Stephen Fry brings the richness of these magical stories to life in the original British recordings, available for the first time in the United States and Canada.Turning the envelope over, his hand trembling, Harry saw a purple wax seal bearing a coat of arms; a lion, an eagle, a badger and a snake surrounding a large letter 'H'.Treat your ears to a performance so rich and captivating you'll imagine yourself in the halls of Hogwarts. Wherever you listen, the unmist...

This revised and updated third edition of Best New Horror showcases some of the very best short stories and novellas published in 1991. In this vilifying volume you will rediscover terrifying tales by, amongst many others, Ramsey Campbell, Robert McCammon, Dennis Etchison, Elizabeth Hand, Michael Marshall Smith, Charles L. Grant, Joel Lane and Thomas Tessier, along with an overview of the year in horror by the editors and a nightmare necrology of those who kicked off this mortal coil durin...

Challenging traditional therapeutic approaches to the arts in which art is often secondary to a psychological model, Principles and Practice of Expressive Arts Therapy provides a coherent theoretical framework for an expressive arts therapy practice that places the process of art-making and the art work itself at the center.This book lays the philosophical foundation for a fresh interpretation of art-making and the therapeutic process by re-examining the concept of poiesis. The aut...

The year's best science fiction and fantasy as selected by The Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers AssociationThis special 60th anniversary edition of the prestigious Nebula Awards Showcase anthology series reprints winning and nominated works from the 60th annual Nebula Awards, as voted on by members of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Association (SFWA).Nebula Awards Showcase 60 features stories and excerpts by this year's Nebula Award winners and ...

For the young Mars colonies, it's a time when the latest technologies encounter ancient secrets, and mysterious forces threaten the rights of all free beings.Kit owes a massive debt in repayment for a favor. To pay the debt, she and her singing partner Cary-who means more to her than she admits-must find a way to return ancient treasures to Mars from a distant system.The task is technically impossible. But they have to succeed-in time to keep dark forces from grabbing enoug...

Dangerous jazz, a royal reality showThis collection of fantasy and scifi stories takes you tothe world of Pegasus, Chimera and the gods,to ghost-shadows in water, the Mars of a frightened spirit,vacation moons and Bodhisattvas following the Fall,netting for raw lithium among exploding suns;the worlds of balloon races, A.I. love-matches,of a space-miner's daughter in a triangular trade,of a mission to the Rings...

War, as Clausewitz reminds, is the most uncertain of human political and social activities. It also imposes burdens. In an alliance among states for the promotion of collective defense or security, such as the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), burdens have to be shared. This study looks at the experience of the United States and other member states of NATO in four situations of multinational military intervention - Lebanon, the Persian Gulf, the Balkans, and South Asia - and consi...

From Chains to Change is the remarkable story of Grace House-the former home of Dr. Valle, which he turned into a peer-run sober house for those struggling with addiction, co-occurring mental health disorders, and trauma after leaving prison or a treatment program. You will hear stories of hope and healing, including how the men and women at Grace House rescued Dr. Valle from the chains of his own clinical depression. This is a book for anyone seeking a renewed perspective and rea...

This exciting new reader in environmental history provides a framework for understanding the relations between ecosystems and world-systems over time. Alf Hornborg, J. R. McNeill, and Joan Martinez-Alier have brought together a group of the prominent social scientists, historians, and geographical scientists to provide a historical overview of the ecological dimension of global economic processes. Readers are challenged to integrate studies of the Earth-system with studies of the world-sys...

The Ibis DoorAncient, lost music and magic. A race of precocious creatures. And an impossible search, launched by improbable friends...Dangerous but thrilling. In 2065 no more exciting career exists than Trader on the Earth-Moon-Mars loop.At White Sands Space Academy Ozzie Reed tastes the launch fumes already. But a sure thing goes bad and throws him into a fight for his right to fly.And the fight threatens far more than just his own dreams....

Dreams that seem to slice through time and space.A dangerous journey in search of something that has no real location.And a treasure that may save Earth — or may not — but at what price?Mars Colony One grasps a fragile handful of the Red Planet. But Earth politics and people still hold sway there. And there a mysterious past echoes hauntingly.An Icelandic firefighter named Freya sees opportunity in all these. It begins with an experiment....

A moon at risk, a silver jarIn these unique tales you'll join some unusual company:One who has a way to start the moon again...A costumes flunky in an offworld showbiz enterprise...A harried circus owner whose guests are in disguise...An engineer who inherits from a college girlfriend...Two families on a distant world, with plans that will collide...You'll travel to strange places that you may find familiar:Th...