Second Edition... Extended Version...Morgan Koda has landed in a world full of magic. Now she has to survive it. She never dreamed delivering a Christmas letter to her local Mall's Santa Claus would be her ticket to Edenwiess School of Magic. In this enchanted place, she walks through rainbows, makes friends with elves and talking animals, and experiences magic around every corner. Yet, she finds things are not as serene as they seem. A classmate wants her dead. The Dark Emir, an evil sorcerer, who hunts the the Mask of Noesis, an ancient artifact that has the capability to manipulating a wizard's magic. When the Emir learns that Morgan is the only one in over two hundred years to wear the mate to the Mask, he becomes relentless in his pursuit.She and the Emir are in a race against time for the relic. But, in order for her to fulfill her destiny with the golden mask, she has to survive the encounters with an eccentric classmate and the Dark Emir. Nevertheless, Morgan Koda is anything but helpless.
First Edition... Extended Version...Fourteen year old Morgan Koda may hold the Four Elements of Earth in the palm of her hand. But a little thunder storm might be her undoing.The island of Edenwiess is under attack from what seems to be a simple storm. However, lighting is striking repeatedly in the same location over the vast volcano. Those who are observing realize that this is no typical storm. Something evil is at work.In order to save the magical world she loves, Morgan and her friends, Tristan, Rex, and Raine return to the Island after their school has been evacuated. Not only will she place her life in peril, but those of her friends as well.Morgan Koda will go beyond the limits of her magic to discover the source responsible for the attack. The result will leave her feeling betrayed.
Fourteen year old Morgan Koda may hold the Four Elements of Earth in the palm of her hand. But a little thunder storm might be her undoing. The island of Edenwiess is under attack from what seems to be a simple storm. However, lighting is striking repeatedly in the same location over the vast volcano. Those who are observing realize that this is no typical storm. Something evil is at work.In order to save the magical world she loves, Morgan and her friends, Tristan, Rex, and Raine return to the Island after their school has been evacuated. Not only will she place her life in peril, but those of her friends as well. Morgan Koda will go beyond the limits of her magic to discover the source responsible for the attack. The result will leave her feeling betrayed.Author's Website: www.morgankodaadventures.com
First Edition - Extended Version. Candy-cane-striped trees, ogres, and chameleon-dragons might seem like an adventure, but to Morgan Koda, it's all about friendship. Thirteen year old Morgan has unintentionally altered her time-line and that of her world and she will do anything to preserve it. As her second school year starts, she must face her adversary, The Dark Emir, once again. He has kidnapped one of her best friends and holds him hostage in exchange for The Mask of Noesis and the restoration of their time-line. But by resetting the time-line Morgan risks losing the one thing she has yearned for her whole life. On the other hand, surrendering the golden mask will give The Dark Emir the key to controlling her and their world.Morgan Koda has no intention of doing his bidding, and there's a little more than magic up her sleeve...
If it is a good thing to use drama for education, there must be something specific about drama that makes it good for the purpose. It has power of some kind: it makes things meaningful that would otherwise be meaningless, or things memorable that would otherwise be forgettable. Or perhaps it enables independent thought in an area that would otherwise become mere rote learning. Many practitioners believe that drama has the power to develop learner autonomy, or even to give learners power over their lives. In the last twenty years, a widespread view has developed that this 'something' that creates the benefit of drama is 'aesthetics'. There are many views of aesthetics, but what unites them is the special significance that art has for our lives. This book is about the relation between aesthetics and education in the use of drama. Within it, philosophy appears as the essential connecting discipline between the practice of arts-based education and our advancing knowledge of the interrelations of cognition, emotion, and embodiment. Matthew DeCoursey argues that the power of dramatic art is to be found in its bodily, emotional nature. Drawing on recent work in the aesthetics of theatre, he shows that much of the power of theatre can be attributed to a specific range of ideas and techniques, notably including double meaning-making, aesthetic focus and dramatic tension. Finally, the author relates different forms of drama education to different educational results, holding that the conventional improvised forms are neither superior nor inferior to scripted theatre, but merely serve different purposes. Among those educational results discussed are the emancipation sought both by Rancière and by many practitioners of applied theatre, but also curricular areas, including language education.
Reading Lacan's Écrits is the first extensive set of commentaries on the complete edition of Lacan's Écrits to be published in English, providing an indispensable companion piece to some of Lacan's best-known but notoriously challenging writings. With the contributions of some of the world's most renowned Lacanian scholars and analysts, Reading Lacan's Écrits encompasses a series of systematic, paragraph-by-paragraph commentaries that not only contextualise, explain and interrogate Lacan's arguments but also afford the reader multiple interpretive routes through the complete edition of Lacan's most labyrinthine of texts. Considering the significance of Écrits as a landmark in the history of psychoanalysis, this far-reaching and accessible guide will sustain and continue to animate critical engagement with one of the most challenging intellectual works of the twentieth century. These volumes act as an essential and incisive reference-text for psychoanalysts and psychoanalytic psychotherapists in training and in practice, as well as philosophers, cultural theorists and literary, social science and humanities researchers. This volume covers the first two sections of the Écrits, providing close readings of the first eight essays.
AMARANTHE III: RESONANCE delivers over 1,400 pages of Sci-Fi Adventure **Includes the Aurora Resonant trilogy (Relativity, Rubicon, Requiem), the 3rd trilogy in the Amaranthe universe, + a short story + bonus material** Our universe is but a snowglobe—an experiment born of desperation and hope. The true universe is unfathomably vast, teeming with life and untold wonders. And it is enslaved. Created by ancient aliens in a daring gambit to understand the nature of the enemy, humanity is now asked to be the savior of a universe not their own. If they are to succeed, they must rise above not only their fractious past but the sins of their genetic ancestors to boldly embrace a future they never dared imagine possible. * RELATIVITY (Aurora Resonant Book One) "I'd tell you to be careful, but we wouldn't be here if you'd ever taken that advice. No reason to start now, right?" For millennia the Anadens have ruled the known universe. They believe they've crafted the perfect empire, ordered and impervious to challenge. They believe the fight has been crushed out of the species they subjugate. They are wrong. It's a suicide mission, without a doubt. Alex Solovy and Caleb Marano must steal crucial intelligence from the Anadens' central military headquarters. To succeed, they'll need to navigate a strange universe ruled by a cabal of powerful immortals, populated by aliens they've never met and fueled by technology they've never seen. They're going to need a little help--the kind of help only a suicidally defiant anarchist on the run from more than just personal demons can provide. ** AMARANTHE III: RESONANCE WAS ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED UNDER THE TITLE "AURORA RESONANT: THE COMPLETE COLLECTION" ** *** AMARANTHE UNIVERSE: --------------------------------------- AMARANTHE I: RISE (Starshine, Vertigo, Transcendence) AMARANTHE II: REBELLION (Sidespace, Dissonance, Abysm) AMARANTHE III: RESONANCE (Relativity, Rubicon, Resonance) AMARANTHE IV: MACHINA (Exin Ex Machina, Of A Darker Void, The Stars Like Gods) AMARANTHE V: RIVEN (Continuum, Inversion, Echo Rift) AMARANTHE VI: VERGE (All Our Tomorrows, Chaotica, Duality) ~ COSMIC SHORES ~ (a new entry point for the series - each book can be read at any time and without reading any of the other books) MEDUSA FALLING (A Cosmic Shores Novel) THE THIEF (A Cosmic Shores Novel)
