Love on the edge. Soul deep. Danger. Elisa Gallardo was brought up to be a good girl. Or else. She gives up her bad boy crush to date Adrian Salas, high school class president. But behind his calm, studious persona, Adrian is secretly the leader of Tenebras, the gang behind a highly addictive new drug. Between undercover cops and rival gangsters determined to take Adrian down, Elisa's relationship puts her in more danger than ever before-even from her abusive parents. Now Elisa is trapped in a vicious drug war that will put her life-and all her morals-at risk. A powerful gangster has Adrian in his sights and doesn't care how many innocents he has to kill. Can Adrian escape the gang he himself created, or will Elisa find breaking the rules too alluring? In a race against time, Elisa and Adrian must make heart-wrenching choices to avert disaster, or neither of them will have a future at all, much less together. Sophia Amador's racy, fast-paced romantic thriller Play at Soul's Edge blends redemption, risk, and romance in a tale packed with twists and turns that will leave you questioning your definition of good and evil.

The work of the mature person is to carry grief in one hand and gratitude in the other and be stretched large by them. As seen on All There Is with Anderson Cooper Noted psychotherapist Francis Weller provides an essential guide for navigating the deep waters of sorrow and loss in this lyrical yet practical handbook for mastering the art of grieving. Describing how Western patterns of amnesia and anesthesia affect our capacity to cope with personal and collective sorrows, Weller reveals the new vitality we may encounter when we welcome, rather than fear, the pain of loss. Through moving personal stories, poetry, and insightful reflections he leads us into the central energy of sorrow, and to the profound healing and heightened communion with each other and our planet that reside alongside it. The Wild Edge of Sorrow explains that grief has always been communal and illustrates how we need the healing touch of others, an atmosphere of compassion, and the comfort of ritual in order to fully metabolize our grief. Weller describes how we often hide our pain from the world, wrapping it in a secret mantle of shame. This causes sorrow to linger unexpressed in our bodies, weighing us down and pulling us into the territory of depression and death. We have come to fear grief and feel too alone to face an encounter with the powerful energies of sorrow. Those who work with people in grief, who have experienced the loss of a loved one, who mourn the ongoing destruction of our planet, or who suffer the accumulated traumas of a lifetime will appreciate the discussion of obstacles to successful grief work such as privatized pain, lack of communal rituals, a pervasive feeling of fear, and a culturally restrictive range of emotion. Weller highlights the intimate bond between grief and gratitude, sorrow and intimacy. In addition to showing us that the greatest gifts are often hidden in the things we avoid, he offers powerful tools and rituals and a list of resources to help us transform grief into a force that allows us to live and love more fully.

" ... Collects the artwork of the ultimate weapons-based fighting game, SoulCalibur V. Included are character designs, rough concepts, storyboards, creator commentary, exclusive interviews, and more!"--Page 4 of cover.

Video games have long been seen as the exclusive territory of young, heterosexual white males. In a media landscape dominated by such gamers, players who do not fit this mold, including women, people of color, and LGBT people, are often brutalized in forums and in public channels in online play. Discussion of representation of such groups in games has frequently been limited and cursory. In contrast, Gaming at the Edge builds on feminist, queer, and postcolonial theories of identity and draws on qualitative audience research methods to make sense of how representation comes to matter. In Gaming at the Edge, Adrienne Shaw argues that video game players experience race, gender, and sexuality concurrently. She asks: How do players identify with characters? How do they separate identification and interactivity? What is the role of fantasy in representation? What is the importance of understanding market logic? In addressing these questions Shaw reveals how representation comes to matter to participants and offers a perceptive consideration of the high stakes in politics of representation debates. Putting forth a framework for talking about representation, difference, and diversity in an era in which user-generated content, individualized media consumption, and the blurring of producer/consumer roles has lessened the utility of traditional models of media representation analysis, Shaw finds new insight on the edge of media consumption with the invisible, marginalized gamers who are surprising in both their numbers and their influence in mainstream gamer culture.

Bob Dylan, Willie Nelson, Emmylou Harris, U2, Peter Gabriel, and the Neville Brothers all have something in common: some of their best albums were produced by Daniel Lanois. A French-speaking kid from Canada, Lanois was driven by his innate curiosity and intense love of music to transcend his small-town origins and become one of the world's most prolific and successful record producers, as well as a brilliant musician in his own right. Lanois takes us through his childhood, from being one of four kids raised by a single mother on a hairdresser's salary, to his discovery by Brian Eno, to his work on albums such as U2's The Joshua Tree, Bob Dylan's Time Out of Mind, and Emmylou Harris's Wrecking Ball. Revealing for the first time ever his unique recording secrets and innovations, Lanois delves into the ongoing evolution of technology, discussing his earliest sonic experiments with reel-to-reel decks, the birth of the microchip, the death of discrete circuitry, and the arrival of the download era. Part technological treatise, part philosophical manifesto on the nature of artistic excellence and the overwhelming need for music, Soul Mining brings the reader viscerally inside the recording studio, where the surrounding forces have always been just as important as the resulting albums. Beyond skill, beyond record budgets, beyond image and ego, Lanois's work and music show the value of dedication and soul. His lifelong quest to find the perfect mixture of tradition and innovation is inimitable and unforgettable.

Evoke the cheater within! For GameCube: • Gauntlet Dark Legacy • Resident Evil • WrestleMania X8 For PS2: • Grand Theft Auto 3 • Medal of Honor Frontline • Tony Hawk Pro Skater 3 For Xbox: • Blood Wake • Dead or Alive 3 • Max Payne For Game Boy Advance: • Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone • Sonic Adventure • Star Wars Attack of the Clones For Game Boy: • Cubix • Megaman Xtreme • Shrek For PC: • Duke Nukem: Manhattan Project • Return to Castle Wolfenstein • The Sum of All Fears For PSX: • Army Men: World War–Team Assault • Digimon 3 • Lilo & Stitch For N64: • Banjo-Tooie • Conker's Bad Fur Day AND OVER 15,000 MORE!

The pathfinder, Shea, has chosen to make a place for herself among her former captors, leaving behind her people and the life she once knew. However, not all welcome this outsider in their midst. Shea will find that surviving alone in the wilderness is child’s play next to navigating the politics that come with her new position. Especially when it becomes evident that there are those out for her blood. As a new danger looms on the horizon, Shea and her warlord will need all the allies they can find. Because something is stirring in the barren lands from which all beasts are born. Something old and not seen since the last cataclysm. Can Shea protect her people from this new threat or will it be the dangers from within her own inner circle that destroy her?