James Richards: 24 books

The village of Gandar burns.  Ancient dragons wake from their millennia long slumber.  Orcish hordes roam the lands of Helios with alarming frequency.  Mount Thule rumbles with the power of the Arch-Mage Thaendril's tainted magic. Ellyse, her brother Brae and their companions find themselves...

Dragons have returned to Aeldrin; the world they had left to the younger races, in ages long past. Ellyse Silversword finds herself at the forefront of the resistance to the Arch Mage Thaendril's insane machinations. Petty political drama and long standing racial prejudices must be overcome or the eternal evils of Thaendrils fiendish forces will burn across all of Aledrin.

Stop the pain of the past and be protected from the pain of the future. This paradigm-shattering book will free you from the forces that would turn you into a victim.

Basics Film-Making: Screenwriting is the second in the Basics Film-Making series and is aimed both at students on film production courses, as well as those wishing to write a short film. The book teaches the key elements of screenwriting through examining areas such as dialogue, sound, setting, shots...

Features access to video tutorials! Designed to help architects, planners, and landscape architects use freehand sketching to quickly and creatively generate design concepts, Freehand Drawing and Discovery uses an array of cross-disciplinary examples to help readers develop their drawing skills....

This book examines the queer film festival and opens the discussion on social enterprises and sustainable lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) organisations. With over 220 events worldwide and some of the bigger budgets exceeding $1 million, the queer film festival has grown to...

Many books have been written on conservative politics. Many more have been written calling Christians to holiness and spiritual revival. Few, however, have managed to combine a clear explanation of the conservative political perspective with its corresponding personal and spiritual virtue. In...

This book contains 350 short stories from 50 classic, prize-winning and noteworthy authors. Wisely chosen by the literary critic August Nemo for the book series 7 Best Short Stories, this omnibus contains the stories of the following writers: H.P. Lovecraft, Edgar Allan Poe, Arthur Conan Doyle, Katherine...

There are many things that we all believe yet do not experience. We all want victory, yet few find it. One of our greatest frustrations is that much of what we believe really doesn’t work. Too often we spend our lives struggling with the same issues. The feeling of defeat can be agonizing. It is...

This is a continuation of iStories2. More stories are presented together.They come from a time in the future when people and computers have become more integrated. I like to look at the impact of automation, how it will affect us, and the small details in everyday life that come with it.

In this 1922 scholarly landmark, influential British critic I. A. Richards and his colleagues Charles Ogden and James Wood lay out a new theory of harmony and balance in a work of literature—the two mingle with an audience’s psychological impulses in order to determine how the work is perceived....

Our protagonist at a low point in his life when he acquires a small power. Not a giant super power but a small whiff of something which could give him an advantage over everyone else. A small telekinetic power is bestowed upon him. It first appears to be inconsequential but becomes a major influence....

...Within half an hour, the place was buzzing. 'The airport's been shut down.' 'Bank robbers have dumped a car.' 'They've taken hostages.' 'They're tying to get out of the country.' The gossip ranged wide and wild as rumours spread. I got a lift back to the main terminal buildings and spotted our...

Feminist writers and scholars consider whether technology has made good on its promise to liberate women—sexually, biologically, economically, and politically. In Once and Future Feminist, editor and lead essayist Merve Emre turns a critical eye on the role of technology in feminism both...