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Sliced from Life
These stories encompass the daily trials and tributes most common to everyone. The goal is to emphasize the efforts, both engaging and sometimes difficult, that the characters engage in, showing their persistence and strength, along with their humanity to achieve their aims. You will smile, laugh, and even weep, but in the end, you will be pleased with the outcome. You will be reminded of times when you knew more than just your neighbors’ names, when hometown pride was a tangible thing. Each story will fill you with the satisfaction of time well spent.
The Only Easy Day Was Yesterday
Bufalo's collection of stories, essays, and politically incorrect commentary by and about the Marines fighting terrorism in Iraq and Afghanistan shows how troops feel about being in harm's way.
Game Wizards
The story of the arcane table-top game that became a pop culture phenomenon and the long-running legal battle waged by its cocreators. When Dungeons & Dragons was first released to a small hobby community, it hardly seemed destined for mainstream success--and yet this arcane tabletop role-playing game became an unlikely pop culture phenomenon. In Game Wizards, Jon Peterson chronicles the rise of Dungeons & Dragons from hobbyist pastime to mass market sensation, from the initial collaboration to the later feud of its creators, Gary Gygax and Dave Arneson. As the game's fiftieth anniversary approaches, Peterson--a noted authority on role-playing games--explains how D&D and its creators navigat...
Geek Elders Speak: In Our Own Voices
An anthology of essays and interviews exploring the undeniable history of women creators in Science Fiction/Fantasy & Media fandom during the latter half of the 20th century. These women were writers. Artists. Costumers. Editors. Gamers. Scientists. Housewives. Despite the odds, they claimed their own voices and creative power, through the years and in their own terms. Each woman’s experience is personal and evocative, told in their own voices and each with their own story.
Pyra-Sea: A Delilah Duffy Mystery
What’re ten seconds compared to a lifetime? Bookstore manager and amateur detective Delilah Duffy knows better than most that disaster strikes in seconds. When Beach Read’s Happily Ever After Book Bash ends in fiery destruction, everything she’s worked for burns with it—her home, business, and relationship with Sam. But when Beach Read’s owner offers her two weeks to find the culprit to ensure his insurance claim, Delilah knows this is her last chance to rebuild her treasured bookstore and get her life back. So, pregnant and brokenhearted, Delilah directs her anger toward what she’s good at—solving mysteries. Hot on the trail of an arsonist while her nemesis is on hers, Delilah...
Videojournalism
Videojournalism is a new field that has grown out of traditional print photojournalism, slideshows that combine sound and pictures, public radio, documentary filmmaking and the best of television news features. This amalgam of traditions has emerged to serve the Internet's voracious appetite for video stories.Videojournalism is written for the new generation of "backpack" journalists. The solo videojournalist must find a riveting story; gain access to charismatic characters who can tell their own tales; shoot candid clips; expertly interview the players; record clear, clean sound; write a script with pizzazz; and, finally, edit the material into a piece worthy of five minutes of a viewer's a...
Whistleblowers
Whistleblowers are both celebrated and reviled. They expose illegal or unconscionable actions by a government official or organization, the dangerous practices or financial fraud of a corporation, or the perjury of a high-profile witness. The reasons that motivate whistleblowers are as diverse as the crimes and misdeeds they expose. Through articles written at the time of events, this book introduces readers to some of the most famous whistleblowers in recent history. These include Mark Felt, aka "Deep Throat," whose information helped uncover the Watergate scandal; Chelsea Manning, who, as Bradley Manning, shared classified documents revealing unsavory, untruthful, and potentially illegal activity by the United States government in the Middle East; and Grigory Rodchenkov, the doctor who exposed Russia's state-sponsored doping program.
Zones of Control
Examinations of wargaming for entertainment, education, and military planning, in terms of design, critical analysis, and historical contexts. Games with military themes date back to antiquity, and yet they are curiously neglected in much of the academic and trade literature on games and game history. This volume fills that gap, providing a diverse set of perspectives on wargaming's past, present, and future. In Zones of Control, contributors consider wargames played for entertainment, education, and military planning, in terms of design, critical analysis, and historical contexts. They consider both digital and especially tabletop games, most of which cover specific historical conflicts or ...
