New Releases by Steven Gordon

Dungeon Masters rejoice and players beware! The Total Party Kill Handbook is here to help you take your game to the next level of challenge and fun with 25 encounters, running from level 1 to level 20, all designed to be dropped into your existing campaign. Every encounter can be scaled up or down to fit groups that are several levels higher or lower, and the tactics scaling sections let you make the monsters smarter or dumber to further tweak the difficulty to match your party. Within the pages you''ll also find the Trap Workshop, a revolutionary trap creation system that will let you build traps that damage, disable, and debilitate adventurers, making your dungeons even more dangerous. You tell the story, this book provides the numbers.

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The Total Party Kill Primer contains three ready-to-play encounters designed to test fifth edition adventurers to their limits. Each encounter includes scaling suggestions to adapt them to parties of differing strength and experience.

A young woman named Deseray Underwood has been found dead, in her London lodgings, by her fiance Samuel Mortimer. ... Lestrade, baffled by the cause of death, summons the aid of Sherlock Holmes....Holmes stumbles upon one single clue, a crystal blue bottle, which sends him and Watson on a wild chase through the streets of London in pursuit of answers to this young woman''s sudden demise. A death that would make any benefactor very wealthy. -- Cover.

Growing interest in watching and identifying dragonflies and damselflies has sharpened the need for an authoritative resource likeDragonflies and Damselflies of Oregon,a definitive field guide devoted solely to dragonflies and damselflies found in the state. Cary Kerst and Steve Gordon include information on identification, as well as biology and behavior, using common terms useful to the novice and experienced enthusiast alike. The book features stunning color photographs of male and female of all species currently known in Oregon, along with helpful illustrations and charts with important identification characteristics. Dragonflies and Damselflies of Oregonpresents the life cycle and larval habits of dragonflies and damselflies, along with photographs of the larvae of families. The Oregon range for each species is mapped, and the size range of adults is provided in text and illustration. The book also includes a description of the best sites in Oregon to observe these amazing insects, a useful tool for viewing uncommon species in spectacular settings. Dragonflies and Damselflies of Oregonis an essential reference for Odonatists, entomologists, birders, butterfly watchers, fishermen, wetland experts, naturalists, gardeners, artists, photographers, and all outdoor enthusiasts. *91 species descriptions, with ID charts * Full-color photographs of all species known in Oregon, with illustrations and charts * Description of 30 best locations in Oregon to observe dragonflies * Useful appendices and index

This paper attempts to describe the religious and civil religious discourse used by presidents during their inaugural addresses and State of the Union speeches, overlooked in the literature. This deductive, plausibility probe categorizes different words into different categories. It begins by offering definitions of religion and civil religion, separating interested words into either religious or civil religious categories, and then further attempts to subcategorize relevant words into groups that may explain a possible usage for their choice in the speech. From these subcategories, possible hypotheses were developed for future research. From the study, results show that religious and civil religious discourse is used for several purposes (ties to history, links to a common heritage, creating a common belief, policy objectives). This paper also presents limitations with the study and directions for future research into political discourse regarding religious and civil religious usage.

The Graftonites had incredible reflexes, making them superior bounty hunters and almost unstoppable gunmen. They could draw and fire a blaster in a blink of an eye. Grafton II had evolved into a planet with no government--a purely libertarian society where all services were privatized and civil disputes were mediated by one-on-one gunfights. But when the Graftonites banded together to take over the galaxy, only superspy Clifford Croft, aided by Red Sally the always angry firestarter, the Clapper, an eccentric telekinetic who liked to clap, and the legendary bounty hunter known as the Silencer could stop them.

Written by Illustrator artist Sharon Steuer with many new and improved features, the Illustrator 9 Wow! Book has grown over 100 pages, and covers step-by-step material for beginners through advanced users. In addition, readers get the goodies that come with full-color Wow! books, making this book educational and inspiring.

A surreal and fascinating month in the life of a paralysed teenage boy who converts a tower block into a zoo to experiment with evolutionary genetics.

One of the most challenging problems in the field of information science is developing effective retrieval interfaces for digital libraries. Solutions to this problem must provide interfaces that mediate between the retrieval needs of library users and any available collection materials in an intelligent and tractable manner. The majority of research in this area has focused on the development of information retrieval systems that attempt to match users textual queries to library records. An alternative approach is to build retrieval interfaces that allow users to direct their own searches by browsing through an organization of a library''s materials. This dissertation specifies the design characteristics of browsing-based retrieval interfaces for digital libraries. This design has been implemented in Deja vu, a computer program that solves the retrieval problem in the following ways. First, rather than browsing through library materials directly, users of Deja vu browse through an organization of the thesaurus terms that library archivists have used to index collection materials. Second, a tight integration between thesaurus terms and library records allows Deja vu to provide information about the availability of materials in a collection throughout the browsing process. Third, Deja vu provides a rich browsing space to users by utilizing new knowledge structures called Expectation Packages. Expectation Packages cluster sets of terms from a thesaurus into fully interconnected groups, forming simplified cognitive science knowledge representations. By creating a set of these Expectation Packages for a particular thesaurus, developers can efficiently create a rich browsing space that reflects the knowledge that is common to the intended users of a digital library. A full set of Expectation Packages were developed for one thesaurus which is used by many photographic libraries. Deja vu was then evaluated in the context of its use as a retrieval interface for large digital collections.