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  • Numerology: The Complete Guide

    Volume 1: The Personality Reading

    by Matthew Oliver Goodwin ...
    Series series Numerology
    Numerology, the simplest of the occult sciences to master, offers deep insights into the personality. You can use numerology to understand yourself, friends, associates, and lovers. You can see the dynamics of relationships and you can determine the best time to marry, change jobs, move, invest, and travel. Here is the definitive work on Numerology. Organized for clarity that a beginner can grasp ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • Reading Length in Fantasy Fiction

    by Dr Matthew Oliver ...
    Series series Perspectives on Fantasy
    Reframing debates surrounding long narratives to explore their impact, this book develops a critical vocabulary for discussing the formal, social, and political affordances of length and duration in fantasy novels, and by extension, other genres.Beloved by fans, fantasy books frequently receive dismissive treatment from book reviewers and academics. For literary critics, lengthy narratives have ... Read more

    $93.19 USD

  • Magic Words, Magic Worlds

    Form and Style in Epic Fantasy

    by Matthew Oliver, Donald E. Palumbo, C.W. Sullivan III ...
    Series Book 80 - Critical Explorations in Science Fiction and Fantasy
    While all fiction uses words to construct models of the world for readers, nowhere is this more obvious than in fantasy fiction. Epic fantasy novels create elaborate secondary worlds entirely out of language, yet the writing style used to construct those worlds has rarely been studied in depth. This book builds the foundations for a study of style in epic fantasy. Close readings of selected novels ... Read more

    $21.39 USD

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  • The Complete Idiot's Guide Numerology Workbook

    Reveal Essential Truths About Yourself, Your Loved Ones, and the World Around Yo

    by Katherine Gleason, Patricia Kirkman ...
    Numerology holds the key to self-understand, foretelling the future-and strong sales...Numbers reveal essential truths about people, their loved ones, and the world around them. Here, readers learn how to observe those numbers, calculate their meanings, and interpret what they reveal. Through understanding all types of numbers (Core Numbers, Karma, Master, Pinnacles/Challenges, Passion, Balance, ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • The Ultimate Guide to Numerology

    by Linda Alchin ...
    Numerology is a very ancient science dating back thousands of years. It offers an insight into the personality by assigning numeric values, or numbers, to the letters which are contained in names. Each letter contained in a name is assigned a number. Every number is associated with specific characteristics or personality traits. These numbers and personality traits and characteristics can also be ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Complete Book of Numerology

    Discovering the Inner Self

    by David A. Phillips PhD ...
    Discover the science of self-discoveryTo the conventional scientist, numbers are merely symbols of comparative quantities, but in the broader, metaphysical sense, they assume a deeper, more profound significance.The Complete Book of Numerology reveals the underlying meaning behind the numbers in your life and enables you to understand the connection between your numerological patterns and your ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • Dungeons and Dragons and Philosophy

    Raiding the Temple of Wisdom

    Edited by Jon Cogburn, Mark Silcox ...
    Series Book 70 - Popular Culture and Philosophy
    This volume will convince readers that the swift ascent of the tabletop role-playing game Dungeons and Dragons to worldwide popularity in the 1970s and 1980s is the most exciting event in popular culture since the invention of the motion picture.”Dungeons and Dragons and Philosophy presents twenty-one chapters by different writers, all D&D aficionados but with starkly different insights and points ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • Letting Stories Breathe

    A Socio-Narratology

    by Arthur W. Frank ...
    Stories accompany us through life from birth to death. But they do not merely entertain, inform, or distress us—they show us what counts as right or wrong and teach us who we are and who we can imagine being. Stories connect people, but they can also disconnect, creating boundaries between people and justifying violence. In Letting Stories Breathe, Arthur W. Frank grapples with this fundamental ... Read more

    $18.79 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Elements of Academic Style

    Writing for the Humanities

    by Eric Hayot ...
    Eric Hayot teaches graduate students and faculty in literary and cultural studies how to think and write like a professional scholar. From granular concerns, such as sentence structure and grammar, to big-picture issues, such as adhering to genre patterns for successful research and publishing and developing productive and rewarding writing habits, Hayot helps ambitious students, newly minted Ph.D ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • The Beauty of Games

    by Frank Lantz ...
    Series series Playful Thinking
    How games create beauty and meaning, and how we can use them to explore the aesthetics of thought.Are games art? This question is a dominant mode of thinking about games and play in the twenty-first century, but it is fundamentally the wrong question. Instead, Frank Lantz proposes in his provocative new book, The Beauty of Games, that we think about games and how they create meaning through the ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Unboxed

    Board Game Experience and Design

    by Gordon Calleja ...
    **A board game designer offers an in-depth exploration of board game design and experience!Features insights from 32 leading professionals, including the designers behind Magic: The Gathering, 7 Wonders, Shut Up & Sit Down, and more.**Gordon Calleja examines key aspects of board game experience—the nature of play, attention, rules, sociality, imagination, narrative, materiality, and immersion—to ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • The Fantasy Role-Playing Game

    A New Performing Art

    by Daniel Mackay ...
    Many of today's hottest selling games--both non-electronic and electronic--focus on such elements as shooting up as many bad guys as one can (Duke Nuk'em), beating the toughest level (Mortal Kombat), collecting all the cards (Pokemon), and scoring the most points (Tetris). Fantasy role-playing games (Dungeons & Dragons, Rolemaster, GURPS), while they may involve some of those aforementioned ... Read more

    $11.89 USD