A major American filmmaker’s take on one of the most “unadaptable” novels this side of the second World War has, no surprise, inspired debate. But wherever one lands on White Noise tends to make room for praising Lol Crawley, a cinematographer who’d previously shaped films by Brady Cor...
Will your players stop the encroaching war through spiting the nobility’s intrigues, or will they hasten Greymantle’s conquest of the surrounding lands? What will happen if they cross the Shadows of Oblivion–a dangerous guild of assassins, intent on honoring their god?
The first serious plans to drill down to the mantle were concocted in the late 1950s by a handful of post-war American geoscience grandees under the guise of the American Miscellaneous Society — an informal group of US National Academy of Science members, sometimes referred to as a 'drinking...
the Germans' plans to use religion to help them win the war, climaxing at the battle of Erzurum. It (Greenmantle) is one of two Hannay novels set during the First World War, the other being Mr Standfast (1919); Hannay's first and best-known adventure, The Thirty-Nine Steps (1915)...
Greenmantle is the second of five Richard Hannay novels by John Buchan, first published in 1916 by Hodder & Stoughton, London. It is one of two Hannay novels set during the First World War, the other being Mr Standfast (1919); Hannay’s first and best-known adventure, The Thirty-Nine ...
Knowledge about long-term variation of the geomagnetic dipole field remains in its nascent stage because of the paucity of reliable experimental data over geological periods. Here, we present the first robust experimental data from the largest Cretaceous flood basalt province on Earth, the ~65–66...
There was no light in the place but Blenkiron's electric torch, for Hussin had put out the lantern. Peter got his nose into the things at once, for his intelligence work in the Boer War had made him handy with maps. It didn't want much telling from me to explain to him the ...
The second half of the volume focuses on a drawn-out tug-of-war between PaulII and Bologna, ostensibly over the renewal of chapters (capitula) in which Nicholas V had guaranteed the city's privileges. Pope and city clashed over a small number of issues concerning taxation, and most ...
"Greenmantle" is the second of five novels by John Buchan featuring the character of Richard Hannay, first published in 1916. It is one of two Hannay novels set during the First World War, the other being "Mr Standfast" (1919); Hannay's first and best-known adventure, "The Thirty-Nine...