![]() ![]() ![]() While both, programming and gameplay are sometimes described as solitary or antisocial activities, this paper explores the landscape of Spanish computer games in the early eighties through a case study of the Spanish computer game “Bugaboo (The Flea)” programmed by Francisco Portalo and Francisco Suárez, ironically, released before in the UK (in 1983) rather than Spain. Considering that technological innovation is a multi-centred complex process -not the linear progression depicted in many writings- this article focuses on the specific context of the early eighties in Spain, in a decisive moment wherein personal computers began to reach markets, even though information on how to program them was confusing and difficult to access. Much of the research and literature about the still young history of video games has been conducted following a cult of celebrity mostly concerned with highlighting American and Japanese perspectives. ![]()
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![]() The entire A Curse So Dark and Lonely series is riveting. ![]() As in A Heart So Fierce and Broken, Kemmerer seeks to make her characters nuanced, but the execution sometimes just makes them seem cruel. Accordingly, the story is fast-paced and exciting but really focused on the interpersonal dynamics of the characters– which is where it excels at some parts but fails at others. As Grey’s deadline draws nearer, Lia Mara questions if she can be the queen her country needs.Īs two kingdoms come closer to conflict, loyalties are tested, love is threatened, and an old enemy resurfaces who could destroy them all, in this stunning conclusion to bestselling author Brigid Kemmerer’s Cursebreaker series.Ī Vow So Bold and Deadly drops readers right back into the conflict between Emberfall and Syhl Shallow, which, frankly, is actually a conflict between Rhen and Grey. But after enjoying decades of peace once magic was driven out of their lands, some of her subjects are angry Lia Mara has an enchanted prince and magical scraver by her side. ![]() Meanwhile, Lia Mara struggles to rule Syhl Shallow with a gentler hand than her mother. ![]() Grey has agreed to wait two months before attacking Emberfall, and in that time, Rhen has turned away from everyone-even Harper, as she desperately tries to help him find a path to peace. ![]() Emberfall is crumbling fast, torn between those who believe Rhen is the rightful prince and those who are eager to begin a new era under Grey, the true heir. ![]() ![]() ![]() I didn't really know what to expect from this book. To them, he’s a being deserving of love and protection, and he must be guarded at all costs. But the Brotherhood insists that he’s more than just a Puppet. When Dusk strips Arden of his vampire nature and the purpose that has guided him from birth, his only focus is escape. The Vale is a realm of old magic and exquisite beauty beyond imagination, ruled by Dusk, the Prince of the Fae. When the Brotherhood of Aeon, an elite force from the subterranean realm of the Vale, turns the tables and kidnaps the rare creature, Arden is thrown into the world of the fae, where nothing is as it seems. None is rarer than the chimera, a special class of human and a vessel of limitless power for any lover strong enough to tame them.Īs the favored "Puppet" of the Master Vampire of Ark, Arden exists to enact his master’s will. ![]() Vampires who feed on their human subjects with impunity and enforce their rule with servants honed into deadly creatures of destruction-and seduction. Shifters who transform into the beasts of legend. Elves who’ve traded their magical birthright for biogenetic enhancements. ![]() ![]() The world of Teros is full of beautiful, twisted things. Can an assassin who exists only for one man accept his destiny as the treasured possession of four elite warriors? ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() I receive a range of quality in the drawings. I like to have students present their work to the class, or I will post student work in the classroom and have a gallery walk-through. I like this activity because students get to choose events they feel are most important in the literary work and standout to them. This allows students to use more space when drawing/coloring pictures. There are no text boxes for the pictures. I also provided a copy of one template that indicates where the pictures should be written. This simply forces students to be selective with their words when they write their short description. The lined space for the fifth event is limited. The spacing ranges from single space, space and a half, and double space. ![]() Each copy has different line spacing to accommodate the different level of writers (or penmanship). ![]() This worksheet is one page however, there are three different copies. There is enough space for students to list five major events. I enjoy having students draw and color their art. Students will also draw a picture of each event. Beginning at the bottom left of the page, students will number each major event in the literary work and write a short description of the event. This worksheet has a staircase pattern that moves from the bottom left to the upper right of the paper. This plot graph is presented in landscape view. ![]() ![]() Below is the latest poster revealed today for the second season.Īnd on the 10th of May, we were given a date for season 2, and it is ineffably good. May 31, 2023, will mark the show's fourth anniversary, so fans should certainly expect some more announcements that day - probably a trailer. ![]() ![]() ![]() ‘Good Omens’ Season 2 will release on July 28, 2023, on Prime Video, worldwide, with all the six episodes.Įarlier, creator Neil Gaiman reassured the fans that the ongoing WGA strike will have no impact on the schedule of the show as everything related to its production has already been done and dusted. And finally, Amazon has revealed the premiere date for the second season during the 33rd anniversary of the publishing of the original novel Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch by Terry Pratchett and Gaiman, which was the basis for the first season of the television series. ![]() It will be exactly 4 years this month since the first season of ‘Good Omens’ premiered on Prime Video in May 2019. ![]() ![]() Instead, he loses his heart to a beautiful but scarred Japanese midwife. And in 1799 a young clerk, Jacob de Zoet, lands on the island with the intention of making sufficient money to return to Holland and marry his fiancée in five years’ time. The enclave was where two cultures rubbed shoulders and misunderstood each other. This island of Dejima was the sole gateway between Japan and the West, in the guise of the Dutch East India Company, for some two hundred years. The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet is an historical novel, set on a tiny man-made island in the bay of Nagasaki. ![]() How could anyone have started such a book imaging he could pull it off – and then succeed? I encountered David Mitchell’s book, Cloud Atlas, and was blown away by the ingenuity, inventiveness and sheer audacity of the writing. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The key D-Day spies were just five in number, and one of the oddest military units ever assembled: a bisexual Peruvian playgirl, a tiny Polish fighter pilot, a Serbian seducer, a wildly imaginative Spaniard with a diploma in chicken farming, and a hysterical Frenchwoman whose obsessive love for her pet dog very nearly wrecked the entire deception. But at its heart was the 'Double Cross System', a team of double agents controlled by the secret Twenty Committee, so named because twenty in Roman numerals forms a double cross. The deception involved every branch of Allied wartime intelligence - the Bletchley Park code-breakers, MI5, MI6, SOE, Scientific Intelligence, the FBI and the French Resistance. ![]() But it was also a triumph for a different kind of operation: one of deceit, aimed at convincing the Nazis that Calais and Norway, not Normandy, were the targets of the 150,000-strong invasion force. D-Day, 6 June 1944, the turning point of the Second World War, was a victory of arms. ![]() ![]() After the war, however, he and others who supported the government are criticized for the sufferings that people suffered and continued to suffer for some time after the war. He supports the government, so much so that he turns his best pupil into the police. ![]() Before the war, he is very much in favour of Japanese imperialism. And, like other key Ishiguro characters, Ono is a survivor. ![]() Ono and most of the other characters, like other Ishiguro characters, show the reserve for which both the English and Japanese are known. ![]() Indeed, the story starts with how the hero (if that is the right word), Masuji Ono, purchases a house from two sisters who are more concerned with the quality of the purchaser than the money they receive and who then continue to take an interest in the house long after they have sold it. And, of course, as it is Ishiguro, it is about memory. ![]() It’s only his second work but here is a writer clearly in control of his medium, facing the perennial question of the responsibility of the artist and his role in the political events of the day. Home » England » Kazuo Ishiguro » An Artist of the Floating World Kazuo Ishiguro: An Artist of the Floating World ![]() ![]() ![]() 10113825 Cataloging source JRS Cates, Bailey Dewey number 813/.6 Index no index present LC call number PS3613. Brownies and Broomsticks 1 in series by Bailey Cates Johanna Parker Audiobook (Includes supplementary content) Always available Borrow Listen to a sample Add to wish list Add to history Description Creators Details Katie Lightfoot's tired of loafing around as the assistant manager of an Ohio bakery. ![]() Language eng Summary While working at her Aunt Lucy and Uncle Ben's Honeybee Bakery in downtown Savannah, Katie Lightfoot discovers that her aunt is a witch and her recipes are actually spells, which comes in handy when Uncle Ben is accused of murdering a curmudgeonly customer and they need to clear his name Member of Label Brownies and broomsticks Title Brownies and broomsticks Statement of responsibility Bailey Cates Creator ![]() ![]() ![]() South Africa and its fraught political economy provide a fascinating case study into how it takes a particular brand of genius to thrive in a difficult domestic environment and to take those ideas and the businesses that deliver them global. Over the past 120 years, hundreds of books on the Anglo-Boer War have been published, but this will be the first to show this conflict in full colour - introducing a fresh perspective and transforming it into living history. ![]() The Boer War in Colour contains many iconic photos from the war, as well as several previously unpublished images. The photos show the Boer strikes into Natal and the Cape Colony, the sieges of British garrison towns at Ladysmith, Kimberley and Mafeking, as well as some of the major battles of the war. Volume 1 covers the conventional part of the war from October 1899 to June 1900 when Lord Roberts occupied the Boer republics. The effects of this devastating war on the political, economic and social landscape were felt long after its end. ![]() The Anglo-Boer War, or South African War, pitted the two Boer republics of Transvaal and the Orange Free State against British imperial might. ![]() Infused with colour, scenes from the Anglo-Boer War suddenly come to life in this striking collection of colourised photos from one of the biggest conflicts on South African soil. ![]() |