Brandon: 1470 books

Perfect for the armchair traveller or devoted mountaineer, this book grabs the reader by the boots and takes them along on the best climbs to be found in the heart of the Canadian Rockies. Over the past 100 years, climbers have been pushing standards in the Canadian Rockies. From long alpine...

Never get too close to anyone, because you might have to kill them. Meet Mark "Chopper" Read. You think you know him. His books have sold hundreds of thousands of copies in Australia. He's been the subject of an internationally successful film. His one-man shows have toured Australia...

Throughout Haitian history—from 17th century colonial Saint-Domingue to 21st century postcolonial Haiti—arguably, the Afro-Haitian religion of Vodou has been represented as an “unsettling faith” and a “cultural paradox,” as expressed in various forms and modes of Haitian thought and life...

◆台灣書市第一本千萬暢銷大師奇幻文學指導書 ◆美國亞馬遜五星評價，讀者拍案驚嘆創作寶典 由布蘭登．山德森領軍的十五位暢銷大師和資深金獎編輯，累積全球銷售千萬冊實力，首次敞開奇幻文學寫作殿堂之門，恍如在旁親自指導，帶你領略箇中創作巧妙！ 由《迷霧之子》布蘭登．山德森，《戰爭遊戲》歐森．史考特．卡德，《黑色傭兵團》葛蘭．庫克......等十五位重量級奇幻大師和資深金獎編輯，聯手貢獻獨家寫作祕密，告訴你如何打造獨一無二，風靡書市的奇幻英雄，擄獲萬千讀者的心！ 你的英雄在哪裡？他們是否被困在你的頭腦裡，渴望著自由和爆發呢？你是否準備好向讀者分享他們，吹噓他們，告訴所有人他們的魅力舉止和英勇行動，以及他們如何對抗和犧牲？你是一個準備寫下屬於你自己的英雄的說書人嗎？ 當代傑出的文壇前輩們，到底如何天馬行空創造這些英雄人物，讓他們在書頁之間虎虎生風？本書集結了當代最暢銷的奇幻文學作家們在創作過程當中嘔心瀝血的壓箱寶結晶，毫不藏私地透露自己如何創造出有血有肉的傳奇英雄，如何在情節中創造高潮起伏，贏得讀者的深深青睞。 如果你是懷有文壇夢的新手作家，本書絕對是無比實用的參考書籍，提供來自當代重量級作者的寫作建議與視角觀點；如果你只是單純的奇幻文學大師粉絲，更能享受本書中所揭露的奇幻英雄誕生創作過程。 【本書特色】 1.台灣書市首見奇幻文學英雄創作實例指南 2.集結作品暢銷全球千萬冊之當代知名作者寫作精要 3.加入金獎編輯的角度，提供更全方位的分析和導引 【好評推薦】 新銳小說家　何敬堯 國立東華大學數位遊戲與敘事設計研究中心主任暨幻奇文學研究室主持人...

Magic and danger abound in the second book in a series of “fanciful, action-packed adventure” (Publishers Weekly, starred review) from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Fablehaven and Beyonders series. Cole Randolph never meant to come to The Outskirts, but when his friends...

Under my umbrella is a poetry book full of life and great possitve energy respectful emotional passionate and graceful book

Ask This! The book with crazy questions that won't be half as funny as the answers you'll hear. By pulling out this little black box in your head of over one thousand questions that you read, you'll have your guests laughing out loud and at each other in no time. But you can get deep too. Totally...

A New Benchmark In Burgess Meredith Biography. 'Oliver Burgess Meredith' (November 16, 1907 ndash; September 9, 1997), familiar in a professional manner as 'Burgess Meredith', was an American performer in playhouse, feature, and TV, whoever as well operated like a director. Active for further compared...

As the plump sausages were beginning to brown, there was a knock on the door.Chicago Mob Boss Sam Giancana showed no fear as he turned back the double locks on the heavy steel door of his fortress like home that protected him from the outside world. Sam looked his old friend Johnny Roselli in the...

What would it mean to “get over slavery”? Is such a thing possible? Is it even desirable? Should we perceive the psychic hold of slavery as a set of mental manacles that hold us back from imagining a postracist America? Or could the psychic hold of slavery be understood as a tool, helping us get...

London’s Underground is associated with a multitude of ghostly stories and sightings. Particular stations and abandoned lines, many of which are in close proximity to burial sites from centuries ago, have given rise to unexplained events. This chilling book reveals well-known and hitherto unpublished...

Capturing the essence of this exceptional individual through his original writings and hands-on activities from his era, this resource tells the rich story of one of America’s most celebrated Founding Fathers. Beginning with his time as a young printer, this engaging narrative details how Benjamin...

When imagination becomes habit, it can transform your work and your life The best corporations know that innovative thinking is the only competitive advantage that cannot be outsourced. The best schools are those that create cultures of imagination. Now in paperback, Imagination First introduces...

This thesis outlines the development of the very first technology for high-throughput analysis of paired heavy and light-chain antibody sequences, opening an entirely new window for antibody discovery and the investigation of adaptive immune responses to vaccines and diseases. Previous methods...