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Fight your own tabletop battles with toy soldiers! These basic wargame rules put you in command of toy soldiers fighting over a battlefield of your own design. Kids can easily learn the core rules for soldiers moving and shooting. The more they play, the more they can enhance their skirmishes with advanced rules, giving some soldiers heroic abilities or special weapons. Use them to fight make-believe skirmishes or historical engagements. An engaging introduction to the wargame hobby kids can explore with their friends and family. Inside you'll find: * Basic rules for skirmishes between small groups of toy soldiers. * Advanced rules options to add new dimensions to combat as you become more familiar with the game. *Guidelines for playing games in different historical periods and fantastic settings. *Six starter scenarios - situations defining how games start - and more with each set of period guidelines. You will need to bring your own toys to this fight: a crowd of toy soldiers or figures, some six-sided dice, props for battlefield terrain, and a ruler or tape measure.
This book provides the first detailed and comprehensive examination of all the materials making up the Star Wars franchise relating to the portrayal and representation of real-world history and politics. Drawing on a variety of sources, including films, published interviews with directors and actors, novels, comics, and computer games, this volume explores the ways in which historical and contemporary events have been repurposed within Star Wars. It focuses on key themes such as fascism and the Galactic Empire, the failures of democracy, the portrayal of warfare, the morality of the Jedi, and the representations of sex, gender, and race. Through these themes, this study highlights the impact...
Challenging the generally accepted belief that the introduction of racial slavery to America was an unplanned consequence of a scarce labor market, Anthony Parent, Jr., contends that during a brief period spanning the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries a small but powerful planter class, acting to further its emerging economic interests, intentionally brought racial slavery to Virginia. Parent bases his argument on three historical developments: the expropriation of Powhatan lands, the switch from indentured to slave labor, and the burgeoning tobacco trade. He argues that these were the result of calculated moves on the part of an emerging great planter class seeking to consolid...
Culled from the pages of the Star Wars Adventure Journal, one of the most popular Star Wars magazines in the field today, comes this exciting new short-story collection. Here are stories from such award-winning and New York Times bestselling authors as Timothy Zahn, Michael A. Stackpole and Kathy Tyers as well as exciting newcomers, including Erin Endom, Laurie Burns, and Patricia A. Jackson. From the desperate flight of a civilian mail courier carrying vital Rebel intelligence through an Imperial blockade, to a suicidal commando raid on an impregnable Imperial prison, to a Corellian smuggler mysteriously hired by an actor turned Jedi Knight turned Imperial assassin for one final transformat...
Written by some of today’s leading science fiction writers, these tales sweep us into a world where the only laws are cunning, force, and power—and only the bravest, craziest, and deadliest dare to tread. Here mercs and smugglers, gangsters and warriors fight toe to toe, side by side, and behind each other’s backs in the backwaters of a universe ripped apart by war. On Zelos II a man and a woman are held prisoner in a dark cell, each fighting in their own way for survival at the hands of Imperial captors—and a chance for escape that could cost one of them their life. On the tortured landscape of Ryloth, Fenig Nabon awaits a ship of women warriors to complete a dangerous deal: the smu...
Three original novels set in the universe of Star Trek: The Original Series! This ebook bundle includes: The Rings of Time That Which Divides Department of Temporal Investigations: Forgotten History
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The Xondaii system is home to a unique stellar phenomenon: a spatial rift which opens every 2.7 Earth years and allows access to a small planetoid that orbits in proximity to the system's fourth planet. Science vessel U.S.S. "Robert Ballard" is severely damaged during its mission to the system, and the U.S.S. "Enterprise" is dispatched to investigate and render assistance. Original.
Andre Norton, Alan Dean Foster, Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Robert Sawyer, and other master storytellers explore the farthest reaches of sci-fi's most classic theme: the bold frontiers of humankind's future--from life in a Dyson sphere to cities built on the ocean floor to colonies in far-flung galaxies.
'Star Wars' is a global phenomenon that in 2022 celebrated its 45th year of transmedia storytelling, and it has never been more successful than it is today. More 'Star Wars' works than ever are currently available or in simultaneous development, including live-action and animated series, novels, comics, and merchandise, as well as the feature films for which the franchise is best known. 'Star Wars' fandom is worldwide, time-tested, and growing; academic interest in the franchise, both inside and outside of the classroom, is high. This accessible and multidisciplinary anthology covers topics across the full history of the franchise. With a range of essays by authors whose disciplines run from culture and religious studies to film, feminism, and philology, 'Star Wars: Essays Exploring a Galaxy Far, Far Away' speaks to academics in the field, students in the classroom, and anyone looking to broaden their understanding and deepen their appreciation for 'Star Wars'.