Fable is a first person role-playing game set in the city realm of Albion. The city is full of riches & poverty magic works but industry is coming. The royal family who run the city have a dark past & its secrets rule the present. Past versions of the game have been set in loosely medieval & renaissance times. The new version launched to coincide with the book will take the city into the industrial revolution launching a war between industry & magic. The game is unique for the richness of the created universe & for the way the actions of the character are reflected in its appearance & the responses of NPCs to it: if you eat a lot you become fat if you get into a lot of fights you get scarred & people become wary of you. The interaction of player & game the richness of the world makes the franchise unusually appropriate for a tie-in novel & the novel will include an interactive element. ...

This timeless collection brings together three hundred of the most enduringly popular of Aesops fables in a collection that will delight young & old readers alike. Here are all the age-old favorites-the wily fox the vain peacock the predatory cat & steady tortoise-just as endearingly vivid & relevant now as they were for their very first audience. Although the three hundred fables in this collection are attributed to Aesop & his name is synonymous with the form it seems unlikely he was in fact anything more than a legendary figure. While some historical accounts maintain he was a slave with a prodigious talent for storytelling who lived during the sixth century B.C. many believe it unlikely that this whole stock of fables can be attributed to one individual. ...

For the first time in hardcover
- Bill Willinghams acclaimed series gets the deluxe treatment in this volume collecting issues
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When a savage creature known only as the Adversary conquered the fabled lands of legends & fairy tales all of the infamous inhabitants of folklore were forced into exile. Disguised among the normal citizens of modern-day New York these magical characters have created their own peaceful & secret society within an exclusive luxury apartment building called Fabletown. But when Snow Whites party-girl sister Rose Red is apparently murdered it is up to Fabletowns sheriff a reformed & pardoned Big Bad Wolf to determine if the killer is Bluebeard Roses ex-lover & notorious wife killer or Jack her current live-in boyfriend & former beanstalk-climber. ...

In this sixth deluxe Fables collection featuring issues 46-51 of the Eisner Award-winning series the threat of the Adversary looms ever closer as the drums of war begin their steady beat. The Fables prepare for battle but first they must find their would-be commander: Bigby Wolf! ...

When Jack discovers the existence of The Literals & their leader he must leave his own adventures behind to warn Fabletown. Collects FABLES 83-85 JACK OF FABLES 33-35 & the 3-issue miniseries THE LITERALS. Advance-solicited; on sale February 3 o 224 pg FC $17.99 US o MATURE READERS ...

When Little Red Riding Hood suddenly reappears in these stories from issues 19-27 shes welcomed as a miraculous survivor by nearly everyone except her old nemesis Bigby Wolf who smells espionage & subversion. But will he be able to prove his case before disaster strikes? On sale AUGUST 10
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Collecting FABLES 6-10 the second story arc of the fan-favorite critically acclaimed VERTIGO series. Travel to upstate New York where the non-human Fable characters have found refuge on a farm miles from mankind. But all is not well on the farm
- & a conspiracy to free them from the shackles of their perceived imprisonment may lead to a war that could wrest control of the Fables community away from Snow White. Starring Goldilocks & the Three Bears. Plus a sketchbook section featuring art by Willingham Buckingham & Jean.
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This easily navigable resource provides over 100 swatches of the most recognised & widely used varieties of fabric including cottons silks wools & linens to encourage consideration of not just the aesthetic appeal of various fabrics but also their structure feel & weight. Bound into a hardcover book with descriptions & contextual illustrations alongside them the fabrics are in their raw state before bleaching dying or finishing so that their properties can be observed without the distraction of colour or pattern. With information on fibres basic construction of fabrics weights construction & weave comparison the book will help student fashion designers to make informed textile choices based upon an understanding of raw materials together with the processes that make up a fabric. A useful glossary defines key terminology. The book will be useful for anyone who works with fabrics & is the ideal companion to the Fabric for Fashion book. ...

This is an extraordinary & challenging synthesis of ideas uniting Quantum Theory & the theories of Computation Knowledge & Evolution. Deutschs extraordinary book explores the deep connections between these strands which reveal the fabric of reality in which human actions & ideas play essential roles. ...