When you live in an apartment where the rooms move around, with a faun and a yokai as roommates, fantasy role-playing games aren’t as exciting as they used to be. But a solid knowledge of the game manuals may come in handy when confronted with a flock of otherworldly pigeons. Better that than feeding them magical cake, anyway. Nick, Takehiko, and Yiannis, the tenants of 7C, return in a second adventure. This time with 100% more disgusting avian peril.

This volume covers the last century (interpreted broadly) of the traditional western Middle Ages. Often seen as a time of doubt, decline and division, the period is shown here as a period of considerable innovation and development, much of which resulted from a conscious attempt by contemporaries to meet the growing demands of society and to find practical solutions to the social, religious and political problems which beset it. The volume consists of four sections. Part I focuses on both the ideas and other considerations which guided men as they sought good government, and on the practical development of representation. Part II deals with aspects of social and economic development at a time of change and expansion. Part III discusses the importance of the life of the spirit: religion, education and the arts. Moving from the general to the particular, Part IV concerns itself with the history of the countries of Europe, emphasis being placed on the growth of the nation states of the 'early modern' world.

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Hylas has come to the island of Tykanos to build an aqueduct. He is not interested in the island’s main attraction: the pleasure houses where polished courtesans both female and male offer tea and elegant conversation. Until he finds himself renting a room in one of the tea houses and meeting his neighbour, the courtesan Zo. Over breakfasts in Zo’s garden, the two men strike up a friendship that transforms the isolation of their lives. But Hylas’s aqueduct project is threatened by bureaucratic delays, and Zo needs to secure a rich patron to help support his failing house. Just when they have begun to hope that they have found a home together, will the world force them apart?

Rose White opened the Heaven and Earth Bakery to cater to Toronto’s underground population of supernatural Others, and business is good. It is Midsummer’s Eve, and as usual she has a catering contract for the Sidhe ball. Travelling with her to the festivities—with strict instructions not to eat the food—are Nick, her werewolf delivery boy, Cristina, her vampire assistant baker, and John, their entirely human case worker from the Office of Other Affairs. None of them is remotely prepared for what awaits them.