Jim Butcher, the number-one New York Times best-selling author of The Dresden Files and the Codex Alera novels, conjures up a new series set in a fantastic world of noble families, steam-powered technology, and magic-wielding warriors.... Since time immemorial the Spires have sheltered humanity, towering for miles over the mist-shrouded surface of the world. Within their halls aristocratic houses have ruled for generations, developing scientific marvels, fostering trade alliances, and building fleets of airships to keep the peace. Captain Grimm commands the merchant ship Predator. Fiercely loyal to Spire Albion, he has taken their side in the cold war with Spire Aurora, disrupting the enemy's shipping lines by attacking their cargo vessels. But when the Predator is severely damaged in combat, leaving captain and crew grounded, Grimm is offered a proposition from the Spirearch of Albion - to join a team of agents on a vital mission in exchange for fully restoring Predator to its fighting glory. And even as Grimm undertakes this dangerous 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.... Read more

An instant New York Times bestseller! The fate of the Cinder Spires may be decided by crossed swords in the next exhilarating fantasy adventure from the author of the Dresden Files, in this 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 defense 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. Read more

An instant New York Times bestseller!The fate of the Cinder Spires may be decided by crossed swords in the next exhilarating fantasy adventure from the author of the Dresden Files, in this 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 defense 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. Read more

Jim Butcher, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Dresden Files and the Codex Alera novels, conjures up a new series set in a fantastic world of noble families, steam-powered technology, and magic-wielding warriors...   Since time immemorial, the Spires have sheltered humanity. Within their halls, the ruling aristocratic houses develop scientific marvels, foster trade alliances, and maintain fleets of airships to keep the peace.   Captain Grimm commands the merchant ship Predator. Loyal to Spire Albion, he has taken their side in the cold war with Spire Aurora, disrupting the enemy’s shipping lines by attacking their cargo vessels. But when the Predator is damaged in combat, Grimm joins a team of Albion agents on a vital mission in exchange for fully restoring his ship.   And as Grimm undertakes this task, he learns 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... Read more

Perfect for fans of the Selection series by Kiera Cass. Be swept into a world of political intrigue, forbidden love, and royal romance.He’s promised to another. She’s promised to forget him.Eighteen-year-old Renna Degray is hopeful about love and her future after a chance encounter with a handsome stranger. Until she discovers who the mysterious man is—the Prince of Albion, betrothed to Renna’s stepsister. Now Renna must try to keep her feelings for the prince in check. But he’s not making it easy. The prince is charming, funny, and impossible not to fall for. Trev has no room for mistakes. He must marry the princess of New Hope and secure the marriage alliance along with his future as king. The safety of his kingdom depends on it. Duty and honor never bothered Trev before, but love has a way of changing everything.In this post-Desolation world, the Council of Essentials controls everything, including the prince. Is love more than a negotiation?Is love essential? Read more

Dictionary of the Rare, Creative, and Beautiful is part dictionary, part portable, selective, and curated encyclopedia. This book offers a window into the breadth and depth of human experience and imagination, showcasing words with unique histories and meaning, or beauty of sound or appearance; others are esoteric and deep – or simply fascinatingly strange.Within are words and beautiful names such as:brontomantic, Denisovian, anacampserote, wildering, aprique, oneirogenic, circumundulate, chiromantic, tristisonous, umbratilous, obvolvent, Thulian pink, Thistlegorm, therocephalians, Fata Morgana Land, spumiferous, Panslavonian, and Muromian.Other categories of words, names, and terms are:Placenames (Pillars of Hercules, Arabia Felix, Doon Edin, Mare Tenebrosum & Riphean Mountains);Zoology (quill pig, pink fairy armadillo & frantling);Astronomy (Eddington luminosity, Venusian, Silurian hypothesis, Jovian trojans & Kreutz sungrazers);Geopolitics (Perfidious Albion & Baltoscandia);History (Sahelian kingdoms, sunlit uplands & Groom of the Stool);Geometry (Penrose stairs & Villarceau circles);Anatomy (brain sand & frantling);Archeology (Oldenburg Horn& Nebra sky disc);Plus nautical, poetic, and literary terms like:brave west winds & naufragous;person from Porlock & the cavalier poets;the Lost Generation &Erewhonian.Also select slang words, such as: tactical chunder, snoutfair, molly wop, ghostshipping & grundle.And interesting phrases like:bring owls to Athens;Et in Arcadia ego; dolce far niente;andup the wooden hills to bedfordshire.This is the third dictionary from Robin Devoe. The first – Dictionary of the Strange, Curious and Lovely – is a collection of the 3500 “coolest” words in the English language. The second – Epic English Words – includes the best 10% or so of that 3500, and also interesting names and terms from diverse scientific, artistic, and literary fields. So moonglade, nemorous & brontide; and so too Devonian, Muspelheim, Shambhala & Avalon are included in Epic English Words. This book – Dictionary of the Rare, Creative, and Beautiful – is similar to Epic English Words except it includes almost all new entries. Each volume stands alone and if you like one, you will probably like all three.– Robin Devoe, Vale de Lune, Alaska Read more

The Delphi Poets Series offers readers the works of literature's finest poets, with superior formatting. This monumental volume presents for the first time ever the complete works of William Blake, featuring all of the poetry and the entire corpus of engravings and paintings, as well as the usual Delphi bonus material. (Version: 2)

* Beautifully illustrated with numerous images relating to Blake's life and works
* Concise introductions to the poetry and other works
* Images of how the poetry books were first printed, giving your eReader a taste of the original texts
* Excellent formatting of the poems
* Famous poetry collections like SONGS OF INNOCENCE offer fully illustrated texts
* Special chronological and alphabetical contents tables for the poetry
* Easily locate the poems you want to read
* Includes a special ‘Plates’ section with Blake’s complete engravings, paintings and illustrations – spend hours exploring Blake's artistic genius in over 1,100 images!
* Features two biographies - discover Blake’s literary life
* Scholarly ordering of texts into chronological order and literary genres
* UPDATED with missing books to JERUSALEM in response to customer's review

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CONTENTS:

The Poetry and Prose Books
POETICAL SKETCHES
AN ISLAND IN THE MOON
ALL RELIGIONS ARE ONE
THERE IS NO NATURAL RELIGION
TIRIEL
SONGS OF INNOCENCE
THE BOOK OF THEL
THE MARRIAGE OF HEAVEN AND HELL
THE FRENCH REVOLUTION
VISIONS OF THE DAUGHTERS OF ALBION
AMERICA A PROPHECY
EUROPE A PROPHECY
THE FIRST BOOK OF URIZEN
SONGS OF EXPERIENCE
THE BOOK OF LOS
THE SONG OF LOS
THE BOOK OF AHANIA
THE FOUR ZOAS
MILTON A POEM
JERUSALEM: THE EMANATION OF THE GIANT ALBION
SONGS AND BALLADS FROM BLAKE’S NOTEBOOK (1793)
SATIRIC VERSES AND EPIGRAMS FROM BLAKE’S NOTEBOOK
UNCOLLECTED WORKS

The Poems
LIST OF POEMS IN CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER
LIST OF POEMS IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER

The Plates
CATALOGUE OF VISUAL WORKS

The Biographies
WILLIAM BLAKE by Irene Langridge
WILLIAM BLAKE by Charles Gardner

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The book undertakes in-depth studies of films, television programmes and documentaries and wanders amongst depictions of rural areas where normality, reality and conventions fall away and the landscape becomes deeply imbued with hidden, layered and at times dreamlike stories, taking in modern-day reinterpretations of traditional myth and folklore and work that has become semi-obscured from view through being unofficially available or otherwise having become partly hidden away.It explores film and documentary hinterlands including, amongst others, the embracing of the ‘old ways’ in The Wicker Man; John Boorman’s creation of an otherworldly Arthurian dreamscape in Excalibur; the alternate retelling of folk legend in Robin and Marian; the unreally vivid seeming snapshots of folk rituals in Oss Oss Wee Os; the slipstream explorations of The Creeping Garden and stories from the ‘haunted borderlands’ in Gone to Earth and The Wild Heart.The book also investigates the hauntological spectral and ‘wyrd’ undergrowth of television, including, alongside other programmes, the unearthing of mystical buried powers in Raven; the utopian meeting of starships, pedlars and morris dancers in Stargazy on Zummerdown; teatime Cold War intrigues amongst bucolic isolation in Codename Icarus; the layering of time and myth in anthology drama series Shadows; Frankenstein-like meddling away from the mainland in The Nightmare Man; the magical activation of stone circles’ ancient defence mechanisms in The Mind Beyond episode ‘Stones’; and the ‘Albion in the overgrowth’ recalibrating of mainstream television in Mackenzie Crook’s Worzel Gummidge.Other subjects discussed in the book include:Paul Wright’s Arcadia: views from a not always Arcadian Idyll.Play for Today and ‘Rainy Day Women’: village mob rule and the spectres of archival television.Bagpuss: portal views Into a magical never-never land.Takashi Doscher’s Still: explorations of Southern Gothic, wyrd Americana and eternal cycles.Strange Invaders, Robert Fuest’s Wuthering Heights, Kate Bush, Oklahoma Crude and Twilight Time: a time warp small town invasion, passion amongst a downbeat landscape, untamed frontiers and a media sunset.The Mind Beyond and ‘Stones’: activating ancient preternatural defence mechanisms and a sidestep into the pioneering work of Irene Shubik, Verity Lambert and Delia Derbyshire.David Lynch's The Straight Story: road movie quests and a gently Lynchian view of journeying through a near-mythical landscape.Andrei Tarkovsky’s Stalker: seeking answers in the forbidden zone.Radio On and Fords on Water: escape and exploring the state of the nation in British road movies.Whistle Down the Wind: adventures in a time capsule landscape.Hell Drivers and The Bargee: searching for freedom and autonomy in an overlooked corner of the landscape and during the end of an era.* * *The book is released as part of the A Year In The Country project, which via the posts on its website, music and book releases explores wyrd rural and folk music and culture, work that draws inspiration from the hidden and underlying tales of the land and where they meet and intertwine with the lost futures, spectral histories and parallel worlds of what has come to be known as hauntology.* * *“Stephen Prince’s impressively comprehensive multimedia project... has created a tangled, overgrown enclave of twisted, rustic oddness and continues to weave its own darkly entrancing magic over the countryside.” Bob Fischer, The Haunted Generation Read more

A Wonderful Book to Explore Interesting Words and Cool-Sounding Names!A curated list of beautiful and often obscure words, but also interesting names from mythology, geography, poetry, literature, music, history, and more. Word lovers will love this book!Unusual and interesting vocabulary, such as: moonglade, brontide, anagalactic, davening, nemorous, soulcraft, twitterlight, circumvolant, meeping, goetic, noetic, welkin, smokefall, cosmoplastic, esperance, soma, sweven, orison, omnishambles, pythonic, protogenic, obnubilate, hamadryad, mellisugent, arcadian, numinous, nepenthe, noctivagant, sylvestral, subnivean, and hemiboreal.Also creative place names (real & imaginary) and names from the arts & sciences, like: Avalonia, Shambhala, Muspelheim, Asphodel Meadows, El Gordo, Aldebaran, parasqualodon, Prufrockian, Devonian, Alfheim, Pavlopetri, Baltis Vallis, Fiddler's Green, Mountains of the Moon, Elysian Fields, Bucephalus, Mongolian death worm, Hesperides, Albion, Ilium, Hibernia, Drakensburg, Xanadu... even Shitlington Crags!This book is part dictionary, part very portable, extremely selective, and curated encyclopedia. This book showcases words and terms that are all interesting for some reason. Some look or sound beautiful; some are strange in a creative way; some esoteric and deep. Many entries include etymologies and quotations from poetry, literature, etc. showing word usage.In populating this book, subjective taste was unavoidable. Why is a star such as Omicron Draconis chosen over other stars? Simply because the author fancies the name itself. Other entries are chosen due to unique features, or beauty of sound, appearance, or meaning.In addition to the many recherché vocabulary words, there are numerous entries from mythology, astronomy, geography, mathematics, zoology, poetry, and literature. Just a few humans are listed as entries (e.g., Finnish poet Runeberg and English astrologer Sepharial). A liberal sprinkling of English's more elegant prefixes (such as: circum-, cosmo-, proto-, ob-, and para-) and suffixes (-esque, -mancy, -escent, -ium, and -genic) are spread throughout this alphabetized volume.“Brevity is the soul of wit” – Shakespeare, HamletThis book was designed to be very portable, very casual – yet intriguing & inspiring. The reader is gently introduced to new & interesting words, to strange, beautiful, or elegant words. If you love these types of words and terms, you will likely love this collection! If you are looking, however, for OED-type definitions with every word sense and comprehensive etymology and pronunciations, this book may not be for you.The 7-page “Supplemental Words of Beauty or Interest” appending this volume lists just the words themselves, without definitions – most (but far from all) definitions are relatively apparent or commonly known. Read more

Words of Wonder compiles the very best entries of Robin Devoe's four previous dictionaries. This slim volume is loaded with cool words, but also interesting and beautiful names and terms from across the breadth and depth of human experience and imagination: zoology, astronomy, history, geometry, anatomy, literature, geography, et alia.Words, names, terms, and phrases such as:Pillars of Hercules – Arabia Felix – Doon Edin – Mare Tenebrosum – Riphean Mountains – quill pig;frantling – Venusian – Silurian hypothesis – Jovian trojans – Kreutz sungrazers – Perfidious Albion;the Great Game – Sahelian kingdoms – sunlit uplands – Groom of the Stool – brave west winds;naufragous – the Lost Generation – Erewhonian – bring owls to Athens – et in Arcadia ego.Words of Wonder includes the best entries from the first three dictionaries listed below (the last dictionary listed is a compilation of nearly the entirety of the first three):Dictionary of the Strange, Curious, and Lovely is a collection of the 3500 coolest words in the English language (155 pages and a 6x9 inch trim size – all others are 5x8).Epic English Words includes the best 10% or so of that 3500, and also interesting names and terms from diverse scientific, artistic, and literary fields. So moonglade, nemorous & brontide; and so too Devonian, Muspelheim, Shambhala & Avalon are included (146 pages).Dictionary of the Rare, Creative, and Beautiful is similar conceptually to Epic English Words except it includes almost all new entries (189 pages).Dictionary of the Strange, Epic, and Beautiful compiles these three previous dictionaries (516 pages).If you buy only one of the Robin Devoe dictionaries, buy Words of Wonder. It's more portable and cost less than the second choice – the 516-page volume mentioned above.This dictionary is a wonderful compilation of interesting and beautiful entries for readers, writers, dreamers, poets, artists, word-lovers, and all creative people! Read more

A New York Times Editors' ChoiceWinner of the J. Anthony Lukas AwardLonglisted for the Cundill History Prize“Absorbing.… Segregation is not one story but many. Luxenberg has written his with energy, elegance and a heart aching for a world without it.” —James Goodman, The New York Times Book ReviewSeparate is a myth-shattering narrative of one of the most consequential Supreme Court cases of the nineteenth century, Plessy v. Ferguson. The 1896 ruling embraced racial segregation, and its reverberations are still felt today. Drawing on letters, diaries, and archival collections, Steve Luxenberg reveals the origins of racial separation and its pernicious grip on American life. He tells the story through the lives of the people caught up in the case: Louis Martinet, who led the resisters from the mixed-race community of French New Orleans; Albion Tourgée, a best-selling author and the country’s best-known white advocate for civil rights; Justice Henry Billings Brown, from antislavery New England, whose majority ruling sanctioned separation; Justice John Harlan, the Southerner from a slaveholding family whose singular dissent cemented his reputation as a steadfast voice for justice. Sweeping, swiftly paced, and richly detailed, Separate is an urgently needed exploration of our nation’s most devastating divide. Read more

Mathematics is the basis of casino games, which are the bedrock of a $100 billion/year industry. Mathematics of the Big Four Casino Table Games: Blackjack, Baccarat, Craps, & Roulette takes an in-depth look at the four biggest table games in casinos: blackjack, baccarat, craps, and roulette. It guides readers through the mathematical principles that underpin these games and their different variations, providing insights that will be of huge interest to gamblers, casino managers, researchers, and students of mathematics.FeaturesA valuable teaching resource, replete with exercises, for any course on gambling mathematicsSuitable for a wide audience of professionals, researchers, and studentsMany practical applications for the gambling industryMark Bollman is Professor of Mathematics and chair of the Department of Mathematics & Computer Science at Albion College in Albion, Michigan, and has taught 116 different courses in his career. Among these courses is "Mathematics of the Gaming Industry," where mathematics majors carefully study the math behind games of chance and travel to Las Vegas, Nevada, in order to compare theory and practice. He has also taken those ideas into Albion’s Honors Program in "Great Issues in Humanities: Perspectives on Gambling," which considers gambling from literary, philosophical, and historical points of view as well as mathematically. Mark has also authored Basic Gambling Mathematics: The Numbers Behind the Neon, Mathematics of Keno and Lotteries, and Mathematics of Casino Carnival Games. Read more

Starting with William Blake's lost painting The Ancient Britons, this book shows how the visionary artist and poet reworked the Matter of Britain--the corpus of legends presenting an alternative history of Britain--into his own mythology. He thus adds to a tradition of Arthurian epic begun by Layamon in the 13th century and continued by Edmund Spenser in the 16th, in which a Romano-Celtic warlord becomes an icon of the English imagination. This book shows how Britain became the promised land of a pagan goddess where mythical events are as important as those of history, and how the figure of Arthur is transformed into a British Messiah whose Christian realm is in continuous interaction with the Otherworld of Faerie, an imagined place between the spiritual and the earthly. Arthur as perceived through Blake's vision is the earthly embodiment of the fallen Albion; this exploration of the mythic underpinnings of the English sense of nationhood reveals an imaginative consciousness that links us to "human existence itself." Read more

Strangers From A Secret Land: The Voyages Of The Brig 'Albion' And The Founding Of The First Welsh Settlements In Canada Read more