Learning the history how the Earth people got here on the planet Zoohr and how they got trapped there in another dimension; therefore, I would like to read the history of the Vaporich Empire before the Earth crew got here and why?

The adventure continues in this second book of this action-packed science fiction series as the earth crew works to find a way back home.

Hanjo Berressem establishes the notion of a schizoanalytic ecology as the most consistent conceptual spine of Félix Guattari's work. He covers the whole range of Guattari's solo work and the books co-authored with Gilles Deleuze, primarily a rigorous explication and analysis of 'Schizoanalytic Cartographies'.

Database Semantics: Semantic Issues in Multimedia Systems reflects the state of the art of emerging research on the meaning of multimedia information, as presented during IFIP's Eighth Data Semantics Working Conference (DS-8), organized by its Working Group 2.6 on Databases, and held at Rotorua, New Zealand, in January 1999. DS-8 was planned as an active forum for researchers and practitioners focusing on those issues that involve the semantics of the information represented, stored, and manipulated by multimedia systems. Depending on the topic and state of research, issues may be covered either deeply theoretically or quite practically, or even both. These proceedings contain twenty-one papers carefully selected by an International Programme Committee and organized in six thematic areas: Video Data Modelling and Use; Image Databases; Applications of Multimedia Systems; Multimedia Modeling in General; Multimedia Information Retrieval; Semantics and Metadata. For almost every area, important topics and issues include: data modeling and query languages for media such as audio, video, and images; methodological aspects of multimedia database design; intelligent multimedia information retrieval; knowledge discovery and data mining in multimedia information; multimedia user interfaces. Three visionary keynote addresses, by famous experts Ramesh Jain, Hermann Maurer and Masao Sakauchi, set the stage for discussion and future directions for the field. The collection of papers that resulted now offers a glimpse of the excitement and enthusiasm from DS-8. Database Semantics: Semantic Issues in Multimedia Systems is suitable as a secondary text for a graduate-level course on database systems, multimedia systems, or information retrieval systems and as a reference for practitioners and researchers in industry.

The Raven: The final stand. NOT EVEN DEATH CAN STOP THEM. The Unknown Warrior has spent last ten years mourning his dead - those of the legendary mercenary band, The Raven, who fell in battle. As the reluctant ruler of Balaia, he has also presided over the gradual recovery of his land after the devastation wreaked by the Demonstorm. The other survivor from The Raven, Denser, has spent those years rebuilding Xetesk to be the dominant college of magic. But something is wrong. The Elves are fleeing their homeland, as rumours of the dead coming back to life ... of something that has so terrified the spirits of the dead that they are returning to Balaia. And amongst them are The Raven's fallen. The legendary band are together again - just in time to face a battle that cannot be won ...

Fourteen-year-old Danielle MacGowan has never quite fit in— but she always thought that one day she would figure out how to be normal. Then a pint-sized invisible dragon starts following her around and she meets a boy with emerald eyes from the bad part of town. Danielle is faced with a beautiful, deadly world she never knew existed. She must call on her own hidden power if she is to survive.

Drawing is her world...but when she's pushed into the In-between and thought lost forever, it's his world too. Her... Storey Dalton wants her life back. Her home back. Her world back. The way they were before she messed with time. She does not want to become a living dead lost In-between. She thought she'd known the worst that could happen...but she wasn't even close. Him... Eric thought he'd seen the worst that his father could do...but he hadn't...unfortunately. Heartbroken and panicked, Eric tracks Storey to the misty dead space - and follows her in. There is a way out - but not a way that anyone would willingly choose. It... The stylus has no way to help with Storey's latest predicament. But survival is paramount. Only this time it can't do it alone. There might be help available...if they can save someone else...first. Them... Storey wants to save her world. Eric wants to save Storey. The stylus wants them to save someone else. But can anyone save them all? Young adult; mystery; Alternate dimension; magic; clean romance; urban fantasy; Action & adventure; Fantasy

In Whitelake village, three witches are forced to sacrifice their magic each year to keep the village hidden and protected from a demon that threatened its destruction two centuries ago. This year Sky has been chosen. What should be an honour feels like a death sentence to Sky. Refusing to accept her reality, she asks the Fates for guidance and embarks on a journey to reclaim what’s been taken. Her quest leads her to meet others who have had their magic sacrificed, and she learns that without magic flowing in her veins, she will slowly wither away. When she comes face to face with the demon she’s been taught to fear, she realises everything isn’t as it seems, and going with him may be the only way to get her magic back.

All seven books detailing the legend of the Raven Mercenary band, now collected in one bundle Contains seven fantastic novels: DAWNTHIEF, NOONSHADE, NIGHTCHILD, ELFSORROW, SHADOWHEART, DEMONSTORM and RAVENSOUL

Whether you're into poetry, occultism, spirituality, mystical sciences, theories regarding the law of attraction, metaphysics, art depicting the dark side of nature, unravelling reality, or just like to read poetic and original thoughts of why things are... There is something for everyone, in The Three Worlds series of poetry books, depicting my very unique view of life experience and the world itself and converting my specific views into universal truths. This started as a side project of mine and over the years, I have written many works of my extremely original and unique theories, representations, and symbolisms. As it progressed, it developed into an ever-evolving belief system, for me, personally. The 'Paradoxium' books are first, in the series 'Three Worlds', comprised of 'Paradoxium', 'Inevitum', and 'Relativium'. Read, comprehend, and formulate, in your own way. Enjoy. - Gary Lewis