**Enter a gilded age in which upstairs-downstairs drama meets existential horror.Our Brilliant Ruin is a tabletop roleplaying game set in the Dramark, a place where the last fragile remains of society live in the shadow of a dying world.**The Ruin, a preternatural force befouling everything it touches, has ravaged geography and culture alike, wreaking destructive havoc and loosing monstrous creatures. With the world plunged into rust and ruin, how will you spend the time yo...

"The Narrative of a Blockade-Runner" by J. Wilkinson is a compelling account that delves into the experiences of a blockade runner during the American Civil War. The book provides a vivid portrayal of the challenges faced by those who attempted to breach the naval blockades imposed by the Union forces. Through Wilkinson's detailed observations and personal anecdotes, readers gain insight into the perilous journeys undertaken to transport goods and supplies to the Confederacy, highlighting ...

In "The Narrative of a Blockade-Runner," J. Wilkinson crafts a captivating tale set during the tumultuous Civil War era, focusing on the perilous operations of blockade runners who defied the odds to transport goods and supplies through hostile waters. Wilkinson's prose is marked by vivid imagery and dynamic storytelling, employing a first-person narrative that immerses the reader in the experiences of those who navigated danger and deception on the high seas. The text serves as both a thr...

Teaching Digital Literacies explores different approaches to teaching digital literacies in the second language classroom.The authors provide a comprehensive overview of literacy and the new technologies in an easy to follow guide that language teachers will find very practical for their own contexts. Topics covered include different and multiple forms on literacy including web 1.0 and web 2.0, blogging and Twitter, multimodal literacy, social networking, ...

In a time when men fought and women stayed home, Nicholaa de la Haye held Lincoln Castle against all-comers. Not once, but three times, earning herself the ironic praise that she acted 'manfully'. Nicholaa gained prominence in the First Baron's War, the civil war that followed the sealing of Magna Carta in 1215. Although recently widowed, and in her 60s, in 1217 Nicholaa endured a siege that lasted over three months, resisting the English rebel barons and their French allies. The siege end...

The impact zone – an area measuring a couple of feet before the ball and a couple after it – is what good golf is all about. It's sometimes referred to as the 'moment of truth', or the 'business end' of the golf swing. As such, it should be analysed, practised and trained more than anything else.It isn't, though. Work your way through most golf instruction books, magazines, DVDs or internet tips and you'll find that impact barely gets a mention, not in any detailed sense.It...

The city of Carchemish in the valley of the Euphrates river can be regarded as one of the iconic sites in the Middle East, a mound complex known both for its own intrinsic qualities as the seat of later Hittite power and Neo-Hittite kings, but also because its history of excavations included well known historical figures such as Leonard Woolley and T. E. Lawrence. However, because of its location within the military zone of the Turkish-Syrian border the site itself has been inaccessible to...

This book, based on proceedings of the International Conference on Advances in Structures, includes contributions on current research in composite design, fire engineering, light gauge construction, advanced structural analysis, concrete filled tubes and seismic retrofit.

The Rebel Yell gathers forty Civil War soldier memoirs into a capacious, often contradictory record of Confederate military experience. Ranging from formal recollection and campaign narrative to cavalry adventure, naval testimony, prison memory, and reflections on defeat, the volume illuminates both battlefield immediacy and the retrospective shaping of war. Accounts of major operations, irregular warfare, command, endurance, and home-front loyalties reveal the variety of literary register...

A Rebels' War assembles forty-seven personal accounts of the Confederacy, placing battlefield recollection beside diary, memoir, political testimony, naval narrative, and reflections on civilian life. Its varied prose ranges from formal military reportage to intimate domestic observation, revealing how war was experienced, remembered, and subsequently narrated by Confederate participants. Campaign accounts, prison and espionage episodes, and striking records of the home front together illu...

40 Civil War Memoirs of Confederate Soldiers assembles a capacious and often contentious archive of memory, combining battlefield narrative, campaign recollection, naval experience, cavalry adventure, command perspective, and postwar reflection. Its varied prose ranges from formal military testimony to vivid anecdote and elegiac reminiscence, revealing how Confederate participants fashioned accounts of defeat, loyalty, courage, and loss. Read critically, the volume also exposes the omissio...

100+ Civil War Soldier Memoirs assembles a capacious, often conflicting archive of lived experience from the American Civil War. Ranging from battlefield recollection, campaign narrative, naval observation, prison testimony, and partisan chronicle to retrospective meditation, these memoirs reveal how war was recorded in both immediate sensory detail and later acts of remembrance. Accounts of celebrated operations stand beside less familiar episodes of marching, illness, comradeship, comman...