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Book The Red Hand of Doom

Download or read book The Red Hand of Doom written by Richard Baker and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An exciting super-adventure that pits heroes against an army bent on domination, this D&D Accessory includes encounters designed for use with the D&D miniatures game.

Book Strongholds   Followers

Download or read book Strongholds Followers written by Matthew Colville and published by . This book was released on 2019-06 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Stronghold & Followers explains both the practicality of owning a keep (how much it costs to build, the costs to maintain it, what sort of impact it would have on local politics) and gives a variety of benefits for those players who choose to build or take over one." -- Comicbook.com website: https://comicbook.com/gaming/2018/12/14/stronghold-and-followers-dungeons-and-dragons/ (viewed July 16, 2019)

Book Masters of Doom

Download or read book Masters of Doom written by David Kushner and published by Random House Trade Paperbacks. This book was released on 2004-05-11 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Masters of Doom is the amazing true story of the Lennon and McCartney of video games: John Carmack and John Romero. Together, they ruled big business. They transformed popular culture. And they provoked a national controversy. More than anything, they lived a unique and rollicking American Dream, escaping the broken homes of their youth to co-create the most notoriously successful game franchises in history—Doom and Quake—until the games they made tore them apart. Americans spend more money on video games than on movie tickets. Masters of Doom is the first book to chronicle this industry’s greatest story, written by one of the medium’s leading observers. David Kushner takes readers inside the rags-to-riches adventure of two rebellious entrepreneurs who came of age to shape a generation. The vivid portrait reveals why their games are so violent and why their immersion in their brilliantly designed fantasy worlds offered them solace. And it shows how they channeled their fury and imagination into products that are a formative influence on our culture, from MTV to the Internet to Columbine. This is a story of friendship and betrayal, commerce and artistry—a powerful and compassionate account of what it’s like to be young, driven, and wildly creative. “To my taste, the greatest American myth of cosmogenesis features the maladjusted, antisocial, genius teenage boy who, in the insular laboratory of his own bedroom, invents the universe from scratch. Masters of Doom is a particularly inspired rendition. Dave Kushner chronicles the saga of video game virtuosi Carmack and Romero with terrific brio. This is a page-turning, mythopoeic cyber-soap opera about two glamorous geek geniuses—and it should be read while scarfing down pepperoni pizza and swilling Diet Coke, with Queens of the Stone Age cranked up all the way.”—Mark Leyner, author of I Smell Esther Williams

Book Fantastic Four

Download or read book Fantastic Four written by and published by Marvel. This book was released on 2007-01-17 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents the adventures of the Fantastic Four's battles with their enemy Von Doom.

Book Rattle of Bones

    Book Details:
  • Author : Robert E. Howard
  • Publisher : SAMPI Books
  • Release : 2024-10-08
  • ISBN : 6561333659
  • Pages : 25 pages

Download or read book Rattle of Bones written by Robert E. Howard and published by SAMPI Books. This book was released on 2024-10-08 with total page 25 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In "Rattle of Bones", Solomon Kane, a grim Puritan adventurer, stops at a mysterious inn deep in the forest with a fellow traveler. The innkeeper, with a hidden past, warns of dangers lurking in the night. As tensions rise, Kane uncovers dark secrets involving murder and supernatural forces, leading to a brutal confrontation that tests his resolve and skills in a chilling atmosphere of betrayal and dread..

Book Game Engine Black Book  DOOM

Download or read book Game Engine Black Book DOOM written by Fabien Sanglard and published by Software Wizards. This book was released on with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It was early 1993 and id Software was at the top of the PC gaming industry. Wolfenstein 3D had established the First Person Shooter genre and sales of its sequel Spear of Destiny were skyrocketing. The technology and tools id had taken years to develop were no match for their many competitors. It would have been easy for id to coast on their success, but instead they made the audacious decision to throw away everything they had built and start from scratch. Game Engine Black Book: Doom is the story of how they did it. This is a book about history and engineering. Don’t expect much prose (the author’s English has improved since the first book but is still broken). Instead you will find inside extensive descriptions and drawings to better understand all the challenges id Software had to overcome. From the hardware -- the Intel 486 CPU, the Motorola 68040 CPU, and the NeXT workstations -- to the game engine’s revolutionary design, open up to learn how DOOM changed the gaming industry and became a legend among video games.

Book The Smashing Scroll

Download or read book The Smashing Scroll written by Michael Dahl and published by Capstone. This book was released on 2007 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An ancient curse sends a stone silo crashing across the countryside. Can the Librarian stop the smashing scroll?

Book Lippincott s Monthly Magazine

Download or read book Lippincott s Monthly Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1881 with total page 630 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Ancestral Power of Amulets  Talismans  and Mascots

Download or read book The Ancestral Power of Amulets Talismans and Mascots written by Nigel Pennick and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2021-05-04 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: • Looks at the age-old spiritual principles, folklore, and esoteric traditions behind the creation of magical objects as well as the use of numbers, colors, sigils, geometric emblems, knots, crosses, pentagrams, and other symbols • Explores hundreds of artifacts, such as hagstones, Norse directional amulets, car hood mascots, objects made from bones and teeth, those connected with plants and animals, charms associated with gambling, and religious relics • Includes photos of artifacts from the author’s extensive collection Offering an illustrated exploration of the origins and history of amulets, lucky charms, talismans, and mascots, including photos of unique and original artifacts from his extensive collection, Nigel Pennick examines these objects from a magical perspective, from ancient Egypt to the present. He looks at the age-old spiritual principles, folklore, and esoteric traditions behind their creation as well as the use of numbers, colors, sigils, geometric emblems, knots, crosses, pentagrams, and other symbols. Pennick explores magical charms and objects manufactured from bones, teeth, claws, and horns and those that include symbols of the human body. He also discusses religious relics as well as the combining of charms to make more powerful objects, from the bind runes of the Norse and the crowns of ancient Egypt to the Mojo hand and the medicine pouch. Revealing the lasting power of amulets, talismans, charms, and mascots, Pennick shows that these objects and symbols have retained their magic across the centuries.

Book Dr  Fell and the Playground of Doom

Download or read book Dr Fell and the Playground of Doom written by David Neilsen and published by Yearling. This book was released on 2017-08 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jerry, Nancy, and Gail seek answers for the mysterious injuries occurring on Dr. Fell's new neighborhood playground that seem to heal as if by magic.

Book Clean Hands

    Book Details:
  • Author : Patrick Hoffman
  • Publisher : Grove Press
  • Release : 2021-06-22
  • ISBN : 9780802149114
  • Pages : pages

Download or read book Clean Hands written by Patrick Hoffman and published by Grove Press. This book was released on 2021-06-22 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Patrick Hoffman, CWA Ian Fleming Steel Dagger Award finalist and critically acclaimed author of The White Van and Every Man a Menace, comes a breakout thriller about a powerful law firm on the brink of disaster, and the woman charged with making all their problems go away

Book Lippincott s Magazine

Download or read book Lippincott s Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1881 with total page 638 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Lone Hand

Download or read book The Lone Hand written by and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 768 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Journal

    Book Details:
  • Author : California. Legislature
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1874
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 423 pages

Download or read book Journal written by California. Legislature and published by . This book was released on 1874 with total page 423 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Doctor Doom

    Book Details:
  • Author : Steven A. Roman
  • Publisher : iBooks
  • Release : 2000
  • ISBN : 9780743400190
  • Pages : 388 pages

Download or read book Doctor Doom written by Steven A. Roman and published by iBooks. This book was released on 2000 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Doctor Doom has taken over the Earth whilst the X-Men were in another dimension. Their return finds them having to take on an armour-clad madman with the whole world against them and one of their deadliest enemies on Doom's side.

Book The Reason why

    Book Details:
  • Author : Ernest Emory Russell
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1896
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 400 pages

Download or read book The Reason why written by Ernest Emory Russell and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Monstrous Imaginaries

Download or read book Monstrous Imaginaries written by Maaheen Ahmed and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2019-11-29 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Monsters seem inevitably linked to humans and not always as mere opposites. Maaheen Ahmed examines good monsters in comics to show how Romantic themes from the eighteenth and the nineteenth centuries persist in today’s popular culture. Comics monsters, questioning the distinction between human and monster, self and other, are valuable conduits of Romantic inclinations. Engaging with Romanticism and the many monsters created by Romantic writers and artists such as Mary Shelley, Victor Hugo, and Goya, Ahmed maps the heritage, functions, and effects of monsters in contemporary comics and graphic novels. She highlights the persistence of recurrent Romantic features through monstrous protagonists in English- and French-language comics and draws out their implications. Aspects covered include the dark Romantic predilection for ruins and the sordid, the solitary protagonist and his quest, nostalgia, the prominence of the spectacle as well as excessive emotions, and above all, the monster’s ambiguity and rebelliousness. Ahmed highlights each Romantic theme through close readings of well-known but often overlooked comics, including Enki Bilal's Monstre tetralogy, Jim O'Barr's The Crow, and Emil Ferris’s My Favorite Thing Is Monsters, as well as the iconic comics series Alan Moore's Swamp Thing and Mike Mignola's Hellboy. In blurring the otherness of the monster, these protagonists retain the exaggeration and uncontrollability of all monsters while incorporating Romantic characteristics.