Giant warships locked in battle Captain a mighty battlecruiser in the middle of a firefight as you try to gather 15 units of precious ore & get out — or die trying In Eminent Domain Battlecruisers you want to be the first to escape with 15 victory points or be the last ship standing Each round you & your opponents each play a card from your identical hands If you play the same card as an opponent you&ll clash & bad things will happen! But if you manage to sneak a card through unhindered then you&ll reap the benefits Collect points or knock cards out of your opponents& hands If you lose all of your cards then you&re out of the running At the end of each round check to see whether any player has won; if not prepare to play another card! Suggested ages 13 Players 3-5 Playing time 20-30 minutes ...

Your civilization has grown to the edge of the known universe To expand farther you&ll need to explore exotic worlds & learn their language & customs Mine foreign asteroids for valuable crystal & befriend alien cultures in Eminent Domain Exotica! Exotica is an expansion to Eminent Domain & cannot be played without the base game The designer recommends that you play the base game several times before incorporating this expansion Suggested ages 13 Players 2-5 Playing time 45 minutes ...

In Eminent Hipsters musician & songwriter Donald Fagen best known as the co-founder of the rock band Steely Dan presents an autobiographical portrait that touches on everything from the cultural figures that mattered the most to him as a teenager to his years in the late 1960s at Bard College to a hilarious account of a recent tour he made with Boz Scaggs & Michael Mc Donald Fagen begins by introducing the &eminent hipsters& that spoke to him as he was growing up (and desperately yearning to be hip) in suburban New Jersey in the late 1950s & early 1960s The figures who influenced him most were not the typical ones – Miles Davis say or Jack Kerouac – but rather people like Jean Shepherd whose manic acidic nightly radio broadcasts out of WOR-Radio had a tough realism about life & ‘enthralled a generation of alienated young people’; Henry Mancini whose chilled-out nourish soundtracks especially to films by Blake Edwards utilised the unconventional spare instrumentation associated with the cool jazz school; & Mort Fega the laid back knowledgeable all night jazz man at WEVD who was like ‘the cool uncle you always wished you had’ He writes of how growing up as a Cold War baby one of his primary doors of escape became reading science fiction by such authors as Philip K Dick & of his regular trips into New York City to hear jazz Other emblematic musical heroes Fagen writes about include Ray Charles Ike Turner & the Boswell Sisters a trio from the 1920s & 30s whose subversive musical genius included trick phrasing & way out harmony ‘ Class of ’69’ recounts Fagen’s colourful tumultuous years at Bard College the progressive university north of New York City that attracted a strange mix of applicants including ‘desperate suburban misfits with impressive verbal skills but appalling high school records’ (like himself) It was at Bard that Fagen first met Walter Becker with whom he would later form Steely Dan The final section of the book ‘ With the Dukes of September’ offers a day-by-day account of a tour Fagen undertook last summer across America with Boz Scaggs & Michael Mc Donald performing a programme of old R&B & soul tunes as well as some of each of their own hits Told in a weary cranky occasionally biting & always entertaining voice Fagen brings to life the ups & downs & various indignities & anxieties of being on the road – The Dukes were an admittedly ‘low-rent operation’ compared to a Steely Dan tour – as well as communicating the challenges & joy of playing every night to a different crowd in a different city ...

Emissaries of Satan is a gripping & chilling forensic examination of three truly evil men
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From the whimsical to the tragic EMI LENOX brings you into her world with superb cartooning a brilliant cast of characters ...

BBC drama based on the Jane Austen novel ' Emma' which tells the story of a rich & clever woman Emma Woodhouse who enjoys arranging the lives of her friends An admirer Mr Knightly watches with amusement ...

Emma is considered by many readers to be Jane Austen&s crowning achievement a timeless comedy of manners that lays bare the limits on women&s autonomy in Regency England The disparity between Emma Woodhouse&s self-confidence & self-knowledge & her determination to arrange marriages for her friends while avoiding one for herself leads to a painful series of misunderstandings for everyone who suffers from her well-meaning altruism
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Harper Collins is proud to present its range of best-loved essential classics ‘ The real evils indeed of Emma’s situation were the power of having rather too much her own way & a disposition to think a little too well of herself…’ Beautiful rich self-assured & witty Emma Woodhouse delights in matchmaking those around her with no apparent care for her own romantic life Taking young Harriet Smith under her wing Emma sets her sights on finding a suitable match for her friend Chided for her mistakes by old friend Mr Knightley it is only when Harriet starts to pursue her own love interests that Emma realises the true hidden depths of her own heart Delightful engaging & entertaining & with a dazzling gallery of characters Emma is arguably Austen’s most well-loved social comedy ...

Dive into a world of romance village life & even a little silliness in Jane Austen&s timeless novel Despite the fact that Jane Austen set out to write a story with heroine whom she said that "no one but myself will much like" Emma has resonated with readers since its original publication in 1815 & has been retold many times for television & movies Self-satisfied Emma Woodhouse thinks she is above romance of any kind but when she decides she is a great matchmaker & sets out to find a wealthy husband for her friend the sweet yet pitiable Harriet Smith she crosses paths with the charming Mr Knightley Even though Emma tries to ignore her feelings for him she ends up marrying him & realizes that " Perfect happiness even in memory is not common" Beyond the romance Emma is full of humor & wit & is also a commentary on upper-class social manners at the turn of the nineteenth century The title character herself rather you love her or hate her is both inescapably self-delusional & rather fun to imagine Complete & unabridged this elegantly designed clothbound edition features an elastic closure & a new introduction by Alison Fraser ...

Oft-copied but never bettered Jane Austen&s Emma is a remarkable comedy of manners that follows the charming but insensitive Emma Woodhouse as she sets out on an ill-fated career of match-making in the little town of Highbury Taking the pretty but dreary Harriet Smith as her subject Emma creates misunderstandings & chaos as she tries to find Harriet a suitor until she begins to realize it isn&t the lives of others she must try to transform Gorgeously illustrated by the celebrated Hugh Thomson this Macmillan Collector&s Library edition also

Includes:: an afterword by David Pinching Designed to appeal to the booklover the Macmillan Collector&s Library is a series of beautiful special gift editions of much loved classic titles Macmillan Collector&s Library are books to love & treasure

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