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Blackest Spells
Magic to make the sanest man go mad. Dark wizardry. Witchcraft. Curses. Hexes. Evil Sorcerers. Fantasy has a long history of people wielding the forces of darkness for nefarious ends. Blackest Spells is a collection of eighteen short stories and novelettes detailing stories of shadowy figures wielding unholy power. The sequel to the Blackest Knights anthology contains stories ranging from the machinations of the fae to wishes gone wrong to wicked plots in space. Contains fiction by: Michael R. Baker, Allan Batchelder, C.H. Baum, Matthew P. Gilbert, S.D. Howarth, Matthew Johnson, Christopher Keene, Paul Lavender, Ulff Lehmann, Frank Martin, Richard Nell, Martin Owton, C.T. Phipps, Michael Pogach, Jesse Teller, Damien Wilder, and David Niall Wilson
The Art & Tradition of Beadwork
A former professor and museum director offers a fascinating, in-depth look at the culture and history of beaded objects around the world. From a beaded dress found in an ancient Egyptian tomb to the beaded fringe on a 1920s Parisian flapper’s hem, humans throughout history have used beading as a way to express, adorn, and tell a story. Bol explores beadwork across the world and through the ages, showing how beading has taken on many different styles, forms, and purposes for different cultures. She looks at children’s clothing, puberty ceremonies, burials, emblems of social status and leadership, festivals, and many other cultural occasions that involve the use of beadwork. Images of artifacts and heirlooms as well as photography of people and their beadwork enhance the scholarship of this book for a beautiful, enlightening addition to art, history, multicultural collections everywhere.
Impact Evaluation of Housing Guaranty Programs in Panama
Project report, evaluation of the role of USA economic aid (AID) in underwriting low income cooperative residential construction and slum upgrading in Panama - discusses housing needs, living conditions, the cost of improvements, attitudes of the target group towards the social implications of better housing, social mobility, etc. Bibliography, photographs, questionnaire, statistical tables.
A Workbook on Planning for Urban Resilience in the Face of Disasters
This Workbook offers a step-by-step guide for city officials to proactively plan for natural disasters and climate change impacts. It is based on learning from three cities in Vietnam that developed Local Resilience Action Plans (LRAPs) containing a set of prioritized actions related to infrastructure, policy, and socioeconomic actions.
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Safer Homes, Stronger Communities
This handbook is designed to guide public sector managers and development practitioners through the process of large-scale housing reconstruction after major disasters, based on the experiences of recent reconstruction programs in Aceh (Indonesia), Sri Lanka, Pakistan, Gujarat (India) and Bam (Iran).
