbreaking and stunningly illustrated book recovers the intersectio ...

A Brief History of Justice traces the development of the idea of justice from the ancient world until the present day, with special attention to the emerge ...

Continental philosophy has entered a new period of ferment. The long deconstructionist era was followed with a period dominated by Deleuze, which has in tu ...

Disabled Bodies in Early Modern Spanish Literature: Prostitutes, Aging Women and Saints examines the concepts and role of women in selected Spanish discour ...

"As familiar and widely appreciated works of modern technology, bridges are a good place to study the relationship between the aesthetic and the technical. ...

This study of the action of discovery as plot device, visual motif, and thematic trope on the early modern stage considers an important and popular perform ...

Ride with the Horsemen of the Apocalypse as they seek to unearth a plot that could plunge all of Creation into chaos! Ages before the events of Darksiders ...

At publication date, a free ebook version of this title will be available through Luminos, University of California Press’s Open Access publishing progra ...

In the final volume in a series of fantasies set in the gloomy world of Shadowmoor, the elven inhabitants of the land are used to the perpetual gloom of en ...

Inclusive, cutting-edge essay collection by leading scholars on Victorian women poets and their diverse poetic forms and identities. ...

John O'Neill reads Montaigne's 'Essays' from the principle of friendship as a communicative and pedagogical practice in society, literature and politics. H ...

Using historical and ethnographic analyses, this book shows how Indian markets are embedded in society and politically contested. ...

The newest generation of leaders was raised on a steady diet of popular culture artifacts mediated through technology, such as film, television and online ...

Mirrodin—a world of living metal, an artificial ecosystem created by the Planeswalker Karn to support organic life—is on the cusp of cataclysm. When th ...

Essays discuss the extinction of the passenger pigeon, the bird hat craze of the late nineteenth century, pink flamingoes, nature stores, nature documentar ...

When Caroline Trent is kidnapped by Blake Ravenscroft, she doesn't even try to elude this dangerously handsome agent of the crown. After all, she's been ru ...

The Myth. The Magic. Dominarian legends speak of a mighty conflict, obscured by the mists of history. Of a conflict between the brothers Urza and Mishra fo ...

What do boring stories and seemingly insignificant details reveal about the nature of narrative? How does narrativity manifest itself in forms such as stan ...

Before the Brothers’ War. Before the five colors of magic. Before history itself, the plane of Dominaria was ruled by the Thran. They built machines and ...

Refutes the relationship between political identity and liberty, and focuses instead on agency as the core political value in the United States, showing it ...

"A literary novel about adult siblings, a sister and her autistic brother, and what happens when the brother is accused of the murder of a local boy - who ...

In response to the needs of lecturers, the acclaimed Handbook of Organization Studies has been made available as two major paperback textbooks. In this, th ...

Kylie/Fashion is the official book celebrating twenty-five years since Kylie burst onto the music scene with "Locomotion" and "I Should Be So Lucky". From ...

Award-winning author Laura Resnick brings readers into the adventures of Chandra Nalaar, a young and impulsive mage on a collision course with destiny. The ...

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Time is Running Out! The planeswalker Teferi at last returns to his home plane only to find it devastated and barren. Time itself is fracturing, and it’s ...

The modern House reflects upon the complicated relationship architecture has with the terms "Modernist", "Modernism" and "Modern" specifically in relation ...

From renowned poet Sarah Kay, a single volume poem perfect for teachers and mentors. All Our Wild Wonder is a vibrant tribute to extraordinary educators an ...

In this ambitious book, Joyce Carol Oates boldly reimagines the inner, poetic, and spiritual life of Norma Jeane Baker—the child, the woman, the fated ce ...

A fiercely beautiful novel about one woman's struggle to reclaim a life shattered by betrayal from the 2018 winner of the PEN/Nabokov Award for Achievement ...