Bøger af Chris Turner

"Dragons and kings, wizards and rings, who needs them?" So says sword-for-hire Vetravincus as he prowls the market looking for coin to pay for his next meal. Little does he know the trouble to come getting mixed up with an upstart apprentice and a gambling rogue. The apprentice wants revenge on the Mages who stripped him of his powers. The gambler is out for spoils should they succeed in disrupting the Order of Mages and securing the fabled Flame of Eros. But such simple missions are things of fantasy. The gods have something else planned... From the mesmeric love traps of a sorceress to the clutches of the Ravenclaw outlaws, Vetra and his friends must save their skins and prevent their homeland from falling to a sorceress's tyrannical rule... The SWORDS AND SKULLS Series: Flame of ErosDragon LordsValley of the GodsLand of Maja

Young rocker Jet Rusco struggles to stay out of the clutches of alien slavers on the frontier mining world of Halroon. Even his street skills aren't enough to protect him from the barbaric Skurgs and the deviant Prime Ascendant of the Moon Temple. Relentlessly stalked by his enemies after failing to hand over a precious alien artifact, he joins forces with a seductive spy and his freedom-fighter friends from the past to take up a path as a mercenary...to protect one of the wonders of the universe-the fabulous Aqua Rex. But are the architects of the new age to be trusted? Dark forces catch up to Rusco and propel him on an even greater mission, forcing him to summon resources within that he never knew he had. Can he prevail against a shadowy galactic cabal? The fate of the frontier worlds hang on a thread. For Rusco, it's a root hog struggle for survival. An exotic ride through far future realms... Other books in the Starship Rogue series: Star RunawayThetis 3Starhustler>Starship Rogue Box Set: innersky.ca/starship

Immortal Mages. A Pirate Queen. Mutant Sea Monsters. Dragon Wars.An ambush gone wrong brings the rise of a new Queen that threatens to tear the pirates apart.Fresh from the loss of his old master, Darek struggles to forge his own path as both Dragon Mage and Dragon Rider. How will he face the new terror rising from the ashes of the past, stirring the waters and the sea serpents into a frenzy?The dragons are no longer the obedient beasts of old and begin to reject the control of their Dragon Riders. Can Darek learn the many untaught lessons needed to forge new runestones and bring the dragons back from the brink of an uprising?How can he fight the Pirate Queen once he learns her true identity? Can anything stop the tides of war and prevent the Islanders from destroying themselves?Dive into this world of adventure, imagination, splendor, and danger that fans of Dragonriders of Pern, Eragon, Dragonlance, Dragon Blood, Dragonvein, Temeraire, and Dragon School will love. Scroll up and one-click buy today!The Dragon Sea Chronicles: Prequel: Dragonclaw DareBook 1: Dragon Sea - Mage RebornBook 2: Dragon Mage - Uprisin

Wizards. Sea Serpents. Pirates. Dragons. Follow Darek of the Red Claw Clan through this three book box set, a young sailor crossing blades with ruthless pirates and warring clans. As his hidden powers grow, first in his natural ability to commune with sea dragons, so too does his uncanny dragon-riding skill and sudden bursts of psi power. Yet a foul wind blows across the serpent deeps, bringing with it a former apprentice, Cyrus, a forsaken sorcerer who wields terror and death. The Dragonclaw Islands are thrust into the brink of war as Darek struggles to find his path, unlock his skills, though alienated from his sister and parents. Is he destined to become the Mage Reborn? Ever more does he realize he must stop the tides of war, bring order to clan and family while the rising menace of Cyrus lurks unseen. Taken under the wing of the ailing Dragon Mage Agrippa, Darek uses his powers to unite the Dragon Riders against the growing swarm of sea serpents controlled by Cyrus's forbidden magic. The fires of rebellion, stoked by a Pirate Queen, plunge the Islanders into an all-out war among dragons, sea serpents, and monsters of the deep. But are Darek's powers enough to combat these foes, especially when he is linked to the pirates by blood bond and their beautiful queen? Dive into this world of adventure, imagination, and danger that fans of Dragonriders of Pern, Eragon, Dragonlance, Dragon Blood, Dragonvein, Temeraire, and Dragon School will love. Scroll up and one-click to buy this box set today while the introductory price lasts!

Jet Rusco, black market arms dealer and hustler, faces off against the Star Lord: warlord, magician, psychopath. With each new conquest, the Star Lord uses ruthless force to terrorize colonized planets via his fleet of hi-tech warships. He sends bounty hunters after Jet Rusco who has stolen an alien device critical to his operation. A dark secret lies at the back of the Star Lord's plans. But more than just tainted with the threat of galactic dominion, lies the 400 year old evil of the last alien war, that left humankind stumbling in the dark, forgetting their bio-mechanical heritage, plummeting societies backward in time and technology. Jet Rusco's far future world of colonized planets must wake up to the impending reality of a new order, more cosmically cruel than all that ever ruled by space thugs and warlords throughout time. Yet time is running out for Rusco, and the fragile freedom of the last few sovereign planets. Can he and his quirky crew of allies band together and thwart the greatest villain this century has ever seen? A gritty thriller full of space battles, dark secrets, macabre twists and peril...

In his debut book, award-winning entrepreneur Chris Turner offers a new take on startups and how to make our ideas a reality. He argues that ideas have a fundamental place in our economy, and that actualizing more of them is critical to human progress. Written in just ten business days and edited in six, the book itself offers proof to Turner's core argument - that systematically identifying and removing barriers to idea realization is both possible and desirable. In a wide universe of startup literature, Make It Real stands out for it's actionable, digestible, and fresh take on how we think about starting a company.

They took away our history. But they can't steal our souls. I'm Ellan Weis, a teen kickboxer. Something happens to me, where I can sense disaster. Before it happens. I live in a world where everyone has a com chip in their wrist...where the only truth of the past cataclysm lies in darkweb. The schools are rough, bullies walk the halls, gangs work the streets. My mother's a key player in rolling out the new haloband, a smart-VR headgear technology at Starcom. My brother's a hacker working at the same company. A conspiracy is among us. Something to do with the haloband. My family is in danger. Even with my street smarts and these newfound powers, can I save those who mean most to me? Don't miss this gritty coming-of-age technothriller...

Vetravincus, sword for hire, finds himself fighting for his life against wizards and dragons across the lands of Umbria and Lvendar. In the lawless town of Dragonskull, brigands want to kill him-he just wants to fence a jewel. But such missions are things of the past after he befriends a persecuted half Thrule who claims to know where a lost treasure is and a gifted swordstress eager for plunder. From the desert oasis of Dragonskull to the priest-haunted gullies of Gyzia, Vetravincus battles demons, dragons, sorcerers and tyrants in his quest to uphold justice in a lawless world. Tombs of plunder blessed by ancient gods, demonic idols sprung to life by treacherous wizards, no commission is too small for this minstrel of the sword with a fierce heart for the underdog. If you like your sword and sorcery hard and fast, don't miss this gritty, action-packed saga... "Outstanding sword and sorcery... Vetravincus is cut from the cloth of Conan." - kindle reviewer ★★★★★ "This work reads as one of Robert Howard's lost manuscripts. Raw. Gritty. FUN and SMART."- Trevor Porter, fantasy author, artist, critiquer The SWORDS AND SKULLS series: Flame of ErosDragon LordsValley of the GodsLand of Maja

High fantasy adventure: the complete saga . . . A disenchanted fisherman seeks a more enriching existence than shucking clams on Heagram's shore. Shirking his duty, he attends the local fair where his jaunty carelessness earns him the wrath of a rebel magician of the Mismerion Order-also a quick ticket as an outlaw . . . In his flight for freedom, he picks up loyal allies-two fearless sea rogues indentured to a band of cutthroats on a pirate ship. Amongst sea battles, slaughter and ruin, they struggle to contend with the forces of the law led by the Prince of Owlen. In this rich journey of adventure, villainy, and sophisticated language, heroism prevails and spellcraft brings captivity, ruin and death. The outlaws must face down the rebel magician-hope to outwit him and circumvent his relentless scheme to destroy the rival magicians of the Order . . .

Adventure strikes Risgan, treasure-hunter, gambler, collector of magic relics. From jungle pygmies to powerful shamans to sea pirates, it's a fight to the end, on land, sea and air. Shipwrecked off a dangerous coast in an unknown land, Risgan stumbles upon a mysterious cult in the ruin of ancient temple grounds. An odd but alluring acolyte takes him under her wing, but the legend of their long dead saint leaves Risgan's blood running cold. The miracle-working pariah has visited the underworld and made friends with dark forces... The cult leader, the Konar, rules the organization with an iron fist. Can Risgan escape his machinations and slip out of the sect's tentacle grip? Things are not so simple. The young acolyte to whom he's taken a fancy is not the innocent devotee she's made herself out to be. The relic-hunter gambles with his life...and quite possibly the love of his life. Books in this series: Forsaken Magic: Witch of the ThornThe Isk Rider of Bazuur>Contains bonus content.

A man who lives on the edge. A man turned turned to hustling to survive. Jet Rusco lives in a far future of colonized worlds ruled by space thugs and warlords. A heist gone bad leaves him with a stash of alien tech and ruthless gangsters on his tail who'll do anything to get it back. Rusco must up his game, build a team of able recruits if he is to defeat the despot who plans to use the tech for more sinister reasons than obvious gain. He must decide whether he is to remain a scavenger all his life, or an avenger. The stakes are high when worlds are at great risk and the choice of doom or salvation rests on the toss of the dice... This gritty thriller is full of space battles, cons, twists and danger...

A major collection of essays and interviews from an iconic 20th-century philosopher in five volumes, now all available together in paperback.   Roland Barthes was a restless, protean thinker. A constant innovator‿often as a daring smuggler of ideas from one discipline to another‿he first gained an audience with his pithy essays on mass culture and then went on to produce some of the most suggestive and stimulating cultural criticism of the late twentieth century, including Empire of Signs, The Pleasure of the Text, and Camera Lucida. In 1976, this one-time structuralist outsider was elected to a chair at France‿s preeminent Collÿge de France, where he chose to style himself as a professor of literary semiology until his death in 1980.   The greater part of Barthes‿s published writings has been available to a French audience since 2002, but now, translator Chris Turner presents a collection of essays, interviews, prefaces, book reviews, and other journalistic material for the first time in English and divided into five themed volumes. Volume two, The “Scandalâ€? of Marxism, contains a wide range of his more overtly political writings, with an emphasis on his early work and the serious national turbulence in the French 1950s.

A major collection of essays and interviews from an iconic 20th-century philosopher in five volumes, now all available together in paperback.   Roland Barthes was a restless, protean thinker. A constant innovator‿often as a daring smuggler of ideas from one discipline to another‿he first gained an audience with his pithy essays on mass culture and then went on to produce some of the most suggestive and stimulating cultural criticism of the late twentieth century, including Empire of Signs, The Pleasure of the Text, and Camera Lucida. In 1976, this one-time structuralist outsider was elected to a chair at France‿s preeminent Collÿge de France, where he chose to style himself as a professor of literary semiology until his death in 1980.   The greater part of Barthes‿s published writings has been available to a French audience since 2002, but now, translator Chris Turner presents a collection of essays, interviews, prefaces, book reviews, and other journalistic material for the first time in English and divided into five themed volumes. Volume three, Masculine, Feminine, Neuter, consists of his writing on literature, covering his peers and influences, writers in French and other languages, contemporary and historical writers, and world literature.Â

Channel your inner MC with this quick-fire word game designed to test your rhyme skills against family and friends, settling once and for all who is the greatest rapper. Fast, furious, hilariously funny, and endlessly playable, Rap Battles is the essential card game for any aspiring MCs, wordsmiths and hip-hop fans, playable with up to 6 individuals or groups. The challenge: to come up with that killer burn, pun or rhyme to leave your opponent without a come back, in stitches, or both. It's brilliant fun for anyone who loves to rap along in the car or fancies themselves as the next hip-hop superstar. So pass the mic and get ready; things are about to get wild with Rap Battles.

A clan overrun by foreign raiders. A fearless huntress faces the greatest challenge of her life... Arcadia, daughter of the Caerlin chief, is faced with a choice: to see her clan destroyed by ruthless invaders or to join forces with a band of outlaws. She must act quickly. The clan's magic arrow is stolen; the protector goddess wanders far while the dreaded isks, creatures of darkness, haunt the skies. Don't miss this exciting adventure in the Relic Hunter series. Boudicca meets Robin Hood... "Awesome. Full of action, suspense and intrigue throughout. Loved it."- kindle reviewer ★★★★★

In the underground world of crime, Jet Rusco clashes with gangsters and space thugs. He's a man who lives on the edge, turned to hustling to survive. A heist gone bad centering on alien tech leads him on a dodgy adventure, forces him to find allies. Who can he trust? Rough-boy Marty, headstrong Deidra, the tech-savvy TK, the kickbutt Wren? Wracked with self doubts and with bounty hunters on his tail, he finds his choices bringing him face to face with a mystical despot who if left unchecked, will subjugate the human-populated free colonies. The question is, can Rusco outwit his enemies? Can he rise up, become an avenger in a world gone dark? A gritty thriller full of cons, space battles, twists and danger. Books contained in this box set: THETIS 3STARHUSTLER>Contains violence and coarse language.

Sword and Sorcery bonanza! 730 pages of adventure. "Another great sword and sorcery novel by author Chris Turner. Lizard Men, giant snake, and a fast paced story that will leave you trying to catch your breath. Strong characters and monsters aplenty. A must read for fans of Robert E. Howard."- kindle reviewer ★★★★★ For all Conan enthusiasts: the dark exploration which picks up where the film "Conan the Barbarian" left off. The larger-than-life Cimmerian hero and Subotai the Hyrkanian archer engage in a daring adventure. Saeth. A word barely kept lingering on the tongue of even the bravest warrior. The name of an age darkest to humankind. An age of sorcerers and far-flung magic. After the death of the sorcerer Thulsa Doom, Conan and Subotai flee north through the Ophirean highlands. In the shadowy land of Darfala, refuge is scarce, terrors many. A cave carved into the side of the mountain . . . a respite from a wicked storm? No, a sight to chill the blood. It will take everything the warriors have to survive the secrets of the mountain...and the ultimate menace, a far darker, older terror brewed by the lizard-men of lost Xatu. Heroic adventure in the tradition of Conan and Jurassic Park. A multi-book swordfest. Novellas contained in this collection: THE DRAGON OF SKARDRAGON LORDSTHE HUNTRESS OF CAERLINENCHANTRESS OF RURNEAHRION'S MINIONSBEASTSLAYER: RISE OF THE RGNADON>"Our seers translated the ancient tablets from forgotten tongues-and they spoke in hushed whispers of a time before man, when a great flood rose flashing through the valleys, a cataclysm, some hundred thousand years ago. The rain sloughed from the heavens. The great glaciers cracked and shivered before bolts of lightning. Tempestuous gales blew around a globe on fire. "Hear me, O valiant people of Xatu, that when I say the ice splintered, slid, melted in massive shards, the waters rose! "The animals, stripped of their habitat, swarmed to Vharad, the only standing island in a sea of azure stretching as far as the eye could see. Some beasts burrowed into the ancient mountain and founded the tunnels below. Others fought for resources, scarce on a windy, water-cursed world-but only the reptiles survived-to evolve into creatures of nightmare, a horrendous brood, relying on strength and size to survive..." -Legend of the Flood, the mountain king Excerpt from Beastslayer: Rise of the Rgnadon

Aliens, heroes, anti-heroes. A high-intensity space thriller A handful of mercenaries are caught in the middle of an alien conspiracy to enslave the human-populated planets on the frontier. Regers, in a hijacked ship hunting down his crewmate, Yul, stranded on an alien planet. Miko, a burnt-out ex-recon man with powers of invisibility, stalked by an alien Zikri with lustful intentions. Cloye, a sexy, martial-artist spy. Star, a young street hustler and crew member. Fenli, an ace dogfight-pilot with wavering loyalties. All unlikely heroes. Terror brews in the far reaches of space...The Dim Zone...a region rife with the insectoid Mentera and squid-like Zikri. Can the mercs stop the allied alien invasion? In these dark times of the future, violent space battles, twists and perils abound. If you enjoy dystopian SF raw-edged and hardcore, then this is the read for you. The Road Warrior in Space...Predator meets Mad Max. Contains gritty content, macabre tech, epic betrayals... Other books in the Alien Alliance series: THE DIM ZONETHE TIMELOSTAUDRA

122 AD. A rebellious teen, Icarus, makes his mark in the streets of Roman Londinium. Hooligan or Vigilante? Icarus's gang associations are plagued with rivalries that propel him into the sinister clutch of dark magic. The enmity of a ruthless moneylender brings the full force of Roman justice upon his head. Amidst gladiator battles and skirmishes with barbarians, Icarus's plight leads him along a path of full-blooded adventure. Will his efforts to save his father from an oppressive extortion racket bring him to ruin? Or can he rise above the tragic fate of the Icarus legend and unfold his true destiny? A gripping, coming-of-age tale set in an Iron Age world that shaped western history. A time when building a border wall from coast to coast was but a fuzzy dream in Emperor Hadrian's head.

An irreverent and inspirational guide to overcoming corporate complacency.

Bestselling author Chris Turner brings readers onto the streets of Fort McMurray, showing the many ways the oilsands impact our lives and demanding that we ask the question: In order to both fuel the world and to save it, what do we do about the Patch?In its heyday, the oilsands represented an industrial triumph and the culmination of a century of innovation, experiment, engineering, policy, and finance. Fort McMurray was a boomtown, the centre of a new gold rush, and the oilsands were reshaping the global energy, political, and financial landscapes. The future seemed limitless for the city and those who drew their wealth from the bitumen-rich wilderness. But in 2008, a new narrative for the oilsands emerged. As financial markets collapsed and the scientific reality of the Patch's effect on the environment became clear, the region turned into a boogeyman and a lightning rod for the global movement combatting climate change. Suddenly, the streets of Fort McMurray were the front line of a high-stakes collision between two conflicting worldviewsone of industrial triumph and another of environmental stewardshipeach backed by major players on the world stage. The Patch is the seminal account of this ongoing conflict, showing just how far the oilsands reaches into all of our lives. From Fort Mac to the Bakken shale country of North Dakota, from Houston to London, from Saudi Arabia to the shores of Brazil, the whole world is connected in this enterprise. And it requires us to ask the question: In order to both fuel the world and to save it, what do we do about the Patch?

Unlocking Tort Law brings the law to life with diagrams, key facts charts and activities to ensure that you engage with, and fully understand, tort law.

A guide to leading the learning in schools that draws on theoretical principles and research. It draws on evidence obtained from interviews with effective teachers in primary and secondary schools in England and Wales to explore what leading the learning means in terms of pedagogy in the classroom.

A practical guide for subject leaders in secondary schools to help them run their departments effectively and efficiently. It is increasingly being acknowledged that subject leaders hold the key to school improvement and professional development.

The essays and reportage in How to Breathe Underwater offer a panoramic overview of this age of radical changefrom the online gambling boom in the Caribbean to Cyberjaya, the Malaysian governments attempt to build its own Silicon Valley; from video game design to digital-age tabloid journalism to the artistry ofThe Simpsons; and from the fate of the Great Barrier Reef to Cubas economic limbo after the fall of the Soviet empire. In field reports that survey the rise of the internet in the 1990s, analyze the changing nature of mass culture in the digital age, and provide a multifaceted look at how human industry is shaping the planets foundations, this collection presents a fractal portrait of a society in rapid flux.Chris Turner is the author of four previous books, a nine-time National Magazine Award winner and a sought-after speaker on the rise of the global green economy, as well as a celebrated feature writer for The Walrus, Canadian Geographic, The Globe & Mailand other major publications. His lively and passionate reportage, along with his incisive essays and shrewd cultural criticism, have for the past fifteen years made essential contributions to the debates on our climate, culture, and technology. They are collected here for the first time.Praise for How To Breathe Underwater“Chris Turner is among the best magazine writers on the planet. His writing is so beautiful, wry and well-reported that it's spellbinding. And spellbreaking: He wakes you up, makes you sit upright and look afresh at our culture, our climate, and where we need to go.This is literary nonfiction at its finest.”Clive Thompson,Wiredcolumnist and author ofSmarter Than You Think"e;Chris Turner is the master of long-form journalism in Canada, a smart, funny, and endlessly curious envoy to everywhere. This collection gathers his best work, forging links of meaning in a chain of superb reporting and writing; readers will see many choice pieces and realize, maybe for the first time, that they were all fashioned by the same indefatigable intelligence."e;Mark Kingwell, the author of A Civil Tongue"e;Whatever you choose to call this kind of stylishly reported, deeply engaged, richly nuanced, gorgeously written nonfiction--saturation reportage, new journalism, longform writing--it without question qualifies as real literature. It's the only kind of journalism that gets remembered, and the only kind that produces real change. Chris Turner has been writing it since he started taking notes.”Ian Brown, author of The Boy in the Moon and Globe & Mail feature writer

A passionate and meticulously researched argument against the Harper government's war on scienceIn this arresting and passionately argued indictment, award-winning journalist Chris Turner contends that Stephen Harper's attack on basic science, science communication, environmental regulations, and the environmental NGO community is the most vicious assault ever waged by a Canadian government on the fundamental principles of the Enlightenment. From the closure of Arctic research stations as oil drilling begins in the High Arctic to slashed research budgets in agriculture, dramatic changes to the nation's fisheries policy, and the muzzling of government scientists, Harper's government has effectively dismantled Canada's long-standing scientific tradition. Drawing on interviews with scientists whose work has been halted by budget cuts and their colleagues in an NGO community increasingly treated as an enemy of the state, The War on Science paints a vivid and damning portrait of a government that has abandoned environmental stewardship and severed a nation.