New Releases by Matt Ryan

A collection of poster art and imagery from the master of the modern poster. A selection of his works covering the years 2012-2024

The ballon d''or is the highest individual accolade football has to offer. Who else but the world''s greatest player to crown his career by receiving the award one more time in his career. Delve into the world of Lionel Messi to discover his journey to claiming football''s epic price for a record eight time. you will also learn about the ballon d''or, what it''s about and how it''s awarded.

Stranded and surrounded, Trent and his crew must find a way to salvage and survive. They find new threats, enemies, and friends as they fall into a new world. The ship is nearly destroyed, and so many are dead. Yet, they have Sixty-Seven days until the next invasion and if they fail to get the Independence repaired, and ready for battle, Earth won''t stand a chance against the Void.

"Spirituality and Health" is a thought-provoking exploration of the intricate relationship between one''s spiritual well-being and their overall health. Delving into the intersection of spirituality, mind, and body, this book offers a comprehensive perspective on how spiritual practices, beliefs, and experiences can impact physical, mental, and emotional well-being. Drawing from various religious traditions, scientific studies, and personal anecdotes, the book provides insights into the potential benefits of integrating spirituality into healthcare and everyday life. Whether you seek a deeper understanding of the connection between spirituality and health or practical guidance for incorporating spiritual practices into your wellness journey, this book offers a meaningful and enlightening guide.

In "The Talking Stage," we embark on a captivating journey through the intricate world of modern relationships, where communication and connection reign supreme. This thought-provoking book delves into the phase known as "the talking stage," exploring the nuances, challenges, and transformative potential it holds. In a world shaped by technology and evolving social dynamics, "the talking stage" has emerged as a pivotal phase where two individuals navigate the space between initial attraction and committed relationship. Through insightful anecdotes, relatable experiences, and expert guidance, this book offers readers a comprehensive exploration of this crucial period. Uncover the secrets to meaningful conversations that go beyond surface-level exchanges. Discover how to decode nonverbal cues, decipher mixed signals, and establish genuine rapport with potential partners. With practical advice on effective communication techniques, "The Talking Stage" equips readers with the tools needed to navigate the complexities of modern dating. Whether you''re single, dating, or seeking to understand the intricacies of human connection, this book provides valuable insights into building lasting relationships. Explore the stages of emotional intimacy, learn to communicate your desires openly, and develop a deep understanding of what truly makes a connection thrive. "The Talking Stage" isn''t just a book about dating; it''s a guide to fostering authentic connections in all aspects of life. With its relatable stories, actionable advice, and a focus on emotional intelligence, this book empowers readers to embrace vulnerability, break down barriers, and embark on a journey towards genuine, meaningful relationships. Whether you''re seeking a partner, looking to strengthen existing relationships, or simply intrigued by the intricacies of human interaction, "The Talking Stage" offers a roadmap to navigating the path to deeper connections, fostering bonds that stand the test of time.

Independence or Annihilation A conquering alien race, known as the Void, wiped 4 billion people off the planet in one brutal invasion. What remains of Earth''s population survived by the slimmest of margins on nothing but hope, bravery, and sacrifice. We don''t know where the Void came from, or why they attacked. But we know they adapt and will be back to finish the job. The next war won''t be the last battle for humanity... it''ll be the complete annihilation of Earth. Captain Trent Redd isn''t waiting for that to happen. Taking command of a legendary warship... He''s bringing the war straight into the hellish maelstrom where the Void are gathering for another final assault. A state of the art warship called Independence and her crew are Earth''s last bid for survival. The flame of freedom flickers in the depths of interstellar space as Battlestar Galactica meets They Live in this winner take all battle for the future of Earth.

Matt Ryan draws on ten years of research to deliver this landmark comparative review of participatory budgeting, or collective decisions on spending and taxation around the world. With examples of both positive change and notable failure, the book shows when and why citizens achieve this, and how policy makers can foster democratic engagement.

This fabulous Coloring book is the greatest gift for your children in this Halloween All pages are full of draw designs especially made for Kids from 2 to 12 years old. Thick lines and simple patterns set little hands up for coloring success! Discover The Amazing Benefits Of This Coloring Book: Kids can develop good motor skills by coloring inside this coloring book. Can be an amazing gift for kids and their friends! Kids can also relax and enjoy a activity such as coloring these pages Kids can use their imagination to make wonderful images. Use different colored pencils, markers, and pens to color these pages. Grab one and let your children''s creative run wild!

This fabulous Coloring book is the greatest gift for your children in this Halloween All pages are full of draw designs especially made for Kids from 2 to 12 years old. Thick lines and simple patterns set little hands up for coloring success! Discover The Amazing Benefits Of This Coloring Book: Kids can develop good motor skills by coloring inside this coloring book. Can be an amazing gift for kids and their friends! Kids can also relax and enjoy a activity such as coloring these pages Kids can use their imagination to make wonderful images. Use different colored pencils, markers, and pens to color these pages. Grab one and let your children''s creative run wild!

This fabulous Coloring book is the greatest gift for your children in this Halloween All pages are full of draw designs especially made for Kids from 2 to 12 years old. Thick lines and simple patterns set little hands up for coloring success! Discover The Amazing Benefits Of This Coloring Book: Kids can develop good motor skills by coloring inside this coloring book. Can be an amazing gift for kids and their friends! Kids can also relax and enjoy a activity such as coloring these pages Kids can use their imagination to make wonderful images. Use different colored pencils, markers, and pens to color these pages. Grab one and let your children''s creative run wild!

Six short stories from employees of the Department of Planning, Lands and Heritage, recording their time working from home during the coronavirus or COVID-19 pandemic. Staff were encouraged to record ''a day in the life'' of flexible working practices in their own time. These stories highlight the resilience and adaptability shown by many people experiencing working from home for the first time, as well as showing some of the positives of flexible work practices.

This collection of sea stories is a fictional work based on actual events in the U.S. Navy during the Cold War. The setting is the fictitious heavy cruiser Beaverton, based in Long Beach, California. It''s the summer of 1956 - a time, unlike today. For example, today a single DUI will end a naval officer''s career.The book has an understated timelessness that opens the book''s potential audience; anyone interested in fiction exploring military seafaring life will enjoy this book without ever feeling removed from its experience because of the time period. Ryan brings these settings to life without allowing the locales to dominate their respective appearances and adds layers of flavor to the work. This is a book that holds up under multiple readers rather than a one and done work. Joe Xylos, One Hell of a Shipmate runs over five hundred pages in its digital addition and some will think it can stand some cutting, but others will undoubtedly find the book full of riches well worth revisiting and appreciate its wide and expansive storytelling canvas.Matt Ryan''s skill for depicting setting is outstanding quality. The book hops from one far-flung locale to another and does an excellent job of capturing a time and place in global history without ever seeming dated.

The magi of the Order of Hermes are not the only scholars and artists in Mythic Europe. In the Greek and Muslim lands, traditions of learning stretch back unbroken over centuries, while scholarship has emerged from long centuries of neglect in the Latin West with great vigor. From parish schools to the new universities, learning and creativity are everywhere.Nor is this learning entirely theoretical. Doctors can cure many illnesses, and preserve the health of their charges. Natural philosophers can manipulate substances in a way that appears magical to the ill-informed, and gain some hints as to the future from the positions of the stars. The natural laws of Mythic Europe are very different from those of our world, and many strange things can be achieved by those who understand their secrets. Artists create the great cathedrals, but also more humble paintings, songs, and sculptures. The greatest of them draw the attention of the supernatural, and become part of the legends of the land.Art & Academe provides background on the academic life of Mythic Europe, and rules for activities reaching from the astrology and alchemy of the natural philosopher to the regimens and treatments of the medic, from university disputations to the creation of masterpieces of art. Art & Academe takes your saga to the very limits of medieval scientific knowledge.

You are an Hermetic magus, one of the greatest wielders of magic Mythic Europe has ever seen. You can control the winds with a word, the beasts with a gesture. You can create a forest in a matter of moments, and destroy castles with a thought. No secret of mortal man is safe from your investigation.So, what do you do with all that power?Build a covenant inside a volcano, or a tower that touches the sky. Construct enchanted ships to sail any ocean, or even on the clouds. Collect magical beasts from across Mythic Europe and beyond, or become the most deadly opponent in Wizard''s War that the Order has ever seen. You could even cheat death itself.

Between two empires is a land of high mountains and dark forests, of great rivers and fertile plains. The richest king in Mythic Europe rules Hungary, but his nobles are restless and the Teutonic Knights he invited to guard his borders want no overlord. Other small kingdoms play east and west against each other, tolerating heresy in their search for freedom. The mountains are the home of countless dragons, and vampires stalk the peasants in their villages. To the east, a greater storm gathers.This is the Transylvanian Tribunal.One force brings light to the darkness. Here, where a lord need not swear fealty for his land, the magi of the Order of Hermes may rule openly without violating the Code. Here, in the heartland of House Tremere, the gifts and talents of all magi may be brought together, to cooperate for the good of the world. Here can be seen the shape of the new order that the Tremere wish to bring.Let us work together as one and grow hale and strong.

In the thirteenth century towns and cities are growing all over Mythic Europe. Covenants that were once in remote forests find themselves within sight of city walls, and regions that were once cut off from the world are now visited by traders from distant parts. For many covenants, cities are a great opportunity; craftsmen and merchants can provide anything that the covenant needs, and buy its surplus. Some covenants are even established within towns, or as small towns.This supplement for Ars Magica Fifth Edition provides background on the facts of life in the towns of medieval Europe, and rules for craftsmen and traders. Clever magi could become the greatest merchant princes of Europe, or gain renown as suppliers of the most valuable tapestries. Less clever magi could find themselves manipulated by existing merchant princes, or tricked into buying shoddy goods. With an emphasis on stories rather than accountancy, this book opens a new stage for your Ars Magica saga.

Abstract: This article makes three key contributions to debates surrounding the effectiveness of democratic innovation, deliberation and participation in representative political systems. In the first instance, it argues that more attention should be paid to the role that participation actually plays in governance. The literature on democratic institutional design often neglects concern about the effects of innovative institutional designs on more traditional representative fora, at the expense of concerns about their internal procedures. Second, the article argues that despite limitations, replicable systematic comparison of the effects of institutional design is both necessary and possible even at the level of national governance. A comparative analysis of 31 cases of National Public Policy Conferences (NPPCs) in Brazil is presented. Finally, the article shows that popular deliberative assemblies that vary in their familiarity and their policy area of interest, and that organise their stru

Gaming is more than a way of life, it''s my job.Josh Dailey has spent the last two years on the dark side of the gaming world, as a gold farmer. He doesn''t do it to cheat; he does it to survive. And with the launch of a mysterious new game, Avarice Online, his hopes for a better life finally seem within reach. Living in a Slab City trailer with his foster family is not the end of the line for him; he will see to it, if it''s the last thing he does. The day the game launches, his life turns to shambles, leaving him desperate and at a new low. He must now put everything he has into dominating this new RPG. Too bad the makers of Avarice Online have other plans for their players--blurring the line between virtual and reality. Join Josh and his new in-game friends, Gor and KILLian, as they immerse themselves in this new world, filled with NPCs who are almost too real, and where the challenges and rewards are greater than any of them could have imagined.

Loved ones lost. Families separated. Earth is on the brink of total annihilation. The Six must rise once again, in a final battle against a new and terrifying adversary. All of the worlds depend on their victory.

Allie is done with being a special. But the world of alchemy still needs her to dig up a four-hundred-year-old man for a mother she may not totally trust, then create the stone to end all stones. After that, she''s free. Sounds simple enough . . . that is, if she''s not used up or dead by the end of the process.

In the past decade the rise of Model-Driven Engineering has resulted in major changes to industrial software development. Using models for describing behaviours allows replacing part of the coding activities with higher-level definitions of concepts and behaviour: commonly cited as reducing costs, errors and time-to-market, while improving software quality and communication between stakeholders. However, we continue to see spectacular failures of large, expensive IT projects, often blamed on badly specified requirements. With high-level models of business environments-independent of technical considerations-now possible and standards like the Semantics of Business Vocabulary and Business Rules (SBVR) emphasising business and domain experts as the owners of their business requirements, we are reaching the point where formal modelling of requirements by the business experts themselves is necessary. However, requirements specifications written in natural language (e.g. English) still play a fundamental role in communicating the requirements. This thesis investigates an approach to semi-automatically transforming natural language specifications written by business/domain experts into formal models. The aim is to support the user in the process of formalising their requirements as models to reduce errors, ambiguities,inconsistencies, and the time taken.

Unions have formed. A new life is born. An old enemy is renewed. Reeling from their great losses, the Preston Six vow to end it all against Marcus.

The Six return home from a charitable trip to help rebuild Vanar, and find their own world is in deep trouble. When a cough becomes much more than a common cold, an epidemic sweeps across the world. They have a suspicion of who is behind it all and rush to tell their missing member, unsure if she will even respond to their call.Samantha Roslin has moved on. Putting her past-and the Six-behind her, she takes a position at a startup company in San Francisco. With eyes on her future, and also on her enigmatic boss, Zach Baker, she is ready to take the world by storm.When Julie believes she''s finally found signs of Marcus''s technology on earth, it throws the group into a tailspin. They must find a way to stop Marcus before he has total control over Earth''s people.

Lucas can''t believe what has happened to his friends. MM now has half of the Six, leaving the rest to scramble for a new plan. Just when they need him most, Harris leaves them behind to make one final attempt to bring down Marcus. What he finds rocks him to the core, and leaves Vanar closer to extinction than anyone thought possible.Burning cities, world-wide chaos, possible genocide . . . just a few of the obstacles standing in their way. Even if the Six can find their way back to each other, will they recognize what they''ve become? Boundaries and morals will be pushed, lives will be altered and ended. The Six must continue to fight because the end is fast approaching.

Joey Foust has no idea he''s a wanted man and his parents aim to keep it that way. They raised him as a normal boy in a small American town, hoping he and his friends don''t discover what lies beyond. And for eighteen years, they succeed. Joey and his friends, the Preston Six, were all born on the same day, but soon come to find they have much more in common than a simple birthdate. Details of their past are suspicious, and they are determined to figure out what their parents are hiding. Small threads of new information are discovered, leading the Preston Six to venture in search for the truth. What they find pushes the boundaries of their beliefs. Now, they''re forced to leave behind everything to face an unknown adversary who''s been hunting for them since the day they were born. They must rise as one, or fall to enemy hands.