J M Thompson: 58 books

Even well-established town criers can face disruption by new technology. What happens when something better than the spoken word comes along?The Royal Road in the kingdom of Kesteva runs nearly 1,000 miles from the southeastern marchlands to the northwest coast. A tavern tale sometimes told by upperclass...

Seven stories from The Royal Road, a highway of merchants, pilgrims, princes and commoners, translated from Old Kestevan into modern English. Here are stories of hedge wizards, real wizards, trolls, gnolls, adventurers and kitchen-scrubbers. The translator makes no claims as to their provenance or accuracy.

this story is about a young man who chose crime for a living. he had a problem with women though until he met a special woman who managed to revive his pride. he eventually married her but the marriage missed the element of love on both sides. he met her friends and he started a casual relationship...

Sam, Stanley, Michael and Joseph were life time friends. They needed to migrate to South Africa. They approached labor broker for jobs in South Africa. The agency would take responsibility after the were beyond the river. Two cars appeared and they transported the friends to the registration center. Nothing...

Caswell was born and raised by parents who did not find time for their siblings. When he met his wife, he was already employed but his wife was still attending high school. She later dropped out of school and he eventually married her. She turned out to be unstable and insecure. They had three children...

four young ex-guerillas arrived at the border post but they could not cross the border because their false documents were soaking wet. by then rain had long stopped faliing. a man in a truck is waiting for them on the other side of the border. while he is waiting, a sexy woman appears. they end up...

What is the essence of a war museum?The Royal Road in the kingdom of Kesteva runs nearly 1,000 miles from the southeastern marchlands to the northwest coast. A tavern tale sometimes told by upperclass engineering students at the Royal University in Roxen starts with the proposition that the Road's...

First published in 1935, this is widely regarded as the most definitive and comprehensive biography of Maximilien François Marie Isidore de Robespierre (1758-1794), the French lawyer and politician who would become one of the best-known and most influential figures associated with the French Revolution...

Not that all Napoleons letters, or even many of them, are of a selfrevealing kind. In youth he had few confidants in middle age he had little to confide. la the stress of business and war he soon shed the idealism of the patriot, the fatalism of the f evolutionary, and the romanticism of the lover....

“Anyone who believes that faeries are wee, golden-haired creatures with dragon-fly wings and sweet intentions has never met a real faerie.” –Suzanne J. Willis, “A Silver Thread Between Worlds” Retellings of familiar favourites from new perspectives, and brand new tales share the pages...

The fifth volume in this series is focused on the chemical and physical interactions between rocks undergoing metamorphism and the fluids that they generate and that pass through them. The recognition that such pro­ cesses can profoundly affect the course of metamorphism has resulted in a number...

Now you're playing with… TERROR Demons stalk the circuit boards. Phantoms roam the arcade. Programmers embed occult secrets into the code. Madness spreads from player to player like a virus. Virtual and augmented reality are haunted by unspeakable forces. Doom-cursed warriors live and die...

For businesses large and small, investment in digital technologies is now a priority essential for success. Digitizing Government provides practical advice for understanding and implementing digital transformation to increase business value and improve client engagement, and features case studies from the private and public sectors.

Examinations of wargaming for entertainment, education, and military planning, in terms of design, critical analysis, and historical contexts. Games with military themes date back to antiquity, and yet they are curiously neglected in much of the academic and trade literature on games and game...