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You can’t control what players are going to do. That’s half the fun. But you can control where they do it. That’s a whole other half! The Kobold Guide to Dungeons gives both new and experienced Game Masters insight and ideas into making dungeons great. In-depth essays from industry luminaries teach you to think outside your own boxes, and into a larger realm of challenge, discovery, and good old monster bashing.

Terrible Lizards is a podcast about Dinosaurs with Dr David Hone and Iszi Lawrence.

This book is intended for the clinical researcher who is interested in designing a clinical trial and developing a protocol. It is also of value to researchers and practitioners who must critically evaluate the literature of published clinical trials and assess the merits of each trial and the implications for the care and treatment of patients. The authors use numerous examples of published clinical trials to illustrate the fundamentals.

Luke Morley is a draper's son struggling to accept his sexuality. He has withdrawn into a world of fantasy, but with the arrival of Mr. Thronton this private world is shattered. Grantham's most eligible bachelor is everything Luke has ever dreamed of. After months of silent admiration, he determines to introduce himself. Reenter Clarence, who arrives to win back his old lover. When Daniel rejects him again, he is not about to take it lying down. A blackmail note appears—a demand that Daniel marry one of Luke's sisters.

From an old family trunk comes a manuscript which never saw the light of day. Its pages tell of the life, times, and blackmail of a young queer aristocrat stepping into 1768 Society. A time of wig powder and heeled slippers. Duels and social climbers, when the most popular member of the government is declared an outlaw. Hugh Entwistle enters this world wealthy, witty, and well-connected. Everything to be a success—everything, except that thing stuck to the bottom of his heeled slipper.

Este es un relato introspectivo y conmovedor que profundiza en las complicadas relaciones entre las posesiones materiales y su influencia en las vidas y relaciones humanas. A través de una narrativa delicada y reflexiva, explora cómo los objetos que acumulamos pueden llegar a definirnos y, a veces, a dominarnos. En este cuento, los personajes se encuentran atrapados en una lucha interna entre el deseo de simplicidad y la carga de sus "cosas", lo que les lleva a cuestionar lo que verdaderamente valoran en la vida.

What are you going to do for the rest of your life? For David Lawrence, Jr., a brilliant newspaper editor and publisher with a distinguished, three-decade-long journalism career who retired in 1999 at the age of 56, the answer in his words was to dedicate his life to a "[N]ewly energized purposefulness: that every child have a real chance to succeed."

Dr. Brian Miller, a physicist, is investigating what might be a buried ship along with the military and NASA. During the investigation, he accidentally triggers a time-travel mechanism designed for ultra-long-distance communications. He discovers he's landed in his 18-year-old body, but the original occupant is still present.

David Aguilar was born missing part of one arm, a small detail that seemed to define his life and limit people’s ideas of who he was and who he could be. But in this funny and heartfelt memoir, David proves that he can throw out the rulebook and people’s expectations and maybe even make a difference in the world—and all with a sense of humor.

Oliver Twist meets The Crimson Petal and the White in this devilishly funny, emotionally charged tale of finding a new path in life after a great fall. William Dempsey rose from a life of thieving and prostitution to be the personal plaything of the Marquess of Argyll. Then a betrayal sees him returned to the rough streets of London without patronage, his West End apartment, or a place among the ton.

Este relato es un viaje fascinante al corazón de la eternidad, desafiando las concepciones tradicionales de la vida y la muerte. Este relato captura la existencia de un ser excepcional, cuya inmortalidad lo convierte en testigo de la evolución de la humanidad y de sus ciclos interminables de alegría y desesperación. A través de una narrativa envolvente y rica en simbolismos, el autor explora los límites del deseo humano, la soledad eterna y la búsqueda de significado en un mundo transitorio.

En este cautivador relato corto, seguimos a un hombre que, obsesionado con la idea de encontrar la paz lejos del bullicio de la sociedad moderna, se embarca en un viaje hacia una isla remota. El autor, con su característica maestría en la profundidad psicológica, despliega un escenario en el que el protagonista se enfrenta no solo a los retos del entorno natural, sino también a los enigmas de su propia alma. Este relato es una mezcla embriagadora de aventura, introspección y revelaciones dramáticas que cautiva y conmueve, manteniendo al lector en vilo hasta la última página.

Strong female protagonists grace this collection of passionate stories dedicated to mothers, daughters, wives, and lovers. A woman splurges on an irresistible coat that becomes her; a feisty teenager who has grown up as her activist mother¿s poster-child realizes the strength of her own convictions; and a young peasant woman saved from drowning is suddenly drawn to her rescuer and hopeful about her life.

"Suscitava in Connie un misto di compassione e di bramosia selvaggia, e un folle, ardente desiderio fisico." "L'amante di Lady Chatterley" è il libro forse più scandaloso della letteratura inglese del Novecento. Scritto in Italia tra il 1926 e il 1928, venne proibito in Inghilterra per oscenità e pubblicato in patria solamente nel 1960 dopo un lungo processo che fece epoca. Ambientato nella profonda Inghilterra, vuole rappresentare il contrasto irriducibile tra il vitalismo dei sensi e l'atrofizzazione della società industrializzata.

Esta es una obra maestra de observación y simbolismo, en la que la delicada danza entre la libertad y la restricción se despliega a través de la vida de dos pájaros cautivos. El autor, con su inigualable profundidad psicológica y su agudo sentido de la naturaleza, teje una narrativa que explora el deseo innato de libertad frente a las cadenas invisibles que nos atan. Este relato no solo es un estudio sobre la autonomía y la interdependencia, sino también una reflexión poética sobre las relaciones humanas y nuestra propia búsqueda de liberación.

En el corazón palpitante de Entra, por favor, una obra maestra tejida por la pluma magistral de D.H. Lawrence, yace una historia cautivadora de deseo y transgresión. Ambientado en la Inglaterra de principios del siglo XX, este relato corto nos sumerge en la vida de una joven pareja atrapada en la monotonía de su existencia, hasta que una visita inesperada desencadena una serie de eventos que transformarán sus vidas para siempre.

Este relato es un cuento apasionante y emotivo, en el que la ambición y la búsqueda de la fortuna desatan un drama familiar inolvidable. A través de los ojos de un joven con un don místico para predecir los ganadores de las carreras de caballos, se exploran las complejidades de la suerte, el deseo y la desesperación financiera. Mientras el niño intenta salvar a su familia de la ruina económica, nos enfrentamos a las profundas preguntas sobre el valor del dinero y el verdadero significado de la felicidad.

MWA Grand Master Lawrence Block presents 23 stories, all of them on the dark side, and all of them set in the city that never sleeps.

With debt-burdened governments and businesses worldwide about to go bust, a cabal of Wall Street big shots plot to destroy the globe’s stock exchanges. In 24 hours, a powerful computer worm will smash the exchanges and spark an international panic, pushing a debt-laden world into the abyss. But one person, who works for their bank as a computer expert, spots the worm embedded deep in its network. Cassy Levin invents a program to destroy the cyber-intruder. Angered by Cassy’s discovery, her bosses order her kidnapping.

The climb that went wrong: fighting blinding snowstorms and horrific avalanches; days spent tentbound running low on food, water and oxygen; surviving broken bones and shattered spirits. With writing from Greg Child, David Roberts, Stephen Venables, Alfred Lansing and others, Epic is a collection of the most memorable accounts of legend-making expeditions to the world’s most famous peaks, often in the worst possible conditions!